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Washington (AP) – Maine’s Department of Education Transgender athletes are prohibited The escalation of the threat of President Donald Trump withdrawing federal money from states and schools than transgender athletes, as he faces girls and women’s sports and federal prosecutors.The U.S. Education Bureau on Wednesday said the investigation concluded that the Maine Education Bureau had violated it. Title IX A non-differentiation law by allowing transgender girls to compete on girls’ sports teams and use women’s facilities. He has been in Maine for 10 days to comply with the list of requests and faces the Department of Justice prosecutors.”If Maine does…

Openai has launched a more powerful version of the O1 “Inference” AI model O1-Pro in its developer API. According to Openai, O1-Pro uses more computing than O1 to provide “consistently better response.” Currently, it is available only to developers who have selected developers who spend at least $5 on Openai API services and is expensive. It’s very expensive. Openai supplies the model $150 (approximately 750,000 words) per million dollars, and charges $600 per million dollars generated by the model. This is twice the input Openai’s GPT-4.5, and the regular O1 is 10 times the price. Openai bets that the improved…

TechCrunch learned that consumer-grade spyware operations, called Spyx, were hit by a data breach last year. The violation reveals that Spyx and two other related mobile apps have records of around 2 million people at the time of the violation, including thousands of Apple users. The data breach dates back to June 2024, but has not been reported previously, and there is no indication that Spyx operators have notified customers or Spyware subjects. The SPYX family of mobile spyware is now known to have exposed or exposed victim or user data in the 25th mobile surveillance operation or other ways…

The US Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) plans to deport Janet Vizguera, a well-known immigration activist who has confirmed it is in custody and has turned his attention to the light-form of undocumented people around the country. Immigration advocates, lawmakers and human rights groups have condemned the move, referring to the four mothers with deep connections to the Colorado community she lived in for 30 years. The arrest appears to be the first time US authorities have targeted prominent immigration activists who were deported during President Donald Trump’s second term. Supporters say Vizguera’s detention is intended to silence the objection.…

RALEY, N.C. (AP) — North Carolina Democratic Government Josh Stein on Wednesday told Republicans in charge of Congress that he will cut and scale future income tax rates Private school voucher It can now be received by families of all income levels.Stein, who? He was appointed in January Eight years after being attorney general, he made comments while publishing his proposal for the state government budget for the first two years. He hopes to spend $33.65 billion a year starting July 1st. That’s about $2 billion more than planned for this fiscal year – an increase of $700 million the…

WASHINGTON, D.C. – Images of Palestinian children killed in the Israeli bombing have returned to the news after a brief reprieve that lasted only a few weeks. Almost two months after President Donald Trump took office, the region is once again at war, as the ceasefire that stopped Israel’s war in Gaza was shattered. It comes despite Trump’s own pledge to pursue peace in the Middle East and around the world. Trump praised the truce earlier this year, but he now supports a new Israeli attack in a conflict he once promised to end. Analysts say they were more interested…

Some users of Elon Musk’s X have turned to Musk’s Ai Bot Grok to confirm the facts, raising concerns among human fact-checkers that this can promote misinformation. Earlier this month, X was able to call Xai’s Grok and ask about various things. The move was similar to the confusion running an automated account on X to provide a similar experience. Shortly after Xai created an automated Grok account with X, users began experimenting with asking questions. Some people in the market, including India, have begun asking Grok to fact-check comments and questions targeting specific political beliefs. Fact checkers are concerned…

Sequoia will not only close its DC office at the end of March, but will also close some of its policy teams there, TechCrunch confirmed. The news is a bit contrasting, along with other prominent Silicon Valley VC companies strengthening their ties between Capitol Hill and the new Trump administration. For example, Andreessen Horowitz is leaning towards the policy team as some of his partner roles in the White House. For example, I recently hired former Republican Rep. Patrick McHenry as an advisor. Sequoia opened its DC office five years ago, supporting businesses with regulatory issues and deepening relationships with…

Sequoia will close some of its Washington, D.C., offices and policy teams at the end of March, TechCrunch confirmed. The news is a bit contrasting, along with other prominent Silicon Valley VC companies strengthening their ties between Capitol Hill and the new Trump administration. For example, Andreessen Horowitz is leaning towards the policy team as some of his partner roles in the White House. For example, I recently hired former Republican Rep. Patrick McHenry as my advisor. Sequoia opened the Washington Office five years ago, supporting companies with regulatory issues and deepening relationships with policymakers. In a statement to TechCrunch,…

Noam Brown, who heads AI inference research at Openai, says certain forms of “inference” AI models that could arrive 20 years ago were “known.” [the right] Approach and algorithm. “There were various reasons why the direction of this research was ignored,” Brown said at a panel at NVIDIA’s GTC conference in San Jose on Wednesday. “In the course of my research, I realized that OK, something is missing. Humans spend a lot of time before acting in harsh conditions. [in AI]. ” Brown had mentioned his work on gameplay AI at Carnegie Mellon University, including Pull Ribs, who defeated elite…