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An AI researcher at Stanford University has drafted a paper showing that OpenAI's new chatbot, ChatGPT, has an aptitude for corporate lobbying.In his paper, John J. Nay argued that as language models continue to improve, so will their performance on corporate lobbying tasks.It suggests a future where corporate lobbyists, which make up the largest group of lobbyists on the Hill and spend billions of dollars a year influencing political decision-makers, will be able to automate the process of drafting legislation and sending letters to the government.

Parents and teachers across the world are rejoicing as students have returned to classrooms.But unbeknownst to them, an unexpected insidious academic threat is on the scene: a revolution in artificial intelligence has created powerful new automatic writing tools.These are machines optimised for cheating on school and university papers, a potential siren song for students that is difficult, if not outright impossible, to catch.

On those same maps, pollution also spiked inside people's homes.Some households had installed sensors indoors to track air quality levels.Researchers at the University of California Berkeley studied the data from 1,400 sensors in San Francisco and Los Angeles and found that even indoors, air pollution tripled during the fires.

Stanford University is investigating a possible hate crime after swastikas and an image of Adolf Hitler were drawn on a whiteboard outside a Jewish student's dorm room, the third such incident in the last two weeks.The student discovered the drawings Friday, the university said.It was the latest of several reported acts of vandalism that included antisemitic symbols and language at Stanford this academic year, Vice Provost for Student Affairs Susie Brubaker-Cole said in a statement.

As any night owl can tell you, "not a morning person" is more than a saying on your aunt's favorite mug.Morning and evening people will attest that these two groups are fundamentally different.However, our 9-to-5 society caters more to early birds than night owls.So what makes someone an evening person, and is it possible to transform into a morning person?

Gandhi has been on a three-city tour of the United States, including speaking engagements at Stanford University in California and the National Press Club in Washington, D.C.Meanwhile, U.S. congressional leaders have invited Modi to address a joint meeting of Congress later this month.House Speaker Kevin McCarthy, Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer and other leaders announced the address as an "opportunity to share your vision for India's future and speak to the global challenges our countries both face."

You've probably had a sleepless night every now and then.But chances are, you've never experienced anything like Trevor Reznik's insomnia.The gaunt industrial worker, played by Christian Bale in the 2004 film The Machinist, has been awake for an entire year.He certainly looks like he needs a rest - coworkers, love interests, and even his boss frequently comment on Reznik's appearance and question if he's doing alright.

Q: When spring comes around, I never know if my lack of energy is a result of allergies or something else.How can you tell the difference?For the estimated 26 percent of adults in the United States who deal with seasonal allergies, spring is not just the time to ditch your winter jacket and frolic around outside.

The International Energy Agency expects global electricity generated via renewables to increase to 35 percent in 2025.The sun rises over a wind energy park in Brandenburg, Germany, on February 7, 2023.Patrick Pleul / picture alliance via Getty Images Renewable energy will become the world's number one electricity source by 2025 thanks largely to a surge in wind and solar, the International Energy Agency said Wednesday, a development welcomed by climate advocates.

Ben Savage, the former child actor who was the star of the ABC sitcom Boy Meets World in the 1990s, said on Monday that he was running to represent a Los Angeles-area district in Congress.I'm running for Congress because it's time to restore faith in government by offering reasonable, innovative and compassionate solutions to our country's most pressing issues, Mr. Savage, 42, said in a statement on Instagram.

Realtor.com / Brian McCloud A 3,974-square-foot home in the Marin County, CA, town of Kentfield created quite a buzz when it hit the market for the first time ever.One reason?The four-bedroom, 3.5-bath home is almost unaltered, virtually unchanged since it was designed by architect John Marsh Davis in 1965.

In India, children under 16 returning to school this month at the start of the school year will no longer be taught about evolution, the periodic table of elements or sources of energy.The news that evolution would be cut from the curriculum for students aged 1516 was widely reported last month, when thousands of people signed a petition in protest.

Check out its fabulous toes.These ridges - called lamellae - are blanketed in hairs called setae.And the setae branch out further - into millions of spatula-shaped pads.Spatulae, if you will.But the stick happens even closer in - check out these spatulae atoms.They don't have an electric charge, and neither do the atoms of the surfaces the gecko moves on.

Young giant sequoia trees are seen during a prescribed pile burning on Feb. 19 in Sequoia National Forest.Researchers say 20% of Sierra Nevada conifers are a mismatch with their climate.Mario Tama/Getty Images Some of the tall, stately trees that have grown up in California's Sierra Nevada are no longer compatible with the climate they live in, new research has shown.

