Her hands gripping the steering wheel, Marilyn Help-Hood gingerly drove her rugged Ford pickup truck along rutted unpaved roads, occasionally sliding in the mud, in search of one thing: water.

On Tuesday, OpenAI announced that, thanks to a new update, its ChatGPT chatbot is now smart enough to not only pass the bar exam, but score in the top 10%. It's easy to react to that with fear or awe.

The state Supreme Court, in a Bay Area case, has set aside a ruling that would have given judges broad authority to set bail at high levels for defendants awaiting trial and says it will decide when, or whether, bail can be set in an amount that an accused person cannot afford.

Margulies has written several published and unpublished decisions involving high profile issues or parties in recent years, including whether ride-share drivers can be held liable for harm that may occur when their passengers exit a vehicle and whether social media platforms are immune from lawsuits challenging their decision to block content or suspend accounts.