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Pope Leo declares death penalty ‘inadmissible’ as his native US plans to livestream execution

Pope Leo XIV on Saturday declared capital punishment ”inadmissible” as he marked the World Day Against the Death Penalty and his native United States announced

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Trump’s red-dyed diesel plan is more midterm elections appeal than gas price solution, experts say

Diesel fuel prices are hovering at record highs above $6 per gallon amid the ongoing Iran war, but both energy analysts and trucking industry groups

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U.S. shale executives have no idea when the oil market will go off a cliff

One of the biggest questions looming over the oil market is when the U.S. Strategic Petroleum Reserve will reach its effective minimum level, but industry

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Top ServiceNow exec on clients delivering ‘life-changing’ results with AI agents

Companies are hailing AI as the new productivity miracle, automating hours of tedious work, supercharging efficiency, and generating the same output as hundreds of human

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The FBI is looking into a new possible ransom note connected to the disappearance of Nancy Guthrie

Authorities are looking into the possibility of a new ransom note related to the disappearance of Nancy Guthrie, nearly eight months after she went missing

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Geoffrey Hinton explains how humanity could end: AI subgoals cause it to ‘want to get rid of people’

Legendary computer scientist Geoffrey Hinton warned AI could wipe out humanity as a mere byproduct of its zeal to accomplish a more innocent task. Fears

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Committee for a Responsible Federal Budget: National debt plan could help address affordability

The cost to the U.S. government of servicing the $40 trillion national debt pile is not difficult to come by: The Treasury publishes its own

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AI agents are agreeing and acting: machines are now smarter than humans. Their principals merely agree 

In July, hundreds of OpenAI AI agents created a message board, exchanged roughly 70,000 messages to coordinate on linking exposed or stolen credentials and broke

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OpenAI discloses six more incidents of agents going rogue in new push for transparency

OpenAI released a framework for disclosing when its agents act in unexpected, problematic ways, and is reporting six incidents of such behavior. The lack of

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Clarity Act odds soar as Trump approves new ethics provisions for closely-watched crypto bill

The Clarity Act is back on the table. On Sunday night, Senate Republicans released a revised version of the bill that includes more than 120