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David Rosenthal, 39, sues OpenAI, alleging ChatGPT practiced medicine without a license when it advised him on medications and dosages. Teams shipping chatbots that answer health questions have a pleaded theory to weigh, and no ruling is reported yet.
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Semperis's survey of 1,200 IT and security professionals reports AI in the ransomware attacks on 84% of surveyed victims. The survey counts victims, and the people quoted on its meaning are tied to Semperis. The 87% who saw identity systems targeted give budget owners firmer ground this quarter.
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Quanzhou Intermediate People's Court sentenced three Wei family members to death over scam compounds in Myanmar that netted more than 12.2 billion yuan ($1.8 billion). It follows executions of Ming and Bai clan members in January and February.
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New York Fed data cited by CBS News show seriously delinquent auto loans at a record and nearly 13% of card balances seriously past due. Wage growth is lagging inflation, so lenders and sellers to households face weaker repayment and more cautious spending at once.
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Kalshi has deals to put its prices on CBS, CNN and CNBC while 60% of US adults oppose election betting, a Reuters/Ipsos poll found. The trader-concentration data that exists is for Polymarket, where the top 1% of wallets make 68% of congressional-market volume, an August analysis found.
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House Speaker Mike Johnson told CBS News he intends to remain House GOP leader if Republicans lose their majority in November. He called that outcome unlikely, yet his plan depends on colleagues asking him to stay.
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Paramount closed its $111 billion purchase of all Warner Bros. Discovery assets on October 6 and renamed the merged company Skydance. Netflix bid only for the studios and streaming, so CNN now shares an owner with HBO Max and CBS.
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Tariffs added about 2.9 percentage points to US inflation through February, New York Fed research finds. For operators setting next quarter's budgets with the midterms weeks away, the recent data show input costs still climbing.
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Paramount Skydance closed its $110bn Warner Bros Discovery merger with $80bn of debt and a $6bn yearly savings target. Its settlement with US states covers films and news, while streaming prices and jobs stay its own call.
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David Ellison told Skydance staff that HBO Max and Paramount+, priced at $18.49 and $13.99 ad-free, will share one tech platform before becoming one app. A discounted bundle covers the interim while the merged service's name and price stay open.
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Employer-sponsored health plans pay 70% of No Surprises Act arbitration awards, according to Leland Robbins of Turquoise Health. CBS News found those awards running many times benchmark rates, a cost workers may meet in premiums and benefits.
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Skydance now owns Warner Bros and Paramount, cutting Hollywood's major studios from five to four and putting HBO, CBS and CNN under one owner. Writers and directors feel the lost buyer first, while cable distributors and streaming subscribers meet the combined company later.
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SNAP's work requirement now covers adults up to 64 under the OBBBA, cutting off jobless people like a Wisconsin social worker waiting to turn 54. Older applicants still looking for work now keep food aid by logging monthly hours, where they once could wait for a birthday.
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Weeks ago Nvidia's chief executive told companies to pause or pace their work if they felt out of control. On a CBS excerpt he puts the chance of AI ending the world by 2030 at zero and tells the industry to go as fast as it can.
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Senator John Curtis wants the Judiciary Committee to compel testimony from Donald Trump Jr. and Hunter Biden over their family business dealings. Durbin backed the request, though a subpoena still needs Grassley.
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Nvidia's chief executive told CBS that the AI leaders warning of catastrophe by 2030 must have ulterior reasons, and that what they are really asking for is relief from the laws already on the books.
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Named practitioners, among them a former GCHQ information security specialist and a former CISA cyber deputy, say the frontier-agent hacks are containable with permissions and monitoring. They also say nobody outside the labs is checking the containment work.
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Coast Guard Cyber Command says its teams found malicious cyber activity aboard both hulls after offshore boardings in the Gulf of Mexico, while the engine-room manipulation and the 30-hour communications outage rest on one Iranian state media report.
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Kevin Warsh's board voted unanimously for a 0.25-point increase with consumer prices up 3.4 percent in August. Navy Federal's chief economist says the Fed signaled two or three more hikes to come.
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Satya Nadella used a Sunday post about superintelligence to tell firms they should be able to run their own learning loops without depending on any one model provider. Microsoft publishes the code of conduct behind its MAI models on Monday.
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