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AP POLL-ELECTION 2024-BLACK VOTERS — Black registered voters have an overwhelmingly positive view of Kamala Harris, but they’re less likely to see her as someone who would change the country for the better, according to a recent poll from the AP-NORC Center for Public Affairs Research. Black voters’ opinions of Donald Trump, by contrast, are overwhelmingly negative. By Matt Brown and Linley Sanders. SENT: 1,050 words, photos.

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HURRICANE-MILTON — Florida’s Gulf Coast braced for the impact of Hurricane Milton’s winds and expected massive storm surge, which could bring destruction to areas already reeling from Helene’s devastation 12 days ago and still recovering from Ian’s wrath two years ago. Milton was downgraded early Tuesday to a Category 4 hurricane, but forecasters said it still posed “an extremely serious threat to Florida.” By Terry Spencer and Haven Daley. SENT: 990 words, photo, videos, audio. With HURRICANE-MILTON-THE-LATEST; TROPICAL-WEATHER-HOW-TO-PREPARE — Ahead of hurricane strike, Floridians should have a plan, a supply kit and heed evacuation advice; HURRICANE-MILTON-TAMPA-WHAT-TO-KNOW — Could Tampa take a direct hit from Hurricane Milton? CLIMATE-WEATHER CONTROL — Control the path and power of hurricanes like Helene? Forget it, scientists say; HURRICANE-SPORTS — Hurricane Milton forces NFL, NHL and other sporting events to adjust game plans; and HURRICANE-HELENE — FEMA administrator continues pushback against false claims as Helene death toll hits 230 — SENT.

ELECTION-2024-HARRIS-TRUMP — Vice President Kamala Harris is calling former President Donald Trump “incredibly irresponsible” for spreading falsehoods about the federal response to Hurricane Helene’s destruction. Trump has made false claims since Helene, including saying the federal government is intentionally withholding aid to Republican disaster victims. He also falsely claimed that the Federal Emergency Management Agency had run out of money because all of it had gone to programs for immigrants in the country illegally. By Will Weissert. SENT: 610 words, photos, videos, audio. With ELECTION 2024-TRUMP-IMMIGRATION — Trump suggests that migrants who are in the U.S. and have committed murder did so because “it’s in their genes;” and ELECTION 2024-HARRIS — Harris is still introducing herself as she sets out on media tour when people are already voting — SENT.

MIDEAST-WARS — Hezbollah’s acting leader said even more Israelis will be displaced as the militant group extends its rocket fire deeper into Israel, in a defiant televised statement marking the anniversary of fighting that escalated into war last month. Sheikh Naim Kassem, the acting leader of Hezbollah, said its military capabilities are still intact and that it has replaced all of its senior commanders after weeks of heavy Israeli airstrikes across large parts of Lebanon, including targeted strikes that killed much of its top command in a matter of days. He also said Israeli forces have not been able to advance after launching a ground incursion into Lebanon last week. SENT: 390 words, photos. With MIDEAST-WAR-ANNIVERSARY-GLOBAL-PROTESTS — Vigils, protests around the world commemorate the anniversary of Hamas attack on Israel; ELECTION-2024 — Harris and Trump mark somber anniversary of Hamas’ Oct. 7 attack on Israel ; MIDEAST-WAR-THE-LATEST — Israeli military says it killed a senior Hezbollah commander in Beirut strike — SENT. Find a selection of related photos in the Mideast Tensions Photo Collection on APNewsroom. See more on Mideast wars below.

UNITED STATES-MIDEAST-SHIFTING POWER — Israeli military strikes are targeting Iran’s armed proxies across a nearly 2,000-mile stretch of the Middle East and are threatening Iran itself. The efforts raise the possibility of an end to two decades of Iranian ascendancy in the region, to which the U.S. military campaign in Iraq in 2003 inadvertently gave rise. By Ellen Knickmeyer. SENT: 1,160 words, photos.

NOBEL-PHYSICS — John Hopfield and Geoffrey Hinton — who is known as the Godfather of artificial intelligence — were awarded the Nobel Prize in physics for discoveries and inventions that formed the building blocks of machine learning and artificial intelligence. Hopfield’s research is carried out at Princeton University and Hinton works at the University of Toronto. By Daniel Niemann and Mike Corder. SENT: 530 words, photos.

