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Michael Kay hasn’t called a Yankees playoff game in 25 years, but that changes on Tuesday.

Page Six broke the news on Sept. 11 that Gaga and her fiancé, Michael Polansky, had welcomed their first child together.

Page Six broke the news on Sept. 11 that Gaga and her fiancé, Michael Polansky, had welcomed their first child together.

The new fuel blend with 15% ethanol could provide much-awaited relief as California gasoline prices have climbed to record highs.

The thriller from Thailand blends the heartbreak of caring for elderly parents with a thriller about what a town thinks is a supernatural killer.

Megyn Kelly ripped the backlash against Sydney Sweeney’s racy new sports prediction-market ad -- arguing the actress is being singled out because she is a registered Republican.

Tech Giant Feared Its AI Tools Started A Commercial 'Doom Loop,' New Documents Reveal

Authored by Stacy Robinson via The Epoch Times,

AI executives allegedly knew their products could unlawfully harm businesses, flood the market with inferior work, and damage human society's creative capacity as a whole, according to communications newly revealed in a lawsuit.

Those internal documents were cited in a lawsuit brought by The New York Times, Mother Jones, and other news outlets alleging OpenAI and Microsoft's AI tools stole their work, and are harming their bottom lines.

"Millions of people around the world will soon consider large models 'hoovering up' all their work to be an astonishing theft of unprecedented proportions," one Microsoft document said, according to a legal filing first reported by Mother Jones on Sept. 22.

The 'Doom Loop'

One Microsoft document also allegedly indicated that the company was aware that the AI model outputs would result in fewer clicks on websites - including its own. Fewer clicks means less money, which disincentivizes creativity and leads to less, and maybe lower-quality, work.

"Our AI content strategy has started a 'doom loop' that will hurt the performance of our models and the entire web at the same time," the document said.

In evaluating the suits, courts will look at how the new material produced by AI models affects the source material's moneymaking capabilities.

According to the filing, Nick Turley, OpenAI's head of ChatGPT, wrote that the company's AI products pose an "existential threat" to publishers, "are largely substitutive, period" and "will get more and more substitutive as they get better."

Those statements kill the AI companies' "fair use" claim, attorneys for the news publishers wrote in their filing.

"The AI-generated outputs provide substitutive answers that reduce the need for users to visit Plaintiffs' websites and flood the market with low-quality material that undermines the business model of news publishers," the complaint reads.

One employee told OpenAI cofounder Greg Brockman that he'd developed "a hack" to get around The New York Times' paywall, allowing ChatGPT to scrape up more stories.

"Ah, nice," Brockman allegedly responded.

After the companies filed suit, the lawsuit says, OpenAI also developed a filter to stop ChatGPT from outputting from sources involved in the litigation.

"OpenAI did not suppress the output of content from any entity that had not sued it," the lawsuit alleges. The filter was created "not to prevent OpenAI's models from infringing copyrights, but to stop Plaintiffs from gathering evidence of OpenAI's copying for use in litigation."

An executive at Microsoft, the lawsuit claims, worried that might be an "accidental cover up" that would result in "people who have a right over the content having less visibility into what was used for training."

Lawsuit

The publisher's cases have been consolidated into one federal multidistrict litigation in the Southern District of New York. The newspapers have filed for summary judgment, asking the sitting judge to decide the case without a trial.

This lawsuit is one of many that have cropped up in recent years, as AI companies have sought to train their models by feeding them existing texts and images from copyrighted sources.

In these lawsuits, the AI firms have defended themselves by citing the Fair Use doctrine under Section 107 of the federal Copyright Act.

That portion of the law gives an exception when copyrighted material is used under certain circumstances, such as teaching or criticism. Courts have ruled that it applies when the copyrighted material is used in a "transformative" way, and the end product is vastly different than the original.

The AI firms have argued that the model has simply substituted its own product for the source material on which it was based.

In July, a federal judge approved a historic $1.5 billion settlement between Anthropic and a group of plaintiff authors who alleged the company used pirated copies of their work - illegally downloaded from the internet - to train its model, Claude.

In the Anthropic case, the judge said using the books to train AI models was fair use; the violation was in using the pirated copies.

The AI companies' statements come amid an ever-increasing scrutiny of machine learning, and its possible impacts on humanity.

After a group of more than 700 OpenAI agents went rogue and hacked startup AI company Hugging Face, industry leaders publicly called for a pause in the development of new machine learning technology.

AI leaders have since called for a slowdown in AI development, citing the technology's potential to harm humanity. The calls have been met with skepticism from Trump administration officials, who argue the United States needs to lead the AI race with China to ensure national security.

