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By Diana Novak JonesJan 20(Reuters) – In a victory for thousands of women suing Johnson & Johnson over claims that the company’s baby powder and other talc products caused their ovarian cancer, a federal judge on Tuesday ruled that they will be allowed to present testimony at trial from experts who support that link.The ruling from an outside judge serving as a special master in the long-running litigation, which includes more than 67,500 lawsuits that have been consolidated in federal court in New Jersey, will allow the cases to move towards the first trial in federal court potentially later this…
Last week, after reversing an earlier ban, the U.S. administration officially approved the sale of Nvidia’s H200 chips, along with a chip line by AMD, to approved Chinese customers. Maybe they aren’t these chipmakers’ shiniest, most advanced chips, but they’re high-performance processors used for AI, making the export controversial. And at the World Economic Forum in Davos on Tuesday, Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei unloaded on both the administration and the chip companies over the decision. The criticism was particularly notable because one of those chipmakers, Nvidia, is a major partner and investor in Anthropic. “The CEOs of these companies say,…
South Carolina’s measles outbreak continues to grow, with officials on Tuesday announcing an additional 88 cases in the state. There have been 646 cases of measles reported there since October, according to the South Carolina Department of Public Health.The ongoing spread of measles cases in the United States has led to concern that the U.S. will lose its measles elimination status. A country is considered as having eliminated measles if there are “no locally transmitted measles infections or outbreaks lasting 12 months or longer,” according to the World Health Organization.The South Carolina outbreak is centered around Spartanburg County. Recent public…
CORPUS CHRISTI, Texas (AP) — The trial of a former Uvalde, Texas, school police officer accused of failing in his duty to stop a gunman in the critical first minutes of the 2022 Robb Elementary School attack was expected to go to the jury on Wednesday. Jurors will hear closing arguments from Adrian Gonzales ‘ attorneys and state prosecutors before starting deliberations in a rare trial of a police officer charged with failing to stop a criminal act to save lives. Gonzales, one of the first officers to arrive during the attack, has pleaded not guilty to 29 counts of…
As concern for AI’s impact on young people continues to mount, OpenAI has introduced an “age prediction” feature into ChatGPT that is designed to help identify minors and put sensible content constraints on their conversations. OpenAI has been heavily criticized in recent years for the impacts that ChatGPT can have on children. A number of teen suicides have been linked to the chatbot, and, like other AI vendors, OpenAI has also been criticized for allowing ChatGPT to discuss sexual topics with young users. Last April, the company was forced to address a bug that allowed its chatbot to generate erotica…
Sam Altman and Elon Musk are at it again, with each of the tech titans taking aim at the other in a series of heated posts on X.Musk appeared to start the latest escalation early on Tuesday morning, when he posted “Don’t let your loved ones use ChatGPT” in response to a post that said that use of OpenAI’s chatbot had been linked to the deaths of nine children and adults since it was released in 2022.Altman fired back, first in defense of ChatGPT and OpenAI’s desire to protect its users, and then blasting Tesla’s Autopilot technology, calling it unsafe.”It…
Elon Musk said over the long weekend that Tesla aims to restart work on Dojo3, the electric vehicle company’s previously abandoned third-generation AI chip. Only this time, Dojo3 won’t be aimed at training self-driving models on Earth. Instead, Musk says it will be dedicated to “space-based AI compute.” The move comes five months after Tesla effectively shut down its Dojo effort. The company disbanded the team behind its Dojo supercomputer following the departure of Dojo lead Peter Bannon. Around 20 Dojo workers also left to join DensityAI, a new AI infrastructure startup founded by former Dojo head Ganesh Venkataramanan and…
LOS ANGELES (AP) — A conservative group filed a federal lawsuit Tuesday challenging a Los Angeles schools policy meant to address the harms of segregation, alleging that it discriminates against white students.The 1776 Project Foundation, created by the 1776 Project PAC, targeted in its lawsuit a Los Angeles Unified School District policy that provides smaller class sizes and other benefits to schools with predominantly Hispanic, Black, Asian or other non-white students. It dates back to 1970 and 1976 court orders that required the district to desegregate its schools.The group said the policy amounts to racial discrimination and violates the Civil…
Friends … followers … where is the line?Instagram is testing out new tweaks that emphasize friends. It also has a new definition of friends: People who mutually follow each other.The Instagram test involves changing a user’s “following” count on a profile to a “friends” count. That means if you follow thousands of people, but maybe only a few hundred of those people follow you back, that’ll show up as your “friends” count.For those of you who care about those precious follower-to-following ratios, get ready for a potentially even more telling public ratio: How many of those Instagram followers are friends?Instagram…
Feel like X’s algorithm needs work? Elon Musk agrees.Musk isn’t a fan of X’s algorithm, and he’s documenting the company’s efforts to improve the technology that decides what you see in the platform’s “For You” feed.Musk said he is overhauling the recommendation system that decides which user-generated posts and advertisements are shown when you open the app. He also pledged to make that system transparent in the process, with the underlying code getting published on GitHub every four weeks. Musk said any changes to the code will be explained with every post.”We know the algorithm is dumb and needs massive…