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Open AI, Microsoft face lawsuit over ChatGPT's alleged role in Connecticut murder-suicide
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Open AI, Microsoft face lawsuit over ChatGPT's alleged role in Connecticut murder-suicide

  • By DAVE COLLINS, MATT O'BRIEN and BARBARA ORTUTAY - Associated Press

The heirs of an 83-year-old Connecticut woman are suing ChatGPT maker OpenAI and its business partner Microsoft for wrongful death. They claim the artificial intelligence chatbot intensified her son’s “paranoid delusions” and helped direct them at his mother before he killed her. Police said Stein-Erik Soelberg, 56, a former tech industry worker, fatally beat and strangled his mother, Suzanne Adams, and killed himself in early August. The lawsuit claims OpenAI designed a defective product that validated a user's paranoid delusions, leading him to kill his own mother.

Italian cooking and its rituals get UN designation as world heritage
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Italian cooking and its rituals get UN designation as world heritage

  • By PAOLO SANTALUCIA, SILVIA STELLACCI and NICOLE WINFIELD - Associated Press

Italian food is known and loved around the world for its fresh ingredients and palate-pleasing tastes, but the U.N.’s cultural agency is giving foodies another reason to celebrate their pizza, pasta and tiramisu by listing Italian cooking as part of the world’s “intangible” cultural heritage. UNESCO added the rituals surrounding Italian food preparation and consumption to its list of the world’s traditional practices and expressions on Wednesday. It’s a designation celebrated alongside the more well-known UNESCO list of world heritage sites. The citation didn’t mention specific dishes, recipes or regional specialties, but highlighted the cultural importance Italians place on the rituals of cooking and eating.

California man marks his 15,000th spin on Disneyland's 'Cars' ride
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California man marks his 15,000th spin on Disneyland's 'Cars' ride

  • AMY TAXIN - Associated Press

A California man says he has marked his 15,000th spin on an auto-racing Disneyland attraction inspired by the animated film “Cars.” Long-time Disney enthusiast Jon Alan Hale, who marked the feat Monday, says he has been tracking his rides on Radiator Springs Racers at Disney California Adventure in a notebook. He says he tried out the ride after undergoing gastric bypass and knee replacement surgeries in 2010 and 2011 and was hooked. Hale says Disneyland officials have told him they don't keep ride records. He says he's gone on it an average of 13 times each time he's been to the park. He says through the years he's become friends with Disney workers who have cheered him on.

Young adults are waiting in line to worship at this fast-growing Atlanta church
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Young adults are waiting in line to worship at this fast-growing Atlanta church

  • By CHARLOTTE KRAMON - Associated Press/Report for America

An Atlanta church with a viral pastor has grown from less than 200 weekly churchgoers in 2023 to about 6,000 today. Before service, Christian rap blasts and volunteers chant into megaphones as lines snake outside. Many of those who line up as early as 5:30 a.m. are young people hungry for 2819 Church's riveting worship and Pastor Philip Anthony Mitchell's intensity. He doesn't sugarcoat the Bible, and urges people to revere God and lean on Jesus to escape sin's consequences. 2819's growth has attracted people of many races and ages, but it’s predominantly young Black adults.