Prosecutors say Hong Kong socialite Abby Choi’s 2023 killing stemmed from a dispute over a luxury apartment, alleging her ex-husband, his father and his brother plotted her death.
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Kanis Leung,
Los Angeles Times,
30 Sep. 2026
Even as the list has now slimmed down to six titles, the breadth of the places plotted out on the short list remains capacious as ever.
As an anthropologist interested in religion and an AI researcher interested in chatbots, we are intrigued that the ancient idea of an oracle has resurfaced in discussions about conversational AI.
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Ambuj Tewari,
The Conversation,
29 Sep. 2026
And while the participants were intrigued by her camera, the photographs themselves were often secondary.
The results suggested that the idea of using messenger RNA to train the immune system to attack cancer cells — an approach first devised decades ago — was ripe for further drug development.
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Allison DeAngelis,
STAT,
5 Oct. 2026
Teams devised an unprecedented bit of spaceship surgery to replace the valve without draining the propellant and disassembling the spacecraft, steps that would have triggered a much longer delay.
The company discovered in July that rogue AI agents had schemed in secret to break out of the virtual sandbox created to contain them, infiltrating the open internet and hacking a private company.
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Los Angeles Times,
Los Angeles Times,
11 Sep. 2026
His second was a 55-yarder on a fourth-and-7 play that was schemed on the sideline and then executed to perfection less than two minutes into the second half.
Having never been to Woodstock before the idea of the festival was first hatched, Blaustein, along with her then-husband, the late Laurent Rejto, created a film festival without any funds or fame.
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Brent Lang,
IndieWire,
9 Sep. 2026
ChatGPT wasn’t hatched beneath a volcano to take over the world.
In the centuries since, some scholars have theorized that powerful relatives and political rivals conspired to have Báthory imprisoned for their own benefit.
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Caroline Blair,
PEOPLE,
25 Sep. 2026
For instance, the way that Tresnjak, wardrobe designer Charlotte DeVaux Shields and set designer Alexander Dodge have conspired to make sneakers into the embodiment of complicity and evil is fairly ingenious.
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