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New reporting by CBC, drawing on a Mother Jones investigation, details how the perpetrator of the Tumbler Ridge, British Columbia mass shooting used ChatGPT, raising questions about the AI chatbot's safeguards and whether its responses may have enabled or encouraged the attack.

Mother Jones argues that segregation-era racial discrimination, long considered buried, is being revived by decisions of the US Supreme Court under Chief Justice John Roberts. The piece frames recent rulings on voting rights, race-conscious policies and civil rights protections as undoing progress made since the fall of Jim Crow laws. It reflects a broader debate among liberals over the court's rightward shift and its impact on American democracy.

Palantir co-founder Peter Thiel is drawing criticism after arguing that people should be less judgmental about a deadly strike on a school in Iran. His comments, reported by Mother Jones, have sparked debate about the ethics of civilian casualties in US-Iran tensions and the responsibility of defense-linked tech figures weighing in on military actions.