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More than half a million bottles of blood pressure medication are being recalled over a cancer-causing chemical connected to the prescription drug, according to the U.S. Food and Drug Administration.Teva Pharmaceuticals USA, based in Parsippany, New Jersey, issued a voluntary recall on Oct. 7 for some of the prazosin hydrochloride capsules it distributed, and the FDA classified it as a Class II risk level on Friday, Oct. 24.The drug was approved by the FDA to treat high blood pressure, but sometimes prescribed off-label to help manage symptoms of post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD), particularly nightmares and sleep problems. The medication works…
WASHINGTON (Reuters) -Donald Trump’s top health official on Wednesday said evidence does not show that Kenvue’s pain medicine Tylenol definitively causes autism but that it should still be used cautiously, a month after the president said U.S. health officials would recommend limiting its use.U.S. Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s comments also come one day after the Republican state of Texas sued the maker of the medicine, also known as acetaminophen and which has been sold widely for decades.”The causative association … between Tylenol given in pregnancy and the perinatal periods is not sufficient to say it definitely cause autism.…
Box co-founder and CEO Aaron Levie doesn’t think AI agents will replace enterprise SaaS (software-as-a-service) companies. Instead, he believes that the more likely future is a hybrid combination of SaaS plus agents, he said, speaking onstage at the TechCrunch Disrupt 2025 conference on Wednesday. “Generally, once you have a business process, you want to be able to define that in, effectively, business logic with deterministic systems — just because the risk of that changing any given day is very high,” explained Levie. “If you’re doing something mission critical — we’ve already seen great examples of either data being leaked because…
If you want to know why Nvidia is valued at $5 trillion, take a look at the data and chart below. They show how this tech giant is scooping up a huge portion of the AI spending boom.As AI enters its industrial phase, the world’s most advanced data centers now measure their scale not in square footage or servers, but in gigawatts of computing capacity. Wall Street has begun to measure the cost of these gigawatts, and predict which companies might benefit from this spending spree.TD Cowen analysts put this in context, writing in a research note this week that…
DETROIT (AP) — Making electric vehicles and their batteries is a dirty process that uses a lot of energy. But a new study says that EVs quickly make up for that with less overall emissions through two years of use than a gas-powered vehicle.The study also estimated that gas-powered vehicles cause at least twice as much environmental damage over their lifetimes as EVs, and said the benefits of EVs can be expected to increase in coming decades as clean sources of power, such as solar and wind, are brought onto the grid.The work by researchers from Northern Arizona University and…
AI audio company ElevenLabs‘ co-founder and chief executive Mati Staniszewski believes that AI models will be commoditized over time, a revealing comment for a company focused today on building them. Speaking on stage at the TechCrunch Disrupt 2025 conference on Tuesday, the ElevenLabs founder was discussing both his short-term and long-term views of the AI audio space. Staniszewski said that his company’s researchers have been able to crack some of the model architecture challenges, and this focus will continue in the audio space for the next year or two. “Over the long term, it will commoditize — over the next…
The biggest beneficiary of the ongoing AI boom, Nvidia has become the first public company to pass the $5 trillion market cap milestone. The company’s shares rose more than 5.6% on Wednesday to as much as $212.19, on the back of news on Wednesday that U.S. President Donald Trump said he expects to discuss the company’s Blackwell chips with Chinese President Xi Jinping on Thursday. Investors are also likely stoked by Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang’s comments on Tuesday that the company expects $500 billion in AI chip sales, and that it is building seven new supercomputers for the U.S. in…
It’s a great week to be Jensen Huang.Nvidia is the world’s first $5 trillion market cap company. Huang’s personal wealth has increased by $17 billion over just the past week. President Donald Trump is hinting that the US could not only open the Chinese market back to Nvidia but might even allow the chipmaker to sell its most advanced product.According to Bloomberg’s Billionaire Index, Huang is now the ninth richest person in the world, behind former Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer and ahead of Dell CEO Michael Dell.Year over year, Huang’s wealth has increased by $51 billion. As of Wednesday morning,…
Welcome to the third and final day of TechCrunch Disrupt 2025 at Moscone West in San Francisco! The excitement here is still in full swing, and there’s no slowing down. If you thought it was too late to join, think again — there’s still time to register with a 50% discount and be part of the action. Don’t wait a whole year to be at the tech epicenter of the year. Today’s agenda features some of the most anticipated stage sessions, spotlighting insights from trailblazers such as Rohit Patel, director at Meta Superintelligence Labs; Kirsten Green, founding partner of Forerunner;…
Much has been written about the unprecedented impact that the second Trump administration has had on the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, from massive job cuts and entire programs being wiped out to leadership shake-ups and the undermining of science. But behind every headline, countless stories have gone untold about the real-world impacts that these changes will have on everyday people.I’m a public health expert who spent 18 years as a scientist at the CDC. I see the systematic dismantling of the agency as a significant risk to the country’s ability to keep Americans safe and give medical professionals…