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Claude’s daily active users are on the rise on mobile devices, as are its new app installs, following the company’s fallout with the Pentagon. After Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei refused to allow the government to use its AI systems for mass surveillance of Americans or to power fully autonomous weapons, the AI model provider behind Claude was marked as a supply-chain risk. However, Anthropic’s stance led many consumers to favor the model, data suggests. App intelligence provider Appfigures reports that the U.S. downloads of Claude’s mobile app continue to surpass those of ChatGPT. The most recent figures from March 2 show Claude with…
By Sriparna RoyMarch 6 (Reuters) – Tylenol use among pregnant women fell after U.S. President Donald Trump linked autism to the over-the-counter pain relief medicine, according to an analysis of U.S. emergency room prescribing patterns published in the UK medical journal Lancet.In September, Trump said pregnant women should avoid using Tylenol, the brand name for the product known as acetaminophen or paracetamol owned by Kenvue. Health officials cited research claiming prenatal Tylenol use is linked with neurodevelopmental disorders to back up his statement.The decrease in Tylenol prescribing appeared to wane after several weeks, possibly in response to messaging from trusted…
Anthropic economists say that AI use is far from reaching its full potential to disrupt the labor market.Using their new measure, they found the five most exposed occupations to be: Computer programmers, customer service representatives, data entry keyers, medical record specialists, and market research analysts and marketing specialists.AI has yet to significantly affect the unemployment rate for workers in these highly exposed professions, economists Maxim Massenkoff and Peter McCrory wrote. The pair said there is “suggestive evidence” that the hiring of young workers in those fields has slowed.Our measure, “observed exposure,” compares the tasks LLMs are theoretically capable of to…
Frito-Lay issued a voluntary recall for Miss Vickie’s Spicy Dill Pickle Potato Chips sold in six states as they contain undeclared milk that could cause “serious or life-threatening allergic reaction,” according to the U.S. Food & Drug Administration.The recall of 8 oz. bags of chips, including the jalapeño-flavored potato chips, was issued on Wednesday after a consumer contacted the company. No other Miss Vickie’s products were recalled.”Unless a consumer has a dairy allergy or sensitivity to milk, this product is safe to consume,” Frito-Lay said in a statement.The products were sold in Arkansas, Louisiana, Mississippi, New Mexico, Oklahoma and Texas…
WASHINGTON (AP) — Most of America “springs forward” Sunday for daylight saving time. Losing that hour of sleep can do more than leave you tired and cranky the next day; it also could harm your health.Darker mornings and more evening light knock your body clock out of whack — which means daylight saving time can usher in sleep trouble for weeks or longer. Studies have even found an uptick in heart attacks and strokes right after the March time change.There are ways to ease the adjustment, including getting more sunshine to help reset your circadian rhythm for healthful sleep.When does…
Americans age 65 and older who are insured by Medicare logged about 60 million telehealth visits annually between 2021 and 2023 – about 31 million for mental health and 29 million for other health issues. That’s the key finding in a new study I co-authored in the journal Annals of Internal Medicine.We also found that people with Medicare coverage who used telehealth services were generally in poorer health and faced more physical and functional limitations in their daily life, compared with their counterparts who only had medical appointments in person.To get at these numbers, we analyzed a national survey called…
City Detect, a company that uses vision AI to help local governments monitor the health of buildings and neighborhoods, announced on Friday a $13 million Series A round led by Prudence Venture Capital. The startup launched in 2021, and Gavin Baum-Blake, the remaining co-founder, serves as CEO. He said the company was founded in part because cities were struggling to deal with “urban blight and decay.” The idea was to use advanced computer vision and AI technology to help cities track and fix such problems. City Detect mounts cameras on public vehicles like garbage trucks and street sweepers, captures photos…
Meta is now allowing rival AI companies to provide their chatbots on WhatsApp to Brazilian users for a fee, a day after the company confirmed a similar decision for users in Europe. Earlier this week, Brazil’s antitrust regulator CADE ruled against Meta and rejected its appeal to block an earlier order to suspend its policy change that seeks to bar third-party AI chatbots on WhatsApp. “Upon reviewing the case, the CADE Tribunal determined that the necessary requirements for maintaining the preventive measure were present. According to the case rapporteur, Councilor Carlos Jacques, there is evidence of legal plausibility, considering the relevance…
(This is an excerpt of the Health Rounds newsletter, where we present latest medical studies on Tuesdays and Thursdays.)March 6 (Reuters) – New findings could help explain why Alzheimer’s dementia often progresses faster in women and may lead to fresh avenues of research and future treatments, researchers said.Alzheimer’s disease is marked by abnormal amounts of tau protein in the brain that disrupt communication between brain cells and contribute to cognitive decline.Some patients also have abnormal clumping of a protein associated with Parkinson’s disease called alpha-synuclein.Among patients with Alzheimer’s disease and elevated brain levels of both proteins, brain changes occurred up…
For years, Miami has been cast as Silicon Valley’s pandemic-era escape hatch — a sunny refuge for tech billionaires and crypto founders fleeing California.New data, however, suggests the story is more complicated. Rather than a one-way exodus, the relationship between the two hubs has settled into a steady, two-way exchange of talent and capital.The pipeline between them first began to gain traction during the pandemic, and the number of tech workers in Miami overall has continued to grow through 2025.Palantir, which was based in Palo Alto before moving to Denver in 2020, relocated its headquarters to Miami in February. Citadel…