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“I’ll worry about my heart health when I’m older.”That may be too late, doctors warn.While the average age for being diagnosed with heart disease in the United States is typically in the mid-60s for men and early 70s for women, the factors, such as high blood pressure, diabetes and bad cholesterol levels, can start years, sometimes decades, earlier.A new online heart risk calculator could help younger adults learn whether they’re likely to develop heart disease, as much as 30 years in the future, according to a study published in the Journal of the American College of Cardiology on Monday. That’s…
Novo Nordisk is cutting the out-of-pocket prices of its popular weight-loss drug Wegovy and diabetes drug Ozempic for some consumers.Current customers who pay for the drugs out of pocket — without the help of health insurance — will now be charged $349 per month, down from $499, the Danish drugmaker said Monday.Novo Nordisk also announced that it will charge $199 per month for new patients who pay for the drugs out of pocket, with the offer covering two months of the treatments. After that, the cost of the drugs will rise to $349 per month. The introductory $199 offer will…
If you pay attention to what the biggest tech companies are saying about AI demand, you’ll notice a common thread: they’re running short of compute capacity. That means the large language models underpinning AI products today need even more data centers to be trained and for inferencing, and therefore, they need more power. Against that backdrop, energy efficiency has suddenly become a critical priority for semiconductor manufacturers. PowerLattice, a startup founded by veteran electrical engineers from Qualcomm, NUVIA, and Intel in 2023, claims to have developed a groundbreaking approach that reduces the power needs of computer chips by more than…
Amazon’s founder Jeff Bezos seems to be getting his hands dirty once again: The billionaire is partly backing a new AI startup called Project Prometheus that has raised $6.2 billion in funding, and will take on duties as co-chief executive of the new venture, The New York Times reported, citing several sources familiar with the project. Bezos will share the position with Vik Bajaj, who previously led and co-founded Google’s life sciences division. Bajaj also co-founded Verily, a biotech startup owned by Alphabet, and is the co-founder of Foresite Labs, an AI-focused affiliate of investment firm Foresite Capital, though the…
Since entering the public eye, Priscilla Chan has transformed from a medical student to the cofounder of a widely recognized philanthropy.She, alongside her husband, Mark Zuckerberg, has used social media to share glimpses into her life as both their family and business ventures expand.Here’s a look at Chan’s life and career.Chan grew up in Massachusetts, where she played tennis and joined her high school’s robotics clubChan is the daughter of Chinese refugee parents who fled to the US from Vietnam before she was born. She was born in February 1985 in Massachusetts.”Growing up, my first job was to be a…
Three years ago, Luminal co-founder Joe Fioti was working on chip design at Intel when he came to a realization. While he was working on making the best chips he could, the more important bottleneck was in software. “You can make the best hardware on earth, but if it’s hard for developers to use, they’re just not going to use it,” he told me. Now, he’s started a company that focuses entirely on that problem. On Monday, Luminal announced $5.3 million in seed funding, in a round led by Felicis Ventures with angel investment from Paul Graham, Guillermo Rauch, and…
On Monday, a new Model Context Protocol security startup called Runlayer launched out of stealth with $11 million in seed funding from Khosla Ventures’ Keith Rabois and Felicis. It was created by third-time founder Andrew Berman (previous companies: baby-monitor maker Nanit and an AI video conferencing tool, Vowel, that sold to Zapier in 2024). In the four months since Runlayer launched its product in stealth, it has signed dozens of customers, including eight unicorns or public companies like Gusto, Rippling, dbt Labs, Instacart, Opendoor, and Ramp, it says. It also nabbed David Soria Parra, the lead creator of MCP, as an…
Novo Nordisk is chopping prices again for its popular obesity treatment Wegovy, but doctors say the expense will remain challenging for patients without insurance.The drugmaker said Monday that it has started selling higher doses of the injectable treatment for $349 a month to patients paying the full bill. That’s down from $499 and in line with terms of a drug pricing agreement outlined earlier this month by President Donald Trump’s administration.Novo also has started a temporary offer of $199 a month for the first two months of low doses of Wegovy and the drug’s counterpart for diabetes, Ozempic. The new…
The Rev. Jesse Jackson Sr. is in stable condition despite remaining hospitalized, his family said in a statement on Nov. 16.Jackson, 84, was admitted to a hospital on Nov. 12 under observation for progressive supranuclear palsy, the Rainbow PUSH Coalition, his civil rights organization, said in a statement.In the Nov. 16 statement, Jackson’s family dispelled reports that the civil rights leader is on life support and confirmed that he is breathing without the assistance of machines at Northwestern Memorial Hospital in Chicago.”In fact, today he called for 2,000 churches to prepare 2,000 baskets of food to prevent malnutrition during the…
Peter Thiel’s hedge fund sold its entire stake in Nvidia in the third quarter, according to a 13F filing.Thiel Macro LLC sold all of its 537,742 shares in the chipmaker, per the filing, which were valued at about $85 million at the end of the second quarter.Those shares would have been worth about $100 million at market close on September 30 — but it is unclear when Thiel’s fund offloaded its stake.It comes hot on the heels of SoftBank disclosing that it sold all of its Nvidia shares during the same quarter.Thiel Macro’s holding was relatively small when compared with…