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“Please regulate AI:” Artists push for U.S. copyright reforms but tech industry says not so fast

Published Fri, 21 Feb 2025 10:30:10 GMT

By MATT O’BRIEN, AP Technology WriterCountry singers, romance novelists, video game artists and voice actors are appealing to the U.S. government for relief — as soon as possible — from the threat that artificial intelligence poses to their livelihoods.“Please regulate AI. I’m scared,” wrote a podcaster concerned about his voice being replicated by AI in one of thousands of letters recently submitted to the U.S. Copyright Office.Technology companies, by contrast, are largely happy with the status quo that has enabled them to gobble up published works to make their AI systems better at mimicking what humans do.The nation’s top copyright official hasn’t yet taken sides. She told The Associated Press she’s listening to everyone as her office weighs whether copyright reforms are needed for a new era of generative AI tools that can spit out compelling imagery, music, video and passages of text.“We’ve received close to 10,000 comments,” said Shira Perlmutter, the U.S. register of co...

More Denver prosecutors are women than men, reflecting growth in female attorneys in Colorado

Published Fri, 21 Feb 2025 10:30:10 GMT

When Beth McCann first worked as a trial prosecutor in Denver nearly 50 years ago, she was the only woman in the office doing the job.One judge insisted on calling her “honey.” And another didn’t know what to call her.“He asks me, ‘Is it Mrs. or Miss?’ And I said, ‘It’s Ms.,'” McCann said, and laughed. “I don’t think he ever called me anything from then on, just ‘The People.'”As Denver’s elected district attorney, McCann now leads an office that has more women attorneys than men. The office’s gender ratio flipped to a female majority in 2019, two years after McCann took office, and there have been more women prosecutors than men every year since, a trend also seen in at least three other Front Range district attorney’s offices.There are more women working as prosecutors than men in the First, 17th and 18th judicial districts, covering Adams, Arapahoe, Douglas, Broomfield and Jefferson cou...

Prep basketball roundup: Moreau Catholic, Bishop O’Dowd, Archbishop Riordan among Friday’s winners

Published Fri, 21 Feb 2025 10:30:10 GMT

Boys basketballNo. 14 Moreau Catholic 56, Vanden-Fairfield 52Kevin Chapman was named player of the game after he scored 18 points and handed out eight assists while leading Moreau to a season-opening victory over Vanden at the O’Dowd Thanksgiving Showcase. The Mariners also got 12 points from Tyler Bailey and 10 from Spencer Shonnard.No. 11 Bishop O’Dowd 72, No. 8 Oakland 53O’Dowd started its season with an upset victory over crosstown rival and defending Division III state champions Oakland at O’Dowd’s own Thanksgiving Showcase event. The Dragons backcourt led the way, with senior Tobias Allen scoring 14 points and junior Joshua Green putting in a team-high 16. No. 18 Oakland Tech 68, Grant-Sacramento 60ArDarius Grayson scored 23 points and grabbed five rebounds in Oakland Tech’s victory over the Sacramento-area team at the Bishop O’Dowd Thanksgiving Showcase. Forward Ahmed Gulaid scored 15 points and had 10 rebounds, and Jerrell Warren had nine points. Xan Myer-Plettne...

Brooks: Altman firing drama highlights the fight for the soul of AI

Published Fri, 21 Feb 2025 10:30:10 GMT

One of the nice things about OpenAI is that it was built on distrust. It began as a nonprofit research lab because its founders didn’t think artificial intelligence should be pioneered by commercial firms, which are driven overwhelmingly by the profit motive.As it evolved, OpenAI turned into what you might call a fruitful contradiction: a for-profit company overseen by a nonprofit board with a corporate culture somewhere in between.Many of the people at the company seem simultaneously motivated by the scientist’s desire to discover, the capitalist’s desire to ship product and the do-gooder’s desire to do this all safely.The events of the past week — Sam Altman’s firing, all the drama, his rehiring — revolve around one central question: Is this fruitful contradiction sustainable?Can one organization, or one person, maintain the brain of a scientist, the drive of a capitalist and the cautious heart of a regulatory agency? Or, as Charlie Warzel wrote in The Atlantic, will t...

49ers rest up before ‘little rematch’ with Eagles next weekend

Published Fri, 21 Feb 2025 10:30:10 GMT

SEATTLE – Brock Purdy barely had time to relish the 49ers’ 31-13 win Thursday night in Seattle when, well, it was time to look at the next challenge.Too soon to talk about the next road game, Dec. 3 at Philadelphia? Too soon to rekindle memories from 10 months ago, when his right elbow was injured in a 31-7 loss in the NFC Championship Game.“Obviously it’s going to be a big one on the road,” Purdy said. “We know that. Everyone knows that. But we’re just taking it one day at a time and we’re going to enjoy this one.”Purdy preached about taking the extended weekend to “recover and clear our mind,” and when it comes to the game plan for the Eagles, “we’ll get to it next week.”Coach Kyle Shanahan offered a similar message to end his locker room address to the first-place 49ers (8-3).“There’s not many times in football where you can play on Thanksgiving, have three days off, have three days to think about what you did. These three days go fast,” Shanahan said. “You guys have earned it. I...

