Author: KnowledgeHippo

OpenAI filed a motion in federal court on Monday that seeks to dismiss some key elements of a lawsuit brought by The New York Times Company.The Times sued OpenAI and its partner Microsoft on December 27, accusing them of infringing its copyright by using millions of its articles to train artificial intelligence technologies such as the online chatbot ChatGPT. Chatbots are now competing with the news outlet as a source of reliable information, the lawsuit said.In the lawsuit filed in the US District Court for the Southern District of New York, the defendants argue that ChatGPT is “in no way…

The tainted applesauce might have gone unnoticed for even longer if it weren’t for one family in North Carolina.Early last summer, Nicole Peterson and Thomas Duong were concerned about their young children’s blood lead levels during a routine test. Within weeks, levels had doubled.Ms Peterson said the couple worked with the local health department as they tried to determine what could have harmed their children. “We haven’t been sleeping and we haven’t been eating – because it’s driving us crazy,” Ms Peterson said. She and her husband are suing Dollar Tree, where they bought the applesauce, and WanaBana, a U.S.…

Boeing’s safety culture remains flawed, despite improvements made after two fatal crashes involving the 737 Max 8 jet in 2018 and 2019, according to a Federal Aviation Administration report released Monday.The report, written by a panel of experts convened a year ago at the behest of Congress, found there was a “disconnect” among senior executives at Boeing, which makes commercial planes as well as military aircraft and technology. The company, the commission found, was at times “inadequate and confused” in how it managed its safety culture.In a statement, the FAA said it would “immediately begin a thorough review of the…

Iran has made a concerted effort to rein in militias in Iraq and Syria after the United States responded with a series of airstrikes for the killing of three US military reservists this month.Initially, there were regional concerns that the unprecedented violence would lead to an escalation of the conflict in the Middle East. But since the Feb. 2 U.S. strikes, U.S. officials say, there have been no attacks by Iranian-backed militias on U.S. bases in Iraq and only two small ones in Syria.Before then, the US military had recorded at least 170 attacks against US troops in four months,…

There’s a lot we don’t know about why Nex Benedict, a non-binary teenager in Owasso, Okla., died a day after a fight in a high school bathroom. But there are a few things we do know, and they all add up to tragedy.We know that 16-year-old Nex, who often went by their pronouns with peers, was bullied at school. According to Sue Benedict, their biological grandmother and guardian, the bullying started in earnest last year. We know that Nex did not report the recent meetings to teachers or school officials. “I didn’t really see the point in it,” they told…

The Federal Trade Commission and several state attorneys general sued Monday to block Kroger, the supermarket giant, from completing its $24.6 billion takeover of grocery chain Albertsons, saying the deal would harm competition in the industry .The agency said the deal, which would be the largest supermarket merger in U.S. history, would likely lead to higher grocery prices for consumers and, with fewer supermarkets, reduce the ability of grocery store workers to they negotiate higher wages and better working conditions. .”This major supermarket merger comes as American consumers have seen grocery costs rise steadily in recent years,” Henry Liu, director…

New Mexico’s attorney general, who last year sued Meta alleging it failed to protect children from sexual predators and made false claims about the safety of its platforms, announced Monday that his office will review how its paid subscription services company attract predators.Attorney General Raúl Torrez said he had formally requested documentation from the social media company about Facebook and Instagram memberships, which are often available on child accounts managed by parents.Instagram does not allow users under the age of 13, but accounts that focus entirely on children are allowed as long as they are managed by adults. The New…

Most of the plastic in your medicine cabinet is high-grade, medical-grade — and extremely difficult to dispose of safely, let alone recycle.Sorting equipment at standard recycling centers usually cannot handle small items and their wishful inclusion simply prolongs the sorting process which then increases recyclers’ costs without saving the plastic. Some home medical products, such as needles that have come into contact with bodily fluids, should not even be placed in the household trash.Governments and large drugstore chains offer some guidelines. For example, the New York State Department of Environmental Conservation has a map of collection boxes for safe drug…

In countries like the United States, he said, there is a “highly sexualized and puritanical culture, where sex is tightly controlled. Attitudes are generally much more conservative about what women do and the female body. In Europe this tends to happen less.”In a series of studies, Dr. West and his team found that being naked with others can increase self-confidence and life satisfaction. “If you go to a nudist event, you see a lot of normal people, people who aren’t atmospheric and who aren’t Beyoncé, and you realize that you don’t look bad compared to the average person,” said Dr.…

Prime Minister Mohammad Shtayyeh of the Palestinian Authority, the body that administers part of the Israeli-occupied West Bank, submitted the resignation of his cabinet on Monday, according to the authority’s official news agency.The decision follows diplomatic efforts involving the United States and Arab states, including Saudi Arabia, to persuade the authority to overhaul itself in a way that would allow it to take over administration of Gaza after the war there ends.But it was unclear whether Mr Shtayyeh’s resignation would be enough to restore power or persuade Israel to let him rule Gaza. President Mahmoud Abbas, the authority’s most senior…