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A 17-year-old is returning to cheering after receiving a rare double organ transplant.Macey Brown, a high school senior in Fenton, Missouri, was given a second chance at life after she underwent a combined heart and kidney transplant at St. Louis Children’s Hospital.”I feel really good. I’m back to normal school and I just cheered for the first time last week since everything happened,” Macey told “Good Morning America.”Macey was diagnosed with a severe congenital heart defect called hypoplastic left heart syndrome shortly after her birth. The heart defect, where the left side of the heart is underdeveloped, occurs in about…
OpenAI announced Monday it has acquired Promptfoo, an AI security startup founded in 2024 to protect LLMs from online adversaries. The frontier lab said in a blog post that once the deal closes, Promptfoo’s technology will be integrated into OpenAI Frontier, its enterprise platform for AI agents. The development of independent AI agents that perform digital tasks has generated excitement about productivity gains. But it’s also given bad actors fresh opportunities to access sensitive data or manipulate automated systems. This deal underscores how frontier labs are scrambling to prove their technology can be used safely in critical business operations. Promptfoo…
Anthropic has made good on its promise to challenge the Department of Defense in court after the agency labeled it a supply chain risk late last week. The Claude maker filed two complaints against the Department on Monday in California and Washington D.C. after a weeks-long conflict between Anthropic and the DOD over whether the military should have unrestricted access to Anthropic’s AI systems. Anthropic had two firm red lines: it didn’t want its technology to be used for mass surveillance of Americans and didn’t believe it was ready to power fully autonomous weapons with no humans making targeting and…
WASHINGTON (AP) — An unprecedented effort to reverse the effects of a racially biased medical test that blocked or delayed Black people from getting kidney transplants seems to be working.Researchers reported Monday that thousands of Black transplant candidates have been given credit on the transplant waiting list for time they lost because of that misguided test, moving up their priority in an attempt at restorative justice.That test used a race-based formula to calculate patients’ kidney function. It made Black patients’ kidneys appear healthier than they really were, delaying diagnosis of impending organ failure and referral for transplant.After the U.S. transplant…
Most parents think that using AI for schoolwork is unethical. Most kids and teens think it should actually be encouraged. Loading audio narration… That’s just one place where parents and youth differ in their views on AI use, according to a new report from Common Sense Media, a nonprofit that aims to promote the well-being of families and children when it comes to technology use.According to the report, which centered around a survey of over 1,200 parents and 1,100 kids and teens between the ages of 12 and 17 across the United States, there are some significant gaps between parents…
For older adults, a daily multivitamin may slightly slow the aging process, new research suggests.In a randomized study of 958 older adults, those who took a multivitamin daily for two years experienced slowed so-called biological aging by about four months. That is, during the 24 months, they aged only 20 months at a cellular level.Whereas chronological age measures how much time has passed since birth, biological age reflects wear and tear on the body at a cellular level. The two don’t necessarily match up. For example, a person might be 50 years old chronologically yet have a biological age of…
German robotics startup Neura Robotics has inked a partnership with semiconductor giant Qualcomm to build the next generation of robots and physical AI. The deal is the latest coupling in the emerging physical AI industry between robotics startups and larger tech hardware and software companies. While no specific products were mentioned in the Monday announcements, the companies will work together to build the “brain and nervous system” of robots in a quest to advance the deployment of humanoid and general-purpose robots in the real world in both domestic and industrial settings. More specifically, Neura will use Qualcomm’s Dragonwing Robotics IQ10…
Anthropic has filed suit to block the Pentagon’s effective blacklisting of the company and its products. Loading audio narration… On Monday, Anthropic sued the Department of Defense, the Executive Office of the President, Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth, and several other federal agencies. Last Thursday, the Pentagon said it had formally notified Anthropic that it would be labeled a supply chain risk, an unprecedented move against a US company.Anthropic said the designation is putting business partnerships and contracts with other federal contractors “in jeopardy.” According to the lawsuit, this is why the AI firm is suing to block the designation and…
James Tierinni has seen what happens when schools ban phones.“About eight, nine years ago, I had to police people’s cellphones. And I’d have to talk to the same kid over and over again,” Tierinni said. Now, when he gives out a class exercise, “they turn their desks, they talk to each other … and it’s generally just so much more of a positive environment.”Tierinni teaches math in Manchester. The district became an early adopter of a bell-to-bell cellphone ban across all schools a few years ago. Although the move caused a stir at the time, Tierinni said it didn’t take…
Amid growing demand for data centers that can deliver AI compute at scale, Nvidia-backed British AI infrastructure company Nscale is now valued at $14.6 billion. This makes it one of Europe’s latest decacorns alongside Helsing and Mistral AI. Nscale has bet on vertical integration, from energy and data centers to compute and orchestration software. Its new valuation stems from a $2 billion Series C, which it calls “the largest in European history,” though the figure includes a $433 million pre-Series C SAFE backed by Blue Owl, Dell, Nvidia and Nokia in October. The raise was supported by Goldman Sachs and…