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New AI Incidents, Fiji's HIV Crisis, and Romantic Costco

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AI Model Misbehavior
  1. 0.60 · explainers · keep 0.12 · As occurred during the 2026 hack of an AI platform by OpenAI, agentic AI may exploit a system vulnerability to access sensitive data if that information enables it to complete its assigned task.
  2. 0.57 · experiences · keep 0.17 · Anthropic's Frontier Red Team assesses the dangers of its AI tools through 'evals'—safety tests that probe models to disclose sensitive information.
  3. 0.56 · explainers · keep 0.26 · Scientists increasingly can't predict what AI will do
  4. 0.55 · explainers · keep 0.19 · Through prompt injection attacks, bad actors provide deceptive prompts to generative AI systems in order to manipulate their outputs and acquire sensitive data.
  5. 0.55 · explainers · keep 0.63 · Anthropic's interpretability team discusses how AI models' thinking mimics biology
  6. 0.55 · explainers · keep 0.41 · AI is not good at understanding satire
  7. 0.55 · explainers · keep 0.28 · AI experts argue that artificial intelligence could annihilate humanity in two primary ways: Humans weaponizing extremely powerful AI, or humans losing control of it.
  8. 0.55 · explainers · keep 0.28 · Unlike the models made by large AI companies, open-weight models can have their safeguards removed or weakened, a process that has become increasingly easy and may expose users to harmful information.
  9. 0.54 · explainers · keep 0.47 · Experiments involving AI agents operating in virtual societies for 15 days produced diverse outcomes, ranging from every agent dying to the creation of a functioning democracy, depending on the AI model used.
  10. 0.54 · news-in-context · keep 0.11 · OpenAI helped kick-start an AI arms race in Silicon Valley
  11. 0.53 · explainers · keep 0.59 · AI tools can reinforce existing societal biases—especially racial ones—because they are trained on human-created data containing implicit and explicit biases.
  12. 0.52 · explainers · keep 0.26 · Because they are built on content produced by humans, who possess biases, generative AI tools inherit prejudices and stereotypes from training data, which later appear in their outputs.
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South Africa Slayings
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Fiji's HIV Emergency
  1. 0.62 · explainers · keep 0.18 · Fiji's 'quiet' diabetes crisis
  2. 0.42 · curiosity · keep 0.18 · HFMD was first reported in 1957 in New Zealand
  3. 0.40 · news-in-context · keep 0.09 · See Virginia's spike in HFMD cases in 2025
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Construction worker goes viral raving about the hearty lunches his wife packs for him.
  1. 0.41 · curiosity · keep 0.50 · Stranger pays for a family's breakfast tab and writes heartfelt note praising the father of three kids
  2. 0.40 · curiosity · keep 0.72 · Meet a 90-year-old who built his own hobbit-inspired house
  3. 0.40 · curiosity · keep 0.56 · An 87-year-old widower goes viral for hand-delivering party invitations door to door that read "4 pm until the cops arrive"
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Kansas City Chiefs tight end Travis Kelce is among a list of at least 64 victims in a multimillion-dollar Ponz
  1. 0.50 · curiosity · keep 0.33 · Taylor Swift's relationship with Kansas City Chief's star Travis Kelce helped boost the NFL's popularity, especially among younger generations.
  2. 0.47 · longform · keep 0.11 · After an estimated $8B in customer funds were lost through a cryptocurrency scheme likened to a Ponzi scheme, FTX founder Sam Bankman-Fried was sentenced to 25 years in prison.
  3. 0.42 · longform · keep 0.45 · Read the Forbes 30 Under 30 Hall of Shame, a list of dubious people Forbes honored before their wrongdoings were revealed.
  4. 0.42 · explainers · keep 0.17 · CTE is a major threat to NFL players
  5. 0.41 · longform · keep 0.07 · A 2024 cheating scandal cast doubt on the industry
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Bill Belichick's son Steve resigns from position on North Carolina's football coaching staff as investigation
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Dolly Parton posthumously accepts the Americana Music Association's lifetime achievement award in a video reco
  1. 0.55 · curiosity · keep 0.28 · Dolly Parton initially declined her nomination for the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame, though the Hall inducted her anyways.
