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AI tools have often been criticised for reflecting racial and sexist stereotypes

AI Tools Generate Sexist Content, Warns UN

The biggest players in the multibillion-dollar AI field train their algorithms on vast amounts of data largely pulled from the internet, which enables their tools to write in the style of Oscar Wilde or create Salvador Dali-inspired images.
Thousands have fled Haiti's capital Port-au-Prince since the latest security crisis flared, the UN has said

UN Security Council To Meet On Spiraling Haiti Crisis

The armed groups, which control swaths of the country, announced a coordinated effort to oust Henry on Thursday, with Port-au-Prince's airport, prisons, police stations and other strategic targets coming under attack since.
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Jiang Hui, whose mother was on board the missing Malaysia Airlines flight MH370, at his home in Beijing

10 Years After MH370 Vanished, Families Still In Limbo

Despite the largest search in aviation history, which combed 120,000 square kilometers (46,332, square miles) of the sea floor of the southern Indian Ocean, only a few fragments of the Boeing 777-200ER plane have been found.
Trainee doctors have been on strike over plans to increase medical school admissions

S. Korea To Start Action Against Striking Doctors

Around 9,000 junior doctors walked out nearly two weeks ago to protest against an increase in medical school admissions from next year which is meant to help combat shortages and meet the demands of an ageing society..
A firefighter battling the Smokehouse Creek Fire, near Amarillo, in the Texas Panhandle

Texas Battling Largest Wildfire In Its History

The Texas A&M Forest Service said five major fires, fueled by an unseasonably hot winter and ferocious winds, were actively burning across the state's northern area known as the Texas panhandle.

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