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Oprah Winfrey picks "Go Gentle" by Maria Semple for book club: Read a free excerpt

Updated on: April 14, 2026 / 9:55 AM EDT / CBS News

AI companies make powerful tech

Anthropic’s Claude Mythos AI is said to be frighteningly capable, but we shouldn’t get carried away by the hype

The Eighth Deadly Sin

Sometimes, staring brainlessly into my laptop in the trough of a weekday afternoon, experiencing myself as a kind of online shadow, a thing of fidgets, a half-being hollowed out by roaming spectral appetites—for destruction, for gratification, for the email that never comes—it occurs to me to ask: Now, which of the seven deadly sins is this ?

SpaceX deploys 29 Starlink satellites from Cape Canaveral in predawn launch

SpaceX launched a Falcon 9 rocket from Cape Canaveral Space Force Station in the predawn hours of Tuesday, deploying 29 Starlink Broadband satellites.

The war on online privacy comes for VPNs

Imagine a statute criminalizing the placement of curtains in home windows. After all, people regularly commit terrible crimes in the privacy of their own homes — perpetrating domestic violence, cooking up deadly drugs, storing illegal contraband, harboring fugitives, running kitchen-table scams, etc.

Higher Education Blinked. What Comes Next?

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Some brave traders who made a leveraged bet on chip stocks nearly doubled their return in almost 10 days

Chipmakers have surged since the market’s lows on March 30 from the U.S.-Iran war. Those willing to take on major risk saw even bigger returns.

Investor Joe Terranova says one public stock is a back door way to play the booming fortunes of private Anthropic

Zoom, which has a stake in Anthropic, is a good way to play the red-hot private AI firm, according to Virtus Investment Partners' Joe Terranova.

Oracle Pops Nearly 12%, Leading Bounce Back Rally in Software Stocks

Oracle has lost more than a fifth of its value this year on AI disruption concerns.

Two Arrested For Shooting At Home Of OpenAI CEO Sam Altman Days After Domicile Targeted In Molotov Cocktail Attack

Nobody was injured.

Hacker group threatens to release Grand Theft Auto VI data in Rockstar Games attack

The group named ShinyHunters have accessed a third party server and have given the company a deadline of 14 April to enter ransom negotiations

Wall Street still loves streaming, but are its affections well placed?

While streaming continues to drive media stocks, especially around quarterly earnings, it's not clear when it will start driving profits for smaller players.