  2. 0.50 · curiosity · keep 0.26 · Dolly Parton consistently declined opportunities to align herself with politicians.
  3. 0.47 · curiosity · keep 0.51 · Dolly Parton jumped to Hollywood in the 1980s, where she became a bona fide movie star.
  4. 0.47 · explainers · keep 0.11 · A Tennessee children's hospital changed its name to Dolly Parton Children's Hospital.
  5. 0.47 · experiences · keep 0.57 · The best Dolly Parton songs, including 'Jolene,' '9 to 5,' and many more.
  6. 0.46 · curiosity · keep 0.66 · Dolly Parton hosted two separate variety television shows called 'Dolly.'
  7. 0.46 · curiosity · keep 0.49 · Read a 1984 interview with Dolly Parton, conducted by artist Andy Warhol.
  8. 0.44 · curiosity · keep 0.73 · Before becoming a country superstar, Dolly Parton recorded girl-group-style singles as a teenager, including one that became a hit outside the US.
  9. 0.44 · curiosity · keep 0.62 · Dolly Parton teamed up with country star Porter Wagoner in 1967 as a cohost on his popular TV show.
  10. 0.44 · curiosity · keep 0.73 · Dolly Parton recorded two albums with Linda Ronstadt and Emmylou Harris under the name Trio.
  11. 0.44 · curiosity · keep 0.68 · Watch Diana Ross posthumously induct Billie Holiday into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame
  12. 0.43 · curiosity · keep 0.70 · Dolly Parton released her first recording at age 13, a rockabilly number she cowrote called 'Puppy Love.'
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MTV announces Video Music Awards performers, including Madonna
  1. 0.41 · news-in-context · keep 0.72 · See a ranking of every Super Bowl halftime show since 1993
  2. 0.40 · curiosity · keep 0.32 · The 20-year feud between Elton John and Madonna
  3. 0.40 · explainers · keep 0.35 · Super Bowl halftime shows reliably drive massive music sales spikes, often propelling an act's back catalog to the top of the charts.
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North Korean nuclear tests carried out from 2006 to 2017 reactivated quiet faults, triggering 1,399 earthquake
  1. 0.48 · news-in-context · keep 0.37 · An interactive visualization tracking 25 years of US-North Korea nuclear negotiations
  2. 0.46 · news-in-context · keep 0.25 · The frequency of earthquakes and the distribution of their magnitudes have not changed significantly over long-term records, but technological improvements have enabled scientists to detect more of them as they occur.
  3. 0.43 · explainers · keep 0.49 · The North Korean nuclear threat, explained
  4. 0.42 · news-in-context · keep 0.34 · What missiles does North Korea have?
  5. 0.41 · news-in-context · keep 0.70 · View the 10 largest earthquakes ever recorded as of 2025, led by a 1960 magnitude 9.5 earthquake in Chile, which left about 2 million people homeless.
  6. 0.41 · news-in-context · keep 0.24 · China doubled its nuclear stockpile between 2020 and 2025, with plans for further expansion.
  7. 0.40 · explainers · keep 0.45 · View a list of the worst nuclear meltdowns before 2013
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Scientists identify new wild cat species for the first time in a century; the tiger cat species, Leopardus til
  1. 0.45 · explainers · keep 0.37 · Tigers emerged much earlier as a species than lions
  2. 0.44 · explainers · keep 0.34 · The jaguar is the largest feline in the Americas and serves as a keystone species by acting as an apex predator with a diverse diet across multiple environments, thereby regulating the populations of dozens of species.
  3. 0.43 · curiosity · keep 0.53 · See the world's first-known photo of a wild white Iberian lynx
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NASA spacecraft discovers new crater on the moon larger than the Roman Colosseum, likely created by a powerful
  1. 0.52 · curiosity · keep 0.27 · Craters found on the moon and the calculated dates of these impacts, based on rocks returned by the Apollo missions, suggest that Earth was pummeled by asteroids for millions of years—a period known as the Late Heavy Bombardment.
