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One of the biggest giants in all of sports took a tumble on Sunday, as the No. 1 South Carolina women's basketball team had its 43-game win streak snapped with a 77-62 upset loss to No. 5 UCLA. The loss dropped the Gamecocks to 5-1 this season, while the Bruins remained undefeated at 5-0 and could rise up the Top 25 following Sunday's monumental victory. This article will be updated soon to provide more information and analysis. For more from Bleacher Report on this topic and from around the sports world, check out our B/R app , homepage and social feeds—including Twitter , Instagram , Facebook and TikTok .OpenAI Says Deployment of Telemetry Service Caused 3-Hour Outage2 Sweet Dividend Stocks to Buy to Satisfy Your Craving for Passive Income

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LOS ANGELES (AP) — Londynn Jones scored 15 points, making all five of her 3-pointers, and fifth-ranked UCLA stunned No. 1 South Carolina 77-62 on Sunday, ending the Gamecocks’ overall 43-game winning streak and their run of 33 consecutive road victories. The Gamecocks (5-1) lost for the first time since April 2023, when Caitlin Clark and Iowa beat them in the NCAA Tournament national semifinals. Te-Hina Paopao scored 18 points and Tessa Johnson scored 14 for the Gamecocks, whose road winning streak was third-longest in Division I history. It was the first time UCLA took down a No. 1 team in school history, having been 0-20 in such games. The program's previous best wins were over a couple of No. 2s — Oregon in 2019 and Stanford in 2008. Elina Aarnisalo added 13 points as one of five Bruins in double figures. UCLA (5-0) dominated from start to finish, with the Bruins' suffocating defense preventing the Gamecocks from making any sustained scoring runs. Takeaways South Carolina: The Gamecocks trailed by double-digits at halftime for the first time since Dec. 21, 2021, against Stanford, according to ESPN. Chloe Kitts, who averages a team-leading 14 points, finished the game with 2 points on 1 of 7 shooting. UCLA: The Bruins led 43-22 at halftime. Eight different players scored and contributed to 11-0 and 7-0 runs in the first and second quarters as they shot 52% from the field. Key moment The first quarter set the tone for a game in which the Gamecocks never led. They missed their first nine shots and were 4 of 18 from the floor in the quarter. UCLA ran off 11 straight points to take a 20-10 lead into the second quarter. Key stats The Bruins dominated the boards, 41-34, and held the Gamecocks well under their scoring average of 80.2 points. Up next South Carolina travels to Florida to meet Iowa State in the Fort Myers Tipoff on Thanksgiving. UCLA travels to the Rainbow Wahine Showdown in Hawaii to play UT Martin on Friday. Get poll alerts and updates on the AP Top 25 all season. Sign up here. AP college basketball: https://apnews.com/hub/ap-top-25-college-basketball-poll and https://apnews.com/hub/college-basketball

Educators at San Rafael City Schools are forming a committee on artificial intelligence to explore its potential effects and benefits. Christy Novack, the district’s technology director, told trustees on Monday that the panel’s goal will be to develop recommendations for the best uses of the technology in the schools. Novack is recruiting 12 to 15 parents, employees and students to serve on the panel. “We feel the student voices are very important,” she said. Novack said the committee will have four online meetings from 6 to 7:30 p.m. on Jan. 22, Feb. 26, March 26 and May 14. Applications to join the panel are online at shorturl.at/QYknR . Only teachers and staff have access to the district’s ChatGPT and Google Gemini artificial intelligence programs, Novack said. Some students might use ChatGPT, which is publicly available, at home, but the Google program is embedded in the district’s domain server and not accessible to students or the public, she said. The committee may seek to determine the point at which teachers will be able to share the AI tools in classes, for example, and teach children how to use them, Novack said. Trustees said they are excited about the AI exploration but want more details on the parameters. “This is growing so quickly and so fast,” said Carolina Martin, vice president of the board. She told Novack she is curious how the district’s digital literacy coaches would be involved. Novack said she is working with