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Novo Nordisk says it still thinks GLP-1 drugs could be a promising treatment for Alzheimer’s, despite two major trials last month that found an older drug similar to Ozempic had no effect in slowing early-stage disease.While GLP-1 drugs have become synonymous with dramatic weight loss, they’ve also become one of the most closely watched experimental approaches for slowing Alzheimer’s, a disease with few treatment options.That’s why Novo Nordisk’s announcement last month that it discontinued two large trials — evoke and evoke+ — was viewed as a major setback for Alzheimer’s researchers and patient advocates.“This is not what we hoped for,”…
Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei just roasted OpenAI and Google on low heat — with a sprinkle of salt.OpenAI CEO Sam Altman this week declared a “code red” at his company after Google, one of its chief rivals in the AI race, released Gemini 3 to much fanfare. Google had earlier announced its own “code red” when ChatGPT launched three years ago.Amodei, however, told Andrew Ross Sorkin at The New York Times Dealbook Summit on Wednesday that his company has felt no need to proclaim such emergencies.”We have a little bit of a privileged position where we can just keep growing…
Amazon Web Services’ annual tech conference AWS re:Invent has wrapped up another day with a deluge of product news and keynotes — plus the obligatory customer success stories. The unsurprising theme is AI for the enterprise. This year it’s all about upgrades that give customers greater control to customize AI agents, including one that AWS claims can learn from you and then work independently for days. AWS re:Invent 2025, which runs through December 5, started with a keynote from AWS CEO Matt Garman, who leaned into the idea that AI agents can unlock the “true value” of AI. “AI assistants…
Alan Dye, the design executive who led Apple’s user interface team for the last decade, is leaving the company to join Meta, according to a report from Bloomberg’s Mark Gurman. This is a significant hire for Meta, as the company makes a push toward consumer devices like smart glasses and virtual reality headsets. Dye will focus on improving AI features in these devices and report directly to Chief Technology Officer Andrew Bosworth. At Apple, Dye will be replaced by Steve Lemay, who has had “a key role in the design of every major Apple interface since 1999,” according to a…
Meta has hired longtime Apple design leader Alan Dye to run a new creative studio inside its Reality Labs division, CEO Mark Zuckerberg announced in a series of posts on Threads on Tuesday.”Today we’re establishing a new creative studio in Reality Labs led by Alan Dye, who has spent nearly 20 years leading design at Apple,” Zuckerberg wrote on Threads, saying the group will help define “the next generation of our products and experiences.”Zuckerberg said the studio will bring together “design, fashion, and technology” and that Meta wants to “treat intelligence as a new design material and imagine what becomes…
Two best friends in Georgia shared a sweet moment last month, after both were diagnosed with cancer earlier this year.After months of chemotherapy, the two boys, JP and Camilo, finally had the opportunity to ring the bell signaling the end of their respective cancer treatments.What made the moment extra special was that JP waited so he and Camilo could ring their bells together.”I was in my last round of chemo, and I found out that Camilo got cancer and I was like, ‘No matter what, I’m not ringing the bell until Camilo’s done,'” 15-year-old JP explained in a video captured…
The Food and Drug Administration is seeking to drastically change procedures for testing vaccine safety and approving vaccines, based on unproven claims that mRNA-based COVID-19 vaccines caused the death of at least 10 children.The agency detailed its plans in a memo released to staff on Nov. 28, 2025, which was obtained by several news outlets and published by The Washington Post.Citing an internal, unpublished review, the memo, written by the agency’s top vaccine regulator, Vinay Prasad, attributes the children’s deaths to myocarditis, an inflammation of the heart muscle. And it says the deaths were reported to the Vaccine Adverse Event…
Can any company, big or small, really topple Nvidia’s AI chip dominance? Maybe not. But there are hundreds of billions of dollars of revenue for those who can even peel off a chunk of it for themselves, Amazon CEO Andy Jassy said this week. As expected, the company announced during the AWS re:Invent conference the next generation of its Nvidia-competitor AI chip, Trainium3, which is 4x faster yet uses less power than the current Trainium2. Jassy revealed a few tidbits about the current Trainium in a post on X that shows why the company is so bullish on the chip.…
YouTube’s top creator, MrBeast, wants to do more than just appear in videos on your phone. He wants to power your mobile phone service, too.The content creator, who has over 450 million subscribers, is planning to launch a phone business called “Beast Mobile” as one of his company’s next ventures, Beast Industries CEO Jeffrey Housenbold said on Wednesday, speaking at The New York Times’ DealBook Summit.Housenbold’s remarks confirmed Business Insider’s earlier reporting that the YouTuber had ambitions to get into the phone business. MrBeast, whose real name is Jimmy Donaldson, is unlikely to try to build a mobile network from…
WordPress’s experimental AI development tool, Telex, has already been put to real-world use, only months after its September debut. At the company’s annual “State of the Word” event on Tuesday in San Francisco, WordPress project co-founder and Automattic CEO Matt Mullenweg shared several examples where Telex had been used within a working WordPress shop to do things like create price comparisons, price calculators, and pull in real-time business hours plus a map link to a retail store, among examples. Telex, which Mullenweg previously described as a “v0 or Lovable, but specifically for WordPress,” is essentially the publishing platform’s attempt to…