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US added 162,000 jobs in August, with unemployment rate holding steady

The US economy added 162,000 jobs in August, an uptick after a sluggish summer for the labor market. The unemployment rate held steady at 4.1%, still down from its most recent peak of...

Wikipedia Workers Unionize for the First Time

More than 200 staffers at the Wikimedia Foundation, the nonprofit behind the encyclopedia Wikipedia, have voted 158-14 to join the Communications Workers of America labor union. The US National Labor Relations Board...

Nobody Is Saying Why OpenAI and Anthropic Had Outages Today

Frontier models from Anthropic, OpenAI, and xAI all experienced rare outages on Thursday morning, creating downtime for their corresponding AI chatbots. SpaceX, xAI’s parent company, said on Thursday afternoon that the issues...

Prediction Market Betting Is Getting People Banned and Arrested

Leah Feiger: Surveillance. Brian Barrett: But what kind? What specifically do Flock cameras look at? Leah Feiger: License plates? Brian Barrett: Yeah, they're license plate readers. Yes, this tool is not a license plate reader,...

Fox News Media abruptly ousts longtime anchor Maria Bartiromo

Fox News Media on Thursday abruptly ousted one of its most well-known hosts and anchors, Maria Bartiromo, without providing an explanation. “Effective today, Maria Bartiromo is no longer with FOX News Media,” the...

GPT-6 Astra Is Here—and OpenAI Thinks It May Kick Off the AGI Era

OpenAI announced Thursday the launch of its next generation AI model, GPT-6 Astra, which the company claims is state of the art at navigating computers and web browsers, writing software, and solving...

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