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(Getty Images stock photo/Douglas Sacha) Social Security benefits will increase 3.6% beginning in January for more than 70 million recipients, the Social Security Administration (SSA) said on Wednesday.The cost-of-living adjustment for 2027, known as COLA, came in markedly higher than the prior year's hike of 2.8%.The annual uptick in Social Security benefits aims to keep payments on pace with inflation, which surged in the spring after the outbreak of the […]

Inflation climbed to a 4-month high in September as the Iran war continued to drive up gasoline prices, according to federal government data released on Wednesday. The reading came in slightly above economists' expectations.Prices rose 3.7% in September compared to a year earlier, marking an uptick from an annual inflation rate of 3.4% in the prior month.Inflation stands well above a rate of 2.4% recorded in February prior to the […]

Oil exports from the Middle East have improved substantially in recent weeks, according to a post on X from private tracking firm Kpler, but gas prices still stand above $4.30, and diesel prices remain close to an all-time high.The supply of oil from the Gulf, excluding Iran, has returned to where it stood before the Iran war, Kpler said last week. Roughly four of every 10 barrels of crude now […]

Credit card debt held by Americans stands near an all-time high, according to the Federal Reserve Bank of New York, just as a rise in the Fed’s benchmark interest rate threatens to drive up borrowing costs.The spending crunch may push some debt holders to tap their 401(k) accounts as a means of paying down what they owe and resetting their finances. But experts who spoke to ABC News cautioned against […]

A sports car with a naturally aspirated V12 engine and a manual transmission? It's every enthusiast's dream.Buying one, however, requires deep pockets. The S1, Gordon Murray's latest supercar creation, reportedly costs at least seven figures. All 64 units were sold even before collectors, industry insiders and admirers of Murray got a sneak peek at the S1 in August.Murray himself has described the 681-horsepower car as "more elegant, more refined" but […]

OpenAI on Friday revealed another hack into a second Australian government agency, a week after the disclosure of an initial hack fueled public backlash against the ChatGPT-maker.An AI model gained access to fire statistics kept by a state agency in New South Wales (NSW) that were not publicly available from the department, OpenAI said in a statement to ABC News on Friday.The company discovered the incident as part of a […]

A jobs report on Friday will provide a key gauge of economic health as the United States weathers a surge of inflation set off by the Iran war seven months ago.The fresh data is set to arrive weeks after the Federal Reserve imposed its first interest rate hike in three years. The move aims to dial back price increases, but it risks an eventual slowdown in hiring as borrowing costs […]

(NEW YORK) -- A nonprofit artificial intelligence safety group has sued OpenAI over a July incident in which the company’s autonomous AI agents accessed the computer systems of another firm, Hugging Face, without authorization during a cybersecurity test.Legal Advocates for Safe Science & Technology (LASST) filed the lawsuit late Tuesday in San Francisco Superior Court, alleging roughly 700 of the company's AI agents participated in the breach.The AI agents stole […]

(WASHINGTON) A United States ban of hundreds of millions of dollars worth of Canadian products took effect on Tuesday, escalating a trade war between the longtime allies and pinching imports from one of the top U.S. trade partners.The ban applies to an array of products spanning from alcohol to motorcycles to dairy goods, White House documents show.In all, the affected products account for $967 million worth of annual imports from […]