the coaches to establish safety and ethics guidelines for AI; determine how the technology can be used to increase efficiency and productivity for staff; and determine how to prevent bias and misinformation. Novack said she gave AI presentations to all the district’s schools earlier this year. Laura Trahan, assistant superintendent at the Marin County Office of Education, said Novack is a “key part of our countywide AI work and leading and designing the community of practice.” “The focus of the community of practice is to connect teachers and leaders with tools to increase efficiency,” Trahan said. “Christy is particularly good at making the learning accessible and the use of AI approachable.” Martin said that “integrating AI and computer science in schools isn’t just about teaching technology.” “It’s about equipping students with the skills and mindset to thrive in a world driven by innovation and computational thinking,” Martin said. “Technology is part of our lives. Whether students are going to make, create or use these technologies in the future, we have a responsibility to ensure they are responsible and prepared.”The United States ambassador to the UK is to host a special reception to mark the work of a charity founded by former prime minister Gordon Brown. Jane D Hartley will praise the work of the Multibank, which helps to distribute clothes, bedding, baby, hygiene, toy and furniture through a network of local charities and care professionals. Ms Hartley says the Multibank is “one of the best tools we have to provide essential goods to the people who need them the most”. At the reception in London on Tuesday, she will urge more companies to get involved in the charity. The Multibank was launched three years ago by Mr Brown, with help from Amazon, redistributing surplus stock from the online giant’s returns centre in Fife, to families supported by The Cottage Family Centre, in nearby Kirkcaldy, where Mr Brown is a long-time patron. There are now five Multibank charity centres across Britain, which have distributed five million products to half a million families. Support professionals report getting Multibank goods to the families who need them is preventing them from falling into crisis, and stopping children from being taken into care. Ms Hartley and Mr Brown will be joined at the reception by Amazon UK country manager John Boumphrey and Comic Relief chief executive Samir Patel. Amazon UK and Comic Relief announced a £6 million commitment over the next four years to the Multibank Comic Relief Fund to help expand Multibanks across the UK. Ms Hartley said: “We must lift up the most vulnerable when they are down and equip young people with resources as they grow. “In both the UK and the United States, there are still too many families living in poverty, but we can make a difference when we combine the reach of government with the innovation of the private sector. “This game-changing new commitment will boost the reach and the sustainability of the Multibank programme, one of the best tools we have to provide essential goods to the people who need them the most. I have always believed that companies have a responsibility to give back to the world; to do good, not just to do well.” Mr Brown said: “I’m delighted US Ambassador Jane Hartley is joining our Multibank Coalition of Compassion. She joins football, rugby and sports clubs, celebrities from film, theatre and music – including David Tennant, Peter Capaldi, Michael Sheen and Simon Cowell – in calling on suppliers and funders to donate goods to Britain’s Multibank so we can put a smile on thousands of children’s faces this Christmas and show them we care. “The Multibank model is simple: businesses have household good surpluses, and via our community-based charity partners we can get them straight to the people who need them. No product ever needs be wasted whilst we have families in need of them.” Mr Boumphrey said: “Our goal is to help as many families as possible by connecting surplus goods from Amazon and other businesses, with those who need it most.” Mr Patel said: “The Multibank is an invaluable lifeline to people and their families in being able to access essential goods and keep themselves and their children warm and healthy. “Whether it’s clothes, bedding, essential hygiene products or school uniforms, the power of this innovative cross-organisation partnership provides critical help within communities across the UK.”