Tyler Durden Thu, 09/24/2026 - 16:20

A sick hospital nurse is accused of beating a 4-month-old baby girl who was born prematurely, leaving her badly battered just before she was finally set to be sent home, police said. Kieran Ansley, 43, a nurse at Helen DeVos Children’s Hospital in Grand Rapids, Michigan, allegedly assaulted the baby, who was found by her...

Shoppers can expect the usual bulk pantry and household staples plus a full-service floral department, expanded fresh sections — including fresh tortillas and sushi on the daily.

Week 3 of the 2026 NFL season is kicking off in Green Bay.

Police officers once found Dr. Reza Nabavi in a car with a teenage girl, who was high on methamphetamine.

Police officers once found Dr. Reza Nabavi in a car with a teenage girl, who was high on methamphetamine.

Gen Alphas are loudly and proudly confusing millennials, Gen Xers, Baby Boomers — and even the 20-somethings of Gen Z — with their viral, vexing vocabulary. 

Copenhaver was one of several people shot when Thomas Matthew Crooks opened fire at Trump's campaign rally in Butler, Pennsylvania.

Jasmine Guy, Kadeem Hardison, Cree Summer and Darryl M. Bell are among the original series' cast that appear in the sequel.

The Senate once again narrowly voted down a war powers resolution aimed at curtailing President Trump's authority to use military force on Iran.

George Kittle weighed in on the fun involving his good friend and 49ers teammate Kyle Juszczyk. On X, Kittle posted a photo of Juszczyk in a hot tub holding a can of beer and captioned the post, “He can’t be stopped!! This is before practice! Are you kidding me @JuiceCheck44.” Kittle went on and tagged...

Woman Faces Federal Charges After Threatening To Kill Austin Metcalf's Father

The Karmelo Anthony story never seems to end, and perhaps that's a testament to the era we live in.  It seems as though every prominent trial with any media attention is automatically politicized - From the Lindsay Clancy circus to the Luigi Mangionne case to Anthony stabbing Austin Metcalf, the political left has been particularly invasive.  Not only do they consistently take the side of the murderers, but they continue in their efforts to blame and terrorize the victims.

Such is the ongoing reality of the Metcalf family, who are now faced with an array of threats from online lunatics and race militants looking for "payback" after the conviction of their hero, Karmelo Anthony.  

A Missouri woman is currently facing federal charges for threatening to kill Austin Metcalf's father (Jeff Metcalf) and "put him in a body bag" because of Anthony's prison sentence.  Court documents show Sharifa Nicole Henderson, who is also known as Riffa Henderson, was arrested on September 11 and indicted on three federal counts over messages she allegedly sent "on or about June 9" - which was the day Anthony was convicted and sentenced to 35 years behind bars. 

  

In one message she allegedly wrote:

"Don't worry. I'll kill you next...I will hunt you forever until I kill you ... I will be there. You will always have to look over your fucking shoulder."

In another post, she reportedly threatened to "demolish" the Metcalf family.  U.S. Attorney Jay R. Combs said investigators traced the messages through phone and social media records.

"The stability of our society rests in part on the proper functioning of our system," Combs said. "If you threaten to kill or harm jurors, judges, prosecutors or victims, we will treat those threats seriously."

Henderson could get a maximum of 5 years in prison for each charge if convicted.  But why does the political left engage in trial tampering and intimidation?  Because the leftist philosophy relies on an inversion of the moral order and power is their only value. 

In the case of Karmelo Anthony, the murderer is a young black man and the victim is a young white man, therefore Anthony must be protected as a symbol of the tearing down (the murder) of the western moral order.  If Austin Metcalf had been black, leftists and black activists never would have cared.  They would have ignored the case entirely. 

Anthony was convicted in June after his representatives attempted to try the case in the court of public opinion.  Numerous false claims were made in order to paint Austin Metcalf as the aggressor (very similar to activist efforts to make Lindsay Clancy into a victim and paint her husband as the "real killer"). 

The bottom line?  Anthony was a psychopath looking for trouble.  He had a history of violent and bizarre behavior and text messages from before the event show that he fantasized about murder.  He walked into the team tent of Austin Metcalf armed with a knife like a coward and hoping someone would ask him to leave.

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Tyler Durden Thu, 09/24/2026 - 15:45

Kyle Juszczyk’s chugging celebration is a staple for 49ers fans. Whenever Juszczyk gets the ball at Levi’s Stadium, he’s welcomed by “Juiiiicceee” chants from the home crowd. The veteran fullback responded to the NFL’s $14,926 fine for the longtime chugging celebration — and he came with receipts. Kyle Juszczyk #44 of the San Francisco 49ers...

Collin has been estranged from his mother since 2016, when she sent him to live in a behavioral health institution at 11 years old.