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A Pennsylvania police officer responding to a tip from the manager of a McDonald’s testified Tuesday about confronting Luigi Mangione during the intense manhunt last year for UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson’s killer. As soon as Mangione doffed his medical mask at the restaurant in Altoona, Pennsylvania, Officer Joseph Detwiler said, I knew” he was the suspect whose face had been all over the news since the shooting five days earlier on a Manhattan sidewalk. It’s him I’m not kidding. Hes real nervous, and he didnt talk too much, Detwiler told a supervisor by phone from the restaurant parking lot moments after meeting Mangione, according to the officer’s body-camera video. It was played in court Tuesday, the second day of a hearing about evidence in the case. Mangione indeed said little initially to Detwiler and another officer, giving only what turned out to be a false name, home state and driver’s license. But Detwiler testified that hed noticed the man’s fingers shaking as they interacted and officers patted him down. Over the ensuing minutes, Mangione placidly ate a hash brown as the officers waited for colleagues and claimed they were simply responding to loitering concerns at the eatery. I was trying to keep him calm, Detwiler told the court, adding that he at one point started whistling over the restaurant’s holiday-season music to make him think that nothing was different about this call than any other call. Lawyers for Mangione, 27, want to block prosecutors from showing or telling jurors at his eventual Manhattan trial about statements he allegedly made and items authorities said they seized from his backpack during his arrest. The objects include a 9 mm handgun that prosecutors say matches the one used in the killing and a notebook in which they say Mangione described his intent to wack a health insurance executive. The defense contends the items should be excluded because police didn’t get a warrant before searching Mangione’s backpack. They also want to suppress some statements Mangione made to law enforcement personnel, such as allegedly giving a false name, because officers started asking questions before telling him he had a right to remain silent. The laws concerning how police interact with potential suspects before reading their rights or obtaining search warrants are complex and often disputed in criminal cases. In Mangione’s case, crucial questions will include whether he believed he was free to leave at the point when he spoke to the arresting officers, and whether there were exigent circumstances that merited searching his backpack before getting a warrant. Detwiler testified that he never told Mangione he couldn’t leave, nor mentioned the New York shooting. Defense lawyers, however, have argued in court filings that officers strategically stood in a way that prevented him from leaving. Mangione, the Ivy League-educated scion of a wealthy Maryland family, has pleaded not guilty to state and federal murder charges. The state charges carry the possibility of life in prison, while federal prosecutors are seeking the death penalty. Neither trial has been scheduled. Mangiones lawyers want to bar evidence from both cases, but this weeks hearing pertains only to the state case. Manhattan prosecutors haven’t yet laid out their arguments for allowing the disputed evidence. Their federal counterparts have said in court filings that police were justified in searching the backpack to ensure there were no dangerous items and that Mangione’s statements to officers were voluntary and made before he was under arrest. Five witnesses testified on Monday, including a Pennsylvania prison officer who said Mangione told him that, when arrested, he had a backpack with foreign currency and a 3D-printed pistol. Surveillance video showed a masked gunman shooting Thompson from behind as the executive walked to a midtown Manhattan hotel for his companys annual investor conference on Dec. 4, 2024. Prosecutors say delay, deny and depose were written on the ammunition, mimicking a phrase insurance industry critics use to describe how companies avoid paying claims. Thompson, 50, worked at the giant UnitedHealth Group for 20 years and became CEO of its insurance arm in 2021. He was married and had children who were in high school. Jennifer Peltz, Associated Press
