“Putting the vehicle on (an) open public road and validating our approach to all of the different requirements, including regulatory, is a big step and we would not have done it unless internally we were already looking at the line of sight for going commercial,” Chief Executive Aicha Evans told reporters on a conference call.

“Officials said that based on the surveys, young people simply do not see the Army as a safe place or good career path, and believe they would have to put their lives and careers on hold if they enlisted,” Military.com reported.

ChatGPT was estimated to have reached 100 million monthly active users just two months after launch, making it the fastest-growing consumer application in history, and a growing target for regulation.

Gov. Lombardo asked “Las Vegas residents to refrain from panic [fuel] buying” and Nye County, Nev. officials told residents to “delay fuel purchases if possible to allow supply to refill due to recent panic purchasing.” 

“Whether we like it or not, that is a tool for disseminating important information. And that’s how we use it,” Whitmer said.

All told, viewership dropped from 38.2 million in 2022 to 27.3 million this year, a 29% decrease and a fall so precipitous that one would have to go back more than 30 years to find its equal, if one could even find it then.