Parents Fell in Love With Alpha School’s Promise. Then They Wanted Out

In Brownsville, Texas, some families found a buzzy new school’s methods—surveillance of kids, software in lieu of teachers—to ...

MiniMax-M2 is the new king of open source LLMs (especially for agentic tool calling)

These scores place it at or near the level of top proprietary systems like GPT-5 (thinking) and Claude Sonnet 4.5, making ...
CNET

Still Haven't Gotten Into the Viral Sora 2 App? The Key To Getting a Code

Katelyn is a writer with CNET covering artificial intelligence, including chatbots, image and video generators. Her work explores how new AI technology is infiltrating our lives, shaping the content ...
abc13

Wind slows down overnight leading to coldest morning since April

HOUSTON, Texas (KTRK) -- Our coldest air since April is blowing into Houston! And the wind sure did blow on Wednesday with peak gusts around 50 mph in parts of Southeast Texas. Overnight the wind will ...
ABC7

Record-breaking high temps arrive in Southern California with windy conditions

LOS ANGELES (KABC) -- A big October warmup has arrived in Southern California, in addition to windy conditions for many areas. According to the National Weather Service Los Angeles, downtown set a ...
KVUE

Forecast: Windy and much cooler weather moving in

AUSTIN, Texas — Our long-awaited cold front has officially pushed through Central Texas, delivering the coolest weather we’ve seen so far this fall. Gusty northwest winds are ushering in much cooler ...
MarketWatch

I retired at 55 with $2 million in my 401(k), should I buy an annuity with the $200,000 in my taxable brokerage or use it to fund a Roth conversion?

Beth Pinsker is a financial-planning columnist at MarketWatch. She has been a certified financial planner (CFP®) since 2018. Previously, she worked at Reuters, Fidelity and Walletpop.com. Prior to ...