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MA Lawmakers to Weigh Four-Day Work Week The Massachusetts House Labor and Workforce Development Committee scheduled a hearing last week on legislation ( HB 3849 ) that would provide tax credits to businesses...
Bills to Overhaul Long-Term Care and Control Prescription Drug Costs on Move in MA The Massachusetts House unanimously passed a bill ( HB 4178 ) that would overhaul the long-term care industry, while...
OpenAI Ousts CEO Sam Altman The board of directors of OpenAI, developer of ChatGPT, announced on the company’s blog last week that its CEO Sam Altman would be stepping down. The blog post said...
For more than half a year, labor strife has swept the country. First, Hollywood writers went on strike in May. Then actors joined them in walking off the set a couple months later, in July. Detroit...
IL Lawmakers Approve Bill Lifting Moratorium on Nuclear Power Plants: The Illinois General Assembly passed legislation ( HB 2437 ) that, as amended, will lift a nearly four-decades-old moratorium on new...
President Biden issued a sweeping executive order last that week aimed at managing the risks associated with artificial intelligence. Among other things the order requires AI developers to share safety test results with the U.S. government, directs the National Institute of Standards and Technology to develop standards for AI systems to meet before being released to the public, and directs the Commerce Department to issue guidance for the labeling and watermarking of AI-generated content. (ASSOCIATED PRESS, WHITEHOUSE.GOV)
A jury found Sam Bankman-Fried, founder of now-bankrupt cryptocurrency exchange FTX, guilty of all seven criminal charges against him. Those charges included wire fraud and conspiracy to commit wire fraud against FTX customers, conspiracy to commit commodities fraud against FTX investors, and conspiracy to commit money laundering. (REUTERS, CNBC)
Amazon employed an algorithm that raised prices for U.S. consumers by over $1 billion, according to a court filing from the U.S. Federal Trade Commission. The FTC filed its lawsuit against Amazon in September but that particular detail was one of many not made public until the new version of the suit was filed in U.S. District Court in Seattle last week. (REUTERS)
—Compiled by SNCJ Managing Editor KOREY CLARK