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Trump will join the South Dakota Republican Party for a “Monumental Leaders Rally” in Rapid City. South Dakota holds a late primary and isn't competitive in a general election. That hasn’t stopped those who are keen to be considered as Trump's running mate from openly jockeying for the position and trying to curry favor with him and his aides. Despite not running for president, Noem has continued to position herself nationally. “Kristi Noem has spent more time out campaigning for I don’t know what than she has in South Dakota.

Persons: Donald Trump, Kristi Noem, Trump, ”, Michael Card, Noem, hasn’t, Elise Stefanik, Marjorie Taylor Greene, Kari Lake, Tennessee Sen, Marsha Blackburn, Byron Donalds, Sen, Tim Scott, Steven Cheung, “, Sean Hannity, I’d, Mount Rushmore, Rushmore, George Washington, Thomas Jefferson, Abraham Lincoln, Teddy Roosevelt, ” Trump, Kristi’s, Mike Rogers, Annie Bachand, we’re, ” Bachand, “ Kristi Noem, John Wiik, Wiik, ” Wiik, I’m, __ Colvin Organizations: WASHINGTON, South Dakota, Trump, South Dakota Republican Party, Republicans, Republican, Noem, GOP, National Rifle Association, New York, Florida Rep, Iowa State, New York Times, Fox News, Mount, Democratic, Liberty & Justice, ” South, ” South Dakota GOP, Lincoln, Labor Locations: South, Rapid City, Dakota, South Dakota, Georgia, Arizona, Tennessee, Iowa, Michigan, America, ”, ” South Dakota, New York

CNN —Mexico seems set to elect its first female president in next year’s election after the country’s leading parties both unveiled women candidates. Sheinbaum is a former mayor of Mexico City who has long been considered a favorite to get the nomination. Born in Mexico City in 1962, Sheinbaum has a degree in physics and a PhD in energy engineering. Senator Xóchitl Gálvez, opposition candidate for Mexico's 2024 presidential election, speaks at the Angel of Independence monument, in Mexico City, on Sunday. From 2015 to 2018, she served as the mayor of the Miguel Hidalgo borough in Mexico City.

Persons: Morena, Claudia Sheinbaum, Xóchitl Gálvez, Andrés Manuel López Obrador, Sheinbaum, Obrador, Gálvez, Marco Ugarte, López Obrador, …, ” Gálvez, Miguel Organizations: CNN, Sunday, Mexico City, Frente Amplio, Institutional Revolutionary Party, Twitter, PRI, National Action Party, PAN, Democratic Revolution Party, Español, Senate, Federal Locations: Mexico, Mexico City, Frente Amplio Por Mexico, Morena, Miguel Hidalgo

☆ Younger, educated women are less likely to change their names upon marriage, data shows
▼ + stars: | 2023-09-07 | by ( Madeline Holcombe | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +6 min

Men largely kept their last names at 92%, while 5% changed their last names, and less than 1% hyphenated their names with their partner’s last name, the data showed. The tradition of women changing their names upon marriage is still strong in the United States, but views on marriage have been changing, the survey said. Most married women in opposite-sex relationships — nearly 80% — said they took their husband’s last name. Women who are not married were significantly less likely to report plans to take their partner’s last name. Why women change their namesWhy is it so common for women in the US to take their husband’s name in an opposite-sex marriage?

Persons: CNN —, Michelle Lin, Lin, “, ”, ’ ”, Kim Parker, —, Melanie Mayer, Mayer, Deborah Ashway, ” Pew, Parker, It’s, Catherine Allgor, Allgor, ” Allgor, ” Coverture, couldn’t, Ashway, “ It’s, ” Ashway, that’s Organizations: CNN, Pew Research, Massachusetts Historical Society Locations: New York City, United States, New Bern , North Carolina, Massachusetts

☆ Tech Companies in Silicon Valley Can’t Keep Ignoring Seniors - The New York Times
▼ + stars: | 2023-09-06 | by ( Farhad Manjoo | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +3 min

The tech industry’s hostility to aging “continues to violate common sense,” Joseph Coughlin, the director of M.I.T.’s AgeLab, told me. Through advances focused on health care, home assistance, transportation, robotics and artificial intelligence, technology will be crucial to address the problems emerging from demographic imbalance. “And yet they continue to ignore them.”What can Silicon Valley do for older people? Many of these promise to allow older people a measure of independence from family caregivers or health care facilities. There are companies that use in-home cameras, audio devices and biometric sensors to let health care providers monitor homebound seniors from afar, something like Life Alert for the digital age.

