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Some lawyers continue to fall for made-up cases generated by artificial intelligence. Others are quietly finding ways to make the technology work for them.Joseph McMullen, a San Diego civil rights and criminal defense attorney, is one of them. Last year, he said, he used AI-powered legal software to help him win a major case by sifting through evidence and making his filings more persuasive.The case that led McMullen to rethink his tools started with a 9-year-old girl, a passport photo, and a border agent who thought something didn’t add up.In 2019, Julia, a fourth grader, and her 14-year-old brother, Oscar,…
Turns out “i” and “o” make for a popular combination of vowels in the tech industry.Sam Altman’s OpenAI launched a very public partnership with io, the company owned by famed Apple designer Jony Ive, in May. The announcement included a splashy video and photos of the two of them looking like old friends.On Sunday, however, OpenAI scrubbed any mention of that partnership from its website and social media.That’s because iyO, a startup spun out of Google’s moonshot factory, X, and which sounds like io, is suing OpenAI, io, Altman, and Ive for trademark infringement.iyO’s latest product, iyO ONE, is an…
OpenAI has pulled a much-discussed video promoting the friendship between CEO Sam Altman and legendary Apple designer Jony Ive (plus, incidentally, OpenAI’s $6.5 billion deal to acquire Ive and Altman’s device startup io) from its website and YouTube page. Does that suggest something is amiss with the acquisition, or with plans for Ive to lead design work at OpenAI? Not exactly, according to Bloomberg’s Mark Gurman, who reports that the “deal is on track and has NOT dissolved or anything of the sort.” Instead, he said a judge has issued a restraining order over the io name, forcing the company…
OKLAHOMA CITY (AP) — Indiana star Tyrese Haliburton was starting a move toward the basket, and his right leg didn’t seem to move with him.And the ensuing scene was heartbreaking for the Pacers.Haliburton — who was playing with a strained right calf — tumbled to the court in a heap, immediately began punching the floor in frustration and needed to be helped to the locker room in Game 7 of the NBA Finals against the Oklahoma City Thunder on Sunday night.John Haliburton, Tyrese’s father, told ABC it was an Achilles tendon injury. An MRI is still likely to confirm that,…
Pavel Durov was born in St. Petersburg in Soviet Russia.The tech entrepreneur cofounded the encrypted messaging service Telegram with his brother Nikolai in 2013. The brothers were born into a family of intellectuals, according to a biography on the Digital-Life-Design Conference website. Durov spoke at the conference in January 2012.Durov is now worth $17.1 billion, according to Forbes. Much of his fortune comes from Telegram, which he said hit 1 billion users in March 2025.”Ahead of us stands WhatsApp — a cheap, watered-down imitation of Telegram,” Durov wrote in a post on his Telegram channel announcing the news. “For years,…
On a balmy Sunday in Austin, Tesla fans awaited the promise of the future.After a few hours of delays, that promise was finally realized, and a select group took their first rides, livestreaming their experience. While Tesla robotaxis are meant to be fully autonomous, Tesla employees were still present in the passenger seat of the cars for safety reasons.Earlier this month, Tesla CEO Elon Musk teased the launch of the robotaxi, a driverless Tesla Model Y emblazoned with its namesake in Cybertruck-style font. “Beautifully simple design,” Musk wrote on X.”These are unmodified Tesla cars coming straight from the factory, meaning…
CROMWELL, Conn. (AP) — Keegan Bradley hasn’t heard roars this loud for him since his Ryder Cup debut at Medinah in 2012, especially when he walked up the 18th green Sunday at the Travelers Championship and turned a one-shot deficit into a stunning one-shot victory over Tommy Fleetwood.On the one-year anniversary of Bradley accepting the job as Ryder Cup captain, he made the strongest case yet he should be brining his clubs to Bethpage Black.With equal parts of grit and passion, the 39-year-old Bradley rallied from a three-shot deficit with four holes to play with a 9-iron to 6 feet…
OMAHA, Neb. (AP) — Coming out of last season, LSU coach Jay Johnson couldn’t have foreseen the national championship this group of tenacious Tigers is taking back to Baton Rouge.“It was probably a year ago today,” he said, “we had 12 players in our program that actually played on the field for us in 2024. Twelve.”Then, quoting his mentor and LSU baseball patriarch Skip Bertman, Johnson said: “We ended up with some really good fortune.”LSU knocked previously unbeaten Coastal Carolina ace Jacob Morrison out of the game with a four-run fourth inning and the Tigers won their second national title…
A Republican effort to prevent states from enforcing their own AI regulations cleared a key procedural hurdle on Saturday. The rule, as reportedly rewritten by Senate Commerce Chair Ted Cruz in an attempt to comply with budgetary rules, would withhold federal broadband funding from states if they try to enforce AI regulations in the next 10 years. And the rewrite seems to have passed muster, with the Senate Parliamentarian now ruling that the provision is not subject to the so-called Byrd rule — so it can be included in Republicans’ “One Big, Beautiful Bill” and passed with a simple majority,…
States across the Central and Eastern U.S. are under extreme heat watches and warnings as the areas are facing “dangerous heat,” according to the National Weather Service.”Though record high temperatures are expected in the coming days, the duration of the heat, as demonstrated by the numerous record warm morning lows, will make this period especially oppressive,” the National Weather Service posted on X June 20.The weather service has issued extreme heat warnings for areas in over a dozen states, as they face the highest temperatures of the year so far. It also issued extreme heat watches in several states and…