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“Yes, doctor. My dad’s first fall was on his 65th birthday. He stood in the driveway and suddenly dropped backwards on his back. After he fell two more times, we came to the clinic.”The symptoms the patient’s son described didn’t fit the usual diagnosis of Parkinson’s disease. The family noted mood changes, including outbursts of anger. When the patient tried reading, the words “jumped” at him. Instead of looking down the page with his eyes, he moved his entire head. While his hands didn’t shake, he noticeably moved around more slowly.Dad was diagnosed with Parkinson’s. The doctors weren’t convinced this…

Keeping hold of tech talent can be a battle for European companies, but the CEO of Swedish vibe-coding startup Lovable says it’s not always a one-way flow to Silicon Valley. Loading audio narration… Anton Osika said that what he considers a Swedish trait — long-term thinking and “building for the coming decades” — is attracting some talent away from the US.In a Bloomberg interview that aired Friday, Osika said this longer-term mindset, paired with what he described as Sweden’s tightly knit, low turnover, team-first culture, is luring some Swedish tech workers back from Silicon Valley and London.Some return, he said,…

March 13 (Reuters) – A trial directly comparing Eliquis and Xarelto – two commonly used blood-thinning drugs from the same class of medicines – found that Eliquis carries a clearly lower risk of dangerous bleeding in patients with clots deep in the body, ‌researchers reported in The New England Journal of Medicine.Eliquis, known chemically as apixaban, is sold by Bristol Myers Squibb and Pfizer, while ‌Xarelto (rivaroxaban) is sold by Bayer and Johnson & Johnson.The drugs, given to prevent recurrent blood clots that can lead to strokes, can sometimes also cause serious bleeding episodes.“This trial provides ​highly anticipated evidence for…

Am I getting laid off, or is my company announcing a big AI pivot? Loading audio narration… These days, it’s probably a bit of both.A weird thing is happening in Corporate America. Companies are cleansing their layoff announcements with a healthy dose of AI strategy talk, writes BI’s Tim Paradis.Australian-American software company Atlassian was the latest to announce some AI-branded job cuts. When it laid off 10% of its staff, CEO Mike Cannon-Brookes said the move was part of Atlassian’s repositioning in the “AI era.” (You can watch his four-minute video explaining the layoffs here.)The news comes a few weeks…

NORFOLK, Va. (AP) — The shooter who opened fire in a classroom at Virginia’s Old Dominion University on Thursday in an attack being investigated as an act of terrorism had a gun with an obliterated serial number, potentially complicating investigators’ efforts to determine how the man with a previous felony conviction obtained a firearm, according to a law enforcement official.Investigators will have to try to re-surface the number in order to trace the gun, according to the official, who spoke to the Associated Press on condition of anonymity because they were not authorized to discuss the ongoing investigation.The FBI identified…

In the age of AI, Silicon Valley’s “move fast and break things” ethos is proving to be literal. Loading audio narration… Earlier this week, Business Insider reported that Amazon set up new guardrails following a series of outages, including one primarily driven by its AI coding tool that led to nearly 120,000 lost orders.Similar flubs have plagued other companies as they adopt AI. In January, an events company founder said an AI agent made four errors in a single week, including giving away free tickets. And last summer, the CEO of a browser-based coding platform apologized after an AI agent…

When 14-year-old Makayla Skjerva came home from school last month complaining that the side of her neck was hurting, her parents didn’t think she had much more than a mild illness.However, that symptom soon progressed to body aches, a fever and a noticeable rash. Then came notifications from the health department and Makayla’s school that a measles exposure may have occurred at the school gym.Soon after, Makayla, from Cavalier, North Dakota, tested positive for measles and her health rapidly declined. She was quickly hospitalized and had to be transferred to another state by air ambulance to receive care.Courtesy of Ashley…

Elon Musk is combing old interviews as high-profile employees continue to exit his AI startup.”Many talented people over the past few years were declined an offer or even an interview @xAI. My apologies,” Musk said in a Friday morning post on X.Musk added that he and Baris Akis, who works on the xAI talent engineering team, will be “going through the company interview history and reaching back out to promising candidates.”The hiring efforts come as xAI’s exodus of cofounders continues. On Thursday, Business Insider reported that Zihang Dai left xAI earlier this week, and Guodong Zhang has told people he…

Eighteen months after selling his startup to chipmaker AMD for $665 million, Finnish entrepreneur Peter Sarlin has left his role as CEO of the unit now known as AMD Silo AI. He is now chairman at two new ventures: physical AI lab NestAI, and QuTwo, an AI startup aimed at helping companies prepare for the era of quantum computing Currently fully funded by Sarlin’s family office, PostScriptum, QuTwo describes itself as “an AI lab for the quantum era.” Rather than waiting for quantum computing to mature, however, it is already working with enterprise customers — including European fashion retailer Zalando,…

Caller identity platform Truecaller recently launched a new feature that lets one person become an admin of a family group, get alerts about fraud calls received by other members, and even end a call on their behalf if they suspect a family member might get scammed. The company, which has over 450 million users, first launched the feature in December in a handful of countries like Sweden, Chile, Malaysia, and Kenya. Truecaller said that after seeing promising results, it decided to roll it out worldwide, including in India, the company’s biggest market. The feature is free, and users can create…