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A judge ordered weekly hearings in a case involving a Florida couple who alleges that an IVF clinic gave them the wrong embryos, which they learned upon the birth of a baby girl last year.Tiffany Score and Steven Mills filed a lawsuit against the Fertility Center of Orlando last month, asking that the reproductive health clinic identify the biological parents of the baby Score gave birth to in December, according to the complaint filed last month. The couple is also asking for information on what happened to their own embryos and whether or not someone else gave birth to their…

The way one of OpenAI’s biggest backers sees it, Sam Altman and his AI company are in possession of Tolkien’s the One Ring — and that puts a target on their backs.Josh Kushner’s firm, Thrive Capital, is one of OpenAI’s biggest investors. Backing the high-flying tech AI startup has given him a front-row seat to how people behave when power and value become concentrated in a single company.In a recently published interview with Colossus Magazine, recorded in October, Kushner reflected on the chaos surrounding the temporary ouster of OpenAI CEO Sam Altman in November 2023. The company’s president, Greg Brockman,…

LOUISVILLE, Ky. (AP) — The Kentucky Supreme Court ruled Thursday that a measure establishing public funding for charter schools is unconstitutional, affirming that state funds “are for common schools and for nothing else.”The 2022 measure was enacted by the state’s Republican-dominated legislature over Democrat Gov. Andy Beshear’s veto. It was struck down the next year by a lower court.The state’s high court ruled the “Constitution as it stands is clear that it does not permit funneling public education funds outside the common public school system,” Justice Michelle M. Keller wrote in a unanimous opinion.In 2024, Kentucky voters rejected a ballot…

SAVANNAH, Ga. (AP) — The kindergarten and first grade students in Linda Davis’ classes sobbed and shed tears after being told their teacher, who greeted them most mornings with an infectious smile, wouldn’t be coming back.Davis, 52, was killed during her morning commute Monday, less than a half mile (0.8 kilometers) from the school where she taught students with special needs. Local and federal authorities say a Guatemalan man crashed his pickup truck into Davis’ car as he was fleeing a traffic stop by immigration officers.“It was extremely difficult to tell 5 and 6 year olds that the teacher they…

SANTA FE, N.M. (AP) — An ambitious universal child care program aimed at fully footing the bill for working families across New Mexico is being enshrined into law, with state legislators making good on promises by Democratic Gov. Michelle Lujan Grisham to make the state the first in the nation to offer such a program to families of all income levels.As parents across the nation grapple with crippling daycare bills that threaten to keep them at home and out of the workforce, political leaders from New York to San Francisco have been angling to expand access to free and subsidized…

The Trump administration said Thursday its campaign to end diversity programs in higher education has led dozens of universities to cut ties with an organization known as The PhD Project, which helps racial minorities earn doctorate degrees.The PhD Project was a little-known nonprofit group until it caught the attention of conservative strategists last year and became the focus of an investigation by the U.S. Department of Education. The Republican administration says school diversity programs often exclude white and Asian American students.The investigation, opened in March 2025, has resulted in 31 universities agreeing to end partnerships with the group, the department’s…

Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. has come under fire again for saying that a diet change can “cure” mental illness.Speaking at the Tennessee State Capitol as part of a “Take Back Your Health” tour on Feb. 4, Kennedy touted the new food pyramid unveiled by the Department of Health and Human Services in January, which drew a mixed bag of praise and caution from experts, and attributed the prevalence of mental illness in America to food quality.The updated dietary guidelines place a newfound emphasis on red meats, fats and dairy, much like Kennedy’s own diet, which he has described…

OpenAI is nearing a deal to raise more than $100 billion at a valuation that could exceed $850 billion, Bloomberg reports, citing sources familiar with the matter.  The deal comes as the ChatGPT-maker burns through cash as it inches toward profitability. To that end, OpenAI has said it has started testing ads in ChatGPT for free users, a gamble that could lead to more revenue or could send users running from the platform.  Apparently investors think it’s worth the risk if they’re valuing the company $20 billion higher than the $830 billion valuation initially expected. The company’s pre-money value will…

Nostalgia is everywhere on the internet right now.With doomsayers predicting that AI could bring about the apocalypse, this January marking the highest number of layoffs to kick off a year since 2009, and ongoing political unrest, people are harking back to simpler times.Rather than looking forward to the year ahead, many people hailed in 2026 by reminiscing about 2016 — posting throwback pictures and declaring that 2026 will be the new 2016, set to songs released around that time, such as Zara Larsson’s “Lush Life.”Many have thrown it back even further — think pieces and experts have dubbed 2026 the…

There came a point when Newton Asare realized AI agents weren’t just tools anymore. “They were operating more like teammates,” he told TechCrunch.  The realization crystallized when Asare and Kiran Das, both serial founders, noticed they were using AI agents to perform tasks they usually would have done themselves. Asare said he came to believe that the future lay in people managing AI employees.  “And if that’s true, we’ll need a real system to manage them, with structure around onboarding, coordination, and oversight for digital workers,” he added.  Last year, the duo launched Reload, an AI workforce management platform. On…