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Wednesday, May 14, 2025
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French President Emmanuel Macron’s vague answers and limited plans fell flat in a three-hour television appearance, leaving viewers wondering how he plans to address immigration, a rising far right and a host of other issues.
The state of AI is less about android assassins after young waitresses and more about self-regulation of the tech industry and the pressing need to align the capabilities of artificial intelligence with human ethics and values.
Named after the Italian coastal town of Sorrento, sorrentinos were born in an Argentine city shaped by immigration since its very foundation.
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A federal court in New York ruled that Rikers Island will be placed under the control of an independent receiver. In the underlying lawsuit, the court has determined the conditions of the jail “fall below the constitutional minimum” and it has previously ruled: “that the level of unconstitutional danger has not improved for the people who live and work in the jails is both alarming and unacceptable.”
A federal court in Louisiana granted a school district’s motion for permission to close a predominantly Black elementary school and relocate its students and teachers elsewhere. The school is a half-mile away from a plant that discharges dangerous levels of chloroprene to the air; the NAACP’s legal defense fund opposed the motion, but the court is not persuaded by its argument that the reassignment plan would violate a desegregation order.
A federal court in Illinois only partially dismissed a putative class action against the maker of a computer duster product; a family sued the firm after a man died just months after he became addicted to inhaling its duster. The family plausibly argued that the bitterant added to the duster is ineffective to many people, and that the amount of the bitterant is insufficiently high to deter abusive use of the duster. The family’s failure-to-warn claim is tossed because the does warn against inhaling the gas.
The First Circuit found that a severance agreement was ambiguous as to whether a tech firm’s former executive is meant to be paid a total of $680,000 in 16 monthly installments, or if the company owes him $680,000 per month for 16 months, as the lower court had construed the meaning of the severance provision. The appellate court instructs the lower court to resolve the dispute “with extrinsic evidence of the parties’ intent.”
The Department of Justice and Albuquerque, New Mexico, filed a joint motion in federal court to terminate a federal consent decree that had the federal government overseeing the Albuquerque Police Department for the last decade. The decree was put in place in response to the police force’s high rate of unconstitutional excessive force incidents.
Three Louisiana families sued a carnival ride operator for negligence after a guest’s prosthetic leg „came flying through the air“ and struck two children before hitting a third after bouncing off the ground.
Hawaii says BP, Chevron, Exxon Mobil and other fossil fuel giants knew for decades that their products were harmful but still promoted those products to maximize profits at the expense of the environment.
A Colorado law firm is suing Thomson Reuters for refusing to cancel its contract to use its Westlaw legal research database. The law firm says the company falsely promised the firm could cancel the contract if it had a hard time using the product.
Georgetown professor Badar Khan Suri was detained and transported to Texas after purported visa issues, but a federal judge noted the „atypical movement“ of the transfer and said Virginia should retain habeas corpus jurisdiction over the issue.