La verdad sobre la frecuencia con la que debes lavarte el pelo

Published Fri, 21 Feb 2025 10:30:10 GMT

(CNN) — Los expertos afirman que no existe una respuesta única sobre la frecuencia con la que debes lavarte el pelo, ni sobre lo que puedes hacer para mantenerlo en los días de descanso.“Algunas personas creen que tienen que lavarse el pelo todos los días o se les va a poner muy graso”, dice el Dr. Anthony Rossi, dermatólogo adjunto del Centro Oncológico Memorial Sloan Kettering de Nueva York y miembro de la Academia Estadounidense de Dermatología. “Si se dan una oportunidad, puede que vean que en realidad no tienen ese cuero cabelludo o pelo graso. Y, por otro lado, puede que no toleren esperar demasiado tiempo o lavarlo con poca frecuencia porque sienten que su cuero cabelludo se vuelve muy graso”.La frecuencia con la que debes lavarte el cabello depende de múltiples factores, como el tipo y el estilo, el grado de grasa que suele tener tu cuero cabelludo y tus niveles de actividad.“Es una cuestión personal”, dice Rossi. Lavar el pelo con d...

Police searching for missing juvenile in Margate

Published Fri, 21 Feb 2025 10:30:10 GMT

Margate Police are seeking the public’s assistance in searching for a missing girl. Serenity Anivin was last seen by her mother around 7 p.m. on Friday leaving her residence wearing pink pajamas.She is described as a black female, with black hair and brown eyes. She was last seen Anyone who has any information on her whereabouts is urged to contact Margate Police Department at 954-972-7111.

The polls keep getting worse for Biden

Published Fri, 21 Feb 2025 10:30:10 GMT

President Joe Biden’s poll numbers keep getting worse.November started with New York Times/Siena College polls showing Trump ahead in four of the six swing states, but more indicators of Biden’s electoral peril soon followed. The president’s standing in head-to-head matchups with Trump is falling: Among the latest surveys this month from 13 separate pollsters, Biden’s position is worse than their previous polls in all but two of them.And while polls suggest most of the movement comes from voters abandoning Biden — who might become undecided but not swing to supporting Trump — the Republican has also started to gain steam. Trump’s vote share in the national polling average is higher now than at any point in the past year.The state-level data are just as striking: In addition to those New York Times/Siena polls, within the last week and a half, other surveys have shown Trump ahead by 8 points in Arizona and 5 points up in Michigan.Biden’s recent slide — and his political predicament s...

Israel accuses Spain, Belgium leaders of backing ‘terrorism’ after Gaza remarks

Published Fri, 21 Feb 2025 10:30:10 GMT

Israel lashed out at the leaders of Spain and Belgium for their comments about the situation in the Gaza Strip, labelling the remarks “false statements” made “in support of terrorism.”Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu “strongly condemns the comments” by Spanish Prime Ministers Pedro Sánchez and Belgian leader Alexander De Croo during a visit Friday to the Rafah border crossing between Egypt and Gaza, the prime minister’s office said in a statement on X.In Rafah, Sánchez and De Croo gave a joint press conference during which they both criticized Israel’s attacks on civilians in the Gaza Strip and stressed the need for more humanitarian aid.“The indiscriminate killing of innocent civilians, including thousands of children, is completely unacceptable. Violence will only lead to more violence,” Sánchez said, according to a report by Spanish newspaper El País. Sánchez also said Spain would be open to unilaterally recognizing a ...

Alberta Energy Regulator reports runoff spill at Suncor’s Fort Hills oilsands site

Published Fri, 21 Feb 2025 10:30:10 GMT

CALGARY — The Alberta Energy Regulator says a spill at Suncor Energy’s Fort Hills oilsands site spanned more than a year, releasing close to 10,000 cubic metres of surface runoff from a containment pond.  The regulator says on Oct. 9, the energy company reported an “unplanned release” of around 662 cubic metres from the pond adjacent to Fort Hills into the Athabasca River. But on Nov. 24, Suncor informed the regulator that the spill was likely much larger than originally reported and may have been happening since June 2022 due to a faulty valve.The regulator says it visited the site and found the valve is not currently leaking, adding it will be reviewing sampling data from June 2022 through to November 2023. It says Suncor has taken water quality samples of the pond, the results of which indicate the water spilled into the river was “within release criteria parameters for discharge.”It says the pond the water was released from “is not related to mining, extraction or tailings proce...