Persons: “, ” Joseph Coughlin, —, ” Coughlin Organizations: Medicare Locations: Silicon, ”

☆ 5 costly mistakes the Russian military has made since it invaded Ukraine
▼ + stars: | 2023-09-05 | by ( Erin Snodgrass | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +9 min

Coverage of the grueling conflict has, in part, been characterized by a litany of Russian military mistakes that began early and continue to crop up. Advertisement Advertisement Watch: VIDEO: Why Russia's military is failing so far in UkraineHere are 5 military mistakes Russia has made since February 24, 2022. Putin vowed Russian troops would take the Ukrainian capital of Kyiv within a matter of days. AdvertisementAdvertisementA man wearing a Ukrainian flag visits an avenue where destroyed Russian military vehicles have been displayed ahead of Independence Day in Kyiv, Ukraine, Monday, Aug. 21, 2023. There are several examples throughout the war of Russian troops and leaders harming their own side.

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☆ Hun Sen's son aims to make Cambodia high-income country by 2050
▼ + stars: | 2023-09-04 | by ( Kate Lamb | ) www.reuters.com time to read: +2 min

Cambodia’s Prime Minister Hun Manet attends an event to meet with garment workers on his first public appearance since taking office, on the outskirts of Phnom Penh, Cambodia, August 29, 2023. The 45-year-old last month took over power from his father Hun Sen after a lopsided general election that all opposition parties were barred from contesting. In a country once riven by decades of war, Cambodia has now evolved to a lower-middle income nation with economic growth rates of 7%, he said. Cambodia's parliament approved Hun Manet as prime minister in August. Hun Sen, one of the world's longest ruling leaders, has said he expects his son to continue his leadership style and will himself remain in politics.

Persons: Hun Manet, Cindy Liu, Monday, Hun Sen, Kate Lamb, Kanupriya Kapoor, Nick Macfie Organizations: Cambodia’s, REUTERS, Rights, Cambodian, Association of Southeast Asian Nations, ASEAN, United Nations, Thomson Locations: Phnom Penh, Cambodia, Rights JAKARTA, Cambodia's

☆ Mexican Senator Xochitl Galvez hailed as opposition candidate for 2024 election
▼ + stars: | 2023-09-03 | by ( ) www.reuters.com time to read: +2 min

[1/5] Mexican Senator Xochitl Galvez speaks at a rally to be announced as the opposition Broad Front for Mexico 2024 presidential candidate, in Mexico City, Mexico September 3, 2023. REUTERS/Henry Romero Acquire Licensing RightsMEXICO CITY, Sept 3 (Reuters) - Thousands of supporters celebrated the nomination of Mexican Senator Xochitl Galvez on Sunday as the 2024 presidential candidate of an opposition alliance set to take on the country's ruling party. Galvez, a spirited communicator who has energized the opposition, is seen as the main candidate to take on President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador's National Regeneration Movement (MORENA), which is due to announce its own candidate on Sept. 6. Supporters could be heard chanting "we are going to win" as they waved flags and banners supporting Galvez's nomination and the alliance. Representatives of the coalition, the center-right PAN, the leftist PRD and the once-powerful PRI party - which supported Galvez at the expense of its own challenger, Beatriz Paredes - had called for Galvez's nomination earlier in the week.

Persons: Xochitl Galvez, Henry Romero, Galvez, Andres Manuel Lopez, Lopez Obrador, Hector Chavez, Beatriz Paredes, Aida Pelaez, Fernandez, Cassandra Garrison, Alberto Fajardo, Liamar Ramos, Deepa Babington, Diane Craft Organizations: REUTERS, Regeneration, Frente Amplio, PAN, PRD, PRI, Thomson Locations: Mexico, Mexico City, MEXICO

☆ More than 100 injured in Eritrean clashes in Tel Aviv
▼ + stars: | 2023-09-02 | by ( Rami Amichai | ) www.reuters.com time to read: +2 min

