Early Rains Tame California’s Peak Wildfire Season

Recent rain significantly reduced the risk of a large fire breaking out before year’s end, experts said.

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Google’s Quantum Computer Makes a Big Technical Leap

Designed to accelerate advances in medicine and other fields, the tech giant’s quantum algorithm runs 13,000 times as fast as software written for a traditional supercomputer.

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Meta Plans to Cut 600 Jobs at A.I. Superintelligence Labs

The cuts will not affect Meta’s newest A.I. hires, who are in some cases being paid up to hundreds of millions of dollars. The layoffs are focused on correcting an earlier hiring spree.

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Hollywood’s Latest Cliffhanger: The Fate of Warner Bros. Discovery

Potential bidders are circling the media company as it weighs its deal options. But financial and regulatory questions hang over everything.

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Beyond Meat Stock Price Gains 1,000% in Days, in Latest Meme Mania

The beleaguered company’s stock has surged in the past few days, fueled by social media buzz and echoes of past meme-stock frenzies.

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G.M. Previews Talking Cars, Cheaper Batteries and Other New Tech

Drivers will be able to converse with an artificial intelligence assistant while cars largely drive themselves in certain situations, the company said.

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Queens Woman Arrested in Abandonment of Newborn in Penn Station Subway

The woman told the police she had given birth shortly before leaving the child in a busy passageway as rush hour died down. The baby’s umbilical cord was still attached.

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A Swampy New York City Neighborhood Could Get a $146 Million Upgrade

A housing and infrastructure plan has been proposed to address longstanding problems in the Hole, a poor and flood-prone area on the border of Brooklyn and Queens.

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Workers and Employers Face Higher Health Insurance Costs

A new employer survey shows premiums for a family climbed in 2025 as companies and their workers pay more for coverage.

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In First Six Months, Cost of Weather Catastrophes Escalated at a Record Pace

The Trump administration stopped updating a database tracking the costs of the country’s worst disasters. A group of scientists has revived it.

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