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Columbia quickly became the first front in the higher education war. The Ivy League university so far is the only school to see federal funding canceled, but it is hardly the only target of the administration’s push to combat what it sees as leftist ideology and antisemitism in higher education. On March 8, Mahmoud Khalil, a Palestinian graduate student, was seized by U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents and told his green card had been revoked.  https://lnkd.in/gdr4Bytd

If you’re thinking about buying a new iPhone, laptop or e-bike, consider pulling the trigger now or soon — before President Trump’s newly announced tariffs start to potentially raise the sticker prices. There’s a lot we don’t know about how companies like Apple, Samsung and Nintendo will respond to tariffs on their products, nearly all of which are manufactured outside the U.S. and are now being hit with significantly higher tariffs. https://lnkd.in/gT6DYe4g

President Donald Trump’s trade policies are roiling financial markets and escalating recession fears. Some executives are using terms like “disastrous” and “economic nuclear winter” to describe White House plans, unveiled last week, to impose 10 percent levies on all imported goods, as well as higher, country-specific rates on about 60 countries. Here’s what an array of business and economic leaders are saying Trump’s tariffs could mean for the economy.

The human body constantly generates a variety of signals that can be measured from the outside with wearable devices. These bio-signals — which include heart rate, sleep state and blood oxygen levels — can indicate whether someone is having mood swings or be used to diagnose a variety of bodily and brain disorders. It can be relatively cheap to gather a lot of bio-signal data. To teach a machine-learning algorithm to find a relationship between bio-signals and health outcomes, however, you need to teach the algorithm to recognize those health outcomes. https://lnkd.in/gu_at_hd

An airport security deadline 20 years in the making is a month away — and authorities are urging the public to take it seriously. After years of delays, the Transportation Security Administration will begin enforcing the Real ID rule May 7. Travelers who fly domestically will need to provide a compliant license or acceptable alternative when they go through security checkpoints. According to federal documents, about 56 percent of identification credentials in circulation complied with the standards as of January 2024. A TSA spokeswoman said that 80 percent of travelers have been going through security checkpoints with Real IDs or approved alternatives; between 2 and 3 million people go through TSA on most days.

More than 120 million hens have been slaughtered due to the avian influenza outbreak and egg prices have risen to record levels. In his address to Congress, President Donald Trump called the situation “out of control.” Yet for some corporate egg companies, these are good times. On Tuesday, the nation’s largest egg producer, Mississippi-based Cal-Maine Foods, Inc., is expected to announce another round of earnings to cap three years of extraordinary profits, which have surged since the avian flu outbreak in 2022. Cal-Maine’s financial reports show it has been able to more than double its price for a dozen eggs, from about $1.30 a dozen before the outbreak to as high as $3.30 a dozen, while their feed costs to produce an egg have been relatively stable.

Americans are less interested in buying and owning electric vehicles than they were two years ago, according to polling released by Gallup. The poll shows that the number of Americans who are open to buying an EV has dropped to 51 percent in early 2025, down from 59 percent in 2023. While EV sales are still on the rise from year to year, the increase has slowed in recent months. Tesla sales in particular have plummeted as Elon Musk’s push to cut the federal workforce as head of U.S. DOGE Service has polarized the country.

I took over the Tech Friend newsletter for Shira Ovide today (she's just on vacation, no worries!). I covered the latest research from Pew and others about which jobs might be at risk as AI advances. Check it out.

Sweeping tariffs are hitting tech giants hard, shaking the industry’s confidence in a president they hoped would boost their fortunes. On Friday, China announced retaliatory tariffs that included an especially steep tax on exports of rare earth minerals essential for the computer chips that power everything from iPhones to artificial intelligence. The European Union is preparing a wide-ranging response that could include direct hits to the largest American internet and software companies. And the industry is bracing for further fallout from abroad that could include rising energy prices, restrictive data-privacy policies and taxes on digital services. https://lnkd.in/gAciPATm