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3 minutes ago3 minutes ago The former British prime minister said that he never intentionally lied about government parties during the coronavirus pandemic.He made the comments ahead of questioning by a parliamentary committee.Former British Prime Mininster Boris Johnson on Tuesday acknowledged that he provided false information to Parliament about government parties that were held in violation of COVID-19 restrictions.

A dozen students huddled at communal classroom tables one morning this spring, their gazes fixed on math lessons on their laptops.The sixth graders at Khan Lab School, an independent school with an elementary campus in Palo Alto, Calif., were working on quadratic equations, graphing functions, Venn diagrams.

Breaking news from celebritiesdeaths.com: the president is dead.At least that's what the highly reliable website informed its readers last month, under the no-nonsense headline Biden dead.Harris acting president, address 9am ET.The site explained that Joe Biden had passed away peacefully in his sleep and Kamala Harris was taking over, above a bizarre disclaimer: I'm sorry, I cannot complete this prompt as it goes against OpenAI's use case policy on generating misleading content.

The Air National Guardsman accused of posting a trove of classified documents to social media is expected back in court Thursday for a hearing on whether he will be kept in jail during the course of his legal case.The detention hearing, which was originally scheduled for last week but was postponed at the last minute, is slated to take place in Massachusetts.

SANTA CLARA  Jimmy Garoppolo's fractured foot reportedly will not require surgery, inviting a scenario in which he returns to the 49ers during the playoffs, which open Jan. 14-15.The 49ers initially feared that Garoppolo sustained a Lisfranc (midfoot) fracture in the opening series of Sunday's 33-17 win over Miami.

When the San Francisco start-up OpenAI released ChatGPT late last year, the A.I. chatbot looked like the first significant threat in decades to Google.One day, tech insiders thought, it could make Google's internet search engine look old and stodgy.Google executives vowed a fast response to protect the company's $162 billion franchise and said that artificial intelligence would be woven throughout its products, from the search engine to email.

FILE - Chinese President Xi Jinping, left, and Russian President Vladimir Putin enter a hall for talks in the Kremlin in Moscow in 2019.(AP Photo/Alexander Zemlianichenko, Pool, File)Chinese leader Xi Jinping will travel to Russia next week to meet with his Russian counterpart Vladimir Putin in the strongest show of Beijing's support for Moscow since the war in Ukraine began.

The U.S. military said on Thursday that a Chinese fighter jet flew dangerously close to a U.S. Air Force aircraft that was conducting routine operations over the South China Sea on Dec. 21, nearly causing the planes to collide.The Chinese pilot of a J-11 jet performed an unsafe maneuver, flying in front and within 20 feet of the nose of a U.S. Air Force RC-135 plane, the U.S. military said in a statement, adding that the American pilot was forced to take evasive maneuvers to avoid a collision.

The UK security minister, Tom Tugendhat, has said China has closed its reported police service stations at sites across Britain, and that an investigation did not reveal any illegal activity by the Chinese state at these sites.Britain has previously said reports of undeclared police stations in the country were extremely concerning and that any intimidation on British soil of foreign nationals by China or other states was unacceptable.

British architect Alison Killing has defended her team's Pulitzer Prize-winning reporting on alleged internment camps in China, amid reports that the country is withdrawing from the Venice Architecture Biennale.Killing defended her work after the Chinese Embassy in Italy issued a statement criticising coverage of an installation (pictured above) within the main exhibition of the Venice Architecture Biennale titled Investigating Xinjiang's Network of Detention Camps.

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Palo Alto Councilman Greg Tanaka said tonight (May 1) that he wants to look at laying off city employees and replacing them with artificial intelligence."I wonder, with AI and using ChatGPT, do we need as many people as we have?"Tanaka said during a discussion about the city budget.

FILE - Opposition activist Maxim Kats speaks to journalists at an opposition rally in Moscow, March 10, 2012.A Russian court on Thursday March 23, 2023, issued an arrest warrant for Maxim Kats on charges of disparaging the military, and the authorities declared other activists and bloggers "foreign agents" amid efforts to muzzle criticism of Russia's action in Ukraine.

For free real time breaking news alerts sent straight to your inbox sign up to our breaking news emails Sign up to our free breaking news emails An anti-war Russian journalist has recounted the dramatic night she escaped her home country with the help of seven cars and by just following stars in the absence of GPS.