[1/4] Protesters hold sticks and flags during violent demonstrations by Eritrean asylum seekers, including both supporters and opponents of the Eritrean government, in Tel Aviv, Israel, September 2, 2023. REUTERS/Moti Milrod Acquire Licensing RightsJERUSALEM, Sept 2 (Reuters) - More than 100 people were injured in violent clashes in Tel Aviv between Eritrean government supporters celebrating an Eritrea Day event and opponents of President Isaias Afwerki. Footage on social media showed Eritrean government supporters beating anti-government protesters with clubs. "Why did we run from our country?," one protester in Tel Aviv, Hagos Gavriot, told Reuters. "At this time, large police and Border Police forces continue to operate against lawbreakers in the Tel Aviv area," an Israeli police statement said.

Persons: Moti Milrod, Isaias Afwerki, Isaias, Hagos Gavriot, Eritreans, Emily Rose, Hannah Confino, Angus MacSwan Organizations: Eritrean, REUTERS, Rights, Reuters, Police, Border Police, lawbreakers, Thomson Locations: Tel Aviv, Israel, Eritrea, Eritrean, Independence, Ethiopia, U.S, Egypt

☆ There's no way for teachers to figure out if students are using ChatGPT to cheat, OpenAI says in new back-to-school guide
▼ + stars: | 2023-09-01 | by ( Hasan Chowdhury | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +3 min

Bad news teachers: You have no way to figure out if students are using ChatGPT to cheat. Bad news for teachers and professors though: OpenAI says that sites and apps promising to uncover AI-generated copy in students' work are unreliable. Professors began to detect students using ChatGPT to cheat on college essays a little over a month after the chatbot was released in November 2022 . A survey earlier this year found that one in four teachers claimed to have caught students cheating by using ChatGPT. "By keeping a record of their conversations with AI, students can reflect on their progress over time.

Persons: OpenAI, Shakespeare, ChatGPT Organizations: Independence

☆ What the March on Washington Was Really About - The New York Times
▼ + stars: | 2023-08-29 | by ( Jamelle Bouie | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +2 min

It was officially known as the March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom, with a far more expansive vision for society than formal equality under the law. The march wasn’t a demand for a more inclusive arrangement under the umbrella of postwar American liberalism, as it might seem today. It was a demand for something more — for a social democracy of equals, grounded in the long Black American struggle to realize the promises of the Declaration of Independence and the potential of Reconstruction. Consider the 10-point list of demands issued by the organizers of the march. Or, better yet, consider the labor leader A. Philip Randolph’s opening speech to the assembled marchers.

Persons: Martin Luther King Jr, ”, —, Philip Randolph’s, Randolph Organizations: Jobs Locations: Washington, Independence

[1/4] Zimbabwe's President Elect Emmerson Mnangagwa speaks to the media at State House in Harare, August 27, 2023. REUTERS/Philimon Bulawayo Acquire Licensing RightsHARARE, Aug 27 (Reuters) - Zimbabwe's re-elected President Emmerson Mnangagwa suggested on Sunday that those people questioning the results of last week's election, which an opposition leader dismissed as a "gigantic fraud", take their case to court. The election commission said on Saturday that Mnangagwa, 80, had won the election with 52.6% of the vote while the opposition Citizens' Coalition for Change (CCC) leader Nelson Chamisa got 44%. Chamisa, speaking on social media platform X, formerly Twitter, said of the election: "It's a blatant and gigantic fraud." It was unclear whether the opposition would use the courts to dispute the election results, as Zimbabwe's judges have historically sided with the governing party.

Persons: Elect Emmerson Mnangagwa, Emmerson Mnangagwa, Nelson Chamisa, Mnangagwa, Robert Mugabe, Christopher Mutswangwa, ”, Munjodzi Mutandiri, Mkwananzi, Nyasha Chingono, Carien du Plessis, Bhargav Acharya, Nick Macfie, Kirsten Donovan Organizations: State House, REUTERS, Philimon, Rights, Citizens ' Coalition, ZANU, Southern, Liaison, Southern African Development Community, Thomson Locations: Harare, Philimon Bulawayo, Rights HARARE

[1/5] Shaira Tasnia, 16, puts her helmet on while on a group cycling trip with community program Hijabs and Helmets, in Scarborough, Ontario, Canada, August 17, 2023. Hijabs and Helmets aims to provide education and a welcoming environment toward people new to cycling and the city - especially to Muslim women who may come from backgrounds where cycling was not the norm. The program was created three years ago to meet a community need, said Menna Badawi, a community health worker at Access Alliance Multicultural Health & Community Services and program lead for Hijabs and Helmets. The group realized "there was a gap in services for Muslim women in the community ... who are interested in cycling and kind of don't know where to go," Badawi said. "As a Muslim hijabi I did find there was a gap in recreational sports for women who look like me," she said.

