Since the overturning of Roe v. Wade, there’s been more of a spotlight on the availability of affordable, highly effective birth control for women. However, more and more women had been asking about nonhormonal birth control options – due to side effects and misinformation online.

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Allen Carlson, an associate professor of government and an expert on Chinese foreign policy, says the flurry of diplomacy reflects Beijing’s effort to project strength amid mounting domestic pressures.

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Allen Carlson, an associate professor of government and an expert on Chinese foreign policy, says the comment cuts to the core of the U.S.-China relationship.

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Microsoft is reportedly scaling back access to some advanced AI coding tools and Uber has burned through its annual AI coding-tools budget in just four months. This highlights a growing challenge for companies – AI is not cheap labor.

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The New York State Legislature passed a one-year moratorium on data center permits, but the governor has yet to sign it. If she does, it would be the first statewide moratorium in the nation. Cornell experts weigh in on the potential pause.

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According to new reports, the Trump administration is reviewing proposals to dismantle the National Center for Atmospheric Research (NCAR), one of the world’s leading climate and weather laboratories. The National Science Foundation had asked for feedback about how to “restructure” the lab but not said when a decision would be made.

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Major League Baseball is rolling out an artificial intelligence-augmented camera system this season that will provide a second opinion for players to tap if they think an umpire whiffed.

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Anthropic says its new system, Claude Mythos, is too powerful to share with the general public. The company claims hackers could use it to exploit security holes in computer networks with stunning speed.

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Allen Carlson, an associate professor of government and an expert on Chinese foreign policy, says the summit will be shaped less by what each leader wants than by the constraints both bring, and points to three issues to watch as the talks unfold.

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John Tobin-de la Puente is a professor of practice at Cornell University’s SC Johnson College of Business, and a former managing director and global head of sustainability at Credit Suisse. He says he doesn’t expect companies to make long-term plans based on the Trump administration’s actions.

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