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Get a look at Eddie Izzard’s Nina Jekyll in Hammer’s new take on Jekyll and Hyde. Chucky takes on the White House in a new Chucky season 3 clip. Plus, what’s coming on American Horror Story: Delicate, and the return of Shining Vale. Spoilers, now!

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The U.S. federal government is still swimming in circles trying to form some sort of plan to regulate the exploding AI industry. So when the usual suspects of big tech again returned to Capitol Hill on Wednesday for a closed-door meeting on potential AI regulation, they came prepared with the same talking points…

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• Elon Musk's friends held an intervention to stop him starting a rocket company, according to a new book.
• His college friend made him watch videos of rockets blowing up and warned him he'd lose his money.
• Musk ultimately created SpaceX

• The freight recession that followed the pandemic demand spike is showing signs of easing. 
• A new report from Motive showed fewer carriers are leaving the trucking market, and freight rates have been relatively consistent for six months.
• Still, truck drivers saw fewer miles and hours driven in August

• Reid Hoffman dismissed efforts to pause AI development in an interview at CogX Festival.
• He called such efforts from leaders and experts like Elon Musk "foolish" and "anti-humanist." 
• Hoffman compared the development of AI to cars which also posed many risks and dangers at first. 

LinkedIn cofounder Reid Hoffman is the latest high

The tablet space may be dominated by iPads and cheap slabs from Amazon’s Fire line, but Samsung’s recently revamped Tab S9s make the case for Android tablets, with the most widely appealing one on sale today. The Samsung Galaxy Tab S9 with 256GB of storage is selling for $799.99 ($120 off) at Amazon, and it

Earlier this week, France announced that it would halt iPhone 12 sales over potential radiation emissions from the devices that surpass legal limits. Now, Germany and Belgium appear to be a bit spooked as well.

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• US stocks jumped Thursday as consumers remained strong despite inflationary pressures.
• Retail sales in August climbed 0.6% from the prior month, well above estimates for a 0.1% uptick.
• Wholesale inflation was higher than expected, after consumer inflation also came in hot.

US stocks rose Thursday morning as investors weighed strength in retail sales against a hotter-than

Demonstrators blocked traffic outside the entrance to BlackRock headquarters ahead of a key climate summit in New York City.

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• Ukraine destroyed a Russian air-defense system worth $1.2 billion, reports said Thursday. 
• The S-400 "Triumf" was taken down using a combination of Neptune missiles and drones, reports said.

Ukraine used drones and missiles to take down an advanced