The Israeli government confirmed on Monday that Omer Neutra, a dual U.S.-Israeli citizen, was killed during Hamas' attack on Israel on Oct. 7, 2023. Neutra, 21, was a tank platoon commander in the IDF. He was thought to be alive in captivity. His parents, Ronen and Orna Neutra, spent the last year campaigning for his release and the release of the remaining hostages thought to be held in Gaza. They spoke at the Republican National Convention in July, wrote op-eds, stayed in steady communication with the Biden Administration and the White House, and made regular media appearances, including with Scripps News . The whole time, they sought to pressure U.S. and Israeli leadership to resolve the hostage crisis. RELATED STORY | Families of Gaza hostages bring their message to both the current and upcoming White Houses "In the 423 days since October 7th, we expected our leaders to demonstrate the same courage displayed so bravely by Omer and rise to the occasion on behalf of those who were killed and kidnapped, just as our beloved Omer showed until the very end," Ronen and Orna Neutra wrote in a statement released Monday. "Leadership will only be revealed in actions and results going forward. We call upon the Israeli government to work with President Biden and President-elect Trump, to use all of their leverage and resources to return all 101 hostages — living and the deceased — to their families as soon as possible." A propaganda video released by Hamas Saturday showed Edan Alexander, an Israeli-American held hostage who was also captured while serving in the IDF. In the video, Alexander calls on Trump to keep negotiating for the freedom of the hostages remaining in Gaza. Trump on Monday demanded release of the remaining hostages, writing on Truth Social: "Please let this truth serve to represent that if the hostages are not released prior to January 20, 2025, the date that I proudly assume office as President of the United States, there will be all hell to pay in the Middle East, and for those in charge who perpetrated these atrocities against humanity."I was shocked, but sadly not surprised, to read recently that one in five small businesses have zero cash reserves. or signup to continue reading About 18 per cent have less than a month's worth of cash to fulfil their obligations and 21 per cent have reserves to cover only one to two months. This research commissioned by Prospa, showing the modest to zero reserves held by 60 per cent of small businesses, is frightening and a message we can't ignore. And about one in three have dipped into personal funds to and the business cupboard is bare. Cash flow is the oxygen of enterprise. Requests for help to my agency from distressed small and family business owners seeking assistance with insolvency or the risk that a business they are dealing with is in trouble, have increased by over 50 per cent this year. Business creation and new entrepreneurship are essential to driving economic growth, generating jobs, and boosting innovation. We particularly need more younger people to take up the opportunity of owning and running a small business; yet the risk reward balance is off-putting. The drain on resources during the establishment phase can be too much. The early years for a new business can be the valley of death for cash flow. Having every available dollar to re-invest in the business will help more to survive and build the foundations for success. In Singapore, a tax discount scheme is available in the early years of a new enterprise in recognition of the need to counter this cash flow valley of death. There is merit in Australia exploring the feasibility of introducing a similar early-stage incentive in the form of a tax discount or offset scheme to support businesses retaining more of the early-stage earnings for reinvestment in the business when it is needed most. This incentive would encourage business formation and reward risk-taking to energise enterprise. Singapore's start-up tax exemption scheme is specifically designed to recognise that new "home-grown" enterprises are an important component of a vibrant economy. It provides eligible new companies the exemption for the first three years, reducing their taxable income by 75 per cent for the first $100,000 of income and by 50 per cent for the next $100,000 of income. Under that model a business with a taxable income of $200,000 would pay no tax on $125,000 for each year of assessment (with the remaining $75,000 taxed at the prevailing company tax rate). Any Australian scheme should have the characteristics and settings that would be most appropriate for our business environment and complement existing incentives. For example, alternative models could see the rate of the tax discount or offset taper over the first three years and be adapted for equivalent benefit for differing entity structures. It should also have safeguards drawing on existing initiatives to tackle illegal business "phoenixing", including DirectorID, to prevent businesses from rebirthing or restructuring in order to misuse the incentive. What is important is to send a clear message supported by practical help, that small business is crucial for our economy and our communities. Small business is rightly celebrated for generating 33 per cent of our nation's gross domestic product and providing jobs for 5.36 million people - 42 per cent of the private workforce. But in 2006, small business contributed 40 per cent of GDP and employed 53 per cent of those with a private sector job. I fear we