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Deepfake of principal’s voice is the latest case of AI being used for harm

April 29, 2024, 10:49am Business

The most recent criminal case involving artificial intelligence emerged last week from a Maryland high school, where police say a principal was framed as racist by a fake recording of his voice. Read story

FILE – California Gov. Gavin Newsom speaks during an event in San Francisco on Nov. 9, 2023. On Monday, April 29, 2024, Newsom announced California is partnering with New Jersey-based Amneal Pharmaceuticals to purchase a generic version of Narcan.

California is joining with a New Jersey company to buy a generic opioid overdose reversal drug

April 29, 2024, 8:41am Business

California is partnering with a New Jersey-based pharmaceutical company to purchase a generic version of Narcan, the drug that can save someone’s life during an opioid overdose, under a deal announced Monday by Democratic Gov. Gavin Newsom. Read story

Packages of macadamia nuts are displayed on store shelves on Friday, April 26, 2024, in Honolulu. For decades, tourists to Hawaii have brought home gift boxes of the islands’ famous chocolate-covered macadamia nuts for friends and family.

Hawaii is known for its macadamia nuts. Lawmakers want to keep it that way

April 29, 2024, 8:40am Business

For decades, tourists to Hawaii have brought home gift boxes of the islands’ famous chocolate-covered macadamia nuts for friends and family, but these days many of the kernels in the package might not be Hawaii-grown. Read story

Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell arrives for the plenary session of the International Monetary and Financial Committee (IMFC) meeting, during the World Bank/IMF Spring Meetings at the International Monetary Fund (IMF) headquarters in Washington, Friday, April 19, 2024.

Affluent Americans are driving US economy and likely delaying need for Fed rate cuts

April 29, 2024, 7:48am Business

Since retiring two years ago, Joan Harris has upped her travel game. Read story

From Left, Boeing Quality Engineer Sam Salehpour; Ed Pierson, Executive Director of The Foundation for Aviation Safety and a Former Boeing Engineer; Joe Jacobsen, Aerospace Engineer and Technical Advisor to the Foundation for Aviation Safety and a former FAA Engineer; and Shawn Pruchnicki, Ph.D, Professional Practice Assistant Professor for Integrated Systems Engineering at The Ohio State University are sworn in before they testify at a Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs - Subcommittee on Investigations hearing to examine Boeing’s broken safety culture on Wednesday, April 17, 2024, in Washington.

Congress has a lot to say about Boeing’s troubles. But what will it do?

April 29, 2024, 7:45am Business

Dueling Senate hearings earlier this month focused on Boeing’s safety culture, with whistleblower testimony that lawmakers called troubling as they pledged to further address the company’s problems. Read story

Journalists critical of their own companies cause headaches for news organizations

FILE - MSNBC television anchor Rachel Maddow, host of “The Rachel Maddow Show,” moderates a panel at the John F. Kennedy School of Government, at Harvard University, in Cambridge, Mass., on Oct. 16, 2017. In the past few weeks, NBC reversed a decision to hire former Republican National Committee head Ronna McDaniel as a political contributor following a revolt by some of its best-known personalities, including Maddow, and others.

April 29, 2024, 6:02am Business

This spring, NBC News, The New York Times and National Public Radio have each dealt with turmoil for essentially the same reason: journalists taking the critical gaze they deploy to cover the world and turning it inward at their own employers. Read story