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The AI firm's settlement is the first of its kind.
AI company will pay authors $1.5 billion in damages after using their copyrighted works to train its models
Academics set for payouts of $3000 for each book that was illegally downloaded
www.chemistryworld.com
October 25, 2025 at 1:30 PM
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As #AI continues to improve, universities, public funding agencies, and venture capitalists are all considering how machines could be used to identify breakthrough research. https://scim.ag/4mHCJkH
AI enters the grant game, picking winners
Funders test algorithms to spot promising science, raising hopes of faster reviews—and fears of bias
scim.ag
August 29, 2025 at 9:51 PM
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NEW: A top official in the Department of Labor this week informed all staff members that they could face criminal charges if they speak to journalists, former employees or others about agency business.
Labor Department Official Warns That Staff Who Speak With Journalists Face “Serious Legal Consequences”
Secretary of Labor Lori Chavez-DeRemer’s chief of staff issued the warning as department employees have spoken to the news media about harms they see resulting from the dismantling of their agency,…
www.propublica.org
April 23, 2025 at 1:30 PM
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The importance of diversity in science is an unshakeable reality that the scientific community must stand by, says Arthur Caplan

https://go.nature.com/3XS8xc4
Don’t wait out four hard years: speak truth to power
The importance of diversity in science is an unshakeable reality that the scientific community must stand by.
go.nature.com
March 17, 2025 at 11:31 AM
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Researchers have synthesised a triple bond between carbon and boron for the first time, in a discovery that could inspire other researchers to synthesise compounds that might seem improbable.
Carbon–boron triple bond formed for the first time in a neutral novel molecule
Synthesis could help chemists better understand bonding
www.chemistryworld.com
March 13, 2025 at 5:31 PM