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Coinbase is joining an ever-growing list of companies bidding farewell to Delaware.The cryptocurrency exchange has filed paperwork with the Securities and Exchange Commission to leave Delaware and reincorporate in Texas, its chief legal officer, Paul Grewal, wrote in a column on Wednesday in The Wall Street Journal.Texas has become “an increasingly attractive hub for innovative companies like ours,” Grewal wrote. “It’s a shame that it has come to this, but Delaware has left us with little choice.”Delaware has long been considered one of the country’s most business-friendly states. Nearly 2 million businesses call Delaware their legal home, including more than…
Another day, another pledge from a tech company to invest billions in American AI data centers.Anthropic announced on Wednesday that it’s investing $50 million in AI infrastructure in the US, starting with custom-built data centers in Texas and New York.The company said those projects, built in conjunction with Fluidstack, will create 800 permanent jobs and 2,400 construction jobs, and that sites will come online in 2026.”We’re getting closer to AI that can accelerate scientific discovery and help solve complex problems in ways that weren’t possible before. Realizing that potential requires infrastructure that can support continued development at the frontier,” Anthropic…
(This is an excerpt of the Health Rounds newsletter, where we present latest medical studies on Tuesdays and Thursdays.)By Nancy Lapid(Reuters) -A new testing protocol identifies patients whose chest pain is heart-related even though their main heart arteries look normal during typical exams, according to results of a new study.During the usual coronary angiography testing procedure, patients lie on a table while doctors inject dye into the arteries that carry blood to the heart, looking for places in the larger vessels where flow of the dye is impaired or blocked.“People may have real angina even when the main arteries appear…
WisdomAI, the new AI data analytics startup from Rubrik co-founder Soham Mazumdar, has landed a fresh $50 million Series A led by Kleiner Perkins with participation from new investor NVentures (Nvidia’s venture capital arm). This round comes roughly six months after the startup announced a seed round of $23 million led by Coatue. WisdomAI offers AI-driven data analytics that can answer business questions from structured, unstructured, and even “dirty” data, meaning data that hasn’t been cleaned of typos or errors. A business user simply asks questions in natural language, such as, “How many customers do I have in my pipeline and…
Anthropic on Wednesday said it had signed an ambitious new data center partnership with U.K.-based neocloud provider Fluidstack, committing $50 billion to building facilities across the U.S. to meet its growing compute needs. The data centers will be located in Texas and New York, and come online throughout 2026. The company described the sites as “custom built for Anthropic with a focus on maximizing efficiency for our workloads.” “We’re getting closer to AI that can accelerate scientific discovery and help solve complex problems in ways that weren’t possible before,” Anthropic’s CEO and co-founder Dario Amodei (pictured above) said in a…
By Christy Santhosh(Reuters) -Global tuberculosis illness rates fell about 2% from 2023 to 2024, according to a World Health Organization report, after rising for three consecutive years due to COVID-related disruptions to diagnosis and treatment.Most indicators of the disease burden were moving in the right direction after setbacks during the pandemic, but progress still fell short of 2030 targets, the agency said.WHO adopted the “End TB Strategy” in 2014 and 2015 that included targets for 2020, 2025, 2030 and 2035 to sharply cut tuberculosis incidence, deaths and patient costs.In 2024, 1.23 million people died from TB, a fall of 29%…
More than 80 organizations that provide health care for women all over the world received grants Wednesday totaling $250 million from Melinda French Gates after a year-long application process.French Gates said the majority of the recipients of the Action for Women’s Health challenge have not previously received funding from her organization, Pivotal, or from the Gates Foundation, which she founded with her ex-husband Bill Gates. She stepped away from the Gates Foundation last year.“It will be instructive for the world to see what it looks like when organizations like this aren’t so chronically underfunded,” French Gates said in written responses…
NEW YORK (AP) — The number of people diagnosed with tuberculosis worldwide rose again last year, eclipsing 2023’s record total, World Health Organization officials said Wednesday.About 8.3 million people across the globe were reported as newly diagnosed with TB in 2024. Not all infections are diagnosed and the new numbers represent 78% of the estimated number of people who actually fell ill last year, the WHO noted.WHO officials see the increase as an indication that screening and treatment are improving after health care disruptions during the COVID-19 pandemic. Globally, the number of deaths caused by TB fell in 2024 to…
Every autumn, news feeds get flooded with stories about climate change. That’s because around this time each year, global leaders gather to discuss collective efforts to limit our emissions of planet-warming gases, released primarily from oil, gas and coal.Some of the information coming out of the COP30 conference is bleak. But it’s not just COP. Climate stories can be difficult to consume year-round, whether it’s about natural disasters, victims of heat waves or sea level rise or new studies about global warming impacts.“When you throw a ton of scary facts and information at people, their nervous system shuts down. It’s…
If you’ve been following recent debates about health, you’ve been hearing a lot about vaccines, diet, measles, Medicaid cuts and health insurance costs – but much less about one of the greatest threats to global public health: climate change.Anybody who’s fallen ill during a heat wave, struggled while breathing wildfire smoke or been injured cleaning up from a hurricane knows that climate change can threaten human health. Studies show that heat, air pollution, disease spread and food insecurity linked to climate change are worsening and costing millions of lives around the world each year.The U.S. government formally recognized these risks…