As software stocks slump, investors debate AI's existential threat

By Danilo Masoni, Medha Singh and Aditya Soni Feb 4 (Reuters) - Investors were assessing on Wednesday whether a selloff in ...
Marin Independent Journal

‘Existential threat’: Corte Madera holds flood recovery workshop

Nathan Blomgren, chair of the flood board, addressed the high cost of longer-term solutions like levees, which have been put ...
The News International

Is humanity facing its final hour? Doomsday Clock update raises existential fears

Humanity is about to learn its fate as the Doomsday Clock is being updated on January 27, 2026 as scheduled by the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists . In 2025, the BAS moved the Doomsday ...

Net zero poses ‘existential risk’ to struggling farmers

Net zero poses an “existential risk” to Britain’s struggling farmers, Labour’s favourite think tank has warned.
Science Daily

“Existential risk” – Why scientists are racing to define consciousness

Scientists warn that rapid advances in AI and neurotechnology are outpacing our understanding of consciousness, creating ...
NBC Bay Area

‘Existential' Is Dictionary.com's Word of the Year

Climate change, gun violence, the very nature of democracy and an angsty little movie star called Forky helped propel "existential" to Dictionary.com's word of the year. The choice reflects months of ...
Politifact

Is ISIS an 'existential threat' to the United States?

ISIS is the apparent perpetrator of the bloody terrorist attacks in Paris on Nov. 13, 2015. But does the group -- also known as ISIL or the Islamic State -- pose an "existential threat" to the United ...
Mashable

Dictionary.com's Word of the Year for 2019 is 'existential', and same

Dictionary.com announced its 2019 Word of the Year today, and it is a big mood. The website has chosen the word "existential", as in "existential crisis" or "existential dread" — two things the vast ...