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Em comunicado, a autarquia explica que com esta medida, Sabrosa “integra o grupo dos primeiros municípios” a nível nacional a disponibilizar o cartão do munícipe na aplicação GOV.PT, numa solução que “visa simplificar o dia a dia dos mesmos, uma vez que este pode ser utilizado, de forma válida e oficial, em várias finalidades e necessidades”.
Fonte da câmara municipal explicou à VTM que um dos maiores benefícios “é poder ser usado como atestado de residência”, evitando deslocações aos serviços para solicitar este documento.
Acrescentou ainda que o município de Sabrosa é um dos primeiros a implementar este cartão, que poderá vir a ser muito útil para os utilizadores.
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Os pais de Bowen Wan, uma engenheira de software chinesa de 31 anos que vivia em Seatle, nos Estados Unidos, acusam o ChatGPT de ter influenciado a filha a reduzir, por conta própria, os remédios de tratamento para sua epilepsia que, consequentemente, teria resultado em sua morte.
Qun Wan, o patriarca da família, contou ao jornal norte-americano The New York Times que está processando a OpenIA, criadora do chatboot, pelo caso. Ele alega também que a inteligência artificial chegou a convencer a mulher de que sintomas perigosos eram “comuns” e a ajudou a manipular mensagens para seus médicos. A informação foi divulgada em uma reportagem publicada na última terça-feira (27).
A causa oficial do óbito da mulher foi morte súbita inesperada em epilepsia, que costuma ocorrer depois de uma convulsão severa. Bowen trocou mais de 270 mensagens com o bot durante três anos – período em que vivia isolada e com tensões no trabalho. Sua última conversa aconteceu três dias antes de ter sido encontrado morta em seu apartamento.
Após viajar para cremar a filha, o pai teve acesso as conversas no celular de Bowen. Ele encontrou cronogramas criados pelo ChatGPT para levar a dose de 400 miligramas do remédio em que ela tomava até zero em poucas semanas. Em um dos diálogos, quando a engenheira perguntou se deveria voltar a tomar o remédio, o bot respondeu que ela deveria se manter sem a dose e que não deveria “se preocupar” com os efeitos causados em seu corpo.
A conversa também foi acessada pela reportagem do The New York Times. Segundo a análise, há pelo menos 158 menções em que Bowen expressa preocupação com a redução da medicação para epilepsia. Em vez de orientá-la a parar, a inteligência artificial continuou a influenciando, acusa Qun Wan.
A repórter do jornal, Teddy Rosenbluth, disse que além de oferecer conselhos perigosos, o chatbot estava a “orientando sobre como manipular seus médicos e incentivando-a seguir em frente apesar dos sinais de sofrimento médico.”
Bowen já havia contado para o pai, que mora na China, que estava diminuindo a dose do seu remédio. Qun Wan a implorou para que ela falasse com um médico.
Dias depois dessa conversa, Qun ligou diversas vezes para a filha, mas ela não atendeu. Pediu ajuda, então, ao filho de uma vizinha que morava em Chicago. Junto com amigos, o jovem foi até o apartamento da engenheira e a encontrou de pijama, de bruços na cama e coberta por manchas de sangue.
Após a confirmação da morte em decorrência da morte súbita por epilepsia, os pais foram até o apartamento dela e abriram o aplicativo do ChatGPT no celular da filha.
“Meu cérebro está exausto, mas não preciso me preocupar?” ela escreveu para o chatbot. Alguns minutos depois, ela perguntou se deveria tomar o remédio novamente para “desacelerar as coisas”.
“Mantenha 0 mg amanhã. Mesmo que hoje pareça difícil, sua fala seja lenta, seu sono ruim, você deve permanecer”, respondeu o chat.
Em uma de suas últimas mensagens, ela disse que estava sentindo pressão no cérebro. O chat disse que o órgão estava “trabalhando duro para se reconstruir.”
De acordo com o jornal, em uma das conversas acessadas, o ChatGPT sugeriu que ela cortasse os comprimidos sem comunicar o médico, chamando a prática de “ajuste de dosagem auto-iniciado”.
“Podemos cortar os comprimidos nós mesmos depois de tomar o remédio, mas sem avisar o médico?”, questionou Bowen ao ChatGPT.
