World News: 30 January 2023

China's Baidu to launch ChatGPT-style bot in March
ChatGPT, OpenAI’s artificial intelligence tool, has lit up the internet since its public debut in November, amassing more than a million users within days and touching off a debate about the role of AI in schools, offices and homes.
Apart from Baidu, several Chinese start-ups are also exploring generative AI, and have attracted investors such as Sequoia and Sinovation Ventures.

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Kremlin says Putin did not threaten Boris Johnson with missile attack
Johnson claimed in a BBC documentary that Putin “sort of threatened me at one point and said, ‘Boris, I don’t want to hurt you, but with a missile, it would only take a minute’, or something like that."
Peskov said there were no substantive contacts between Russia and NATO at the moment.

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Tyre Nichols' lawyer urges lawmakers to pass urgent police reforms
The lawyer representing Tyre Nichols' family has called on the US Congress to pass urgent police reform legislation in the wake of his death.
Mr Nichols, 29, was fatally beaten by five police officers in January.
Speaking to US media, Ben Crump urged President Joe Biden to use Mr Nichols's death to gain support for the George Floyd Justice in Policing Act.

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In Israel, disposable plastics trigger culture war, test PM
Israel is a major consumer of single-use plastics. The Environmental Protection Ministry said in a 2021 report that Israeli consumption of single-use plastics had more than doubled between 2009 and 2019. It said the per capita average hit 7.5 kilograms (16 pounds) per year — five times the average in Europe.
Single-use plastics made up an estimated 90% of trash on Israel’s coastline, and 19% of the garbage on public lands, constituting a major environmental threat, it said.

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Automakers Renault, Nissan to make cross-shareholdings equal
Nissan and Renault said they have changed their mutual cross-shareholdings equal at 15%. Up to now, Renault Group has held a 43.4% stake in Nissan Motor Co., potentially giving it a larger say in how the company is run.
It will transfer shares equivalent to a 28.4% stake to a French trust, so it will hold a 15% stake in Nissan, just as Nissan holds 15% of the French automaker, according to the companies.

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Kansas City Chiefs win thriller to meet Philadelphia Eagles in Super Bowl
This season's Super Bowl takes place in Arizona on Sunday, 12 February (23:30 GMT), with the big game making a swift return to the Phoenix suburb of Glendale as the State Farm Stadium has already hosted NFL's championship game twice - in 2008 and 2015.
Completed in 2006, 'the Big Toaster' was built at a cost of $455m and has a capacity of 73,000, with a retractable roof and a roll-in grass field.
This year's half-time show marks the long-awaited return of Rihanna as the Barbadian singer is set to make her first live performance in more than five years.

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