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By Jeffrey Dastin and Anna Tong (Reuters) – OpenAI is introducing what one employee called an “incognito mode” for its hit chatbot ChatGPT that does not save users’ conversation history or use it to improve its artificial intelligence, the company said Tuesday. The San Francisco-based startup also said it planned a “ChatGPT Business” subscription with additional data controls. The move comes as scrutiny has grown over how ChatGPT and other […]

STOCKHOLM (Reuters) – A research rocket launched by Sweden Space Corp early on Monday from Esrange Space Center in northern Sweden malfunctioned and landed 15 km (9.32 miles) inside neighbouring Norway. The rocket reached an altitude of 250 km where experiments were carried out in zero gravity, the agency said in a statement. “It landed in the mountains at 1,000 meters altitude, and 10 kilometers from the closest settlement,” Philip […]

By Khalid Abdelaziz KHARTOUM (Reuters) – Fighting in Sudan eased on Tuesday and more foreigners and locals fled the capital Khartoum, where marauding combatants created what a U.N. agency said was a “high risk of biological hazard” by seizing a laboratory. The World Health Organization said one of the warring parties had taken control of a national health facility that stores measles and cholera pathogens for vaccinations, and ejected the […]

By Gabrielle Tétrault-Farber and Emma Farge GENEVA (Reuters) -There is a “high risk of biological hazard” in Sudan’s capital Khartoum after one of the warring parties seized a laboratory holding measles and cholera pathogens and other hazardous materials, the World Health Organization said on Tuesday. Speaking to reporters in Geneva via video link from Sudan, the WHO’s representative in the country, Nima Saeed Abid, said technicians were unable to gain […]

By Gabrielle Tétrault-Farber and Emma Farge GENEVA (Reuters) -There is a “high risk of biological hazard” in Sudan’s capital Khartoum after one of the warring parties seized a laboratory holding measles and cholera pathogens and other hazardous materials, the World Health Organization said on Tuesday. Speaking to reporters in Geneva via video link from Sudan, the WHO’s representative in the country, Nima Saeed Abid, said technicians were unable to gain […]

LONDON (Reuters) – NATO’s largest ever air deployment exercise, set to take place in June, is unlikely to lead to commercial flight cancellations, Europe’s lead air traffic manager said, after Germany’s aviation industry expressed worries that it could cause disruption. “We do not anticipate that there will be any need for air operators to make cancellations in order to accommodate the needs of the exercise,” Eurocontrol told Reuters in a […]

By Khalid Abdelaziz KHARTOUM (Reuters) – Fighting in Sudan eased on Tuesday and more foreigners and locals fled the capital Khartoum, where marauding combatants created what a U.N. agency said was a “high risk of biological hazard” by seizing a laboratory. The World Health Organization said one of the warring parties had taken control of a national health facility that stores measles and cholera pathogens for vaccinations, and ejected the […]

By Andrea Shalal and Trevor Hunnicutt WASHINGTON (Reuters) -President Joe Biden’s campaign launch video promises to protect Americans’ personal freedoms, seizing a theme often embraced by Republicans, as he attacked “MAGA extremists” for targeting women’s reproductive choice, Social Security and voting rights. Closely watched for clues as to what shape Biden’s 2024 presidential re-election campaign will take, the video released on Tuesday suggests he will warn Republicans are threatening “bedrock […]

By Alan Baldwin LONDON (Reuters) – Formula One’s Saturday sprint races will become standalone events with a new ‘Shootout’ qualifying session replacing final practice at six grands prix in 2023, starting with Azerbaijan this weekend. The FIA Formula One commission, which includes the 10 teams, voted unanimously for the change at a meeting in Geneva on Tuesday. The decision was approved by an e-vote of the World Motor Sport Council. […]