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Emmy Martin is a journalist based in San Francisco covering technology at The New York Times. She covers trends and cultural shifts in Silicon Valley, documenting life in the San Francisco Bay Area during the artificial intelligence boom.
Before joining The Times, Emmy wrote for The Chronicle of Higher Education about how A.I. is shaping the college experience. Before that, she was a business reporter at the Minnesota Star Tribune, where she covered topics including A.I., the cannabis industry and immigration. Emmy was part of the Star Tribune team that covered the mass shooting at Annunciation Catholic School in Minneapolis in 2025. That coverage won the Pulitzer Prize for breaking news reporting.
She worked at POLITICO, interning during the 2024 presidential election and Donald Trump’s return to the White House, and for The News & Observer, where she covered politics and higher education as an intern and correspondent. She also interned with The Dallas Morning News and is an alum of the 2024 Politico Journalism Institute.
She has a bachelor’s degree in journalism and political science from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. During college, Emmy led The Daily Tar Heel as editor-in-chief, overseeing award-winning coverage of local politics, campus protests and public safety, including a fatal shooting.
The people building and governing A.I. increasingly fall into camps: Those who want to slow down and regulate the technology’s development, those racing to speed it up and those in between or with shifting stances.
As Waymo deploys more driverless cars to 15 U.S. cities and counting, its vehicles keep encountering new and unexpected situations that they have no script to handle.
Even before OpenAI and Anthropic go public, they are distorting home sales in the San Francisco Bay Area, as people race to buy and sellers ask for stock instead of cash.
As OpenAI and Anthropic prepare to go public, tech workers making six figures are grousing that they cannot compete with the new A.I. elite. Some doubt they can afford to stay.
Six years after the Epstein scandal, it's still unclear how often colleges turn private dollars away or how consistently the policies are applied.
Students are setting their own rules, judging one another, and often using the tools in secret.
The University of Sydney, in Australia, created a menu of assignment options for instructors - and now effectively allows students to use AI tools for most work outside the classroom.
Weeks after the release of a new cache of files about Jeffrey Epstein, the fallout on campuses nationwide is coming into focus.
New documents released by the Department of Justice on Friday reinforce that long after his criminal convictions, many prominent professors continued to communicate with him.
Previous enforcement campaigns often began with a surge, then quietly scaled back after a few months.
Immigration lawyers say ICE is focusing on smaller employers in workplace enforcement under President Donald Trump’s second term.
Post-shooting actions can differ sharply from local police practices.
President Donald Trump’s order starts the process of reclassifying cannabis alongside drugs with recognized medical uses, a change that could reshape taxes and enforcement in Minnesota.
Video of the encounter has drawn national attention as bystanders report agents forced a woman face-down, deployed pepper spray in clash with protesters.
Advocates point to so-called “Kavanaugh stops,” brief immigration encounters based on appearance rather than evidence.
Fear on Twin Cities campuses has grown following recent detentions, leaving students to reconsider their daily activities
While federal agents patrol the Twin Cities, a Mexican grocer in St. Paul is filling a gap for families too frightened to shop.
University officials say agents refused to provide a judicial warrant before taking the student from a private parking lot on campus.
Lawmakers and business owners say Minnesota’s testing, age limits and potency caps show what a safe national framework could look like — if the federal ban doesn’t erase it first.
School districts are increasing security and pledge to deny federal agents entry without a judge’s order.
Inmates say the prison, which will close by 2029, feels transformed as the new “earned living unit” offers inmates more freedom. Staffers report fewer problems.
Mary Ann Gwost Hennen says she is living with cancer, not dying from it — but insurance roadblocks and slow progress on treatments add to her stress.
Letters from Fairview and a major donor intensify questions about her leadership and the future of the University of Minnesota’s health system.
Though he lost his role at the U, Dr. Greg Beilman remains interim CEO of University of Minnesota Physicians as tensions grow over a new clinical partnership.
A private-equity deal promised growth for one of Minnesota’s oldest remodelers. Instead, its parent company’s bankruptcy left workers jobless and customers with unfinished homes.
A new generation of investment has added restaurants, renovations.
The first phase of the closure began on Oct. 1, reducing the Stillwater incarcerated population by approximately 60% from more than 1,200 earlier this year through transfers.
As women rethink their relationship with alcohol, THC drinks and edibles are becoming their new way to unwind. Local brands are taking notice.
Minnesota entrepreneurs face a "green tax" of high rents, wary landlords and zoning restrictions as they race to launch under new state licenses.
Formerly incarcerated Minnesotans and advocates call for full implementation two years after the law was passed. The Department of Corrections says it's taking a careful approach and will expand a pilot program soon. Under the law, if inmates meet goals in a plan they create with the prisons, they can be released up to 17% sooner.
The Office of Cannabis Management details how retailers and manufacturers can stay compliant during the shift to stricter licensing and labeling requirements. A new law taking effect Jan. 1 requires new licenses, and products must be tested to comply. There also are new label requirements.
Hemp beverage businesses tell the Office of Cannabis Management that new testing and labeling requirements could harm THC drink makers and the stores and breweries that sell them.
Medical dispensary Green Goods opened eight locations statewide to all adults on Tuesday, with another medical provider, Rise, to follow suit on Wednesday at five locations.
Locked doors, police presence and new safety plans mark a shift for Catholic churches, even as leaders aim to keep their communities feeling welcome.
MN Department of Corrections has expanded nursing care wings in some prisons as it tries to adjust to demographic change. Some say compassionate release policies should be broader.
