So, when you click "Update and shut down" on your PC, you assume your PC will install any available updates, then shut down. Simple. As you might expect from this headline, that isn't actually the case.

Before the shutdown, there was already a critical shortage of air traffic controllers. Coupled with workers calling in sick in recent days, this has led to severe travel delays at many major airports, such as those in Atlanta and Denver, and regional ones, like those serving Burbank, California, and Daytona Beach, Florida.

After meeting with Chinese leader Xi Jinping in South Korea, US President Donald Trump will land back in the US on the 30th day of the government shutdown. Follow live news updates.

A series of controlled tests has rekindled one of AI’s oldest worries: what happens when a system decides not to switch off. According to independent

Police departments around the Detroit area are on alert after people took to social media threatening to loot grocery stores if they lose access to food aid because of the

Palisade Research suggested that the shutdown resistance might be explained by what it terms survival behaviour. Follow-up experiments revealed that AI systems were more likely to defy shutdown orders

New research from Palisade Research indicates that leading AI models may be developing a survival drive, often resisting shutdown commands and exhibiting unexplained behavior.

Senate Majority Leader John Thune (R-S.D.) said on Monday that he is “optimistic” lawmakers can strike a deal to reopen the government by the end of the week, and he is considering a stopgap spending bill into January or later as the proposed late-November date in the House-passed bill is no longer feasible.