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The Internal Revenue Service just made life easier for millions who stay current on their taxes most of the time. Starting this summer, the agency will automatically skip assessing failure-to-file, failure-to-pay and failure-to-deposit penalties for those with a solid three-year track record. No calls. No forms. No waiting on hold. This marks a sharp break

Boston Scientific just told the world it plans to spend as much as $800 million to become more efficient. The medical device maker’s board signed off on the move July 21. Details landed in a regulatory filing two days later. And the market seemed to like what it saw. Shares rose. Yet buried in the

T-Mobile promised connectivity. Thousands of its customers got silence instead. On July 27, phones across the country switched to SOS mode. Calls dropped. Texts failed to send. Data connections vanished. The outage struck around 4 p.m. ET. It dragged on for hours. Frustration boiled over on social media. More than 61,000 users flooded Downdetector with

Sam Altman once predicted AI would wipe out entire classes of jobs. He floated the idea of an AI CEO running OpenAI itself. Those days appear over. The OpenAI chief now says he would much rather engage with a person than an AI for almost everything. He believes the world wants accountability tied to a

Claude Mythos Preview did something no human had. It stared at a weakened form of AES, the encryption workhorse protecting bank transfers, emails and military secrets, and found a shortcut. Not a small one. The AI sped up the best prior attack by factors of 200 to 1,000. Anthropic released the details Tuesday. The findings

Scammers keep finding fresh ways to hit consumers where they bank. Spotify, the music streaming service with hundreds of millions of users worldwide, now stands as their latest target. Fraudsters send polished emails that look straight from the company. They claim a payment failed. They push recipients to update card details right away. Click the

Claude Mythos Preview did what teams of human experts could not. In a matter of weeks it uncovered mathematical flaws in two established cryptographic schemes. One attack halves the effective security of HAWK, a finalist in NIST’s search for post-quantum digital signatures. The other sharpens an assault on a reduced-round version of AES, the workhorse

The Bank for International Settlements dropped a stark warning this week. AI isn’t just transforming industries. It’s scrambling the very data central bankers rely on to steer economies. Released Tuesday, a new BIS Bulletin lays out how the technology simultaneously juices demand and supply. That dual punch makes it tougher than ever to read economic

Sam Altman once entertained visions of artificial intelligence delivering abundance and free time. Now the OpenAI chief executive says the old promise of shorter workweeks stands no chance. In a recent appearance on the “Relentless” podcast, Altman delivered a blunt assessment. Technology has long teased less labor and more leisure. Yet society never cashes in

Tata Motors and Mahindra have done what few expected. The two Indian companies topped a global ranking of electric vehicle energy efficiency last year. They left Tesla and BYD behind. The numbers come from the International Council on Clean Transportation. Its 2025 assessment measured fleet averages in watt-hours per kilometer. Tata achieved 106. Mahindra posted