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Pioneer law center adopts New England Legal Foundation brand as part of ‘strategic alliance’
Boston has essentially had two free-market-oriented, nonprofit law firms, the Pioneer Public Interest Law Center and the New England Legal Foundation. Now, there will be only one.
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Hilina Ajakaiye is leaving Meet Boston for big role with national convention trade group
The No. 2 at Meet Boston will take a national job aiming to boost Black tourism in the US.
mRNA, once lauded as a scientific marvel, is now a government target
Republican lawmakers and federal health officials alike are shunning messenger RNA, a basic building block of biology that proved its value during COVID, and that holds promise for combating the next pandemic and unlocking new cancer treatments.
Record labels in talks to license music to AI firms Udio, Suno
Universal Music Group, Warner Music Group and Sony Music Entertainment are pushing to collect license fees for their work and also receive a small amount of equity in Suno and Udio, two leaders among a crop of companies that use generative AI to help make music.
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Sleeping, eating, or sex? There’s a cannabis strain for that
A Rhode Island doctor’s new software aims to match customers with a strain based on scientific data.
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The Market Basket boardroom battle is a real-life ‘Succession’ saga
Arthur T. Demoulas’s ouster, like the hit HBO boardroom drama, is an example of the kind of ugly maneuvering that can happen when the relationships underpinning a family business go sour.
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A federal judge delivered a beatdown to the Trump administration, in support of WilmerHale. Here’s how.
Judge Richard Leon, a Mass. native, struck down the entirety of President Trump’s WilmerHale order as unconstitutional.