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Students applying to college know they cantor at least shouldntuse AI chatbots to write their essays and personal statements. So it might come as a surprise that some schools are now using artificial intelligence to read them. AI tools are now being incorporated into how student applications are screened and analyzed, admissions directors say. It can be a delicate topic, and not all colleges are eager to talk about it, but higher education is among the many industries where artificial intelligence is rapidly taking on tasks once reserved for humans. In some cases, schools are quietly slipping AI into their evaluation process, experts say. Others are touting the technologys potential to speed up their review of applications, cut processing times, and even perform some tasks better than humans. Humans get tired; some days are better than others. The AI does not get tired. It doesnt get grumpy. It doesnt have a bad day. The AI is consistent, says Juan Espinoza, vice provost for enrollment management at Virginia Tech. This fall, Virginia Tech is debuting an AI-powered essay reader. The college expects it will be able to inform students of admissions decisions a month sooner than usual, in late January, because of the tool’s help sorting tens of thousands of applications. Colleges stress they are not relying on AI to make admissions decisions, using it primarily to review transcripts and eliminate data-entry tasks. But artificial intelligence also is playing a role in evaluating students. Some highly selective schools are adopting AI tools to vet the increasingly curated application packages that some students develop with the help of high-priced admissions consultants. The California Institute of Technology is launching an AI tool this fall to look for authenticity in students who submit research projects with their applications, admissions director Ashley Pallie said. Students upload their research to an AI chatbot that interviews them about it on video, which is then reviewed by Caltech faculty. Its a gauge of authenticity. Can you claim this research intellectually? Is there a level of joy around your project? That passion is important to us, Pallie said. The prevalence of AI usage is difficult to gauge because it is such a new trend, said Ruby Bhattacharya, chair of the admission practices committee at the National Association for College Admission Counseling (NACAC). NACAC updated its ethics guide this fall to add a section on artificial intelligence. It urges colleges to ensure the way they use it aligns with our shared values of transparency, integrity, fairness and respect for student dignity. Some schools have faced blowback over using AI The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill (UNC) faced a barrage of negative feedback from applicants, parents, and students after its student newspaper, The Daily Tar Heel, reported in January the school was using AI to evaluate the grammar and writing style of applicants’ essays. The university declined to comment for this article and referred to its admissions website, which it updated after the criticism. UNC uses AI programs to provide data points about students common application essay and their school transcripts, the website says. Every application is evaluated comprehensively by extensively trained human application evaluators. At Virginia Tech, Espinoza said he has been contacted by several colleges that are interested in the new technology but wary of backlash. The feedback from a lot of colleagues is, You roll this out, were watching you, and well see how everyones reacting, he said. He stressed the AI reader his school spent three years developing is being used only to confirm human readers’ essay scores. Until this fall, each of the four short-answer essays Virginia Tech applicants submit was read and scored by two people. Under the new system, one of those readers is the AI model, which has been trained on past applicant essays and the rubric for scoring, Espinoza said. A second person will step in if the AI and human reader disagree by more than 2 points on a 12-point scoring scale. Like many colleges, Virginia Tech has seen a huge increase in applications since making SATs optional. Last year, it received a record 57,622 applications for its 7,000-seat freshman class. Even with 200 essay readers, the school has struggled to keep up and found itself notifying students later and later. The AI tool can scan about 250,000 essays in under an hour, compared with a human reader who averages two minutes per essay. Based on last years application pool, Were saving at least 8,000 hours, Espinoza said. Colleges see benefits of AI tools for applicants The messaging is sensitive for colleges, many of which now have students certify that they have not used AI unethically for essays and other parts of the application. But schools say AI tools can help admissions offices eliminate errors in tasks like uploading transcripts and can simplify the process for students. Georgia Tech this fall is rolling out an AI tool to review the college transcripts of transfer students, replacing the need for staff to enter each course manually into a database. It will allow the school to inform applicants more quickly how many transfer credits they’ll receive, cutting down on uncertainty and wait times, said Richard Clark, the school’s executive director of enrollment management. Its one more layer of delay and stress and inevitable errors. AI is going to kill that, which Im so excited about, Clark said. The school hopes to expand the service soon to all high school transcripts. Georgia Tech also is testing out AI tools for other uses, including one that would identify low-income students who are eligible for