At least once a week, generative AI finds a new way to terrify us. We are still anxiously awaiting news about the next large language model from OpenAI, but in the meantime, GPT-4 is shaping up to be even more capable than you might have known. In a recent study, researchers showed how GPT-4 can … Read more
David Pecker answers questions from prosecutors Joshua Steinglass in former President Donald Trump’s trial in New York on Tuesday, April 23, 2024. Jane Rosenberg Pecker moved on to describe the second “catch and kill” story, which involved former Playboy model Karen McDougal. She alleged that she had an affair with Trump, which he denies. Pecker … Read more
Nine years ago, one of Silverthorne’s few income-restricted housing properties was sold to a private firm. The sale — at a price that was double the property’s assessed value — raised worries in the high-cost mountain community that the new owner of the Blue River Apartments might lift rent caps that had kept its 78 … Read more
Images of Hamas hostages wallpaper the front room of John Fetterman’s office on Capitol Hill. Their faces peer down at two front desk staffers as protesters show up on a near-weekly basis, demanding explanations for the senator’s immutable support for Israel’s ongoing war against Gaza. Fetterman, of course, isn’t interested in hearing from them, so … Read more
Alvin Bragg is to be commended for getting to trial on the Trump hush-payments case. Lesser prosecutors would have been daunted by the prospect of creating a national melodrama and a norm-breaking prosecution of a former president over what is, in essence, a misdemeanor business-records charge. They would have blanched at relying on serial perjurer … Read more
Canada Post is refusing to collect firearms that were banned by the federal government in 2020, complicating Ottawa’s plans for a buyback program to remove 144,000 firearms from private hands, federal sources say. The Crown corporation informed the government of its position in a recent letter. It said its decision was based on concerns about its employees’ security, … Read more
Former President Donald Trump completed a remarkable reversal of his one-time policy to force China to divest from TikTok or ban the platform domestically. In August 2020, Trump issued an executive order that would have banned TikTok if the company was not sold within 45 days by its Chinese owners, Bytedance, which he accused of … Read more
By Anita Snow | Associated Press PHOENIX — An Arizona judge declared a mistrial Monday in the case of a rancher accused of fatally shooting a Mexican man on his property near the U.S.-Mexico border. The decision came after jurors failed to reach a unanimous decision after more than two full days of deliberation in … Read more
While we wait patiently for the return of Amazon’s Rings of Power and a whole new series of Lord of the Rings movies, Wētā Workshop is bringing Middle-earth home to you in video game form. On Monday, the studio shared the first trailer for its Hobbit life sim, Tales of the Shire, and at first … Read more
President Biden on Monday weighed in on the pro-Palestine demonstrations taking place at elite university campuses. “I condemn the antisemitic protests,” Mr. Biden told reporters after an Earth Day Event in Northern Virginia Monday. “That’s why I’ve set up a program to deal with that. I also condemn those who don’t understand what’s going on … Read more
