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President Donald Trump signed an executive order on Thursday that limits states’ ability to regulate AI individually.In the 2025 legislative session, more than 1,000 AI-related bills were proposed across all 50 states. The executive order signed by Trump aims at establishing a federal framework for regulating AI, rather than requiring tech companies to comply with various state laws.”It’s a massive industry. We’re leading China. We’re leading everybody by a tremendous amount,” Trump said during the signing. “But one of the things that it has is you have to have a central source of approval. When they need approvals on things,…

When Chase Johnson was 31, her dog began acting strange. He was anxious, wouldn’t leave her side and, one day, pushed his nose into the side of her breast. Johnson felt a hard lump.“I wasn’t someone who was good at doing self-exams, I don’t think I would have found it otherwise,” Johnson, now 36, of Cary, North Carolina, said. “I had no family history of breast cancer.”Johnson was diagnosed in February 2021 with triple-negative breast cancer, an aggressive type of the disease that tends to grow quickly and spread to other parts of the body.Breast cancer treatment is determined in…

The heirs of an 83-year-old Connecticut woman are suing ChatGPT maker OpenAI and its business partner Microsoft for wrongful death, alleging that the artificial intelligence chatbot intensified her son’s “paranoid delusions” and helped direct them at his mother before he died by suicide.Police said Stein-Erik Soelberg, 56, a former tech industry worker, fatally beat and strangled his mother, Suzanne Adams, and killed himself in early August at the home where they both lived in Greenwich, Connecticut.Adams’s death was ruled homicide “caused by blunt injury of head, and the neck was compressed” and Soelberg’s death was classified as suicide with sharp…

America is looking to catch up to worldwide trends for sun protection.The Food and Drug Administration announced a proposal on Dec. 11 to allow the addition of bemotrizinol to sunscreen – an ingredient that has been popular in other countries for decades.Bemotrizinol offers more stable, longer-lasting protection against both types of UV rays that damage our skin. It has the added benefit of being gentle enough for use on young children, said the FDA announcement. And it could become available in time for next summer.”The agency has historically moved too slowly in this area, leaving Americans with fewer options than…

Robotics company 1X found some big potential buyers for its humanoid robots designed for consumers — the portfolio companies of one of its investors. The company announced a strategic partnership to make thousands of its humanoid robots available for EQT’s portfolio companies on Thursday. EQT is a large Swedish multi-asset investor, and its venture fund EQT Ventures, is one of 1X’s backers. This deal involves shipping up to 10,000 1X Neo humanoid robots between 2026 and 2030 to EQT’s more than 300 portfolio companies with a concentration on manufacturing, warehousing, logistics, and other industrial use cases. 1X will sign individual…

Disney is losing the war for attention. Can its blockbuster OpenAI licensing deal change the momentum on the battlefield?Soon, you’ll be able to use OpenAI products, such as ChatGPT and the video generator Sora, to create content featuring Disney characters like Mickey Mouse, Ariel, and Darth Vader.CEO Bob Iger said the move would let Disney take advantage of a fast-growing area of entertainment.Iger said initially Disney would “curate some of the videos that have been created on the Sora platform and put them onto Disney+, which we think is a great way to increase engagement with our Disney+ users, particularly…

More people appear to be walking away from Affordable Care Act coverage or switching to cheaper plans for 2026 compared to this time last year, according to early enrollment data from several states.State health officials in New York, Pennsylvania, Idaho, Colorado and California shared numbers from the first month of ACA open enrollment, which began Nov. 1 and runs through Jan. 15 in most states. Idaho opened two weeks earlier.It’s too early to know whether the trend will hold, the officials said, noting that some people don’t finalize their plans until the final days of open enrollment — Dec. 15…

Measles outbreaks are growing along the Utah-Arizona border and in South Carolina, where hundreds are in quarantine.Between Friday and Tuesday, South Carolina health officials confirmed 27 new measles cases in an outbreak in and around northwestern Spartanburg County. In two months, 111 people have been sickened by the vaccine-preventable virus.More than 250 people, including students from nine area elementary, middle and high schools, are in quarantine — some for the second time since the outbreak began in October. Most of the state’s new cases stemmed from exposures at Way of Truth Church in Inman. Church leaders have been “very helpful,”…

OpenAI released its anticipated update to GPT-5 on Thursday, boasting that the new AI is “the most capable model series yet for professional knowledge work.””We designed GPT‑5.2 to unlock even more economic value for people; it’s better at creating spreadsheets, building presentations, writing code, perceiving images, understanding long contexts, using tools, and handling complex, multi-step project,” the company said in a statement.In a benchmark test called GDPval, OpenAI said its new AI model can outperform “industry professionals at well-specified knowledge work tasks spanning 44 occupations.””GPT‑5.2 Thinking produced outputs for GDPval tasks at >11x the speed and <1% the cost of…

In what doctors in Los Angeles are calling a “medical miracle,” a mother gave birth to a baby boy shortly after discovering she was pregnant, while preparing to have a 22-pound ovarian tumor removed.Cedars-Sinai Medical Center described the stunning series of events in a news release on Wednesday.Suze Lopez discovered she was pregnant earlier this year after taking a required routine pregnancy test before her scheduled surgery to remove a 22-pound ovarian cyst, according to the hospital. Lopez, who is a nurse in Bakersfield, California, had dealt with the growing cyst for years.”I knew that I was pregnant for about…