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Musk's lawyers used cross-examination to attack Altman's credibility, citing testimony from former OpenAI figures including Mira Murati, Ilya Sutskever and Helen Toner, along with older criticism from his career as a tech executive and investor. Musk's lawyers also highlighted OpenAI's dealings with companies in which Altman holds a financial stake, including Stripe, Cerebras and Helion.

The product uses agentic AI to handle subpoena intake, routing, preservation, collection and review - tasks that Exterro says currently consume as many as 7,500 hours annually at large organizations handling 100 subpoenas per week. The company claims the tool can reduce intake and routing time from 90 minutes to as little as five minutes, cutting manual labor by up to 95%. Exterro estimates the product could bring potential annual savings of more than $500,000 for high-volume enterprises, based on a processing cost of $75 per hour. The company also projects up to a tenfold increase in operational throughput.

Banking giant JPMorgan has been home to many of Wall Street's biggest scandals over the past 20 years, which include but are absolutely not limited to: its decision to keep to itself its suspicions about what Bernie Madoff was doing; its "whale"-size $6 billion trading loss; its longtime financial enabling of Jeffrey Epstein; those toxic mortgage-backed securities it sold to investors (hello, $13 billion settlement); its "robo-signing" of foreclosure notices; its precious-metals spoofing scam; and the "Sons and Daughters" hiring program that prosecutors deemed "nothing more than bribery by another name."

Musk's attorney, Steven Molo, opened his cross-examination of Altman with the blunt question: "Are you completely trustworthy?" "I believe so," Altman told the federal California jury in the civil trial of Musk's lawsuit against Altman and OpenAI. "You don't know whether you're completely trustworthy?" Molo followed up, forcing Altman to respond, "I'll just amend my answer to yes." Molo then peppered Altman with questions about whether the billionaire chief executive tells the truth, lies to advance his business interests, or misleads the people he works with.

U.S. District Judge William Conley said the lawsuit “principally concerns the ability of plaintiff Ho-Chunk Nation, a federally-recognized Indian tribe, to prohibit online sports betting from occurring on its tribal land.” The ruling kept the tribe’s central claims alive after a key dismissal challenge. The judge’s framing focused on whether the tribe can stop online betting tied to its land, rather than on broader regulatory questions about the market’s structure.

The extensive record in these cases supports the District Court's conclusion that plaintiffs' [Section 2] claim was likely to succeed under Gingles. As to the first Gingles precondition, the District Court correctly found that black voters could constitute a majority in a second district that was "reasonably configured." The plaintiffs adduced eleven illustrative districting maps that Alabama could enact, at least one of which contained two majority-black districts that comported with traditional districting criteria.

A banned driver who killed a bride-to-be just hours after she had been shopping for her dream wedding dress has been jailed for five years. Sean Connaughton (54), was already banned from the road for four years, for not being insured, when he drove over Laura Connolly.

Justice Samuel Alito extended a stay he granted a week ago in response to requests from drugmakers Danco Laboratories and GenBioPro to restore access to mifepristone via teleprescribing and the mails.

In 2024, nearly 72% of Massachusetts voters approved a ballot question specifying that the state auditor has the authority to audit the Legislature. Now, momentum could finally be growing towards a long-awaited audit. The Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court heard arguments Wednesday in the matter of whether or not State Auditor Diana DiZoglio can sue the Legislature to force their compliance without going through Attorney General Andrea Campbell's office. Multiple justices expressed a desire to see the case move forward toward some form of resolution, perhaps by setting a deadline for Campbell to decide whether she will represent DiZoglio, the Legislature, or neither.