Day: April 11, 2023

China will require AI to reflect socialist values, not challenge social order

11:02 pm April 11, 2023

China on Tuesday revealed its proposed assessment measures for prospective generative artificial intelligence (AI) tools, telling companies they must submit their products before launching to the public. The Cyberspace Administration of China (CAC) proposed the measures in order to prevent discriminatory content, false information and content with the potential to harm personal privacy or intellectual […]

Mexican tourist fatally shot in Caribbean coast resort of Tulum

11:01 pm April 11, 2023

A Mexican tourist has been shot to death in the Caribbean coast resort of Tulum in a dramatic robbery at a U.S. chain coffee shop, prosecutors and police said Tuesday. The tourist apparently refused to hand over an expensive watch he was wearing, and was shot by the robbers. Video of the killing posted on […]

Report scolds U of Minnesota for ‘genocide’ of Natives, calls for tuition, land reparations

10:18 pm April 11, 2023

The University of Minnesota should hire more Native American faculty, offer students additional financial support and give back land to atone for its historic mistreatment of the state’s tribes, a report conducted through a collaboration with the school concluded Tuesday. The report said that the university’s founding board of regents “committed genocide and ethnic cleansing […]

Suit alleges gas leak at Pennsylvania chocolate factory went ignored before explosion

10:16 pm April 11, 2023

A Pennsylvania candy-maker ignored warnings of a natural gas leak at its chocolate factory and bears responsibility for a subsequent explosion that killed seven workers and injured several others, according to a lawsuit filed Tuesday. The family of Judith “Judy” Lopez-Moran, a 55-year-old mother of three, filed what their lawyers called the first wrongful-death suit […]

Brittney Griner to release memoir detailing ‘harrowing experience’ in Russian detainment

10:06 pm April 11, 2023

WNBA star and two-time Olympic gold medalist Brittney Griner was released from a Russian jail in December after nearly 10-months in captivity. Now she’s ready to tell her story. Griner, 32, announced Tuesday that she will be releasing a memoir about her February 2022 arrest when she was taken into Russian custody at an airport […]