Schools across Riyadh sent parents last‑minute notices this week telling students to stay home and switch to remote learning — the same kind of coronavirus‑era routine nobody wanted to see again. The move came after Saudi air defenses reported intercepting Houthi drones and ballistic missiles. But while the missiles were reportedly shot down, the government’s More

NVIDIA has thrown down the gauntlet on AI safety — but instead of begging Washington for a new agency, the company and more than 100 industry partners launched a market‑based fix. The new NVIDIA Open Agent Safety Platform pairs an open‑source runtime called OpenShell with a hardware‑anchored watchdog named Sentry to keep autonomous AI agents More

State Representative James Talarico lit a political fuse with a short video he posted on September 27, 2026. In the clip the U.S. Senate candidate invoked Jesus and the Hebrew prophets to justify universal healthcare, ending child hunger, and taking on political corruption. The post went viral and has become an instant campaign vulnerability — More

There are two fights converging in a Plymouth County courtroom this week — one over whether Lindsay Clancy will be tried again for the deaths of her three children, and another over whether a single juror can be hauled into the light after a mistrial. The status hearing set for Tuesday, Sept. 29, 2026 will More

Justin Verlander’s last outing in a Major League uniform gave us something simple and true: a dad crying on the mound while his little girl ran into his arms. The moment was short, raw, and widely shared — and it says more about what matters in sports than any stat line. Verlander’s final start will More

Jacob Coxon’s dramatic exit from Anthropic and his “AI could kill us all” warning lit a fuse in Washington, on Wall Street, and across tech media. Dario Amodei’s follow-up essay urging the industry to “pace the frontier” made the story official. Then Jensen Huang and President Donald Trump stepped onstage and called the apocalypse pitch More