Caleb McCullough
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Sam Altman says one almond uses as much water as 38,000 ChatGPT queries. Not quite. - Poynter (opens the original)
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You’ve probably heard that using artificial intelligence consumes a lot of water. But how does it measure up with snacking on almonds? OpenAI CEO Sam Altman made the comparison in a recent interview. OpenAI is the company that makes ChatGPT, the popular AI chat app. “For every 38,000 ChatGPT queries, that is the same amount of water that is used in the production of a single almond in California,” he said in a Sept. 1 episode of the Sources Podcast. Altman prefaced that by saying he isn’t sure o
RFK Jr. says Americans have the ‘sickest children in history.’ History says otherwise - Poynter (opens the original)
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Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. said despite high healthcare spending, the U.S. is failing its children on an unprecedented level. “This country pays two to three times what every developing nation in the world pays, and yet we have the sickest children in the history of the world,” Kennedy said, addressing the Republican midterm convention in Dallas on Sept. 10. “We have the highest chronic disease burden ever recorded.” For this fact-check, we’re focusing on the claim that the U.S. has
Trump says firefighters carried him to safety after 9/11. What do we know about his Ground Zero role? - Poynter (opens the original)
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President Donald Trump recounted his response to the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks in an interview and event leading up to the 25th anniversary this week, repeating statements that lack evidence about aiding in the recovery. “I was building a building in New York, and I had a lot of construction workers. And I went down there very shortly thereafter, the following day — couldn’t go down the same day — but the following day,” Trump said in the interview with Fox News’s Trey Gowdy that aired Sept. 6. “V
Trump keeps talking about construction. We counted how much. - Poynter (opens the original)
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On a cool May evening, President Donald Trump stood at the under-construction Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool and spoke with reporters about the project, which would become a major focus of his public remarks over the next month. Trump detailed the new “American flag blue” color and criticized former President Barack Obama’s efforts to improve the monument. A reporter asked Trump why he was focusing on construction projects during the Iran war. “Because I want to keep our country beautiful, and
The internet says Mitch McConnell's hospital photo is fake. The evidence says otherwise. - Poynter (opens the original)
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Amid growing speculation about Mitch McConnell’s health after he spent weeks out of the public eye following a hospitalization, the Republican Kentucky senator’s office released a statement and image July 12. The image shows McConnell wearing jeans and a red checkered shirt, supported by pillows, alongside his wife, Elaine Chao, and holding a newspaper in his right hand. WASHINGTON, D.C. – U.S. Senator Mitch McConnell (R-KY) released the following note to constituents regarding his hospitalizati
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