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Americans are increasingly turning to artificial intelligence to help with things like research, writing, school or work projects, and analyzing data — but they’re not exactly happy about it. Even as AI use and adoption rises, Americans continue to lack trust in the new tool, according to a Quinnipiac University poll published Monday. Of the nearly 1,400 Americans surveyed, more than three-quarters said they don’t trust AI — 76% say they trust it rarely or only sometimes, compared to just 21% who trust it most or almost all of the time.  That comes even as an increasing number of Americans…

In 2016, Pacific Gas and Electric planned to wind down its utility operations at the Diablo Canyon Power Plant in California by 2025, citing concerns from environmental advocates about the plant’s location near the water and atop several fault lines. Loading audio narration… But in September 2022, PG&E received unexpected news from the state: Gov. Gavin Newsom had signed SB 846 into law, extending the nuclear power plant’s operations through October 2030.”We had to pivot to continue to operate,” Maureen Zawalick, PG&E’s senior vice president and chief risk officer, who has worked at the company for 30 years, told Business…

If you’re writing an email to Tony Xu about a DoorDash issue, be detailed. Loading audio narration… The CEO told podcaster David Senra in an interview posted on Sunday that he appreciates receiving long messages from customers and delivery workers, whom the company calls “Dashers,” particularly when they explain a problem they had with the app.”I love the 2,000 word emails, especially from Dashers, who will give many use cases of why the logistics algorithm broke for them,” Xu said on the podcast.Xu said that many of the short emails he gets don’t contain helpful details. Longer ones, meanwhile, contain…

LA PAZ, Bolivia (AP) — Dozens of clowns marched through the streets of Bolivia’s capital on Monday to protest a government decree that limits extracurricular activities, threatening their livelihoods.Wearing full face paint and their signature red noses, the clowns gathered in front of the Ministry of Education in La Paz to oppose a decree published in February. The new mandate says schools must comply with 200 days of lessons each year — effectively banning schools from hosting the special events where these entertainers are frequently employed.“This decree will economically affect all of us who work with children,” said Wilder Ramírez,…

Americans are feeling pretty pessimistic about AI and its impact on employment.A new poll released by Quinnipiac University on Monday found that 70% of Americans believe that advancements in artificial intelligence will lead to a decrease in job opportunities generally.And 30% are concerned that their own jobs may be rendered obsolete.That marks a significant increase over the last year. In April 2025, the same pollster found that 21% of Americans said that they were worried that their job would become obsolete.That worry is relatively constant across age cohorts, but with some notable differences. Just 26% of Gen Z is concerned…

A Delaware judge who has overseen shareholder lawsuits against Elon Musk is removing herself from cases involving the Tesla CEO after his lawyers accused her of bias.Chancellor Kathaleen McCormick, the top judge in Delaware Chancery Court, said in a Monday court filing that she would reassign three lawsuits involving Musk to different judges.The move follows a motion from Musk’s lawyers last week to remove McCormick from a set of Tesla shareholder lawsuits. They said McCormick and one of her employees reacted positively on LinkedIn to posts that were critical of Musk.In her filing Monday, McCormick maintained that she did not…

SANTIAGO, Chile (AP) — President José Antonio Kast said Monday that his administration will tighten security measures at Chile’s schools, following two incidents involving weapons and amid growing concern about school violence in the South American country.The announcement follows a deadly attack Friday that left one dead and four wounded. The pledge also came on the same day that another student was detained while attempting to enter a school with a loaded firearm.“We are going to have to take certain measures to protect our students,” Kast said at an event at a school in the capital, Santiago. “These measures, which…

In a landmark decision, a California appeals court ruled that the West Contra Costa Unified School District violated state law by not doing enough to hire qualified teachers, sending a message to schools statewide that blaming vacancies on a teacher shortage is not a valid excuse. Cleare et. al v. WCCUSD is the first lawsuit filed to enforce the Williams Act, which guarantees a qualified teacher in every classroom, among other school standards. On Thursday, just two weeks after hearing oral arguments, the court found that the district didn’t exhaust all options before claiming compliance was “impossible.”“As we see it,…

PORTLAND, Ore. (AP) — “Push!” “Press!” “Good ball!”As the volunteer soccer coach shouted words of motivation, one of his players nudged the ball past the opposing team’s goalie and into the net, prompting the sideline to erupt in cheers. This was the scene Sunday in Portland, Oregon, at a soccer tournament its organizer dubbed the World Cup for immigrant and refugee girls. Community advocate Som Subedi, an immigrant from Bhutan, created the event to help provide a sense of joy and unity amid federal immigration enforcement operations that have affected players’ families. Suraya Abdull plays in a soccer tournament for…

Large language models trained on vast datasets could speed genomics research, streamline clinical documentation, improve real-time diagnostics, support clinical decision-making, accelerate drug discovery, and even generate synthetic data to advance experiments. But their promise to transform biomedical research often runs into a bottleneck: beyond the structured data healthcare relies on, these models struggle in edge cases like rare diseases and unusual conditions, where reliable, representative data is scarce. New York-based Mantis Biotech claims it’s developing the solution to fill this data availability gap. The company’s platform integrates disparate sources of data to make synthetic datasets that can be used to…