The US Federal Trade Commission is investigating OpenAI to determine if its hugely popular ChatGPT app harms consumers
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Artificial sweetener aspartame classified as ‘possibly carcinogenic’
The artificial sweetener aspartame, which is consumed by millions every day as a sugar substitute in products such as diet soft drinks, has long been the topic of fierce debate over its impact on health. On Friday, the World Health Organization’s International Agency for Research on Cancer classified aspartame as “possibly carcinogenic to humans,” citing […]
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Putin has ‘already lost’ Ukraine war, Biden says
US President Joe Biden said Thursday that Russia’s Vladimir Putin has already lost the war in Ukraine, expressing hope that Kyiv’s counter-offensive would force Moscow to the negotiating table. As Russia launched fresh strikes and a new bout of nuclear-sabre rattling, Biden said there was no real prospect of Putin using nuclear weapons and insisted […]
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First over-the-counter birth pill approved in US
The US drug regulator approved the first over-the-counter birth control pill in the country, it announced Thursday, dramatically widening access to contraception for women as the United States grapples with reproductive rights. The medication, Opill, will become available in pharmacies and supermarkets as well as online early next year, the manufacturer Perrigo said in a […]
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Elon Musk’s antics give Mark Zuckerberg a PR makeover
After years of bad press and scandal, Mark Zuckerberg is seeing his reputation spruced up in the fickle world of tech, largely thanks to the increasingly unpredictable behaviour of Elon Musk. Always bubbling just beneath the surface, the on-again, off-again rivalry between Musk and Facebook creator Zuckerberg has boiled over with the launch of Twitter-clone […]
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Why American communities are suing Big Oil for climate damages
American attorney Jeffrey B. Simon helped families affected by the opioid crisis obtain settlements worth more than $2.7 billion against leading pharmaceutical companies. Now, he’s part of a legal team taking on Big Oil over the 2021 Pacific Northwest Heat Dome disaster — and says the era of fossil fuel companies evading responsibility for their […]
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Canada watchdog probes Nike over Uyghur forced labor claims
Sporting giant Nike and mining company Dynasty Gold are being investigated in Canada over allegations they used forced labor from China’s Uyghur minority, a Canadian watchdog announced Tuesday. The companies are both “alleged to have or have had supply chains or operations in the People’s Republic of China identified as using or benefitting from the use of Uyghur […]
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Zelensky criticizes allies as NATO stalls on membership bid
A frustrated President Volodymyr Zelensky launched a furious broadside against Ukraine’s NATO allies Tuesday as they began a summit still unsure how to advance Kyiv’s membership bid. Zelensky, who will come to Vilnius, Lithuania, during the two-day summit, denounced as “absurd” the reluctance of some NATO leaders to provide a clear timetable for Ukraine to […]
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Key hurdle to Ukraine NATO membership dropped
A key hurdle to Ukraine’s membership of NATO was lifted Monday as leaders of the bloc gathered for a crucial summit in Lithuania. A Western official told AFP that the allies “are set” to drop the Membership Action Plan required for Ukraine’s application to join the alliance. The breakthrough comes amid rare glimmers of disunity over […]
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Israel parliament to vote on controversial judicial overhaul
Israel’s parliament is to vote Monday on a bill that would limit court powers, in a new political offensive to push on with a judicial overhaul that has split the nation. The changes, proposed by the hard-right government of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, have sparked one of the country’s biggest ever protest movements since their […]