{"id":33304,"date":"2024-02-08T14:16:00","date_gmt":"2024-02-08T14:16:00","guid":{"rendered":"\/p\/thursday-headlines-its-pronounced-nu-cu-lar#id33081"},"modified":"2024-02-08T14:16:00","modified_gmt":"2024-02-08T14:16:00","slug":"thursday-headlines-its-pronounced-nu-cu-lar","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/associatednews.us\/content\/thursday-headlines-its-pronounced-nu-cu-lar\/","title":{"rendered":"Thursday headlines: It\u2019s pronounced nu-cu-lar"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>For the first time on record, global warming has exceeded temperatures of 2.7 degrees Fahrenheit over <a href=\"https:\/\/www.aljazeera.com\/news\/2024\/2\/8\/first-time-world-exceeds-1-5c-warming-limit-over-12-month-period\">a 12-month period.<\/a><span style=color:#A9A9A9> \/ Al Jazeera<\/span><\/p>\n<p>An unlikely coalition behind the White House&#39;s natural gas pivot: climate activists <a href=\"https:\/\/grist.org\/energy\/biden-liquefied-natural-gas-pause-coalition\/\">and manufacturing facilities.<\/a><span style=color:#A9A9A9> \/ Grist<\/span><\/p>\n<p>The proportion of buildings destroyed in Gaza is said to now approach &#8220;that of Guernica, Hamburg, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.lrb.co.uk\/the-paper\/v46\/n03\/tom-stevenson\/rubble-from-bone\">or Hiroshima.&#8221;<\/a><span style=color:#A9A9A9> \/ The London Review of Books<\/span><\/p>\n<p>In multiple replays of a wargame simulation, OpenAI&#39;s chatbot elects to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.newscientist.com\/article\/2415488-ai-chatbots-tend-to-choose-violence-and-nuclear-strikes-in-wargames\/\">launch nuclear attacks.<\/a><span style=color:#A9A9A9> \/ NewScientist<\/span><\/p>\n<p>Unrelated\/related: Can AI art be copyrighted? 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