When provided with minimal demographic information on their opponents, AI chatbots — known as large language models (LLMs) — were able to adapt their arguments and be more persuasive than humans in online debates 64 percent of the time, according to a study published in Nature Human Behavior.

The landmark U.S. Courthouse built in the 1930s on Spring Street near City Hall has been slated for “accelerated disposition” by the General Services Administration as part of a plan to sell off obsolete and underutilized federal properties.

A federal judge will decide later this week whether to allow an L.A. County sheriff’s deputy to take a plea deal that would spare him from prison time months after he was convicted of pepper-spraying an unarmed woman who filmed him during a 2023 arrest.

The Supreme Court’s decision, over the sole dissent of Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson, may not lead to immediate large-scale deportations. Lawyers for President Donald Trump’s Justice Department told the court that some individual Venezuelans could still try to show that their removals would be dangerous or legally unjustified.