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On Sunday, an analyst group called Citrini Research published a remarkable piece illustrating how agentic AI could bring on mass economic destruction over the next two years. The scenario imagines a report from two years in the future, in which unemployment has doubled, and the total value of the stock market has fallen by more than a third. As the report puts it: AI capabilities improved, companies needed fewer workers, white collar layoffs increased, displaced workers spent less, margin pressure pushed firms to invest more in AI, AI capabilities improved… It was a negative feedback loop with no natural brake…The…

It’s 5:45 p.m. and you’ve just arrived home after a long day at work. You’d like nothing more than a glass of pinot and to binge old episodes of your favorite show. Into the kitchen comes young Sally, your food-adventurous 8-year-old. “I’m hungry, what’s for dinner?”Sally has never met a food she’s afraid to try. Visions of her savoring the tangy brine of an oyster and joyously slurping spicy ramen noodles dance in your head.Before you can give her an answer, Billy, your 4-year-old picky eater, shouts, “Mac and cheese!” from the living room. Billy rotates between three entrées: macaroni…

Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth is calling in Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei to the Pentagon on Tuesday morning to discuss the military use of Claude, according to reporting from Axios. The meeting comes as the Pentagon threatens to declare Anthropic a “supply chain risk” — a label typically reserved for foreign adversaries — after the AI firm refused to allow the Department of Defense to use its tech for the mass surveillance of Americans and the development of weapons that fire without human involvement.  Anthropic signed a $200 million contract with DOD last summer, and Claude was reportedly used during the…

Nearly a year ago, an 11-year-old U.S. citizen girl’s treatment for a rare brain tumor was interrupted when her parents were deported to Mexico. Her parents and her four siblings, three of whom are also U.S. citizens, have spent the past year living in a dangerous part of Mexico and have seen her recovery stall as they fight to get her access to care.“It’s been a really difficult year,” the girl’s mother told NBC News in Spanish this month as she choked up. “It’s hard not to break down.”The family’s quest to return to the United States is now reaching…

Eli Lilly announced on “Good Morning America” Monday that its GLP-1 weight-loss drug Zepbound will now be available in a new multi-dose KwikPen, giving patients a simpler way to receive a full month of treatment in one device.The Food and Drug Administration approved a label expansion allowing Zepbound to be delivered through the four-dose, single-patient KwikPen, which provides four once-weekly injections without the need for syringes.Weight loss drugs including Zepbound, Wegovy in shortage, FDA saysThe pen has been used by millions of patients worldwide for other Lilly medications, according to the company.The new Zepbound KwikPen will be available beginning Feb.…

Lori Sepich smoked for years and sometimes skipped taking her blood pressure medicine. But she never thought she’d have a heart attack.The possibility “just wasn’t registering with me,” said the 64-year-old from Memphis, Tennessee, who suffered two of them 13 years apart.She’s far from alone. More than 60 million women in the U.S. live with cardiovascular disease, which includes heart disease as well as stroke, heart failure and atrial fibrillation. And despite the myth that heart attacks mostly strike men, women are vulnerable too.Overall in the U.S., 1 in 5 women dies of cardiovascular disease each year, 37,000 of them…

ATLANTA (AP) — Accused school shooter Colt Gray and his family lived a chaotic life, fighting, arguing and moving frequently due to financial issues, his mother testified in the trial of Colt’s father, Colin Gray.Marcee Gray said she urged the boy’s father to take the guns in the home northeast of Atlanta and lock them inside his truck so they were not accessible to Colt.“They need to be locked somewhere,” she told a jury in Winder, Georgia. “Initially he said he would.”Marcee Gray’s testimony on Monday opened the second week in the trial of Colin Gray, who faces 29 counts,…

By Rishika Sadam and Kashish TandonMUMBAI, Feb 23 (Reuters) – India’s drug regulator has inspected nearly 90% of the country’s cough syrup makers and found compliance lapses, its chief ‌said on Monday, amid heightened scrutiny after India-made syrups were linked to the deaths of ‌children in the country and abroad.The inspections follow the discovery of a brand of cough syrup contaminated with diethylene glycol ​that was linked to the deaths of 24 children in October last year. The product, named Coldrif, was made by Sresan Pharmaceutical, based in Tamil Nadu.”We took serious actions on serious non-compliances, and our belief is…

LONDON (AP) — Britain’s film academy and the BBC apologized to viewers after an audience member with Tourette syndrome shouted a racial slur during the British Academy Film Awards.The highly offensive word could be heard as “Sinners” stars Michael B. Jordan and Delroy Lindo were presenting the award for best visual effects during Sunday’s ceremony.Host Alan Cumming had earlier told the audience that a guest at the ceremony was John Davidson, a Scottish campaigner for people with Tourette’s who inspired the BAFTA-nominated film “I Swear.”Tourette syndrome is a neurological disorder characterized by involuntary, repetitive movements and vocalizations, including the uttering…

Anthropic’s Boris Cherny has a simple list of principles for his team and, unsurprisingly, Claude is at the center.”If you have Claude, you can really automate a lot of work, and that’s kind of what we see over and over,” Cherny said during a recent episode of “Lenny’s podcast.”Host Lenny Rachitsky told Cherny that he heard one of the principles is, “What’s better than doing something? Having Claude do it.”Cherny said one of his other principles is “underfunding things a little bit,” because it forces his team to really rely on AI tools like Claude.”There’s this interesting thing when you…