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  A legendary roller coaster at Six Flags Magic Mountain in California known for its extreme speeds and twists has been closed since July after two women fell into comas with similar brain hemorrhages a few days apart, shortly after going on the ride, according to a report from CNN. Pamela Guillen regained consciousness after two weeks; Naomi Greer-Wilkinson has still not awakened. Six Flags, which has a market cap of ~$1.6 billion, declined to comment to CNN on Guillen and Greer-Wilkinson’s injuries. Those two cases are part of a possible pattern with the X2 coaster, per the report. According to medical and court records found by CNN: Christopher Hawley in 2022 and Hilda Farias in 2010 died of brain injuries after going on the ride. The coaster has been connected to more than a dozen serious injuries and hospitalizations in its more than 20 years of existence. Attorneys for the amusement park have argued that a sign warns passengers about “inherent risks” on any amusement ride, ...

  The surf and turf has been added to the endangered species list. Your grandparents’ favorite fancy seafood chain, Red Lobster, is shuttering at least 99 locations, about 15% of its restaurants, as it attempts to stave off bankruptcy. Red Lobster’s fall from grace: The iconic chain opened its first location in 1968 an hour outside of Orlando, Florida, and revolutionized casual dining. But by the 2010s, declining sales pushed corporate parent after corporate parent to offload the crustaceous brand. A 2014 sale included a sale-leaseback agreement, which forced Red Lobster to take on the added cost of pricey leases. Longtime shrimp provider Thai Union bought a stake in 2016 and tried to boost profits by slashing suppliers and gutting wait staff schedules. It upped its stake in 2020, and by the time it said it was looking for an out this year, the brand was tarnished and exec churn was off the charts. Thai Union also made $20 endless shrimp part of the permanent menu instead of a l...

  There’s about to be fewer feet sticking to frat floors and hands slapping the bag. US colleges are facing an enrollment cliff after the population of Americans aged 18 peaked last year. Undergraduate enrollment is projected to decline by 13% in the next 15 years, according to the Western Interstate Commission for Higher Education. Meanwhile, many schools are already in a pickle : Families are increasingly bargain hunting for the most generous financial aid as they doubt the value of a higher education. Meanwhile, the Trump administration has restricted international student visas, denting enrollment in the process. College recession Smaller, lesser-known colleges are the first to see tumbleweeds in their quads: At least 10 small schools, including Hampshire College and the California College of Arts, have closed this year or plan to shutter in 2027. Schools are increasingly dipping into their endowments to fill budget shortfalls, which often leads to downgrades in their credit ra...

  David Lawrence was a Harvard Law student when an on-campus shooting involving a police officer sparked intense controversy over police conduct. Realizing that most policing errors occur when officers lack instant access to department rules, Lawrence dropped out to tackle the problem with AI. He teamed up with co-founders Amit Patankar, a Harvard MBA and former Google engineer, and Michael Gropman, a retired Boston police deputy chief, to launch Blue Voice — a Boston-based AI startup that provides real-time policy guidance to officers in the field. Three years later, Blue Voice is coming out of stealth with $6 million in funding led by SignalFire and Las Olas VC. Officers at 225 county agencies across 25 states now rely on the tool daily to ensure their actions follow department protocol — a platform Lawrence likens to Harvey, the AI tool widely used by lawyers, or OpenEvidence, which is a similar tool for doctors. “When an officer makes a decision, they do so from memory or best...

Elon Musk says he’s found a way to solve one of AI’s biggest bottlenecks by making a hard-to-manufacture turbine part himself. On Saturday, Musk confirmed what a secret foundry SpaceX has been building in Bastrop, Texas, is for — an apparent response to a story that was already closing in on the details. Earlier in the day, The Information published a report citing job listings that explicitly mention a “blades and vanes foundry,” plus findings from Corey Trinetti, a due diligence specialist who authors detailed reviews of AI infrastructure sites in his newsletter and who’d reported that SpaceX had bought roughly 830 acres near its existing Starlink factory in Bastrop between March and June. “SpaceX and Tesla are each building 100GW/year of solar production capacity as fast as possible,” Musk wrote on X on Saturday, “but natural gas will still be needed to supplement and bootstrap solar for several years. The limiting factor for nat gas turbine production is casting the blades &...

  Generative AI is making it easier to produce more content and harder to keep track of it. As videos, recordings, and documents accumulate, Adobe, Apple, Google, and a growing number of startups are using AI to make those files searchable. It is not yet clear whether that will support a new category of stand-alone software or become a standard feature of products people already use. Clipto is betting there is room for a separate product. The San Francisco-headquartered startup, which also has teams in Singapore and Hong Kong, has raised $15 million in an all-equity round at a $250 million post-money valuation. The investors include HSG (formerly Sequoia China), GL Ventures, EnvisionX Capital, Palm Drive Capital, Hans Tung, Lu Zhang, and 522 Ventures. Clipto indexes videos, audio, images, meetings, and other files on a user’s computer. Instead of scrolling through folders to find what you need, users can search by describing what they’re looking for or ask ChatGPT, Claude, or othe...