Mark Zuckerberg is barrelling toward a future in which an autonomous network of AI agents will run our lives - shopping for us, working for us, talking to other people's AI agents for us. Are humans ready for this very specific and unrelenting vision of a life in which we communicate primarily through bot proxies? Actually, don't answer that. The more urgent question coming off Meta's quarterly earnings call Wednesday night is more likely to be: "Is he?"

Zuckerberg is staking Meta's future on Muse, the personal AI agent it released to the general public last month. It's early days, but Zuckerberg told investors on Wednesday's call that he s …

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The military-grade system appeared to be working more normally on Thursday, soon after the call.

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Yesterday, EA shut down BioWare and canceled the studio's new Mass Effect game in development, but a trailer apparently representing the game was published on Reddit today.

The trailer features "in-engine footage" and uses "pre-production assets," according to a message at the beginning of the video. The video focuses on an ex-soldier in a conversation with a mysterious Asari character that sidles up to him at a bar, including a flashback to a fight that looks like modern-day version of the gameplay from the original trilogy. It all feels very Mass Effect, with humans and aliens species mingling together, cuts to brief action sequences, and …

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With the midterms approaching, the economy is a top concern for voters. Our chief economic correspondent, Ben Casselman, describes which aspects of the economy have voters so frustrated.

A 71-year-old man was fatally hit by a Tesla operating in Full Self-Driving (FSD) mode while crossing I-80 in Vallejo, CA around 2:30 AM on Thursday, reports the San Francisco Chronicle. The California Highway Patrol's statement to media outlets says it reviewed video of the accident from the Tesla's dashcam, which "showed the Tesla's brakes being applied as the vehicle steered to the left in an effort to avoid the pedestrian […] Despite these evasive actions, the right front portion of the Tesla struck the individual."

According to the Chronicle, authorities believe at least one other vehicle struck the pedestrian after the Tesla, but othe …

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Manchester United captain Bruno Fernandes had his home burgled on Wednesday while he was in Italy for his club's Champions League game against Como.

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For years, AI leaders have touted healthcare as one of the clearest examples of where their technology will improve lives. Now "it is finally here," Microsoft AI CEO Mustafa Suleyman tells The Verge. The company claims to have developed an AI-powered tool it says can diagnose conditions up to four times more accurately than human doctors.

The findings, published Thursday in one of the world's most prestigious journals, Science, are based on tests pitting Microsoft's AI system against human physicians on a series of scenarios drawn from medical case reports and emergency department data. Microsoft compiled the cases into its own benchmark, S …

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Energy secretary says she "didn't get it right" over comments she made about a TV interview.

The plus-ification of subscription services continues unabated with Amazon becoming the latest company to follow suit with a Kindle Unlimited rebrand. The subscription service is now known as Kindle Plus but will continue to offer unlimited access to a select collection of ebooks, comics, and magazines from the Kindle catalog for $11.99 per month. Thousands of those titles will also still have access to companion audiobooks so you can switch back and forth between reading and listening exactly where you left off, but Kindle Plus will expand that access to include "virtual voice" audiobooks read by AI narrators, according to ZDNet.

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On Tesla's earnings call Wednesday, Elon Musk made one of his patented pie-in-the-sky predictions that typically sends his fans into paroxysms of ecstasy: 5 million vehicle deliveries by 2030.

"We were aiming for 5 million vehicles a year by approximately 2030," he said. "And I think we've got a good shot of achieving that goal."

You'd be forgiven for missing the statement amid the veritable firehose of Musk superlatives - the company's Terafab chip factory "will be the most valuable building in the world" with "an economic value that's going to be placed in the top 20 countries"; "Tesla will end up being a majority of all passenger miles …

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He’s made Democrats’ dream of a Senate win in Texas more realistic than it has been for decades.

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She promises a cultural revolution, but the country needs a different kind to revive its economy.

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She promises a cultural revolution, but the country needs a different kind to revive its economy.

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The influencer, whose real name is Braden Peters, is accused of sexually assaulting a 17-year-old girl in 2025.

The Nintendo Switch 2 has apparently been jailbroken, and a modder has already shown the console running a custom version of Mario Kart World featuring new playable characters like Cinnamoroll, the red Angry Bird, Peter Griffin, and Steve from Minecraft.

i jailbroke the nintendo switch 2

so i modded cinnamoroll, peter griffin, hatsune miku, and more into Mario Kart World, a switch 2 exclusive

now watch my friends and i get cooked by bots

learn more and get the exploit https://t.co/ykjgyfrFRp pic.twitter.com/BOcFhejRz1

- pepsipu (@pepsipu) October 22, 2026

OpenAI's Codex helped make this "ns2jb" jailbreak, according to Sammy Hajhamid, aka "pe …

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Websites were taken offline after the developers of programming language PHP said "critical vulnerabilities" had been discovered.

AJC announces ‘The Final Tally,’ a three-part podcast on election integrity