No contract has been signed for the Appleton, Minn., facility, but the private company that owns it is "exploring opportunities" with ICE for which it could be a "viable solution."
Three samples collected on July 29 from two cells and a kitchen faucet at the prison tested above the federal safety threshold.
Almara Women's Health, which formed this summer, brings together seven practices, with 10 locations and more than 65 women's health specialists. It hopes to address women's health concerns, including symptoms being attributed to anxiety too often and women-specific situations such as menopause
These gigs offer valuable supplemental income for many Minnesotans. Joe Rydel, a full-time teacher, earns an additional $20,000 a year by umpiring and refereeing.
The council approved two other cannabis microbusinesses in the city: Matchbox Farms MN's The Matchbox Dispensary, operated by father-and-son duo Chris Gracia Sr. and Chris Gracia Jr., and Black Husky, operated by Cristina Aranguiz.
As of Tuesday, 28% of Minnesota's incarcerated population have access to working tablets, according to data from the Minnesota Department of Corrections.
Adult-use dispensaries and their customers are ready to buy and sell cannabis flower. But finding an adequate supply may be a challenge for some time.
Mayo has developed AI algorithms for pathology, cardiology, neurology and many other medical specialties. Such systems do not diagnose disease, but rather give physicians evidence to support a diagnosis.
Rochester-based Mayo Clinic is using the technology to fuel its large-scale project to pull new insights from droves of pathology data, which may help with diagnostics.
The St. Paul-based company has reorganized its business units to capitalize on the massive growth of AI and data centers. It also has poured more money into research of cooling technologies, trying to improve sustainability in running them. CEO Christophe Beck estimates by 2030 they will be using as much water as the U.S.
Office of Legislative Auditor found MinnCor did not include costs toward prisoner services such as laundry and recreation in contracts with private companies. In one case, report said $2.4 million was not allocated correctly.
Nearly two dozen stations in Minnesota receive Corporation for Public Broadcasting funds, totaling $17.2 million in the last fiscal year. Most are on tribal lands or in small communities that are sometimes the only sources of information, especially in emergencies.
Teen unemployment is rising as more adults are taking retail jobs and hiring is slowing. But there are still opportunities out there.
A Minnesota solar company is suing Google for defamation, claiming the tech company's AI Overview, which uses generative artificial intelligence, stated that the solar company faced a lawsuit from the Minnesota Attorney General Keith Ellison. The attorney general did sue four solar lending companies last year,
The Durham resident embraced who he really is as a teen, he says. Now, he's navigating adulthood in North Carolina as political threats loom.
Marcus Mitchell has advocated for access to a high school education for individuals on death row for nearly two decades. Now, change may be coming.
The president-elect's campaign pledges cover immigration to education to energy.
Law enforcement has ensured that all nominees and appointees are safe, according to spokesperson Karoline Leavitt.
The Michigan-based group was unwilling to choose between “the lesser of two evils” who have both “endorsed genocide in Gaza and war in Lebanon.”
The former president went after immigrants on Monday, linking crime to genetics.
“He did not get off any rounds, and that was because the Secret Service agent acted quickly,” the sheriff said Monday.
National Security Council spokesperson John Kirby told reporters Tuesday that Republicans’ comments about Haitian immigrants stealing and eating pets were “dangerous.”
Nearly 25 programs were cut at these two UNC System universities. Here's how the decision affected the students there.
The selection of Lee Roberts breaks with the usual academic backgrounds of previous UNC chancellors, but no longer is unusual in higher education.
University of North Carolina System Board of Governors approves $450k bonus for UNC System President Peter Hans on top of base salary.
Among the protesters were people who voted for President Biden in 2020 but may not this year due to his response to months of Israeli attacks in Gaza.
Activists for disability rights protest at the NC Department of Health and Human Services, block entrance to a Dorothea Dix campus building.
"For her to give drag queens these opportunities to open for her when people are trying to ban us ... it's such a huge honor and inspiration."
STAR WARS — George Clooney and Julia Roberts are beseeching you — chip in $25 to Democrats’ fundraising operation today to enter their “Premiere Night with the Presidents” contest. The fundraising blast, which has shown up consistently in inboxes over the past week, is the clearest sign that the Democratic Hollywood machine is cranking back into gear with the presidential election just five months away.
Six of the 36 arrested protesters within the inner part of the pro-Palestinian "Triangle Gaza Solidarity Encampment" were charged with trespassing and later released on a written promise to appear in court.
Jamie Marsicano was banned from campus last spring following a charge of domestic terrorism. Her fellow third-year law students are asking interim Chancellor Lee Roberts to allow her to graduate with them on May 10.
To address a growing crisis, UNC and N.C. State increased mental health resources and established new protocols for the aftermath of student deaths.
North Carolina college newsrooms partner to cover the mental health crisis faced by their communities.
According to a criminal summons, CHPD says Zachary O'Brien Rice, a member of the UNC football team, was traveling in a separate vehicle just 15 yards behind the car Brewer was driving at more than 120 mph.
Chapel Hill OB-GYN Dr. Amy Bryant filed a lawsuit in the federal district court for the Middle District of North Carolina last Wednesday that could impact abortion access across the country. Bryant's complaint challenges North Carolina's restrictions on the abortion medication mifepristone, the first of a two-pill regimen that terminates pregnancy within 10 weeks of gestation.
More than 200 people left Chapel Hill Bible Church due to concerns over sexism, racism and emotional abuse by leaders in the church. Three separate investigations have taken place regarding the alleged dysfunction since 2020.
