2+ day, 10+ hour ago   (358+ words) A music festival set to feature The Killers, Olivia Dean and Jack White was cancelled Friday because the California beach where it was to be held has been eaten away by coastal erosion. The two-day Ocean Way Festival had been…...

4+ day, 22+ hour ago   (502+ words) An artificial intelligence researcher who left OpenAI to join Anthropic has decided to leave the industry, accusing both US companies of "playing with our lives" in the race to develop AI models capable of self-improvement. Jacob Coxon, 27, spent the past…...

5+ day, 11+ hour ago   (255+ words) Pounding surf lashing the swanky California enclave of Malibu on Tuesday opened up a giant sinkhole on the driveway of a house reportedly belonging to US actor Nicolas Cage. Aerial pictures taken by AFP show concrete and other detritus have…...

1+ week, 2+ day ago   (489+ words) In what authorities are calling a "critical misstep," three hikers relied heavily on Google's Gemini AI to guide them through a Mt. Shasta summit, leaving them stranded on the mountain's southeastern flank. On Saturday, three young, novice hikers from Roseville,…...

2+ week, 3+ day ago   (1032+ words) A sudden cut to Social Security checks — long seen as a far-off doomsday — is now an imminent problem for the next president and whomever voters send to Congress in the coming years. Capitol Hill saw a noticeable surge this summer…...

3+ week, 6+ day ago   (304+ words) The two largest reservoirs in the United States have fallen to record lows as a severe drought grips the country's West, according to data released over the weekend. The new records highlight the difficulties fueled by climate change facing the…...