(Al Jazeera Media Network) Sam Altman, the Silicon Valley CEO behind the artificial intelligence-powered chatbots ChatGPT and GPT-4, has been abruptly fired by his company’s board of directors in a major shakeup for the tech industry.
Microsoft-backed OpenAI said on Friday that its board of directors decided on the “leadership transition” after losing confidence in Altman’s ability to lead the company.
“Mr Altman’s departure follows a deliberative review process by the board, which concluded that he...
(BBC News) A judge in Colorado has rejected an attempt to bar former President Donald Trump from the state's 2024 Republican presidential primary.
It ends a landmark trial over a lawsuit that argued Trump's actions leading up to the 2021 Capitol riot render him ineligible to hold office again.
Similar challenges, based on a U.S. Civil War-era constitutional amendment, have failed in three other states.
Trump, who did not appear at the hearing, has dismissed the effort.
District...
(BBC News) Israel says it will allow two fuel trucks a day to enter the Gaza Strip, after pressure to do so from the U.S.
A U.S. State Department official says around 140,000 litres of fuel will be allowed in every two days.
Most of that is intended for trucks delivering aid, as well as supporting the UN in providing water and sanitation, the official said.
The rest is for mobile phone and internet services, which had...
(Al Jazeera Media Network) Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau has called for Israel to stop killing babies, earning a furious response from Israeli counterpart Benjamin Netanyahu.
Trudeau said on Tuesday that the “killing of women, of children, of babies” in the besieged Gaza Strip must end. Netanyahu pushed back, insisting that Hamas is responsible for civilian deaths as Israeli forces continue to batter the enclave.
“I urge the government of Israel to exercise maximum restraint,” Trudeau...
(BBC News) The U.S. and China have agreed to resume military-to-military communications in an effort to ease rising tensions, President Joe Biden says.
"We're back to direct, open, clear communications," he said following a rare meeting with China's President Xi Jinping in California on Wednesday.
It was the first time the pair had spoken in person in more than a year.
Biden said both leaders had agreed to establish a direct line of communication with one another.
At...
(BBC News) The U.S. Supreme Court on Monday released its first ever set of ethics rules governing its nine justices.
The nine-page "code of conduct" comes as the most powerful legal body in the U.S. is under increasing scrutiny following recent news reports of gifts and holiday arrangements lavished on several of its jurists.
While federal judges on lower courts have been governed by an ethical code since 1973, this marks the first time the country's...
(BBC News) A tentative deal between actors and Hollywood studios includes AI safeguards and requirements for intimacy co-ordinators on set.
Actors' union SAG-AFTRA announced some details of its agreement with the Alliance of Motion Picture and TV Producers (AMPTP) on Friday.
It said its national board had voted to back the agreement with 86% approval.
It will be sent to the union's 160,000 members for final ratification next week.
But actors are able to return to work immediately.
The...
(BBC News) Israel's defence minister Yoav Gallant has told journalists that the military is undertaking "localized, pinpoint measures" in Gaza to enable Palestinians to flee the fighting between Israeli forces and Hamas.
However, he did not directly address a question regarding the comments from a White House spokesman saying there would be daily four-hour pauses in northern Gaza.
He repeated the Israeli government line that the war would continue until Hamas is toppled and hostages held...
(BBC News) Europe's Euclid telescope is ready to begin its mission to help us understand the greatest mysteries in the Universe.
Exquisite imagery from the space observatory shows its capabilities to be exceptional.
Over the next six years, Euclid will survey a third of the heavens to get some clues about the nature of so-called dark matter and dark energy.
These unknown "influencers" appear to control the shape and expansion of everything that is out there.
Researchers concede, however,...
(BBC News) Ukraine's military chiefs are facing growing criticism over a recent Russian missile strike that is believed to have caused heavy Ukrainian casualties.
Ukrainian media and Russian military bloggers say more than 20 Ukrainian soldiers were killed at Friday's award ceremony near the southern frontlines.
Ukraine's military has not yet given casualty figures of what it says was a "tragedy" in the Zaporizhzhia region.
President Volodymyr Zelensky said the incident "could have been avoided."
"Criminal proceedings have been...
