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ORLANDO, Fla. (AP) — College Republicans have sued the University of Florida’s president on free speech grounds over the school’s decision to deactivate its chapter after being notified that at least one member engaged in an antisemitic act.The University of Florida College Republicans filed the lawsuit Monday in federal court against interim president Donald Landry, asking a judge to stop the enforcement of the school’s decision and to restore access to facilities on the Gainesville campus.“The University of Florida punitively deactivated and shut down the UFCR, in response to alleged viewpoints expressed by a member of UFCR, and in an…
A hospital in Florida is turning to the courts for help removing a former patient, who has refused to leave a hospital room after being formally discharged five months ago, a lawsuit says.According to a lawsuit filed at the beginning of March, a woman was discharged from Tallahassee Memorial HealthCare on Oct. 6, 2025, but she “continues to occupy (an) inpatient room.””TMH staff made repeated efforts to assist the defendant in safely completing discharge,” the complaint says. “TMH offered assistance, including coordination with family members and offering non-emergency medical transportation to obtain necessary identification.”The hospital is asking the court to…
The manufacturer of popular weight-loss drugs Ozempic and Wegovy, Novo Nordisk, is taking heat from the federal government for regularly failing to report potential side effects of its GLP-1 medications, including deaths.In a warning letter dated March 5, the Food and Drug Administration cited five cases where patients taking the drugs experienced a stroke, considered suicide or died – one of them by suicide – all of which Novo Nordisk failed to report properly.Novo Nordisk’s actions, the FDA wrote in its warning letter to the company, “suggest systemic failures with your surveillance, receipt, evaluation, and reporting” of potential side effects.Novo…
Last July, four high-ranking tech executives — all of them involved with artificial intelligence — were sworn into the US Army Reserves with the rank of lieutenant colonel. They were part of a new unit called Detachment 201, also known as the Executive Innovation Corps. The Pentagon has introduced many initiatives to deepen relationships with Silicon Valley. But making officers out of multimillionaire executives with no military experience served as a strong symbol of a new era in which venture capitalists and technologists see themselves as essential to the defense of the nation.The tech industry, which once prided itself on…
With a gut-wrenching wail that rippled from her body, Amber Walcker joined about a dozen screaming people in West Seattle who let their frustrations float away over the Puget Sound.It was just the start. The two group screams that followed, each one longer and more intense, released the pain from Walcker’s recent job loss. Her added stress from raising two young children dissolved as it blended with the sound of lapping water, and a deep sense of calm descended upon her.“I had such a sense of feeling grounded. In that same moment, all your senses are heightened,” Walcker said. “From…
The Nvidia CEO is floating a novel perk to attract talent: tokens.Speaking at the GPU Technology Conference on Monday, Jensen Huang said in his two-hour-long keynote speech that he could see a future where every single engineer will need an annual token budget, and that he is willing to provide it.”They’re going to make a few hundred thousand dollars a year, their base pay,” said Huang of engineers. “I’m going to give them probably half of that on top of it as tokens so that they could be amplified 10X. Of course, we would.””It is now one of the recruiting…
The AI-powered design platform Picsart is launching an AI agent marketplace, allowing creators to “hire” AI assistants to help them with specific tasks, like resizing and remixing social content, or editing product photos on Shopify. With over 130 million worldwide users that skew Gen Z, Picsart is like a more advanced Canva for social media managers and content creators. The company reached unicorn status amid the creator economy boom in 2021, but has remained relevant by continuing to ramp up its AI-powered products to serve the current market. The timing is good for Picsart to launch such a marketplace, since…
WASHINGTON (AP) — An advocacy group hoping to expand support for child and elder care plans to spend $50 million to back Democrats in congressional races, tying the costs of caregiving to the nation’s affordability debate. The Campaign for a Family Friendly Economy, created a decade ago, aims to make caregiver issues more salient in elections. The announcement comes as the cost of child care continues to rise and as waiting lists for federal child care subsidies, which support working families in poverty, continue to grow. Sondra Goldschein, executive director of the campaign and its political action committee, said child…
As global temperatures rise, people are becoming less physically active, and this shift could lead to hundreds of thousands of additional premature deaths worldwide in the coming decades, a new study finds.Researchers from a group of Latin American universities analyzed World Health Organization (WHO) global health surveys and temperature data from the Climatic Research Unit dataset at the University of East Anglia that included 156 countries between 2000 and 2022.They found that for each additional month with average temperatures above 82 degrees Fahrenheit, physical inactivity increased by 1.4 percentage points worldwide, according to the study published in the journal The Lancet Global Health.El Nino is likely to return this year,…
Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang thinks every company should have an OpenClaw strategy. And Nvidia is here to provide it. Nvidia has developed NemoClaw, an enterprise-grade AI agent platform, Huang announced during his GTC keynote on Monday. The platform is built on top of OpenClaw, the popular open-source framework for building and running AI agents locally on a company’s own hardware. The new open source platform is essentially OpenClaw with enterprise-grade security and privacy features baked in. The idea is to turn OpenClaw into a secure platform that enterprises can tap into with one command, giving them control over how agents…