FTC launches probe into AI investments by Microsoft, Amazon, more

FTC launches probe into AI investments by Microsoft, Amazon, more

The Federal Trade Commission said Thursday it had issued orders to OpenAI, Microsoft, Alphabet, Amazon and Anthropic, requiring them to provide information on recent investments and partnerships involving generative AI companies and cloud service providers. The orders are part of an inquiry that “will scrutinize corporate partnerships and investments with AI providers to build a…

A Shocking Confession Upends the Case of a Fatal Fire in South Africa

A Shocking Confession Upends the Case of a Fatal Fire in South Africa

It was time, the witness said, to tell the whole truth about the awful things he had done. Moments before testifying this week at an inquiry into one of South Africa’s deadliest residential fires, he pulled an investigator aside and said he needed to change his story. He was the one, he said, who had…

Los Angeles County Pays $5 Million to Election Executive Wrongly Charged With Data Breach

Los Angeles County Pays $5 Million to Election Executive Wrongly Charged With Data Breach

Los Angeles County agreed to pay $5 million to the top executive of an election software company who had been arrested and charged in 2022 with mishandling voter data in a case that prosecutors dropped a few weeks later, the executive’s lawyer said this week. The payment, which settles a lawsuit filed last year, is…

C.I.A. Director to Meet With Israeli Officials to Try to Advance Hostage Negotiations

C.I.A. Director to Meet With Israeli Officials to Try to Advance Hostage Negotiations

American officials said Israel was now proposing a 60-day pause in the fighting in exchange for a phased release of hostages. That proposal, the American officials said, could provide a basis for renewed talks. News of Mr. Burns’s travel was earlier reported by The Washington Post. The Biden administration is anxious to cut a deal…

Cruise Says Hostility Toward Regulators Led to Grounding of Its Autonomous Cars

Cruise Says Hostility Toward Regulators Led to Grounding of Its Autonomous Cars

Cruise, the driverless car subsidiary of General Motors, said in a report on Thursday that an adversarial approach taken by its top executives toward regulators had led to a cascade of events that ended with a nationwide suspension of Cruise’s fleet. The roughly 100-page report was compiled by a law firm that Cruise hired to…

Norwegian Official Resigns Over Plagiarism After Cracking Down On It

Norwegian Official Resigns Over Plagiarism After Cracking Down On It

As Norway’s higher education minister, Sandra Borch was responsible for making sure that students played by the rules. When one of those students was acquitted of the offense of plagiarism, Ms. Borch appealed, taking the case to the nation’s Supreme Court. So it shocked the country when, just a few days later, Ms. Borch had…

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