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Texas suit alleging anti-coal “cartel” of top Wall Street firms could reshape ESG

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The fight against labeling long-term streaming rentals as “purchases” you “buy”

Reingold's complaint acknowledges that Prime Video shows relevant fine print below its "buy" buttons but says that the notice is “far below the ‘buy...

CDC spiraled into chaos this week. Here’s where things stand.

On Thursday, the Post reported that the White House had already named a replacement. Jim O’Neill, currently the deputy secretary of HHS, is to...

With new in-house models, Microsoft lays the groundwork for independence from OpenAI

Since it's hard to predict where this is all going, it's likely to Microsoft's long-term advantage to develop its own models. It's also possible...

Genetically, Central American mammoths were weird

This led a Mexican-European research collaboration to get interested in finding DNA from elsewhere in the Columbian mammoth's range, which extended down into Central...

Video player looks like a 1-inch TV from the ’60s and is wondrous, pointless fun

I uploaded a trailer for this summer’s Mission: Impossible – The Final Reckoning movie onto the TinyTV, and with 223.4 pixels per inch, its...

CDC director has been ousted just weeks after Senate confirmation

Georges Benjamin, executive director of the American Public Health Association, told the outlet that Monarez "values science, is a solid researcher, and has a...

CDC slashed food safety surveillance, now tracks only 2 of 8 top infections

In July, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention dramatically, but quietly, scaled back a food safety surveillance system, cutting active tracking from eight...

Authors celebrate “historic” settlement coming soon in Anthropic class action

Authors are celebrating a "historic" settlement expected to be reached soon in a class-action lawsuit over Anthropic's AI training data. On Tuesday, US District...

OpenAI admits ChatGPT safeguards fail during extended conversations

Adam Raine learned to bypass these safeguards by claiming he was writing a story—a technique the lawsuit says ChatGPT itself suggested. This vulnerability partly...

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