Today

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• Congress must address debt ceiling by June 5, Yellen warns (CNN)

• White House, GOP appear closer to deal to avert debt ceiling crisis (WP)

• The White House and congressional Republicans are putting the final touches on a deal that will raise the US government's $31.4 trillion debt ceiling for two years while capping spending on everything but military and veterans, according to a US official. (Reuters)

• Why Texas’ GOP-controlled House wants to impeach Republican Attorney General Ken Paxton (AP)

• DeSantis appears to back woman who led Amanda Gorman poem school ban (Guardian)

• Clarence Thomas’s newest opinion would literally bring back child labor (Vox)

• Why tech giants want to strangle AI with red tape (Economist)

• Here’s Why AI May Be Extremely Dangerous—Whether It’s Conscious or Not (Scientific American)

• Worried about the dangers of AI? They’re already here. (The Hill)

• OpenAI’s ChatGPT app tops 500K downloads in just 6 days (TechCrunch)

• Scammer dupes man out of $600,000 in 10 minutes by posing as friend using AI (Yahoo)

• 6 ways generative AI chatbots and LLMs can enhance cybersecurity (CSO)

• Rishi Sunak races to tighten rules for AI amid fears of existential risk (Guardian)

• New superbug-killing antibiotic discovered using AI (BBC)

• JPMorgan is developing a ChatGPT-like A.I. service that gives investment advice (CNBC)

• Reality Is Broken. We Have AI Photos to Blame. (WSJ)

• Where Memory Ends and Generative AI Begins (Wired)

• ‘War on women’: Taliban curbs on Afghan females a ‘crime’ (Al Jazeera)

• More than 5,000 new species discovered in Pacific deep-sea mining hotspot (Guardian)

• Woman Still Holding Onto Hope That Toxic Friendship Could Blossom Into A Toxic Relationship (The Onion)