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Kennedy Center renews call for Trump-backed shutdown after part of a ceiling collapses

The latest push for a shutdown of the Kennedy Center comes as its Trump-appointed board fights to add the president’s name to the building.

NBC News - Sep 05, 2026 4:58pm EDT

‘Evil Dead’ star Bruce Campbell says he has five years to live after cancer diagnosis

“I’ve decided though, pretty specifically, to live with it, not die from it,” said the actor, who has not disclosed what type of cancer he has.

NBC News - Sep 05, 2026 2:46pm EDT

2 ‘Alligator Alcatraz’ guards charged with battery of inmate, records show

Court records say the two guards allegedly struck or touched a detainee against his will at the now-closed Everglades facility.

NBC News - Sep 05, 2026 1:57pm EDT

Colorado man who was free on bond in wife’s alleged killing is jailed after hit-and-run

Morphew has pleaded not guilty and faces trial next summer in the death of his wife, who disappeared in 2020.

NBC News - Sep 05, 2026 1:21pm EDT

Many truckers don't feel like the rest of America about AI data centers as business booms

Sprawling data center components from HVAC systems to tubing, wiring and semiconductors arrive primarily by truck, a boon for a business hit hard by trade wars.

CNBC - Sep 05, 2026 12:57pm EDT

OpenAI agents hijacked German website in previously undisclosed AI breakout

Companies are racing to build increasingly autonomous agents capable of carrying out complex, valuable tasks, yet evidence is mounting that those systems may also learn to bend rules.

NBC News - Sep 05, 2026 11:05am EDT

Faster than Usain Bolt? Here's all the records robot 'athletes' broke at this year's World Humanoid Robot Games in China.

Live Science - Sep 05, 2026 10:11am EDT

Earth's next supercontinent could trigger mass extinctions, says scientists

Earth's landmasses move roughly 0.6 inches a year, about the same rate fingernails grow. It sounds negligible, but stretched across 200 million years, that drift is enough to reassemble every...

International The News - Sep 05, 2026 9:49am EDT

U.K. government condemns masked anti-immigrant protesters who blocked Dover port

Video posted on social media showed men in black, their faces covered, blocking a main road and shouting “stop the boats.”

NBC News - Sep 05, 2026 9:14am EDT

How parent activists pushed schools to restrict AI and screen time — and won

New York, Los Angeles and Washington, D.C., announced changes this week in response to a growing grassroots movement against technology in schools.

NBC News - Sep 05, 2026 9:08am EDT

OpenAI Agents Hacked Another Website

Wired News - Sep 05, 2026 6:54am EDT

Making of a mascot: 100,000 fans, a college football stadium and one very good dog

Meet Smokey XII, a 2-year-old bluetick coonhound ready to star at the University of Tennessee’s Neyland Stadium this fall.

NBC News - Sep 05, 2026 6:03am EDT

Trump gets a big win at the Supreme Court and the NBA hands out a massive punishment: The news quiz

How closely have you been following the news about basketball, birds and bots?

NBC News - Sep 05, 2026 5:19am EDT

Voters are fed up with data centers. Both parties are trying to cash in for midterms

NPR - Sep 05, 2026 5:10am EDT

Rescuers in Nepal pull out two more people alive 10 days after devastating floods

A rescued man, a Chinese national, was found alive in a hydropower tunnel, bringing the total to three workers pulled alive from the Trishuli hydropower project.

NBC News - Sep 05, 2026 5:01am EDT

IIT Madras' CoE Rolls Out Four AI Models for Indian Languages

Deccan Chronicle - Sep 05, 2026 2:50am EDT

Did OpenAI’s rogue agents form a ‘civilization’? The AI industry can’t agree

Examinations of an AI-powered cyberattack reveal AI systems focused on cheating and covering their traces.

NBC News - Sep 04, 2026 7:08pm EDT

Another Rogue OpenAI Agent Swarm Went Undisclosed. We Have No Idea How Many More Are Out There

Gizmodo - Sep 04, 2026 5:00pm EDT

There’s No Such Thing as an AI ‘Lab’

The Atlantic - Sep 04, 2026 4:24pm EDT

Tesla's stock drops 6% as Cybercab update 'underwhelms' Wall Street

Tesla's long-awaited Cybercab update failed to dazzle investors.

CNBC - Sep 04, 2026 4:11pm EDT

It Was Once the Internet’s Favorite Map Website Before Falling Into Obscurity. Then Came Trump’s “Lake America” Debacle.

Downloads have surged for the app after it defied the president’s trolling.

Slate - Sep 04, 2026 3:33pm EDT

Rogue OpenAI agents used dead German web site to communicate in May, months before Hugging Face incident

Two cases of agents escaping to solve unsolvable problems paints an uncomfortable question: Is the entire internet in OpenAI's experimental agentic firing line?

Register UK - Sep 04, 2026 3:25pm EDT

This 'Super' El Niño Has Whipped Up a Never-Before-Seen Cyclone Trio in the Pacific

Gizmodo - Sep 04, 2026 2:53pm EDT

Nearly impossible? How Fairphone built the ethical, repairable Fairphone Gen 6+

Fairphone's CTO explains how and why the Dutch company builds a different kind of smartphone.

Ars Technica - Sep 04, 2026 1:01pm EDT