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OpenAI released new data on Monday illustrating how many of ChatGPT’s users are struggling with mental health issues, and talking to the AI chatbot about it. The company says that 0.15% of ChatGPT’s active users in a given week have “conversations that include explicit indicators of potential suicidal planning or intent.” Given that ChatGPT has more than 800 million weekly active users, that translates to more than a million people a week. The company says a similar percentage of users show “heightened levels of emotional attachment to ChatGPT,” and that hundreds of thousands of people show signs of psychosis or…
Meta is reorganizing its metaverse unit and shifting an executive who led the efforts to its AI division.Meta CTO Andrew Bosworth told employees on Monday in an internal memo, which was seen by Business Insider, that Gabriel Aul, who led products for its virtual worlds, Meta Horizon, and Ryan Cairns, who is in charge of Meta’s virtual reality hardware, will now lead the company’s metaverse bets.”The priority of the metaverse work remains unchanged, and it continues to be a companywide priority,” Bosworth wrote in the memo. “We’ve proved our thesis to the industry, and we continue to see competitors enter…
Fitbit’s new Gemini-powered health coach, announced back in August, is becoming available as a public preview to Premium subscribers in the U.S. on Android starting tomorrow. It expands to iOS later this year. As the AI race heats up, Google is counting on the Gemini AI assistant to help Fitbit stand out from the crowd. Called “Coach,” this feature is designed to be your all-in-one fitness trainer, sleep coach, and health and wellness advisor. Image Credits:Google At the recent Made by Google event, Google showcased Coach’s various capabilities, like how it can create a custom routine based on your goals,…
The annual pattern of winter depression and melancholy – better known as seasonal affective disorder, or SAD – suggests a strong link between your mood and the amount of light you get during the day.To put it simply: The less light exposure one has, the more one’s mood may decline.Wintertime blues are common, but about 10 million Americans are affected every year by a longer lasting depression called seasonal affective disorder. Along with low mood, symptoms include anxious feelings, low self-esteem, longer sleep duration, constant craving for carbohydrates and low physical activity levels.I am a nutritional neuroscientist, and my research…
If you’ve ever had a PET scan, you know it’s an ordeal. The scans help doctors detect cancer and track its spread, but the process itself is a logistical nightmare for patients. It starts with fasting for four to six hours before coming into the hospital — and good luck to you if you live rurally and your local hospital doesn’t have a PET scanner. When you get to the hospital, you’re injected with radioactive material, after which you must wait an hour while it washes through your body. Next, you enter the PET scanner and have to attempt to…
When Demetri Maxim was seven years old, his mother’s kidneys stopped working. She was put on dialysis, which meant that she had to go to the hospital four times a week to have her blood filtered by a machine since her own kidneys could no longer function independently. Two years later, Maxim’s mother received a kidney transplant. Although the surgery was successful and allowed her to lead a relatively normal life, it wasn’t the end of his family’s struggle with kidney disease. It turned out that Maxim had inherited the disease, Polycystic Kidney Disease (PKD), from her. About one in…
WASHINGTON (AP) — A New Hampshire man is resuming dialysis after living with a gene-edited pig kidney for a record 271 days, doctors said Monday. His experience is helping researchers in their quest for animal-to-human transplants.Tim Andrews, 67, had the organ removed on Oct. 23 because its function was declining, according to Mass General Brigham. In a statement, his transplant team called Andrews “a selfless medical pioneer and an inspiration” to patients with kidney failure.Andrews’ experience illustrates lessons researchers have learned with each experiment involving what’s called xenotransplantation. The first attempts using pig organs gene-edited to be more humanlike –…
The U.S. Food and Drug Administration has approved Lynkuet, a new daily pill from Bayer that provides a non-hormonal option for treating hot flashes, common during menopause. The drug, known generically as elinzanetant, is the second medication to directly target the brain pathways involved in body temperature control.Menopause occurs when the ovaries stop producing estrogen, usually in a woman’s late 40s or early 50s. Treating its symptoms has long been difficult because the transition affects multiple systems — temperature regulation, sleep, mood, bones, and sexuality — and the hormonal shifts vary widely among individuals. No single therapy can address all…
More than 2.2 million pounds of a ready-to-eat Korean barbecue pork jerky have been recalled due to possible pieces of metal, according to federal health officials.The jerky was shipped to Costco and Sam’s Club retail locations nationwide, the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s Food Safety and Inspection Service said Friday. It was recalled by LSI, Inc., a South Dakota company.The recalled products include 14.5-oz. and 16-oz. plastic pouches containing “GOLDEN ISLAND fire-grilled PORK JERKY Korean BARBECUE recipe” with an establishment number “M279A” inside the USDA mark of inspection and “best by” dates ranging from Oct. 23, 2025, through Sept. 23, 2026.The…