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By Jennifer RigbyLONDON (Reuters) -India has more work to do in halting sales of toxic cough syrup, despite some progress, a World Health Organization official told Reuters, after at least 24 children died following consumption of a domestically-made medicine.The children died after taking the Coldrif cough medicine made by Sresan Pharma, which tests showed contained the toxin diethylene glycol in quantities nearly 500 times the permissible limit.They came just two years after global pledges to tighten the system following the deaths of at least 300 children around the world linked to similar toxins in syrup-based medicines made in India and…
PARIS (Reuters) -France has raised its bird flu alert level to ‘high’ from ‘moderate’, requiring poultry farms nationwide to keep birds indoors as Europe faces a seasonal resurgence of the disease.Highly pathogenic avian influenza, commonly called bird flu, is a seasonal disease spread by migratory birds. It has led to the culling of tens of millions of poultry worldwide in recent years, disrupting production and raising fears of human transmission.”This decree… was issued following evidence of infection among migratory wild birds in Europe, including France, and the confirmation of several outbreaks in poultry farms,” the agriculture ministry said in the…
A meme posted last month to a Slack channel for employees at Electronic Arts shows a cartoon man asking a trio of CEOs what they want. They answer in unison: “AI!” Then the man asks, “AI to do what?” The CEOs reply, “We don’t know!” The man follows, “When do we want it?” The CEOs cheer again: “Right now!” Dozens of the video-game company’s staff responded with crying laughing emojis.The post and others like it seen by Business Insider provide a snapshot of a common, and roiling, divide between white-collar leaders and employees over the role AI should play in…
(Reuters) -The EU is considering classifying ethanol, an ingredient used in many hand sanitisers, as a dangerous substance that increases the risk of cancer, the Financial Times reported on Tuesday.An internal recommendation on October 10 by one of the working groups within the European Chemicals Agency (ECHA) flagged ethanol as a toxic substance, which increased the risk of cancer and pregnancy complications, the FT said, and needed to be replaced in cleaning and other products.The ECHA’s Biocidal Products Committee is set to meet between November 25 and November 28.The regulator said that if its expert committee “concludes that ethanol is…
For most enterprise companies, AI is either a promise that has yet to deliver or a security risk. The effort of Lithuania’s most famous entrepreneur duo to solve that conundrum has garnered attention — and funding. Just months after Nexos.ai came out of stealth with an $8 million funding round led by Index Ventures, Nord Security co-founders Tomas Okmanas and Eimantas Sabaliauskas have closed a €30 million Series A (approximately $35 million) for this new startup — a a platform that helps companies adopt AI tools securely by acting as a middleman between employees and AI systems. In Okmanas’ view,…
2025-10-21T05:14:53Z Share Facebook Email X LinkedIn Reddit Bluesky WhatsApp Copy link lighning bolt icon An icon in the shape of a lightning bolt. Impact Link Save Saved Read in app This story is available exclusively to Business Insider subscribers. Become an Insider and start reading now. Have an account? Log in. A 24-hour hackathon in Singapore brought together 400 people for an intense vibe coding session. The event was sponsored by firms like OpenAI and Anthropic, and offered winners cash prizes and swag. Here’s what the day was like. As I left the lecture hall at the Singapore University of…
In a region long defined by fragmented enterprise systems, outdated compliance tools, and HR software that rarely talks to finance, Cercli is building a unified alternative for MENA businesses with AI at its core. The Dubai-based startup, founded by ex-Careem operators Akeed Azmi and David Reche, has announced an oversubscribed $12 million Series A round led by European VC Picus Capital. Cercli today looks slightly different from the company that raised a $4 million seed round last year. It is rebuilding a Rippling-like stack for the MENA region, but making it AI-native from the ground up. Over the past year, that bet…
The cofounder of a green banking startup that drew celebrity backers like Steve Ballmer and Leonardo DiCaprio pleaded guilty on Monday to two counts of wire fraud.Joseph Sanberg, 46, entered the plea in Los Angeles federal court roughly six months after prosecutors accused him of participating in a scheme that they said defrauded investors out of $248 million.Sanberg, an early investor in Blue Apron, faces up to 40 years in prison. His sentencing is scheduled for February 23, 2026.His company, Aspiration Partners, offered environmentally focused financial services, including tree-planting services intended to help customers reduce their carbon footprints. In 2021,…
A DNS error appears to have been the culprit behind a major Amazon Web Services outage at its oldest and largest data center.Early Monday morning, Amazon’s AWS experienced an outage that brought down more than 100 of its services. Platforms like Snapchat, Reddit, and Venmo that use AWS for hosting servers and delivering content all suffered the impact, as did games like Roblox, Wordle, and Fortnite.Based on the AWS service status page, the outage started with an error with its Domain Name System at Amazon’s northern Virginia data plant, located in what is known as the “Data Center Alley,” where…
Some are born to be a CEO. Others have it thrust upon them.Dustin Moskovitz cofounded two large, publicly traded companies. The first was Facebook; he was Mark Zuckerberg’s sophomore year roommate. The second was Asana, which he led as CEO for over a decade.Moskovitz stepped down as CEO in July. Despite his history of leadership, he told Stratechery that he didn’t love the role.”I don’t like to manage teams, and it wasn’t my intention when we started Asana,” Moskovitz said. “I’d intended to be more of a independent or Head of Engineering or something again.”Moskovitz said that he found being…