  2. 0.50 · experiences · keep 0.46 · Ten impact craters you can visit
  3. 0.48 · explainers · keep 0.73 · Geological tremors on the moon provide evidence that it is shrinking
  4. 0.46 · explainers · keep 0.50 · The moon is slowly contracting as its interior cools, creating moonquakes and lobate scarps—cliffs that are steep on one side and gently sloping on the other—as the moon's surface buckles.
  5. 0.45 · curiosity · keep 0.81 · Remnants of another planet that helped form the moon may be beneath Earth's surface
  6. 0.44 · experiences · keep 0.61 · Explore a collection of moon interactives from NASA, including a 3D lunar surface explorer, a tool for classifying moon rocks, and an interactive map for observing the moon each day of the year.
  7. 0.43 · curiosity · keep 0.63 · While the leading hypothesis for the moon's origin involves a Mars-sized object called Theia striking ancient Earth and forming from the resulting debris, it cannot explain why lunar isotope abundances match Earth.
  8. 0.43 · curiosity · keep 0.42 · Scientists used to speculate about life on the moon
  9. 0.43 · experiences · keep 0.36 · A map of the moon, using lidar
  10. 0.42 · curiosity · keep 0.23 · The crew of Artemis II captured a photograph of Earth setting as they orbited the moon
  11. 0.42 · curiosity · keep 0.08 · Ahead of constructing a lunar base as part of the Artemis program, NASA will send a fleet of hopping drones to scout the moon's south pole.
  12. 0.42 · curiosity · keep 0.40 · Photographer catches a 'once in a blue moon' shot
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US stock markets close higher (S&P 500 +1.1%, Dow +0.6%, Nasdaq +1.7%) amid falling oil prices and a dip in th
  1. 0.50 · explainers · keep 0.40 · A stock index is a group of companies clustered together, often providing a condensed snapshot of a market segment.
  2. 0.49 · explainers · keep 0.65 · See how the S&P 500 performed throughout the first 100 days of each modern presidency.
  3. 0.47 · explainers · keep 0.20 · Investors rely on the S&P 500 as a benchmark for the state of the economy
  4. 0.44 · explainers · keep 0.14 · Read about the evolution of the S&P 500 and its recession recovery
  5. 0.44 · explainers · keep 0.23 · The S&P 500 yields a roughly 10.5% average annual return
  6. 0.44 · explainers · keep 0.34 · Markets have always recovered and hit new highs following crashes
  7. 0.43 · explainers · keep 0.61 · Why does the stock market matter?
  8. 0.43 · explainers · keep 0.32 · Investors collectively owned $28T in US Treasury securities as of 2025.
  9. 0.43 · explainers · keep 0.22 · The Dow Jones Industrial Average vs. the S&P 500: Which one is a better representation of the economy?
  10. 0.43 · news-in-context · keep 0.30 · In late 2025, the top 10 companies in the S&P 500 made up more than 40% of the index's total value
  11. 0.43 · news-in-context · keep 0.11 · The Dow now tracks 30 major US companies across various industries
  12. 0.42 · explainers · keep 0.50 · S&P Global, the company that makes the S&P 500, is listed on the S&P 500
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Unemployment filings drop to 196,000 last week, the lowest since July, Labor Department reports
  1. 0.50 · news-in-context · keep 0.10 · The US Bureau of Labor Statistics releases a monthly 'jobs report' that tracks the unemployment rate, the number of Americans currently on payroll, and more.
  2. 0.47 · news-in-context · keep 0.55 · Explore why layoffs are the biggest driver behind unemployment in the US with this interactive.
  3. 0.47 · news-in-context · keep 0.19 · The unemployment rate is calculated using a monthly survey that the Bureau of Labor Statistics uses to identify those who are employed or actively looking for work.
  4. 0.46 · news-in-context · keep 0.06 · The monthly US employment report is eagerly anticipated by Wall Street and has significant impacts on markets.
