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Litigation Challenging the 2025 Budget Reconciliation Law’s Provision Blocking Federal Medicaid Payments to Planned Parenthood

Author3 days ago033 mins

Introduction One of the immediate impacts of the 2025 Federal Budget Reconciliation Law is a provision, Section 71113, that blocks certain reproductive health care providers (who also provide abortions) from receiving federal Medicaid reimbursement for one year. The law impacts three organizations: (1) Planned Parenthood; (2) Maine Family Planning, a network of clinics in Maine, (3) and Health Imperatives, a network of specialized reproductive health clinics based in Massachusetts. Shortly after President…

Google helps University of Toronto create Hinton Chair

Author3 days ago01 mins

Today, we are celebrating the extraordinary impact of Nobel Prize-winner Geoffrey Hinton by investing in the future of the field he helped build. Google is proud to support the University of Toronto with $10 million CAD to establish the Hinton Chair in Artificial Intelligence. Geoff’s work on neural networks — spanning his time in academia…

Here’s What You Should Know About Launching an AI Startup

Author3 days ago09 mins

Julie Bornstein thought it would be a cinch to implement her idea for an AI startup. Her résumé in digital commerce is impeccable: VP of ecommerce at Nordstrom, COO of the startup Stitch Fix, and founder of a personalized shopping platform acquired by Pinterest. Fashion has been her obsession since she was a Syracuse high…

Google Workspace and the Harris Poll survey young workers on AI

Author3 days ago01 mins

Google Workspace has released findings from our second survey that looks at how people aged 22-39 are using AI at work. Commissioned by Workspace in partnership with the Harris Poll, the findings reveal three key themes: Young leaders want AI that offers more personalized responses — think outputs that aren’t just generic, but use your…

Gemini 3 Pro: the frontier of vision AI

Author3 days ago01 mins

Build with Gemini 3 Pro, the best model in the world for multimodal capabilities. Source link

What to Expect from Rapid7’s Predictions Webinar

Author3 days ago08 mins

Every year, Rapid7 brings together some of the most experienced minds in cybersecurity to pause, zoom out, and take stock of where the threat landscape is heading. Last year’s predictions webinar sparked lively debate among practitioners, leaders, and researchers alike, and many of those early warnings were proven accurate. We talked about expanding attack surfaces,…

KFF Health Tracking Poll: Knowledge and Views of Medication Abortion

Author3 days ago017 mins

Key Takeaways In September, HHS Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. and FDA Commissioner Marty Makary announced in a letter to Republican lawmakers that the FDA would conduct a safety review of mifepristone, the abortion pill, twenty-five years after it was first approved for use. Public awareness of the pill and its longstanding safety record is…

Huge Trove of Nude Images Leaked by AI Image Generator Startup’s Exposed Database

Author3 days ago05 mins

An AI image generator startup left more than 1 million images and videos created with its systems exposed and accessible to anyone online, according to new research reviewed by WIRED. The “overwhelming majority” of the images involved nudity and were “depicted adult content,” according to the researcher who uncovered the exposed trove of data, with…

AI Slop Is Ruining Reddit for Everyone

Author3 days ago05 mins

A Reddit post about a bride who demands a wedding guest wear a specific, unflattering shade is sure to provoke rage, let alone one about a bridesmaid or mother of the groom who wants to wear white. A scenario where a parent asks someone on an airplane to switch seats so they can sit next…

The era of AI persuasion in elections is about to begin

Author3 days ago05 mins

All this means that actors, whether well-resourced organizations or grassroots collectives, have a clear path to deploying politically persuasive AI at scale. Early demonstrations have already occurred elsewhere in the world. In India’s 2024 general election, tens of millions of dollars were reportedly spent on AI to segment voters, identify swing voters, deliver personalized messaging…