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SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — A judge declared a mistrial Friday in the case of five current and former Stanford University students charged after pro-Palestinian protests in 2024, when they barricaded themselves inside the university president and provost executive offices. The jury voted 9 to 3 to convict on a felony charge of vandalism and 8 to 4 to convict on a felony charge of conspiracy to trespass. After deliberating for five days, jurors said they could not reach a verdict. Judge Hanley Chew asked each one if more time deliberating would help break the impasse, and all answered, “No.”“It appears…

Elon Musk is addressing a wave of departures from xAI, including two more co-founders who left this week, bringing the total to six out of the original 12. At an all-hands meeting Tuesday night, Musk suggested the exits were about fit, not performance. “Because we’ve reached a certain scale, we’re organizing the company to be more effective at this scale,” he said, according to The New York Times. “And actually, when this happens, there’s some people who are better suited for the early stages of a company and less suited for the later stages.” Wednesday afternoon on X, he went…

Elon Musk is addressing a wave of departures from xAI, including two more co-founders who left this week, bringing the total to six out of the original 12. At an all-hands meeting Tuesday night, Musk suggested the exits were about fit, not performance. “Because we’ve reached a certain scale, we’re organizing the company to be more effective at this scale,” he said, according to The New York Times. “And actually, when this happens, there’s some people who are better suited for the early stages of a company and less suited for the later stages.” Wednesday afternoon on X, he went…

BLANTYRE, Malawi (AP) — In a classroom in southern Malawi, children sit in rows on the floor as a health worker moves among them administering an oral vaccine that protects against polio.The new vaccination campaign that began on Wednesday is another reminder that the world still hasn’t managed to eradicate the ancient disease, which primarily affects children and can cause paralysis, despite a concerted effort for more than 35 years by the World Health Organization and its partners.Health officials believe they came close several times, including five years ago, when just five cases of the natural polio virus were reported…

After last week’s launch of TrumpRx, President Trump described the discounted drug platform as “one of the most transformative health care initiatives of all time.” But experts and health care advocates said that limitations with the new service could undermine its value to consumers.”The prices are absolutely cheaper than list prices, but only for cash patients or patients whose insurance does not sufficiently cover these drugs,” Yunan Ji, a health policy expert at Georgetown’s McDonough School of Business, told CBS News. “For a small share of the market, it will deliver meaningful savings, but it is not going to change…

At least seven more nursing students at a Florida university are battling measles, health officials confirmed this week, as outbreaks of the virus continue to grow nationwide.The students at Ave Maria University recently contracted the highly contagious virus, the school said in a statement this week, bringing to the total number of cases there to at least 57.In a Feb. 11 online campus health update, the university wrote that since the start of the semester, 50 nurse-assessed students “have progressed beyond the contagious period and now have natural immunity.”Measles causes a reddish, blotchy rash that usually appears on the body three…

At least 177 new measles cases have been reported in the last week in the U.S., according to newly updated data from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.A total of 910 infections have been confirmed in 24 states including Arizona, California, Colorado, Florida, Georgia, Idaho, Kentucky, Maine, Minnesota, Nebraska, New York, North Carolina, North Dakota, Ohio, Oklahoma, Oregon, Pennsylvania, South Carolina, South Dakota, Utah, Vermont, Virginia, Washington and Wisconsin.Only six measles cases this year were from international visitors, CDC data shows.New map shows how to spot the measles risk level in your ZIP codeAbout 94% of cases are among people who…

As the top AI labs like Google, Anthropic, and OpenAI chase enterprise adoption, Canadian AI startup Cohere has been quietly cleaning up. The startup told investors in a memo that it surpassed its $200 million annual recurring revenue target in 2025, hitting $240 million with quarter-over-quarter growth of more than 50% throughout the year, per CNBC. Cohere was founded in 2019 and has the backing of enterprise tech investors like Nvidia, AMD, and Salesforce. The startup’s core tech is its Command family of generative AI models, which Cohere says are efficient enough to be deployed on limited GPUs — an…

Meta plans to add facial recognition to its smart glasses as soon as this year, according to a new report from The New York Times. The feature, internally known as “Name Tag,” would allow smart glasses wearers to identify people and get information about them through Meta’s AI assistant. Meta’s plans could change, the report notes. The tech giant has been deliberating since early last year on how to release a feature that carries “safety and privacy risks.” According to an internal memo, the company had originally planned to release Name Tag to attendees of a conference for the visually…

Tech titans had a Thursday to forget this week.Elon Musk, Mark Zuckerberg, Jeff Bezos, Jensen Huang, and Michael Dell saw a combined $26 billion wiped off their net worths in one day, the Bloomberg Billionaires Index shows.Their fortunes shrank because their respective stakes in Tesla, Meta, Amazon, Nvidia, and Dell slid in value. The stock prices of those first four companies fell by around 2% on Thursday, as investors grew increasingly concerned about the immense costs of building out AI infrastructure and whether they’d see a return on their spending.Dell shares tumbled 9% after rival Lenovo warned a memory-chip shortage…