Supreme Court weighs thorny issues in state transgender athlete bans
Liberal and conservative justices weighed what a Title IX decision would mean for other areas of education, like remedial classes for underperforming boys. Continue reading →
Character.AI, Google agree to mediate settlements in wrongful teen death lawsuits
The lawsuits “are tragic reminders” that AI chatbots aren’t safe for minors seeking emotional support, says a media safety expert. Continue reading →
Driver Legitimacy Summit takes on CDL fraud: Feb. 5-6
Leaders in transportation, insurance, enforcement and shipping will convene on Feb. 5-6 in Atlanta for a two-day working summit to develop an action plan to address unauthorized and fraudulent commercial drivers. The event is a “closed-room, solution-oriented working session” for stakeholders to...
Vooma, SONAR partner to bring high-frequency freight intelligence to your inbox
Vooma, a leader in automated email quoting, and SONAR, the leading provider of high-frequency data for the global supply chain, are excited to officially launch our partnership. Through this partnership, mutual customers can now embed SONAR spot rates and lane scores directly into their users...
Microsoft Fixes Three Zero-Days on Busy Patch Tuesday
Microsoft has patched three zero-day vulnerabilities in the first patch Tuesday of 2026, including one under active exploitation Continue reading →
AI and Drug Discovery Get a Boost from Illumina’s Billion Cell Atlas Release
Illumina has launched what it calls the largest genome‑wide genetic perturbation dataset ever assembled, a resource designed to accelerate AI‑driven drug discovery across the pharmaceutical industry. The new Billion Cell Atlas represents the first installment of a planned five‑billion‑cell atlas...
Modulating the Secretory Pathway for Enhanced Therapeutic Protein Manufacturing
Avenue Biosciences received $5.7 million in seed extension to scale a high-throughput protein engineering technology designed to accelerate the discovery of protein-based tools and therapies. Balnord and Tesi co-led the funding round with support from Voima Ventures, Inventure, the University of...
MS Linked to EBV Infection Through Cross-Reactive T Cells
The results of preclinical research headed by a team at Karolinska Institutet have indicated how T cells that play a role in the immune system’s reaction to the common Epstein-Barr virus (EBV) can also cross-react with a protein in the brain, ultimately contributing to multiple sclerosis (MS)....
Digital health funding increases in 2025, spurred by AI: report
Startups raised $14.2 billion last year, the highest funding total since 2022. Health AI companies collected 54% of total funding, according to Rock Health. Continue reading →