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Artificial intelligence giant OpenAI said its technology accessed government websites, including the Department of Education, without authorization, marking the latest incident of the technology going rogue. The ChatGPT maker’s AI models attempted to gain access to the Education Department’s Office for Civil Rights website, but were unsuccessful, AI research firm Transluce announced Friday. OpenAI separately…
In one video, a woman shows her bill on camera. The grand total was $45,000. “Thankfully my insurance covered the majority,” she said. But she still owed $1,982.93.
Bots could outnumber human users online by 1,000 times within five years. Can Cloudflare use its place in the ecosystem to save a post-advertising, post-search web?
Flytrex says its AI-powered Rooftop Dock system in Dallas-Fort Worth positions drones at restaurants before orders arrive, cutting delivery costs by 60%.
China agreed to import at least 10 million metric tons of coal from the US next year and again in 2028, according to the White House, in a sign of further pr...
Welcome to The Hill’s Defense & NatSec newsletter {beacon} Defense &National Security Defense &National Security The Big Story GOP senators not happy with Trump’s embrace of Xi after China helped Iran Republican senators are dismayed over President Trump’s lavish welcome of Chinese President Xi Jinping to the U.S. after the discovery that Iran used…
A group of Senate Democrats questioned whether Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. potentially concealed an agreement to collect money from a settlement with a vaccine manufacturer despite pledging to divest from the lawsuit. At the time of his confirmation process last year, Kennedy was still involved in a lawsuit carried out…
The 6th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals ruled against the prediction market Kalshi on Friday, determining states can regulate prediction market platforms like gambling in the latest blow to the industry. In a unanimous ruling, the three-judge panel sided with Ohio and Tennessee, finding Kalshi did not show its sports-event contracts are “swaps” that typically…
That revamped Trump admin app (now offering access to Trump TV) apparently bounced up to the top of the News list this week. You might think that securing access to the Strait of Hormuz or really anything else would be the federal government’s focus, but hey, it had the number one app in a category, and as David Pierce wrote in February, the very best thing about that is “being able to tell people you were number one.” The app has since slipped to #2 in news behind X, and to #96 overall. [Image: https://platform.theverge.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2026/09/white-house-app.jpg?quality=90&strip=all]
It’s reportedly testing an alternative to Windows based on the Dutch Linux distro NixOS, according to Tweakers. It’s part of DAWO, a program aimed at reducing the Dutch government’s reliance on non-European tech, including things like office and collaboration apps. Earlier this year, France’s government also announced a switch to Linux. [Link: The Netherlands joins Europe's gradual migration from Windows to Linux on government PCs | https://www.xda-developers.com/the-netherlands-joins-europes-gradual-migration-from-windows-to-linux-on-government-pcs/ | XDA]
Sept 25 (Reuters) - Federal Reserve Bank of Cleveland President Beth Hammack said on Friday that surging bond yields are not being pushed up by inflation fea...
A checked bag alarm triggered by an Xbox at LaGuardia Airport in New York City led TSA officers to discover a plastic bag full of fraudulent IDs with matching photos.
President Trump said Friday he is ruling out Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent to serve as his artificial intelligence czar amid speculation the Cabinet member was under consideration. Trump, in a Truth Social post, said Bessent will not be the “Super Intelligence (SI) Czar,” referring to his proposed rebranding of AI, because he “doesn’t want to.”…
In one year, the U.S. share of new vehicles in Canada shrunk from 35.4% to 28.4%, new data shows.
By Nupur Anand, Pete Schroeder and Saeed Azhar NEW YORK/WASHINGTON, Sept 25 (Reuters) - The US Federal Reserve is working on a plan to raise the asset thresh...
Bill Ackman theorized that the AI era could lead to a situation where rate hikes actually spur higher inflation, upending the Fed's policy playbook.
France’s Interministerial Directorate for Digital Affairs (DINUM) has announced its “exit from Windows in favor of workstations running on the Linux operating system,” as XDA reports. It’s part of a broader shift away from non-European tech — in January, France’s government also launched its own videoconferencing platform to replace Teams, Zoom, and Google Meet. [Link: France's government is ditching Windows for Linux, calling US tech dependence a strategic risk | https://www.xda-developers.com/frances-government-ditching-windows-for-linux/ | XDA]
The White House’s official app launched on Friday on Android and iOS, and mainly includes content from the White House website.
