In an effort to recruit and train new instructors, the Ohio Traffic Safety Office has launched two programs to support driving schools across Ohio. The Instructor Development Grant and New Instructor Incentive are designed to increase capacity at licensed driving schools as a new law takes effect today requiring new drivers under age 21 to [...]
AN FRANCISCO (AP) — A federal judge last week approved a $1.5 billion settlement between artificial intelligence company Anthropic and authors who allege nearly half a million books had been illegally pirated to train chatbots. U.S. District Judge William Alsup issued the preliminary approval in San Francisco federal court after the two sides worked to [...]
WASHINGTON (AP) — Americans are more likely to watch newly released movies from the comfort of their own homes instead of heading out to a theater, according to a new poll. About three-quarters of adults said they watched a new movie on streaming instead of in the theater at least once in the past year, [...]
Starbucks last week said it’s closing hundreds of stores in the United States and Canada and laying off 900 non-retail employees as it focuses more of its resources on a turnaround. The Seattle coffee giant said store closures would start immediately. The company wouldn’t give a number of stores that are closing, but it said [...]
SHANGHAI (AP) — The head of a congressional delegation visiting China said he backed renegotiating the rules governing the global economy to take into account China’s rise and that of other countries such as India and Brazil. Rep. Adam Smith, a Democrat from Washington state, told the mayor of Shanghai last week that the United [...]
BOSTON (AP) — A federal judge in Rhode Island ruled last week that it’s unconstitutional to require states to cooperate on immigration enforcement actions to get funding for disasters, which is overseen by the Federal Emergency Management Agency. A coalition of 20 Democratic state attorneys general in May filed a federal lawsuit claiming that the [...]
NEW YORK (AP) — YouTube will offer creators a way to rejoin the streaming platform if they were banned for violating COVID-19 and election misinformation policies that are no longer in effect, its parent company Alphabet said last week. In a letter submitted in response to subpoenas from the House Judiciary Committee, attorneys for Alphabet [...]
LONDON (AP) — Apple wants the European Union to repeal its digital competition rule book, saying the regulations are cumbersome and are delaying new features for Europeans such as live translation for AirPods. The European Commission, the 27-nation bloc’s executive branch, said that’s not going to happen. “There is absolutely no intention from the Commission’s [...]
Two central Ohio affordable housing projects have been granted financial assistance packages through the Ohio Housing Finance Agency. The agency’s board approved financing from various programs to support six housing developments “to create or preserve affordable housing units throughout the state.” The central Ohio projects include St. George on the Commons in Columbus, which received [...]