"[The] split [on patent eligibility law] produces intolerable uncertainty for businesses, with the Executive Branch issuing meritorious patents like the three patents at issue here, only to have the courts invalidate them."- Michel/Duffy brief
Last week, retired U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit (CAFC) Chief Judge Paul Michel and law professor John F. Duffy filed an amicus brief with the U.S. Supreme Court in support of CareDx, Inc. and the Board of Trustees of the Leland Stanford Junior University.

A BART janitor was "cut on his left shoulder" by "a member of a group causing a disturbance" on Friday night at the 24th Street Station, according to a BART spokesperson.Subscribe to our daily newsletter and have the latest stories from Mission Local delivered directly to your inbox.

The San Francisco District Attorney's office today released video of the April 27 Banko Brown shooting, revealing that Brown was shot and killed by Walgreens security guard Michael Earl-Wayne Anthony as Brown was retreating from the store.DA Brooke Jenkins, who had earlier stated that evidence "clearly" showed Anthony acting in self-defense, today formally confirmed her office will not be bringing charges.

We have excellent news!After many years in which I've run the newsroom in tandem with Joe Eskenazi - a feat that sometimes felt like a high-wire act - Mission Local has added a new senior editor.His name is Joe Rivano Barros, and he started in April.( I know, two Joes.We haven't yet figured that one out.)

Cutting back on ultra-processed food in your child's diet doesn't have to be a huge lift.Learn shortcuts and smart swaps, like giving them nuts for a snack instead of chips.Even if they're salted, the higher protein and healthy fats in nuts are an added benefit.Meredith Rizzo for NPR Trust me, I know how exhausting it can be to figure out how to feed your kids a healthy diet while also living in the real world as a busy working parent with limited time and means.

picture alliance / Getty Images Researchers are starting to unravel one of the biggest mysteries behind the AI language models that power text and image generation tools like DALL-E and ChatGPT.For a while now, machine learning experts and scientists have noticed something strange about large language models (LLMs) like OpenAI's GPT-3 and Google's LaMDA: they are inexplicably good at carrying out tasks that they haven't been specifically trained to perform.

We breathe in and out roughly 25,000 times a day.And yet, according to experts, including pulmonologists and psychiatrists, most of us are doing it wrong breathing too rapidly and too shallowly.Over the last few decades, research has started to confirm what ancient cultures around the world have long believed: Breath work, the practice of correcting and controlling your breathing through simple exercises, can improve health and well-being.

This year may not have been the sea of calm you had hoped for after the tumult of 2020 and 2021.The pandemic continued; war broke out in Europe; we experienced natural disasters and troubling shortages; and more viruses stoked fears.But 2022 was also a year of learning and discovery.At Well, we found new strategies to combat stress in our lives and build psychological resilience.

Former Theranos CEO Elizabeth Holmes arrives at federal court in San Jose, Calif., Oct. 17, 2022.Jeff Chiu/AP SAN FRANCISCO Disgraced Theranos CEO Elizabeth Holmes appears to be soon bound for prison after an appeals court Tuesday rejected her bid to remain free while she tries to overturn her conviction in a blood-testing hoax that brought her fleeting fame and fortune.

Former Theranos CEO Elizabeth Holmes, center, walks into court in San Jose, Calif., on Friday alongside her mother, Noel Holmes, and partner, Billy Evans.Philip Pacheco/Getty Images Elizabeth Holmes, the disgraced founder of the medical technology startup Theranos, returned to court Friday to argue that she should remain free on bail while she pursues an appeal of her conviction for wire fraud and conspiracy.

A 25-year-old woman was arrested Wednesday for allegedly lying about being sexually assaulted while working at Stanford University, according to prosecutors.The woman later admitted to prosecutors that she made up the false claims because she was angry with a co-worker.Jennifer Gries of Santa Clara claimed she was raped twice while working at Stanford and told investigators that her attacker was a 6-foot man in his 20s and was Black, according to the Santa Clara County district attorney's office.

Dixon Slingerland, once one of the Democratic Party's top fundraisers in Los Angeles, has agreed to plead guilty to two felonies, admitting that he embezzled more than $71,000 from the defunct Hollywood antipoverty group that he led for 23 years.Slingerland, 53, was a frequent visitor to the White House under President Obama and close to Eric Garcetti during his tenure as L.A. mayor.

Sam Bankman-Fried, the founder and former CEO of the bankrupt cryptocurrency exchange FTX, is facing an eight-count federal indictment that could see him sentenced to up to 115 years in prison if he is convicted and given the maximum sentence.That the 30-year-old, who was the public face of the crypto industry, is at risk of spending the rest of his life in prison underscores the seriousness of the charges levied against him by prosecutors with the U.S. Attorney's Office for the Southern District of New York.

