Lawsuit says OpenAI violated US authors’ copyrights to train AI chatbot
By Blake Brittain (Reuters) – Two U.S. authors sued OpenAI in San Francisco federal court on Wednesday, claiming in a…
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Virgin Galactic set to launch its first commercial rocket plane spaceflight
By Jose Luis Gonzalez and Steve Gorman TRUTH OR CONSEQUENCES, New Mexico (Reuters) – A three-man crew from Italy is…
Weight loss drug candidates multiply, spurring hopes of better outcomes, lower costs
(This June 27 story has been corrected to say that Versanis drug was licensed from Novartis in paragraph 19) By…
NASA sees moon lunar mining trial within the next decade
BRISBANE (Reuters) – NASA is looking to develop resources on the moon that initially include oxygen and water, and eventually…
Sick sea lions washing ashore in California due to algae bloom
By Omar Younis LOS ANGELES (Reuters) – Rescued from the beach, a sick sea lion and her newborn pup are…
Republican lawmakers urge U.S. to scrap China science deal
By Michael Martina WASHINGTON (Reuters) – Republican lawmakers on Tuesday urged the U.S. State Department not to renew a decades-old…
Dancing cyborgs: Japanese researchers develop robot arms to ‘unlock creativity’
TOKYO (Reuters) – What would society look like if cyborg body parts were freely available for use like roadside rental…
Silicon Valley startup SandboxAQ hired to beef up US military cyber security
By Jane Lanhee Lee OAKLAND, California (Reuters) – Artificial intelligence and quantum computing startup SandboxAQ on Tuesday said it has…
John Goodenough, Nobel laureate and battery pioneer, dies at 100
(Reuters) – Nobel laureate John Goodenough, a pioneer in the development of lithium-ion batteries that today power millions of electric…
Novo Nordisk says obesity pill leads to 15% weight loss; availability ‘to be determined’
By Deena Beasley SAN DIEGO (Reuters) – Novo Nordisk on Sunday said a late-stage trial found that a high-dose oral…