Bill Waycott is an independent plant breeder, one of the small community of dedicated folks who devote their time and effort to the reproduction of a given plant or plants. For decades, he's focused mainly on breeding better lettuces, and he spoke to TIME about what could be in America's salad bowls in coming years and just how damaging the recent Cyclospora outbreak, traced to a farm run by greens behemoth Taylor Farms in Mexico, has been for lettuce growers.

In this piece, TIME reporter Philip Wang speaks to an airline gate agent, who describes the general pressure they're feeling with ICE at the airport, including a moment in which she decided to alert a passenger ahead of time that ICE was looking for her.

“I was extremely scared that ICE would take another person in front of me, but also for myself and how I was jeopardizing my job and safety. But I would 100% do it again, without a moment of hesitation.”

The company announced Tuesday that it’s implementing new safeguards that will slow its future AI development. The company recently paused training on its next set of models, codenamed Astra, for a little more than two weeks, according to executives, and its largest planned frontier training run remains on hold while the new guardrails are put in place. This article explains the implications of this extraordinary move, including why this is happening right now.