KASHMIR-INDIA-ELECTION — Votes are being counted in the recent election for a largely powerless local government in Indian-controlled Kashmir. It’s the first vote since Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s government stripped the disputed region of its special status five years ago. Thousands of additional police and paramilitary soldiers patrolled roads and guarded 28 counting centers across the region as officials tallied votes. SENT: 590 words, photos.

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OBIT-CISSY-HOUSTON — Cissy Houston, Whitney Houston’s mother and a Grammy-winning singer, dies at age 91. SENT: 530 words, photos.

SAINTS-CHIEFS-SWIFT — Taylor Swift is back to watch Travis Kelce and the Chiefs with Eras Tour soon to resume. SENT: 370 words, photos.

FRANCE-BIN LADEN’S SON — France tightens steps to prevent one of Osama bin Laden’s sons from returning. SENT: 220 words.

GERMANY-BRITAIN-MISSING-GIRL — German court acquits McCann suspect of unrelated sexual offense charges. SENT: 260 words, photo, video.

WWE-VINCE MCMAHON — Woman accusing Vince McMahon of sexual abuse asks WWE to waive confidentiality agreements. SENT: 740 words, photo.

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BIDEN-LEAD-PIPES — A decade after the Flint, Michigan, water crisis raised alarms about the dangers of lead in tap water, President Joe Biden is setting a 10-year deadline for U.S. cities to replace lead pipes and make drinking water safe for all Americans. SENT: 910 words, photos.

ELECTION-2024-BIDEN — President Joe Biden is making a rare jump into the 2024 battleground political fray since ending his reelection bid. He’ll campaign in Pennsylvania for a close ally and visit Wisconsin to spotlight a signature legislative achievement. SENT: 920 words, photos.

SUPREME COURT-GHOST GUNS — The Supreme Court is hearing a challenge to a Biden administration regulation on ghost guns, the difficult-to-trace weapons with an exponentially increased link to crime in recent years. SENT: 370 words, photo. Arguments at 10 a.m. With SUPREME COURT-ABORTION — Supreme Court declines Biden’s appeal in Texas emergency abortion case — SENT.

ELECTION 2024-FOREIGN INFLUENCE-CONGRESS — Foreign governments are targeting House and Senate races around the country in their effort to meddle with American democracy this election year, intelligence officials warn. SENT: 790 words, photo.

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TYRE-NICHOLS — Two former Memphis police officers convicted of obstruction of justice in the fatal beating of Tyre Nichols will be released from jail ahead of sentencing in January, but a third who was found guilty of more serious civil rights violations will remain in custody, a federal judge ruled. SENT: 730 words, photos.

AMERICAN-WATER-CYBERATTACK — The largest regulated water and wastewater utility company in the U.S. says it was the victim of a cyberattack, prompting the firm to pause billing to customers. SENT: 160 words, photo, audio.

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FRANCE-POLITICS — France’s minority government is expected to survive a no-confidence vote in a test for conservative Prime Minister Michel Barnier, forced to rely on the far right’s good will to be able to stay in power. SENT: 240 words, photos.

MOZAMBIQUE-ELECTIONS-EXPLAINER — Mozambicans are expected to turn out in large numbers on Wednesday for an election that will choose a successor to President Filipe Nyusi after his two terms. Close to 17 million voters in the southern African nation of 31 million people are registered to vote for the next president along with 250 members of parliament and provincial assemblies. SENT: 620 words, photos.

ZAMBIA-MINE-COLLAPSE — At least 10 people died and an unknown number are missing after a mine collapsed in central Zambia, police said. Authorities said rescue operations were underway and it wasn’t clear exactly how many miners were underground. SENT: 170 words.

MOROCCO DESERT RAIN — A rare deluge of rainfall left blue lagoons of water amid the palm trees and sand dunes of the Sahara desert, nourishing some of its most drought-stricken regions with more water than many had seen in decades. Southeastern Morocco’s desert is among the most arid places in the world and rarely experiences rain in late summer. SENT: 370 words, photos.

