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Recent Examples of cooperativesThe old joke is that some cooperatives are the least cooperative groups in the world.—Christopher Bonanos, Curbed, 11 Aug. 2025
The United States has suspended some funding for its flagship AIDS relief program, according to international organizations and members of Congress who warn the cuts are already hurting patients and halting critical projects globally.
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Lauren Kent,
CNN Money,
13 Sep. 2025
According to Anthropic, the company behind Claude, a hacker used its artificial intelligence chatbot to research, hack, and extort at least 17 organizations.
The data set is hosted on a website of the European research institutions that created it.
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The Atlantic,
The Atlantic,
10 Sep. 2025
Powered by advanced technology and human creativity, Tala is reinventing financial infrastructure to solve what legacy institutions can’t or won’t, in order to unlock global economic progress.
The wave of threats that canceled classes and put multiple historically Black colleges and universities on lockdown are believed to be hoaxes, federal officials said.
Specifically, Shellenberger testified that sources had informed him that intelligence communities are in possession of numerous high-resolution photos and videos of the craft unlike any of the grainy imagery that has so far been declassified.
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Eric Lagatta,
USA Today,
10 Sep. 2025
The series builds on The Star's efforts to improve coverage of local communities.
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Kansas City Star,
Kansas City Star,
10 Sep. 2025
Our conversation revealed how commercial space, AI, and medicine are converging in ways that will open entirely new opportunities for businesses and societies.
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Bernard Marr,
Forbes.com,
12 Sep. 2025
Each of these commitments comes nestled in a bramble of thorny questions that societies have been debating for the last, let’s round it off at, 250 years.
Continue funding research consortia to tackle specific challenges as a direct investment in talent pipelines and a way to outsource high-risk, high-reward R&D that will secure corporate operations.
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Denis Mandich,
Forbes.com,
2 Sep. 2025
Once that framework is established, international research consortia and national health agencies should develop countermeasures that could protect against accidental or intentional releases of mirror life.
There have been various similar streamer-broadcaster partnerships struck in 2025, with Netflix’s agreement to carry the live channels and on-demand content from France’s TF1 starting 2026 arguably the most eye-catching.
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Jesse Whittock,
Deadline,
8 Sep. 2025
The key lies in innovation—developing new approaches to old problems, nurturing solid partnerships with customers and investors, and staying ahead of the technology curve.
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