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Elon Musk sues OpenAI and CEO Sam Altman for putting profits above humanity | Technology News

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Billionaire entrepreneur says Microsoft-backed company originally promised to make an open-source, non-profit company. Elon Musk is suing OpenAI and its chief executive Sam Altman, alleging the start-up betrayed its original promise of working to benefit humanity when it forged a multibillion-dollar alliance with Microsoft. The lawsuit filed in San Francisco on Thursday said Altman and [...]read moreElon Musk sues OpenAI and CEO Sam Altman for putting profits above humanity | Technology News

Who is Manuel Rocha, the US diplomat who accepted he spied for Cuba? | Espionage News

March 1, 2024 No Comments News , , , , ,

Manuel Rocha, a former career United States diplomat, told a federal judge on Thursday that he will plead guilty to charges of working as a spy for communist Cuba for decades. Here is more about Rocha and one of the more brazen betrayals in the history of the US foreign service, according to case prosecutors. [...]read moreWho is Manuel Rocha, the US diplomat who accepted he spied for Cuba? | Espionage News

US Senate approves spending stopgap to avert government shutdown | Politics News

March 1, 2024 No Comments News , , , , , , ,

Short-term spending bill averts shutdown of agencies that would have kicked in on Saturday. The United States Congress has approved a short-term spending package to avoid a government shutdown, the fourth such stopgap measure in several months. The bill, which passed the Senate in a bipartisan 77-13 vote, provides funding for some federal government agencies [...]read moreUS Senate approves spending stopgap to avert government shutdown | Politics News

Biden and Trump border visits highlight immigration as election issue | US-Mexico Border News

March 1, 2024 No Comments News , , , , ,

US President Joe Biden to visit border town of Brownsville, Texas as Donald Trump heads to Eagle Pass, Texas. US President Joe Biden and Donald Trump, his likely Republican opponent in the November election, will make separate visits to the US-Mexico border on Thursday as immigration has become a key issue for voters. Biden, who [...]read moreBiden and Trump border visits highlight immigration as election issue | US-Mexico Border News

US lawmakers confront Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin over health secrecy | News

March 1, 2024 No Comments News , , ,

Republican lawmakers question how President Biden could go for days without knowing Austin was hospitalised. Republican lawmakers have criticised US Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin at a hearing for failing to disclose his prostrate cancer surgery and subsequent hospitalisation to President Joe Biden. Austin, with support from Democrats on the House of Representatives Armed Services Committee, [...]read moreUS lawmakers confront Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin over health secrecy | News

Is nuclear power the key to space exploration? | Space

February 29, 2024 No Comments News , , , , , ,

Nuclear power is experiencing a renaissance on Earth, and in space. Whether we’re talking about lunar bases or space exploration, nuclear might be the key to pushing beyond our current boundaries. On the 25th of August 2012, the lonely Voyager 1 space probe crossed the threshold into interstellar space. At the time it was 18 [...]read moreIs nuclear power the key to space exploration? | Space

‘Call it by its name’: How hateful rhetoric feeds anti-Palestinian violence | Israel War on Gaza News

February 29, 2024 No Comments News , , , , , , , , ,

Burlington, Vermont – With Israel waging war in the Gaza Strip and violence reaching new heights in the occupied West Bank, Hisham Awartani’s family thought he would be safer in the United States. That’s why, instead of going to the West Bank for Thanksgiving break, the 20-year-old Palestinian student and his two childhood friends decided [...]read more‘Call it by its name’: How hateful rhetoric feeds anti-Palestinian violence | Israel War on Gaza News

As Texas Panhandle wildfires rage, what we know so far | News

February 29, 2024 No Comments News , , ,

The Texas Panhandle region of the state’s 26 northernmost counties is being ravaged by a series of what may soon become the state’s worst wildfires in recorded history. Here’s what we know so far about the wildfires, which have also spread to parts of Oklahoma, and are destroying homes and forcing residents to evacuate. When [...]read moreAs Texas Panhandle wildfires rage, what we know so far | News

The industries profiting off Chinese asylum seekers in the US | Migration

February 29, 2024 No Comments News , , ,

101 East investigates alleged human traffickers, scammers and middlemen profiting from the desperation of Chinese asylum seekers in America. Reaching the United States has long been the dream for would-be migrants travelling across Latin America. Thousands of Chinese have embarked on the dangerous route this year. But reaching their final destination is no guarantee that [...]read moreThe industries profiting off Chinese asylum seekers in the US | Migration

Why has the EU sanctioned Indian, Chinese companies for Russia links? | Russia-Ukraine war News

February 29, 2024 No Comments News , , , , , , , , , , , , , ,

A day before the two-year anniversary of Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, the European Union released an exhaustive new list of companies, entities or people in countries including Russia, India, Iran, China and Syria, that it said it was sanctioning over allegations that they were connected to Russia’s defence and security sector. The new sanctions added [...]read moreWhy has the EU sanctioned Indian, Chinese companies for Russia links? | Russia-Ukraine war News