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Flu is surging across the U.S., sending thousands more people to the hospital and hitting young children especially hard, as doctors warn the season still has a long way to go.Flu activity is at “high” or “very high” levels in 32 states and jurisdictions, based on data from the week ending Dec. 20, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention reported Tuesday — up from 17 the week before. At least 7.5 million have gotten sick since the season began in October.Hospitalizations nearly doubled in a single week, rising to 19,053, up from 9,944 the week prior, according to the…

Flu is surging across the U.S., sending thousands more people to the hospital and hitting young children especially hard, as doctors warn the season still has a long way to go.Flu activity is at “high” or “very high” levels in 32 states and jurisdictions, based on data from the week ending Dec. 20, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention reported Tuesday — up from 17 the week before. At least 7.5 million have gotten sick since the season began in October.Hospitalizations nearly doubled in a single week, rising to 19,053, up from 9,944 the week prior, according to the…

As flu season continues to rise across the United States this holiday season, it may be worth considering an at-home test for the seasonal illness.”The flu season this year is earlier and stronger than last year,” ABC News medical correspondent Dr. Darien Sutton said Tuesday on “Good Morning America.” “When the flu is early and heavy, it raises concern that the total impact can be substantial, not because the flu is different from person to person, but because more people are sick over a longer period of time. That, of course, can strain the healthcare system.”In the United States, 20…

The U.S. has surpassed 2,000 measles cases for the first time in more than 30 years, according to data from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.As of Dec. 23, a total of 2,012 cases have been reported in the U.S. Of those cases, 24 were reported among international visitors to the U.S.States with confirmed cases include Alabama, Alaska, Arizona, Arkansas, California, Colorado, Connecticut, Florida, Georgia, Hawaii, Idaho, Illinois, Indiana, Iowa, Kansas, Kentucky, Louisiana, Maryland, Michigan, Minnesota, Missouri, Montana, Nebraska, Nevada, New Jersey, New Mexico, New York, North Dakota, Ohio, Oklahoma, Oregon, Pennsylvania, Rhode Island, South Carolina, South Dakota, Tennessee,…

Tatiana Schlossberg, the journalist and author who was a granddaughter of John F. Kennedy, has died after revealing she had been diagnosed with cancer, her family announced Tuesday.She was 35.”Our beautiful Tatiana passed away this morning. She will always be in our hearts,” the family said in a social media post.Schlossberg wrote in The New Yorker on Nov. 22 that she had acute myeloid leukemia, with a rare mutation called Inversion 3. She was diagnosed on May 25, 2024, when she gave birth to her second child and a doctor noticed her abnormally high white blood cell count and ordered…

New data from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention shows flu cases continuing to spike around the country, with some areas seeing record cases of the illness.The CDC estimated there have been at least 7.5 million flu cases this season as of Dec. 20, as well as at least 81,000 hospitalizations and 3,100 deaths. There have been eight flu-related pediatric deaths, the CDC said.The CDC says 32 jurisdictions are showing “high” or “very high” levels of flu. Last week, just 17 jurisdictions were in those categories. Jurisdictions include all 50 states and some territories, as well as the District of Columbia…

Andrej Karpathy has long been ahead.He was ahead of the AI boom, having worked as a founding member of OpenAI in 2015, long before competitors like Anthropic and xAI emerged. He also got into self-driving vehicles early, steering Tesla’s autopilot effort as its head of AI.Now, he says, “I’ve never felt this much behind as a programmer.”In an X post on Friday, Karpathy wrote that the industry was being “dramatically refactored,” as individual programmers contribute fewer and fewer lines of code.”I have a sense that I could be 10X more powerful if I just properly string together what has become…

Flu activity is rising sharply across the United States, according to new data from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.The CDC estimates there have been at least ​7.5 million million illnesses, ​81,000 hospitalizations and ​3,100 deaths from flu so far this season. ​Five more pediatric deaths were reported this week, bringing the total to ​eight this season.At least 20 states are now seeing “very high” respiratory illness activity including Arkansas, Colorado, Connecticut, Georgia, Idaho, Louisiana, Maryland, Massachusetts, Michigan, Minnesota, Missouri, New Hampshire, New Jersey, New Mexico, New York, North Carolina, Ohio, Rhode Island, South Carolina and Tennessee.Meanwhile, nine states are seeing…

AI dealmaking isn’t slowing down — and it’s Meta’s turn again.The social media giant is buying Manus, a Singapore-based artificial intelligence startup, the companies announced on Monday.Manus went viral in March when it previewed an AI agent that could autonomously perform tasks like screening résumés and stock analysis. Manus was created in China but relocated to Singapore in mid-2025. Meta paid more than $2 billion for Manus, the Wall Street Journal reported.The deal is the latest in a flurry of red-hot AI investment and acquisitions this year, which includes Meta’s $14 billion investment in Scale AI in June. From providing…

In some ways, 2025 was when AI dictation apps really took off. Dictation apps have been around for years, but in the past they’ve proved slow and inaccurate — unless you speak with particular accents and enunciate clearly. But advances in large language models (LLMs) and speech-to-text models have helped improve the systems that can decipher speech better while retaining the context to format the text. And developers have built in features to automatically format text, remove filler words, and ignore fumbles to output text that would need fewer edits. But with the soaring popularity of everything AI, there’s dozens…