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Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg will decide on Tuesday whether to postpone the sentencing of Donald Trump following his conviction on charges related to hush money or potentially dismiss the case altogether, now that Trump is preparing for a return to the White House.
The prosecutor may request a delay in Trump’s scheduled Nov. 26 sentencing after his conviction for concealing a payment that helped prevent a scandal from affecting voters ahead of the 2016 presidential election.
Bragg may also seek to have the case dismissed entirely.
Manhattan Supreme Court Justice Juan Merchan would need to approve any proposal by prosecutors before it is implemented.

Over a New Mexico training range named the Hornet, two Osprey aircraft speed 100 feet off the ground, banking hard over valleys and hills as they close in on a dusty landing zone. A flight engineer in the back braces a .50-caliber machine gun over the edge of the Osprey’s open ramp as desert shrubbery blurs past. The aircraft’s joints shift and rattle, and there is little steady to hold on to until the Osprey touches down with a bump, flooding seats with rust-colored dust. After being grounded for months following a crash last November that killed eight U.S. service members in Japan, the V-22 Osprey is back in the air. But there are still questions as to whether it should be.

Building the current crop of artificial intelligence chatbots has relied on specialized computer chips pioneered by Nvidia, which cornered the market and made itself the poster child of the AI boom. But the same qualities that make those graphics processor chips, or GPUs, so effective at creating powerful AI systems from scratch make them less efficient at putting AI products to work. That’s opened up the AI chip industry to rivals who think they can compete with Nvidia in selling so-called AI inference chips that are more attuned to the day-to-day running of AI tools and designed to reduce some of the huge computing costs of generative AI.

Can an artificial intelligence chatbot help doctors better diagnose their patients?
Not really, according to new research.
The study, published last month in the journal JAMA Network Open, found that using ChatGPT, a chatbot created by OpenAI, did not significantly improve doctors’ diagnostic reasoning compared with doctors who used only traditional resources. The study also found that ChatGPT on its own performed better than either group of physicians.
The doctors that could use the software got a median score of 76 percent on making a diagnosis and explaining a reason for it, while the group that used only conventional resources had a median score of 74 percent. Run on its own, the software had a median score of roughly 90 percent.

A video of US Senate Majority Leader-elect Senator John Thune (R-SD) promising Israel and Jews around the world that “reinforcements are on the way” was widely shared in Israel on Wednesday. In statements that can only be called “a breath of fresh air” after four years of the Biden administration’s constant inane posturing about Israel and lack of action on the soaring antisemitism on US soil, Thune speaks the truth – clearly and forcefully. “It’s been over 13 months since Hamas terrorists waged war against Israel and for the past year plus, Democrats have struggled to support our ally Israel and has literally fractured the Democratic party. For example, we are expecting tomorrow Sen.

The Rishon Lezion Magistrate’s Court has authorized the publication of the names of three individuals arrested for firing flares near Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s private residence in Caesarea last weekend One of the suspects is Rear Adm. (res.) Ofer Doron, a former senior Navy officer who made headlines last year for refusing to participate in volunteer reservist duty as a protest against the government’s planned judicial overhaul. His refusal led to his suspension from the reserves. The other two suspects have been identified as Amir Sadeh and Itai Yafeh, both veteran anti-government protesters. According to reports from Channel 12 news, the suspects claimed during police questioning that the incident was not an intentional attack on Netanyahu’s home.

The United States vetoed a UN Security Council resolution calling for an immediate ceasefire in the conflict between Israel and Hamas, citing concerns over the absence of provisions for the release of hostages held by Hamas in Gaza. The 15-member council voted on a draft resolution that sought an “immediate, unconditional and permanent ceasefire” while separately demanding the release of hostages. However, the US opposed the measure, insisting that a ceasefire resolution must explicitly tie hostilities to the immediate release of all captives. A senior US official, speaking to reporters on condition of anonymity, accused some council members of rejecting efforts to find a compromise.

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