The condition of the climbers was not immediately known.

U.S. and Iranian officials say they are closing in on the terms of a preliminary agreement. Yet sticking points, particularly over the Strait of Hormuz, remain.

In an interview, Jean Smart and Hannah Einbinder discuss the series finale, their offscreen relationship and why comedy is just like sex.

The Michigan governor made the remarks to a reporter on Thursday morning. Later, she sounded less definitive. Ms. Whitmer has been viewed as part of a field of possible Democratic candidates.

All Americans benefit from the outcome of this case. And yet the decision highlights just how much work still needs to be done.

Lonnie G. Bunch III, the Smithsonian secretary under pressure from the White House, organized an exhibit exploring America’s founding ideals.

The babies were part of a vaccine trial for a respiratory virus in the 1960s and died shortly after. Their families said they had been unaware of the trial until recently.

The collision on the Queensboro Bridge involved an e-scooter that is not legally allowed to be used on the streets of New York.

When Matteo Messina Denaro died in 2023, many of his secrets died with him. That began to change with a tip about a wealthy Sicilian woman’s significant assets in a tiny European principality.

President Trump’s pendulum swings on Iran have often seemed driven by mood and moment rather than any discernible strategy.

The TV network slammed the Federal Communications Commission, saying the regulator was targeting its station licenses in a campaign of “unconstitutional retaliation.”

The disaster at the mill in Longview, Wash., which took at least eight lives, was greeted with sadness but not surprise by a community that knew cutbacks and other pressures had raised risks.

A new Grundfos report warns that Europe's datacenter boom could strain water supplies and power grids unless regulators bake water and energy efficiency into planning, reporting, and incentives for new facilities. The Register reports: According to the report, the EU-wide server farm IT load is about 10 GW today, and is expected to rise to 35 GW by 2030 -- just four years away. These facilities account for about 3 percent of all electricity consumption now, but this is projected to hit 7-9 percent by the end of the decade. Water and energy are intertwined in cooling systems. Grundfos claims that cooling infrastructure accounts for a substantial share of a datacenter's resource use, representing about 38 percent of total electricity consumption in an average facility, while water demand in large hyperscale facilities can reach 11,356 to 18,927 cubic meters per day -- enough for up to 155,000 EU households. Rapid growth in bit barns is placing increased pressure on energy systems, water resources and local infrastructure, the report notes. Without careful coordination, inefficient or poorly sited facilities risk exacerbating these problems and triggering public opposition. [...] Grundfos advises regulators to integrate water efficiency and cooling design requirements directly into planning approvals for new facilities and any large-scale expansions to encourage adoption of efficient cooling technologies. It also advocates investment incentives from governments such as tax credits, green financing mechanisms, and grant programs for technologies that demonstrably reduce energy and water consumption. Integration between server halls and district heating networks is another aspect worth consideration, the report adds.

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First, The Star was born. Now, The Washington Star is reborn. Both are hoping to win readers ceded by recent layoffs at The Washington Post.

Treasury Secretary Bessent backed the idea, which would require legislation allowing a living person to appear on currency.

Anthropic has released Claude Opus 4.8 with stronger performance and better handling of uncertain or flawed data, including a greater tendency to flag issues rather than make unsupported claims. The update also introduces a "Dynamic Workflows" research preview for coordinating complex tasks across many subagents. TechCrunch reports: Opus 4.8 comes with the expected best-in-class benchmark results, but there's also particular attention to how the model manages bad or uncertain data. In the launch post, Anthropic's early testers found that the new model is "more likely to flag uncertainties about its work and less likely to make unsupported claims." Echoing this point, a testimonial from Bridgewater associates said the biggest difference in the upgrade was "Opus 4.8's tendency to proactively flag issues with the inputs and outputs of an analysis, something other models routinely missed and left to the users to catch." Together with the new model, Anthropic launched a feature called Dynamic Workflows, which will be available in research preview. The system is designed to help larger models like Opus manage complex tasks across hundreds of parallel subagents. "Claude Code alongside Opus 4.8 can now carry out codebase-scale migrations across hundreds of thousands of lines of code from kickoff to merge, with the existing test suite as its bar," the post explains. As for Mythos, Anthropic's most advanced model, the company hinted it could be made publicly available in the not too distant future. "We're making swift progress on developing these safeguards and expect to be able to bring Mythos-class models to all our customers in the coming weeks," the company wrote.

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A key moment at a Senate primary debate in Michigan showed how pro-Israel Democrats are approaching the issue with caution.

Bari Weiss, CBS’s editor in chief, named Nick Bilton, a tech journalist and filmmaker, as the show’s executive producer. The network also fired two on-air correspondents.

President Trump has increasingly adopted a posture of nonchalance when pushed on the political consequences of his actions.

After attacking the Texas attorney general, who won the G.O.P. nomination, Senate Republicans are pivoting sharply to support him in what is now a competitive race.