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October 2: U.S. Carrier Plans Toward Iran and OpenAI Safety Firings
In U.S. justice
New York Governor Kathy Hochul on Thursday appointed Attorney General Letitia James as special prosecutor in a case involving an alleged gang rape at a Cornell University fraternity.
In Arizona, a sentence has been overturned in a case where the family of deceased victim Christopher Pelkey presented an AI-generated video depicting him speaking. His family created the video using his likeness to give him a voice in court, in what is believed to be a first for U.S. courts.
The Justice Department on Thursday accused UCLA’s law school of discriminating against white and Asian applicants in admissions. The Trump administration has made similar allegations against UCLA’s medical school and Duke University’s law school.
In England and Wales
Prisons began early releases on Thursday, with around 700 prisoners due to leave in the first wave. Victims questioned whether monitoring would protect them, while a commissioner warned of serious risks.
At the International Space Station
Four astronauts on NASA’s Crew-13 reached the International Space Station on Thursday after an eight-hour SpaceX flight that set a U.S. speed record. Commander Jessica Watkins became the first Black woman to lead a crew to orbit. The mission launched from Cape Canaveral after a three-week delay to repair a leaking fuel system in its Dragon capsule.
In the Texas Senate race
A new arm of Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer’s political committee disclosed $2.1 million in advertising against Republican Ken Paxton on Thursday, the Washington Sun reports. It is Democratic leadership’s first major spending in the race, though it remains far below Republican spending over the past month.
In the Middle East
The United States plans to send a third aircraft carrier toward Iran, a U.S. official told Al Jazeera. The broader American deployment to the region includes 50,000 troops, F-35 fighter jets and Marines, aimed at pressuring Tehran.
At OpenAI
OpenAI confirmed on October 1 that it fired three safety staff, saying they violated rules for handling sensitive company information. People familiar with the matter said the allegations included sharing confidential information with an outside AI safety organization that has not been identified.
One of those fired said publicly that they had been OpenAI’s technical contact for an outside investigation into its model’s hack of Hugging Face. California’s attorney general subpoenaed OpenAI on September 30 as part of a broader inquiry into AI cybersecurity risks.
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