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Nvidia’s blockbuster earnings just blew a hole through Wall Street’s AI bubble anxieties.Analysts said the chipmaker’s third-quarter results prove the AI boom is nowhere near running out of steam.On Wednesday, Nvidia posted $57 billion in revenue, topping Wall Street’s $55 billion estimates. Its data center division generated revenue of $51 billion, surpassing the $49.31 billion analysts had projected. The company reported earnings of $1.30 per share compared to the $1.26 estimate. It also forecast $65 billion in revenue for the fourth quarter, exceeding analysts’ expectations of $61.98 billion.Nvidia’s stock rose more than 5% in premarket trading on Thursday.”Fears of an…

The man behind some of the biggest televised fights ever wants to see humanoid robots in the ring next.Ari Emanuel, the entertainment boss overseeing the WWE and UFC as CEO of TKO Group Holdings, went on the “Invest Like the Best with Patrick O’Shaughnessy,” where he spoke about the future of live events. Emanuel was also asked about his friendship with Elon Musk.”I believe in Elon Musk,” Emanuel said.Emanuel said he’s seen the progress of Tesla’s Optimus humanoid robot firsthand. Specifically, its hand movements.Musk has previously said that Tesla has spent a lot of effort trying to develop human-like hands…

Dell’s ambitious bid to overhaul its internal systems for the AI era — a secretive, multi-year effort codenamed “Project Maverick” — has run into delays.Project Maverick’s mission is to simplify and modernize the company’s complex IT sprawl, a step that’s seen as “critical” for Dell’s AI strategy and future success, according to internal documents first seen by Business Insider in September.Dell’s plan was to decommission most backend systems in one of its two main divisions on February 1, with the second main division to follow in May.Those plans have been pushed back to May and August, according to an internal…

After spending two college semesters in northern Thailand, Sarah Jongsma found herself back home in the rural Nevada town where she grew up, surrounded by everything familiar yet feeling strangely out of place.“It caught me off guard,” she said. “I didn’t know what was going on.”Only later, after a summer studying in India and while preparing to go to France for another semester abroad, did Jongsma understand what she had been feeling: reverse culture shock.The 22-year-old’s experience shows that studying abroad can be challenging in unexpected ways. Experts say that’s why students need to study up on not only safety…

DALLAS (AP) — When it became clear to high school theater teacher Gigi Cervantes that she couldn’t ignore a new state law requiring the Ten Commandments to be posted in her Texas classroom, she felt she had no choice. She resigned from the job she loved.“I just was not going to be a part of forcing or imposing religious doctrine onto my students,” she said.Texas is undertaking the nation’s largest attempt to hang the Ten Commandments in public schools, and in the rush to navigate the Republican-led mandate that took effect in September, the rollout has forced some districts to…

(Reuters) -The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention updated its website on Wednesday to say that claims about vaccines not causing ​autism are not “evidence-based.”Vaccine skeptic and U.S. Health and ‌Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. as well as U.S. President Donald Trump have promoted ‌the theory – contrary to scientific evidence – that childhood vaccines are a cause of autism. But the CDC’s website previously said “studies have shown there is no link between receiving vaccines and developing autism spectrum disorder.”As of Wednesday night the agency’s website ⁠states: “The claim ‌’vaccines do not cause autism’ is not…

Sometimes, the immune system runs amok and attacks the organ that makes us “us” — the brain. It’s called autoimmune encephalitis but one California man dubbed it his “year of unraveling.”Christy Morrill went for a bike ride with friends, stopping for lunch — and no one noticed anything wrong until Morrill’s wife asked how the outing went. He’d forgotten. And he would get worse before he got better.Of all the ways autoimmune diseases can damage the body instead of protecting it, hijacking the brain is one of the most bizarre. Seemingly healthy people can abruptly spiral with confusion, memory loss,…

“My year of unraveling” is how a despairing Christy Morrill described nightmarish months when his immune system hijacked his brain.What’s called autoimmune encephalitis attacks the organ that makes us “us,” and it can appear out of the blue.Morrill went for a bike ride with friends along the California coast, stopping for lunch, and they noticed nothing wrong. Neither did Morrill until his wife asked how it went — and he’d forgotten. Morrill would get worse before he got better. “Unhinged” and “fighting to see light,” he wrote as delusions set in and holes in his memory grew.Of all the ways…

A strain of bird flu never seen in humans infected a Washington state resident and left the person hospitalized, according to state health authorities.Washington State Department of Health authorities announced that an older resident was hospitalized in early November with flu-like symptoms. Health department spokesperson Roberto Bonaccorso told USA TODAY on Nov. 19 that the person remains hospitalized. The person has underlying health conditions and keeps backyard poultry that were exposed to wild birds.According to health department officials, the person is the first to be infected with influenza A H5, an avian flu. The risk to the public from bird…

Mercedes and Leon Wells, a Black couple from Illinois, are speaking out after they claimed they had to deliver their daughter on the side of the road on Sunday after they were discharged from Franciscan Health Crown Point Hospital in Indiana while Mercedes Wells was in active labor.The couple opened up about their experience in a Wednesday interview with ABC News Live anchor Kyra Phillips, where they were joined by their newborn daughter, Alena, and their attorney.Mercedes Wells claimed that she was at the hospital for about six hours and was only seen by a nurse, not a doctor. Wells…