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WASHINGTON (AP) — Most of America “springs forward” Sunday for daylight saving time. Losing that hour of sleep can do more than leave you tired and cranky the next day; it also could harm your health.Darker mornings and more evening light knock your body clock out of whack — which means daylight saving time can usher in sleep trouble for weeks or longer. Studies have even found an uptick in heart attacks and strokes right after the March time change.There are ways to ease the adjustment, including getting more sunshine to help reset your circadian rhythm for healthful sleep.When does…
Americans age 65 and older who are insured by Medicare logged about 60 million telehealth visits annually between 2021 and 2023 – about 31 million for mental health and 29 million for other health issues. That’s the key finding in a new study I co-authored in the journal Annals of Internal Medicine.We also found that people with Medicare coverage who used telehealth services were generally in poorer health and faced more physical and functional limitations in their daily life, compared with their counterparts who only had medical appointments in person.To get at these numbers, we analyzed a national survey called…
City Detect, a company that uses vision AI to help local governments monitor the health of buildings and neighborhoods, announced on Friday a $13 million Series A round led by Prudence Venture Capital. The startup launched in 2021, and Gavin Baum-Blake, the remaining co-founder, serves as CEO. He said the company was founded in part because cities were struggling to deal with “urban blight and decay.” The idea was to use advanced computer vision and AI technology to help cities track and fix such problems. City Detect mounts cameras on public vehicles like garbage trucks and street sweepers, captures photos…
Meta is now allowing rival AI companies to provide their chatbots on WhatsApp to Brazilian users for a fee, a day after the company confirmed a similar decision for users in Europe. Earlier this week, Brazil’s antitrust regulator CADE ruled against Meta and rejected its appeal to block an earlier order to suspend its policy change that seeks to bar third-party AI chatbots on WhatsApp. “Upon reviewing the case, the CADE Tribunal determined that the necessary requirements for maintaining the preventive measure were present. According to the case rapporteur, Councilor Carlos Jacques, there is evidence of legal plausibility, considering the relevance…
(This is an excerpt of the Health Rounds newsletter, where we present latest medical studies on Tuesdays and Thursdays.)March 6 (Reuters) – New findings could help explain why Alzheimer’s dementia often progresses faster in women and may lead to fresh avenues of research and future treatments, researchers said.Alzheimer’s disease is marked by abnormal amounts of tau protein in the brain that disrupt communication between brain cells and contribute to cognitive decline.Some patients also have abnormal clumping of a protein associated with Parkinson’s disease called alpha-synuclein.Among patients with Alzheimer’s disease and elevated brain levels of both proteins, brain changes occurred up…
For years, Miami has been cast as Silicon Valley’s pandemic-era escape hatch — a sunny refuge for tech billionaires and crypto founders fleeing California.New data, however, suggests the story is more complicated. Rather than a one-way exodus, the relationship between the two hubs has settled into a steady, two-way exchange of talent and capital.The pipeline between them first began to gain traction during the pandemic, and the number of tech workers in Miami overall has continued to grow through 2025.Palantir, which was based in Palo Alto before moving to Denver in 2020, relocated its headquarters to Miami in February. Citadel…
Anthropic’s feud with the Department of Defense is more than a contract dispute. It’s a preview of a looming power struggle between elected governments and increasingly powerful AI companies. Loading audio narration… CEO Dario Amodei refused to let the Pentagon use Anthropic’s AI for “any lawful purpose,” worrying it could enable domestic surveillance or autonomous weapons. That stance could have barred certain military uses even if the government deemed them legal, according to Jessica Tillipman, a government contracts expert at George Washington Law School.This is an example of a potential future in which AI CEOs, not democratically elected leaders, decide…
2026-03-06T09:30:01.269Z 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. I went to ClawCon in New York, a gathering for fans of Peter Steinberger’s open-source AI agent OpenClaw. The event was packed full of AI fans looking to network and debate about LLM models. “People in this room probably are not developers,” organizer Michael Galpert said. “Their agents are…
After sparring with an X user over an investment loss, billionaire investor Chamath Palihapitiya offered to fund the user’s daughters’ college accounts. Loading audio narration… In an X post on Thursday evening, Palihapitiya wrote: “This guy clapped at me. I clapped back. We then spoke.””I also think he was very mature in how he internalized our conversation. Onwards!” he said, adding that he “funded his two daughters’ college accounts.”The back-and-forth began after an X user 0xParabolic_ criticized Palihapitiya over a losing investment.In an X post responding to the attention the exchange received, the user wrote: “a lot of people saw…
For years, China’s top graduates chased jobs in finance and tech. Now, many are heading into manufacturing and energy instead.Employment data from Tsinghua University — one of China’s top tertiary institutions — published on its website on Tuesday shows the number of graduates entering the manufacturing and energy sectors rose 19.1% year over year for the class of 2025.Top employers for this year’s Tsinghua graduates include Huawei, BYD, State Grid Corporation of China, and China National Nuclear Corporation, the university said.Huawei is a global telecom equipment giant, while BYD is one of the world’s biggest electric-vehicle makers. State Grid runs…