Harvard says it will comply with US Supreme Court ruling, preserve its values

WASHINGTON (Reuters) -Harvard University said on Thursday it will comply with the U.S. Supreme Court ruling that struck down its race-conscious student admissions programs in a way that will preserve its values on diversity and opportunity in higher education. “We will certainly comply with the Court’s decision,” the prestigious university said in a statement. “In…

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Key voices in the decades-long debate over affirmative action

By Joseph Ax, Sharon Bernstein, Gabriella Borter (Reuters) -For decades, selective U.S. colleges and universities have considered, among other factors, whether applicants are from underrepresented minority groups, including Black, Hispanic and Native American. For just as long, critics of affirmative action have questioned whether race-conscious admissions policies are fair or warranted. The Supreme Court weighed…

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Microsoft-backed AI startup Inflection raises $1.3 billion from Nvidia and others

By Niket Nishant and Krystal Hu (Reuters) -Inflection AI, a startup backed by several Silicon Valley heavyweights, said on Thursday it had raised $1.3 billion from investors including Microsoft and Nvidia, amid a boom in the artificial intelligence (AI) sector. The investment, a mix of cash and cloud credit, valued the one-year-old company at $4…

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Regulatory logjam in China offshore listings hits firms’ funding plans

By Scott Murdoch and Kane Wu SYDNEY/HONG KONG (Reuters) – Chinese companies are finding it challenging to get timely regulatory approvals for overseas share offerings as scrutiny of their proposals has intensified under new listing rules, frustrating potential issuers and investment bankers. Since the launch of the overhauled listing regime on March 31, not a…

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Lawsuit says OpenAI violated US authors’ copyrights to train AI chatbot

By Blake Brittain (Reuters) – Two U.S. authors sued OpenAI in San Francisco federal court on Wednesday, claiming in a proposed class action that the company misused their works to “train” its popular generative artificial-intelligence system ChatGPT. Massachusetts-based writers Paul Tremblay and Mona Awad said ChatGPT mined data copied from thousands of books without permission,…

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US Supreme Court tosses Hetronic’s $96 million trademark win against European distributor

By Blake Brittain WASHINGTON (Reuters) – Limiting the foreign reach of American trademark law, the U.S. Supreme Court on Thursday threw out a $96 million jury award for Methode Electronics Inc’s Hetronic International in its fight with its former European distributor for selling Hetronic-branded products with unauthorized parts. The decision overturned a lower court’s ruling…

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