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Apple has hired Meta’s top lawyer, Jennifer Newstead, as its next general counsel, extending a broader reshuffle of the iPhone maker’s senior ranks.Newstead will join Apple in January as a senior vice president, reporting to CEO Tim Cook, and is set to become general counsel on March 1, 2026, succeeding longtime legal chief Kate Adams, who plans to retire late next year, Apple said in a press release.In the same announcement, Apple said Lisa Jackson, its vice president for Environment, Policy, and Social Initiatives, will retire in late January 2026. Her Government Affairs organization will first move under Adams and…
Elon Musk confirmed on Thursday that Tesla FSD will now let you text while the software drives you around.This is part of a recent FSD update, and the CEO said it allows texting in certain situations.So, I decided to test this out with my 2024 Tesla Model 3, to see how far the system would go and whether it performed under this new scenario.Depending on context of surrounding traffic, yes— Elon Musk (@elonmusk) December 4, 2025 I have a new version of the FSD software, v14.2.1 2025.38.9.6. And I’m using Tesla’s free FSD trial, which it rolled out to millions…
Micro1’s rapid climb over the past two years has pushed it into a cohort of AI companies scaling at breakneck speed. The three-year-old startup, which helps AI labs recruit and manage human experts for training data, started the year with roughly $7 million in annual recurring revenue (ARR). Today, it claims to have surpassed $100 million in ARR, founder and CEO Ali Ansari told TechCrunch. That figure is also more than double the revenue Micro1 reported in September when it announced its $35 million Series A at a $500 million valuation. Ansari, 24, said then that Micro1 works with leading…
The U.S. Food and Drug Administration is warning people to stop using certain types of glucose monitor sensors after the company that makes them, Abbott Diabetes Care, said the devices were linked to seven deaths and more than 700 injuries.Certain FreeStyle Libre 3 and FreeStyle Libre 3 Plus sensors may provide incorrect low glucose readings, FDA officials said this week. Such readings over an extended period may lead people with diabetes to make bad treatment decisions, such as consuming too many carbohydrates or skipping or delaying doses of insulin.“These decisions may pose serious health risks, including potential injury or death,”…
ATLANTA – Federal vaccine advisers selected by Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. delayed until Friday a vote to lift a long-standing recommendation for all newborns to get the hepatitis B vaccine in what would be the most sweeping revision to the childhood vaccine schedule under Kennedy.The advisers heard presentations in the morning – including from two prominent vaccine critics recently hired by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention – casting doubt on the safety and necessity of a three-dose series of hepatitis B vaccines given to babies, despite widespread agreement by medical and public health experts that the…
Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei shared his thoughts on if the AI industry was in a bubble at The New York Times DealBook Summit on Wednesday. This was in addition to throwing shade on one particular unnamed competitor, which was clearly OpenAI. Amodei declined to give a simple yes-or-no answer to the question of a bubble, saying it was a complex situation, but instead explained his thoughts about the economics of AI in more detail. He described himself as bullish on the potential of the technology, but cautioned that there could be players in the ecosystem who might make a “timing…
Jason Kelce is opening up about wife Kylie Kelce’s previous pregnancy loss, crediting his sports family for supporting the couple through their grief journey.The retired Philadelphia Eagles star center shared the comments on Wednesday while receiving the March of Dimes Sports Achievement Award in New York City.”I remember going out to my truck in the middle of practice and meetings, overcome with grief and emotion,” he said, describing it as an “absolutely devastating” time.March of Dimes – PHOTO: Jason and Kylie Kelce appear at the March of Dimes 42nd Annual New York Sports Luncheon, on Dec. 3, 2025, in New…
Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s influential vaccine advisory panel on Thursday delayed a vote for a second time on whether to change the timing of the first dose of the hepatitis B vaccine for newborns.The advisory panel remade by Kennedy, a vaccine skeptic, was scheduled to change the current recommendation that infants get the first of three hepatitis B vaccine doses within 24 hours of birth, alarming health experts who say there’s no evidence for the adjustments.But during a contentious and confusing meeting on Thursday, the Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices members debated the wording of…
By Nancy LapidDec 4 (Reuters) – Vaccine advisers to U.S. Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. were expected to vote on Thursday on whether to scrap a broad recommendation for the hepatitis B vaccine for children, a move that would leave the choice to parents in most cases.The U.S. vaccine panel has proposed that only infants born to mothers who test positive for hepatitis B would be recommended to get the vaccine. It would represent the most significant change to date in national immunization policy under Kennedy, who has long promoted anti-vaccine views.However, the committee voted 6 to 3 to…
Meta is planning budget cuts and considering job cuts as part of that across its metaverse unit, according to a person familiar with the matter.The company is considering budget cuts of up to 30% within its Reality Labs division, which could impact employees working on its virtual spaces platform, Horizon Worlds, according to the person Business Insider spoke to. The person requested anonymity because they’re not authorized to speak to the press on these matters.Bloomberg earlier reported on the potential cuts.The news follows a meeting last month at Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg’s Hawaii compound, where he discussed strategy and next…