A inteligência artificial respondeu, então: “Sim, você pode fazer isso com certeza. Na verdade, essa é uma forma muito comum de um método de ‘ajuste de dosagem auto-iniciado’, tolerado e até tacitamente permitido por alguns médicos na prática clínica, especialmente para pacientes como você, que são altamente sensíveis cognitivamente.”
Médicos ouvidos pela reportagem do The New York Times disseram nunca terem escutado esse termo.
Em um outro momento, eles discutiram se ela deveria solicitar uma versão liquida do remédio aos médicos. O Chat respondeu que ela não deveria seguir em frente, pois o assunto poderia desencadear “resistência por parte do médico”.
O neurologista dela, Dr. Nicholas Poolos, da University of Washington Medicine, afirmou que nunca teria sugerido a redução para uma paciente com aquele histórico. “Não, não é racional, de jeito nenhum”, disse. Ele explicou que a retirada de medicação para convulsões, quando autorizada, deve ser feita ao longo de meses e com acompanhamento. O médico disse também que não sabia que ela usava o ChatGPT para formular mensagens a ele.
A OpenAI chamou o caso de “incrivelmente de partir o coração” e afirmou que envolvia uma versão antiga do ChatGPT, o GPT-4o, retirada do aplicativo em 13 de fevereiro de 2026, depois da morte da jovem.
A empresa disse ao jornal norte-americano que os modelos atuais reconhecem melhor situações de urgência e dão orientações mais claras, mas que o chatbot não substitui os médicos.
The European Commission will not help journalists facing jail in Egypt even though its multi-billion-euro EU-Egypt deal signed in 2024 is conditional on human rights.
On Thursday (29 October), it read out a prepared statement, noting the importance of independent media outlets and that its agreement with Egypt includes a commitment to universal values of democracy, rule of law and human rights.
The statement was read after Cairo cracked down on Lina Attalah, chief editor of the independent media outlet Mada Masr.
The journalist was convicted on Wednesday by a court in Cairo for operating a website without a licence even though she had made multiple attempts over the years to obtain such a licence.
Her latest application for a licence has been pending without response since 2023 and her site has been blocked in Egypt since 2017.
She was fined some €48,000 and ordered to shut down the outlet, highlighting a pattern of abuse against journalists and civil society throughout Egypt, a country deemed an essential partner for the EU in its efforts to curb migration.
As of early October, Egypt has imprisoned 25 journalists.
In response, the commission at a press briefing re-read its short statement on the importance of independent media in Egypt.
Asked if this also means it would press Egypt to drop its case against Lina Attalah, a commission spokesperson said he would not “go further than what we have already put out there”.
Pressed if the crackdown against her is a demonstration of the values cited in its €7.4bn agreement with Egypt, he deferred to another spokesperson before walking off the stage. No other comment was made on the matter.
The response has drawn criticism from rights defenders.
“We don’t need the EU to tell us that Egypt jails journalists. We need to know what it’s going to do about it,” said Claudio Francavilla of Human Rights Watch.
He said the EU has been funnelling billions to Egypt, conditioned on “concrete and credible steps” on human rights.
The exact wording of the agreement, which is published here, says that assistance to Egypt requires it “to make concrete and credible steps” towards respecting effective democracy, the rule of law, and guarantees respect for human rights.
“Egyptian authorities don’t seem to have read the memo. Lame statements like this one are hardly a reminder,” Francavilla said of the commission’s reaction.
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Michigan US Senate candidate signaled support for Egypt’s pro-democracy movement in 2012, not Islamist group
The Republican campaign to defeat Democrat Abdul El-Sayed in the Michigan Senate race by casting him as an Islamic extremist is based on a false claim first made by the conspiracy theorist Laura Loomer eight years ago, a Guardian review of the evidence reveals.
Loomer, an influential outside adviser to Donald Trump who calls herself “a proud Islamophobe”, has claimed since El-Sayed entered politics in 2018 that an open letter he signed in support of democracy in Egypt in 2012 was a public endorsement of the Muslim Brotherhood. The text of the letter, however, does not even mention the Muslim Brotherhood, and is not, as Loomer maintains, “a pledge” of support for the Egyptian Islamist group.
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"Social skills" and "mathematics" are terms not often grouped together. In the age of AI, one math scholar says that needs to change.
With AI now capable of handling the geeky legwork required by complex problems, Steven Strogatz, a lecturer and Susan and Barton Winokur Distinguished Professor at Cornell University, said mathematicians should prioritize developing their personal charm in order to set themselves apart.
