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CEO of OpenAI Sam Altman arrives at the courthouse on the day of the trial in Elon Musk’s lawsuit over OpenAI for-profit conversion at a federal courthouse in Oakland, California, U.S., May 12, 2026. Carlos Barria | ReutersFlorida Attorney General James Uthmeier on Monday filed a lawsuit against OpenAI and its CEO Sam Altman, alleging that the artificial intelligence company knowingly released an unsafe product that could harm users.The 83-page complaint claims that OpenAI’s ChatGPT chatbot has aided and abetted mass shooters in “deadly rampages,” driven vulnerable people to suicide, harmed users’ critical thinking skills and caused minors to become…

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The Trump administration plans to drop the Department of Justice’s $1.8 billion “Anti-Weaponization Fund” in the face of legal and political pushback to it, reports said Monday.The fund was created as part of a settlement of President Donald Trump’s $10 billion lawsuit against the Internal Revenue Service. It is intended to compensate people who were purportedly victims of prosecutorial overreach by the DOJ under the Biden administration.Reports that the fund was being put on ice came after House Speaker Mike Johnson, R-La., met with Trump at the White House about the fund.”I do think the best way to handle it…

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Unlock the Editor’s Digest for freeRoula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter.Europe talks a lot about tech sovereignty, but has so far done little. Now France is taking the bull by the horns, with plans to build the continent’s biggest data centre. It is understandable to fear being beholden to the US for all things AI, but it’s not clear jumping on the infrastructure bandwagon is the best way forward.The French plans are undoubtedly grand. At 5.1 gigawatts of power, the new facility would be a whisker above Meta Platforms’ proposed Hyperion campus…

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People walk by a McDonald’s restaurant on March 11, 2026 in Las Vegas, Nevada. Kevin Carter | Getty ImagesMcDonald’s on Monday unveiled its latest global growth strategy to help the fast-food giant become customers’ first choice as it faces new rivals and consumer spending stretched by high gas prices.A new restaurant design, better tasting food and drinks, consumer-led innovation and improved customer service are the four cornerstones of the new plan, which the company calls “McDonald’s > NEXT.” Executives made the announcement at McDonald’s biennial Worldwide Convention for franchisees, held this year in Las Vegas. The chain released its last…

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Hope you like augmented reality Even though the internal specs on the X20 are unchanged from last year’s ROG Xbox Ally X, the surface improvements sound like a welcome refresh to Asus’ promising line of handheld gaming PCs. Unfortunately, Asus seems to be positioning the X20 as a limited-edition bundled curiosity rather than a new standard-bearer for handheld gaming. That’s because today’s announcement of the ROG Xbox Ally X was really an announcement of an “All-New ROG Xbox Ally X20 bundle,” as Asus puts it (emphasis added). The hardware is currently positioned only as part of a special “20th anniversary”…

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And, whenever the moment comes and Sir Keir Starmer is looking back on his time at No10 (however long or short his tenure turns out to be), his decision to send Lord Mandelson to Washington will be a central part of the critique he and others offer about the big calls he made – and the ones he got wrong. Source link

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Citi is an advertising partner. Citi is no longer accepting applications for the Citi Custom Cash® Card product as of May 28, 2026.Welcome to the Points Pro, where I answer your credit card and travel rewards questions each week. If you have a question you’d like answered, you can submit it here.This week, reader Elizabeth asks:I have the Citi® / AAdvantage® Platinum Select® World Elite Mastercard®, and I feel like it takes me so long to rack up enough miles for good flights. What’s the best way to get the most out of my miles on this card? Is there a…

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The launch tower at SpaceX Launch Complex at launch pad 39-A at the Kennedy Space Center in Cape Canaveral, Florida, U.S., April 6, 2026. Brendan McDermid | ReutersSpaceX has reserved up to 5% of stock being sold in its initial public offering for purchase by “certain employees and persons” in a direct share program, according to an amended filing out Monday. The offering is expected to bring in a record sum, in the range of $75 billion, after SpaceX was valued earlier this year at $1.25 trillion by Elon Musk, when he merged the company with xAI, his artificial intelligence…

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