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By Hadas Gold, CNN (CNN) — Anthropic, Google and OpenAI have discussed creating an AI industry standards body, people familiar with the situation told CNN. The conversations preceded the events of the past week, when a former Anthropic researcher resigned, saying the top AI companies were not “behaving responsibly” – and also before Anthropic CEO

By Lisa Eadicicco, CNN (CNN) — Dag Kittlaus and Adam Cheyer, known for creating an assistant that’s now found in billions of Apple devices, have been thinking about what comes after the search engine for a long time. They, along with Tom Gruber, founded a startup in 2007 stemming from a product concept the pair

By Hanna Ziady, CNN London (CNN) — AI-linked stocks tumbled Monday after the CEOs of some of the companies developing the most advanced AI models called for a slowdown in the technology’s development to allow for more guardrails to be put in place. Semiconductor chip stocks that are closely tied to the AI boom bore

By Tami Luhby, CNN (CNN) — Winter hasn’t even started yet, but Tommy Cole Jr. is already very worried about how he’ll afford to heat his home when the temperatures drop. The Marine Corps veteran has been closely watching the cost of home heating oil, which has soared recently along with crude oil, diesel fuel

By Chris Isidore, CNN (CNN) — President Donald Trump wants to reverse the decades-long decline in the number of US refineries in operation, which he believes is key to lowering gas prices, and he recently called oil executives to the White House to make that push. “President Trump and his entire energy team will continue

CNN By Auzinea Bacon, CNN (CNN) — The race to develop artificial intelligence is in dire need of a slowdown, Anthropic’s chief executive said in an essay posted early Saturday. “We must slow the pace at which we improve the capabilities of AI models. Progress will still seem fast, and we must make wise use

By Auzinea Bacon, CNN (CNN) — The race to develop artificial intelligence is in dire need of a slowdown, Anthropic’s chief executive said in an essay posted early Saturday. “We must slow the pace at which we improve the capabilities of AI models. Progress will still seem fast, and we must make wise use of

By David Goldman, Matt Egan, CNN (CNN) — The Iran war has lasted far longer than many expected — and so has a functioning oil market. Despite uncomfortably high fuel prices that have cost the average US household nearly $800 since the war started, crude is mostly getting where it needs to go more than

By Justine Noble London (CNN) — Rob Perez only has one dealbreaker when it comes to dating – his partner needs to be a gym rat like him. “It doesn’t have to be the same sport, but… I think lifestyle-wise, (she has) to understand: I work out, you work out, we do our thing,” he

By Anna Cooban, CNN London (CNN) — A narrow waterway located at the mouth of the Red Sea between Yemen and Djibouti has provided an escape hatch for a sizeable chunk of the Middle East’s oil. That lifeline is now looking increasingly shaky. For weeks, Yemen’s Iran-backed Houthi rebels have threatened shipping in the Bab

By Elisabeth Buchwald, CNN (CNN) — Consumer prices rose at a 3.4% annual rate last month, the same pace as July, according to the latest Consumer Price Index from the Bureau of Labor Statistics. That likely strengthens the case for a Federal Reserve rate hike to tame inflation and prevent price increases from becoming more

By Chris Isidore, Matt Egan, CNN (CNN) — The price of diesel, the workhorse fuel that powers the world economy, topped $6 a gallon on Friday for the first time ever. The price point may be invisible to most American drivers, but will likely lead to higher costs for most things consumers buy. The national

By Stephanie Yang, CNN (CNN) — Work to rebuild trade routes destroyed by catastrophic flooding in Nepal has begun, with a new bridge across the Tadi River that the Nepali Army is calling the “bridge of hope.” Nepal will need a lot of it, as the country starts digging itself out of a disaster-related economic

By Brian Stelter, CNN (CNN) — James Talarico, the Texas Democratic Senate candidate, says the Trump administration is committing “the most dangerous form of cancel culture” by pressuring TV stations over their content. Talarico spoke out Thursday ahead of an interview with ABC late-night host Jimmy Kimmel, an outspoken opponent of President Donald Trump. “Now

By Brian Stelter, CNN (CNN) — Even 25 years later, the planes keep crashing, and the towers keep falling. All across the web, people who are old enough to remember September 11, 2001, are rewatching the attacks and rereading about the aftermath, often via devices and platforms that didn’t exist 25 years ago. But that’s

By Hadas Gold, CNN (CNN) — The last few weeks have seen a deluge of news about AI – from models going rogue to doom predictions about how AI could cause the end of humanity. People in the AI industry often use terms like “AGI,” “superintelligence,” “alignment,” and “recursive self-improvement.” Those words may sound like

By John Towfighi, CNN New York (CNN) — Tightening global copper supply, robust demand from the AI boom and uncertainty over tariffs are all whipping up a frenzy for the red metal. It’s sending prices soaring to their highest levels ever. Copper futures traded in New York settled at $6.89 per pound on Wednesday, their

By John Towfighi, Matt Egan, CNN (CNN) — Oil prices surged Thursday, with Brent crude hitting $108 per barrel for the first time since May, as traders brace for a more prolonged supply shock caused by the Iran war. Oil prices have climbed back above the $100 per barrel mark this week as fighting in

By Elisabeth Buchwald, CNN (CNN) — US inflation at the wholesale level accelerated last month, as the war with Iran pushed up energy prices. The Producer Price Index, which tracks price changes received by US producers and manufacturers, increased 5.4% in the 12 months that ended in August. That was a 0.6% acceleration from 4.8%

By Allison Morrow, CNN If you find yourself getting lost (or bored) by bond market news, we hear you. No one is born understanding what a yield curve is, and even financial experts sometimes struggle to articulate the goings-on of the cryptic $160 trillion market. But when this normally sleepy corner of Wall Street starts