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May 9, 2025
OpenAI says it’s setting up a safety and security committee and has begun training a new AI model to supplant the GPT-4 system that underpins its ChatGPT chatbot. The San Francisco startup said in a blog post Tuesday that the committee will advise the full board on “critical safety and security decisions” for its projects
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BANGKOK (AP) — East and Southeast Asia are awash in record amounts of methamphetamine and other synthetic drugs, the U.N. Office on Drugs and Crime said in a new report Tuesday. It traced their source largely to the cross-border region known as the Golden Triangle where Thailand, Myanmar and Laos meet. The region is historically
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TOKYO (AP) — The operator of Japan’s destroyed Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant demonstrated Tuesday how a remote-controlled robot would retrieve tiny bits of melted fuel debris from one of three damaged reactors later this year for the first time since the 2011 meltdown. Tokyo Electric Power Company Holdings plans to deploy a “telesco-style” extendable
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By The Associated Press NEW YORK — NEW YORK (AP) — Former Billie Jean King Cup captain Kathy Rinaldi and current Davis Cup captain Bob Bryan will coach the U.S. tennis players at the Paris Olympics. Jon Rydberg and John Devorss will coach the country’s teams for the sport at the Paralympics. The U.S. Tennis
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SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — A group of investors will put up $6 billion to fund development of artificial intelligence by Elon Musk’s xAI. The company said on its website Sunday that the Series B funding round will be used to take xAI’s first products to market and speed up research. xAI said it has made
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The regional final round of the N.C. High School Athletic Association girls soccer state playoffs is scheduled for Tuesday, May 28. All regional finals are played at the higher seed. Start times vary for each game, but HighSchoolOT is updating a list of start times below. To report a start time, a schedule change, or
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Our prediction for this Serie A match: Atalanta Fiorentina Atalanta will look to secure a top-three finish when they take on Fiorentina in their last game of the season. The Orobici are enjoying a season to remember. After defeating Bayer Leverkusen in the Europa League final, Atalanta aim to put icing on the cake and
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Watauga rising senior Kate Sears has made the HighSchoolOT all-state girls basketball team in all three of her seasons. Now, she knows where she’ll be going after her fourth high school season. Sears committed to Virginia Tech on Monday night. Sears made the all-state first team after averaging 23.5 points, 8.5 rebounds, 6.2 assists, and
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By HOWARD FENDRICH, AP Tennis Writer PARIS — PARIS (AP) — Let’s get this part out of the way: Rafael Nadal did not announce his retirement after exiting the French Open in the first round. Nothing else, though, is entirely clear about what comes next for the owner of 22 Grand Slam titles. He turns
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TOKYO (AP) — As economies in Asia and the Pacific slow and grow older, countries need to do more to ensure that workers get the education, training and social safety nets needed to raise incomes and ensure social equity, a United Nations report said Tuesday. The report by the International Labor Organization said that growth
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