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Microsoft has cut off the Israel Ministry of Defense’s access to some of its tech and services after an internal investigation found the organization appeared to be using its tech to store surveillance data on phone calls made by Palestinians. The tech giant announced on Thursday that it made the decision to “cease and disable” certain subscriptions from the Israeli military. This affects subscriptions to Azure cloud storage and certain AI services. “We do not provide technology to facilitate mass surveillance of civilians,” Microsoft vice chair and president Brad Smith wrote in a blog post. “We have applied this principle in every country around the world, and we have insisted on it repeatedly for more than two decades. This is why…
Elon Musk’s AI startup xAI is escalating its fight with OpenAI.Musk’s company filed a new lawsuit in the US District Court for the Northern District of California, accusing the ChatGPT creator of poaching staff and stealing confidential technology.The complaint, filed Wednesday, claims OpenAI has engaged in a “deeply troubling pattern” of recruiting former xAI employees to gain access to trade secrets related to Grok, xAI’s flagship chatbot.”OpenAI is not merely soliciting or hiring a competitor’s employees,” Musk lawyers wrote in the complaint. “OpenAI is waging a coordinated, unfair, and unlawful campaign: OpenAI is targeting those individuals with knowledge of xAI’s…
When Maria Branyas Morera died last year at 117 years and 168 days old, she was the oldest known person in the world. Before she died, she asked doctors to study her.Dr. Manel Esteller, chairman of Genetics at the University of Barcelona’s School of Medicine, spent three years analyzing Branyas’ health. A study, published online Wednesday, by Esteller and a cohort of colleagues found that a mix of factors contributed to Branyas’ longevity.”The conclusion is that the clues for extreme longevity are a mix between what we inherited from our parents and what we do in our lives,” Esteller said. “And…
EL SEGUNDO, Calif. (AP) — The Los Angeles Lakers know head coach JJ Redick will be a part of their future going forward, and plan to give superstar forward LeBron James every chance to do the same.General manager Rob Pelinka said Redick received a contract extension this summer after the 41-year-old completed his first season leading the Lakers, who went 50-32 to finish third in the Western Conference and lost to the Minnesota Timberwolves in five games in a first-round playoff series.Pelinka snuck the announcement into his opening statement of a joint press conference with Redick on Thursday before training…
FARMINGDALE, N.Y. (AP) — U.S. captain Keegan Bradley is making sure fans get their money’s worth at the Ryder Cup.It’s been 12 years from the time Bethpage Black was announced as the host of this Ryder Cup, two years since Europe celebrated victory in Rome and four days of anticipation that has been building even on a rain-soaked course Thursday.And then Bradley announced Bryson DeChambeau would be smashing away in the opening foursomes session with emotionally charged Justin Thomas. They face Tyrrell Hatton and Jon Rahm, the fiery Spaniard who has never lost in this format.“They’re a formidable force,” DeChambeau…
By Siddhi Mahatole and Padmanabhan Ananthan(Reuters) -Eli Lilly said on Thursday the U.S. Food and Drug Administration has approved its treatment for a form of advanced breast cancer in adult patients who have received prior therapy.The therapy, Inluriyo, was approved based on data from a late-stage trial in which patients had a 38% lower chance of their cancer progressing or death compared to those on standard treatments, the drugmaker said.Metastatic breast cancer, also called Stage IV breast cancer, occurs when the disease has spread beyond the breast and nearby lymph nodes to other parts of the body, most commonly the…
Christine Wear’s voice trembles talking about the upcoming flu season.“Anxieties are high,” she said. “We’re trying to navigate what life should look like without being in a bubble.”Wear’s son, 4-year-old Beckett, is still recovering from the flu he got way back in January. Within a week of becoming infected, he became extremely lethargic. He couldn’t move his head or his arms. He couldn’t eat or talk.Wear, 40, of River Forest, Illinois, knew what the problem was. It was the second time Beckett had developed an inflammatory brain disease caused by the flu: acute necrotizing encephalopathy, or ANE.This time, bouncing back…
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Amazon reached a $2.5 billion settlement with the US Federal Trade Commission on Thursday, resolving a case over its Prime subscription sign-up and cancellation practices that Business Insider exposed in an exclusive investigation.The settlement is the largest civil penalty in a case involving an FTC rule violation, the regulator said.BI’s 2022 report, based on internal Amazon documents, showed that the company had known since at least 2017 that its website design misled customers into joining Prime, the membership program that offers perks such as free delivery and video streaming.Despite years of complaints, Amazon took little meaningful action, and in some…
OpenAI is launching a new feature inside of ChatGPT called Pulse, which generates personalized reports for users while they sleep. Pulse offers users five to 10 briefs that can get them up to speed on their day and is aimed at encouraging users to check ChatGPT first thing in the morning — much like they would check social media or a news app. Pulse is part of a broader shift in OpenAI’s consumer products, which are lately being designed to work for users asynchronously instead of responding to questions. Features like ChatGPT Agent or Codex aim to make ChatGPT feel…