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Updated [hour]:[minute] [AMPM] [timezone], [monthFull] [day], [year] DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) — The CEO of ChatGPT-maker OpenAI said Tuesday that the dangers that keep him awake at night regarding artificial intelligence are the “very subtle societal misalignments” that could make the systems wreak havoc. Sa...

A liquor store has opened in Saudi Arabia for the first time in over 70 years, a diplomat reported on Wednesday, a further socially liberalising step in the once-ultraconservative kingdom that is home to the holiest sites in Islam.While restricted to non-Muslim diplomats, the store in Riyadh comes as Saudi Arabia’s ...

A reporter who was fired for his standup comedy has been reinstated to his job at a Philadelphia-based public radio station through an arbitrator, who agreed that his jokes were, in some part, funny.Jad Sleiman, 34, is to be fully reinstated to his position with WHYY, a Philadelphia-based NPR station, after an arbit...