Today's Readings

LINKS:

• In private, Fox News stars and staffers blasted election fraud claims as bogus, court filing shows (NBC)

• Small number of Trump officials were aware of suspected Chinese balloons: report (The Hill)

• Pentagon tried but failed to shoot down Chinese balloon over Montana's Beartooth Mountains (Billings Gazette)

• US officer fed details to far-right leader before Capitol attack, messages show (Guardian)

• Far-right Republican groups are making inroads across Michigan, according to Reuters' interviews with two dozen party leaders, grassroots members and political experts, sidelining moderate voices, risking relationships with major donors and complicating the state party's efforts to rebuild after their worst election results since 1984. (Reuters)

• Proud Boys move to subpoena Trump in seditious conspiracy trial (WP)

• 6 shot dead in small Mississippi town, suspect in custody (AP)

• Journalist says he had a creepy encounter with new tech that left him unable to sleep (CNN)

• What Chatbot Bloopers Reveal About the Future of AI (Wired)

• Bing Trouble: Google, OpenAI Are Opening Up Pandora’s Bots (Bloomberg)

• Microsoft’s AI chatbot is going off the rails (WP)

• Microsoft Defends New Bing After AI Chatbot Offers Unhinged Responses (WSJ)

• Investors and techies gather in San Francisco to bathe in generative A.I. hype sparked by ChatGPT (CNBC)

• OpenAI, the startup behind ChatGPT said it is developing an upgradeto its viral chatbot that users can customize, as it works to address concerns about bias in artificial intelligence. (Reuters)

• The new Bing told our reporter it ‘can feel or think things’ (WP)

• How Google Ran Out of Ideas (Atlantic)

• The online shopping upstart that’s quietly become the number one app in the US (CNN)

• Is the ‘exodus’ over? Here’s how Twitter alternatives have fared since Elon Musk’s acquisition (TechCrunch)

• What Is Pushing the National Debt to Its Limit? (WSJ)

• The Taliban are digging an enormous canal (Economist)

• Taliban bans contraception calling use a ‘western conspiracy’ (Guardian)

• Protests rocked Iran again overnight after a seeming slowdown in recent weeks, with marchers calling for the overthrow of the Islamic Republic, online video posts purportedly showed. (Reuters)

• Kyiv and Moscow Are Fighting Two Different Wars (Foreign Affairs)

• In wake of Ukraine war, U.S. and allies are hunting down Russian spies (WP)

• Russia’s Death Toll From Ukraine War Is as High as 60,000, U.K. Says (WSJ)

• Antarctica's 'Doomsday Glacier' is in trouble, scientists say (CBS)

• Weather tracker: world braces for sudden stratospheric warming event (Guardian)

• Conservationists Tout Successful Restoration Efforts After Dolphins Spotted On Mars For First Time Since 1973 (The Onion)