to conduct tax investigations under a law passed by Congress in 1998. The IRS can examine an organization’s tax-exempt status and can rescind it if it’s not operating for charitable purposes as required. Still, the IRS’ independence under Trump is in question.
from co-founder and early investor Elon Musk.Backed by Japanese tech giant SoftBank, OpenAI last month said it’s working to raise $40 billion in funding, putting its value at $300 billion.
Huerta will be joined on the new advisory commission by former Spanish-language media executive Monica Lozano; Robert Ross, the recently retired president of The California Endowment; and Jack Oliver, an attorney and longtime Republican campaign fundraiser. Zingale, the group’s convener, is a former aide to California governors including Democrat Gavin Newsom and Republican Arnold Schwarzenegger.“We’re interested in how you put the power of AI in the hands of everyday people and the community organizations that serve them,” Zingale said in an interview Wednesday. “Because, if AI is going to bring a renaissance, or a dark age, these are the people you want to tip the scale in favor of humanity.”The group is now tasked with gathering community feedback for the problems OpenAI’s philanthropy could work to address. But for California nonprofit leaders pushing for legal action from the state attorney general, it doesn’t alter what they view as the state’s duty to pause the restructuring, assess the value of OpenAI’s charitable assets and make sure they are used in the public’s interest.
“As impressive as the individual members of OpenAI’s advisory commission are, the commission itself appears to be a calculated distraction from the core problem: OpenAI misappropriating its nonprofit assets for private gain,” said Orson Aguilar, the CEO and founding president of LatinoProsperity, in a written statement.The Associated Press and OpenAI have
that allows OpenAI access to part of AP’s text archives.
WASHINGTON (AP) — Get ready for several years of even more record-breaking heat that pushes Earth to more deadly, fiery and uncomfortable extremes, two of the world’s top weather agencies forecast.Even if the justices agree, Wellspring Health Access stands to suffer. Before the new laws, the clinic saw as many as 22 patients a day, 70% of whom were there for abortions: half surgical, half by pills.
Now, Wellspring Health Access doesn’t offer abortions and sees about five patients a day, all of whom are transgender people receiving hormone replacement therapy, according to the clinic.Twenty-three other states, including 14 that have not totally banned abortion, have passed requirements similar to Wyoming’s that opponents call “targeted regulation of abortion providers,” or TRAP, laws. Surgical center licensing and hospital admitting privileges are typical requirements, according to the Guttmacher Institute, a research group that advocates for abortion access.
Few states have passed TRAP laws since the U.S. Supreme Courtin 2022, but abortion remains an unsettled issue in several. A licensing law in Missouri stood to curtail abortions until it was