  5. 0.46 · news-in-context · keep 0.20 · Over 1.9 million Americans—more than a quarter of those unemployed—have been classified as 'long-term' unemployed in a given month in 2026, meaning they've been out of work for at least 27 weeks.
  6. 0.42 · news-in-context · keep 0.37 · Explore an interactive tool that provides regularly updated information on labor market outcomes of recent college graduates.
  7. 0.42 · explainers · keep 0.27 · Experts recommend preparing your finances accordingly if you're expecting to be laid off soon, taking actions such as looking into the cost of replacing employer-sponsored benefits like healthcare.
  8. 0.40 · news-in-context · keep 0.13 · The clearest sign of a recession is a steady increase in job losses and high unemployment.
  9. 0.40 · explainers · keep 0.42 · Unemployment benefits are calculated as a percentage of a worker's average weekly wages over a recent base period.
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Lucid shares surge 6% after the electric vehicle manufacturer announces a partnership with rideshare company B
  1. 0.46 · curiosity · keep 0.16 · California startup Rivian has attracted disillusioned Tesla owners
  2. 0.43 · explainers · keep 0.38 · BYD overcame Tesla via state backing, cheaper cars, and vertical integration
  3. 0.43 · explainers · keep 0.35 · Tesla open-sourced all its patents to speed up industry adoption of electric vehicles
  4. 0.41 · news-in-context · keep 0.22 · BYD Auto is the largest EV maker in China, overtaking Tesla
  5. 0.41 · news-in-context · keep 0.16 · As of January 2025, Tesla is the second best-selling EV company in the world
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United Nations report finds the US may have been responsible for two Feb. 28 airstrikes in Iran the mission ch
  1. 0.55 · explainers · keep 0.10 · The UN found that the Islamic Republic of Iran used genocidal tactics after the revolution
  2. 0.44 · news-in-context · keep 0.08 · Air pollution in war-torn Iran unleashes invisible toxic threats
  3. 0.42 · news-in-context · keep 0.08 · A report found that the 2026 Iran war is the largest oil supply disruption in history.
  4. 0.40 · longform · keep 0.49 · Hear how the US and Iran went from close allies to bitter adversaries after the 1979 revolution.
  5. 0.40 · longform · keep 0.24 · Oil nationalization triggered the CIA‑backed 1953 coup in Iran
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President Donald Trump withdraws stalled nomination of former Oklahoma state trooper Lance Schroyer to lead IC
  1. 0.40 · explainers · keep 0.06 · President Trump has changed decades-long norms for the DOJ during his second term
  2. 0.40 · news-in-context · keep 0.06 · How the Trump administration explained the firing of the NSF's National Science Board
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President Donald Trump is photographed on Air Force One, reading a sign that appears to suggest a Kennedy Cent
  1. 0.51 · curiosity · keep 0.17 · President Trump tore down the East Wing in October 2025 to build a new ballroom
  2. 0.46 · curiosity · keep 0.40 · The Kennedy Center was the first arts venue built with US federal funding and was promoted as an emblem of free expression during the Cold War.
  3. 0.41 · explainers · keep 0.26 · White House renovations have always been controversial
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Man who sprayed Rep. Ilhan Omar (D, MN-5) with vinegar at a town hall in January is sentenced to 14 months in
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See winners of a microscopic film and photography contest.
  1. 0.58 · experiences · keep 0.19 · View the winners of the 2025 Global Physics Photowalk contest
  2. 0.54 · explainers · keep 0.49 · Contest honors street photographers who freeze fleeting moments
  3. 0.52 · curiosity · keep 0.40 · National Geographic's 2022 Photo of the Year
  4. 0.52 · curiosity · keep 0.58 · See the winning photos from a major European nature photography contest
  5. 0.49 · experiences · keep 0.70 · Forty-nine top-notch photos of springtime around the world
  6. 0.49 · experiences · keep 0.55 · The best photos of scientists at work in 2025
  7. 0.48 · curiosity · keep 0.53 · See the winners of the 2023 dog photography awards
  8. 0.47 · experiences · keep 0.51 · See a gallery of winning photos from the Wildlife Photographer of the Year awards for 2025
  9. 0.46 · experiences · keep 0.29 · See 2026's Ocean Photographer of the Year winners.
