State Rep. Patricia Morgan, a West Warwick Republican, is shown meeting students on the University of Rhode Island’s Kingston campus in an ad aired by Roosevelt Society Action, a super PAC formed last September. (Screenshot/Roosevelt Society Action) The mystery of who exactly is behind the super PAC that supported Republican Patricia Morgan’s failed bid to … Read more
Rough estimates place Maine’s remaining volume of firefighting foam with PFAS at upwards of 40,000 gallons. Despite a 2020 recommendation by the Governor’s PFAS Task Force to inventory and collect AFFF stocks, no progress toward that goal has been realized in nearly five years. (Photo by Brendan Bullock) During 21 years working as a municipal … Read more
Microsoft AI CEO Mustafa Suleyman predicts AGI is more than two years away. His timeline contrasts with Sam Altman, who suggests AGI is achievable “with current hardware.” Definitions of AGI vary, with Suleyman emphasizing a broad human-level learning system. Mustafa Suleyman, Microsoft’s AI CEO, indicated that the timeline of AI advancement will be much longer … Read more
Mustafa Suleyman oversees all things AI at Microsoft.Leon Neal/Getty Images Microsoft AI CEO Mustafa Suleyman predicts AGI is more than two years away. His timeline contrasts with Sam Altman, who suggests AGI is achievable “with current hardware.” Definitions of AGI vary, with Suleyman emphasizing a broad human-level learning system. Mustafa Suleyman, Microsoft’s AI CEO, indicated … Read more
Two men salute while participating in New York City’s Veterans Day parade Nov. 11. Republican and Democratic lawmakers in some two dozen states have introduced bills aimed at restricting or legalizing the practice of for-profit companies charging veterans fees for help filing disability claims — an issue that often has pitted veterans against one another. … Read more
MASSILLON ‒ Piece by piece, Samantha Kaufman meticulously attached another piece of stainless steel to the massive exoskeleton inside her classroom at R.G. Drage. She is among a group of senior welding students helping to bring a one-of-a-kind sculpture to Fairless Local Schools. The welding students, along with help from Canton artist Patrick Buckohr, are … Read more
MASSILLON ‒ Piece by piece, Samantha Kaufman meticulously attached another piece of stainless steel to the massive exoskeleton inside her classroom at R.G. Drage. She is among a group of senior welding students helping to bring a one-of-a-kind sculpture to Fairless Local Schools. The welding students, along with help from Canton artist Patrick Buckohr, are … Read more
Absentee ballot being handled by an employee of the Wake County Board of Elections. (Photo by Allison Joyce/Getty Images) North Carolina Republican Court of Appeals Judge Jefferson Griffin was fully within his rights in recent weeks to request a pair of recounts in his razor-thin loss to incumbent Democratic Supreme Court Justice Allison Riggs. While … Read more
Boeing workers gather on a picket line near the entrance to a Boeing facility on Oct. 24 in Seattle. The strike ended with a deal in November. Those workers returning to the job factored into growth reported in the latest labor report. (David Ryder/Getty Images) The economy added 227,000 jobs in November, making for a … Read more
A cup of pencils sit on top of a classroom desk in Virginia (Nathaniel Cline/Virginia Mercury) After a year-long review of the Virginia Department of Education, which failed to meet federal requirements to support students with disabilities, the federal government’s watchdog for special education programs wrote in a letter that all of its findings and … Read more