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States Target School Cell Phone Use At least four states have banned or severely restricted the use of smart phones in schools in the current legislative biennium. Florida became the first state to do...
Compounded Weight-Loss Drugs Creating Headaches for State Regulators With popular weight-loss drugs like Mounjaro, Ozempic and Wegovy in short supply, many doctors, pharmacies and other providers have...
In their seminal book on the American health care system, legendary investigative reporters Donald L. Barlett and James B. Steele offered a disturbing metaphor for the illogical nature of medical pricing...
PA Lawmakers Pass Bill Regulating PBMs The Pennsylvania legislature passed a bill ( HB 1993 ) aimed at increasing oversight of pharmacy benefit managers. If signed by Gov. Josh Shapiro (D), the measure...
In a sign of the times, states have begun pursuing bills that require disclosure of the use of artificial intelligence. In March, Utah Gov. Spencer Cox (R) signed SB 149 , making the state the first...
The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA) sent a letter to the Massachusetts attorney general’s office last week giving the state the go-ahead to enforce the right to repair law voters approved there in 2020. That notification was a U-turn for the agency, which in June instructed automakers not to comply with the Massachusetts law, saying the “open data platform” it called for could place cars sold in the state at risk of being taken over by hackers. (WIRED)
Nvidia reported second quarter revenue of $13.51 billion, an 88% increase from the second quarter of 2022, and said it expected revenue of about $16 billion in the current quarter, a 170% increase over the same period last year. The revenue surge highlights the strength of the generative AI boom and demand for the company’s graphics processing units in particular. (CNBC)
Two victims of stalking have filed a proposed class-action lawsuit against Tile Inc. and Amazon in U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California alleging the Tile tracking device, used to determine the whereabouts of missing keys or a purse, was marketed “both explicitly and implicitly for the purpose of tracking people—particularly women.” Amazon partnered with Tile in 2021 to improve its Sidewalk tracking network, which the suit alleges “made the Tile tracker vastly more effective, and therefore vastly more dangerous.” (INSURANCE JOURNAL)
—Compiled by SNCJ Managing Editor KOREY CLARK
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