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When OpenAI CEO Sam Altman announced GPTs, custom chatbots powered by OpenAI’s generative AI models, onstage at the company’s first-ever developer conference in November, he described them as a way to “accomplish all sorts of tasks” — from programming to learning about esoteric scientific subjects to getting workout…

🔌🇺🇲 The Biden administration finalized the toughest-ever limits on planet-warming emissions from passenger cars and light trucks Wednesday, in a controversial bid to accelerate the nation’s halting transition to electric vehicles. Read more: #Nostr | #growNostr | #Press | #PLEBchaiN | #Newstr…

Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump said he was leaning toward a 15-week national ban on abortion but supports exceptions for rape, incest and saving the life of the mother because "you have to win elections" #Nostr | #growNostr | #Press | #PLEBchaiN | #Newstr…

🇺🇦 Ukraine manufactured practically no weapons before Russia invaded in February 2022, but the local arms industry is now booming. Factories spit out shells, mortar rounds, military vehicles, missiles and other items crucial to the war effort. Production tripled in 2023 and is expected to increase sixfold this year, Prime Minister…

The paper in the Journal of the American Chemical Society describes how researchers used this innovative new platform to design molecules that take aim at helicases involved in COVID and certain cancers. #Nostr | #growNostr | #Press | #PLEBchaiN | #Newstr…

Irish Prime Minister Leo Varadkar has announced he will resign next month. Full story: #Nostr | #growNostr | #Press | #PLEBchaiN | #Newstr…

China blasts critics of Hong Kong's new national security law, after Western powers and the United Nations said it would further curtail freedoms in the city. Hong Kong passed a security law commonly referred to as Article 23 to punish five crimes after a fast-tracked legislative process.

Intel is planning a $100 billion spending spree across four US states to build and expand factories after securing $19.5 billion in federal grants and loans - and it hopes to secure another $25 billion in tax breaks #Nostr | #growNostr | #Press | #PLEBchaiN | #Newstr…

As fire engulfed Notre Dame Cathedral in Paris five years ago, the whole medieval landmark threatened to collapse. Today the nearly reconstructed monument is a symbol of hope and rebirth. A unique AP timelapse shows the scaffolding peeling away, revealing its glistening new spire. #Nostr | #growNostr | #Press | #PLEBchaiN | #Newstr…

The Supreme Court temporarily allowed a Texas law to go into effect that makes it a crime for migrants to enter the state without authorization. The law was challenged by the Biden administration as an affront to federal power. #Nostr | #growNostr | #Press | #PLEBchaiN | #Newstr…

Germany is sending a further €500 million in military aid to Ukraine — including thousands of rounds of ammunition, Defense Minister Boris Pistorius said. Details here: #Nostr | #growNostr | #Press | #PLEBchaiN | #Newstr…

Russian President Vladimir Putin will travel to China in May for talks with Xi Jinping, in what could be the Kremlin chief's first overseas trip of his new presidential term, according to five sources familiar with the matter #Nostr | #growNostr | #Press | #PLEBchaiN | #Newstr…

Hong Kong passes second national security law, widening crackdown powers and aligning city more closely with mainland China #Nostr | #growNostr | #Press | #PLEBchaiN | #Newstr…

Japan's central bank pulls the plug on its ultra-aggressive monetary stimulus programme, hiking rates for the first time in 17 years. The Bank of Japan's outlier policy of negative rates and massive asset purchases was aimed at jump-starting economic growth and price rises after

Israel and Hamas are locked in Gaza truce talks with goals that seem impossible to reconcile: Israeli negotiators are seeking not only the release of dozens of hostages taken on Oct. 7 but also the freedom to resume a military campaign to crush Hamas once and for all after any…

Outside Democratic-leaning groups have pledged more than $1 billion to help President Joe Biden’s reelection, giving the incumbent a major fundraising boost as the general election heats up. #Nostr | #growNostr | #Press | #PLEBchaiN | #Newstr…

Armenia must hand over four frontier villages to Azerbaijan and return to its Soviet-era borders as part of a push for peace, Armenian Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan has said, warning the alternative is another round of bloody fighting between the two South Caucasus nations. Full story: #Nostr | #growNostr | #Press…

The EU has signed off on a security deal with the United States that will allow it to pay Elon Musk's SpaceX to launch its satellites. Read the full story: #Nostr | #growNostr | #Press | #PLEBchaiN | #Newstr…

The president of Serbia on Monday batted away any suggestion that he might have intentionally tried to steer a valuable real estate project in Serbia’s capital to Jared Kushner, Donald Trump’s son-in-law, in an effort to influence Trump should he return to the White House. The…

🎨🖼️ In the pre-dawn hours of March 18, 1990, following a festive St. Patrick’s Day in Boston, two men dressed as police officers walked into the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum and walked off with an estimated $500 million in art treasures. Despite efforts by the local police, federal agents,