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CLEARING-BRAIN-WASTE — A unique peek inside the human brain may help explain how it clears away waste like the kind that leads to Alzheimer’s disease. Brain cells make a lot of waste and research a decade ago showed the brains of mice harbor special plumbing to flush out that cellular trash — especially during sleep. But only now have researchers finally spotted the same kind of trash-removal going on in the brains of living people. By Lauran Neergaard. SENT: 540 words, photo.

LIFE-EXPECTANCY — A new study suggests that humanity is hitting the upper limit of life expectancy. Advances in medical technology and genetic research are not translating into marked jumps in lifespan overall. That’s according to researchers who found shrinking longevity increases in countries with the longest-living populations. SENT: 660 words, photo.

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BUSINESS/TECH

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FINANCIAL-MARKETS — Hong Kong’s share benchmark has fallen more than 9% and other Chinese markets gave up much of their early gains as traders dumped shares following recent rallies. The Hang Seng index lost 9.4% to close at 20,926.79. SENT: 560 words, photos, audio. With CHINA-ECONOMY — China announces more support for economy but holds back on major spending package — SENT.

CHINA-EU-BRANDY-TARIFFS — Chinese drinkers may pay more for Remy Martin and other European brandies after the government announced provisional tariffs of 30.6% to 39% on those liquors four days after a majority of European Union countries approved duties on electric vehicles made in China. SENT: 260 words, photo.

EUROPE-SOCIAL-MEDIA — Social media users in the European Union will soon have a new forum to challenge decisions by platforms to remove posts and videos for breaking their rules or leave up others that may violate them. SENT: 640 words, photo.

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SAINTS-CHIEFS — Patrick Mahomes threw for 331 yards, Kareem Hunt ran for 102 yards and a touchdown, and the Chiefs overcame more red-zone woes to beat the Saints 26-13 on a big night for Kansas City’s professional sports teams. SENT: 910 words, photos.

ALDS-ROYALS-YANKEES — Salvador Perez homered leading off the fourth inning to spark a four-run rally against Carlos Rodón, and the Kansas City Royals beat the New York Yankees 4-2 to even their AL Division Series at one game apiece. SENT: 490 words, photos.

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Kansas City Chiefs safety Bryan Cook (6) intercepts a pass intended for New Orleans Saints Rashid Shaheed, right, during the first half of an NFL football game Monday, Oct. 7, 2024, in Kansas City, Mo. (AP Photo/Charlie Riedel)

A sculpture of Poseidon stands in the ocean before the arrival of Hurricane Milton in Progreso, Yucatan state, Mexico, Monday, Oct. 7, 2024. (AP Photo/Martin Zetina)

People hold candles during a vigil marking the one-year anniversary of the start of the Israel-Hamas war, in Mexico City, Monday, Oct. 7, 2024. (AP Photo/Fernando Llano)

Police officers detain a demonstrator during a pro-Palestinian rally in Berlin, Monday, Oct. 7, 2024. (AP Photo/ Ebrahim Noroozi)

People gather to mark the first anniversary of the Hamas attack on Israel at the Hacoaj Jewish community and sports center in Buenos Aires, Argentina, Monday, Oct. 7, 2024. (AP Photo/Gustavo Garello)

Flame and smoke rise from an Israeli airstrike in Dahiyeh, Beirut, Lebanon, Monday, Oct. 7, 2024. (AP Photo/Hussein Malla)

STOCKHOLM (AP) — Two pioneers of artificial intelligence – John Hopfield and Geoffrey Hinton – won the Nobel Prize in physics Tuesday for helping create the building blocks of machine learning that is revolutionizing the way we work and live but also creates new threats to humanity, one of the winners said.

Hinton, who is known as the Godfather of artificial intelligence, is a citizen of Canada and Britain who works at the University of Toronto and Hopfield is an American working at Princeton.

“This year’s two Nobel Laureates in physics have used tools from physics to develop methods that are the foundation of today’s powerful machine learning,” the Nobel committee said in a press release.

Ellen Moons, a member of the Nobel committee at the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences, said the two laureates “used fundamental concepts from statistical physics to design artificial neural networks that function as associative memories and find patterns in large data sets.”

