Let's Do The News! (May 17, 2023)

                                                         

Your daily round-up of today's news:

- ChatGPT boss Sam Altman urges the US Congress to regulate AI, saying that government regulation is "critical" to control the risks of artificial intelligence.

- The head of the Ukrainian Supreme Court, Chief Justice Vsevolod Kniaziev, has been detained for allegedly taking bribes. This comes after specialist investigators said they had "exposed large-scale corruption" at the court.

- US President Joe Biden and senior Republicans have expressed courteous optimism at the deal could be reached on raising the government's borrowing limit, potentially avoiding a catastrophic default on US debt.

- A high school in the US state of Missouri has been criticized after suspending a student who filmed a teacher repeatedly saying a racial slur used on black people.

- The US state of North Carolina passed legislation banning most abortions after 12 weeks of pregnancy.

- North Korea's state media reported that the country's leader, Kim Jong Un, has inspected a military satellite station.

- Renault will reveal their new SUV called the Rafale next month.

- Volkswagen is teasing an upcoming GTX variant of the ID.7 electric sedan.

- BMW is reportedly ditching the "i" lettering from internal combustion model names.

- NASCAR issued a deduction of 10 driver and owner points to Tyler Reddick and the 23XI team concerning added ballast found during a pre-qualifying inspection at Darlington.

- Takara Tomy's Beyblade X will have a TV series airing this autumn.

- According to the Arts Workers Japan survey, 94% of Japanese creators are concerned about AI as they've cited negative experiences with it, such as stolen AI art distributed on foreign websites.

- The producers of the Netflix series Black Knight respond to alleged plagiarism. The six-episode K-drama was released on Netflix last weekend but since its release, some viewers accused the series of plagiarizing the game Death Stranding.

- The Pat McAfee Show will air on ESPN this fall as part of a multiyear deal.

- Filmmaker Martin Scorsese was sued over a $500k fee to become an executive producer of a World War II-set movie.

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