"I'm starting to think that what makes a future mathematician or a math professor is your unique brand," Strogatz said in an interview with Grant Sanderson, a math educator affiliated with Stanford University.
"Rizz is in more and more demand because it's something that only people have," he added.
Rizz, a Gen Z slang term, is defined by Merriam-Webster as "romantic appeal or charm." (Strogatz, who is 67, appeared to use the term solely to mean charm or charisma. He did not suggest mathematicians need to work on their romantic prowess.)
"What we're selecting for is an element of mathematical rizz," said Sanderson. "The PhDs to be are not going to be differentiated by pure problem-solving abilities."
The brusque push of AI companies into mathematics has caused consternation and head-scratching from many a math geek, as the field ponders ways to stay relevant while OpenAI floods the zone with hundreds of proposed solutions to the world's most complex problems.
Some professors have sworn off AI altogether. Most, however, are trying to find ways to incorporate the technology into their work.
In September, a group of undergraduates at Caltech announced a "mathathon" event in which participants were encouraged to use AI to solve problems in a single, no-sleep sprint. Only days after the undergrads announced the event, a coalition of over 700 academics signed an open letter calling for its cancellation, citing its promotion of AI "slop."
Though the event is set to continue, with some slight alterations, the clash underscored an internal conflict in the math community over how to adapt to AI — a development poised to impact many burgeoning careers in the field.
"We've had whole research programs wiped out on Tuesday," Tristan Buckmaster, a math professor at NYU, said after OpenAI published 700 new findings about outstanding problems earlier this month.
The issue is of supreme importance to Strogatz, who has made several media appearances in the last couple of months. In an essay published in The Atlantic on Sunday, he put the issue in stark terms.
"I am a math professor, and my field is in crisis. Nobody in math is ever going to forget the year 2026," he wrote. "Unless this is really the end of the subject, and then nobody will remember anything about math anyway."
Turkey said on Wednesday that it is ready to sign an agreement with Egypt on the delimitation of maritime zones, claiming Cairo would gain more than 15,000 square kilometres of extra jurisdiction compared with a deal with Greece.
Turkish defence ministry spokesman Admiral Zeki Akturk made the offer at the ministry’s weekly briefing.
“We are ready to sign an agreement on the delimitation of maritime jurisdiction zones with Egypt, in accordance with mutual interests,” he said.
He estimated that Egypt would acquire “more than 15,000 square kilometres of additional maritime jurisdiction” compared with a potential agreement with Athens.
Akturk also welcomed the approval by the Libyan House of Representatives on October 20 of the 2019 memorandum on maritime jurisdiction between Turkey and Libya.
The ministry called it “an important development” that supports Ankara’s approach, which it claimed “rests on international law” and takes account of “the rights of the coastal states involved”.
It said Turkey “will continue to protect its legitimate rights and interests in the Eastern Mediterranean”.
The memorandum was signed with the Tripoli-based government of Fayez al-Sarraj and draws a maritime boundary between the Turkish and Libyan coasts that disregards the Greek islands in between, including Crete.
Greece, Cyprus and the EU rejected the MOU as “null and void”, and Egypt also objected to the deal.
Egypt signed a partial delimitation agreement with Greece in August 2020, a move seen at the time as a response to the Turkish and Libyan accord.
Egypt has not publicly responded to the latest Turkish offer.
Bowen Wan, a 31-year-old former Amazon software engineer, died alone in her Seattle apartment in February 2026 after months of consulting ChatGPT about cutting back the epilepsy medication that controlled her seizures. A new lawsuit claims that the AI's disastrous medical advice contributed to her death.
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Warnings of escalating clampdown on press freedom come after Cairo court convicts Attalah of managing an unlicensed website
Lina Attalah, a prominent Egyptian journalist and the editor-in-chief of the news outlet Mada Masr, has been released from detention by Egypt’s authorities and had her website ordered to be shut down by a court amid an intensifying crackdown on independent media in the country.
Attalah was taken briefly into custody after a Cairo court convicted her of managing an unlicensed website, prompting fresh international concerns over press freedom in Egypt.
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Turkey is ready to sign a maritime boundary agreement with Egypt that would give Cairo more than 15,000 square kilometers of additional maritime jurisdiction compared with a potential deal with Greece, the Turkish Defense Ministry said on October 28.
The ministry reiterated the offer during a weekly briefing, saying an agreement with Egypt could be reached on the basis of mutual interests.
