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It's a gift that will keep on giving, as the public has a chance to see the approximately 67-million-year-old fossil from Dec. 22 to Dec. 2 Open AI, Microsoft face lawsuit over ChatGPT's alleged role in Connecticut murder-suicide 12/11/2025 04:08pm • SAN FRANCISCO (AP) ��� The heirs of an 83-year-old Connecticut woman are suing ChatGPT maker OpenAI and its business partner Microsoft for wrongful death, alleging that the artificial intelligence chatbot intensified her son's ���paranoid delusions��� and helped direct them at his mother before he k Disney invests $1B in OpenAI in deal to bring characters like Mickey Mouse to Sora AI video tool 12/11/2025 03:24pm • Disney is investing $1 billion in OpenAI and will bring characters such as Mickey Mouse, Cinderella and Luke Skywalker to the AI company's Sora video generation tool, in a licensing deal that the two companies announced on Thursday. 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