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ANN ARBOR, Mich. (AP) — State prosecutors dropped felony charges Monday against seven people accused of trespassing and resisting police a year ago during the break-up of a pro-Palestinian camp at the University of Michigan.Attorney General Dana Nessel said she believed the cases were strong but suggested her office was worn down by criticism and other factors. She noted that a judge in Washtenaw County still hadn’t decided whether to send the cases to a trial court despite multiple hearings.“Baseless and absurd allegations of bias have only furthered this divide,” said Nessel, a Democrat, who added that “distractions and ongoing…

Anthropic is launching an AI for Science program to support researchers working on “high-impact” scientific projects, with a focus on biology and life sciences applications. The program, announced Monday, will offer up to $20,000 in Anthropic API credits over a six-month period to “qualified” researchers who’ll be selected based on their “contributions to science, the potential impact of their proposed research, and AI’s ability to meaningfully accelerate their work.” Recipients will gain access to Anthropic’s standard AI model suite, including all of the company’s publicly available Claude family of models. “Advanced AI reasoning and language capabilities can help researchers analyze complex…

Washington, DC – A bill in the United States Congress that aims to penalise the boycotting of countries friendly to the US is facing opposition from allies of President Donald Trump over free speech concerns, putting its passage in jeopardy. According to Republican Congresswoman Marjorie Taylor Greene, a vote in the House of Representatives on the proposal, previously scheduled for Monday, has been cancelled. Although Trump’s Republican Party has been leading legislative efforts to crack down on boycotts of Israel, over the past days, several conservatives close to the US president voiced opposition to the bill, dubbed the International Governmental…

Pineapple Financial, a Canadian mortgage technology and brokerage company, has announced the pricing of a $1.5m public offering.The Toronto-based firm provides digital solutions aimed at transforming the mortgage experience for brokers, lenders, and clients.The company’s public offering includes 10 million units, with each unit comprising one common share and one warrant to purchase an additional common share. The units were priced at $0.15 each.D. Boral Capital is acting as the exclusive placement agent for the transaction. Legal counsel for the offering was provided by Sichenzia Ross Ference Carmel LLP for the company, and Lucosky Brookman LLP for D. Boral Capital.Pineapple…

Saudi-based FinTech company Nqoodlet, which provides an integrated financial operating system for small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs), has raised $3m in a seed funding round.The investment was led by Waad Investment and included participation from OmanTel, 500 Sanabil Investment, Oqal, Seed Holding Company, and several strategic angel investors.Nqoodlet offers a comprehensive digital platform designed to simplify financial operations for SMEs across Saudi Arabia and the wider MENA region. The company combines smart corporate cards, automated VAT and accounting tools, open banking integrations, and an open marketplace of services tailored to SME needs.With the new capital, Nqoodlet plans to advance product…

Portuguese sustainable finance platform Goparity, which also operates in Spain and Canada, has raised €2.9m in a new funding round aimed at bolstering its international expansion and ethical investing mission.The funding round was led by 3XP Global through its Impact Innovation Fund. It also received backing from Mustard Seed Maze, Schneider Electric, Energy Access, Regenerative.eco, and InvestEco Capital Corp. In addition to institutional support, over 800 private investors from Goparity’s community participated via an equity crowdfunding campaign on Crowdcube, contributing €470k.Goparity operates a crowdlending platform that channels funds into sustainable projects. Since its inception, the company has facilitated more than…

Rork founders Levan Kvirkvelia and Daniel Dhawan are living a life that sounds like a movie plot — but it actually happened.  They went from broke, with depleted life savings and $15,000 in credit card debt — Dhawan was even sleeping on a mattress at a friend’s apartment — to generating $100,000 of revenue within five days.   And that led to a $2.8 million seed round led by Andreessen Horowitz’s new Speedrun program, with other backers quickly piling in, like Hustle Fund’s Elizabeth Yin, ChapterOne, Founders Inc., Austen Allred, Expo’s Charlie Cheever, and Evan Bacon, Runway’s Siqi Chen, and more.…

The administration of US President Donald Trump says it is going to pay $1,000 to undocumented immigrants in the United States who return to their home countries voluntarily as it pushes forward with its plans for mass deportations. The Department of Homeland Security (DHS) said in a news release on Monday that it’s also paying for travel assistance and people who use an app called CBP Home to tell the government they plan to return home will be “deprioritized” for detention and removal by immigration enforcement. “If you are here illegally, self-deportation is the best, safest and most cost-effective way…

The White House has signaled plans to cut the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency’s (CISA) budget by $491 million on the grounds that the agency became a “censorship industrial complex” at the expense of cyber defense. In budget documents sent to Congress, the proposed $491 million cut is being positioned as a “refocusing” CISA on its core mission “while eliminating weaponization and waste.” “The Budget also removes offices that are duplicative of existing and effective programs at the State and Federal level,” according to documentation published by the White Hose. “The Budget eliminates programs focused on so-called misinformation and propaganda…

AI-powered cybersecurity company Doppel has raised $35m in a Series B funding round to strengthen its social engineering defence platform for enterprises.The round was led by Bessemer Venture Partners, with participation from 9Yards Capital, Sozo Ventures, and existing investors including a16z, South Park Commons, Strategic Cyber Ventures, Script Capital, and Sabrina Hahn. Doppel’s valuation now stands at $205m, bringing its total funding to $54.4m.Doppel specialises in tackling digital threats like phishing, deepfakes, and brand impersonation. Its platform, Doppel Vision, identifies and eliminates attacker infrastructure across channels such as domains, email, social media, and apps, combining large language models (LLMs) with…