Abigail Rubenstein

1 month ago | morningbrew.com | Abigail Rubenstein

Pounding Jello shots and staying up all night to crank out an essay comparing the political systems of the Baltic states may have been fun at the time, but millions of Americans are now experiencing a post-college hangover in the form of delinquent student loan debt that’s crushing their credit scores. In the first three months of this year, ~5.6 million borrowers had their student loans marked newly delinquent.

1 month ago | morningbrew.com | Abigail Rubenstein

When a meeting gets scheduled for 4:30pm on a Friday, it may not feel like your employer has your mental health in mind. But mental health support has increasingly become a standard part of the employee benefits package, especially as companies look to recruit the work–life balance-prioritizing members of Gen Z and discover that taking care of their employees’ mental health can benefit the bottom line.

1 month ago | morningbrew.com | Abigail Rubenstein

If getting answers from ChatGPT makes you feel like you’re in a sci-fi dystopia, you may not want to hear about OpenAI CEO Sam Altman’s other co-founded venture, now rolling out stateside. It’s an orb that scans your eyeballs in exchange for cryptocurrency. What in the Demolition Man? The device, which creates a unique user ID for your scan, is meant to address a problem that Altman had a hand in creating: how to verify identities and confirm humanity in a world full of artificial intelligence.

2 months ago | jpost.com | Abigail Rubenstein

Maternal stress in late pregnancy may reprogram newborns’ stress and immune systems, researchers from the Hebrew University of Jerusalem find. A study published in early April by Prof.

2 months ago | morningbrew.com | Abigail Rubenstein |Neal Freyman

In a Rose Garden speech anticipated with a level of hype usually reserved for Supreme collab drops, President Trump flipped the economic status quo that’s existed for decades on its head with the announcement of a minimum 10% tariff on all exporters to the US—plus higher reciprocal rates on countries he said maintain unfair trade barriers for American products. “Reciprocal. That means they do it to us, and we do it to them. Very simple,” Trump said.