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Last month, Meta announced that it would expand its AI services around the world, and the company let users in Europe know that it would use their public information to train its AI services starting June 26 .Notifications sent to Facebook and Instagram users in Europe informing them that their public posts could be used to train artificial intelligence services, including Meta's chatbot, raised privacy concerns and backlash as users wondered where it would be the policy change came into effect.But for those who live in the United States, where online privacy laws aren't as strict, Meta AI has already used public posts to train its AI. It's unclear where else Meta might expand the program.Privacy watchdogs have raised concerns about the use of data and the lack of details abou...

Secretary of State Antony J. Blinken plans to visit Israel and three Arab states next week as the United States pushes for a cease-fire deal between Israel and Hamas to end the war in Gaza.Blinken is scheduled to travel to Israel, Egypt, Qatar and Jordan Monday through Wednesday, Matthew Miller, a State Department spokesman, said in a statement Friday. The trip, which will be his eighth visit to the region since the October 7 Hamas-led attacks that sparked the war, comes at a particularly tense time.The Biden administration is doing its best to halt the fighting in Gaza in hopes of freeing Israeli — and some Israeli-American — hostages held by Hamas and ending a conflict that has taken a heavy toll in lives, devastated physically most of Gaza and created political pressure. on President ...

The American Cancer Society has launched an ambitious, far-reaching study focusing on a population that has long been overlooked, despite high rates of cancer and cancer-related deaths: Black women.The initiative, called VOICES of Black Women, is believed to be the first long-term, zero-target population study specifically on the factors that drive cancer prevalence and death among Black women.The researchers plan to enroll 100,000 cancer-free black women, ages 25 to 55, in Washington, D.C. and 20 states where the majority of black American women reside. Subjects will be interviewed twice a year about their behaviors, environmental exposures and life experiences, and followed for 30 years; any tumors they may develop will be monitored.Similar studies conducted in the past by the American...

Photographs by David GuttenfelderWritten by Peter RobinsDavid Guttenfelder traveled along Ukraine's northeastern border twice in the months before Russian troops arrived.June 7, 2024The invaders had not returned. Not yet. But along about 600 miles of Ukraine's northeastern border territory that The New York Times visited late last year and again in early spring, the war has never ended.Much of this area, in the Kharkiv and Sumy regions, was once agricultural land. Now a farm housed an anti-saboteur unit – made up of anti-Putin Russians, to prevent sending Ukrainian troops into Russia – preparing before dawn for a cross-border raid.The fields are too exposed to Russian fire for anyone to attempt to harvest. Instead, they are littered with "dragon's teeth," concrete anti-tank...

Listen and follow "Hard Fork"Apple | Spotify | Amazon | YoutubeWarning: This episode contains strong language.This week we host a cultural exchange. Kevin and Casey show off their Canadian weaponry to Prime Minister Justin Trudeau, and he shows what he's doing to position Canada as a leader in artificial intelligence. Then, OpenAI whistleblower Daniel Kokotajlo talks in one of his first public interviews about why he risked nearly $2 million in capital to warn about what he calls the reckless culture within that company.Guests:Justin Trudeau, Canadian Prime MinisterDaniel Kokotajlo, a former researcher in OpenAI's governance divisionAdditional reading:Credits“Hard Fork” is hosted by Kevin Roose AND Casey Newton and produced by Whitney Jones AND Rachel Cohn. The show is edited...

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu will speak at a joint meeting of Congress on July 24, the two top Republicans in Congress announced Thursday evening.Speaker Mike Johnson of Louisiana and Senator Mitch McConnell, Republican of Kentucky and the minority leader, said in a statement that the speech would give Netanyahu the opportunity to “share the Israeli government's vision for defending its democracy, fighting the terrorism and establish just and lasting peace in the region."But in a separate statement that alluded to deep political divisions over Netanyahu and Israel's war in Gaza, Senator Chuck Schumer, Democrat of New York and majority leader, said he had “clear and profound disagreements with the prime minister, who I have spoken out both privately and publicly and wil...

Hunter Biden, the president's son, is on trial in federal court for falsely claiming in a gun application that he had not used illicit drugs. Testimonies from his ex-wife and his ex-girlfriends describe his drug-fueled character; searching for his drug dealer on the streets; his large cash withdrawals from the bank.Hallie Biden, his brother Beau's widow who was dating him in the fall of 2018 when the gun purchase occurred, spoke of his erratic behavior, possession of rocks of crack and cocaine "the size of ping-pong balls, or bigger, maybe” and how she frantically urged him to go to rehab. She, like Mr. Biden, is in recovery.I write about addiction for the New York Times and have spoken to countless families who have shared harrowing experiences. I'm working on an article a...

The emotional exchange was broadcast on large screens to the cheers of thousands of people who had gathered Thursday on Omaha Beach in Normandy, France, to commemorate the 80th anniversary of the Normandy landings. And then it quickly resonated on the Internet.An American World War II veteran in a blue beret, sitting in a wheelchair with a blue blanket draped over his knees, was introduced to Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky by Justin Trudeau, the Canadian prime minister.“You are the savior of the people,” veteran Melvin Hurwitz, 99, of Frederick, Maryland, told Zelensky after hugging the Ukrainian leader. “You bring tears to my eyes.”“No, no, no, you saved Europe,” Zelensky replied.“You are our hero,” said Mr. Hurwitz, whose identity was confirmed by a great-granddaughter, Sarah H...

Federal regulators have reached a deal allowing them to proceed with antitrust investigations into the dominant roles that Microsoft, OpenAI and Nvidia play in the artificial intelligence industry, in the strongest sign of how regulatory scrutiny of the powerful technology has increased.The Justice Department and the Federal Trade Commission reached the deal last week, which is expected to be completed in the next few days, according to two people familiar with the matter, who were not authorized to speak publicly about the confidential discussions.Under the agreement, the Justice Department will take the lead in investigating whether the behavior of Nvidia, the largest maker of AI chips, violated antitrust laws, the sources said. The FTC will play the lead role in examining the conduct o...

At least one bomb used in the Israeli attack that killed dozens of people, including women and children, on a United Nations school building on Thursday appears to have been made in the United States, according to a weapons expert and videos reviewed by The New York. Times.The school, located in Nuseirat, central Gaza, was under construction used as a refuge for thousands of displaced Palestinians. The Israeli military said it targeted classrooms occupied by Palestinian militants, although it provided no evidence to support that claim.A video of ammunition debris, shot by Palestinian journalist Emad Abu Shawiesh, shows the remains of a GBU-39 bomb, designed and manufactured by Boeing. The use of this weapon in the attack was first reported by CNN.The footage was uploaded to Instagram sh...