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WASHINGTON (AP) — The Supreme Court sided with a teenage girl with a rare form of epilepsy on Thursday in a unanimous ruling that could make it easier for families like hers to go to court over access to education.The girl’s family says that her Minnesota school district didn’t do enough to make sure she has the accommodations she needs to learn, including failing to provide adequate instruction in the evening when her seizures are less frequent.But lower courts ruled against the family’s discrimination claims in court, despite finding the school had fallen short. That’s because courts in that part…

NEW YORK (AP) — The first thing Alison Jones does when she wakes up is to name three things she’s grateful for. It can be as simple as the breeze from a fan or as meaningful as the way a friend showed up for her emotionally.Jones, an organizational development consultant, said the daily practice has helped her through hardships and the anxiety and vulnerability of starting her own business as a single mom.“When you practice gratitude, you train your brain to always look for the positive in anything. It just completely shifts everything you’re going through,” she said. “You start…

Meta has sued the maker of a popular AI “nudify” app, Crush AI, that reportedly ran thousands of ads across Meta’s platforms. In addition to the lawsuit, Meta says it’s taking new measures to crack down on other apps like Crush AI. In a lawsuit filed in Hong Kong, Meta alleged Joy Timeline HK, the entity behind Crush AI, attempted to circumvent the company’s review process to distribute ads for AI nudify services. Meta said in a blog post that it repeatedly removed ads by the entity for violating its policies, but claims Joy Timeline HK continued to place additional…

BOSTON (AP) — A Russian-born scientist and Harvard University researcher charged with smuggling frog embryos in the U.S. shared hugs and laughs with supporters after a judge released her from federal custody on Thursday.“I just want to thank everybody,” Kseniia Petrova said outside the federal building in Boston shortly after her release.She wore a T-shirt that said, “Hakuna Matata,” a popular phrase from “The Lion King” that means “no worries.” “A lot of people started contacting me and sending me letters, and it was a huge support without which I won’t be able to survive,” she said.“I never really felt…

After seven years of work and more than $18 million invested, Harbor Village, a new affordable housing development in Carlisle, Pennsylvania, officially opened its doors in January.The 40-unit rental development came together thanks to Safe Harbour, a housing nonprofit based in Carlisle.By the time Safe Harbour started screening prospective tenants, there were over 400 applications, said Scott Shewell, the group’s long-time president and CEO. “And I still get calls every day,” he told USA TODAY.The median apartment rent in Carlisle was $1,259 in May. It was one of the fastest-growing areas for rent prices that month, up 6% from a…

2025-06-12T09:01:02Z Share Facebook Email X LinkedIn 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. Jason Buechel assembled a new leadership team to reorganize and run Amazon’s grocery business. Buechel was promoted to oversee this global operation earlier this year. As part of the plan, Amazon is moving Whole Foods corporate staff under its main employee programs. Jason Buechel took the reins of Amazon’s grocery empire earlier…

Neal Bland has done Ironman competitions and marathons. He’s given countless personal training sessions over the course of his life and has always prided himself on staying in shape, especially given that obesity runs in his family. But by age 52, time and genetics had begun to catch up with Bland (who asked that we not use his real last name for privacy reasons).His blood pressure and blood sugar were climbing, his body mass index was hovering in the low 30s, and his joints were aching. Then, during a photo shoot with his wife last year, the photographer told Bland…

The legal tech boom is reaching new heights. And just like that, a few investors and consultants are starting to whisper, “Bubble.”With a rush of funding deals, two unicorns born since ChatGPT’s pivotal launch, and a rare Big Law acquisition of a startup, legal tech is undergoing a transformation.Once dismissed to back-office use, it’s now grabbing the attention of top tech talent and investors, eager to capitalize on the potential of generative artificial intelligence in the legal field.This has raised some concern among industry watchers, like Zach Abramowitz, a former lawyer and entrepreneur, who now runs Killer Whale Strategies, a…

Spanish startup Multiverse Computing on Thursday said it has raised an enormous Series B round of €189 million (about $215 million) on the strength of a technology it calls “CompactifAI.” CompactifAI is a quantum-computing inspired compression technology that is capable of reducing the size of LLMs by up to 95% without impacting model performance, the company said. Specifically, Multiverse offers compressed versions of well-known, open-source LLMs – primarily small models – such as Llama 4 Scout, Llama 3.3 70B, Llama 3.1 8B, and Mistral Small 3.1. The company plans to release a version of DeepSeek R1 soon, and said it…

Every generation has its own version of the vibrating belt machine — the ’50s-era contraption that promised to literally shake housewives into shape with minimal effort (and effect). This perpetual fitness obsession is why, on a recent Friday in June, I found myself strapped into the 2025 iteration: an electro-muscle stimulation suit. For 15 minutes, sporting an outfit that had me looking like a cross between Uma Thurman in “Kill Bill” and a Transformer, I lunged, squatted, and pressed around a compact, chic-ish space as the getup intermittently sent little electrical impulses through my body. At first, I cackled as…