are sleepwalking into a "big corporate economy with this worrying trajectory. We need to energise enterprise and providing a boost to inspire new small businesses will help lift our country's rate of economic growth. In the US and UK election campaigns, candidates offered support for new small businesses to get started and recognition for the self-employed. Getting the incentives right is important because we need to find the next generation of small business owners. The average age of a small business owner right now is 50 and climbing. In the 1970s, 17 per cent of business owners were under the age of 30, but that's down to 8 per cent. CPA Australia's Asia-Pacific Small Business Survey found of the 11 regions and thousands of businesses surveyed, Australia had the highest percentage of small business owners aged 50 and over. And Australia ranked third lowest for business owners under 40. The survey also found business owners aged 30 to 50 were the most likely to innovate, to use technology, to grow new value, to drive economic opportunity, which further reinforces the need to provide incentives. The ASBFEO Pulse, a world-leading health check of objective vital signs for small business, showed a sustained decline in small business conditions over the last 2 years that is now levelling out, and fewer people considering starting a business over the same period. Is the next generation increasingly not seeing self-employment or their own enterprise as a pathway for the future? At a time when young people, particularly, look for purpose as well as profit in their lives, to choose their own path and shape their own story, isn't self-employment or running your own businesses a seemingly natural fit? 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Relive the best shots and biggest moments from Round 1 of the CME Group Tour Championship, the final event of the LPGA Tour season. The Golf Central team breaks down Lydia Ko's first round at the CME Group Tour Championship and how it compared to her previous success in the event. Golf Central analyzes what makes Nelly Korda's golf swing so "poetic" before looking back on her even-par CME Group Tour Championship Round 1, which saw her struggle on the greens. Relive the best shots and biggest moments from Round 1 of the CME Group Tour Championship, the final event of the LPGA Tour season. Jeeno Thitikul sits down with Golf Central to discuss her Aon Risk Reward Challenge win, identifying the strongest part of her game and why she strives to inspire more Thai golfers to compete overseas. The Golf Central crew breaks down the 'evolution' of women's sports, particularly through the LPGA and how the CME Group Tour Championship is pushing women's golf to a new level. Amy Rogers reports on the anticipation leading up to the LPGA CME Group Tour Championship and the record $4M paid to the winner, as well as player reactions to the 2025 schedule. Jeeno Thitikul discusses her finish atop the Aon Risk Reward Challenge standings. Nelly Korda sits down with the media to discuss her recent win at The ANNIKA driven by Gainbridge, reflect on her season as a whole, weigh in on the pace of play discussion and more. Amy Rogers reports that Lexi Thompson is in "good spirits" ahead of the CME Group Tour Championship, which likely will be the final event she competes in on the LPGA Tour for the foreseeable future. Ally Ewing joins Golf Today to discuss why she's retiring at the end of the season, playing in her last LPGA Tournament and playing with "freedom" during the last few months.Who is the Hyderabad techie getting married to badminton champion PV Sindhu? Meet Venkata Datta

The mum of Coleen Rooney has said 'I've finally got my daughter back' in a heartfelt I'm A Celebrity moment. The WAG's jungle moments have captured the heart of the nation and made her one of the favourites to win. But as her mum held her daughter closely in her arms during a camp visit, she realised how nervous Coleen was about how she was being perceived back home. In an exclusive interview with our sister publication, the Mirror , Colette McLoughlin opened up about her moment with her daughter in the jungle and how grateful she is to see her daughter get her confidence back after the Wagatha Christie trial. Mum Colette said: “ As I held her, one of the things she said to me was ‘mum, have I been boring?’ It broke my heart hearing that but I said, ‘no, you've been yourself and that’s all that matters. “She is obviously thinking about what people are thinking, but she needn’t worry. If she went in shouting and being loud, that wouldn’t be her. We've seen the true Coleen." The proud mum said that her daughter’s jungle experience has been just what she needed after a tough two years centred around her High Court battle, and she believes that the show has helped get her zest for life back. Colette explained: “Absolutely, the show’s helped it come back, and also her confidence, because she was really lacking in it. “It was horrendous, because at one time during the trial, we lost Coleen . Coleen wasn't Coleen. She couldn't be herself. We didn't know before the trial what was going on because she didn't tell us. We noticed a difference in her behaviour, in her attitude, she even distanced herself. “So when it all came out, it was a relief for us, really, because then we knew what was going on. But now we've got her back fully.” After so long apart, Colette was eager to find out on her camp visit just how Coleen was doing in the jungle. But she was left under no illusions just how hard the experience had been. Colette said: “She said that she didn’t want me to go, and I said ‘come home now, come home. But then she calmed down, and I asked her: ‘how is it?’ "She said that she had a headache for the first few days because she was getting no sugar, and must have been detoxing, but then she said how hard it had been.” As viewers saw, the arrival of her boys lifted her spirits tremendously. And in the minutes before seeing their mum, they were practically bubbling over with excitement. “They keep asking: ‘Is she here, really?’ They kept thinking she was going to jump out from behind a bush any minute. We kept saying to them 'five more minutes and you'll see your mum again'. They just couldn't wait. It was so lovely.” When the moment came, it brought a tear to Colette’s eye. “I heard almost a squeal of a cry from her, and my heart just lifted when I saw her,” she says. “It was wonderful seeing the boys in her arms, and they were so excited.” Soon the boys were having a VIP tour of camp from their mum . “They really wanted to see the dunny and the beds, and were asking endless questions,” Colette laughs. “They were obsessed. Coming away was hard but we told them it won’t be long before you see your mum again, and they accepted that, although Cass got quite emotional at the end.” With Coleen in the jungle, and Wayne busy managing Plymouth Argyle on the south coast, Colette has been looking after the boys with her husband Tony. “Her dad sobbed this morning when he watched Coleen with the boys,” she says. “He's very protective of Coleen and all his children, and it really moved him.” She says that the boys have been a delight to look after and are “used to being with me and their granddad so it's nothing new.” And while she is in Australia, her two eldest boys Kai, 15, and Klay, 11 have been busy Facetiming her. “They are saying how proud of their mum they are, especially the drinking trials ... .everyone is particularly impressed by how she just downed it,” Colette laughs. She is also in regular contact with husband Wayne on Facetime. “Today he was saying: ‘get in there’ when she got through. He's over the moon, he really is. He obviously misses her but he is really proud of how she is doing,”she says. Like the millions of viewers at home, the whole family have been impressed by her calmness under pressure when it comes to the trials. But for Colette , this was never in doubt. “ Coleen is very patient, she takes her time, and she’ll think things through. She would never give up, that’s not her,” she says. “She hesitated a little putting her hand up at the trials but that was out of her being polite. She was giving other people a chance, because she's done quite a few. And she didn't want to be seen to be too pushy.” Fans of the show have lapped up Coleen’s hilarious anecdotes - including her bizarre meeting with Donald Trump. But for Colette one story is very much her personal favourite. “I love the one about Wayne proposing in a petrol station and how they celebrated with corned beef hash back home,” she says “That’s where they are happiest, when they’re around family.” She says her and Wayne are “just a normal couple ” despite being in the public eye since they were teenagers. “She lives in her car and is always driving the boys around....I don’t know how she does it, getting them to football, getting them to school . The day starts at 6am on the dot,” she says, adding laughing: “I said to her in the jungle ‘have you had a rest?’ and she looked at me and said: ‘No’. She said: 'I've been up and down there all the time to get wood.'” There have been more poignant moments in camp too. During one discussion, Coleen told how Wayne can’t watch Kai play football anymore because of all the attention he receives. “The boys feel it...they want their dad to be with them ,” she says. “People come up to him, sadly, thinking it's their right. It’s not that easy to refuse them, but he just wants to spend time with his own children.” For Colette, she always knew that Coleen would cope with the great outdoors - after loving their £200 caravan growing up. “She had baths in a tin bath outside the caravan..these were all the memories she's kept,” she says. With all eyes on the final, Colette says she has no expectations as to how her daughter will fare. But one thing’s for sure: she couldn’t be prouder...or excited for that matter. “I’ve been in trouble with everyone back home because I’ve been ringing them so excited, and I haven’t realised what the time is and I am waking them all up,” she laughs. “Coleen wanted people to see her for who she is. And I think she's achieved that. It is the Coleen we know, but now it’s the Coleen everyone knows." Don't miss the latest news from around Scotland and beyond - Sign up to our daily newsletter here.