More than 200 economists and AI researchers — including Nobel laureates — released a short Stanford-organized statement urging immediate policy and institutional action to prepare for AI’s economic upheaval.

Thomas Jefferson University will open a Sidney Kimmel Medical College campus in Allentown, adding more than 54,000 square feet of teaching and lab space and expanding clinical ties with LVHN.

Scripps Research won $2M from the Gates Foundation to expand its Freyja wastewater tools and build AI that links sewage and clinical data for earlier outbreak warnings. Pilots will start in Africa and the tools will remain open‑source.