Elon Musk is suing OpenAI‚ the makers of ChatGPT‚ arguing it has breached the principles he agreed to when he helped found it in 2015. The lawsuit - which has also been filed against OpenAI boss Sam Altman - says the firm has departed from its original non-profit‚ open source mission. It says instead of trying to "benefit humanity" - as it was set up to do - it is focusing on "maximising profits" for major investor Microsoft. OpenAI has been approached for comment. The firm was...

Rep. Patrick McHenry is closing out two decades in Congress by returning to the bomb-throwing days of his youth. His new target is House Speaker Mike Johnson‚ and it’s starting to rattle fellow conservatives. McHenry‚ the bow-tied North Carolina Republican who plans to retire at the end of this session‚ has been ratcheting up his criticism of Johnson in recent weeks over what he views as a serial mishandling of big issues before the House‚ including government...

Democrats and anti-Trump obsessives are engaged in a ridiculous freak-out over the Supreme Court’s announcement that it will review the former president’s claim of immunity from criminal prosecution. Let’s remember how we got here. Federal district-court judge Tanya Chutkan‚ who is presiding over special counsel Jack Smith’s election-interference case against Trump‚ rejected the immunity claim. Trump promptly appealed to the D.C. Circuit. That’s the normal process: Rulings of the...

Elon Musk is suing Microsoft-backed OpenAI and its CEO‚ Sam Altman‚ among others‚ alleging they abandoned the company’s founding mission to develop artificial intelligence “for the benefit of humanity broadly.” In a lawsuit filed Thursday with a San Francisco court‚ Musk’s lawyers said the tech billionaire was approached in 2015 by Altman and OpenAI co-founder Greg Brockman and agreed to form a nonprofit lab that would develop artificial general...

The body of Alexei Navalny‚ Russian President Vladimir Putin’s most formidable critic‚ was lowered into the ground to the sounds of Frank Sinatra’s “My Way” as thousands of his supporters outside a cemetery chanted to be allowed in to pay their respects. Under the supervision of busloads of riot police‚ Navalny’s body was whisked into a church for a brief ceremony before being taken for burial. The opposition leader died suddenly at the age of 47 in the Polar Wolf prison colony in...

During an interview with ABC News on Thursday‚ White House Senior Adviser Gene Sperling stated that “people have been through a tough few years” but the PCE (Personal Consumption Expenditures) price index reading is “very close to normal” and “prices are moving in the right direction” and “moderating.” But you can’t expect them to not go up. Sperling said‚ “It’s been a tough few years since the pandemic‚” but “inflation is coming down. In fact‚ it was really 2.4% in this measure‚ 2.8% if you...

Thousands of people defied the threat of arrest by attending the funeral of Alexei Navalny in Moscow‚ embracing one of the last remaining avenues to register their anger at President Vladimir Putin as well as mourning one of the few politicians capable of standing up to the Russian leader. The Kremlin had warned Russians against attending what it called spontaneous memorials for the opposition leader‚ who died in an Arctic prison camp last month. But...

Mortgage rates climbed for the fourth week in a row‚ inching closer to 7% just as peak homebuying season gets underway. The 30-year fixed-rate mortgage averaged 6.94% in the week ending February 29‚ up from 6.90% the previous week‚ according to data from Freddie Mac released Thursday. A year ago‚ the average 30-year fixed-rate was 6.65%. “Mortgage rates continued their ascent this week‚ reaching a two-month high and flirting with 7% yet again‚” said Sam Khater‚ Freddie Mac’s chief...

Mortgage rates jumped to the highest level in two months ahead of the pivotal spring home-buying season‚ throttling demand among would-be buyers. Mortgage buyer Freddie Mac said Thursday that the average rate on a 30-year loan this week rose to 6.94% from 6.9% — the highest level since mid-December. While that is down from a peak of 7.79% in the fall‚ it remains sharply higher than the pandemic-era lows of just 3%. "Mortgage rates continued their ascent this week‚ reaching a two-month...

I’ve recently been reading about Warren Buffett’s father‚ Howard Buffett‚ a four-term Republican congressman from Nebraska. He seems to have been a very good father‚ but his political worldview was predicated on a deep pessimism. He was so convinced that federal spending was ruining the country that he bought a farm so that his family could feed itself while everyone else starved. He predicted that all government bonds would soon be worthless and bought his daughters gold jewelry so that they...