* Wall Street stocks end close to flat, Europe ends down * Oil prices settle higher, * Dollar rises against yen, falls against the Euro By Sinéad Carew and Harry Robertson NEW YORK/LONDON Dec 13 - MSCI's global equity gauge fell on Friday while bond yields climbed as investors waited for clues about the future path for interest rates from next week's U.S. Federal Reserve meeting. In U.S. Treasuries, benchmark 10-year yields rose to a three-week high and were on track for their fifth-straight daily gain as investors bet that Fed Chair Jerome Powell will signal a pause in policy easing after a widely expected 25-basis-point rate cut next Wednesday. The U.S. central bank is grappling with inflation staying stubbornly above its 2% annual target. Data released on Thursday showed higher-than-expected U.S. producer prices in November. Friday's data showed U.S. import prices barely rose in November as increases in food and fuel costs were partially offset by decreases elsewhere, thanks to a strong dollar. "The market is assuming that Powell cuts next week and then pauses. I think that's the right assumption because we're seeing a tension between the inflationary data and the labor-market data," said Matt Rowe, head of portfolio management and cross-asset strategies at Nomura Capital Management. While bets on a December rate cut are almost unanimous, CME Group's Fedwatch tool implies just two cuts in 2025. “They have to take into account that in an economy where inflation is showing itself at this point to be sticky, and you're very highly likely going to get further fiscal stimulus, deregulation, and some aspect of tariffs coming through, there's just no way you can validate why you keep cutting in that instance,” said Tom Fitzpatrick, head of global market insights at R.J. O'Brien in New York. While a rally in chipmaker Broadcom provided a big boost for Wall Street, only the Nasdaq managed a small gain. The Dow Jones Industrial Average fell 86.06 points, or 0.20%, to 43,828.06, the S&P 500 fell 0.16 point, or 0.00%, to 6,051.09 and the Nasdaq Composite rose 23.88 points, or 0.12%, to 19,926.72. Weekly results were also a mixed bag with the S&P 500 falling 0.64% and the Nasdaq rising 0.34% while the Dow fell 1.82%. MSCI's gauge of stocks across the globe fell 2.27 points, or 0.26%, to 866.14. Europe's STOXX 600 index closed down 0.53% earlier, breaking a three-week winning streak, as investors sought clarity on Europe's rate policy amid concerns about economic growth and a potential trade war. The yield on benchmark U.S. 10-year notes rose 7.5 basis points to 4.399%, from 4.324% late on Thursday. The 30-year bond yield rose 5.7 basis points to 4.6052%. The 2-year note yield, which typically moves in step with interest rate expectations for the Federal Reserve, rose 5.9 basis points to 4.245%, from 4.186% late on Thursday. In currencies, the dollar index eyed its biggest weekly gain in a month on the prospect of slower U.S. rate cuts. On the day, the index, which measures the greenback against a basket of currencies, fell 0.02% to 106.94. The euro rose 0.32% to $1.0501, clawing back some recent losses in the wake of the European Central Bank's rate cut on Thursday. Against the Japanese yen, the dollar strengthened 0.66% to 153.62, having risen all week as traders scaled back bets on a Bank of Japan rate hike next week. Sterling weakened 0.4% to $1.2619 after a surprise contraction in UK economic activity. In energy markets, oil prices settled at a three-week high on expectations more sanctions on Russia and Iran could tighten supplies and that lower U.S. and European interest rates could boost fuel demand. U.S. crude settled up 1.8%, or $1.27 at $71.29 a barrel and Brent settled at $74.49 per barrel, up 1.5% or $1.08 on the day. In precious metals, spot gold fell 1.2% to $2,649.04 an ounce. This article was generated from an automated news agency feed without modifications to text.

OpenAI CEO Sam Altman has pledged a personal donation of $1 million to President-elect Donald Trump’s inaugural fund. This is just after Meta and Amazon also made similar commitments, marking a new dynamic in the relationship between the tech industry and the incoming administration. A spokesperson for OpenAI confirmed the donation on Friday, 13 December. Altman said he is backing the vision of President Trump stating, “President Trump will lead our country into the age of AI, and I am eager to support his efforts to ensure America stays ahead.” Meta, which owns Facebook and Instagram, had previously issued a statement pledging a $1 million donation itself. Amazon confirmed its pledge and announced plans to provide an in-kind contribution as well by live-streaming Trump’s inauguration on Prime Video, an offering estimated at another $1 million. Musk And Altman: An Escalating Feud While Altman is optimistic on Trump, he also told of his lawsuit against another rival, Elon Musk, the world’s richest individual. Trump tapped Musk for co-leading a newly constituted Department of Government Efficiency along with entrepreneur Vivek Ramaswamy. An advisory body meant to ensure that wasteful spending decreases and regulations are eased up in order to streamline governmental operations. Despite the professional differences, downplaying Musk’s growing influence in the administration, he said, ‘I am not that worried about Elon’s role. There’s enough room for multiple voices in shaping America’s future.'” Intersection Of Tech And Politics The tech industry’s support for Trump’s inaugural fund speaks to a larger effort to align with the new administration’s priorities. Altman’s donation, along with those from Meta and Amazon, reflects the sector’s recognition of artificial intelligence and technology as central to future economic growth and global competitiveness. With these high-profile contributions, the inauguration is shaping to be a landmark moment in tech’s influence in politics. Altman’s statement indicates his desire to partner with Trump’s administration for the U.S. to continue leading in AI innovations. ALSO READ | Deportation Looms For 18,000 Indians As Trump Tightens Border LawsLGUs key to housing safety, says Phivolcs

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