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OpenAI held its annual dev day on Monday, where the company rolled out its plan to build apps into ChatGPT. The demo was impressive, showing how programs like Spotify and Figma can be called or discovered without leaving the ChatGPT window. With so much of the tech world barreling towards AI integration, OpenAI’s demo was the best picture yet of what an AI-first internet might actually look like, with interfaces like ChatGPT querying information and executing commands directly. If you’re watching closely, you may have noticed that there’s a lot of room in this system for money to change hands.…

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AI startup Zingage has raised $12.5 million in seed funding to help bring healthcare inside the home — a shift it says will occur over the next decade.The two-year-old startup is developing an AI-powered scheduling and operations product for home healthcare agencies, which send caregivers into people’s homes for aid — as opposed to a hospital or long-term facility.Patients aren’t receiving care because agencies are bogged down by offline logistics, cofounder and CEO Victor Hunt told Business Insider, while workers in the field are cobbling together hours to make a living wage.”We want all healthcare to be deployed in the…

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More than three-quarters of U.S. counties and jurisdictions are experiencing declines in childhood vaccination rates, a trend that began in 2019, according to a September 2025 NBC News–Stanford University investigation. The report also found a “large swath” of the U.S. no longer has the “basic, ground-level immunity” needed to stop the spread of measles.Dr. David Higgins, an assistant professor of pediatrics at the University of Colorado CU Anschutz Medical Center and a pediatrician who researches vaccines, discusses the dangers of not vaccinating your children.The Conversation has collaborated with SciLine to bring you highlights from the discussion, edited for brevity and…

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Elon Musk’s AI company, xAI, now has a new chief financial officer: Former Morgan Stanley banker Anthony Armstrong, the Financial Times reported, citing anonymous sources. Armstrong, who previously advised Musk during the Twitter deal, will oversee the finances of both xAI and X, which were merged in April, the report said. The former banker has been working with xAI for several weeks and was only recently appointed as CFO, the FT added. xAI has been without a CFO since its previous finance head, Mike Liberatore, left the company in July, and Armstrong’s appointment follows a slate of high-profile executive departures…

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LOS ANGELES (AP) — LeBron James has another “decision” to announce.The Los Angeles Lakers star has something to say later Tuesday, and he says he’ll be making his latest decision public at noon Eastern time. The “decision” reference is a nod to how he announced in July 2010 that he was joining the Miami Heat.James posted on X that it was “the decision of all decisions.” The short video shows him walking toward a chair, then taking a seat opposite another man seated a few feet away — mildly reminiscent of the setup for his first “decision” when he sat…

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The CEO of Shopify likes to go fast.During an interview on Stripe’s “Cheeky Pint” podcast, published Monday, Tobi Lütke said he enjoys trying out the hobbies of people he admires. He said he started racing cars after visiting the track with friends, for example, and “immediately fell in love” with it.The German-born entrepreneur has competed in the Rolex 24, a sports car endurance race held at Daytona in January, among other competitions.Lütke said he was surprised that motor racing stuck with him because he didn’t have a driver’s license for a time, after moving from Germany to Canada. The appeal…

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STOCKHOLM (Reuters) -Nobel medicine prize winner Fred Ramsdell thought his wife had spotted a grizzly bear in the backcountry of Wyoming when she suddenly let out a yell on Monday – only to discover he had won the most coveted award in science.Ramsdell shared the 2025 award with Mary Brunkow and Shimon Sakaguchi for work shedding light on how the immune system spares healthy cells, but the Nobel Assembly could not reach him as he was on a camping and hiking trip with his wife.Thomas Perlmann, Secretary-General of the Nobel Assembly at the Karolinska Institute, said it took until Tuesday…

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By Emma Rumney-Younger Europeans are drinking less alcohol because of the way it tastes and concern over their health, a market research firm said on Tuesday, suggesting slow sales are a result of changing preferences rather than just a financial squeeze.Alcohol sales have been falling in developed countries in recent years, prompting debate over what has driven the declines.Some executives argue it is mostly a result of cyclical financial pressure on consumers, which means sales should bounce back when times get better. But others say the shift is a sign of changing preferences, which could be harder to reverse.Circana, a…

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When Sriram Krishnan, a senior White House policy advisor on artificial intelligence, appeared onstage at an event in Washington last month, he listed the Trump administration’s priorities for advancing the AI revolution.At the top of the list? More construction.”Let’s make sure we build our infrastructure,” Krishnan said. “‘Build, baby, build’ is what we tell people.”That rallying cry is echoing across Silicon Valley. Executives at Meta say they expect to spend $600 billion on AI infrastructure, including massive data centers, through 2028. OpenAI and Oracle have announced plans to put $500 billion into a data center project dubbed Stargate, while Amazon…

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When I booked my vacation this year, I spent about a month tracking flights and weighing various layover scenarios, and eventually used a year’s worth of hoarded credit card points plus about $280 out of pocket to get a flight in an economy seat to Croatia.Could this all have been easier and cheaper if I’d used AI? It’s possible some artificial intelligence played a role in what I booked and paid. AI has seeped into every corner of the travel industry: It’s pricing flights, examining dents on rental cars with eagle-eyed precision, blocking suspicious-looking Airbnb bookings, and parsing the air…

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