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How to best use your new AI agent

Agentic artificial intelligence is gaining popularity far beyond tech circles, with Meta, OpenAI, Anthropic and other companies going head-to-head in the surging market for consumer-friendly AI agents. While the leading AI labs have offered tools with agentic capabilities for years, agents ...

Ticker: Asian trading mixed as AI worries grow

Asians trading is mixed as worries about the future of artificial intelligence grew after Alphabet’s stock drop dragged on U.S. markets. Japan’s benchmark Nikkei 225 dropped in Friday morning trading. Shares rose in Sydney and Hong Kong, but fell in Seoul and Shanghai. Shares related to the great market interest in AI have tended to be volatile. Alphabet is one of the most influential stocks on Wall Street. Amazon offers cautious view after down 3Q Amazon offered a cautious sales outlook for the current fourth quarter that encompasses the critical holiday shopping period after ...

Beauty found in interfaith cooperation

BALTIMORE — At a table with other University of Maryland students and campus leaders, Keven Guruswamy, a senior psychology major and Seventh-day Adventist, held up a photograph of his collection of Bibles arranged on a shelf. Some of the Bibles were in Tamil, others in English. Some he ...

Spiritual notes

Night of worship Holy Spirit Ministry will be held from 7 to 8 p.m. Tuesday, Nov. 3, at St. Michael Church. Father Jim Davidson will present a short teaching on the “5 Stones of Medjegorie.” Davidson is a Ukrainian Rite Catholic priest, a physician and a Bishop Guilfoyle grad graduate. Prayer ministry will be held at 8 p.m. Food bank open The food bank will be open from 1 to 3 p.m. Thursday, Nov. 5, at Faith Baptist Church, 315 40th St., Altoona. The date has been changed due to election day. Food pantry available The Food Pantry at Second Avenue Global Methodist Church will ...