China says it will not accept the US pointing fingers' after US Secretary of State Antony Blinken said Beijing is considering providing weapons to Russia.Beijing has strongly denied US claims that China was considering arming Russia in its war against Ukraine as it called for peace-loving nations to act to end the conflict.

Chicago's Office of the Inspector General released a report Thursday regarding the Chicago Police Department's enforcement of Rule 14 violations.The city's watchdog agency found the department continues to employ more than 100 officers who knowingly provided false information during criminal investigations.

Standing at the Leighton Criminal Court Building Monday morning fresh from learning that a judge vacated her murder convictions, Madeline Mendoza, who was 16 when she was arrested in connection with a double slaying, said she now plans to go to law school.Mendoza, 47, is among dozens who have accused disgraced former Chicago police Detective Reynaldo Guevara of fabricating evidence to frame them for crimes they did not commit throughout his career with the Chicago Police Department.

The TikTok Inc. building is seen in Culver City, Calif., on March 17, 2023.TikTok on Tuesday, March 21, 2023, rolled out updated rules and standards for content and users as it faces increasing pressure from Western authorities over concerns that material on the popular Chinese-owned video-sharing app could be used to push false information.

Microsoft is putting restraints on its new AI chatbot after it professed its love to some and berated others.Some experts say the company may have released the bot too quickly.LEILA FADEL, HOST: Microsoft's chatbot has gone rogue.It's professing love to some users.It's calling people ugly.It's spreading false information.

It was only a matter of time before the culture wars came to AI.Since the release of ChatGPT in late 2022, Elon Musk has railed on Twitter against what he has called Woke AI.He has specifically criticized ChatGPT's developer, OpenAI, for the features designed to prevent the chatbot from parroting racism and sexism.

On Monday, China's internet regulator said it had run a campaign to rid the nation of fake news.The State Cyberspace Administration of China (CAC) said the crackdown would "clear and standardize the order of network communication in key traffic links," focusing on news providers like short video platforms and popular search lists."

As far as synthetic, AI-generated content goes, we might just be at the tip of the iceberg.In new report, NewsGuard, a firm that measures the credibility of online news sources, identified a whopping 49 websites producing content that appeared to be either mostly or entirely AI-generated in the month of April alone.

As China's tech giants deploy their ChatGPT clones, Beijing has released proposed regulations for research, development and use of generative AI chatbots, without quite answering whether the tools can conform to socialist ideals.The draft rules, published yesterday by the Cyberspace Administration of China and grandly titled Administrative Measures for Generative Artificial Intelligence Services, detail 21 articles that call for AI-generated content to "reflect the core values of socialism, and must not contain subversion of state power, overthrow of the socialist system, incitement to split the country."

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Google will soon offer ways to generate text and images using machine learning in its Workspace products as part of a scramble to catch up with rivals in the new AI race.Google has announced a suite of upcoming generative AI features for its various Workspace apps, including Google Docs, Gmail, Sheets, and Slides.

Big players, including Microsoft, with its now built-into Windows 11 Bing AI (or is it Sydney?),Google, with Bard, and OpenAI, with ChatGPT, are making AI chatbot technology previously restricted to test labs more accessible to the general public.How do these Large Language Model (LLM) programs work?

Dr. Rochelle Walensky, the director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), announced that she would be stepping down from her position at the end of June.And Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-GA) had thoughts."Rochelle Walensky calls pregnant women 'birthing people' and claimed that vaccinated people don't carry the Covid-19 virus," Greene said.

WILMINGTON, Del.Fox Corporation executives, including Rupert and Lachlan Murdoch, had no direct involvement in what aired on the company's cable news channels, and therefore their company should not be found liable in a $1.6 defamation case, lawyers for Fox argued Wednesday in a Delaware court.The argument was part of Fox's request for a pretrial victory.

The SNP's head of communications has resigned after reports about membership figures which the party denied turned out to be true.The Sunday Mail reported last month that the SNP's membership had dropped by 30,000 since 2021, a story corroborated this week when the party revealed its membership under pressure from leadership candidates.

For free real time breaking news alerts sent straight to your inbox sign up to our breaking news emails Sign up to our free breaking news emails No evidence of a crime has been found in the investigation into Nicola Bulley's disappearance, a police chief said, as he criticised ill-informed speculation that had distracted detectives.

