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Brunson to Embiid:

'What's that for?'

The Guardian US is entering the race for political ad dollars. buff.ly/3Jw70AM

We have a diabetes epidemic and guess what? It's preventable. My latest for The Guardian

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Arizona will soon be the latest state with a near-total abortion ban after the state's supreme court revived a 160-year-old law.

Watch part of Geoff Bennett's conversation with Carter Sherman for more.

The NYT reports that:

- OpenAI built a tool to transcribe YouTube videos to train its LLMs (likely infringing copyright)
- Greg Brockman personally helped scrape the videos
- OpenAI knew it was a legal gray area
- Google may have used YouTube videos the same way
- Meta avoided…

As of this week, more than 139,600 people have signed up to receive the five-week 'Reclaim Your Brain.' buff.ly/4aDQhao

NEW: Trump Media only made it to its stock market debut last week after being loaned millions in 2022 by a Russian-American — who came under criminal investigation after his friend insider traded on the Trump Media deal. The Guardian exclusive theguardian.com/us-news/2024/a…

The Guardian appoints new correspondents in the Caribbean, South America, Africa and the UK, boosting its coverage of underreported communities theguardian.com/gnm-press-offi…

Smirnov was paid $600,000 by a US company tied to a UK firm owned by Trump associates in 2020 – the same year he allegedly began lying to FBI about Bidens’ role in Ukraine business, reports ⁦Jacqueline Sweet⁩ theguardian.com/us-news/2024/m…

American dream of owning a home is dead, majority of renters say dlvr.it/T3yHh7

Last year, Esquire assigned me to write a profile about Jay Shetty, the ultra-famous self-help influencer and guru to the stars.

At first, I thought Shetty was smarmy but ultimately harmless. But as I began my background research, I found Shetty had committed rampant plagiarism…

Some highlights from the investigation:

– Shetty did not spend three years in a temple in India, as he often claims. He spent the majority of that time in Watford, a town just outside of London.

– Shetty's origin story, about how his life was changed at age 18 by a lecture…

Uncovering the higher truth of Jay Shetty theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/n…

We've just launched something very dear to my heart on the Guardian's home pages. Alongside 'Most viewed' we are now also showing 'Deeply read' - the pieces Guardian readers are spending time with.

‘Guardian US announces Mehdi Hasan as new regular columnist’

“I have been poring over columns in the Guardian since I was a teenager. Now I get to write some of my own”-Mehdi Hasan

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That 'loosely-knit' network of SF 'moderates' you've heard about? It's really an interlocking gray money network fueled by tech billionaires seeking to turn the city's politics sharply rightward. Will Jarrett & I lay it all out for The Guardian & Mission Local theguardian.com/us-news/2024/f…

The truth.

Earlier this month, The Guardian U.S. announced that its end-of-year drive brought in $2.2 million, a record amount of reader revenue since its first appeal six years ago.

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