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By Sonia Rolley and Jennifer RigbyLONDON (Reuters) -Around a third of mpox vaccines donated by Japan to the Democratic Republic of Congo are being wasted because they cannot be stored once prepared for use, the head of Congo’s mpox response told Reuters.Japan has donated three million doses of its LC16 vaccine to Congo to help fight a new form of mpox known as clade Ib, which spread internationally and sparked a global health emergency last year. The second tranche of 1.5 million doses arrived in Congo in September, around two years after the outbreak began.Congo began vaccinating with LC16 in…
The U.S. is far ahead of Europe in the race for large AI models — but the picture is different for the application layer, with emerging category leaders such as Lovable and Synthesia. That’s the conclusion made by global VC firm Accel in its 2025 Globalscape report, which focuses on the AI and cloud market. Surprisingly, cloud and AI applications in Europe and Israel have attracted 66% as much private funding as their American peers in 2025 so far. “When we started this report 10 years ago, Europe was one tenth of the U.S.,” Accel partner Philippe Botteri told TechCrunch.…
Artificial intelligence may be transforming how consumers use technology, but the revolution is still lagging when it comes to businesses, according to a pair of Goldman Sachs analysts.”A lot of consumer applications, they’re exemplifying the value of AI, whether it’s ChatGPT or Claude application at the consumer level. But at the enterprise level and user level, there are some signs of life, but we’re not where we expected,” said Kash Rangan, a US software equity research analyst, on Goldman Sachs’ “Exchanges” podcast published on Tuesday.While tools like ChatGPT have rapidly captured consumer attention, corporate adoption has been slower.Rangan said companies…
Google’s former CEO said he worries that most countries could end up using Chinese AI models because of the cost.”This produces a bizarre outcome where the biggest models in the United States are closed source and the biggest models in China are open-source,” Eric Schmidt said in an episode of the “Moonshots” podcast released on Tuesday. “The geopolitical issue there, of course, is that open source is free and the closed source models are not free.”Open-source AI models allow for the free and open sharing of software to anyone, for any purpose.”So the vast majority of governments and countries who…
MONTGOMERY, Ala. (AP) — Fernando Clark spent the last 10 months of his life in a jail cell, waiting for psychiatric treatment a court ordered he undergo after he’d been arrested for stealing cigarettes and some fruit from a gas station.He died while waiting for the treatment that never arrived, found unresponsive in his jail cell.Clark was just one of hundreds of people across Alabama awaiting a spot in the state’s increasingly limited facilities, despite a consent decree requiring the state to address delays in providing care for people who are charged with crimes but deemed too mentally ill to…
MONTGOMERY, Ala. (AP) — Fernando Clark spent the last 10 months of his life in a jail cell, waiting for psychiatric treatment a court ordered he undergo after he’d been arrested for stealing cigarettes and some fruit from a gas station.He died while waiting for the treatment that never arrived, found unresponsive in his jail cell.Clark was just one of hundreds of people across Alabama awaiting a spot in the state’s increasingly limited facilities, despite a consent decree requiring the state to address delays in evaluating and providing care for people suffering from mental illness who are charged with crimes.Seven…
Texas is currently seeing four times the number of whooping cough cases compared to the same time last year, the state’s health department said in a health alert.The state has reported more than 3,500 cases this year. This is the second year that Texas has experienced high increases in whooping cough cases.Nationally, whooping cough cases have been higher in the past two years than levels seen in prior years and pre-pandemic.Whooping cough cases have doubled in a year, CDC data showsIn 2024, the United States experienced roughly six times as many cases compared to 2023, CDC data shows. Cases remain elevated this…
If you’ve ever shopped for a TV during a big sales event like Black Friday, you’ve likely noticed some particularly great deals on models sold under Walmart’s Onn brand. These entry-level smart TVs are among the most affordable on the market, offering door-busting discounts that typically undercut the competition.But such low prices do raise the question: Are Walmart Onn TVs actually any good? Sure, they’re cheap, but there’s a big difference between getting solid value for your money and getting a poor product that cuts too many corners. With that in mind, I put Walmart’s Onn TVs to the test…
TikTok is becoming a shopping powerhouse.TikTok Shop has been one of the fastest-growing brands in the US this year, according to a new Morning Consult report.The social-shopping app ranked third on Morning Consult’s list, just behind food-delivery app DoorDash and clothing brand Fruit of the Loom. It grew more quickly than other digital brands, such as ChatGPT (ranked ninth) and crypto exchange Coinbase (ranked 11th). It was the only social-media tool to rank in the top 20 this year.TikTok Shop’s growth in popularity shows just how much the social-commerce platform has managed to break through in a crowded US e-commerce…
Masayoshi Son isn’t known for half measures. The SoftBank founder’s career has been studded with eyebrow-raising bets, each one seemingly more outrageous than the last. His latest move is to cash out his entire $5.8 billion Nvidia stake to go all-in on AI. And while it surprised the business world on Tuesday, it maybe should not. At this point, it’s almost more surprising when the 68-year-old Son doesn’t push his chips to the center of the table. Consider that during the late 1990s dot-com bubble, Son’s net worth soared to about $78 billion by February 2000, briefly making him the…