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OKLAHOMA CITY (AP) — Newly released video shows a high school principal in Oklahoma tackling and disarming a former student who entered the lobby of the school and began firing a pistol.Pauls Valley High School Principal Kirk Moore was shot in the leg during the April 7 attack, but managed to wrestle the suspect onto a bench, disarm him and remain on top of him until law enforcement officers arrived, according to court records.The video, released by the school district in response to an Open Records Act request, shows a person in a dark hooded sweatshirt enter the school and…

ANN ARBOR, Mich. (AP) — The next president at the University of Michigan said Wednesday he can’t take the job because of brain cancer.Kent Syverud, chancellor at Syracuse University, said he received the diagnosis after not feeling well last week.“I am currently undergoing treatment at the University of Michigan. … I am aware that I am one of many, many people who face a diagnosis like this — people who show up each day with courage,” Syverud said. “I take inspiration from all of them.”Syverud was hired in January and was set to become president in May.The University of Michigan’s…

The much-anticipated Trump smartphone has a new look. But the eventual release date is less clear than ever, and the phone’s initial “made in the USA” claims have been watered down even further. Loading audio narration… Trump Mobile, a cell phone company founded by Donald Trump Jr. and Eric Trump, released an updated mock-up of the design of the T1 Phone, the company’s main Trump-branded smartphone offering. A screenshot of Trump Mobile’s current product listing for the T1 smartphone.  Trump Mobile Though the phone is still gilded, it has some notable design changes, including a vertical array of cameras rather…

Big Tech isn’t the only big spender in the AI race. Loading audio narration… Spending on new power plants and transmission lines has reached record highs as utilities in the US try to meet the electricity demands of AI while modernizing the country’s aging electric grid. By 2030, investor-owned utilities are on track to spend $1.4 trillion on capital expenditures, according to a new report from PowerLines, a consumer education nonprofit.The projected total spend over the next five years exceeds the $1.3 trillion the industry reported spending over the last decade.Training and using AI require massive amounts of power from…

ANKARA, Turkey (AP) — A student opened fire randomly at two classrooms at a middle school in southeast Turkey on Wednesday, killing four people and wounding 20 others, an official said, in the second such shooting in the country in two days.The student, who was also killed, arrived at the school, armed with guns believed to belong to his father, a retired police officer, Kahramanmaras provincial Gov. Mukerrem Unluer said. The gunman was carrying five firearms and seven magazines.The victims included a teacher and three students, Unluer said. At least four of the wounded were in serious condition. The motive…

Bryan Johnson, a tech entrepreneur and longevity influencer, says founders in “monk mode” risk getting in their own way. Loading audio narration… Speaking to Zak Jason, the executive editor of the Discourse team, during Business Insider’s The Long Play event on Tuesday in San Francisco, Johnson pushed back on the idea that having a sex life is a distraction. The longevity enthusiast said it can actually make founders better at their jobs.”No one wants to write a shitty code base. You want healthy code. And so, what founders don’t realize is, when you’re not taking care of your health, you…

The founder of one of the fastest rising neolabs is sharing her perspective on the war over AI talent. Loading audio narration… Carina Hong, founder of the startup Axiom Math, which focuses on building an AI mathematician, told Business Insider’s Ben Bergman that some researchers see advantages in working for neolabs rather than larger tech companies at Business Insider’s The Long Play on Tuesday.”We had really amazing talents coming from Big Tech. They are industry veterans,” said Hong. “They are a bit tired of the PSC culture or all the politics at big shops, and they just want to work…

Midi Health CEO Joanna Strober originally set out to launch a menopause startup. Then, AI changed everything. Loading audio narration… Founded in 2021, Midi Health provides virtual care to menopausal women and recently crossed the $1 billion valuation mark in a February funding round.At Business Insider’s The Long Play event in San Francisco on Tuesday, Strober said AI has transformed her business.”I thought I was starting a menopause company, but it turns out I’m building an AI company,” Strober said onstage.Midi Health, based in Palo Alto, California, now uses AI to train thousands of its providers on how to answer…

OpenAI’s $852 billion valuation is facing skepticism from some of its own investors as the company scrambles to reorient itself around enterprise customers and fend off Anthropic, according to the Financial Times. Anthropic’s annualized revenue jumped from $9 billion at the end of 2025 to $30 billion by the end of March, driven largely by demand for its coding tools. One investor who has backed both companies told the FT that justifying OpenAI’s round required assuming an IPO valuation of $1.2 trillion or more — making Anthropic’s current $380 billion valuation look like the relative bargain. The secondary market tells…

THESSALONIKI, Greece (AP) — It’s said that a bowl of soup made of bovine bellies and legs can cure ulcers, hangovers and an assortment of other ailments — if you’re courageous enough to try it.And Dimitris Tsarouhas, the owner of a restaurant in the Greek city of Thessaloniki that specializes in “patsa” is striving to register the soup with UNESCO as a unique and traditional dish of Greece that harks back to the time of Homer’s epic poem “The Odyssey.”That has conjured up a new dispute with age-old rival Turkey, which also claims the soup as its own. Greeks and…