federal Pell Grants but may not have realized it. Stony Brook University in New York is also using artificial intelligence to review applicants’ transcripts and testing AI tools for a variety of tasks, like summarizing student essays and letters of recommendation to highlight things an admissions officer should consider, said Richard Beatty, the schools senior associate provost for enrollment management. Maybe a student was fighting a disease sophomore year. Or maybe a parent passed away, or theyre taking care of siblings at home. All these things matter, and it allows the counselors to look at the transcript differently, Beatty said. Colleges are interested in AI summaries of transcripts, extracurricular activities nd letters of recommendation that tell human readers the students story in a more digestible way, said Emily Pacheco, founder of NACACs special interest group for AI and admission. Humans and AI working togetherthat is the key right now. Every step along the way can be greatly improved: transcript reading, essay reviews, telling us things we might be missing about the students, said Pacheco, a former assistant director of admission at Loyola University Chicago. Ten years from now, all bets are off. Im guessing AI will be admitting students. ___ The Associated Press education coverage receives financial support from multiple private foundations. AP is solely responsible for all content. Find APs standards for working with philanthropies, a list of supporters and funded coverage areas at AP.org. Jocelyn Gecker, AP education writer
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Fatherhood used to be invisible in the conversation about entrepreneurship. The story was always the same: A founder celebrated for sacrifice, for grinding through the night, taming fortune one day at a time. The world championed the grind. But that archetype is now deeply outdated. The successful founder is no longer the one sleeping under their desk. Thats not simply dedication; its a symptom of poorly designed systems. If your company requires your constant, heroic presence, you haven’t built a businessyouve built a cage. Today, elite performance is not measured by the hours you log, but by the resilience of the organization you leave behind. The best entrepreneurs build things that thrive when they are gonesay, to simply make breakfast or see a Little League game. The new true flex is to be out of office and unreachable. THE STRESS TEST Fatherhood is the ultimate stress test for an entrepreneur’s systems. This isn’t about the impossible concept of balance. That word implies separation. This is about deep integration. Its about simply sitting on the floor with your childthe ability to be fully present for simple things. Being a father is not a distraction from ambition; it is a profound competitive advantage. The quiet moments demand tools like empathy and grace. These are the exact skills required to lead a high-trust, modern team. It forces you to operate from a position of systemic strength, not perpetual effort. The perspective is that days are long, but the years pass like a train in the night. This accelerated sense of time, which spans decades not quarters, is the masterclass both fatherhood and entrepreneurship teach. 3 PARALLELS FOR RAISING HUMANS AND A VISION The following three core disciplines run parallel between raising humans and scaling a vision. 1. Patience and long-term vision You must learn to ignore the immediate market tantrums, the noise of instant feedback, and the urge to sprint. You invest, guide, and trust the process. You build, break, and grow. 2. Nurture autonomy True leadership is not about commanding; its about creating an environment where othersyour children, your employeeslearn to lead themselves. Curiosity is the path to growth. We must empower self-sufficiency, giving room for the inevitable failure and iteration required for competence. 3. Active presence I recall a day fishing on the Harpeth River. The August downpour had left the water swollen, filled with snags and debris. Laughing turned to silence as each child found their hole. In that stillness, I learned more about patience and waiting for the right moment to guide than I did in any boardroom. The stakes were suddenly real. The humility to wait for the fish, and the willingness to let others find their footing, perfectly mirrored the trust I had to place in my leadership team during a turbulent launch. ACCEPTANCE The elite leader of the next decade is the one who accepts that lifes non-negotiable anchorslike familyforce an excellence that the constant grind never could. Fatherhood demands you delegate ruthlessly and focus only on the high-leverage work. This forces a vision for the future and its unknowns that is built for endurance, not a flash. The most successful companieslike the most resilient familiesare those built to last, not to sprint. They are sustained by presence, not absence. So I look to the horizon. We are ready for what comes next. Logan Mulvey is CEO of Cinq Music.
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