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Last month, OpenAI said that it is going to introduce ads to users of the free and Go tiers in ChatGPT. The company rolled out ads to U.S.-based users earlier this month amid criticism from rivals like Anthropic, which published a string of Super Bowl ads. On the sidelines of the India AI summit, TechCrunch asked OpenAI COO Brad Lightcap about how the company is approaching ads. Lightcap said that the process is iterative and the company has to get user privacy and trust right. “Well, this is going to be an iterative process for sure. This is something we…
The number of women with risk factors for cardiovascular disease could significantly increase over the next 25 years, the American Heart Association (AHA) warned on Wednesday.Without improving prevention and early detection tools, about six in 10 women could be diagnosed with hypertension or obesity by 2050, and risk factors could appear in children and teenagers as well, according to the AHA’s scientific statement.”Cardiovascular disease is the leading cause of death, and fewer than half of women know that fact,” Dr. Stacey Rosen, executive director of Katz Institute for Women’s Health and volunteer president of the AHA, told ABC News. “And…
Peter Steinberger, the creator of the viral AI agent OpenClaw who has since been hired by OpenAI, has some advice for those experimenting with AI technology, including AI agents. From his own experience, the best way to build today is to explore, be playful, and not expect to be an expert at what you do right away. “I wish I could say that I had the unified plan in the beginning, but a lot of it was just exploration,” Steinberger said. “I wanted things, and those things didn’t exist, and … let’s say I prompted them into existence.” The developer was…
TENERIFE, Spain/OSLO, Feb 25 (Reuters) – Norway’s King Harald, 89, is suffering from a skin infection on his leg and is responding well to treatment, though any infection in a man of his age is serious and requires close monitoring, his personal physician said on Wednesday.Europe’s oldest head of state was taken to hospital on Tuesday on the Spanish island of Tenerife, where he was on a private holiday, suffering from an infection and dehydration. His physician arrived at the hospital on Wednesday, Norwegian media reported.”When people of almost 90 years old are admitted with an infection, it is serious,”…
Kalshi said Wednesday that it banned and fined a MrBeast editor and a California politician for making banned trades, the first public enforcement action taken by the US-regulated prediction market.The company said the video editor, Artem Kaptur, violated its insider trading rules by wagering about $4,000 on YouTube streaming markets. Kaptur, whose name was included in a regulatory notice, received a two-year ban and was ordered to pay a $15,000 fine in addition to repaying more than $5,000 in profits.Kalshi said that an internal disciplinary committee found that “he traded on material, non-public information he obtained” because of his MrBeast…
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AI chatbots have become embedded in the lives of American teenagers, according to a report published Tuesday by the Pew Research Center. While the most common uses of AI among this demographic include searching for information (57%) and getting help with schoolwork (54%), teens are also using AI to fill roles that would typically be occupied by friends or family. Sixteen percent of U.S. teens say they use AI for casual conversation, while 12% use AI chatbots for emotional support or advice. Some teens may find solace in talking to chatbots, but mental health professionals are wary. General-purpose tools like…
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The Trump administration has ordered U.S. diplomats to lobby against countries’ attempts to regulate how American tech companies handle foreigners’ data, arguing that data sovereignty laws threaten the advancement of AI services and technology, Reuters reported, citing an internal diplomatic cable. The cable, signed by U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio, says such laws would “disrupt global data flows, increase costs and cybersecurity risks, limit AI and cloud services, and expand government control in ways that can undermine civil liberties and enable censorship,” according to the report. The cable pushes diplomats to “counter unnecessarily burdensome regulations, such as data localization…
Since nursing contract negotiations heated up in January 2026 at UPMC Magee-Womens Hospital in Pittsburgh and at UPMC Altoona, the debate shifted from standard wage disputes to a more fundamental question of patient safety: the nurse-to-patient ratio.The New York State Nurses Association’s approach has become a primary blueprint for nursing labor strategy nationwide. By framing staffing ratios as a nonnegotiable safety standard, NYSNA shifted the focus of contract negotiations from simple wage increases to enforceable clinical mandates. In January, the new union held its first meeting with UPMC management to negotiate a contract. At the time of publication of this…