Por Tami Luhby, CNN

Es posible que Jan Gautam pronto tenga que despedir a cientos de trabajadores de decenas de hoteles en Florida. Por este motivo es que el director ejecutivo de IHRMC Hotels & Resorts sigue muy de cerca un caso de inmigración que se presenta ante la Corte Suprema esta semana.

Los empleados son haitianos que poseen el Estatus de Protección Temporal, conocido como TPS. Estaba previsto que su derecho a vivir y trabajar legalmente en Estados Unidos expirara a principios de febrero tras una decisión del Gobierno de Trump que ponía fin a las protecciones. Sin embargo, un juez federal suspendió dicha decisión y luego la administración apeló ante la Corte Suprema, que tiene previsto escuchar los argumentos orales del caso este miércoles.

Aproximadamente el 30 % del personal hotelero de Gautam en Florida está compuesto por haitianos titulares del TPS, quienes se desempeñan como personal de limpieza, jardineros, supervisores y en otros puestos. Si se viera obligado a despedirlos, podría tener que mantener algunas habitaciones cerradas en ciertos momentos, dado que los hoteles no podrían prepararlas con la prontitud necesaria para recibir a los siguientes huéspedes. Además, tendría que invertir miles de dólares en la capacitación de cada nuevo empleado, lo cual reduciría aún más su margen de ganancias.

En definitiva, si los titulares del TPS pierden su estatus, esto le acarreará costos de cientos de miles de dólares, además de una gran inversión de tiempo y numerosos dolores de cabeza, afirmó.

“Necesitamos contar con estas personas”, declaró Gautam. “Uno las capacita y, acto seguido, tienen que marcharse; no por decisión propia, sino por decisión de terceros”.

El destino del personal de Gautam, así como el de más de otros 350.000 inmigrantes haitianos, descansa en manos de los magistrados de la Corte Suprema, quienes se han alineado con la administración Trump en la mayoría de sus apelaciones en materia de inmigración. El amparo del TPS, que permite a sus titulares vivir y trabajar en Estados Unidos, se aplica a aquellas personas que enfrentarían dificultades extremas si se vieran obligadas a regresar a sus países de origen, devastados por conflictos armados o desastres naturales. Los inmigrantes haitianos obtuvieron la elegibilidad después de que un terremoto sacudiera el país en 2010. Desde entonces, la designación ha sido renovada en múltiples ocasiones en medio de la serie de crisis que enfrenta el país, que incluyen la violencia generalizada por parte de pandillas armadas, la inseguridad alimentaria, el desplazamiento y un vacío de liderazgo tras el asesinato del presidente en 2021.

Cinco titulares haitianos del TPS están impugnando la decisión del Departamento de Seguridad Nacional de poner fin a dichas protecciones, argumentando que la agencia no llevó a cabo la revisión necesaria para determinar si es seguro regresar a Haití y que la decisión de la agencia deriva, en parte, de la animosidad racial del presidente Donald Trump. El DHS ha argumentado que las protecciones nunca tuvieron la intención de ser permanentes.

“El TPS para Haití se otorgó a raíz de un terremoto que tuvo lugar hace más de 15 años”, declaró un portavoz del DHS en un comunicado a CNN. “Nunca se concibió como un programa de amnistía de facto. Sin embargo, así es como las administraciones anteriores lo han utilizado durante décadas. Temporal significa temporal, y la última palabra no la tendrán jueces activistas que legislan desde el estrado”.

Muchos haitianos con TPS han vivido durante años en Estados Unidos, desarrollando carreras profesionales, comprando viviendas y formando familias. Florida alberga, con gran diferencia, la mayor proporción de ellos. Sin embargo, también hay decenas de miles que residen en Nueva York, Massachusetts, Pensilvania, Ohio y otros estados.

A principios de 2025, cerca de 190.000 titulares de TPS de origen haitiano se

By Samantha Delouya, Hadas Gold, CNN

(CNN) — Elon Musk spent part of Monday posting on his social media platform X about his lawsuit against OpenAI, its CEO Sam Altman and president Greg Brockman, and Musk’s claims in the suit that the ChatGPT maker deceived him and betrayed its original mission.

“Scam Altman and Greg Stockman stole a charity. Full stop,” read one of Musk’s missives.

But it’s not the people on X that Musk and his legal team have to attempt to convince this week – it’s the nine jurors chosen on Monday to hear Musk’s suit against his AI rival. As soon as Tuesday, Musk could take the stand in an effort to do just that, arguing OpenAI betrayed him and its original nonprofit mission when it created a for-profit subsidiary.

