Google has begun to roll out restrictions in India regarding the types of election-related queries for which its chatbot Gemini will return responses.

Computing & Information Sciences

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Elon Musk’s artificial-intelligence startup xAI will open-source Grok, its chatbot rival to OpenAI’s ChatGPT.

Cornell Tech

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As the 2024 U.S. presidential campaigns heat up, both camps are watching closely for gaffes from the two presidential frontrunners, in an effort to discredit the other over age and psychological capacity, but complaints about Joe Biden have been more vague and there is no evidence of dementia onset, no ‘sun-downing, says Cornell University expert Harry Segal.

Law and Policy

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With majority of opposition leaders in prison or abroad, Russians are preparing to vote in a presidential election that is unlikely to bring significant change. Bryn Rosenfeld is an assistant professor of government at Cornell University and studies post-communist politics and public opinion. She suggests that after the election, we can expect the announcement of an unpopular policy.

International

International Reach

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Steve Reiners, professor of horticulture at Cornell University, says now is the time to start planning for indoor plantings if you want to prepare transplants for your vegetable garden this year.

Landon Schnabel is an assistant professor of sociology at Cornell University. He focuses on gender inequality alongside other dimensions of social inequality, including sexual orientation and race. He argues that the success of the French abortion rights vote underscores the role of culture, religion and secular governance in the preservation and progress of individual freedoms.

International

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Cornell University climate scientist Flavio Lehner notes that the Smokehouse Creek fire, like the Eastland County fires of 2022, sits geographically near a dividing line between regions of the country that are forecast to experience either more or less precipitation in the future.

Energy, Environment & Sustainability

Atkinson Center for a Sustainable Future

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Art Wheaton serves as director of labor studies at Cornell’s School of Industrial and Labor Relations (ILR) and says the potential strike by Teamsters at A-B is a story told in nearly all Union negotiations.

Business, Economics & Entrepreneurship

Industrial and Labor Relations

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The Supreme Court heard a pair of cases that will influence the future of online speech and the limits of future tech regulation.

Law and Policy

Cornell Tech

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The owner of Tumblr and WordPress.com, Automattic, is reportedly in talks with major AI companies to provide training data from users’ posts. Following the news, both sites now have a policy allowing users to opt-out of data sharing with third parties.

Cornell Tech

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