Paulina Nares (CNN)– Meta se está tomando más en serio la tarea de asegurar su lugar en la creciente carrera armamentista de la inteligencia artificial. El CEO, Mark Zuckerberg, anunció este jueves que Meta planea construir su propia inteligencia artificial general, conocida como AGI, que es una inteligencia artificial que iguala o supera a la
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By Hilary Whiteman, CNN Brisbane, Australia (CNN) — On the edge of a dark, suburban park in Brisbane, teams of volunteer toad-catchers gather around Gary King as he shoves another squirming specimen into a cooler box. “Who’s got some more?” asks King, a local leader of this year’s Great Cane Toad Bust, a small and
Continue ReadingBetiana Fernández Martino (CNN Español) — Es 15 de enero. Pocos días separan a Javier Milei de su esperado viaje a Davos. En menos de 48 horas, ofrecerá un discurso a cientos de líderes mundiales y empresarios como el primer presidente que abraza la ideología que define como “liberal libertario” en la historia del foro.
Continue ReadingBy JOHN O’CONNOR Associated Press SPRINGFIELD, Ill. (AP) — A federal judge has reinstated Illinois basketball star Terrence Shannon Jr., who had been suspended from the team since he was charged with rape in Kansas. U.S. District Court Judge Colleen Lawless found that the university had violated Shannon’s civil rights. The judge noted that Shannon
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By Kaanita Iyer, CNN (CNN) — Anti-abortion advocates gathered in Washington, DC, on Friday for the annual March for Life — the second since the Supreme Court overturned federal abortion protections. Attendees who convened on the National Mall on a cold, snowy day said with Roe v. Wade overturned, they’re now looking to states to
Continue ReadingBy AMY BETH HANSON Associated Press Nearly all the copies of a small-town Colorado newspaper were stolen from newspaper racks on the same day the Ouray County Plaindealer published a story about charges being filed over rapes alleged to have occurred at an underage drinking party at the police chief’s house while the chief was
Continue ReadingLOS ANGELES (AP) — Guild members of the Los Angeles Times have participated in a one-day walkout to protest imminent layoffs. The job action Friday is the first newsroom union work stoppage in the newspaper’s 143-year history. Guild members chanted and waved signs that read, “Don’t Cut Our Future,” during a rally at a local
Continue Reading By Kevin Liptak and MJ Lee, CNN Washington (CNN) — Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu explained to President Joe Biden in a phone call Friday that the public comments he made a day earlier — in which he appeared to reject the idea of creating a Palestinian state — were not meant to foreclose that
Continue ReadingBy MICHAEL R. SISAK Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — Months before Donald Trump’s defiant turn as a witness at his New York civil fraud trial, the former president came face-to-face with the state attorney general who is suing him when he sat for a deposition last year at her Manhattan office. Video made public
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By Dan Heching, CNN (CNN) — Malia Obama is following in the footsteps of her parents, but not in the way you might imagine. The former first daughter debuted her short film “The Heart” at the 2024 Sundance Film Festival in Park City, Utah on Thursday, appearing on the festival red carpet to herald the
Continue ReadingNEW YORK (AP) — JetBlue and Spirit Airlines are appealing a judge’s ruling that is blocking their planned merger. The airlines said Friday they have filed a notice of appeal with the 1st U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals. Earlier this week, a federal judge in Boston ruled that JetBlue’s proposal to buy Spirit for $3.8
Continue ReadingBy LARRY NEUMEISTER Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — Donald Trump’s lawyer on Friday renewed a mistrial request in a New York defamation case against the former president, saying that an advice columnist who accused him of sexually abusing her in the 1990s spoiled her civil case by deleting emails from strangers who threatened her
Continue ReadingNEW YORK (AP) — Former New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo is suing state Attorney General Letitia James seeking to force her to release interviews from the sexual misconduct investigation that led to his resignation. Cuomo filed the case against James in state court on Thursday. He argues that he needs the witness statements in full
Continue ReadingAssociated Press NEW YORK (AP) — New York prosecutors say they have returned two more pieces of art to the heirs of a Jewish Holocaust victim. They are fighting in court to recover a third from a Chicago Museum. The pieces are among around 80 watercolor and pencil works by Austrian Expressionist Egon Schiele, collected
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JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. (KMIZ) Aaron Grefrath is the new Jefferson City parks and recreation director after an appointment on Thursday from the Parks and Recreation Commission, according to a Friday press release. Grefrath was named the interim director in August after former director Todd Spalding was put on leave. Spalding eventually resigned in September. The
Continue ReadingBy MATTHEW BARAKAT Associated Press ALEXANDRIA, Va. (AP) — The family of a man who died by suicide at a Virginia jail after his antipsychotic medication was discontinued has received a $1.75 million settlement in a civil lawsuit. Documents at federal court in Alexandria show that the family of Christopher Lapp, who died in 2021,
Continue Readingmacamilarincon (CNN) –– El presidente de Estados Unidos, Joe Biden, dijo que es optimista con respecto a que la próxima semana surgirá en el Senado un paquete de inmigración bipartidista que, en última instancia, podría desbloquear el punto muerto en el que se encuentra su solicitud de financiamiento más amplio para ayuda a Ucrania. Durante
Continue ReadingBy KIMBERLEE KRUESI Associated Press The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services says an Oklahoma hospital did not violate federal law after doctors told a woman with a nonviable pregnancy to wait in the parking lot until her condition worsened enough to qualify for an abortion. Jaci Statton filed a complaint with the department
Continue ReadingAlexandra Ferguson Hong Kong (CNN) — Más de 5.000 vehículos eléctricos fueron cargados esta semana en un gigantesco buque de transporte marítimo en China y enviados a puertos de Europa. Los autos vienen de BYD, el fabricante de automóviles chino que está respaldado por Warren Buffett y ha superado a Tesla como el mayor vendedor
Continue Reading By Chelsea Bailey, CNN (CNN) — Former South Carolina Gov. Nikki Haley has drawn praise and criticism this week for her claim that the United States “has never been a racist country.” At a CNN town hall Thursday night, host Jake Tapper asked the Republican presidential candidate to clarify what she meant by the remark, noting
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