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CHICAGO (AP) — College student Maya Roman has the handoff down to a science: a text message, a walk to a designated site, and a paper bag delivered with condoms and Plan B emergency contraception. At DePaul University, it’s the only way students can get a sliver of sexual health support, she said.DePaul, a Catholic school in Chicago, prohibits distribution of any kind of birth control on its campus.To get around that, a student group runs a covert contraceptive delivery network called “the womb service.” The group was once the university’s chapter of Planned Parenthood Generation Action, but it has…

In Dr. Gladys Maestre, South Texas has found a national authority on memory loss. For years, Maestre has studied dementia by going door to door.”Everywhere I go, people will pull me and say, ‘My mother, my sister, I have a memory problem,'” Maestre said.The results of her study, which was conducted through the University of Texas Rio Grande Valley’s Alzheimer’s Disease Resource Center for Minority Aging Research, astounded her. She found that close to 20% of people over 65 in the Rio Grande Valley have memory loss, versus around 12% on a national level. But she suspects the number is…

DENVER (AP) — Bo Nix and the Denver Broncos finally justified their head coach’s talking them up all offseason.Nix threw for two touchdowns and ran for another to atone for his end zone interception and the Broncos snapped a two-game skid by sending the Cincinnati Bengals to their second straight blowout loss, 28-3 Monday night.The Bengals (2-2) never crossed midfield after an opening-drive field goal for a 3-0 lead as Denver’s defense limited Cincinnati to a mere 159 yards of offense — to the Broncos’ 512 — and two third-down conversions all night.With 101 yards on 16 carries, J.K. Dobbins…

SIDOARJO, Indonesia (AP) — A building at an Islamic school in Indonesia collapsed onto praying students, injuring dozens and burying more in the rubble. Rescuers were digging into the unstable debris to find survivors at the Al Khoziny Islamic Boarding School in the East Java town of Sidoarjo. This is a photo gallery curated by AP photo editors. Rescuers search for survivors after a building collapsed at an Islamic boarding school, in Sidoarjo, East Java, Indonesia, Monday, Sept. 29, 2025. (AP Photo/Trisnadi) Rescuers search for survivors after a building collapsed at an Islamic boarding school, in Sidoarjo, East Java, Indonesia,…

California Gov. Gavin Newsom has signed SB 53, a first-in-the-nation bill that sets new transparency requirements on large AI companies. SB 53, which passed the state legislature two weeks ago, requires large AI labs — including OpenAI, Anthropic, Meta, and Google DeepMind — to be transparent about safety protocols. It also ensures whistleblower protections for employees at those companies.   In addition, SB 53 creates a mechanism for AI companies and the public to report potential critical safety incidents to California’s Office of Emergency Services. Companies also have to report incidents related to crimes committed without human oversight, such as cyberattacks, and deceptive behavior by a model that isn’t required under the EU AI Act.   The…

ARLINGTON, Texas (AP) — Bruce Bochy will not return as manager of the Texas Rangers after a three-year stint that began with the franchise’s first World Series championship in 2023 before missing the playoffs and not having a winning record in both seasons since then.The Rangers announced Monday night that the team and Bochy mutually agreed to end his managerial tenure in Texas. Bochy has been offered a front office role to stay in an advisory capacity.The move came a day after the Rangers finished 81-81. That was the first .500 record ever for the franchise that began as the…

MIAMI GARDENS, Fla. (AP) — Tyreek Hill’s season for the Miami Dolphins potentially came to a sudden end on Monday night, when the standout wide receiver’s left knee became badly twisted shortly after he made a catch near the sideline.Dolphins coach Mike McDaniel said Hill was diagnosed with a dislocated knee. Hill was to remain hospitalized overnight, McDaniel said.An air cast was placed over his leg before Hill — cheering and clapping, acknowledging the cheers of fans — was taken off the field on a cart. He was then taken to a nearby hospital, the Dolphins said, “for imaging, evaluation…

DeepSeek has gone viral. Chinese AI lab DeepSeek broke into the mainstream consciousness this week after its chatbot app rose to the top of the Apple App Store charts (and Google Play, as well). DeepSeek’s AI models, which were trained using compute-efficient techniques, have led Wall Street analysts — and technologists — to question whether the U.S. can maintain its lead in the AI race and whether the demand for AI chips will sustain. But where did DeepSeek come from, and how did it rise to international fame so quickly? DeepSeek’s trader origins DeepSeek is backed by High-Flyer Capital Management, a Chinese quantitative hedge fund…

Job seekers in all fields can expect to soon be doing a lot more initial screening interviews. While that may sound like positive news, it doesn’t mean that there will suddenly be more open positions. Instead, recruiters, often bogged down with determining which applicants are qualified for the next round, will outsource the routine screening tasks — like checking backgrounds, salary needs, and availability — to (you guessed it) AI. Alex, a startup building an AI recruiter, says it’s already helping companies conduct video interviews and phone screens. Aaron Wang (pictured center, bottom row), who co-founded Alex about 18 months…

Researchers at DeepSeek on Monday released a new experimental model called V3.2-exp, designed to have dramatically lower inference costs when used in long-context operations. DeepSeek announced the model with a post on Hugging Face, also posting a linked academic paper on GitHub. The most important feature of the new model is called DeepSeek Sparse Attention, an intricate system described in detail in the diagram below. In essence, the system uses a module called a “lightning indexer” to prioritize specific excerpts from the context window. After that, a separate system called a “fine-grained token selection system” chooses specific tokens from within…