  10. 0.45 · experiences · keep 0.39 · Explore galleries of featured submissions from the Desmos Art Contest—a yearly competition where students from around the world submit original work made with graphing calculator tools.
  11. 0.44 · experiences · keep 0.71 · Watch Yasmin van Dorp's short film 'The Spectacle,' about the effects of cell phone photography on tourism and the natural world.
  12. 0.44 · news-in-context · keep 0.39 · The best drone photos of 2022
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How US cities rank by quality of life per dollar.
  1. 0.55 · news-in-context · keep 0.62 · America's happiest cities in 2023
  2. 0.55 · news-in-context · keep 0.52 · Ranking America's healthiest and unhealthiest cities
  3. 0.53 · experiences · keep 0.56 · Evaluating the world’s 'smartest' cities
  4. 0.52 · experiences · keep 0.55 · The world's 10 best places to live
  5. 0.49 · news-in-context · keep 0.66 · Check out America's happiest places to live
  6. 0.47 · news-in-context · keep 0.53 · In some expensive US cities, a $100K salary hardly offers a comfortable living
  7. 0.46 · news-in-context · keep 0.34 · US cities where inflation is rising the most
  8. 0.46 · news-in-context · keep 0.64 · The 20 best small US towns for retirement
  9. 0.45 · news-in-context · keep 0.14 · In early 2026, Fremont, California, topped the list of happiest cities in the US
  10. 0.44 · news-in-context · keep 0.58 · What a $100K salary is worth in different US cities
  11. 0.43 · news-in-context · keep 0.27 · Explore US public health data
  12. 0.43 · experiences · keep 0.25 · What its like to live in the world’s ‘smartest cities’
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Pilots who survive ejecting from military jets get invited to a secret club.
  1. 0.53 · explainers · keep 0.84 · How fighter jet ejections work
  2. 0.49 · curiosity · keep 0.09 · 64-year-old accidentally ejects himself from fighter jet
  3. 0.43 · longform · keep 0.72 · Six stories of survivors who fell from the sky
  4. 0.41 · longform · keep 0.67 · Listen to an account of an 'airplane game' leader, a notorious, widespread illegal pyramid scheme that swept across the US in the 1980s.
  5. 0.40 · curiosity · keep 0.52 · In 2012, scientists purposely crashed a Boeing 727 to identify where the safest place to sit is on a plane in order to survive a belly-flop-style impact.
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Why do cats lick each other? ( Share)
  1. 0.42 · curiosity · keep 0.83 · Cats began cozying up to humans around 10,000 years ago
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Celebrate National Cheeseburger Day with free food.
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What is your state's favorite board game?
  1. 0.53 · curiosity · keep 0.59 · Browse a timeline of the fascinating history of board games in America.
  2. 0.46 · explainers · keep 0.22 · Between 2019 and 2025, sales of board games jumped more than 30% in the US.
  3. 0.44 · experiences · keep 0.66 · Play the Royal Game of Ur, one of the world's oldest known board games.
  4. 0.42 · curiosity · keep 0.64 · Mark Twain invented an unsuccessful board game
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Cary Grant’s romantic tryst created a hotel tradition.
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The California baker focused on potty training and colonoscopies.
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Looking for love? Try Costco.
  1. 0.46 · curiosity · keep 0.58 · Explaining the 'Costco effect'
  2. 0.46 · curiosity · keep 0.63 · Batteries, baby wipes, and other Costco buys that might not be worth it
  3. 0.44 · curiosity · keep 0.57 · The matchmakers serving the elite of Silicon Valley
  4. 0.44 · explainers · keep 0.15 · Costco's bullion program offers an attractive option for retail investors, experts say
  5. 0.41 · experiences · keep 0.61 · Machu Picchu, sacred backdrop for your dating app pic
  6. 0.41 · curiosity · keep 0.64 · What Costco does with its unsold baked items
  7. 0.40 · explainers · keep 0.43 · Costco and Amazon have very similar pricing across everyday staples
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