The company said the Iranian effort, which used ChatGPT, did not gain much traction.OpenAI said on Friday that it had discovered and disrupted an Iranian influence campaign that used the company’s generative artificial intelligence technologies to spread misin... More »
Like most countries, the U.S. has no comprehensive national system for monitoring disease in companion animals — which leaves pets and people at risk.Trupanion, a Seattle-based pet insurance company, is partnering with the Centers for Disease Control and Preve... More »
When fire engulfed Lahaina last year, some of the older structures that burned contained canec, a historic Hawaiian-made building material made of solid sugarcane waste and potentially harmful inorganic arsenic.To date, the US army corps of engineers (USACE) h... More »
The U.S. women's national team is back at No. 1. After going on a stellar Olympic run to break a 12-year gold medal drought, the USWNT has retaken the top slot in the updated FIFA rankings released on Friday.The change comes after the U.S. spent months at its ... More »
The Inflation Reduction Act (IRA), passed exactly two years ago, was pitched as a policy that puts the “middle class first”. But the spending bill’s residential tax credits have so far disproportionately benefited wealthy families, new data indicates.That’s a ... More »
Covid continues surging across the US, but deaths are lower than their peaks earlier in the pandemic due in large part to vaccinations and immunity. Yet the country is still struggling to find its footing on vaccination as the virus settles into a pattern of t... More »
It’s a quiet force that contributes to a sameness across the country and to climate change.One force has quietly shaped much of the world around us — our homes, our offices, the look of our cities, the migration patterns of Americans and the economic fortunes ... More »
Published16 AugustShareclose panelShare pageCopy linkAbout sharingImage source, Getty ImagesBy Jim ReedHealth reporterMore than 30,000 people in the UK were infected with HIV and hepatitis C after being given contaminated blood products in the 1970s and 1980s.... More »
A review of the Trump team’s critique of our surveys, and the surprising fact that a lot of people don’t remember how they voted.Do you remember whom you voted for in 2020? Not everyone does. Mark Makela for The New York TimesLast week’s New York Times/Siena C... More »
This week a meteorologist stepped away from a live broadcast when he noticed familiar feelings of panic start to arise. We can all learn from how he and his colleagues handled it.A meteorologist in Australia was delivering the weather report on live television... More »
MultiPlan has helped big health insurers make billions by reducing reimbursements for medical bills, but its business model is now being questioned.Already under investigation in Congress, a data analytics firm that has helped major health insurers make billio... More »
UCLA cluster of Scottish islands could help solve one of our planet's greatest mysteries, scientists say. More »