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Image Source : REUTERS Nvidia Nvidia, whose chips are powering artificial intelligence, has been sued by three authors who stated that it used their copyrighted books without permission to train its NeMo AI platform. Brian Keene, Abdi Nazemian and Stewart O'Nan said their works were part of a dataset of about 196,640 books that helped train NeMo to simulate…

Barring divine intervention or the West Coast falling into the sea, President Biden will handily win California in the November election.But should he — or presumptive GOP nominee Donald Trump — secure a second term in the fall, the future of either’s policy agenda rests heavily on which party controls Congress, where Republicans currently hold a wafer-thin majority in the U.S. House of Representatives.With the Golden State home to some of the most hotly contested swing districts in the country, the House’s fate will…

U.S. aerospace company Stratolaunch conducted the first powered test flight of a new unmanned craft for hypersonic research on Saturday and called it a success.Hypersonic describes flights at speeds of at least Mach 5, or five times the speed of sound. Chief Executive Officer Zachary Krevor said in a statement that the Talon-A-1 vehicle “reached high supersonic speeds approaching Mach 5 and collected a great amount of data at an incredible value to our customers.” Also read: 5 things about AI you may have missed today:…

Oscar winner Matthew McConaughey shared the real reason he moved from California to rival Texas in 2014: a family crisis.The “Dallas Buyers Club” and “Magic Mike” star relocated his wife and three kids from Malibu to the Lone Star State in 2014 and this week opened up about the decision in a profile in Southern Living. They shed light on what the magazine described as McConaughey’s “home field advantage” and what others might call a “Texodus.”“Ritual came back,” the 54-year old said, “whether that was Sunday church,…

STOCKTON —  This farming city in the Central Valley has made headlines for its financial struggles and its annual asparagus festival. But thousands of miles away in India, it is a symbol of terrorism.To hear the Hindu-dominated media and government tell it, militants funded by the Sikh diaspora will stop at nothing to take over Punjab — the only Indian state where Sikhs are a majority — and turn it into a country of their own called Khalistan.At the center of the separatist movement is the oldest Sikh house of worship…

Matthew McConaughey and his wife, Camila Alves, have recently opened up about their decision to leave their home in Malibu, California, to settle down permanent roots in Austin, Texas.“We were living a happy life in Malibu,” says Camila, who met Matthew in 2006 in a West Hollywood nightclub. “We had a beautiful house that we’d built together and put a lot of love and care into. We were raising our kids there. I was growing everything in the yard. I had bees making honey.” Highlights Matthew McConaughey and Camila…

Elon Musk said on Wednesday that his social media platform X could soon receive approval for a money transmitter license in New York, putting the platform a step closer to offering payment features. While speaking at the Morgan Stanley technology, media and telecom conference, Musk also said X could receive its license in California in the next month or so, while getting the New York approval could be "a few months away".Elevate Your Tech Prowess with High-Value Skill CoursesOffering CollegeCourseWebsiteIIM KozhikodeIIMK…

NEW YORK —  From the start, the case was highly unusual: a criminal prosecution centered on the disputed ownership of a cache of hand-drafted lyrics to “Hotel California” and other Eagles hits. Its end was even more unexpected. In the middle of the trial, New York prosecutors abruptly dropped their case Wednesday against three collectibles experts who had been accused of conspiring to hang onto and peddle the pages, which Eagles co-founder Don Henley maintained were stolen, private artifacts of the band’s creative…

For all of California’s ills and hardships, nothing animated the state’s left-leaning electorate in this year’s Senate race more than the specter of former President Trump returning to the White House.The omnipresence of Trump’s legal travails and his dominance in the Republican presidential primary ensure his shadow over the 2024 election will remain through November, and only increase Rep. Adam B. Schiff ‘s already heady chances of becoming California’s newest U.S. senator. As the lead prosecutor in the first…

The cryptocurrency industry has poured millions of dollars into electioneering efforts this election season, and the bet already seems to be paying off. On Super Tuesday, where voters in 16 states and 2 territories went to the polls, crypto’s boosters collected their first big wins of the cycle, especially in the contested Democratic field for the open U.S. Senate seat in California.Major players in the crypto industry reportedly poured $78 million into Super PACs this cycle, including groups called Fairshake, Protect…