William Blake once wrote to a friend that he conversed with the Spiritual Sun on Primrose Hill.Today his words saying as much are carved on the stone curb atop the grassy knoll where the Druid Order has gathered for the Autumn Equinox since the poet's times, and today still do.For the Druids, the primrose wards off evil and holds the keys to heaven (in German the cowslip primrose is appropriately called Himmelschlüsselchen). For herbalists it is a sedative, pain reliever, and salve.

We are delighted to announce that on April 4, at our Spring Revel , Harriet Clark will receive the George Plimpton Prize, and the inaugural Susannah Hunnewell Prize will be presented to Ishion Hutchinson.The George Plimpton Prize, awarded annually since 1993 by the editorial committee of our board of directors, recognizes an emerging writer of exceptional merit published in the during the preceding year.

In spite of robust amicus backing, including from the US Solicitor General, the Supreme Court has declined to review two pending patent-eligibility petitions: Interactive Wearables v. Polar and Tropp v. Travel Sentry.These cases contended that the Alice/ Mayo framework produced (1) instability and unpredictability in the law; (2) facilitated non-evidence based judgments by district courts; and (3) prohibited patenting of subject matter that has traditionally been eligible for patents.

Iguanas, those pesky green critters that come out in full force during the summer months in South Florida, are more than just a nuisance.They also pose health risks.While touching an iguana or its feces can cause salmonella, a new Centers of Disease Control & Prevention report links an iguana's bite to a rare bacterial infection called mycobacterium marinum.

In September 2021, Elizabeth Webster and Alexander Burckle were finally on the Hawaiian honeymoon they had delayed due to the COVID-19 pandemic.The couple from Hayward in the San Francisco Bay Area, both of whom have graduate degrees from Stanford University, booked a snorkeling expedition with the company Sail Maui.

The U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission, a federal agency, said it was suing ExxonMobil after several nooses were discovered at the company's complex in Baton Rouge, La.The EEOC said ExxonMobil failed to take action after a Black employee discovered a noose at his work station at the chemical plant in January 2020.

Stanford University said it will review allegations made in its student newspaper that scientific articles co-authored by its president, Marc Tessier-Lavigne, contained altered images.A neuroscientist and biotech entrepreneur widely known for his Alzheimer's research, Tessier-Lavigne has authored or co-authored about 300 scientific papers.

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The recently filed petition for certiorari in CareDx and Stanford University v. Eurofins Viracor, Inc. (Supreme Court 2023) offers an opportunity to examine the patent eligibility doctrine in the context of an important health diagnostics innovation.The inventions at issue relate to early detection of organ transplant failure, which obviously hold significant potential to save lives and reduce reliance on invasive exploratory surgical procedures.

Temple University president Jason Wingard resigned abruptly on Tuesday after less than two years on the job, the Board of Trustees announced.The move comes amid a period of turmoil at the university, marked by a contentious seven-week strike by graduate student workers, the shooting death of a Temple police officer last month and ongoing fears of violence in the North Philadelphia neighborhood where Temple is located.

While there's no shortage of days, weeks and months commemorating mental health-perhaps most notably National Mental Health Awareness Week in May-some students embraced a new one this month: Student Mental Health Week, Feb. 6 to 12.For students like Cherrial Odell of Stanford University, the cause is extremely personal.

Carlos Avila Gonzalez/The Chronicle It has become increasingly normal for employers in major cities to offer hybrid or fully remote work since the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic, but San Francisco's employers stand out.Nearly 30% of San Francisco job openings in January 2023 offered hybrid or fully remote work, up from about 5% in 2019.

People walk on the Stanford University campus beneath Hoover Tower in Stanford, Calif., on March 14, 2019.Stanford University says it is investigating after multiple swastikas and an image of Adolf Hitler were found on a door Saturday at a Stanford student residence hall.Ben Margot/AP Stanford University officials say an investigation is underway after multiple swastikas and an image of Adolf Hitler were found on a student's door last week.

Local "He always wants to give credit to others and not accept credit himself, which he so richly deserves."MERCED, Calif.(AP) - A courthouse in California's agricultural heartland was named for a native son who went from working in the fields to a distinguished career at Harvard Law School, where he taught Barack and Michelle Obama.

A first-of-its-kind municipal climate charter in Texas could throw a wrench in US fossil fuel extraction.Residents of a major Texas city just west of the Permian Basin, the largest oil field in the US, will have the chance to vote on the package this spring.If the proposal passes, the city of El Paso would adopt a comprehensive climate policy that would include prohibiting the use of city water for extraction projects outside city limits, such as in the Permian Basin, which makes up roughly 40% of all US oil production.

If Vladimir Putin has left you despising Russians as brutes, cowards or warmongers, consider a tall, ailing man locked in an isolation cell in Russia.Aleksei Navalny, Russia's leading dissident and opposition leader, may be something of a Mandela of our age.Poisoned, imprisoned, brutalized, Navalny stands unbroken in his cell: still mocking Putin and scathing in his denunciation of the invasion of Ukraine.

