The United States has seized an oil tanker off the coast of Venezuela as tensions mount with the government of President Nicolás Maduro.
U.S. President Donald Trump has said the deadly strikes on alleged drug-smuggling boats will expand to attacks on land. Maduro told supporters in Caracas that Venezuela is “prepared to break the teeth of the North American empire if necessary.”
Washington state was under a state of emergency Thursday from a barrage of torrential rain. Tens of thousands of residents could face evacuation orders.
Rainfall intensity increased in several counties in Washington’s Cascade Mountains, which had seen up to 6 inches of rain in a 24-hour period.
The heirs of an 83-year-old Connecticut woman are suing ChatGPT maker OpenAI and its business partner Microsoft for wrongful death, alleging that the artificial intelligence chatbot intensified her son’s “paranoid delusions” and helped direct them at his mother before he killed her.
Police said 56-year-old Stein-Erik Soelberg fatally beat and strangled his mother, Suzanne Adams, and killed himself in early August at the home where they both lived.
The lawsuit filed by Adams’ estate on Thursday in California superior court in San Francisco alleges OpenAI “designed and distributed a defective product that validated a user’s paranoid delusions about his own mother.”
Miles Schiffer can be reached at schi9629@stthomas.edu.