Persons: Tasnia, Laura Proctor, Menna Badawi, Badawi, Elhassan, Anna Mehler Paperny, Rosalba O'Brien Organizations: REUTERS, Rights, Cycling, Access Alliance Multicultural Health & Community Services, Maple Leaf Sports, Entertainment, Toronto, Maple Leafs, Raptors, Muslim, Thomson Locations: Scarborough , Ontario, Canada, Saudi Arabia, Egypt, Toronto, Toronto's, Taylor

☆ The Iten killings: Deaths of elite athletes casts spotlight on domestic violence
▼ + stars: | 2023-08-25 | by ( Faith Karimi | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +15 min

Iten, Kenya (CNN) Martin Tirop pumps his fists in the air as Faith Kipyegon wins her third 1,500-meter gold medal at the World Athletics Championships on Tuesday in Budapest. Instead, on October 13, 2021, Martin Tirop made a gruesome discovery inside his sister's three-bedroom bungalow in Kenya's capital of distance running. In October 2021, Martin Tirop found the body of his sister, Agnes Tirop. In fact, their March 2016 marriage had been a secret, with Agnes' family only finding out after her death at 25. "Agnes Tirop.

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DNIPRO/KYIV, Aug 24 (Reuters) - At least one person was killed and 16 people were wounded in Russian attacks across Ukraine on Thursday, local officials said, as Kyiv marked 32 years of independence from Moscow. A Russian missile strike on a bus terminal in Dnipro wounded 10 people, regional governor Serhiy Lysak said. [1/4]Communal workers clean at the site of a area destroyed during a Russian military strike, amid Russia's attack on Ukraine, in Dnipro, Ukraine August 24, 2023. REUTERS/Mykola Synelnykov Acquire Licensing RightsKHERSON ATTACKEDIn the southern region of Kherson, three people were wounded in addition to the farmer who was killed, officials said. A seven-year-old girl was injured by Russian shelling of the centre of the city of Kherson, Prokudin also said.

Persons: Serhiy Lysak, Serhiy, Lysak, Mykola Synelnykov, Oleksandr Prokudin, Prokudin, Mykhailo Moskalenko, Dan Peleschuk, Max Hunder, Anna Pruchnicka, Timothy Organizations: Reuters, REUTERS, Regional, Timothy Heritage, Thomson Locations: DNIPRO, KYIV, Ukraine, Kyiv, Moscow, Kherson, Dnipro, Kurakhove, Russian, Russia, KHERSON, Shyroka, Donetsk

Independence Day in Ukraine commemorates the country’s 1991 break from the Soviet Union, but also increasingly serves as a rallying point for Ukrainians to assert their identity and aspirations. Ukraine declared independence on Aug. 24, 1991, a few days after communist hard-liners tried to depose the Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev and reverse his efforts to liberalize the Soviet Union. Celebrations of Independence Day have often featured military parades and festive crowds wearing vyshyvankas, the traditional Ukrainian embroidered shirts. But Mr. Szporluk, the historian, said that Ukrainians see Independence Day not so much as a day of remembrance as one to reassert their commitment to democracy and sovereignty. On Wednesday, Mr. Zelensky took part in a ceremony on the occasion of the Day of the National Flag, which precedes Independence Day.

