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ALBANY, N.Y. (AP) — A group of marijuana dispensaries in New York sued the state on Friday after cannabis regulators admitted they accidentally allowed pot shops to open too close to schools, putting the future of the businesses in jeopardy. The lawsuit asks a state Supreme Court judge in Albany to rule that the marijuana shops’ locations remain legal and to prevent the state from taking any enforcement action against them.The case came a few weeks after the state’s legal marijuana office told about 150 existing or proposed cannabis shops that regulators had been misreading a state law that requires…

OpenAI CEO Sam Altman says having a kid has been “amazing” and thinks everyone else should have one, too.He also says AGI could maybe help with that.AGI, or artificial general intelligence, is a still theoretical version of AI that reasons as well as humans. Achieving AGI is the ultimate goal of many of the leading AI companies and is what’s largely driving the AI talent wars.Meanwhile, the world’s population growth is slowing down. In the United States, Gen Z and millennials are delaying having children or not having children at all to focus on their financial stability. Some prominent futurists,…

WESTFIELD, Ind. (AP) — Sebastian Munoz of Colombia recorded the third sub-60 scores on the LIV Golf League, making birdie on 13 of his last 14 holes and becoming the first player to shoot 59 with a double bogey.He responded from that early blunder by chipping in for birdie on the sixth hole, the start of eight straight birdies for another record in the four-year history of LIV Golf. He finished with five birdies in a row, hitting a gap wedge to 3 feet on his final hole.“I’ve done eight birdies in a row,” Munoz said. “But 13 out of…

2025-08-15T17:20:40Z Share Facebook Email X LinkedIn Reddit Bluesky WhatsApp Copy link lighning bolt icon An icon in the shape of a lightning bolt. Impact Link Save Saved Read in app This story is available exclusively to Business Insider subscribers. Become an Insider and start reading now. Have an account? Log in. Tech job postings have plunged 35% since early 2020, with some roles seeing radically lower demand. The decline began post-pandemic and continued after ChatGPT’s release in late 2022. AI and machine learning roles are in demand, while junior positions require more experience. Tech hiring has fallen dramatically in recent…

WASHINGTON (AP) — Teachers, social workers, nurses and other public workers would be cut off from a popular student loan cancellation program if the Trump administration finds their employer engaged in activities with a “substantial illegal purpose,” under a new federal proposal released on Friday.The Education Department took aim at nonprofits or government bodies that work with immigrants and transgender youth, releasing plans to overhaul the Public Service Loan Forgiveness program. Opponents fear the new policy would turn the loan forgiveness benefit into a tool of political retribution.The proposal would give the education secretary the final say in deciding whether…

Defending champion Liverpool launched the Premier League with a dramatic 4-2 win over Bournemouth at Anfield on Friday in an emotionally charged match featuring tributes to Diogo Jota and a player reporting racial abuse.Strikes after the 88th minute by Federico Chiesa and Mohamed Salah sealed victory for Liverpool after the hosts squandered a two-goal lead.Hugo Ekitike and Cody Gakpo put the Reds 2-0 up.In between those goals, the game was briefly paused after Bournemouth forward Antoine Semenyo reported to referee Anthony Taylor in the 28th minute that he was targeted with racist language by a member of the crowd.Semenyo, who…

Long-distance runner Evie Parts sued the NCAA and Swarthmore College as well as members of its athletic department on the grounds they illegally removed her from the track team because she is a transgender athlete.Parts’ lawsuit said the NCAA’s ban on transgender athletes in women’s sports did not have legal grounds because it’s not a governmental organization and therefore does not have jurisdiction over Pennsylvania state law or the Title IX federal statute.She was removed from the team on Feb. 6, the day the NCAA issued its new policy on transgender athletes.Swarthmore men’s and women’s track coach Peter Carroll, athletic…

Hugh Williams, former Google and eBay engineering VP, recently spent two days deep in the weeds with Claude Code, Anthropic’s AI-powered coding assistant. His verdict? “It’s like being a carpenter who suddenly has awesome power tools.”Williams built a fully functional system running on AWS in 48 hours, a task he says would normally take at least three weeks. He didn’t just write code; he learned a new graph database (AWS Neptune) on the fly, delivering clean, modular, and scalable output.Claude Code had problems, too, though. Williams warned that every hour or so, the coding assistant compressed its conversation context, and…

A Missouri resident has been hospitalized with what health officials described as a deadly “brain-eating infection” after possibly waterskiing in a local lake.The Missouri Department of Health and Senior Services said in a Wednesday news release that the patient — who they have not identified — appears to have been exposed to a Naegleria fowleri.The agency described Naegleria fowleri as “a microscopic single-celled free-living ameba that can cause a rare, deadly infection of the brain called primary amebic meningoencephalitis (PAM), also known as ‘brain-eating’ infection.”Health officials said that a preliminary investigation suggests that the patient may have been water skiing…

The Premier League match between Liverpool and Bournemouth at Anfield was briefly stopped on Friday after Bournemouth forward Antoine Semenyo reported being racially abused by a spectator.In the 28th minute with the score at 0-0, referee Anthony Taylor was seen talking to Semenyo, who is Black, at a Liverpool corner.Taylor then jogged to the sideline and spoke to both coaches, Liverpool’s Arne Slot and Bournemouth’s Andoni Iraola. After talking also to the captains, play resumed about two minutes later.The Premier League confirmed to The Associated Press that Semenyo’s complaint was the reason for the stoppage.Bournemouth’s players consoled Semenyo, who played…