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OpenAI says parents will soon have more oversight over what their teenagers are doing on ChatGPT.In a blog post published on Tuesday, the artificial intelligence company expanded on its plans have ChatGPT intervene earlier and in a wider range of situations when it detects users’ potential mental health crises that may lead to harm.The company’s announcement comes a week after OpenAI was hit with its first wrongful death lawsuit, from a pair of parents in California who claim ChatGPT is at fault for their 16-year-old son’s suicide.OpenAI did not mention the teen, Adam Raine, in its Tuesday post. However, after…

A federal judge has handed down his punishment against Google after ruling that the tech company’s online search business is a monopoly.US District Judge Amit Mehta, in a 230-page ruling on Tuesday, barred Google from having exclusive contracts for its Google Search, Chrome, Google Assistant, and Gemini app products as part of his remedy to the more than $2 trillion company’s monopoly in search.But the ruling fell short of some of the most contentious demands from the US government. The Washington, DC-based federal judge said Google would not have sell off its Chrome browser or Android operating system.”Plaintiffs overreached in…

SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) — California schools would have to create plans for notifying parents and teachers when immigration enforcement is on campus under a bill passed Tuesday by the state Legislature.The bill would also require California State universities and community colleges, and request University of California campuses, to send alerts to students, faculty and staff when immigration enforcement is present. It now heads to Democratic Gov. Gavin Newsom, who has until Oct. 12 to sign it into law. The legislation would remain in effect until 2031. “Students cannot learn unless they feel safe,” Democratic Assemblymember Al Muratsuchi said. “For decades…

Protein is having a major moment, and now Starbucks is hopping aboard the trend. The coffee chain announced a slate of new protein-boosted beverage options on Tuesday in an effort to stay current.Starting on Sept. 29, protein cold foams and protein lattes will arrive on Starbucks menus, the company said. The new cold foam can be added to coffee, tea or Starbucks Refreshers and provides roughly 15 grams of protein for a grande-sized drink. Meanwhile, lattes made with “protein-boosted milk” offer between 27 and 36 grams of protein, according to Starbucks.Tressie Lieberman, Starbucks’ global chief brand officer, said in a…

Amazon is further investing in AI-powered shopping experiences with Tuesday’s launch of Lens Live, a new AI-powered upgrade to its Amazon Lens shopping feature that allows consumers to discover new products through visual search, similar to competitors like Google Lens and Pinterest Lens. The tool will also integrate with Amazon’s AI shopping assistant, Rufus, for product insights, the retailer notes. Lens Live will not replace Amazon’s existing visual search tool, Amazon Lens, which lets you take a picture, upload an image, or scan a barcode to discover products. Instead, it brings a real-time component to Amazon Lens so you can…

NEW YORK (AP) — Venus Williams’ first Grand Slam tournament in two years ended on Tuesday when she and Leylah Fernandez lost in the U.S. Open women’s doubles quarterfinals to the top-seeded duo of Taylor Townsend and Katerina Siniakova 6-1, 6-2.When the match finished after 56 minutes in Louis Armstrong Stadium, Williams smiled as she walked to the net to shake hands with Siniakova, then hug Townsend. Thousands of spectators rose to give Williams a standing ovation; Townsend and Siniakova then joined in, applauding for Williams.“Growing up watching Venus and (her sister) Serena, for me and my sister, it was…

OpenAI announced in a blog post on Tuesday that it agreed to acquire the product testing startup Statsig, and bring on its founder and CEO, Vijaye Raji, as the company’s CTO of Applications. OpenAI is paying $1.1 billion for Statsig in an all-stock deal — one of the largest acquisitions ever for the ChatGPT maker — under the company’s current $300 billion valuation, OpenAI spokesperson Kayla Wood told TechCrunch. The acquisition marks OpenAI’s latest effort to build out its Applications business, helmed by the former CEO of Instacart, Fidji Simo, who started work at the company a few weeks ago.…

COVID-19 cases continue to climb week-over-week as summer draws to a close, according to U.S. health data.Some regions of the United States are experiencing higher rates of positive COVID-19 tests than others, though reporting has slowed down enough nationwide that the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) has begun allowing more time to pass between certain types of updates, such as those on variant prevalence.However, amid the confusion of new strains, changing vaccine guidelines and cuts to vaccine development funding, the CDC continues to track cases, hospitalizations and deaths on a weekly basis.Here’s what to know about the latest data.How many COVID-19…

Prostate cancer rates have risen in recent years, with a sharp increase in cases diagnosed in advanced stages, the American Cancer Society said Tuesday.Diagnoses of prostate cancer rose 3% annually starting in 2014, after declining 6.4% in the decade before, according to the ACS’ annual prostate cancer statistics report.The steepest increases were seen for advanced-stage disease — up to 6.2% annually with the increases varying by age groups, the report said.Simultaneously, the report shows declines in mortality slowed from 3%-4% per year during the 1990s and 2000s to 0.6% per year over the past decade.MORE: What to know about prostate…

NEW YORK (AP) — Defending champion Aryna Sabalenka returned to the U.S. Open semifinals without hitting a ball on Tuesday night because the woman she was supposed to face in the quarterfinals, 2023 Wimbledon champion Marketa Vondrousova, pulled out of their match with an injured knee.According to the U.S. Tennis Association, Vondrousova is the first woman to give her opponent a walkover — the term for when a tennis player withdraws from a match before it begins — at the U.S. Open in the quarterfinals or later since 1988, when Steffi Graf advanced to the final when Chris Evert did…