Their verdict will advise Judge Yvonne Gonzalez Rogers as she decides whether Musk gets his wish: reversion of OpenAI to a nonprofit structure, the removal of Altman and Brockman from OpenAI’s board, and around $130 billion in damages to go back into OpenAI’s nonprofit foundation.

Beyond the remedies Musk is demanding, the trial threatens to derail one of the world’s largest AI companies – and one of Musk’s biggest artificial intelligence rivals – as it makes plans to go public as early as this year. OpenAI has consistently pushed back against Musk’s claims and says his suit is one based on jealousy and regret.

The battle between two of the biggest AI pioneers, Musk and Altman, could shape the future of the emerging, but already wildly influential, technology. OpenAI’s IPO is expected to be a blockbuster, and the money it raises could help it dominate an industry in which it had an early lead. On the other hand, if Musk wins, his own xAI company could set back a major rival and potentially leap ahead.

Musk could face high hurdles in his quest. Musk’s lawyers on Monday struck several potential jurors who harshly criticized their billionaire client, including one who referred to Musk as “greedy” and a “piece of garbage” in their pre-questionnaire form and another who said their partner’s job was “harmed” by the Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) cost-cutting initiative that Musk lead in the Trump administration.

“The reality is that people don’t like him. Many people don’t like him. That does not mean that Americans can’t have integrity for the judicial process,” Judge Rogers told Musk’s attorneys.

Jurors expressed few opinions about Altman, who was in court for jury selection. In the end, the jurors selected were largely those who said they had a neutral opinion of Musk or of AI.

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Musk cofounded and helped fund OpenAI as a nonprofit in 2015, giving what he says amounted to at least $44 million in its first few years. But he split from the company in 2018 after an acrimonious power struggle. (Musk went on to later found his own AI company, xAI.)

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By Hanna Ziady, CNN

London (CNN) — Taylor Swift has filed new trademark applications for two voice clips and one image that a trademark attorney says are “specifically designed” to protect the pop superstar from threats posed by artificial intelligence.

The filings highlight the challenges that AI poses to the entertainment industry, as AI tools generate realistic videos with well-known performers and flood streaming platforms with digital music.

Swift’s applications were filed Friday with the United States Patent and Trademark Office and add to hundreds of other trademark filings that list her company TAS Rights Management as the owner.

What sets these filings apart is the inclusion of “sound marks,” which are a “lesser known category of trademark protection,” Josh Gerben, a US-based trademark attorney and founder of Gerben IP, wrote in a blog Monday. “Attempting to register a celebrity’s spoken voice is a new use of trademark registration that has not been tested in court before,” he noted.

In one of the audio clips, Swift is heard saying: “Hey, it’s Taylor Swift, and you can listen to my new album, ‘The Life of a Showgirl,’ on demand, on Amazon Music Unlimited.”

In the other clip, she says: “Hey! It’s Taylor. My brand new album ‘The Life of a Showgirl’ is out on October 3rd and you can click to pre-save it so you can listen to it on Spotify.”

The image that Swift is seeking to protect is a photograph of her on stage holding a pink guitar and wearing a sequinned outfit — an iconic look from her recent globe-trotting Eras tour.

According to Gerben, actor Matthew McConaughey has filed similar applications in recent months to protect his voice and his image, “testing new theories on how trademark law will work in the AI age.”

The filings come as traditional copyright laws, which protect artists’ works from imitation, fail to guard against AI-generated content. “AI technologies now allow users to generate entirely new content that mimics an artist’s voice without copying an existing recording, creating a gap that trademarks may help fill,” Gerben said.

In theory, Swift could claim in a lawsuit that any use of her voice that sounds like the registered trademark — or AI-generated images of her in a jumpsuit with a guitar — violate her rights, he added.

Swift has filed more than 300 trademark applications in the United States alone, a strategy that helps to “reinforce” her brand, according to Leticia Caminero an intellectual property lawyer at the World Intellectual Property Organization.

CNN has reached out to Swift’s lawyers for comment.

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By Hanna Ziady, CNN

London (CNN) — Taylor Swift has filed new trademark applications for two voice clips and one image that a trademark attorney says are “specifically designed” to protect the pop superstar from threats posed by artificial intelligence.

The filings highlight the challenges that AI poses to the entertainment industry, as AI tools generate realistic videos with well-known performers and flood streaming platforms with digital music.

Swift’s applications were filed Friday with the United States Patent and Trademark Office and add to hundreds of other trademark filings that list her company TAS Rights Management as the owner.

