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College football’s February signing period is pretty much an afterthought for most schools nowadays, but it meant plenty to new Penn State coach Matt Campbell.Penn State signed only two high school recruits during the December signing period because the Nittany Lions hadn’t yet hired Campbell away from Iowa State. That left Campbell quite busy trying to put together a freshman class while also working the transfer portal and hiring his staff.“The last two months has been a whirlwind in a multitude of different ways,” Campbell said Wednesday.Penn State now has an incoming freshman class of 15 recruits, and most of…
Anthropic is taking a shot at OpenAI on the biggest stage possible.On Wednesday, Anthropic rolled out a glitzy ad campaign that will air nationally during Sunday’s Super Bowl, which implicitly centers on OpenAI’s plans to bring advertising to ChatGPT.”Ads are coming to AI. But not to Claude,” the tag line reads.The declaration shows that Anthropic is willing to draw a line in the sand with its no-AI-ads-in-chatbots stance. But the move also means Anthropic is declining to pursue a potentially key revenue stream for Claude at a time when AI companies are spending more than ever in the AI race.With…
Voice AI company ElevenLabs said today it raised $500 million in a new funding round led by Sequoia Capital, which was an investor in the startup’s last secondary round through a tender. Sequoia partner Andrew Reed is joining the company’s board. The startup is now valued at $11 billion, more than three times its valuation in its last round in January 2025. Earlier in the year, the Financial Times reported that the startup was looking to raise at that valuation. The company said that existing investor a16z quadrupled its investment amount, and Iconiq, which led the last round, tripled it.…
Recently, the German term “lüften” has been circulating on social media and trending on Google. The term refers to the practice of opening windows and doors to replace stale indoor air with outdoor air, a longtime practice in many European homes. Americans have dubbed it “house burping” in many videos on Instagram, TikTok and YouTube.William Bahnfleth, a professor of architectural engineering at Penn State, has personal and professional experience with lüften. He spoke to The Conversation’s Pittsburgh Editor Cassandra Stone about the science behind it and how Pittsburgh homeowners can best navigate the “house burping” trend.What does “lüften” actually mean…
Medicare has launched a six-year pilot program that could eventually transform access to health care for some of the millions of people across the U.S. who rely on it for their health insurance coverage.Traditional Medicare is a government-administered insurance plan for people over 65 or with disabilities. About half of the 67 million Americans insured through Medicare have this coverage. The rest have Medicare Advantage plans administered by private companies.The pilot program, dubbed the Wasteful and Inappropriate Service Reduction Model, is an experimental program that began to affect people enrolled in traditional Medicare from six states in January 2026.During this…
Google has had a great run since its last earnings report. Can it last?That’s the big question ahead of the tech giant’s earnings report this afternoon. BI’s Hugh Langley, our resident Google expert, breaks down what you need to look out for in the numbers and on the call.Google has been on a three-month tear since its last check-in, launching Gemini 3 to much fanfare and joining the $4 trillion market-cap club. The string of successes put it at the front of the highly competitive AI race.(A quick aside on these arbitrary rankings. You could argue Nvidia’s the biggest winner…
If you want healthy food, experts say to eat what’s local, organic and in-season. Those foods benefit the planet too, because they are less taxing on the soil and they don’t travel as far.It doesn’t get more local, organic and in-season than a backyard vegetable garden.At this time of year, many backyards across the country are still covered in snow. But it’s the perfect time to start planning for a garden because you’ll want to have supplies ready to start planting just after the last frost date in your area.Below are some tips on how to plan a backyard garden…
Alexa+, Amazon’s upgraded, generative AI-powered version of its Alexa assistant, is available to all U.S. customers as of Wednesday. The company said that the AI feature will be free to Prime members across devices. Meanwhile, anyone can use Alexa+ for free via the Alexa website or mobile app, with some limitations. “We have tens of millions of customers using Alexa+ now, and now we’re going to make it available to all Prime members…Prime members enjoy unlimited access — it’s basically a paid tier level of access that we’re including in Prime now,” notes Daniel Rausch, VP of Alexa and Echo…
While advertising and targeting have become increasingly personalized, the website — the final destination for that traffic — has remained largely static. Fibr AI aims to bridge that gap by using AI agents to turn generic webpages into one-to-one experiences tailored to each visitor, a thesis that has prompted Accel to double down on the company. Accel has led Fibr AI’s $5.7 million seed round following an earlier $1.8 million pre-seed investment in 2024. The fresh funding also included participation from WillowTree Ventures and MVP Ventures, alongside Fortune 100 operators joining as angel investors and advisors, bringing the startup’s total…
Feb 4 (Reuters) – Some cancer therapies may be more effective when given earlier in the day, aligning treatment with the body’s natural rhythms, a Chinese study found, confirming earlier evidence.Researchers randomly assigned 210 patients with newly diagnosed advanced non-small cell lung cancer to receive four treatments with Merck’s Keytruda and Eli Lilly’s Tyvyt, either before or after 3 p.m.In the group that received treatment before 3 p.m., tumors remained under control for a median 11.3 months, whereas they began to progress at a median 5.7 months in patients treated after 3 p.m.Median overall survival was 28 months with earlier…