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HBO Max’s enormously popular television series “The Pitt” is receiving plaudits for its realistic depiction of the trials and tribulations of health care in an urban emergency room.Now in its second season, which premiered on Jan. 8, 2026, the show follows Dr. Michael “Robby” Robinavitch (played by Noah Wyle) and his colleagues through a single 15-hour clinical shift, divided into one-hour episodes. The team treats patients against a backdrop of all-too-common American societal plagues, from substance use disorder to medical bankruptcies and mass shootings.Spoiler alert: About halfway through the season, Dr. Robby and the staff at the fictional Pittsburgh Trauma…
Public health advocates have largely applauded a Massachusetts judge’s ruling on March 16, 2026, to temporarily block major changes to vaccine policy made by the Department of Health and Human Services since 2025.The ruling pauses two major actions ushered in by HHS Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. since he stepped into the role. First, it blocks Kennedy’s restructuring of a key vaccine panel called the Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices in June 2025. Second, it suspends HHS’s overhaul of the childhood vaccine schedule in January 2026, which cut the number of routine vaccinations children are recommended to receive from 17…
Venture capitalists have placed increasingly bigger bets on AI startups, investing over half a trillion dollars into the sector over the last five years. But these days, the smartest AI investment might be in energy, according to a report by Sightline Climate. Researchers found that up to 50% of data center projects that have been announced might be delayed. One of the biggest culprits is access to power. Of the 190 gigawatts worth of data centers the company is tracking, only 5 gigawatts are under construction. About 6 gigawatts of data center projects in Sightline’s database came online last year.…
Digital meeting notetakers like Read AI, Fireflies.ai, Fathom, and Granola help record and transcribe online meetings. But for in-person or more versatile options, many people prefer physical recording devices. These physical notetakers transcribe audio and give users summaries and action items of meetings using AI. Some of these devices are wearable — pins or pendants with dedicated mics for recording — while others are credit card-sized with dedicated mobile apps to transcribe and extract insights using AI. A few even offer live translation. Below is a non-exhaustive list of physical AI notetakers and transcription tools. Plaud Note/Plaud Note Pro This…
Self-driving cars, cyborgs, and catching rockets in midair: Elon Musk can’t resist the lure of the impossible.The world’s richest man has made a habit of taking on the world’s most difficult engineering challenges at Tesla and SpaceX — and has often proved the doubters wrong. His latest target is a tall order even by his standards.For several months, Musk has been talking about building a “Terafab,” a mammoth factory that would churn out semiconductors critical for Tesla’s ambitious rollout of robotaxis and humanoid robots.On Saturday, he teased that an announcement was imminent. “Terafab Project launches in 7 days,” Musk wrote…
March 20 (Reuters) – Taking GLP-1 drugs for diabetes has been shown to lower the risk of adverse heart events, but a new analysis found that going off the medication – even for a few months – may increase the odds of heart attack, stroke or death.“Stopping GLP-1 drugs can rapidly erode and potentially reverse the cardiovascular protection these medications provide,” said study leader Dr. Ziyad Al-Aly of the Veterans Affairs Saint Louis Health Care System in Missouri. “Months of stopping can undo years of progress.”Researchers studied more than 333,000 adults who were treated for type 2 diabetes with either…
By Sneha S K and Sahil PandeyMarch 20 (Reuters) – The U.S. Food and Drug Administration expanded the use of Rhythm Pharmaceuticals’ therapy for a rare form of obesity caused by brain damage, making it the first treatment to be approved in the country for the condition.Shares of the company were up 6.6% at $96.34 premarket.The therapy received approval on Thursday to treat acquired hypothalamic obesity, which causes excess and sustained weight gain due to injuries such as tumor growth or stroke in the brain.The hypothalamus of the brain regulates appetite and affects how the body burns calories and stores…
Scott Galloway wants to save the world … sort of. Loading audio narration… The entrepreneur-turned-professor-turned-media-juggernaut is leading a movement against Big Tech on two fronts.One is over the harmful impact he believes it has on young men. The other is a form of protest against President Donald Trump’s immigration policies, calling on people to “Resist and Unsubscribe” from Big Tech’s products and services.Just don’t call him an activist. By his own description, Galloway is “too lazy, selfish, and socially minded” to be one, he told BI’s Henry Chandonnet.The irony is that Galloway is taking aim at an industry that helped…
This as-told-to essay is based on a conversation with Tejal Rives, 35, who lives in Arizona. The following has been edited for length and clarity.In October 2025, I read a news article that Amazon was planning to cut jobs. I’d survived other layoffs, but this time my gut told me I’d be affected. Sure enough, not long after, I received an email that my position as a product marketer was being eliminated.I was one of 14,000 people impacted, and even though I understood the decision wasn’t personal, it was very disheartening. I thought up-skilling in AI would make me safer…
AI is coming for your job — or at least part of it.A January study from IT services company Cognizant, which analyzed 18,000 workplace tasks, found that 93% of jobs are affected by AI to some degree. In the US, that could result in roughly $4.5 trillion of human labor shifting to AI — and it’s happening at a faster rate than expected.Cognizant projected in 2023 that 90% of jobs would be impacted by 2032. Now, a slightly elevated level of disruption is arriving about six years ahead of schedule. The pace of exposure has surged, too. Instead of rising…