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Bad language: profane Trump brings presidential swearing out into open

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President has let rip with swearwords in recent months, redefining norms about acceptable language in public office With a lifetime of political memories stretching back to John F Kennedy’s assassination and the Black civil rights struggles of the 1960s, Cheryl Johnson had one complaint above all else about today’s politicians: the swearing. “All this cursing in politics, we never heard that before,” said Johnson, a retired social worker living in the Pittsburgh area. “Words are very powerful, and the past 45 presidents of this country, have not used…

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USCBS News

Will artificial intelligence really kill us all?

It's one of the oldest plots in science fiction: Humans losing control to computers. But this summer, the old trope of AI going rogue left the realm of science fiction, and it happened inside an unmarked San Francisco building -- the headquarters of AI giant OpenAI . The incident has been dominating the news. You may even have heard the phrase "human extinction." Maybe you've tried out ChatGPT or Claude . AIs like these can generate writing, music, video or art. But the big AI companies are racing to make AI much more powerful – super-intelligent, in fact. And in May, something went very wrong.

USABC News

UK police arrest 5 men under terrorism, explosives acts close to US air base

LONDON -- British police announced on Sunday morning that five people were arrested "on suspicion of offenses under the explosives act" close to a major air base hosting U.S. forces in the southwest of England. "A number of properties are currently being evacuated in the Whelford area following the declaration of a major incident," Gloucestershire Police said in a statement. "It follows the arrest of several men on suspicion of offenses under the explosives act."