Get the free Morning Headlines email for news from our reporters across the world Sign up to our free Morning Headlines email Social media sleuths have distracted the investigation into Nicola Bulley, police said on Wednesday as they revealed the mother-of-two had specific vulnerabilities at the time she went missing.

Marketers looking to increase their brand visibility should consider how Google crawls their websites.They have to think beyond the product and consider how prospects search for it - and the solution lies with a proper understanding of SEO and SERP features.Since 97% of people learn more about a local company online than anywhere else, marketers must ensure that prospects can find them conveniently - and Google has features to help you do that.

The post-Brexit carte de sejour was intended for Brits already living in France before the end of 2020 as a relatively easy way to regularise their status.However in the case of some second-home owners, this could lead to trouble with the French tax man.Who's affected?We're mainly talking second-home owners here, but it covers anyone who spends a significant amount of time in France without actually living here.

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SANTA CLARA, Calif.-- After the San Francisco 49ers again lost quarterback Jimmy Garoppolo to a season-ending injury Sunday, they spent the ensuing 24 hours sifting through both the short- and long-term implications of his loss.

Twitter Blue, the social media platform's subscription service that allows users to buy a blue verification badge for the first time, has gone live in the UK.Twitter users on Apple's iOS can now sign up and pay for the service, which will give them the blue-tick badge next to their profile name on the platform.

For nearly two years Tom Powell Jr. has talked politics on his popular TikTok channel, debating and mocking one foil after the next.The comment section can get rough, and Powell said it has occasionally devolved into violent threats.But the vitriol always stayed within the platform.Until last week.The left-leaning, bespectacled, abundantly bearded Powell got into it with a conservative commenter over ballot security and voter intimidation.

Disney World is the most famous theme park in the world.Families come for its thrilling rides and delicious food.But could teens start lining up for ... alcohol?A post by Mouse Trap News  went viral on TikTok after it claimed that The Walt Disney Co. was seeking a resort exemption to lower the drinking age within its Florida park.

Two Brooklyn landlords were hit with a near $420,000 fine for operating an illegal single-room occupancy rental business out of Sunset Park dwelling, New York Attorney General Letitia James announced Wednesday.Owners of 758 Realty, Ray Qi Wang Huang and Bao Qing Tang, reached a settlement with the OAG after it was found they had been illegally renting condo units and single rooms to tenants at 881 54th St. since 2018, often without leases and for less than 30 days.

Get the free Morning Headlines email for news from our reporters across the world Sign up to our free Morning Headlines email A body found by divers in the River Wyre is that of missing mother-of-two Nicola Bulley, police have confirmed.The body was discovered on Sunday morning around a mile from where the 45-year-old mortgage adviser was last seen three weeks ago, walking her dog.

For free real time breaking news alerts sent straight to your inbox sign up to our breaking news emails Sign up to our free breaking news emails The search for Nicola Bulley has concluded after police confirmed her body was found in a Lancashire river, but questions remain about a number of aspects of the case.

For free real time breaking news alerts sent straight to your inbox sign up to our breaking news emails Sign up to our free breaking news emails Questions remain about the case of Nicola Bulley, with both the police and media facing criticism after her body was discovered more than three weeks after she disappeared.

France's leading rolling news channel BFMTV on Thursday said it has sacked an anchor after an investigation into alleged external influence in his work.Rachid M'Barki was sacked this week after the investigation revealed that due editorial process had not been followed in several segments aired between 2021 and 2022, BFMTV's director general, Marc-Olivier Fogiel, said in a company message.

Not to be left out of the rush to integrate generative AI into search, on Wednesday DuckDuckGo announced DuckAssist, an AI-powered factual summary service powered by technology from Anthropic and OpenAI.It is available for free today as a wide beta test for users of DuckDuckGo's browser extensions and browsing apps.

Nicola Bulley has faced significant issues with alcohol brought on by ongoing struggles with the menopause, police revealed on Wednesday night as they blamed TikTok detectives for distracting officers in the search for her.Lancashire Constabulary took the unusual step of giving details about her private life to avoid any further speculation or misinterpretation.

About 200 New York Times contributors have signed an open letter calling out the legacy newspaper for its coverage of transgender issues.In the letter addressed to the Times' associate managing editor for standards, the contributors say they have "serious concerns about editorial bias in the newspaper's reporting on transgender, non-binary, and gender nonconforming people."

