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OpenAI boss Sam Altman denies sister’s sexual abuse lawsuit claims | US News
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OpenAI chief executive Sam Altman has denied allegations of sexual abuse made by his sister. Ann Altman’s lawyers filed a lawsuit in the US accusing him of regularly sexually abusing her between 1997 and 2006. In a joint statement with his mother and two brothers, Mr Altman, 39, said: “All of these claims are utterly…
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Mother says son killed himself because of Daenerys Targaryen AI chatbot in new lawsuit | Science, Climate & Tech News
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The mother of a 14-year-old boy who killed himself after becoming obsessed with artificial intelligence chatbots is suing the company behind the technology. Megan Garcia, the mother of Sewell Setzer III, said Character.AI targeted her son with “anthropomorphic, hypersexualized, and frighteningly realistic experiences” in a lawsuit filed on Tuesday in Florida. “A dangerous AI chatbot…
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Elon Musk faces fresh insider dealing claim and drops OpenAI lawsuit | Business News
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Elon Musk has moved to drop a lawsuit he filed against ChatGPT maker OpenAI and learned he is facing a fresh investor claim relating to his sale of Tesla shares. The tech billionaire, who had launched his complaint early this year, looked to drop the action just 24 hours before a San Francisco judge was…
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London’s black cab drivers file multimillion pound lawsuit against Uber | Science & Tech News
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Uber faces a multimillion-pound lawsuit from London’s black cab drivers in a revival of the longstanding dispute over the operation of the ride-hailing app in the UK capital. The action, which will be filed in the High Court on Thursday, alleges that Uber improperly obtained a licence from Transport for London in 2012 and therefore…
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Cristiano Ronaldo faces $1bn lawsuit after launching NFT collection | Science & Tech News
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Cristiano Ronaldo has been hit with a $1bn (£791m) class action lawsuit for his involvement in promoting non-fungible tokens. The Portuguese footballing legend had launched his own collection of NFTs through Binance, the world’s largest crypto exchange, in the run-up to last year’s World Cup. NFTs are a form of digital art with varying levels…
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Owned an older iPhone? You could get a payout from UK lawsuit which claims devices were ‘throttled’ | Science & Tech News
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Apple is facing a lawsuit that could see British iPhone owners receive compensation over allegedly defective batteries. The case, brought by consumer champion Justin Gutmann, was given the go-ahead by a UK court on Wednesday. Mr Gutmann claims the tech giant deceived up to 25 million customers by “throttling” their devices without their knowledge. It…
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Decades of research destroyed after cleaner turns off beeping lab freezer, lawsuit claims | US News
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A cleaner turned off a freezer at a university – leading to decades of research to be ruined, a million-dollar lawsuit has claimed. Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute filed the lawsuit against a cleaning company, after one of its employees tried to stop an “annoying beep” by turning off the freezer. The New York-based institution used Daigle…
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Shaquille O’Neal says ‘I don’t understand crypto’ after being named in lawsuit over FTX collapse | Science & Tech News
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The American basketball legend Shaquille O’Neal has defended his appearance in ads for the collapsed cryptocurrency firm FTX, arguing he was “just a paid spokesperson”. The NBA star turned television analyst was named in a class-action lawsuit against the exchange last month, which alleged stars who promoted the platform brought it credibility. It argues that…
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Meta accused of enabling hateful Ethiopia conflict posts in lawsuit | World News
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Meta has been accused of enabling violent and hateful posts from Ethiopia to flourish on Facebook in a new lawsuit. Filed in Kenya, the suit claims the social media giant’s actions have inflamed the country’s civil war between the government and rebellious forces from the northern Tigray region, which has seen thousands of people killed…
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EthereumMax: Judge throws out crypto lawsuit against Kim Kardashian and Floyd Mayweather | US News
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A lawsuit accusing Kim Kardashian and Floyd Mayweather of misleading investors by promoting a cryptocurrency on social media has been dismissed. Investors who bought EthereumMax tokens said they had lost money after believing what the celebrities said about the digital asset. The lawsuit was filed in January, and it claimed that the defendants had conspired…