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Russia Needs to Tell the Truth About a Plague Death

After an apparent lab accident in Siberia, Moscow is reverting to its old Soviet ways.

Tell us: do you use AI agents to manage your finances?

We would like to speak to people about their experience of using AI agents when dealing with their finances

Anthropic expands Claude Startups program in bid to snag founders and fast-growing companies

The expansion marks the AI company's latest push to deepen its ties to founders and fast-growing companies.

Amelia Earhart investigators begin expedition to study mysterious object in Pacific: "Follow the evidence"

Updated on: October 6, 2026 / 11:54 AM EDT / CBS News

Muse has been a boon for Meta. It can soar much higher, Wells Fargo says

Wells Fargo increased its price target for Meta to a bullish $1,000 per share Monday off the back of enthusiasm for viral AI agent Muse.

Stop worrying about my AI, says multibillionaire Sam Altman. So we bear the risks and he keeps the money

OpenAI’s CEO seems to want to privatise his company’s huge financial gains while making all of us pay for any negative consequences

Who owns ‘brain rot’?: inside the international legal drama over a beloved meme

Copyright law in the US only applies to human-made creations, but AI characters like Tung Tung Tung Sahur are challenging that

‘I’m bringing together women who nourish me’: French film-maker Alice Diop on her debut installation

The Saint Omer director has gathered work by artists, writers, composers and poets for Geste de Consolation, set in the 60m-long central hall of the Palais d’Iena in Paris

The West Has a Blinkered View of African Music

The term Afrobeats is applied to all sorts of genres, flattening them into one. Artists, media and the music industry must do better at showing off the richness of African pop

Making scents: could AI help perfumers take pressure off endangered plants?

Firms working on reproducing compounds without need for repeated harvesting but conservationists are sceptical

Silver Pines review

PC, PS5, Switch 2; Wych Elm Games, Team 17Abandoned shops, ruined apartment buildings and rotting sewer networks make up a dark landscape in which you play a private eye searching for a missing singer-songwriter

V/H/S/Mixtape review

Metal band Gwar host this instalment of the horror series, which serves up darkly humorous movie morsels that would struggle to frighten a toddler