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By Julie SteenhuysenCHICAGO, Jan 6 (Reuters) – U.S. officials are building a case that ongoing measles outbreaks in South Carolina and other states are unrelated to last year’s major outbreak in Texas, as it tries to retain its status of having eliminated the disease after recording the highest number of confirmed infections in three decades.To be considered measles-free by the World Health Organization, a country must have no locally transmitted cases of the same strain for 12 months or longer.Scientists studying the issue say the elimination assessment may not be ironclad as it is difficult to be certain that all…
AI needs so much computing power that AMD CEO Lisa Su put it in terms of a unit most people have never heard of: the yottaflop.Su said in her keynote at CES 2026 on Tuesday that the world would need more than “10 yottaflops” of compute — a measure of how fast a computer is — over the next five years to keep up with AI’s growth.”How many of you know what a yottaflop is?” Su asked the audience. “Raise your hand, please,” she added, before quickly explaining the term herself when no one appeared to raise their hand.”A yottaflop…
Throughout her years managing employees at Microsoft, Meta, and now Anthropic, Fiona Fung has learned how to make a mentorship actually work.Fung, now an engineering lead supporting Anthropic’s Claude Code, said that mentees need to take some ownership of the relationship on an episode of “The Peterman Pod” that aired on Sunday, January 4.Good mentors should initiate an early conversation about what the mentee is looking for, Fung said. Ultimately, though, she thinks that mentees should take the reins on goal setting.”For all the folks out there looking for a mentoring relationship, I would say set really explicit goals for…
AMD Chair and CEO Lisa Su kicked off her keynote at CES 2026 with a message about what compute could deliver: AI for everyone. As part of that promise, AMD announced a new line of AI processors as the company thinks AI-powered personal computers are the way of the future. The semiconductor giant revealed AMD Ryzen AI 400 Series processor, its latest version of its AI-powered PC chips, at the yearly CES conference on Monday. The company says the latest version of its Ryzen processor series allows for 1.3x faster multitasking than its competitors and are 1.7x times faster at…
The federal government is no longer broadly recommending several vaccines as part of the Trump administration and Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s broader overhaul of childhood immunization.Federal health officials said the new guidance aligns the United States with other countries that recommend fewer shots and empowers parents to consult doctors to make vaccination decisions that are best for their children. Public health experts and medical associations criticized the changes, arguing they would result in fewer children being protected from common pathogens.Subscribe to The Post Most newsletter for the most important and interesting stories from The Washington Post. Here’s a…
On Monday, ahead of the Consumer Electronics Show, Huang officially introduced the Vera Rubin architecture, which is now in production and expected to ramp up in volume in the second half of the year. This move follows a blockbuster year for its Blackwell chip, as demand for AI infrastructure continued to surge.In a press briefing ahead of Huang’s keynote, Dion Harris, Nvidia’s senior director of HPC and AI infrastructure solutions, described Vera Rubin as “six chips that make one AI supercomputer.””Vera Rubin is designed to address this fundamental challenge that we have: The amount of computation necessary for AI is…
A couple of weeks after Merriam-Webster named “slop” as its word of the year, Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella weighed in on what to expect from AI in 2026. In his classic, intellectual style, Nadella wrote on his personal blog that he wants us to stop thinking of AI as “slop” and start thinking of it as “bicycles for the mind.” He wrote, “A new concept that evolves ‘bicycles for the mind’ such that we always think of AI as a scaffolding for human potential vs a substitute.” He continued: “We need to get beyond the arguments of slop vs sophistication…
Nvidia released a new stack of robot foundation models, simulation tools, and edge hardware at CES 2026, moves that signal the company’s ambition to become the default platform for generalist robotics, much as Android became the operating system for smartphones. Nvidia’s move into robotics reflects a broader industry shift as AI moves off the cloud and into machines that can learn how to think in the physical world, enabled by cheaper sensors, advanced simulation, and AI models that increasingly can generalize across tasks. Nvidia revealed details on Monday about its full-stack ecosystem for physical AI, including new open foundation models…
DENVER (AP) — A former school bus aide pleaded guilty Monday to assaulting three nonverbal students with autism who were unable to report the abuse.Kiarra Jones, 30, entered guilty pleas to 12 charges under a plea agreement as she was about to go on trial in suburban Denver for abuse that was revealed in 2024 by bus surveillance video, according to prosecutors and court documents.Jones is represented by lawyers from the public defender’s office, which does not comment to the media on its cases.The abuse was discovered after Jessica Vestal, the mother of one of the nonverbal students, asked school…
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) announced on Monday it is changing the childhood immunization schedule.The federal health agency is removing the universal recommendation for multiple shots, in what it calls an attempt to mirror the schedules of peer countries.Instead of being universally recommended for almost all children at certain age cut offs, vaccines are now split into three categories: vaccines for all children, vaccines for certain high-risk groups and vaccines based on shared clinical decision making.CDC vaccine advisory committee votes to remove universal recommendation for hepatitis B shot at birthShared clinical decision making is the term used by…