Western nations aim to cut off funds flowing to Moscow's war effort, but Ukraine says it's not enough.After months of negotiations, Western nations and their allies have agreed to cap the price of Russian oil at $60 a barrel.Group of Seven (G7) countries, the European Union, and Australia hope it will reduce Moscow's ability to fund its war in Ukraine.

There is something undeniably exciting about bringing home a bubbly bottle of Champagne.Made from grapes grown in the Champagne region of France, this sparkling wine has come to exude luxury and panache for its imitable character.And whether your most recent sparkling purchase is intended for long-term aging, celebratory popping or everyday drinking, here's everything you need to know about how to store Champagne and keep your bubbles alive.

College COVID-19 vaccine requirements are facing renewed scrutiny now that California has walked back plans to mandate the shots in K-12 schools and the state and federal governments are ending their pandemic states of emergency.The University of California recently softened its vaccine booster requirement.

Cyrille Aimee says that her music has thrived since she found a quiet environment in the jungle, but the award-winning jazz singer isn't talking about a lack of sound.When she held up her cell phone for a recent video call it wasn't necessary to see the thick curtain of greenery behind her exuberant tangle of curls to know that she was in a setting teaming with vociferous life.

Fred Terna, an artist who tried to exorcise the psychological trauma of his imprisonment in four Nazi concentration and labor camps with semiabstract paintings that depict fire, ashes and chimneys, died on Dec. 8 in Brooklyn.He was 99.His son, Daniel, confirmed the death, which was not widely reported.

DISCLAIMER: The following prediction is based on different possible scenarios including the Washington Mystics selecting fourth in the upcoming WNBA Draft and even possibly trading up as well.Predictions include players who will/may declare for the draft and are in their senior year.Despite making the playoffs, the Mystics were able to secure the fourth overall pick in the 2023 WNBA Draft from the previous year's draft when they traded down with the Atlanta Dream and received pick swap rights with the Los Angeles Sparks first-round pick that Atlanta already owned.

Regina Wallace-Jones.(Lisa DeNeffe Photography; iStock /Washington Post illustration)ActBlue, the online political fundraising platform that has raised $11 billion since 2004 for Democratic campaigns and liberal organizations, announced Thursday that Regina Wallace-Jones will take over as chief executive, making her the first Black woman to assume the role.

"Can it do my job?"That question is likely top of mind for anyone who has seen or played around with ChatGPT, the AI-powered chat tool from OpenAI, the $20 billion AI research organization.Since the tool's release on Nov. 30, a surefire way to go viral on Twitter has been to post a transcript showing ChatGPT - built on top of OpenAI's large language models (LLM) - doing very passable white-collar knowledge work.

The US housing market is in an uneasy state of equilibrium.Demand has plummeted as mortgage rates hit a two-decade high, but prices haven't declined much in part because supply remains correspondingly low.If borrowing costs don't start to normalize by early next year though, the scales may finally tip and prices could plunge.

After a decade of legal and political wrangling, the fight over a Lafayette apartment project that jumpstarted a national pro-housing movement may finally be coming to a close, marking a symbolic victory for advocates fed up with the Bay Area's unhospitable housing market.Over objections from neighbors who sued to halt the project, a California appellate court last month ruled the 315-unit Terraces of Lafayette complex planned for the heart of that East Bay suburb meets state environmental requirements and building can begin.

STANFORD  Palo Alto leaders on Monday urged Stanford and Santa Clara County to consider the city's needs as the three draw up a new community plan for the sprawling university that addresses housing and transportation issues.During a study session on a new proposed community plan Monday  based in part on two previous plans crafted in 1985 and 2000  Palo Alto city council members urged Stanford University to pay more of its fair share in property taxes, deal with transportation issues plaguing the area and commit to building housing for students before expanding academic buildings.

Remote work is here to stay, even if the labour market weakens, experts say.If the U.S. job market continues to weaken next year, companies will be emboldened and may pull back on letting employees work remotely.Executives generally fall into two camps on working from home, which surged during the pandemic when workers gained leverage during a tight labour market.

Trying to get pregnant makes some women hornier.But unfortunately, trying too hard can backfire.Because although it's true that ovulation releases hormones that increases libido, pressure to perform often gets in the way of pleasure."Neurologically and neurochemically, everything is working in your brain during ovulation to get you interested in sex," says Leah Millheiser, M.D., an OB-GYN and professor at Stanford University.

Children who play Pokémon may experience developmental changes to their brains, according to research out of Stanford University.The findings, published in the journal Nature Human Behavior, indicate that when kids are consistently exposed to images of Pokémon, a wrinkle in their visual cortex forms specifically to store memories of Bulbasaur, Squirtle, and Jigglypuff.