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Pennsylvania suing Character AI, claiming chatbot posed as a medical professional

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Pennsylvania suing Character AI, claiming chatbot posed as a medical professional

Updated on: May 5, 2026 / 10:16 AM EDT / CBS News

6 months ago

Coinbase to lay off 700 workers as cryptocurrency exchange embraces AI

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Coinbase to lay off 700 workers as cryptocurrency exchange embraces AI

Coinbase announced on Tuesday that it is cutting 700 jobs, or roughly 14% of its workforce, as the cryptocurrency trading company turns to artificial intelligence to reduce costs and boost productivity.

6 months ago

Lubaina Himid’s British Pavilion at the Venice Biennale Review

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Lubaina Himid’s British Pavilion at the Venice Biennale Review

Amid a calming soundtrack of lapping waves and cooing birds, workers in brightly coloured paintings share glances that say: ‘What the hell are we doing here?’ But isn’t there more to not belonging than this show suggests?

6 months ago

Ford’s secret EV unit emerges from shadows, still bullish on new pickup amid market slowdown

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Ford’s secret EV unit emerges from shadows, still bullish on new pickup amid market slowdown

The "Universal Electric Vehicle" platform is expected to be key to Ford transforming its EV unit from billions of dollars in annual losses to breakeven by 2029.

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Body as masterpiece: nipples, skeletons and tattoos dominate at record-breaking Met Gala

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Body as masterpiece: nipples, skeletons and tattoos dominate at record-breaking Met Gala

Opening of ‘the dressed body’ show inspires Beyoncé, Kardashians and Skepta, as others pay tribute to fashion moments in art history

6 months ago

Brazil caught up in craze for whistling-only WhatsApp groups

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Brazil caught up in craze for whistling-only WhatsApp groups

Some chats can get up to 600 voice notes a day and reach the 1,024-member limit in less than 24 hours

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An AI version of Milton’s Paradise Lost is fundamentally unworthy of one of the great works of art

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An AI version of Milton’s Paradise Lost is fundamentally unworthy of one of the great works of art

Pulp Fiction co-writer Roger Avary wants to bring the epic poem to the big screen using the power of artificial intelligence. It can’t be any good

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The Odyssey: New Trailer for Christopher Nolan’s Classical Greek Epic Released Online

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The Odyssey: New Trailer for Christopher Nolan’s Classical Greek Epic Released Online

Trailer offers glimpses of Matt Damon as mythological hero Odysseus, Tom Holland as his son Telemachus and Anne Hathaway as his wife, Penelope

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Is Jeff Bezos the real villain of The Devil Wears Prada 2?

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Is Jeff Bezos the real villain of The Devil Wears Prada 2?

The film’s villain is a conniving tech oligarch seeking to buy his way into fashion’s inner circle. Sound familiar?

6 months ago

‘I paint the kind of people I’m attracted to’: Hernan Bas on hiding from the world in Venice

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‘I paint the kind of people I’m attracted to’: Hernan Bas on hiding from the world in Venice

The Cuban-American artist likes to paint pretty young white men – inspired by his fascination with Holden Caulfield. So why do his portraits have a sinister edge?

6 months ago

Surrender review

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Surrender review

A whiff of David Fincher’s Seven lingers in the air but this moody crime drama from David Lipper is devoid of clever twists

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Women Behind the Lens: ‘After State Massacres, I Began Burning the Prints as an Act of Mourning’

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Women Behind the Lens: ‘After State Massacres, I Began Burning the Prints as an Act of Mourning’

Iranian visual journalist Parisa Azadi set her images alight in response to January’s violent repression by the regime, not to erase them, but to convey ‘rage, grief and refusal’

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