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European Union regulators are concerned that Microsoft may be covertly controlling OpenAI as its biggest investor.

Authorities say a missing Ohio teen was recovered in Florida after she logged in to an online video game at the home of the man who took her.

After a flawless launch to orbit, the privately built robotic Peregrine lander is unlikely to reach the lunar surface because of a failure in its propulsion system.

OpenAI has publicly responded to a copyright lawsuit by The New York Times, calling the case “without merit” and saying it still hoped for a partnership with the media outlet.

In a blog post, OpenAI said the Times “is not telling the full story.” It took particular issue with claims that its ChatGPT AI tool reproduced Times stories verbatim, arguing that the Times had manipulated prompts to include regurgitated excerpts of articles. “Even when using such prompts, our models don’t typically behave the way The New York Times insinuates, which suggests they either instructed the model to regurgitate or cherry-picked their examples from many attempts,” OpenAI said.

OpenAI claims it’s attempted to reduce regurgitation from its large language models and that the Times refused to share examples of this reproduction before filing the lawsuit. It said the verbatim examples “appear to be from year-old articles that have proliferated on multiple third-party websites.” The company did admit that it took down a ChatGPT feature, called Browse, that unintentionally reproduced content.

“There is still a lot of uncertainty in how cold we get,” the weather service said Sunday evening, but even lows in the 20s — the most likely scenario — would be “much below normal and cool enough for snow.”

Chances for lowland snow had increased slightly by Monday morning, with a 40% to 60% chance for at least 1 inch of snow between Thursday and Saturday, and a 30% chance for 2 inches or more, according to the weather service.

Ukraine came under strong Russian missile attacks that struck near the front lines of fighting in the east as well as in central and western parts of the country.

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Homendy said the cockpit voice recorder did not capture any data because it had been overwritten and again called on regulators to mandate retrofitting existing planes with recorders that capture 25 hours of data, up from the two hours required at present.

The state's Bremerton-Seattle ferry run has been without a second vessel since since fall 2021, and it appears that it will be some time, years even, before Washington State Ferries will fully bring back that service to pre-pandemic levels.

In a new report released Thursday, the agency pointed to crew and vessel availability as barriers to additional service. The agency has previously offered rough estimates for continued service restoration but in the new report acknowledged that further progress would not come soon.

"Now, as more years separate us from the pandemic and WSF better understands some of the systemic challenges related to crew and vessel availability, it’s clear it will take longer to restore all routes to full service," the report, titled the "Washington State Ferries Service Contingency Plan," said.

While the agency said that it expects crew levels to continue to climb over the next 18-24 months, it said that vessel constraints would likely continue until new vessels join the fleet.

"Until both new vessels and sufficient crew are available, WSF can reliably operate 15 vessels in service as a baseline," the report said. Under that fleet configuration, service on the Bremerton-Seattle, Fauntleroy-Vashon-Southworth, Port Townsend-Coupeville and Anacortes-Sidney routes would remain at below pre-pandemic levels.

"WSF currently does not anticipate full, permanent restoration of service on domestic routes until new vessels start entering the fleet in 2028," the agency said. "Full, permanent service restoration may be gradual and will remain dependent on vessel availability. Restoration of international service to Sidney, British Columbia, is projected for 2030."

The agency offered a glimmer of hope about some limited restored service, saying that there would be times, "often entire seasons," when it had both the crew and vessels to operate additional service above its 15-vessel baseline in the coming years. Were that to be the case, it said, the prioritization for adding service would be:

1. Adding a third vessel at Fauntleroy-Vashon-Southworth
2. Adding a second vessel at Seattle-Bremerton
3. Adding a second vessel (shoulder/summer only) at Port Townsend-Coupeville

The agency has said that it intends to award one or two contracts for building the next set of state ferries this summer, with the intent of speeding up delivery by allowing two vessels to be built at the same time. If the state awarded two contracts, the agency said in a request for information document released in December, its desired delivery dates for its next five vessels would be two in February 2028, two in January 2029 and a fifth in January 2030.

WSF currently does not anticipate full, permanent restoration of service on domestic routes until new vessels start entering the fleet in 2028

The Bremerton route will likely continue to have issues until 2028