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In a milestone a decade in the making, Boeing's Starliner mission successfully launched its first crewed flight test on Wednesday. The highly anticipated voyage lifted off atop an Atlas V rocket at 10:52 a.m. ET from Cape Canaveral Space Force Station in Florida. Veteran NASA astronauts Butch Wilmore and Suni Williams are aboard the Starliner capsule, journeying to the International Space Station (ISS).

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In a groundbreaking move, South Korean President Yoon Suk-yeol unveiled a record $19 billion support package aimed at bolstering the country’s crucial semiconductor industry. The announcement comes as the global demand for semiconductors continues to surge, and South Korea seeks to maintain its competitive edge in this critical sector.

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The US and Europe have separately announced major takedowns of cybercrime networks that defrauded people of billions. The US arrested Chinese national YunHe Wang and seized assets including a Ferrari, luxury watches and 21 properties. While Europol, Europe's crime agency, has made four arrests but said eight fugitives are on the run. They will be added to Europe’s "most wanted" list.

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ChatGPT-maker OpenAI on Monday said it was working on temporarily muting a synthetic voice that sounds a lot like that of actress Scarlett Johansson.

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Speculations surrounding Sam Altman's ousting from OpenAI in November 2023 have been clarified by former board member Helen Toner in an interview on The TED AI Show podcast. Toner revealed that Altman was expelled due to a pattern of "withholding information" and "misrepresenting things" to the board. She alleged that Altman lied to other board members in an effort to remove her after she published a critical research paper. She stated, "Sam started lying to other board members in order to try and push me off the board."