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March 2 (Reuters) – U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention acting director Jay Bhattacharya on Monday said the MMR vaccine remains the most reliable and effective way to prevent the spread of measles.”There is no cure for measles, which is why prevention is so critical,” Bhattacharya said in a video posted on X. “The MMR vaccine remains the most reliable and effective way to prevent it.”Bhattacharya said the CDC was surging resources to support prevention and response efforts, and was coordinating regularly with health officials across the country.”We stand ready to provide CDC technical staff, laboratory support, vaccines and…
Many users are switching to Claude following a string of controversies surrounding ChatGPT and its parent company, OpenAI. The tipping point came after Anthropic, the company behind Claude, refused to allow the Department of Defense to use its AI models for mass domestic surveillance or fully autonomous weapons. In response, President Trump ordered all federal agencies to stop using Anthropic’s products, and Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth announced plans to designate the company a supply-chain threat. Hours later, OpenAI announced its own agreement with the Pentagon, claiming to include safeguards, but the deal has still sparked widespread debate over privacy and…
Hundreds of tech workers have signed an open letter urging the Department of Defense to withdraw its designation of Anthropic as a “supply chain risk.” The letter also calls on Congress to step in and “examine whether the use of these extraordinary authorities against an American technology company is appropriate.” The letter includes signatories from major technology and venture capital firms including OpenAI, Slack, IBM, Cursor, Salesforce Ventures, and more. It follows a dispute between the DOD and Anthropic after the AI lab last week refused to give the military unrestricted access to its AI systems. Anthropic’s two red lines…
Anthropic wants you to use Claude, even as President Donald Trump moves to kick the company out of Washington.Now, Claud says it’s easier to move their history from a rival competitor into Claude. While Anthropic initially offered users the ability to import their data in October, the updated interface is “significantly improved,” a spokesperson for Anthropic told Business Insider.All they have to do now is copy and paste a pre-written prompt into another chatbot.”Switch to Claude without starting over,” the new dedicated landing page reads, adding that the process can be done in under a minute.”You’ve spent months teaching another…
ATLANTA (AP) — The Georgia father of an accused school shooter could have prevented an attack that left two students and two teachers dead and many others wounded at a school northeast of Atlanta in 2024, a prosecutor said in her closing argument.“After seeing sign after sign of his son’s deteriorating mental state, his violence, his school shooter obsession, the defendant had sufficient warning that his son was a bomb just waiting to go off,” Barrow County Assistant District Attorney Patricia Brooks told jurors. “And instead of disarming him, he gave him the detonator.”Jimmy Berry, a lawyer for the father,…
The customer service industry is in a bit of flux, thanks to AI. Investors and corporate leaders have rung alarm bells for the BPO (Business Process Outsourcing) industry. On the other hand, AI-powered customer support startups such as Decagon, Parloa, and Sierra have picked up millions of dollars in funding from venture capitalists. 14.ai, a Y-Combinator-backed startup, is taking an approach of building an AI-native agency that has replaced legacy customer support teams at many startups it has worked with. The company has raised $3 million in seed funding led by Y Combinator with participation from General Catalyst, Base Case…
2026-03-02T15:14:22.712Z Share Copy link Email Facebook WhatsApp X LinkedIn Bluesky Threads lighning bolt icon An icon in the shape of a lightning bolt. Impact Link Save Saved Read in app This story is available exclusively to Business Insider subscribers. Become an Insider and start reading now. Have an account? Log in. Apple’s latest version of its budget iPhone is here. The iPhone 17e maintains the $599 starting price as the previous lower-cost model. It also has MagSafe charging and an improved camera system. The memory shortage is squeezing smartphone margins, but Apple is maintaining its $599 starting price on its…
When Dawson’s Creek star James Van Der Beek died of colorectal cancer at 48 in February, people didn’t just pay tribute — they booked screenings. ZocDoc reported a 140% surge in bookings for colon cancer screenings following the actor’s death. That increase comes less than six years after Black Panther star Chadwick Boseman died of colorectal cancer at age 43 — a loss that drove a more than 700% spike in searches for colon cancer screenings.“We believe in screening so deeply because psychologically, we still believe that cancer is automatically a death sentence, that there is nothing we can do…
Intuit began its AI journey in 2019 when Sasan Goodarzi became CEO. A couple of months into the job, he said his biggest challenge was transforming Intuit from a cloud-based parent company of TurboTax and QuickBooks into an artificial intelligence enterprise.To bring AI features to both Intuit’s workforce and customers, Intuit relied on the expertise of C-suite leaders like Chief AI Officer Ashok Srivastava and Chief Technology Officer Alex Balazs, who were hired in 2017 and 1999, respectively. In 2009, Intuit also hired Mark Notarainni, the executive vice president and general manager of Intuit’s consumer group, who spoke to Business…
Since President Donald Trump issued a July 2025 executive order aimed at “ending crime and disorder on America’s streets,” national attention has increasingly focused on involuntary treatment as a response to visible homelessness and drug use.A few months later, in September 2025, officials in Utah announced plans for a 16-acre facility on the edge of Salt Lake City that would hold up to 1,300 people experiencing homelessness after they are removed from public spaces and offered a choice: the facility’s abstinence-based shelter or jail time. The facility also plans to include 300 to 400 beds reserved for involuntary treatment, for…