Bernstein senior investment strategist Roosevelt Bowman discusses what to expect from the changing market on ‘The Claman Countdown.’ Verizon experienced an outage Saturday afternoon, with Downdetector showing more than 12,000 reports by 4:25 p.m. ET. “We are aware of an issue impacting voice services for wireless customers in some parts of the U.S.,” the company … Read more
Passengers aboard an Orlando-bound Delta flight had to evacuate via slide after the aircraft made an emergency landing on a taxiway at Hartsfield-Jackson Atlanta International Airport shortly after takeoff Saturday morning.A traveler walks through Hartsfield-Jackson Atlanta International Airport in 2025.Megan Varner / Getty ImagesThe aircraft, carrying approximately 200 passengers and six crew members, reported a … Read more
OpenAI will pause some work on an artificial intelligence model because of security concerns, the company stated Friday, following a series of incidents in which AI agents have escaped containment.The company had evaluated the agent, Astra, and found “significant advancements in agentic coding and cybersecurity”, which had moved to a “critical” threshold where it can … Read more
The U.S. economy shed jobs in July, yet the unemployment rate improved — an unusual pairing that points to a worrying story unfolding behind the numbers for some economists.That’s because even as the U.S. economy lost jobs, American workers left the labor market faster.
They treated it like a plane-ground. A cross-Canada flight had to be canceled after a misbehaving tot refused to fasten their seat belt, stranding the passengers until the following day. The ludicrous incident occurred on Thursday, Aug. 6, after Porter Airlines flight PD444 had departed the terminal at Victoria International Airport (YYJ) in British Columbia … Read more
Artificial intelligence is setting off warning lights around the world: After nearly four years of excitement, astonishment, disruptive breakthroughs and apocalyptic predictions, a backlash was perhaps inevitable. Now it is beginning to take shape in the form of a growing public movement against AI.Groups such as Stop AI have organized demonstrations in San Francisco, while … Read more
A settlement to end lawsuits over “forever chemicals” between DuPont, 3M and New Jersey was approved by a federal court, the New Jersey Attorney General’s Office announced Friday. The settlement with the two companies was originally agreed to in August 2025 and is collectively valued at $2.5 billion. The “forever chemicals,” also known as PFAS … Read more
Aug. 7, 2026Updated Aug. 8, 2026, 12:36 a.m. ETBuc-ee’s is suing a small Ohio store named Beaver’s Mini Mart over trademark concerns.Buc-ee’s CEO Arch Aplin told a TV station that and a local mayor that the mini-mart sought a federal trademark, but records show it actually was a state trade name filing.The owner of Beaver’s … Read more
OpenAI said Friday it has suspended work on some aspects of its upcoming model Astra after an internal review found it had made significant advancements in agentic coding and cybersecurity — enough to warrant concern over its capabilities. OpenAI said in a blog post Friday that this model, which is still in development, reached its … Read more
File Photo | Photo: Jeremy Bronson (Wikimedia Commons/Creative Commons) The health department issued a warning as they investigate a more than five times increase in cyclosporiasis cases in McHenry County recently, with no identifiable source so far. The McHenry County Department of Health said Friday it is investigating an increase in reported cases of cyclosporiasis … Read more