An AI agent sent a fake tip to a police homicide form. Police were told 82 days later
Anthropic disclosed on Friday that its models sent a fake tip to a police homicide form and queried government databases with tokens they found. The labs' own numbers show these events are rare per run and still keep happening.
Dak Prescott ranks fifth among NFL quarterbacks, and the Cowboys’ defense ranks 31st
A man in the stadium tunnel called Thursday's loss embarrassing. Five weeks of play-by-play data point at the other side of the ball.
2026 tied 1905 for the latest first Atlantic hurricane since tracking began in 1851
Isaias reached hurricane strength late on Oct. 7, almost four weeks later than any other season since satellites began watching the Atlantic.
Candy prices are up 49% since 2020, while overall prices rose 29% and wages 28%
The candy that cost $50 in August 2020 cost $74.41 this August, and it takes more hours of work to pay for it.
Social Security’s 2027 raise is expected to be about 3.5%, the largest since 2023
The official figure arrives Oct. 14 with the September inflation report, and recent forecasts range from 3.4% to 3.6%.
U.S. measles cases in 2026 are the highest since 1991, with almost three months left in the year
The CDC has confirmed 4,080 cases so far this year, 78% more than in all of 2025, and 96% of them are tied to outbreaks.
Six of the seven songs with the most weeks at No. 1 on the Hot 100 came in the streaming era
Ella Langley's "Choosin' Texas" finished with 24 weeks at No. 1, two more than any song before it.
Re-releases have twice decided which film counts as the highest-grossing ever
Avengers: Endgame took the top spot back from Avatar this month with a $126 million re-release, and Titanic would fall from fifth to 10th without its own.
Half of Americans now use AI chatbots, and about half remain more concerned than excited about AI
Chatbot use rose by about half in 18 months, while the share more worried than excited has barely moved since 2023, except among young adults.
Data-center demand does little to explain which states saw the biggest home electricity price increases
Home electricity prices in Virginia rose a bit faster than the national average and those in Texas and Georgia rose slower, while many of the steepest increases landed in Mid-Atlantic states with far less data-center load.
Recent college graduates’ unemployment has pulled further above the overall rate since 2024
A new study finds summer joblessness for young graduates was lower than in 2024, but the New York Fed's longer-running series shows the gap with all workers has doubled.
Every monthly jobs estimate in 2025 was later revised down, while 2026 revisions have split evenly
The first jobs number each month gets the headlines, and last year every one of them turned out to be too high.
Catchers win ball-strike challenges more often than hitters, and success falls late in games as teams spend challenges they would otherwise lose
In the first season of MLB's automated ball-strike challenge system, 54% of 10,557 challenges overturned the umpire's call.
The White Sox are the first team to reach the playoffs after back-to-back 100-loss seasons
Chicago lost 324 games over the previous three years, and none of the 27 earlier runs of 100-loss seasons ended in a playoff berth the next year.
Who owns prime time? The NFL books audiences, not records
The Cowboys got 22 Sunday and Monday night games over five seasons. The Browns got three. What 113 Reddit comments argued about, checked against the data.