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News discussed:
California, Arizona and Nevada agrees to cut at least 3 million acre-feet of water
China has banned US chip maker Micron from selling to Chinese companies working on key infrastructure projects
Trump found liable for sexual assault
Feds approved Manhattan congestion pricing plan
Was Qualified Immunity snuck in by an asshole?
Meta has been fined a record-breaking €1.2 billion ($1.3 billion) by European Union regulators for violating EU privacy laws by transferring the personal data of Facebook users to servers in the United States
Supreme Court upholds California ban on 'unethical' pork, Proposition 12
Rules against plaintiffs attempting to hold Google + Twitter financially liable for terrorists
Rebuttal to dissent from Sotomayor
White House AI meeting - Google CEO Sundar Pichai, Microsoft’s Satya Nadella, OpenAI’s Sam Altman, and Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei, + Kamala Harris
Altman testifies before Congress, recommends regulation
Senator Blumenthal (D-CT): "I think you have said, in fact, and I'm gonna quote, 'Development of superhuman machine intelligence is probably the greatest threat to the continued existence of humanity.' You may have had in mind the effect on jobs”
Sam Altman has privately suggested OpenAI may try to raise as much as $100 billion in the coming years to achieve its aim of developing artificial general intelligence that is advanced enough to improve its own capabilities
OpenAI published an official public statement on regulation.
Anthropic's chat context window expanded to 100k tokens
Happy News!
Semaglutide ends addictive behavior for some users? People taking Ozempic for weight loss say they have also stopped drinking, smoking, shopping, and even nail biting
Pill form passed phase 3 trial
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