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News orgs want OpenAI to dig up millions of deleted ChatGPT logs
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This robot pool cleaner lifts itself out of the water to charge
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How World Cup champion Mario Götze built a parallel career as an angel investor
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One of the first signs of what would become an ongoing attack on scientific research came when the Trump administration…