A red and blue ship have collided in the Carribean sea. Apparently the suvivors are marooned.

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I stayed up all night wondering where the sun went. Then it dawned on me.

Scientists create synthetic embryos

Bill Gates meets Xi

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Embryos are the earliest stage of development of a multicellular organism. Researchers are only permitted to grow them in a lab setting for 14 days

In a speech at a medical conference Wednesday, a team of UK and US researchers announced they’d created the first synthetic human embryo. They’d done so using human stem cells

The lead researcher said the embryos can be used to better study the childbirth process, although it’s unclear if the embryos could actually lead to a birth

“I just wish to stress that [these] are not human embryos,” Żernicka-Goetz said. “They are embryo models, but they are very exciting because they are [very similar] to human embryos and a very important path toward [discovering] why so many pregnancies fail, as the majority of pregnancies fail around the time of development at which we build these [embryos]”

Cedric Lodge managed Harvard Medical School’s morgue from 1995 until last May. On Wednesday, federal authorities accused him of selling heads, brains, skin, and other body parts between 2018 and 2022. The corpses had been donated for medical research

Prosecutors allege one of the seller’s customers owned a store called “Kat’s Creepy Creations” that sold “creepy dolls.” One PayPal payment to Lodge for $1,000 included the memo, “head number 7”; another for $200 read, “braiiiiiins”

The indictment listed charges against 5 people, including Lodge and his wife, for conspiracy and transporting stolen goods

“Some crimes defy understanding,” the prosecutor who brought the charges said in a statement. In an email to the HMS community, Harvard deans called the crimes “disturbing” and a “betrayal”

The bill takes a “risk-based approach”: It identifies where AI could have the largest negative consequences and seeks to mitigate those. It outright bans some AI – including facial recognition and those used by police to predict crimes – and requires companies making “high risk” AI to fill out reports

Some US-based AI companies have criticized the bill, saying it is overly restrictive and will stifle innovation

Other EU bodies must approve the bill for it to become law. That could happen by later this year

Several AI leaders in the US, including OpenAI’s CEO, have called AI an existential threat and urged Congress to regulate it. But many have also called the EU’s bill overly restrictive and said it would stifle innovation

US Congresspeople have held numerous hearings to decide what future US regulation could look like

On May 1, Neely – a 30-year-old homeless man – was traveling in an NYC subway car and “acting erratically.” Penny, a 24-year-old Marine veteran, put him into a chokehold. Neely later died, and a coroner determined it was due to that chokehold

NYC charged Penny last month with second-degree manslaughter. On Wednesday, a grand jury indicted Penny, meaning the case can now go to a trial

A fundraiser for Penny’s legal defense has raised $2.8M+

Penny’s lawyers have described him as an upstanding citizen with no criminal background who choked Neely to protect himself and others

“The grand jury’s decision tells our city and our nation that ‘no one is above the law’ no matter how much money they raise, no matter what affiliations they claim, and no matter what distorted stories they tell in interviews,” attorneys for Neely’s family said

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How ‘bout them Apples: Microsoft’s stock hit a record high after an executive said the company could make $10B from AI this year. Its stock is up 46% this year

Nar-can you believe this? California officials have seized enough fentanyl in San Francisco since the beginning of May to kill the city’s population 3 times over

“Jamie, pull up Jack Ruby CIA”: Presidential candidate Robert F. Kennedy Jr. revealed on Joe Rogan’s podcast that he “takes precautions” to prevent the CIA from killing him

Innocent until proven Dracula: German police have detained a 30-year-old American man in relation to the attack and killing of a woman at a German castle

Bill with Bae-jing: Bill Gates met with Chinese leader Xi Jinping today. Xi called him the “first American friend” he has met this year

Wildcat formation: Conservationists in Scotland are releasing 20 wildcats into the Scottish Highlands in an effort to save the endangered species