US trade regulator opens investigation into AI giants including Anthropic and OpenAI

FTC move is first official US enforcement ⁠action on rogue AI agents, following surge in incidents first reported in July

The US’s main trade regulator is conducting an industry-wide investigation ⁠into Anthropic, OpenAI and other ⁠AI labs ​to uncover the potential dangers their technology poses to consumers.

The investigation by the Federal Trade Commission is the first official US enforcement ⁠action that delves into rogue AI agents, following a surge in incidents first reported in July that have stoked fears among the public that uncontrolled AI could one day ⁠harm humans.

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Smart ring maker Oura puts off initial public offering due to market ‘uncertainty’

Researchers say the IPO market was off to a solid start but tailed off in the third quarter

Smart ring maker Oura Inc says it is postponing a planned initial public offering due to market “uncertainty”.

In a Tuesday press release, Oura said it is delaying the stock market float “despite strong demand”.

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Lindsay Clancy appears in court as her lawyer pushes for murder case to be dismissed

Clancy's defence lawyer wants her to be cleared of murdering her three children in 2023 but prosecutors say the state proved guilt.

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Dengue fever outbreak prompts Florida counties to declare state of emergency

CDC says 392 cases of Dengue were reported for the year so far in the state, along with different county-level data

Several Florida counties recently declared a state of local emergency in response to a spate of dengue fever infections.

Hillsborough county, Florida, officials made the declaration on 24 September as health authorities recorded 134 confirmed cases of dengue fever, which is a mosquito-borne sickness typically found in countries outside the US. Officials said that the spread of the illness poses “an immediate and widespread threat to the public health, safety, and welfare of the residents and visitors of Hillsborough county”.

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Trump-Xi summit: What wasn't said might matter the most

The most revealing thing about the summit in Washington may be what the two leaders did not say - and what we still don't know.

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Republican says Trump’s support of Ken Paxton in Texas primary was ‘colossal mistake’

Thom Tillis says Trump’s decision to back Paxton over John Cornyn has put the Senate seat at risk for Republicans

US senator Thom Tillis on Sunday criticized Donald Trump, his fellow Republican, for the president’s support of Ken Paxton over incumbent John Cornyn in the Texas Senate Republican primary.

“He made a colossal mistake,” Tillis, a frequent Trump critic from North Carolina, said during an interview on CNN’s State of the Union in reference to the president’s support of Paxton who defeated Cornyn in the May primary.

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‘Miracle on the Hudson’ pilot Chesly Sullenberger inducted into US Aviation Hall of Fame

Sullenberger landed a disabled passenger plane safely in the Hudson River in 2009 without any loss of life

Capt Chesley “Sully” Sullenberger III – the pilot known for safely landing a US Airways flight in New York City’s Hudson River during a 2009 emergency – has been inducted into the US’s National Aviation Hall of Fame, two months after he went public with an Alzheimer’s disease diagnosis.

Sullenberger, 75, received the honor during a ceremony held in Washington DC on Thursday, 17 years after he engineered what has become widely known as the Miracle on the Hudson.

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Tenth woman's body found in South Africa suburb as police probe killings

The deaths have sparked a national outcry about the scale of violence against women in the country.

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Senior Kazakh officials detained after 14 service members swept out to sea

Seventeen service members were swept out to the Caspian Sea during military exercises.

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Alarm at UN over sanctions threatened by US on international criminal court

Group calls for proper enforcement of ICC rulings as Trump administration widens attacks on court

The US threat to impose sanctions on the international criminal court (ICC) as an institution, not just its leading judges, could fundamentally disrupt its operation and needed to be resisted, a coalition of countries to defend international law heard at the United Nations on Friday.

Ronald Lamola, South Africa’s foreign minister, issued the warning at an event during the UN general assembly called to protect the system of international law from a growing array of threats, including open flouting of its tenets and rulings by Israel.

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