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Twitter and Tesla CEO Elon Musk once played the Mr. Money Bags role to Silicon Valley’s newest darling OpenAI, the makers of ChatGPT and DALLE-2. The nonprofit has become the center of the tech world’s new obsession with AI, but a new…

Sal Khan, the founder of the nonprofit education organization Khan Academy, said that in the early days of popular language model GPT-4’s development, the system was spitting out inaccurate math. Khan and his team had an early look at…

A subset of Missouri legislators care deeply about freedom. For instance: The God-given right to NOT accept a life-saving vaccination and still attend public school or go to work in a hospital. Also, the freedom to not be forcibly…

This story by the Center for Public Integrity was published in partnership with Grist and is part of a series on soil lead contamination.Is lead lurking in the soil around you?Dangerous lead contamination continues to plague the soil of…

Illustration: LuckyStep (Shutterstock)You have just returned home after a long day at work and are about to sit down for dinner when suddenly your phone starts buzzing. On the other end is a loved one, perhaps a parent, a child or a…

You may have heard that ‘fish don’t feel pain.’ It’s a common, persistent myth that dates back to 17th-century French philosophy. Yet, regardless of René Descartes’smany other worthwhile ideas, the scientific consensus is that he was…

Although we’re only a few days into the Spring of 2023, most of us are already thinking ahead to the warm summer months. It’s the perfect time to shop for new summer attire and new summer gadgets, like the Anker EverFrost cooler, which…

Photo: Joe Raedle (Getty Images)On Thursday, the investment research firm Hindenberg Research released a report alleging Jack Dorsey’s digital payments company Block has committed massive fraud, especially with the help of its well-known…

Photo: GaudiLab (Shutterstock)Ever since a chatbot called ChatGPT launched last November, artificial intelligence has become the most powerful force in the tech industry.ChatGPT wasn’t just any old chatbot but a hefty, data-trained…

Manmade meat is marching ever-closer to your dinner plate. A second company has received a critical safety green light from the Food and Drug Administration, and can now move forward with next steps towards selling its lab-grown chicken…