President Donald Trump speaks to reporters as he prepares to board Marine One outside of the White House in Washington, Oct. 1, 2026. The Trump administration again defended the president’s decision to ban CNN, MS NOW and Politico from the White House and to exclude them from the pool of outlets that covers him in small spaces. (Kenny Holston/The New York Times) By ERIK WEMPLE In a court filing late last week, the White House again argued that its move last month to bar CNN,

A former OpenAI safety employee ⁠who ⁠recently resigned criticized the ⁠company’s approach to AI safety, arguing that a fast-paced ​culture focused on rapid development increases the risk of failures. Writing in “I Quit OpenAI ‌Because Its Culture Is Broken,” ‌published by the Atlantic on Saturday, David Robinson said AI ⁠companies, including ⁠OpenAI, were not being “nearly careful enough” and should place greater ​emphasis on safety expertise and research before developing m

Specialized equipment at the European Spallation Source, which houses a high-energy proton accelerator — a sort of microscope that can see into basic atomic structures, in Lund, Sweden, July 16, 2026. A Swedish entrepreneur who wants to use decentralized networks modeled on the internet to transform how electricity is distributed has embarked on a novel experiment in Lund, his hometown. (Loulou d’Aki/The New York Times) By PATRICIA COHEN Swedish tech entrepreneur Jonas Birger

Stock market investors might have been expected to run for the hills in the face of an extraordinary surge in global borrowing costs, currency interventions, wars, oil back above $100 a barrel and warnings that AI might wipe out humanity. Yet the most widely ​tracked world equity indexes are just 2% off their all-time highs and up more than 12% for the year after another $3 trillion tick higher during a tumultuous third quarter. Instead it has been G10 ‌government bonds, ultr

A screen displays the America.gov website during an event in the East Room of the White House in Washington, on Tuesday, Sept. 29, 2026. (Doug Mills/The New York Times) By KATIE ROGERS and CECILIA KANG President Donald Trump summoned the world’s most powerful technology executives to the White House earlier this week and praised the assembled billionaires as “very brilliant” minds who wanted to make the world a better place through job creation, the construction of data cente

US stock futures steadied on Wednesday after Treasury yields advanced to fresh multidecade highs and investors awaited the latest signal on sticky inflation. Futures on the Dow Jones Industrial Average (YM=F) and those on the S&P 500 (ES=F) rose just above the flatline. Contracts for the Nasdaq-100 (NQ=F) slipped into the red after stocks fell fractionally the day before. Stocks continue to be caught in the undertow of rising bond yields and volatile oil prices as the war in

The OpenAI headquarters in San Francisco on June 1, 2026. During the testing phase for OpenAI’s newest artificial intelligence model, known as GPT-6.1 Astra, it showed high levels of what the company saw as deception, or a willingness to mislead users about its actions. (Manuel Orbegozo/The New York Times) By SHEERA FRENKEL OpenAI said earlier this week that it would not release its newest artificial intelligence model because of security concerns raised by its researchers, i

According to MarketWatch, Morgan Stanley Chief U.S. Equity Strategist Mike Wilson argued that a pullback in the S&P 500 could be just what the market needs to set up a stronger finish to the year. Mike Wilson’s comments arrive against the backdrop of a dramatic bond market rout that has sent yields surging. The 30-year Treasury yield has reached its highest mark in 22 years, and the 10-year Treasury has not traded at current levels for nearly two decades. As of Tuesday mornin

President Donald Trump speaks during the signing of an executive order regarding retirement savings in the Oval Office of the White House, in Washington, Thursday, April 30, 2026. The major networks are set to resume their collective television coverage of President Trump on Sunday, even though the White House blocked CNN from participating in the TV pool over the weekend, according to four people briefed on the deliberation. (Kenny Holston/The New York Times) By MICHAEL M. G

By THE STAR STAFF First Attack 2026 will make Puerto Rico a meeting place for gamers, fans, content creators and esports communities from various international markets, with the event taking place Oct. 2-4 at the Puerto Rico Convention Center in San Juan. This year’s event will have participants from more than 15 countries, such as Japan, South Korea, the Dominican Republic, Canada and Panama, thus creating an occasion that goes beyond the local gaming community and links Pue