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Elon Musk capped Tesla’s latest earnings call with a tirade about his proposed $1 trillion pay package — and the people trying to block it.The CEO said he doesn’t even want to call it “compensation,” insisting the real issue is whether he’ll have enough voting power to control Tesla’s next chapter in AI, robotaxis, and humanoid robots.”I just don’t feel comfortable building a robot army here and then being ousted because of some asinine recommendations from ISS and Glass Lewis,” Musk said, calling the proxy advisory firms “corporate terrorists.”He said he needs about “mid-20s” percent voting power to maintain “a…

It’s officially the season of text prompts and phone call reminders to get your seasonal vaccines.Cases of flu, RSV, COVID-19, and other common respiratory illnesses tend to spike as temperatures go down and the holidays approach, sending many Americans to pharmacy lines and waiting rooms to get up-to-date on immunizations.Confusion has persisted around one specific shot: the COVID-19 vaccine. After a year of rapidly changing guidance from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and Food and Drug Administration under Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr., many Americans have been left to wonder how easily a person could…

Pottstown, Pennsylvania — Illeana Casiano-Vazquez and her husband Sam cherish every minute together. Six years ago, she was diagnosed with triple-negative breast cancer, an aggressive form of the cancer that has fewer treatment options and a higher rate of recurrence.”The first thing I thought about were my boys,” Casiano-Vasquez told CBS News. “So, in the same feeling of, ‘Oh my God, am I going to die?’ sort of was this immediate like, ‘I’m not going to die.'”Chemotherapy and a double mastectomy eliminated signs of cancer. But naturally, she is still worried.”The mental struggle that comes with the fear of recurrence…

Remember that Tea app everyone was talking about this summer? Apple has removed it from its iOS App Store.The Tea app, which lets women post anonymous reviews of men, gained traction in July and stirred a whole lot of debate around privacy and modern dating.In reaction to Tea — technically named Tea Dating Advice — other copycats made their way onto the app store. TeaOnHer, an alternative version for men, had a viral moment in August.Both TeaOnHer and Tea were removed by Apple on October 21, according to app analytics firm Appfigures.A spokesperson for Apple told Business Insider that both…

The U.S. Food and Drug Administration is warning consumers not to consume, sell, or serve certain types of Black Sheep Egg Company eggs that were voluntarily recalled last month due to potential salmonella contamination.The nationwide, voluntary recall, first initiated in late September, impacts more than 6 million eggs linked to the Arkansas-based producer, according to FDA enforcement reports.According to the FDA, Black Sheep Egg Company distributed the recalled eggs to other companies in several states between July 9, 2025, and Sept. 17, 2025, and the companies “may have repackaged them.”On Oct. 16, one of those companies, Kenz Henz of Santa…

(Reuters) -The World Health Organization led the medical evacuation of 41 critical patients and 145 companions out of Gaza, Director-General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus said on Wednesday. Around 15,000 Gaza patients are awaiting evacuation, Tedros said in an X post.”We continue to call on countries to show their solidarity and for all routes to be opened to expedite the medical evacuation,” the WHO chief said.Many suffer from injuries sustained during the two-year-long Israel-Hamas conflict. Others have chronic conditions such as cancer and heart disease that the enclave’s decimated health system cannot cope with. During the war, more than 7,000 patients have…

Leaders at one of Tesla’s competitors simply don’t understand why Elon Musk is so critical of LiDAR.James Philbin, Rivian’s head of autonomy, said the EV leader’s “rigid point of view” doesn’t align with the engineering realities of autonomous vehicles or the declining prices of top-tier sensors, such as LiDAR, which uses lasers to measure distances.”I think they have a very sort of rigid point of view, I guess, on different sensor modalities, which I don’t think is fully explainable just from an engineering point of view,” Philbin told Business Insider’s chief news editor, Steve Russolillo, during an event focused on…

MOHAVE COUNTY, Ariz. — The nation’s second-largest measles outbreak this year is spreading beyond its epicenter along the Utah-Arizona border.Most of the known measles cases — 123 as of Wednesday — are linked to a tight-knit community of twin towns: Colorado City, in Mohave County, Arizona, and Hildale, which is in Washington County, Utah. Within the past few weeks, there have been three cases in nearby, larger towns, such as Hurricane and St. George, Utah. Those exposures occurred in hospital and urgent care settings, according to the Southwest Utah Public Health Department.There is no discernible border; residents live, work and…

Snapchat is making its new “Imagine Lens,” the company’s first open prompt image-generation AI Lens, available to all users for free. The Lens was initially launched in September but only for paid subscribers. With the Lens, users can edit their own Snaps using custom prompts or generate their own. For instance, you could prompt the app, “Turn me into an alien” after snapping a selfie, or request an image of a “grumpy cat.” The company suggests you could use the Lens to try on Halloween costume ideas, or reimagine your friend in a new look, among other things. The results…

AI labs are racing to build data centers as large as Manhattan, each costing billions of dollars and consuming as much energy as a small city. The effort is driven by a deep belief in “scaling” — the idea that adding more computing power to existing AI training methods will eventually yield superintelligent systems capable of performing all kinds of tasks. But a growing chorus of AI researchers say the scaling of large language models may be reaching its limits, and that other breakthroughs may be needed to improve AI performance. That’s the bet Sara Hooker, Cohere’s former VP of…