What sets these filings apart is the inclusion of “sound marks,” which are a “lesser known category of trademark protection,” Josh Gerben, a US-based trademark attorney and founder of Gerben IP, wrote in a blog Monday. “Attempting to register a celebrity’s spoken voice is a new use of trademark registration that has not been tested in court before,” he noted.

In one of the audio clips, Swift is heard saying: “Hey, it’s Taylor Swift, and you can listen to my new album, ‘The Life of a Showgirl,’ on demand, on Amazon Music Unlimited.”

In the other clip, she says: “Hey! It’s Taylor. My brand new album ‘The Life of a Showgirl’ is out on October 3rd and you can click to pre-save it so you can listen to it on Spotify.”

The image that Swift is seeking to protect is a photograph of her on stage holding a pink guitar and wearing a sequinned outfit — an iconic look from her recent globe-trotting Eras tour.

According to Gerben, actor Matthew McConaughey has filed similar applications in recent months to protect his voice and his image, “testing new theories on how trademark law will work in the AI age.”

The filings come as traditional copyright laws, which protect artists’ works from imitation, fail to guard against AI-generated content. “AI technologies now allow users to generate entirely new content that mimics an artist’s voice without copying an existing recording, creating a gap that trademarks may help fill,” Gerben said.

In theory, Swift could claim in a lawsuit that any use of her voice that sounds like the registered trademark — or AI-generated images of her in a jumpsuit with a guitar — violate her rights, he added.

Swift has filed more than 300 trademark applications in the United States alone, a strategy that helps to “reinforce” her brand, according to Leticia Caminero an intellectual property lawyer at the World Intellectual Property Organization.

CNN has reached out to Swift’s lawyers for comment.

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By Karina Tsui, Isabel Rosales, CNN

(CNN) — As the suspect accused of killing two promising doctoral students in Florida faces murder charges, authorities have laid out disturbing and grisly details surrounding the students’ disappearance.

Zamil Limon and Nahida Bristy, both 27 and originally from Bangladesh, were last seen nearly two weeks ago. Limon’s body was found a week after they disappeared, and investigators believe Bristy was also killed.

Hisham Abugharbieh, Limon’s roommate, has been charged with two counts of first-degree premeditated murder with a weapon in the deaths of the students. He is expected in court for a status hearing Tuesday.

Prosecutors filed a motion last week to keep Abugharbieh in jail while he faces the charges, laying out a detailed timeline of how investigators think the two students may have died as well as their and the suspect’s actions around the time they went missing.

Here’s a look at what they say unfolded.

April 16: Last contact with the two students

Friends of Limon and Bristy are in touch with them during the day, but they’re unable to reach them later despite repeated attempts, according to the motion filed by prosecutors Saturday in Hillsborough County Court.

Bristy is seen on surveillance video walking on USF’s campus around midday, according to the motion. A friend speaks to Bristy and agrees to bring her eyeglasses later that evening, but Bristy doesn’t show up and doesn’t answer the friend’s calls.

Bristy and Limon speak briefly on the phone several times, according to prosecutors. Limon’s phone location shows him in the vicinity of his home and campus before going to Clearwater – roughly 32 miles from his residence – around 7:43 p.m.

Abugharbieh’s white Hyundai Genesis G80 is seen traveling in the same area within about 10 minutes of that, according to prosecutors.

Phone and traffic data show consistencies between the suspect’s and Limon’s devices’ locations throughout the night.

About 10:30 p.m., a DoorDash order for trash bags, Lysol wipes and Febreze from CVS is placed from Abugharbieh’s phone and delivered to the apartment door about half an hour later.

Limon and Abugharbieh’s other roommate sees Abugharbieh using a rolling cart to move cardboard boxes from his room to a compactor dumpster at their apartment complex, according to the motion.

April 17: Students reported missing

Abugharbieh makes two separate trips to the Howard Frankland Bridge between 1 a.m. and 4:30 a.m., according to the affidavit, citing phone and traffic data.

Shortly before, a ChatGPT search on the suspect’s phone asked “are cars checked at the Hillsborough River state park,” the affidavit said.

Meanwhile, Limon and Bristy are officially reported missing.

The next day, police search Bristy’s campus workplace and find she left personal items including her lunchbox, a MacBook, and her iPad.

April 22: Suspect’s mother questioned by investigators

Authorities speak with Abugharbieh’s mother, who says she last saw her son on Saturday, April 18, the motion read. She menti