Persons: —, “, ” Vitali Klitschko, ”, Roman Szporluk, Volodymyr Zelensky, Mikhail Gorbachev, Lenin, Szporluk, Mr, Zelensky Organizations: Harvard Locations: Ukraine, Kyiv, Russia, Soviet Union, Europe, Moscow, ”, Independence, Russian, Ukrainian

☆ Ukraine says its special forces pulled off a daring amphibious raid into occupied Crimea, hit Russian troops, and raised the flag on the peninsula
▼ + stars: | 2023-08-24 | by ( Jake Epstein | Nathan Rennolds | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +7 min

Ukrainian special forces made a surprise amphibious raid into occupied Crimea on Thursday. Kyiv's military intelligence agency said its troops engaged with Russians and raised a flag there. It is the latest in a string of engagements around Crimea, which Ukraine has vowed to liberate from Russia. The amphibious raid — and symbolic flag raising — also comes as Ukraine observes its 32nd Independence Day. Indeed, many of Kyiv's Western military backers sent messages to mark Ukrainian Independence Day, renewing commitments to keep supporting the country with economic and security assistance.

Persons: HUR, —, Volodymyr Zelenskyy, General Budanov, Zelenskyy, Kyrylo Budanov, Putin, Budanov, Sophia, Lloyd Austin Organizations: Service, Directorate of Intelligence, Ukraine's Defense Forces, Ukrainian, REUTERS, NATO, US Locations: Crimea, Ukraine, Wall, Silicon, Crimean, Russian, Russia, Ukraine's, Olenivka, Moscow, Kyiv, Kerch, Ukrainian, REUTERS Ukraine, Kyiv's St, United States

It has been a year since Ukraine first parked a parade of destroyed Russian tanks, other armored vehicles and artillery pieces on Kyiv’s main thoroughfare to commemorate the country’s Independence Day, forgoing major public events in the hope of avoiding Russian missile strikes. That was the country’s first Independence Day since Russia launched its full-scale invasion. Over the next 12 months, Ukrainian forces retook areas of territory in the northeast in September. On Thursday, Ukrainians in the capital, Kyiv, once again milled about the destroyed Russian vehicles that lined Khreshchatyk Street and stood in front of Independence Square, also known as the Maidan. Independence Day in Ukraine commemorates the country’s 1991 break from the Soviet Union, but also increasingly serves as a rallying point for Ukrainians to assert their identity and aspirations.

Organizations: Russian, Russia, Kyiv Locations: Ukraine, Kherson, Bakhmut, Kyiv, Russian, Soviet Union, Russia

☆ Opinion: How the words of ‘I Have a Dream’ soared and challenged the nation 60 years ago
▼ + stars: | 2023-08-23 | by ( John | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +9 min

“It really shocked me,” Jones recalled. “Mahalia Jackson was his favorite gospel singer,” Jones recalled. “He took the written text … and shoved it to the side of the podium,” Jones recalled. Thank God almighty, we are free at last.”As the thunderous applause passed, “Martin looked at me and said, ‘How do you think I did?’ ” Jones recalled. King and Rabbi Abraham Heschel standing in the middle room, they’re both sobbing,” Jones recalled.

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☆ Meet Khan Academy's AI tutor
▼ + stars: | 2023-08-21 | by ( Nadia Bidarian | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +10 min

More than 8,000 teachers and students will test education nonprofit Khan Academy’s artificial intelligence tutor in the classroom this upcoming school year, toying with its interactive features and funneling feedback to Khan Academy if the AI botches an answer. A conversation between CNN's Nadia Bidarian and Khanmigo, Khan Academy's AI chatbot tutor. Khan Lab School is a separate nonprofit founded by Khan Academy CEO Sal Khan. Khan Academy’s in-the-works AI learning course “AI 101 for Teachers,” created in partnership with Code.org, ETS and the International Society for Technology in Education, offers a path toward AI literacy among teachers. Imperfect, but improvingAn AI “tutor” like Khanmigo is not immune to the flubs all large language models face: so-called hallucinations.

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☆ Editorial Board at The Wall Street Journal
▼ + stars: | 2023-08-17 | by ( Editorial Board | ) www.wsj.com time to read: 1 min

Editorial BoardWe speak for free markets and free people, the principles, if you will, marked in the watershed year of 1776 by Thomas Jefferson's Declaration of Independence and Adam Smith's “Wealth of Nations.” So over the past century and into the next, the Journal stands for free trade and sound money; against confiscatory taxation and the ukases of kings and other collectivists; and for individual autonomy against dictators, bullies and even the tempers of momentary majorities.

