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Columbus-based Path Robotics this week unveiled an autonomous welding system at a North American metal forming and fabrication trade show in Chicago. The Autonomous Fit-up robotic system, or AF-1, is the company’s latest system in fully autonomous manufacturing, marking “a significant leap forward in the metal fabrication industry,” company officials said in a news release. [...]
DES MOINES, Iowa (AP) — The cost of building an artificial intelligence product like ChatGPT can be hard to measure. One thing Microsoft-backed OpenAI needed for its technology was plenty of water, pulled from the watershed of the Raccoon and Des Moines rivers in central Iowa to cool a powerful supercomputer as it helped teach [...]
WASHINGTON (AP) — The White House Situation Room — a space of mystique and even greater secrecy — just received a $50 million facelift. Actually, "room" is a misnomer. It's a 5,500-square-foot, highly secure complex of conference rooms and offices on the ground floor of the West Wing. These are the rooms where history happens, [...]
JUNEAU, Alaska (AP) — The Biden administration last week canceled the seven remaining oil and gas leases in Alaska's Arctic National Wildlife Refuge, overturning sales held in the Trump administration's waning days, and proposed stronger protections against development on vast swaths of the National Petroleum Reserve-Alaska. The Department of Interior's scrapping of the leases comes [...]
Democrats got a potential boost for the 2024 congressional elections as courts in Alabama and Florida ruled recently that Republican-led legislatures had unfairly diluted the voting power of black residents. Those cases, however, are just two of about a dozen that could carry big consequences as Republicans campaign to hold onto their slim majority in [...]
When the NFL season kicks off this week, Kentucky residents and visitors — for the first time — will be able to legally place sports bets on something other than horse racing. When they do, some of that money will also fund the state's first-ever program for people with gambling problems. Since the U.S. Supreme [...]
Food ads have long made their subjects look bigger, juicier and crispier than they are in real life, but some consumers say those mouthwatering ads can cross the line into deception and that's leading to a growing number of lawsuits. Burger King is the latest company in the crosshairs. In August, a federal judge in [...]
WASHINGTON (AP) — An inflation gauge closely tracked by the Federal Reserve remained low last month, adding to signs of cooling price increases and raising the likelihood that the Fed will leave interest rates unchanged when it next meets in late September. Last week's report from the Commerce Department showed that prices rose just 0.2 [...]
WASHINGTON (AP) — The nation’s economy expanded at a 2.1-percent annual pace from April through June, the government said earlier this week in a downgrade from its initial estimate. The government had previously estimated that the economy expanded at a 2.4-percent annual rate last quarter. The Commerce Department's second estimate of growth last quarter marked [...]
WASHINGTON (AP) — The blood thinner Eliquis and popular diabetes treatments, including Jardiance, are among the first drugs that will be targeted for price negotiations in an effort to cut Medicare costs. President Joe Biden’s administration earlier this week released a list of 10 drugs for which the federal government will take a first-ever step: [...]