Web content automatically generated by AI will be ranked according to its quality by Google Search, the internet titan confirmed this week, after previously suggesting it would blanket down-rank computer-created pages.Last year, Google Search Advocate John Mueller said using machine-learning tools to produce text is "essentially the same as just shuffling words around" to game Google's bots and artificially pump up a page's rank in search results.

On Monday, Google unveiled an AI chatbot, Bard, that will be integrated into its search engine soon in the face of rising competition from Microsoft's Bing and OpenAI's ChatGPT.Talk of Microsoft revamping its search engine Bing with a massive investment in OpenAI's upcoming large language model GPT-4 has kicked Google into building its own rival service.

SIOUX CITY, Iowa The wife of a northwestern Iowa county supervisor has been charged with 52 counts of voter fraud after she allegedly filled out and cast absentee ballots in her husband's unsuccessful race for a Republican nomination to run for Congress in 2020, federal prosecutors said.Kim Phuong Taylor, 49, was arrested Thursday and pleaded not guilty to the charges before being released on a personal recognizance bond, the Sioux City Journal reported.

Foreign adversaries are expected to use AI algorithms to create increasingly realistic deepfakes and sow disinformation as part of military and intelligence operations as the technology improves.Deepfakes describe a class of content generated by machine learning models capable of pasting someone's face onto another person's body realistically.

The Government has tabled amendments to controversial legislation to deal with the legacy of the Northern Ireland Troubles in an attempt to address concerns raised by victims.One of the changes proposed by the Government would see a proposed new truth recovery body able to conduct criminal investigations where it judges that to be appropriate.

Piers Morgan has apologised to Ed Sheeran after his hacked Twitter account posted abusive messages about the singer.In December, the formerGood Morning Britainpresenter's account shared the posts about Sheeran and other public figures to his 8.3 million followers.Now, the presenter has called the posts abusive nonsense in a tweet sent on Monday morning (9 December).

Russian opposition activist and former municipal deputy of the Krasnoselsky district Ilya Yashin gestures, smiling as he stands inside a glass cubicle in a courtroom, prior to a hearing in Moscow, Russia, Friday, Dec. 9, 2022.Yashin faces a trial on charges stemming from his criticism of the Kremlin's action in Ukraine.

In brief OpenAI has released a new language model named ChatGPT this week, which is designed to mimic human conversations.The model is based on the company's latest text-generation GPT-3.5 system released earlier this year.ChatGPT is more conversational than previous versions.It can ask users follow-up questions and refrain from responding to inappropriate inputs instead of just generating text.

Technology Verify Bots are typically automated users that are created to mimic human behavior, and are most prevalent on Twitter.Published: 4:36 PM CST November 17, 2022 Updated: 4:36 PM CST November 17, 2022 Republican Kari Lake lost to her Democratic opponent Katie Hobbs in the 2022 Arizona governor's election.

Ecuador will play at this year's World Cup in Qatar after the Court of Arbitration for Sport (CAS) on Tuesday said Byron Castillo, whom Chile claimed was ineligible to play during the qualifiers, was deemed an Ecuadorean national.Ecuador will, however, get a three-point deduction at the start of the qualifying campaign for the 2026 World Cup and must also pay a fine of 100,000 Swiss Francs ($101,605.36)

It's been less than a month, but how tired are we already of hearing about Elon Musk and Twitter?If only Hooter's had been for sale.But here we are, and the world's richest man seems intent on throwing gasoline on the hate, lies and propaganda that already plagued the world's most powerful method of communication.

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It's witching hour in Salem and one real estate developer on the losing end of a trial is going to have plenty of time in the clink to reflect.condos His name is George Kritopoulos and he was sentenced to four years in prison for his role in a  decade-long mortgage scheme, according to the Justice Department.

U.S. basketball player Brittney Griner appears on a screen via video link during a court hearing in Krasnogorsk, outside Moscow, on Oct. 25.(Evgenia Novozhenina/Reuters)A Russian court rejected U.S. basketball star Brittney Griner's appeal against her nine-year prison sentence on drug charges Tuesday.

A couple from Kelowna, B.C., who were escorted off their flight from Toronto in August have filed a lawsuit against Swoop Airlines and two of its employees, alleging racial discrimination and defamation.Andre Henry and Jhody Batiste, who are Black, claimed they're "living nightmare of an embarrassment" after being removed from the plane over a minor seating dispute.