Wall Street Journal

Texas Probes Lululemon Over ‘Forever Chemicals.’ The Company Says It Stopped Using Them.

The Texas attorney general is investigating Lululemon Athletica LULU-3.10%decrease; red down pointing triangle for allegedly using so-called forever chemicals in its workout gear. But the ...
Business Insider

Workers are feeling AI anxiety — and that they might be training their replacements

Some workers worry that using AI at work will help the technology eventually replace them. Companies investing in AI want to boost efficiency, and some are using the tech as an excuse for cuts. In the ...
Longview News-Journal

Let them eat cake: Pine Tree elementary students create birthday packages for youth in foster care

Thanks to the student council members at Pine Tree ISD’s Birch Elementary School, 71 East Texas youth in foster care will have something to look forward to on their birthday. With the help of the ...
CBS News

University of Michigan hoops seasons creating memories for students who cover them

It's been quite the magical season for Michigan men's and women's basketball players. Their classmates writing for the university's campus newspaper, the Michigan Daily, might know that better than ...
Gizmodo

Apple’s Siri Isn’t Just Going to Use One Chatbot. It’s Going to Use All of Them

Siri has gone from in a relationship with OpenAI to in an open relationship. According to Bloomberg, Apple has decided to forgo an exclusive deal with OpenAI to allow Siri to run queries through ...
Wired

Meet the Tech Reporters Using AI to Help Write and Edit Their Stories

When technology reporter Alex Heath has a scoop, he sits down at his computer and speaks into a microphone. He’s not talking to a human colleague—Heath went independent on Substack last year—he’s ...
The Columbian

Good vibrations: Sound baths use ancient techniques for creating calm

Bubble baths are a time-honored way to reduce stress, as is the Japanese practice of “forest bathing,” or immersing yourself in nature. Now sound baths — a therapeutic practice using sound to a ...
Live Science

An experimental AI agent broke out of its testing environment and mined crypto without permission

Space The AMOC moves closer to collapse, scientists create artificial neurons, the "Iliad" is found inside and Egyptian mummy, and researchers search for treatments for brain-eating amoebas Artificial ...
Wall Street Journal

Teenagers Have Easy Access to Cannabis. Science Says It’s Bad for Them.

Legalization of recreational marijuana by many states has made it easier for teens to get access to highly potent and convenient forms of the drug, creating new hazards for teen health. New research ...
NPR

A college student's perspective on using AI in class

[Maximilian Milovidov is a freshman at Columbia University and a member of TikTok's Youth Council. He used a large language model to edit this essay for length and a human to edit for content. This ...
The Daily Tar Heel

'Creating so much disquiet': UNC reevaluates need for classroom recording policy

Less than two weeks after UNC’s classroom recording policy went into effect, Chancellor Lee Roberts announced at Friday’s Faculty Council meeting that the policy would be repealed. In a statement to ...