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COLUMBUS, Ohio (AP) — Ohio State acted swiftly on Thursday to move past the abrupt resignation of the university’s president over the weekend, elevating its chief academic officer into the role.Trustees voted to appoint Executive Vice President and Provost Ravi Ballamkonda as Carter’s successor, bypassing the traditional nationwide search to name its fourth president since 2020. Ballamkonda’s appointment comes as a clearer picture began to emerge of former President Walter “Ted” Carter Jr.’s “inappropriate relationship” with the female host of a podcast for military veterans.Ballamkonda, a bioengineer and neuroscientist, joined the university in 2021, after holding leadership, research or teaching…
Silicon Valley loves a rivalry, and right now one of its most closely watched showdowns is unfolding in an unlikely arena: corporate law.Harvey and Legora, two artificial-intelligence startups selling software to law firms, are jockeying for customers, credibility, and bragging rights. With this week’s news that Legora raised $550 million in an investment round valuing the company at $5.5 billion and acquired the startup Walter, the Sweden-based company is one step closer to challenging Harvey’s dominance.Max Junestrand, Legora’s 26-year-old wunderkind founder with no legal training, isn’t going to settle for runner-up.When he video-calls me from a bare Stockholm apartment that…
WASHINGTON, March 12 (Reuters) – Compounded weight-loss drugs that contain vitamin B12 and the main ingredient in Eli Lilly’s Zepbound could present health risks to consumers due to a previously unidentified impurity caused in the preparation, the U.S. drugmaker said in a public letter released on Thursday.The letter, based on Lilly’s testing of samples of compounded products, is the company’s latest move against drug compounders it says are marketing illegal copies of Zepbound and its diabetes drug Mounjaro. Both medicines have the same active ingredient, tirzepatide.Lilly has sued compounders, wellness centers and other companies for selling products claiming to contain…
About 1 in 3 U.S. adults say they’ve made trade-offs to afford health care in the past year, including rationing or skipping medications or borrowing money, according to a poll from West Health-Gallup.A second survey from the group found nearly 1 in 10 adults say they’ve postponed retirement because of health care costs. Others reported delaying a job change, buying a home or having a child.Both nationally representative surveys were released Thursday. The first was conducted from June through August of last year and included nearly 20,000 adults. The other was conducted several months later, from October through December, and…
About 1 in 3 U.S. adults say they’ve made trade-offs to afford health care in the past year, including rationing or skipping medications or borrowing money, according to a poll from West Health-Gallup.A second survey from the group found nearly 1 in 10 adults say they’ve postponed retirement because of health care costs. Others reported delaying a job change, buying a home or having a child.Both nationally representative surveys were released Thursday. The first was conducted from June through August of last year and included nearly 20,000 adults. The other was conducted several months later, from October through December, and…
The tech world is both in awe of and fearful of vibe coding.On one hand, tech giants are all in on these AI-assisted coding tools. They’re touting efficiency gains, listing it as a need-to-have in job descriptions, buying their employees subscriptions, and even investing in vibe-coding startups themselves.They’re also seeing their shares take a hit as investors dump legacy software stocks over concerns that AI and vibe coding will allow companies to build their own software rather than buy.Both narratives are driving the valuations of vibe-coding startups such as Lovable, Cursor, and Replit, now well into the billions.”Our mission has…
HAVANA (AP) — Several dozen people stood in circle in a room at a Havana psychiatric hospital, their hands held together as they chanted in unison, vowing to rid their bodies from “the toxins that enslave.” The collective plea to reclaim their freedom for just the next 24 hours was the first step of a 90-day detoxification before beginning rehabilitation.Drug use was an almost-unknown phenomenon in Cuba until the beginning of this decade. However, a deepening economic crisis, shortages of basic goods and the emergence of low-cost synthetic drugs have combined to transform the landscape.In Havana and other cities across…
March 12 (Reuters) – Roughly one-third of Americans cut back on food, utilities or other daily expenses to pay for healthcare last year, research from the West Health-Gallup Center showed on Thursday, as steeper prices and rising living costs hit households.A nationally and state-representative survey of nearly 20,000 U.S. adults in all 50 states and in the District of Columbia, conducted from June to August 2025, found that 33% of respondents had made at least one trade-off in daily expenses to pay for healthcare.This was far more common among Americans who do not have health insurance, with 62% of those…
Like many school systems facing teacher shortages, South Carolina’s Allendale County has looked overseas for help. A quarter of the teachers in the rural, high-poverty district come from other countries.The superintendent praises the international educators — mostly from Jamaica and the Philippines — for their skill and dedication, but she is preparing to lose some of them as the Trump administration reshapes visa programs.Facing higher visa sponsorship costs and uncertain immigration policies, Superintendent Vallerie Cave said it feels too risky to extend some international teachers whose contracts are up or bring on others. “Some of my very best teachers are…
When the production company Particle6 debuted its AI-generated “actor” Tilly Norwood last fall, the move was not warmly welcomed by Hollywood. “Good Lord, we’re screwed,” Golden Globe winner Emily Blunt said in an interview with the industry publication Variety. “Come on, agencies, don’t do that. Please stop.” If only Particle6 followed Blunt’s advice. Instead, the company has put out a music video for its AI character, featuring a song called “Take the Lead.” This is not clickbait. Upon listening to it, I actually think it is the worst song I have ever heard. I was prepared for Norwood’s musical debut…