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As American Heart Month gets underway, experts are warning that heart issues during pregnancy could set the stage for future risks from stroke and heart attack.Cardiovascular disease during pregnancy is the leading cause of pregnancy-related death in the United States, according to the American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists (ACOG).It also raises a woman’s lifetime risk of future cardiovascular problems, including stroke, heart attack and high blood pressure by 60% or more depending on the type of pregnancy complication, according to a recent analysis by the American Heart Association (AHA).Obesity crisis is worsening heart disease risks during and after pregnancy: Experts “Pregnancy is…
2026-02-16T21:55:23.591Z Share Copy link Email Facebook WhatsApp X LinkedIn Bluesky Threads lighning bolt icon An icon in the shape of a lightning bolt. Impact Link Save Saved Read in app This story is available exclusively to Business Insider subscribers. Become an Insider and start reading now. Have an account? Log in. Apple is rolling out a new video podcast experience to rival YouTube and Spotify. It’ll allow Apple Podcasts users to able to switch seamlessly between audio and video. The rollout is expected to take place this spring. Apple is making a bigger push into video podcasts as the medium…
Gabriel Vasquez, a partner at Andreessen Horowitz, recently revealed he took nine flights from NYC to Stockholm in one year. That wasn’t just to visit Lovable, a portfolio company, but also to look for other future Swedish unicorns before they cross the Atlantic. This all came to light when news emerged that a16z had led a $2.3 million pre-seed round into Dentio, a Swedish startup that uses AI to help dentists’ practices with admin work. While this is a small check for a firm that just announced new funds totaling $15 billion, it confirms that U.S. VCs are actively seeking…
Edie Leong for The Washington Post via Getty Images 2026-02-16T17:12:04.157Z Share Copy link Email Facebook WhatsApp X LinkedIn Bluesky Threads lighning bolt icon An icon in the shape of a lightning bolt. Impact Link Save Saved Read in app This story is available exclusively to Business Insider subscribers. Become an Insider and start reading now. Have an account? Log in. Tesla eliminated the option to purchase Full Self-Driving with a one-time fee over the weekend. Previously, Tesla offered FSD as an $8,000 one-time purchase option. Musk has said he plans to hike FSD subscription prices as its capabilities improve. Tesla…
The co-founders of startup Ricursive Intelligence seemed destined to be co-founders. Anna Goldie, CEO, and Azalia Mirhoseini, CTO, are so well-known in the AI community that they were among those AI engineers who “got those weird emails from Zuckerberg making crazy offers to us,” Goldie told TechCrunch, chuckling. (They didn’t take the offers.) The pair worked at Google Brain together and were early employees at Anthropic. They earned acclaim at Google by creating the Alpha Chip — an AI tool that could generate solid chip layouts in hours — a process that normally takes human designers a year or more.…
OpenClaw creator Peter Steinberger joined OpenAI, according to an X post by Sam Altman on February 15. But before that, Steinberger got feedback on his product from Mark Zuckerberg.OpenClaw is an open-source AI agent that can autonomously handle tasks like managing email, booking flights, and interacting with apps and services on a user’s behalf. “Many people are calling this one of the biggest moments in the recent history of AI, since the launch of ChatGPT in November 2022,” Lex Fridman said about OpenClaw on the February 11 episode of his podcast, where he interviewed Steinberger.Steinberger discussed acquisition offers from both…
OpenAI announced on Sunday it had hired Peter Steinberger, the creator of OpenClaw. Within hours, the news sent ripples across the AI community, drawing praise from some executives, jabs from rivals, and a flood of memes from engineers watching the talent wars unfold.Steinberger wrote in a blog post shared on X Sunday that he was “joining OpenAI to work on bringing agents to everyone.”OpenAI CEO Sam Altman amplified the news, writing that “the future is going to be extremely multi-agent.”Peter Steinberger is joining OpenAI to drive the next generation of personal agents. He is a genius with a lot of…
A bride left wedding guests stunned and many in tears after revealing that the stem cell donor who saved her life was standing among them.As Kaedi Cecala stood beside her husband, Mikey Cecala, the couple exchanged vows surrounded by family and friends gathered to celebrate their wedding.Moments after the officiant pronounced them married, Kaedi Cecala shared a surprise years in the making, introducing the man whose selfless act gave her a second chance at life.”So this is living proof that angels do exist,” Mikey Cecala began the introduction.ABC News’ Trevor Ault helps save stranger’s life as a stem cell donorIn…
Sundar Pichai has had a meteoric rise since joining Google as a 31-year-old product manager in 2004.In the 11 years that followed his first steps on the Googleplex, Pichai was promoted four times, eventually becoming the CEO of Google in 2015. In that role, he was responsible for the company’s core businesses and cash cow — and did a good enough job that, in December 2019, he was promoted one more time, replacing Google cofounder Larry Page as the CEO of Alphabet, Google’s parent company.Since then, he has led the almost-$2-trillion company through the pandemic, layoffs, and the AI renaissance that’s…
Curious Kids is a series for children of all ages. If you have a question you’d like an expert to answer, send it to CuriousKidsUS@theconversation.com.How do people know their interests? For example, one person likes art and the other does not, but how and why does that happen? – Leia K., age 12, Redmond, WashingtonStanding at 5 feet 3 inches tall and weighing 136 pounds, Muggsy Bogues did not fit the typical profile of a National Basketball Association athlete when he played professionally from 1987 to 2001. The average NBA player during Bogues’ rookie season was 6 feet 7 inches…