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A well-designed 10-minute online exercise can spark small reductions in depression. That’s the key finding of my team’s paper, published in Nature Human Behaviour.Many people believe that to start overcoming depression, they need a therapist, medication or a radical change in their environment. However, our study shows that taking small steps to learn practical skills can lead to measurable improvements in depressive symptoms.In 2024, my team and I took to social media to pose a question to the field of mental health: If you could get 500 people struggling with depression to give you just 10 minutes of their attention,…
Given an opportunity by the Texas Legislature to set aside time each day for students and staff to pray, most school districts appear to have declined the offer.Senate Bill 11 required Texas school boards to decide by March 1 whether to provide a daily devotional period, which students could attend during noninstructional hours to pray and read the Bible or other religious text, likely before school.But one of the key lawmakers who guided the bill through the Legislature has identified only 15 school districts that have opted into the prayer period. Many other urban, suburban and rural districts voted against…
WASHINGTON (AP) — With hundreds of millions of people turning to chatbots for advice, it was only a matter of time before tech companies began offering programs specifically designed to answer health questions.In January, OpenAI introduced ChatGPT Health, a new version of its chatbot that the company says can analyze users’ medical records, wellness apps and wearable device data to answer health and medical questions. Currently, there’s a waiting list for the program. Anthropic, a rival AI company, offers similar features for some users of its Claude chatbot.Both companies say their programs, known as large language models, aren’t a substitute…
Anthropic experienced widespread disruptions on Monday morning, with thousands of users reporting problems accessing Claude services. The outage seems to be affecting Claude.ai as well as Claude Code, though the company said the Claude API is working as intended. Most users experience the error when attempting to log in, as in the screenshot below. Image credits: TechCrunch “The issues we are seeing are related to Claude.ai and with the login/logout paths,” the company’s status page reads. Anthropic has not yet detailed what caused the outage, though the company said it has identified an issue and is implementing a fix. The…
2026-03-02T12:08:05.382Z 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. Several Gulf nations were hit by retaliatory Iranian strikes over the weekend. US companies with employees and clients in the region told Business Insider that safety was the priority. JPMorgan, Goldman Sachs, and Citigroup have told employees in the region to work from home. Global US companies with Middle…
Amazon is making its boldest AI move yet.The company agreed to invest $50 billion in OpenAI as part of the startup’s record $110 billion fundraising round, which values the ChatGPT maker at $840 billion.The multi-year partnership includes:$15 billion will be invested upfront, with another $35 billion to follow in the coming months once “certain conditions” are met.Co-creation of new AI system architecture powered by OpenAI models and available on Amazon Bedrock. It enables developers to retain memory and context over time and deploy more advanced AI applications.Amazon Web Services will become the exclusive third-party cloud distribution provider for OpenAI’s Frontier,…
OpenAI’s latest funding round is unprecedented. The following charts put the deal in perspective.The startup announced the $110 billion financing last week, pushing its valuation to $840 billion, including the new cash. It brings Amazon and Nvidia on as major backers and puts questions about OpenAI’s financial stability to bed. For now.I asked venture capital data provider Pitchbook for help in sizing the round. It’s the largest ever, but also the biggest by a huge margin.The deal “sets a new high for private tech fundraising,” said PitchBook analyst Dimitri Zabelin, in the understatement of the year so far. PitchBook What…
GLP-1 drugs — including Ozempic and Wegovy — may be tied to a slightly higher risk of osteoporosis and gout, according to research presented Monday at the American Academy of Orthopaedic Surgeons’ annual meeting.Dr. John Horneff, an associate professor of orthopedic surgery at the University of Pennsylvania and the lead author of the study, said he began looking into the issue after some patients appeared to develop serious tendon tears after relatively minor injuries. That led them to examine whether GLP-1s might affect bone and other connective tissue more broadly.“People are taking these medications, and obviously there’s a tremendous amount…
Some of the United States’ most important historical documents are beginning a first-of-its kind journey Monday as part of the country’s 250th anniversary commemoration.Typically housed in highly controlled vaults under the watch of preservation experts at the National Archives, documents such as the 1783 Treaty of Paris that formally ended the Revolutionary War and the 1774 Articles of Association that urged colonists to boycott British goods are rarely moved.But those documents, signed by George Washington, John Adams, Benjamin Franklin and other American revolutionary leaders, will be making their way across the country and put on display for free at local…
2026-03-02T02:30:52.799Z 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. Amazon Web Services had a power outage at one of its facilities in the United Arab Emirates on Sunday. The fire was caused by “objects” that impacted the facility at around 7:30 a.m. ET. The impact sparked a fire. Firefighters cut power to the facility while they extinguished it.…