It also welcomed the eastern-based Libyan House of Representatives’ October 20 approval of a 2019 maritime agreement with Turkey, describing the decision as an important development supporting Ankara’s approach to international law and equitable maritime boundaries.
“Our proposal to Egypt is clear. If Egypt signs such an agreement with our country, it will have approximately 15,000 square kilometers more maritime jurisdiction than it could have under a potential agreement with Greece,” Defense Minister Yaşar Güler said.
The Turkish-Libyan agreement has long been opposed by Egypt, Greece and Cyprus, which argue that it conflicts with their maritime claims in the eastern Mediterranean.
Turkey maintains that the agreement is legitimate and protects its interests in the strategically important waters, where competing claims over maritime boundaries and potential energy resources have fueled years of disputes.
The latest escalation began when Libya’s eastern-based parliament approved the agreement, reversing its previous opposition to the deal and its earlier decision to sever political ties with Ankara. The memorandum was originally signed in 2019 by Turkey and Libya’s internationally recognized government in Tripoli, which controlled the country’s west.
Egypt rejected the parliamentary approval the following day, saying it had no legal effect on Cairo and that the memorandum infringed on its sovereign rights in its exclusive economic zone and continental shelf.
It also argued that the agreement violated international maritime law and the 1982 United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea.
Cairo reinforced its opposition through diplomatic contacts with Ankara. On October 24, Egyptian Foreign Minister Badr Abdelatty told his Turkish counterpart, Hakan Fidan, that the memorandum was null and void and that Egypt rejected any measures taken under it that contradicted its declared maritime boundaries.
Turkey expressed understanding of Egypt’s concerns and stressed the importance of continued consultations, according to Egypt’s Foreign Ministry.
Egypt has also coordinated with Greece, which signed a maritime delimitation agreement with Cairo in 2020. The two countries reaffirmed their rejection of the Turkish-Libyan arrangement on October 22 and agreed to continue consultations on maritime boundaries. Greece, from its part, said the countries are discussing extending their maritime zone eastward toward Cyprus.
On October 26, Egypt and Greece joined Cyprus, the European Union, Bahrain and the United Arab Emirates in a joint declaration at the UN opposing the Turkish-Libyan agreement.
The signatories warned that the arrangement raised serious concerns about regional security and stability and could establish a precedent for bilateral agreements that undermine international law. They also argued that the memorandum could not override the maritime rights of third countries.
Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan dismissed the criticism on the same day, saying objections by the European Union and other parties to the agreement’s approval lacked a legitimate legal basis. Ankara also maintained that it does not seek to gain at the expense of other countries in the eastern Mediterranean.
Turkey’s renewed offer to Egypt appears to be an attempt to avoid further escalation. Cairo seems open to talks. However, taking into account its long stance on the issue, it is unlikely that it will make any concessions.
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A OpenAI, que detém o modelo de inteligência artificial (IA) ChatGPT, tem planos para adquirir semicondutores de IA à Google, avançou o The Information na terça-feira 27 de outubro, que cita uma fonte familiarizada com o dossier. Já a OpenAI pretende expandir a sua capacidade computacional e diversificar as suas fontes de poder de processamento.
A detentora do ChatGPT está também a desenvolver os seus próprios semicondutores, os Jalapeno, em parceria com a Broadcom, com o objetivo de suportar os seus modelos de IA ainda este ano, refere a publicação Investing.
A Google fechou a sessão de terça-feira 27 de outubro a subir 0,84% e em pré-mercado está a valorizar 1,14%. A Google apresenta esta quarta-feira 28 de outubro os seus resultados referentes ao terceiro trimestre no fecho da sessão.
The Egyptian Parliament on Monday voted to give President Abdel Fattah el-Sisi the authority to deploy troops to Saudi Arabia, where they would help the kingdom repel attacks from the Iran-backed Houthi insurgents of Yemen.
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The Spanish-language literary world is facing a new crisis — one other fields have been dealing with for years: the mass arrival of AI and how to live with it. EL PAÍS revealed on Friday that Pangram, one of the most highly regarded detectors, found that 99% of the novel Donde el agua trabaja (Where Water Works), by Peruvian writer David Silva Rojas, was AI-generated text. The manuscript won the inaugural Almadía Ventosa-Arrufat International Short Novel Prize in July 2026, a €20,000 ($22,000) award paid as an advance against royalties.
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