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A U.S. federal court has partially dismissed a class action lawsuit accusing OpenAI of infringing on copyright by training its AI chatbot on authors' work. This doesn't mean ChatGPT's developer is in the clear, though.

Brought by authors Paul Tremblay, Sarah Silverman, Christopher Golden, and Richard Kadrey, the lawsuit specifically accuses OpenAI of direct copyright infringement, vicarious

• Chinese consumers are back from the festive Chinese New Year season next week.
• That doesn't mean the economy will pick up.
• Instead, spending is likely to slow, signaling more bad news for Beijing when what it really needs is a break.

China's economy and markets were weak coming into 2024, but investor sentiment could worsen after the

Last year, two Waymo robotaxis in Phoenix "made contact" with the same pickup truck that was in the midst of being towed, which prompted the Alphabet subsidiary to issue a recall on its vehicles' software. A "recall" in this case meant rolling out a software update after investigating the issue and determining its root cause. 

In a blog post, Waymo has revealed that on December 11, 2023, one of

• China's military has been conducting large-scale exercises with civilian ships, per an analyst.
• At least 39 merchant vessels were recorded supporting the Chinese navy in 2023, wrote Michael Dahm.
• They're likely preparing

• Former Rep. Tom Suozzi is projected to have won recently expelled Congressman George Santos' seat.
• Suozzi's victory came on a day in which much of the district was blanketed with snow.
• The results illustrate that the GOP's reliance on Election Day voting continues to harm the party.

House Republicans' main super PAC paid for private snow plows

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• Former GOP Rep. George Santos' vacated House seat was flipped to a Democrat in Tuesday's election.
• Santos trolled the Republican Reps who supported his ouster, blaming them for losing a GOP seat.
• Santos' seat will be filled by Democrat Tom Suozzi, shrinking the Republican majority

• Russia has lost over 3,000 tanks since it invaded Ukraine, says the IISS.
• The think tank said that Russia's battlefield tank losses have exceeded what it had before the war.
• Arms shortages have seen Russia turning to North Korea and Iran for weapons.

Russia has lost more tanks than it had

• A Tesla employee died in what might've been the first death tied to Tesla's Full Self-Driving tech.
• Hans von Ohain died in 2022 after his Tesla veered off a mountain road and into a tree.
• Von Ohain's wife told The Washington Post she feels her family were "guinea pigs" of the tech.

Hans von Ohain, a Tesla recr