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By Patrick Wingrove(Reuters) -Novo Nordisk said an older version of its weight-loss drug semaglutide failed to meet its main goal in late-stage trials testing whether the medicine can slow cognitive decline in Alzheimer’s patients.The results is a blow to hopes that Alzheimer’s could open a major new market for GLP-1 medicines such as semaglutide, as Novo faces rising competition to its blockbuster drugs in its core treatment areas of obesity and diabetes.The drug tested was Rybelsus, a pill approved only for type 2 diabetes. Like Novo’s blockbusters Ozempic and Wegovy, it contains semaglutide.Here are some of the other conditions the…
Salesforce CEO Marc Benioff says he’s ditching OpenAI’s ChatGPT for Google’s newest AI model, Gemini 3 — calling it an “insane” leap forward in reasoning, speed, and multimodal capabilities.”Holy shit,” Benioff wrote on X on Sunday. “I’ve used ChatGPT every day for 3 years. Just spent 2 hours on Gemini 3. I’m not going back. The leap is insane — reasoning, speed, images, video… everything is sharper and faster. It feels like the world just changed, again.”Benioff’s reaction quickly went viral, racking up more than one million views as of early Monday morning. It adds to a growing chorus of…
GitHub CEO Thomas Dohmke stepped down a few months ago. He’s getting back into the arena now.Dohmke was just tapped as a strategic advisor to Apiiro, a startup that helps organizations monitor the security of their apps and codebases.He’ll focus on helping Apiiro develop new protections for AI-generated software code.As more AI coding tools churn out code, there’s concern that this could make codebases more vulnerable to hacks and other cybersecurity risks.Dohmke said developers now often use multiple AI coding agents, and these tools don’t necessarily know all the policies, rules, and safeguards that their employers have set up to…
As you age, you gradually lose muscle mass and gain visceral body fat, a type of fat deep inside your body that surrounds your heart, kidneys and other organs. Now, scientists say the ratio of visceral fat to muscle can uncover clues about your brain health.People with higher muscle mass and a lower visceral fat-to-muscle ratio tend to have younger brains, according to research being presented next week at the annual meeting of the Radiological Society of North America.“We know that the age of a person, in terms of their appearance, might not match with their chronological age,” said senior…
LAGOS, Nigeria (AP) — Nigeria has been rocked by two mass abductions from schools in the past week, with over 300 children taken by armed gangs in the conflict-battered north.A tally by The Associated Press shows at least 1,799 students have been seized in a dozen of the largest abductions since the 2014 Chibok attack in which Boko Haram militants seized 276 schoolgirls, sparking global outrage. Most of the children have been released, many after ransoms were paid. Others have escaped.Here is a timeline of major abductions of students in Nigeria:April 14, 2014Members of the Islamic militant group Boko Haram…
FRANKFURT (Reuters) -Shares in Bayer jumped more than 8% on Monday after initial clinical trial results turned around the fortunes of a key cardiovascular drug that suffered a major development setback two years ago.The German diversified group said on Sunday that a combination therapy with its asundexian drug candidate significantly reduced the risk of ischemic stroke when compared with placebo in patients who had previously suffered a stroke or similar blocked blood vessels in the brain.At the end of 2023, the company suffered a major setback with the promising blood thinner candidate when it failed in a clinical trial involving…
Max Altman’s career advice: Focus on picking the fastest-growing company.On an episode of the “20VC” podcast published on Sunday, Altman said that tech once became too focused on prioritizing mission over “winning.””I say, don’t care about the product. Don’t care about anything, just go work at the fastest growing company,” the venture capitalist said. “Because winning feels great. It feels amazing.”Altman is the cofounder of Saga, a $125 million venture fund that launched last March. Its investments include defense tech startup Anduril, Reddit, and Rippling. He is the younger brother of OpenAI CEO Sam Altman and the older brother of…
Elon Musk’s X played a starring role in another weekend internet kerfuffle.It began when Nikita Bier, X’s head of product, posted on Saturday that the platform had rolled out a change intended to increase transparency: an “About This Account” page that, among other things, reveals the country or region where a user’s account is based. The company announced plans for the feature in October.”This is an important first step to securing the integrity of the global town square. We plan to provide many more ways for users to verify the authenticity of the content they see on X,” Bier wrote…
A Washington state resident believed to be the first person to be infected with a rare strain of bird flu has died, state health officials announced.The person — an older adult with underlying health conditions — was undergoing treatment for H5N5 avian influenza, according to the Washington State Department of Health. The person, who had been hospitalized in King County since early November, died on Nov. 21, health officials said.The patient was from Grays Harbor County, over 100 miles southwest of Seattle, and had a backyard flock of “mixed” domestic poultry that were exposed to wild birds, according to health…
Every influential scientist has an origin story — and the “Godmother of AI” is no different.Fei-Fei Li, a Stanford professor best known for her work on ImageNet, is now the founder of World Labs, a one-year-old AI startup that’s already valued at over $1 billion.Her start, however, was far more humble.Li immigrated to the United States from China at the age of 15 and helped her parents run a dry-cleaning business in Parsippany, New Jersey, to make ends meet.”We were not financially very well off at all. My parents were doing cashier jobs and I was doing Chinese restaurant jobs,”…