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Raw oysters have been linked to an ongoing salmonella outbreak, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) said on Tuesday.So far, 64 people across 22 states have gotten sick with the same strain of salmonella. At least 20 people have been hospitalized and no deaths have been reported.State and local public health officials have been interviewing patients about what they ate in the week before they became ill. Of the 27 people interviewed, about three-quarters said they ate raw oysters.Over 1.7 million eggs sold in 9 states voluntarily recalled due to salmonella concern”People in this outbreak are being hospitalized…
At least two people are dead after a suspected natural gas explosion Tuesday at a Pennsylvania nursing home, where part of building collapsed and some residents were trapped inside after the blast, officials said.”This is a very, very tragic moment,” Pennsylvania Gov. Josh Shapiro said at a news conference.He called the explosion, which erupted about 2:20 p.m. at Silver Lake Nursing Home in Bristol, around 20 miles from Philadelphia, catastrophic.Bristol Township Fire Chief Kevin Dippolito said at a news conference that five people may be unaccounted for, but that “they may have left the scene with family members.”The explosion sent…
Some Southern Californians are poised to see their monthly health insurance premiums rise, or may even be at risk of dropping health insurance next year as Congress weighs an enhanced subsidy that’s set to expire in days.Covered California is the state’s health insurance marketplace where many get financial help toward their monthly health insurance premiums. Over 800,000 people are subsidized in a swath of Southern California alone, according to a figure from June provided in an email from Covered California to the USA TODAY Network.But officials have been alerting Californians for weeks to the major changes that could come next…
A group of writers, including Theranos whistleblower and “Bad Blood” author John Carreyrou, is filing a lawsuit against Anthropic, Google, OpenAI, Meta, xAI, and Perplexity, accusing the companies of training their models on pirated copies of their books. If this sounds familiar, it’s because another set of authors already filed a class action suit against Anthropic for these same acts of copyright infringement. In that case, the judge ruled that it was legal for Anthropic and similar AI companies to train on pirated copies of books, but that it was not legal to pirate the books in the first place.…
The Food and Drug Administration has approved the first GLP-1 pill for weight loss and maintenance.Drugmaker Novo Nordisk announced the approval of its oral Wegovy pill, an oral semaglutide medication, in a news release Monday.”The FDA approval of Wegovy pill — the first oral GLP-1 for adults with obesity and overweight with weight-related medical problems — has the potential to impact millions of Americans,” Dave Moore, executive vice president of Novo Nordisk Inc.’s U.S. operations, said in a statement. “People count on us for more than breakthrough medicines; they need better ways to access them. We will not let them…
He coined “vibe coding” earlier this year. Now, he has something to say about it.Andrej Karpathy led AI at Tesla for five years, steering the company’s Autopilot effort and briefly working on its humanoid robot Optimus. He sandwiched his Tesla job with two stints at OpenAI, making Karpathy a cofounder of the AI pioneer.As 2025 comes to a close, Karpathy published his year-in-review for large language models on X. He reflected on the famous term he originated in February, a term that has since shaken up the software engineering industry.”With vibe coding, programming is not strictly reserved for highly trained…
Alex Karp welcomes his haters.”My biggest fans started off as Palantir skeptics and Palantir haters,” Karp said during The New York Times 2025 DealBook Summit. “I believe that someday, almost everyone in this audience is going to agree with me. You may not like me now, but you’re going to agree later.”The longtime iconoclastic CEO of data mining company Palantir is not above a victory lap.”Please turn on the conventional television and see how unhappy those that didn’t invest in us are,” Karp said before signing off on the company’s Q3 2025 earnings call. “Enjoy, get some popcorn. They’re crying.…
Regulators at the U.S. Food and Drug Administration on Monday gave the green light to a pill version of the blockbuster weight-loss drug Wegovy, the first daily oral medication to treat obesity.The FDA’s approval handed drugmaker Novo Nordisk an edge over rival Eli Lilly in the race to market an obesity pill. Lilly’s oral drug, orforglipron, is still under review.Both pills are GLP-1 drugs that work like widely used injectables to mimic a natural hormone that controls appetite and feelings of fullness.In recent years, Novo Nordisk’s injectable Wegovy and Lilly’s Zepbound have revolutionized obesity treatment globally and in the U.S.,…
The former Yahoo CEO, Marissa Mayer, refuses to sit on the sidelines of the generative AI revolution. After spending the last six years running Sunshine, a photo-sharing and contact-management startup with little success, the storied tech leader has shuttered the company to launch Dazzle, a new startup focused on building the next generation of AI personal assistants. While Mayer is not yet sharing specifics about Dazzle’s functionality, she has revealed that the new company has raised an $8 million seed round at a $35 million valuation. The round was led by Forerunner’s Kirsten Green, with participation from Kleiner Perkins, Greycroft,…
By Ahmed AbouleneinWASHINGTON, Dec 23 (Reuters) – Enrollment for health insurance under the U.S. Affordable Care Act dipped to 15.6 million for 2026, Mehmet Oz, the U.S. Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services administrator, said on Tuesday, from roughly 16 million last year.The drop comes as federal subsidies, expanded during the pandemic, are set to expire on December 31, leading to sharp premium increases in 2026. Monthly premiums for subsidized ACA plans, also known as Obamacare after the former president, are projected to more than double, rising to an average of $1,904 annually from $888 in 2025.In a social media…