Persons: Thomas Jefferson's, Adam Smith's “ Organizations: Nations

☆ Explainer: US special counsels work with independence and a spotlight
▼ + stars: | 2023-08-14 | by ( ) www.reuters.com time to read: +5 min

Unlike other federal prosecutors, special counsels work without day-to-day control by the Justice Department. Unlike with other cases, the attorney general must notify Congress if he or she overrules one of the special counsel's decisions. And the special counsel must submit a report laying out the reasons for charging people or declining to do so. Those lawyers worked with an even greater degree of independence than special counsels. When statute creating independent counsels expired in 1999 it was replaced by existing Department of Justice rules for appointing special counsels.

Persons: General Merrick Garland, David Weiss, Hunter Biden, Joe Biden, Bonnie Cash, Joe Biden's, Hunter, Weiss, Garland, Jack Smith, Donald Trump's, Smith, Robert Mueller, Trump, Biden, Robert Hur, Brad Heath, Don Durfee Organizations: U.S, Justice Department, REUTERS, FBI, of Justice, Thomson Locations: Washington , U.S, Florida, Russia, U.S, Delaware, Maryland, Kosovo

☆ Explainer: How Hunter Biden, Trump special counsels work independently
▼ + stars: | 2023-08-14 | by ( ) www.reuters.com time to read: +5 min

Unlike other federal prosecutors, special counsels work without day-to-day control by the Justice Department. Unlike with other cases, the attorney general must notify Congress if he or she overrules one of the special counsel's decisions. And the special counsel must submit a report laying out the reasons for charging people or declining to do so. When statute creating independent counsels expired in 1999 it was replaced by existing Department of Justice rules for appointing special counsels. The special counsel's investigation could weigh on Biden's 2024 reelection campaign, some Democrats say, because it has the potential to broaden to other issues.

Persons: General Merrick Garland, David Weiss, Hunter Biden, Joe Biden, Bonnie Cash, Joe Biden's, Hunter, Weiss, Garland, Jack Smith, Donald Trump's, Smith, Robert Mueller, WEISS, HUR, SMITH, Trump, Biden, Robert Hur, HUNTER BIDEN, Brad Heath, Don Durfee, Heather Timmons Organizations: U.S, Justice Department, REUTERS, WHO CAN, FBI, of Justice, Thomson Locations: Washington , U.S, Florida, Russia, U.S, Delaware, Maryland, Kosovo

☆ He Was Tortured During the Troubles. ‘They’re Trying to Kill Me.’ - The New York Times
▼ + stars: | 2023-08-08 | by ( Tom Besley | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +1 min

Fifty-two years later, as a young man in 1971, Mr. Auld was one of 14 civilians accused of having links to the I.R.A. and tortured by the British forces in Northern Ireland. Another 52 years have since passed, and Mr. Auld is now an experienced falconer, a pursuit that has allowed him to find some measure of calm. In 1978, the European Court of Human Rights ruled that he and the other detainees — known as the Hooded Men — weren’t tortured. Mr. Auld continues to call for their full responsibility: “As human beings, we are better than this.”

Persons: Jim Auld, ”, William Butler Yeats, “, falconer, Auld, weren’t Organizations: Independence, of Human Rights, The Police Service of Northern Locations: Ireland, British, Northern Ireland, Belfast, The Police Service of Northern Ireland

☆ A.I. and Blindness: I Have a Choice to Make - The New York Times
▼ + stars: | 2023-08-05 | by ( Andrew Leland | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +4 min

Advances in machine vision, like the astonishingly powerful image-recognition capabilities of modern A.I., are erasing even these human actors from the equation. A blind beta tester pointed his camera at a frozen meal, and the A.I. read him the description of the contents on the package, including the date of expiration and the size of the meal. As delighted as blind beta testers of OpenAI’s visual interpreter were, it also made some obvious mistakes: As Kashmir Hill recently reported in The New York Times, OpenAI confidently described a remote control for a blind user, including descriptions of buttons that weren’t there. (According to the World Blind Union, 95 percent of the world’s published knowledge is “locked” in inaccessible print formats.)

Persons: OpenAI’s GPT, OpenAI, “, I’d, Lily, Oscar, who’s Organizations: Virtual Volunteer, The New York Times, World Blind Union, Facebook Locations: Kashmir, The

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