On Tuesday, parents of a teen who died by suicide filed the first ever wrongful death lawsuit against OpenAI and its CEO, Sam Altman, alleging that their son received detailed instructions on how to hang himself from the company’s popular chatbot, ChatGPT. The case may well serve as a landmark …
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More than half a million people in the northern part of the Gaza Strip are officially experiencing famine, a United Nations-backed food security initiative announced on Friday. This classification comes nearly two years into Israel’s war with Hamas, a Palestinian terrorist organization that has governed Gaza since 2007 and launched …
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After a popular YouTuber who entraps suspected sexual predators he contacts through Roblox was banned from the youth-targeted gaming platform this month, the company found itself defending its approach to moderation and user safety. But the furor over harm to minors hasn’t been limited to the game’s community. Now a …
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In recent years, collectible cars — rare vehicles representing milestones in automotive history — have skyrocketed in value as high-end art, becoming a newly-sought trophy for titans of industry. Yet just as with any art, the growing demand for these cars is also attracting forgers and thieves. Criminals have pulled …
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F ew foods are more recognizable — or more American — than the cheeseburger. It’s a staple of fast food and backyard barbecues, served in rations to soldiers and on silver platters to presidents. Politicians invoke it as a symbol of abundance, nostalgia, even patriotism. Its parts — beef, cheese, …
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“I have a hook for your story,” a podcast producer told me as soon as I called her up earlier this summer. “Pineapple Street announced it’s going out of business today.” I’d already been reporting on the collapse of the narrative podcast industry for several weeks, talking with executives and …
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Like almost anyone eventually unmoored by it, J. started using ChatGPT out of idle curiosity in cutting-edge AI tech. “The first thing I did was, maybe, write a song about, like, a cat eating a pickle, something silly,” says J., a legal professional in California who asked to be identified …
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On Aug. 4, fans of the HBO Max series Love Life were given a gift. The television show was added to Netflix, a reprieve from the three-year drought that left fans unable to access the Anna Kendrick and William Jackson Harper-helmed anthology series. For creator Sam Boyd, having Love Life …
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Sydney Sweeney, the 27-year-old actress who rose to fame with roles in the hit HBO series Euphoria and The White Lotus, isn’t known for making political statements. True, she has signaled support for Black Lives Matter, women’s reproductive rights, and LGBTQ representation in media, but these have been fairly boilerplate …
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T he hotel room is cold, antiseptic, the only sound the gentle whisper of central air. I can’t go outside, my fixer tells me, or I might be kidnapped. From my window high up in the most expensive hotel in town, I look down at a baseball field and a …
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