6+ hour, 35+ min ago   (486+ words) Houthi forces have secured Yemen's complete Red Sea coastline, according to Al Jazeera, after seizing the port city of Mocha and overrunning the island of Mayyun (also called Perim) over the weekend of September 11-13, 2026. The group now sits roughly 20 kilometres…...

6+ hour, 42+ min ago   (440+ words) OpenAI will not hold an initial public offering in 2026, according to Fortune, which published an exclusive interview with OpenAI chief executive Sam Altman on Friday. Altman told Fortune Editor-in-Chief Alyson Shontell that the current moment is wrong for a stock…...

6+ hour, 37+ min ago   (441+ words) A team of French researchers has produced a previously unconfirmed type of ice that forms not in the cold, but under crushing pressure and heat exceeding 3,600 degrees Fahrenheit. The findings, published in Physical Review Letters, add detail about conditions deep…...

10+ hour, 31+ min ago   (434+ words) A chess club that began with one person and a single board in a Center City park has spent five years building something larger. As WHYY reported, the Rittenhouse Chess Club now draws players to Rittenhouse Square on Wednesday evenings…...

1+ day, 1+ hour ago   (464+ words) Anthropic chief executive officer Dario Amodei called on the AI industry Saturday to deliberately reduce the pace of model development, arguing that progress has outrun researchers' ability to keep the technology safe, according to NBC News. OpenAI chief executive Sam…...

1+ day, 1+ hour ago   (489+ words) Philadelphia's Kimmel Center for the Performing Arts hosted the eighth annual Latin American Book Fair on Saturday, September 12, drawing attendees from across the tristate area for a full day of author presentations, cultural performances, children's activities, and food. Reporting from…...

1+ day, 1+ hour ago   (496+ words) Dario Amodei, chief executive of AI company Anthropic, published a nearly 4,000-word essay Saturday calling on the industry to deliberately reduce the pace at which it improves AI models, according to The Guardian. Amodei titled the piece "We Must Pace…...

1+ day, 2+ hour ago   (501+ words) Reuters reported Saturday that cryptocurrency investor Christopher Harborne donated £36 million (roughly $49 million) to Nigel Farage's Reform UK party, matching a gift made the previous day by BitMEX co-founder Ben Delo. Together, the two contributions total £72 million ($97.4 million) and jointly set…...

1+ day, 3+ hour ago   (478+ words) Anthropic chief executive Dario Amodei called on artificial intelligence companies to deliberately slow the pace of AI development Saturday, publishing a blog post that outlined a three-part framework for industry-wide safety measures. The call came as CBS News reported that…...

1+ day, 5+ hour ago   (526+ words) Former Environmental Protection Agency officials are warning that the Trump administration is dismantling pollution safeguards to accelerate construction of AI data centers, putting public health at risk. The Verge reported this week that a group of EPA alumni released a…...