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Suchir Balaji, an OpenAI whistleblower, was found dead inside his apartment in San Francisco . The medical examiner's office determined the manner of death to be suicide and police officials this week said there is " currently, no evidence of foul play "... Balaji grew up in Cupertino, California, before attending the University of California, Berkeley to study computer science. In October, the 26-year-old AI researcher had raised serious concerns about Sam Altman-run chatGPT maker OpenAI "breaking copyright law" . Balaji worked for nearly four years at OpenAI before quitting the company, after he realised the technology would do more harm than good to society , he told The New York Times. "We are devastated to learn of this incredibly sad news today and our hearts go out to Suchir's loved ones during this difficult time”, said an OpenAI spokesperson. In a post on X in October, Balaji said: "I was at OpenAI for nearly 4 years and worked on ChatGPT ...

A committee of the United States Congress has backed the theory that a lab leak caused the COVID-19 pandemic.  T he Republican-controlled House of Representatives Select Subcommittee on the Coronavirus Crisis concluded that the coronavirus “ likely emerged because of a laboratory or research related accident ” ... The 520-page report , which was two years in the making, looked at the federal and state-level response to the pandemic, as well as its origins and vaccination efforts.  Among the report’s headline conclusions was that the US National Institutes of Health (NIS) funded contentious “ gain-of-function ” research – which enhances viruses to find ways to combat them – at the Wuhan Institute of Virology in China prior to the outbreak. The department’s finding echoed that of the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI), which said in 2021 with “moderate confidence” that the virus probably spread after a laboratory mishap .  The House committee was convinced by the la...