Most people not deeply involved in the artificial intelligence frenzy may not have noticed, but perceptions of AI’s relentless march toward becoming more intelligent than humans, even becoming a threat to humanity, came to a screeching halt Aug. 7. That was the day when the most widely followed AI company, OpenAI, released GPT-5, an advanced product that the firm had long promised would put competitors to shame and launch a new revolution in this purportedly revolutionary technology. As it happened, GPT-5 was a bust. It turned out to be less user-friendly and in many ways less capable than its predecessors in OpenAI’s arsenal. It made the same sort of risible errors in answering users’ prompts, was no better in math (or even worse), and not at all the advance that OpenAI and its chief executive, Sam Altman, had been talking up.

“It’s getting out of hand,” one seller says. “They realize the US market is a gold mine.”

After a confusing few days of moderation, the trans community on Bluesky fears they’re being targeted for posts wishing ill on the anti-trans billionaire.

Archaeologists say they have uncovered an ancient temple in Bolivia that may offer clues about Tiwanaku, a lost society that predates the Inca Empire.

The FDA is warning the public not to eat, sell or serve certain Great Value raw frozen shrimp sold at Walmart due to possible contamination with Cesium-137.

Restaurant executives sound like they’re operating on different planets these days. In the fast-food and slightly higher-end fast-casual world, caution is the mood. Cava and Chipotle missed Wall Street forecasts and warned that customers are getting more price sensitive. McDonald’s is seeing double-digit traffic declines among its lowest-income diners, while Wendy’s also says budget-conscious customers are pulling back. Meanwhile at sit-down casual-dining chains, the tone is more optimistic. Chili’s has become the poster child for the group, reporting a 24% jump in U.S. same-store sales last quarter compared with a year earlier. Over the past three years, shares of Chili’s owner Brinker International have returned over 300%.

The new ‘COPILOT’ function uses AI to generate summaries, tags, tables, and more based on a group of cells. The COPILOT function comes with a couple of limitations, as it can’t access information outside your spreadsheet, and you can only use it to calculate 100 functions every 10 minutes. Microsoft also warns against using the AI function for numerical calculations or in “high-stakes scenarios” with legal, regulatory, and compliance implications, as COPILOT “can give incorrect responses.”

On average, three hikers have died every day throughout the summer in Italy’s high peaks. Experts explain why.

Bryan Kohberger developed a reputation for being sexist and creepy while attending a criminal justice program in the months before he killed four University of Idaho students in 2022, fellow grad students told investigators. His behavior was so problematic that one Washington State University faculty member told co-workers that if he ever became a professor, he would likely stalk or sexually abuse his future students, according to the documents. She urged her co-workers to cut Kohberger’s funding to remove him from the program.

Out of 654 Thai foreign workers questioned, all of them said they had been exposed to sexual assault.

Despite the title, this is not a tragic biography of addiction so much as an interesting selection of anecdotes regarding antique collecting and going overboard with experimental archaeology.

‘They are not migrants. They are not ‘undocumented.’ They are an invading army. The largest invasion in American history,’ DHS speechwriter writes on X

Miles Pickering says crowd at protest over Palestine Action ban was laughing at ‘silliness’ of scene as he was detained

Scientists have mapped less than 30% of the world's seafloor. Experts say that getting that number up to 100% would improve everything from tsunami warnings to the Internet and renewable energy. That's why there's currently a global effort to create a full, detailed map of the seabed by 2030. On today's Sea Camp episode, we talk to Dawn Wright, a marine geographer and chief scientist at the Environmental Systems Research Institute (Esri) about this effort.

The British actor, who starred in 'Billy Budd,' 'Wall Street,' 'Superman II' and 'The Adventures of Priscilla, Queen of the Desert,' died Sunday at 87.

Evolution was fueled by endosymbiosis, cellular alliances in which one microbe makes a permanent home inside another. For the first time, biologists made it happen in the lab.

Donald Trump stopped all visas from Gaza, including for humanitarian and medical aid, after Laura Loomer freaked out about children getting care.

The newest political pin-up has choreographed dances and coordinated outfits, and may be a symbol of the latest chapter in a series of online culture wars.

Trump's thugs are proving their skull-bashing loyalty in broad daylight.

About a quarter of the 3.3% price increase recorded by this month’s producer price index was driven by a spike in wholesale prices for veggies.