OpenAI, creator of ChatGPT, signs an agreement with AP to license the news

FILE - The Google logo is displayed in their offices on November 1, 2018, in London's Granary Square.  Google is rolling out its AI-powered chatbot Bard across Europe and Brazil, expanding its availability to hundreds of millions more users in dozens of additional languages.  The company also said on Thursday (July 13, 2023) that it will add more features to Bard, as it scrambles to keep pace with rival Microsoft, which uses OpenAI's popular ChatGPT service in its Bing search engine.  (AP Photo/Alastair Grant, File)

NEW YORK (AP) ChatGPT maker OpenAI and The Associated Press said Thursday they have struck a deal with the AI ​​company to license AP’s news archive. The deal sees OpenAI license part of AP’s text archive, while AP will leverage OpenAI’s technology and product expertise, the two organizations said in a joint statement. The price … Read more

Vice President Kamala Harris makes history with deciding votes in the Senate

FILE - Vice President Kamala Harris speaks to the Gila River Indian community, July 6, 2023, in Phoenix.  Harris said Tuesday the government plans to cap how much families pay for childcare under the Child Care & Development Block Grant program.  (AP Photo/Rick Scuteria, Files)

WASHINGTON (AP) Kamala Harris, who made history as the first woman or person of color to hold the office of vice president, made history again Wednesday by tying the record for most tiebreaker votes in the U.S. Senate . The vote, his 31st, anticipated Kalpana Kotagal’s appointment to the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission. The only … Read more

Sarah Silverman and the novelists sue OpenAI, maker of ChatGPT, for ingesting their books

FILE - The Google logo is displayed in their offices on November 1, 2018, in London's Granary Square.  Google is rolling out its AI-powered chatbot Bard across Europe and Brazil, expanding its availability to hundreds of millions more users in dozens of additional languages.  The company also said on Thursday (July 13, 2023) that it will add more features to Bard, as it scrambles to keep pace with rival Microsoft, which uses OpenAI's popular ChatGPT service in its Bing search engine.  (AP Photo/Alastair Grant, File)

Ask ChatGPT about comedian Sarah Silverman’s memoir The Bedwetter and the AI ​​chatbot can provide a detailed synopsis of each part of the book. Does that mean he actually read and stored a pirated copy? Or has he garnered enough customer reviews and online chatter about the bestseller or the musical it inspired that he … Read more

New Jersey Governor Considers 5-Year Extension of Internet Gambling

A huge base for an offshore wind turbine, called a monopile, sits atop wheel movers in Paulsboro, NJ on Thursday, July 6, 2023. A tangle of litigation is delaying the start of New Jersey's first offshore wind energy project , as developer Orsted is suing governments to stop delaying necessary permits and citizen groups seek to stop the project altogether.  (AP Photo/Wayne Parry)

TRENTON, NJ (AP) A bill a expand Internet gambling in New Jersey it is in the hands of Governor Phil Murphy for another five years, following its approval on Friday by the state legislature. The measure passed the state Assembly and Senate with minimal opposition from lawmakers, and is now moving to action by the … Read more

New Jersey Casinos Want 10 More Years of Internet Gambling, But NJ Could Approve Only 2 More

A huge base for an offshore wind turbine, called a monopile, sits atop wheel movers in Paulsboro, NJ on Thursday, July 6, 2023. A tangle of litigation is delaying the start of New Jersey's first offshore wind energy project , as developer Orsted is suing governments to stop delaying necessary permits and citizen groups seek to stop the project altogether.  (AP Photo/Wayne Parry)

TRENTON, NJ (AP) New Jersey casinos want to expand the nation’s top Internet gambling market for another 10 years, but state lawmakers could only approve it for two more years. A state assembly committee on Tuesday passed a bill that would originally have allowed gambling in online casinos until 2033. But the committee changed it … Read more

Taiwan suspects that Chinese ships have cut the islands’ internet cables

In this photo released by Xinhua News Agency, United States Special Presidential Envoy for Climate John Kerry, left, shakes hands with Chinese Vice President Han Zheng during a meeting in Beijing, on Wednesday, July 19, 2023. China is willing to work with Washington to reduce global warming as long as its political demands are met, the country's vice president told US climate envoy John Kerry on Wednesday.  (Zhang Lin/Xinhua via AP)

NANGAN, Taiwan (AP) For the past month, bed and breakfast owner Chen Yu-lin has had to tell his guests that he couldn’t provide them with the Internet. Others living in Matsu, one of Taiwan’s outlying islands closest to neighboring China, have struggled to pay electricity bills, make a doctor’s appointment, or receive a package. To … Read more