Manhattan judge Arthur Engoron has denied former president Donald Trump’s request for a 30-day extension on the due date for a recently ordered $355 million payment in his high-profile New York civil-fraud case. Engoron sent an email to the case’s defendants on Thursday‚ saying they had “failed to explain‚ much less justify‚ any basis for a stay” in a letter submitted the day before. “I am confident that the Appellate Division will protect your appellate rights‚” he wrote. The...

Google blocked the ability to generate images of people on its artificial intelligence tool Gemini after some users accused it of anti-White bias‚ in one of the highest profile moves to scale back a major AI tool. A viral post on X shared by the account @EndofWokeness appeared to show Gemini‚ which competes with OpenAI’s ChatGPT‚ responding to a prompt for “a portrait of a Founding Father of America” with images of a Native American man in a traditional headdress‚ a Black...

Elon Musk took aim at Google search on Friday after claiming the company’s AI business is biased and “racist‚” expanding his attacks on the tech giant and fanning conspiracy theories it is working to rig the 2024 election amid intense backlash over diversity in its now-halted Gemini AI image generator. “The problem is not just Google Gemini‚ it’s Google search too‚” Musk said in a post on X‚ hours after the company “paused” its latest artificial intelligence model‚ Gemini...

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