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Elon Musk on Tuesday dropped his lawsuit against OpenAI, the maker of the online chatbot ChatGPT, a day before a state judge in San Francisco was expected to consider whether it should be dismissed.The lawsuit, filed in February, accused the artificial intelligence start-up and two of its founders, Sam Altman and Greg Brockman, of violating OpenAI's founding agreement by prioritizing commercial interests over the public good.A multibillion-dollar partnership that OpenAI signed with Microsoft, Musk's lawsuit argued, represented an abandonment of the company's commitment to carefully develop artificial intelligence and make the technology available to the public.Musk had argued that the founding contract stipulated that the organization should instead focus on building artificial...

Hezbollah said Tuesday that Israeli forces killed one of its commanders in an attack in southern Lebanon, fueling concerns about the conflict escalating on another Israeli front.The commander, Taleb Abdallah, also known as Abu Taleb, was among the highest-ranking Hezbollah fighters in Lebanon to have been killed by Israel since the Hamas-led attack on Israel on October 7 sparked war in the Gaza Strip. Gaza and inflamed tensions throughout the territory. The northern border of Israel.Abdallah's role in Hezbollah was not immediately clear. But the group has not referred to a dead fighter as “commander” since January, when Wissam Hassan al-Tawil, a commander of the group's Radwan unit, was killed in an attack. In a clear indication of Abdallah's seniority, Hezbollah published a...

The Biden administration on Tuesday proposed removing medical debt from the credit reports of more than 15 million Americans, making it easier for them to qualify for auto, home and small business loans.The proposed rule, which will go through a public comment period, would not take effect immediately. It would ban health care providers from sharing medical debt with loan providers and prohibit those providers from considering medical information when it comes to making loans.Vice President Kamala Harris said the move would improve “the financial health and well-being of millions of Americans.”“One of the most significant consequences of carrying medical debt is the damage it does to a person's credit score,” Ms. Harris said. “Medical debt makes it harder for millions of Americans to...

Investors made clear on Tuesday the depth of their concerns over President Emmanuel Macron's gamble to call a new election in France, driving up the nation's borrowing costs, pushing down stock prices and prompting ratings agency Moody's to warn that it could downgrade French sovereign debt as a risk. increase in political instability.Macron's dissolution of Parliament's lower house on Sunday, after his party was beaten by Marine Le Pen's far-right party in European Parliament elections, has sparked concerns that the government could reach a stalemate . The turmoil has focused attention on France's fragile finances and the prospect of a legislative deadlock that could undermine the government's ability to deal with it.“This decision will not alleviate the ...

Mistral, a French artificial intelligence start-up, said Tuesday that it has raised 600 million euros, or about $640 million, from investors, a sign of strong interest in a company considered Europe's most promising rival to OpenAI and other Silicon Valley AI systems. developers.According to a person familiar with the investment, Mistral is now worth 5.8 billion euros, a staggering sum for a company founded just a year ago by former students of Meta and Google. The company's valuation has more or less tripled since December, when it raised 385 million euros.Investors in the latest round include venture capital firms General Catalyst, Andreessen Horowitz and Lightspeed Venture Partners, as well as Nvidia, Samsung, Salesforce, Cisco, IBM and BNP Paribas.Since OpenAI released ChatGP...

In the occupied West Bank, Palestinians live in the shadow of the ongoing war in Gaza. For them, this has meant increased raids and arrests, tightened security restrictions, settler violence, and economic turmoil. We spent time with two Palestinians whose lives and livelihoods have been reshaped by war and who fear that some of these changes may be long-lasting. 29-year-old taxi driver and tour guide Laith Al-Muti now waits all day here at one of the Israeli-controlled checkpoints in Bethlehem. But these days, almost no visitors come. Thirteen miles away, in the Tel Rumeida area of ​​Hebron, Wijdan Ziadeh's life is also at a standstill. Home to an Israeli settlement, Palestinians in the area say their movements, restricted before the war, have become even more restricted since Oc...

Sotto una fila di abeti, il fiume Shannon Aloia cammina lungo una remota strada sterrata nella foresta nazionale, scrutando il terreno alla ricerca di spugnole."Trovalo", ordina al suo cane, Jasper.La ricerca ripaga la signora Aloia, un'avida raccoglitrice: individua una solitaria spugnola color miele e la coglie."Il foraggiamento cambia il tuo rapporto con la natura", ha detto. “Sei nel bosco usando tutti i tuoi sensi. Ed è gratificante quando puoi identificare qualcosa, portarlo a casa e prepararlo per la tua famiglia.La primavera nell'emisfero settentrionale è il periodo dell'anno preferito dai raccoglitori come la signora Aloia. È particolarmente popolare nel West americano a causa dei milioni di acri di terre di proprietà pubblica che danno ai raccoglitori la libertà di...

Five years ago, when her party won 6 percent of the vote in the European Parliament elections, Giorgia Meloni tried to uncork a bottle of sparkling wine, but the cork fell off awkwardly among some supporters.Meloni, now Italy's prime minister, emerged as a big election winner this week, and she and dozens of members of her Fratelli d'Italia party partied at a five-star hotel in Rome where waiters carried bottles of wine in silver basins full of ice. The far-right party took almost 29% of the vote. The victory was all the more significant because Meloni was the only leader of a large Western European country to emerge stronger from the ballot.For Mrs. Meloni the elevator could hardly have arrived at a better time. All eyes are on Italy this week as Meloni prepares to host a summi...

Nearly two years after OpenAI kicked off the race to add generative artificial intelligence to products, Apple jumped into the competition on Monday, revealing plans to bring the technology to more than a billion iPhone users worldwide.During a two-hour presentation from its futuristic Silicon Valley campus, Apple said it will use generative artificial intelligence to power what it calls Apple Intelligence. The system will prioritize messages and notifications and offer writing tools that can proofread and suggest what users have written in emails, notes or text. This will also bring a major update to Siri, Apple's virtual assistant.Apple's plans to offer artificial intelligence in its iPhones represent the next step in bringing artificial intelligence into the consumer mainstrea...

When the four Israelis woke up in Gaza on Saturday, they had been held hostage by Hamas for 245 days. The buildings where they were held, two low-rise concrete apartment buildings, looked a lot like other nearby residences in a civilian neighborhood full of Palestinian families.Within hours, the prisoners, three men and one woman, would be reunited with their families, the result of a risky and long-planned rescue operation in which the full might of the Israeli army would be used to devastating effect .“I'm so emotional,” Israeli Noa Argamani, 26, told Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu by phone after his release. “It's been so long since I heard Hebrew.”The rescue operation in Nuseirat involved hundreds of intelligence officers and two commando teams simultaneously raidi...