She said that such networks have been used to advance research in physics and “have also become part of our daily lives, for instance in facial recognition and language translation.”

While the committee honored the science behind machine learning and AI, Moons also mentioned its flipside, saying that "while machine learning has enormous benefits, its rapid development has also raised concerns about our future. Collectively, humans carry the responsibility for using this new technology in a safe and ethical way for the greatest benefit of humankind.”

Hinton shares those concerns. He quit a role at Google so he could more freely speak about the dangers of the technology he helped create.

On Tuesday, he said he was shocked at the honor.

“I’m flabbergasted. I had, no idea this would happen,” he said when reached by the Nobel committee on the phone.

Hinton predicted that AI will end up having a “huge influence” on civilization, bringing improvements in productivity and health care.

“It would be comparable with the Industrial Revolution,” he said in the open call with reporters and the officials from the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences.

“Instead of exceeding people in physical strength, it’s going to exceed people in intellectual ability. We have no experience of what it’s like to have things smarter than us. And it’s going to be wonderful in many respects,” Hinton said. “But we also have to worry about a number of possible bad consequences, particularly the threat of these things getting out of control.”

Six days of Nobel announcements opened Monday with Americans Victor Ambros and Gary Ruvkun winning the medicine prize for their discovery of tiny bits of genetic material that serve as on and off switches inside cells that help control what the cells do and when they do it. If scientists can better understand how they work and how to manipulate them, it could one day lead to powerful treatments for diseases like cancer.

The physics prize carries a cash award of 11 million Swedish kronor ($1 million) from a bequest left by the award's creator, Swedish inventor Alfred Nobel. The laureates are invited to receive their awards at ceremonies on Dec. 10, the anniversary of Nobel’s death.

Nobel announcements continue with the chemistry physics prize on Wednesday and literature on Thursday. The Nobel Peace Prize will be announced Friday and the economics award on Oct. 14.

Corder reported from The Hague, Netherlands.

FILE - Artificial intelligence pioneer Geoffrey Hinton poses backstage at the Collision Conference in Toronto, Wednesday, June 19, 2024. (Chris Young/The Canadian Press via AP, File)

Computer scientist Geoffrey Hinton, who studies neural networks used in artificial intelligence applications, poses at Google's Mountain View, Calif, headquarters on Wednesday, March 25, 2015. (AP Photo/Noah Berger)

FILE - Computer scientist Geoffrey Hinton, who studies neural networks used in artificial intelligence applications, poses at Google's Mountain View, Calif, headquarters on Wednesday, March 25, 2015. (AP Photo/Noah Berger, File)

File - Computer scientist Geoffrey Hinton poses at Google's Mountain View, Calif, headquarters on Wednesday, March 25, 2015. (AP Photo/Noah Berger, File)

FILE - Artificial intelligence pioneer Geoffrey Hinton speaks at the Collision Conference in Toronto, Wednesday, June 19, 2024. (Chris Young/The Canadian Press via AP, File)

John Hopfield and Geoffrey Hinton, seen in picture, are awarded this year's Nobel Prize in Physics, which is announced at a press conference by Hans Ellergren, center, permanent secretary at the Swedish Academy of Sciences in Stockholm, Sweden Tuesday Oct. 8, 2024. (Christine Olsson/TT News Agency via AP)

FILE - A close-up view of a Nobel Prize medal at the National Institutes of Health (NIH) in Bethesda, Md., Tuesday, Dec. 8, 2020. (AP Photo/Jacquelyn Martin, File)

FILE - A Nobel Prize medal is displayed before a ceremony at the Swedish Ambassador's Residence in London, Monday, Dec. 6, 2021. (AP Photo/Matt Dunham, File)

The Nobel Prize in physics is being awarded, a day after 2 Americans won the medicine prize

The Nobel Prize in physics is being awarded, a day after 2 Americans won the medicine prize

FILE - A bust of Alfred Nobel on display following a press conference at the Karolinska Institute in Stockholm, Sweden, on Monday, Oct. 3, 2022. (Henrik Montgomery/TT News Agency via AP, File)