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Millions of borrowers will be eligible for student loan forgiveness after AFT union sues Trump administration
The Trump administration has agreed to resume student loan forgiveness for an estimated 2.5 million borrowers who are enrolled in certain federal repayment plans following a lawsuit from the...
The Download: Introducing the new conspiracy age
—Greg Linden, a former data scientist at Microsoft, pokes fun at Meta’s beleaguered Reality Labs’ earnings in a post on Bluesky. One more thing How scientists want to make...
How the Fed’s rate cut will impact your finances
The Federal Reserve cut its benchmark interest rate by a quarter point Wednesday for the second time since September. Before that, it had gone nine months without a cut.The...
Chipotle stock price crashes as Gen Z and millennials burdened by student debt and unemployment stay away
Fast-casual restaurant chain Chipotle Mexican Grill (NYSE: CMG) is seeing its stock price plummet this morning after reporting third-quarter 2025 earnings and a sales forecast that alarmed investors. As...
Leveraging the clinician’s expertise with agentic AI
Letting doctors be doctorsbe doctorsCurrent ambient AI assistants, which gained mainstream traction in 2023, are already able to record, structure, and summarize patient encounters in real time. This liberates clinicians...
Four thoughts from Bill Gates on climate tech
Gates buys offsets to cancel out his own personal emissions, to the tune of about $9 million a year, he said at the roundtable, but doesn’t expect many of...
AI made her a billionaire. Now she’s using it to help creators maximize their earnings
In April 2025, Lucy Guo became the youngest female self-made billionaire after Meta paid $14.3 billion for a 49% stake in Scale AI, the company she cofounded with Alexandr Wang...
Why it’s so hard to bust the weather control conspiracy theory
What we cannot do The versions of weather modification that the conspiracy theorists envision most often—significantly altering monsoons or hurricanes or making the skies clear and sunny for weeks...
How conspiracy theories infiltrated the doctor’s office
I’d say that the rate of how much vaccines are talked about now is significantly lower, and covid doesn’t really come up anymore. But other medical illnesses come up—patients...
Can “The Simpsons” really predict the future?
THE SIMPSONS ™ & © 20TH TELEVISION It’s not like we would’ve made that knowing what was going to come, which we didn’t. And people have advanced conspiracy theories...
