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NEW YORK (AP) - U.S. stocks ended on a mixed note following the latest signals that the U.S. economy continues to hum. The S&P 500 closed little changed Thursday. The Dow Jones Industrial Average added 0.4% to the all-time high it set the day before, and the Nasdaq composite edged up less than 0.1%.
Israel says Hamas' top leader Yahya Sinwar has been killed in a battle with Israeli forces in Gaza. Foreign Minister Katz called Sinwar's killing a "military and moral achievement for the Israeli army." Sinwar was a chief architect of Hamas’ Oct. 7 attack on southern Israel that precipitated the latest escalating conflicts in the Middle East.
The Washington Post on AI’s impact on chemistry, biomedicine. One of this year's Nobel Prize winners in physics, Geoffrey Hinton, who pioneered work on the neural networks that undergird artificial intelligence, has warned that machines might someday get smarter than humans. Perhaps.
