The Federal Trade Commission removed several blog posts in recent months about open source and potential risks to consumers from the rapid spread of commercial AI tools.https://www.wired.com/story/ftc-removes-blog-posts-about-ai-authored-by-by-lina-khan/
Anthropic partnered with the US government to create a filter meant to block Claude from helping someone build a nuke. Experts are divided on whether its a necessary protection—or a protection at all.https://www.wired.com/story/anthropic-has-a-plan-to-keep-its-ai-from-building-a-nuclear-weapon-will-it-work/
Inflation and a tough job market are making it harder for some people to pay back the car loans they signed in better times.https://www.nytimes.com/2025/10/20/business/car-loans-missed-payments.html
Data show a resilient economy. But that largely reflects spending by the rich, while others pull back amid high prices and a weakening labor market.https://www.nytimes.com/2025/10/19/business/economic-divide-spending-inflation-jobs.html
Representative Adam Smith said the Trump administration had failed to provide a legal rationale for killing rather than arresting drug trafficking suspects.https://www.nytimes.com/2025/10/20/us/politics/congress-boat-strikes-caribbean.html
Portland, Ore., is well known for its dense laws on land use. Now, under pressure from its liberal residents, the city is using those restrictions against immigrant detention.https://www.nytimes.com/2025/10/20/us/politics/portland-ice.html
A federal judge questioned operational leaders of the crackdown on Monday about their tactics and their use of tear gas.https://www.nytimes.com/2025/10/20/us/chicago-hearing-tear-gas-trump.html
Sunday’s robbery at the Paris museum could be the latest example of thieves targeting museums for jewels and precious metals to break down and sell on.https://www.nytimes.com/2025/10/20/arts/louvre-robbery-gems-precious-metals.html
A stunning heist has raised uncomfortable questions about security at the Paris museum.https://www.nytimes.com/2025/10/20/world/europe/france-louvre-jewel-heist.html
The robbery at the Paris museum on Sunday is only the latest in a long line of breaches.https://www.nytimes.com/2025/10/20/us/art-museum-heists-louvre.html
Nearly four years after they bought an out-of-service ferryboat for $280,100, their plans for a floating event space may be running aground.https://www.nytimes.com/2025/10/20/style/colin-jost-pete-davidson-staten-island-ferry.html
A round of violence on Sunday was short-lived, but analysts expect more tensions between Israel and Palestinian militants that will put the truce under strain.https://www.nytimes.com/2025/10/20/world/middleeast/gaza-israel-hamas-cease-fire.html
Unresolved issues and flare-ups of violence threaten to destabilize the fragile agreement.https://www.nytimes.com/2025/10/16/world/middleeast/israel-hamas-gaza-cease-fire.html
Amazon Web Services, a major provider of cloud services, cited a problem at its data center in Northern Virginia. The outage highlighted the fragility of global internet infrastructure.https://www.nytimes.com/2025/10/20/business/aws-down-internet-outage.html
The Second Amendment case tests a federal law used to convict Hunter Biden that bars drug users and addicts from possessing guns.https://www.nytimes.com/2025/10/20/us/politics/supreme-court-gun-drug-users.html
The Inuit of the far north helped solve the mystery of a doomed 19th-century expedition. Now Canada needs them to strengthen its claim to this newly contested region.https://www.nytimes.com/2025/10/20/world/canada/canada-arctic-northwest-passage.html
Unlike the leader of the doomed Franklin expedition, Roald Amundsen delighted in getting to know and learning from the Inuit.https://www.nytimes.com/2025/10/20/world/americas/northwest-passage-canada-inuit.html
The owners of Savin Bar & Kitchen have so far rejected requests from residents to remove photos of gangsters who terrorized the city for decades.https://www.nytimes.com/2025/10/20/us/a-boston-restaurant-displayed-whitey-bulgers-mug-shot-an-uproar-ensued.html
“Monuments,” a group exhibition in Los Angeles, led by Kara Walker, places contemporary art face to face with statuary removed in the last decade.https://www.nytimes.com/2025/10/20/arts/design/art-civil-war-monuments-brick-geffen-contemporary-los-angeles.html
Doctors have long recommended that infants avoid peanuts. But in 2017, experts officially reversed that guidance, and food allergies decreased sharply.https://www.nytimes.com/2025/10/20/well/peanut-allergy-drop.html