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NEW YORK (AP) — The MacArthur Foundation is awarding $100 million to a private pandemic prevention network across Africa, offering critical support to infectious disease surveillance at a time when governments are reducing global health spending.It was announced Tuesday that Sentinel — a project that creates cost-effective pathogen detection tests, monitors outbreaks with real-time tracking tools and trains local scientists to carry out community-led responses — won the MacArthur Foundation’s 100&Change competition.Sentinel reports training more than 3,000 public health workers from 53 of Africa’s 54 countries. The award money will help expand its geographic reach over the next five years,…

2025-11-18T16:05:06.346Z Share Facebook Email X LinkedIn Reddit Bluesky WhatsApp Copy link 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. Anthropic is spending $30 billion on Microsoft Azure compute powered by Nvidia chips to help scale its Claude AI model. In return, Anthropic will receive up to $5 billion from Microsoft and $10 billion from Nvidia. The announcement comes as Wall Street continues to show uneasiness about the future…

Google’s Gemini 3 is here — and you can start playing with it right away.The search giant said its new AI model, which will be widely available on Tuesday, takes a “massive jump” in reasoning, is more creative than Gemini 2, and is better able to combine text, image, and video.For Google, the weight of expectations hangs heavy on Gemini 3. After GPT-5’s modest arrival earlier this year, the pressure has been on for Google to deliver something much better. It’s also an opportunity for Google to reassert itself as an AI leader and cement a turnaround that’s been three…

On Tuesday, Google released Gemini 3, its latest and most advanced foundation model, which is now immediately available through the Gemini app and AI search interface. Coming just seven months after the Gemini 2.5 release, the new model is Google’s most capable LLM yet, and an immediate contender for the most capable AI tool on the market. The release also comes less than a week after OpenAI released GPT 5.1, and a mere two months after Anthropic released Sonnet 4.5 — a reminder of the blistering pace of frontier model development. A more research-intensive version of the model, called Gemini…

CAIRO (AP) — A few weeks before the fall of her hometown to Sudan’s paramilitary group, Nadra Mohamed Ahmed, seven months pregnant at the time, trekked for nearly 40 kilometers (25 miles) across unsafe roads, along with her two children, until she found safe transportation to a shelter across the country.“By the time I arrived here, I had lost a lot of blood,” said Ahmed from her tent at the overcrowded displacement camp in the town of al-Dabbah in northern Sudan. “I was admitted to the ICU, where I spent a few days and had a blood transfusion.”Ahmed arrived in…

BIRMINGHAM, Ala. (AP) — Facing a public backlash, the commission that oversees Alabama Public Television voted Tuesday to continue paying its contract with PBS, rejecting an effort — at least for now — to be the first state to cut ties with the broadcast giant because of politics and federal budget cuts.The Alabama Educational Television Commission voted without dissent to honor the contract with PBS that runs until July. The commission also voted to create a committee to explore the direction of Alabama Public Television. A motion to give the required 180-day nonrenewal notice, the first step to cutting ties…

CLARYVILLE, N.Y. (AP) — Autoimmune diseases like lupus, myositis and forms of arthritis can strike children, too. At a sleepaway camp in upstate New York, some young patients got a chance to just be kids.That’s how a 12-year-old recently diagnosed with lupus found himself laughing on a high-ropes course as fellow campers hoisted him into the air.“It’s really fun,” said Dylan Aristy Mota, thrilled he was offered this rite of childhood along with the reassurance that doctors were on site. If “anything else pops up, they can catch it faster than if we had to wait til we got home.”Autoimmune…

A doctor advising … sleepaway camp? That’s how a 12-year-old diagnosed with lupus found himself laughing on a high-ropes course as fellow campers hoisted him into the air.“It’s really fun,” said Dylan Aristy Mota, thrilled that he got a chance at the rite of childhood — thanks to doctors reassuring his mom that they’d be at this upstate New York camp, too. Dylan felt good knowing if “anything else pops up, they can catch it faster than if we had to wait til we got home.”It may sound surprising but diseases like lupus, myositis and some forms of arthritis —…

TALLAHASSEE, Fla. (AP) — At 100 years old, Lee Grant knows the cost of McCarthyism better than almost anyone else on the planet.One of the last surviving actors to be blacklisted during the anti-communist Red Scare, the Academy Award-winning performer is speaking out against Florida’s new social studies teaching standards, which critics have warned are aimed at rewriting one of the most repressive chapters in American history.“It’s a lie and a distortion of the truth of history,” Grant said in an interview with The Associated Press.In 1951, Grant’s star was on the rise. But just as her career was taking…

As part of Microsoft’s Ignite conference, Stack Overflow on Tuesday revealed a new set of products that aims to position it as a valuable part of the enterprise AI stack. This new version of the company, built around the Stack Overflow Internal enterprise product, looks to remake its classic problem-solving forum into a tool for translating human expertise into an AI-accessible format. At its simplest, Stack Overflow Internal is an enterprise version of the web forum, but with the additional security and admin controls you’d expect. The new tools are specifically designed to feed into internal AI agents using the…