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Subscribe to The Post Most newsletter for the most important and interesting stories from The Washington Post. A lot of healthy diets are considered to be just as good for your brain as they are for your body. But one in particular, which is usually recommended for lowering blood pressure, may be particularly good when it comes to protecting your cognitive function, a recent study suggests.An international team of researchers looked at data from the two Nurses’ Health Studies, conducted from 1986 to 2017, and the Health Professionals Follow-Up Study, conducted from 1986 to 2012. That means they had data…

Jeff Bezos is reportedly seeking $100 billion for a new fund, the likes of which will be used to buy up companies in major industrial sectors and, ultimately, modernize and automate them with AI, according to sources cited by The Wall Street Journal. The effort is related to Bezos’ AI startup, Project Prometheus. Bezos, whose involvement with the company was originally reported in November, is serving as co-founder and co-CEO, alongside former Google executive Vik Bajaj. Prometheus, which launched with $6.2 billion in funding, is focused on creating high-level AI models to improve manufacturing and engineering in aerospace, automotive, and…

Smoking was supposed to be on its way out — not completely gone, but definitely uncool.For years, cigarette smoking in celebrity culture has read as more grimy than glamorous. When celebs were pictured smoking, it was in paparazzi gotcha shots, not in styled studio shoots. Those tabloid images acted as a kind of public shaming: Even in an age of wellness, optimization and personal branding, the rich and famous sometimes indulge their bad habits. When famous people were caught smoking, the story was usually about backlash (like the response to Timothée Chalamet lighting up at a Beyoncé concert in 2023).…

A meningococcal disease outbreak is continuing to spread in southeastern England, according to local health officials.So far, at least 27 confirmed or probable cases have been reported, including cases among students at universities, and at least two people have died, according to the U.K. Health Security Agency (UKHSA).Health Secretary Wes Streeting warned on Thursday that the number of cases could “increase further in the coming days” due to the disease’s incubation period, or the period of time between exposure and the start of symptoms.Pennsylvania teen dies from bacterial meningitis: School district”This outbreak is unusually large,” Dr. Shira Doron, chief infection…

Bots are taking over the web, according to Cloudflare CEO Matthew Prince. In an interview at the SXSW conference in Austin this week, he said that with the speed at which artificial intelligence is growing, AI bot traffic will exceed the amount of human traffic that’s online by 2027. Prince explained that bots’ web usage has been increasing alongside the growth of generative AI technology because bots are capable of visiting far more sites to get answers for users’ chatbot queries. “If a human were doing a task — let’s say you were shopping for a digital camera — and…

Federal regulators on Thursday approved a new higher-dose version of the blockbuster obesity drug Wegovy that may help users lose more weight and keep it off.The U.S. Food and Drug Administration approved a 7.2-milligram dose of Danish drugmaker Novo Nordisk’s semaglutide. Previously, the highest approved dose of the drug, taken as a weekly shot, was 2.4 milligrams.The new dose received accelerated review through the FDA’s ultra-fast drug review program. The approval was granted 54 days after the request for review was approved, the agency said in a statement.The new dosage will be available in April at pharmacies in the U.S.,…

Google told employees that it was confident its work with the Department of Defense aligned with the company’s AI principles — and that it was “leaning more” into securing national security work with governments, Business Insider has learned. Loading audio narration… In a Google DeepMind town hall in January, leaders including CEO Demis Hassabis addressed a question from staff that asked how Google was ensuring its partnerships with the Department of Defense and Boston Dynamics weren’t violating the company’s AI policies.Tom Lue, Google DeepMind’s VP of global affairs, said the company has a “robust process” in place to review details…

Meta on Thursday announced that it’s starting to roll out more advanced AI systems to handle content enforcement as it plans to cut back on third-party vendors. Tasks related to content enforcement include catching and removing content about terrorism, child exploitation, drugs, fraud, and scams. The company says it will deploy these more advanced AI systems across its apps once they consistently outperform its current content enforcement methods. At the same time, it will reduce its reliance on third-party vendors for content enforcement. “While we’ll still have people who review content, these systems will be able to take on work…

Vibe coding took the AI community by storm in 2025. Now, Google is trying to start a new trend: “vibe designing.”Google Labs introduced the term on Wednesday while unveiling several new updates to Stitch, an AI-powered tool that uses simple prompts to generate “high-fidelity” UI design and front-end code.It’s the latest shot across the bow of software makers, as AI companies continue to roll out features that directly challenge the products made by those companies.Shares of Figma, which creates a tool for interface and user experience design for website and apps, fell around 8% on Wednesday following Google’s announcement. The…

A pharmaceutical company has recalled nearly 90,000 bottles of children’s ibuprofen for the potential presence of a foreign substance.Strides Pharma, Inc., headquartered in India, has recalled about 89,592 bottles of its Children’s Ibuprofen Oral Suspension, according to a Food and Drug Administration (FDA) Enforcement Report. The bottles may contain a foreign substance, as the company received complaints about a gel-like mass and black particles in the product.On March 16, the FDA recognized the recall as a Class II recall, which means “use of or exposure to a violative product may cause temporary or medically reversible adverse health consequences or where…