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The abortion funding system across the U.S. is battered three years after the Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade and allowed states to enforce bans.An initial surge of donations has subsided, scores of clinics have closed and advocates fear that federal policy changes will result in more shutting down.“We’re all collectively struggling,” said Ramsie Monk, director of development at the Women’s Health Centers of West Virginia and Maryland, which opened a clinic in 2023 in western Maryland after abortion was banned in West Virginia.“I honestly don’t know if it’s a sustainable model,” said Mercedes Sanchez, executive director at the Cedar…

CMOs have a tough job.They have to show business results by capitalizing on trends and reaching new audiences like Gen Z, while harnessing data and emerging tech like generative AI responsibly. And they have to do it all while navigating an increasingly polarized political landscape.Business Insider’s annual list of the “Most Innovative CMOs,” in its 10th year, spotlights the top marketers rising to these challenges. This year’s 25 CMOs came from 117 nominations from their peers and other industry insiders.The CMOs represent big brands like Walmart and the NFL, challengers like Milani Cosmetics, and tech companies like Lenovo.There’s Klarna’s David…

Sword Health, an AI-powered digital health startup, has raised $40 million at a $4 billion valuation, a 33% jump from the $3 billion price tag it earned just a year ago. The funding was led by returning investor, General Catalyst. Even though 10-year-old Sword Health is cash-flow positive, its CEO and founder, Virgílio Bento, told TechCrunch that he opted to raise additional capital for two key reasons: to update the company’s valuation, and have funds readily available for strategic acquisitions. Sword Health, which began as a virtual physical therapist and has since expanded into offering pelvic health and mental health…

Tesla plans to pause production on Cybertruck and Model Y lines for a week at its Austin factory, Business Insider has learned. It would be at least the third such shutdown in a year.In a meeting earlier this month with workers, the company said the shutdown would begin the week of June 30, and production would resume the following week, according to a person familiar with the matter. During the pause, employees can use paid time off or come in for voluntary training and cleaning.The pause would enable the automaker to perform maintenance on production lines, the company told workers.Tesla…

Kraft Heinz will be pulling artificial dyes from its U.S. products starting in 2027 and will no longer roll out new products with the dyes.The move comes nearly two months after U.S. health officials said that they would urge foodmakers to phase out petroleum-based artificial colors in the nation’s food supply.Kraft Heinz said Tuesday that almost 90% of its U.S. products already don’t contain food, drug & cosmetic colors, but that the products that do still use the dyes will have them removed by the end of 2027. FD&C colors are synthetic additives that are approved by the U.S. Food…

DETROIT (AP) — Lawyers for a Chinese scientist charged with conspiring to nurse a toxic fungus at a University of Michigan lab already are in talks to try to resolve the case, according to a court document filed Tuesday.“The parties are currently engaged in plea negotiations and request this additional time so that they can continue engaging in plea negotiations,” a prosecutor and defense attorneys said in a joint filing.Yunqing Jian, 33, was a researcher at the University of Michigan when she was arrested on June 3. She’s accused of helping her boyfriend, another Chinese scientist, try to work with…

Coralogix, an Israeli startup offering a full-stack observability and security platform, has raised $115 million at a pre-money valuation of over $1 billion, almost doubling in three years from its last round in 2022. With the influx of cash, the startup is looking to expand its engineering base in India and develop its AI agent. The all-equity and all-primary Series E round is led by California-based venture growth firm NewView Capital, with participation from the Canada Pension Plan Investment Board and NextEquity, the venture firm founded by former Apple executives Avie Tevanian and Fred Anderson. Data observability has become increasingly…

The tech industry talks a lot about how AI is going to transform work. Legal startup Crosby, which just came out of stealth with a $5.8 million seed round led by Sequoia, is perhaps the most extreme example of what’s coming that we’ve seen to date. Crosby isn’t just making AI software for lawyers — although it is doing that. Crosby is an actual law firm using AI to provide legal services at a speed never before possible. Rather than selling tech to lawyers, Crosby has hired lawyers who use its internally developed AI software. It sells contract-review legal services,…

A blank rectangle of a building sits next to a highway, facing an endless Wyoming prairie. It’s painted the greenish-grayish-brown that Disneyland imagineers use on stuff they don’t want people to notice. But the nine semitrailer-size green boxes nestling like nursing puppies into the building’s long sides are a giveaway. They’re giant heat exchangers meant to chill the stacks of black, pizza-box-shaped computers inside, squeezing electrons through silicon to make everything from streaming video to cryptocurrency.This data center is one of several in Cheyenne. These buzzing hives of circuitry run the modern digital economy — and manage the unprecedented quantities…

CROMWELL, Conn. (AP) — Jay Monahan is leaving the PGA Tour next year after a decade that ends with a league fractured by the Saudi riches of LIV Golf, turning it over to top NFL executive Brian Rolapp in a new role as CEO.Rolapp, the chief media and business officer for the NFL and a key executive for Commissioner Roger Goodell, was introduced Tuesday as CEO, a position that had never existed in the tour’s six decades of existence.“Players are central to everything we do, and making sure they are supported and heard will be a top priority,” Rolapp said…