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Gamers have been waiting over a decade for the release of Grand Theft Auto 6. It is probably the most highly anticipated game of all time.AI could speed things up.Google Cloud’s Global Director for Games, Jack Buser, said AI has arrived at an important time for the gaming industry, and could help developers release new and better games more quickly. “We’re just very, very fortunate that AI has arrived on the scene at a time when the games industry really needs it more than ever before,” he said recently on the “Strictly Business” podcast.While layoffs and a post-pandemic decline hit…

M.C.I. Foods Inc. has recalled over 90,000 pounds of its ready-to-eat breakfast burritos and wraps because of a potential listeria contamination in the products’ eggs.The Food Safety and Inspection Service (FSIS) announced the recall on Saturday after M.C.I. Foods notified the FSIS of a positive listeria contamination after conducting a routine test from its external suppliers.The recalled burritos and wraps were produced between Sept. 17 and Oct. 14 and were shipped to food service institutions across the country, including schools.“The Los Cabos, El Más Fino and Midamar brand products are included in the USDA’s National School Lunch and Breakfast Programs,”…

Frozen meals served to students across the United States as part of federally-funded school breakfast and lunch programs may be contaminated with listeria and have been recalled, officials announced on Saturday.The recall applied to approximately 91,585 pounds of prepackaged breakfast burritos and wraps, manufactured by the California company M.C.I. Foods between Sept. 17 and Oct. 14, said the Food Safety and Inspection Service, a branch of the U.S. Department of Agriculture that focuses on public health regulations.Its announcement cited seven different types of frozen breakfast products that could be tainted. They are distributed to low-income students around the country as…

Covid vaccines may come with a tantalizing benefit that has nothing to do with the virus they’re designed to protect against: boosting the immune system to better fight tumors during cancer treatment.That’s according to new results presented Sunday in Berlin at the European Society for Medical Oncology conference. The research is still in the earlier stages — it has yet to be tested in a Phase 3 clinical trial — but experts say it shows promise.“I am cautiously optimistic,” said Stephanie Dougan, an associate professor of cancer immunology and virology at the Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, who was not involved with…

Welcome back to our Sunday edition, where we round up some of our top stories and take you inside our newsroom. A woman who’s been driving for Uber for more than a decade explains how she’s looking for new work as her pay drops.Tomorrow’s the big launch of First Trade, our new markets newsletter led by Joe Ciolli. Subscribe here!On the agenda today:But first: There’s a new gig in town.If this was forwarded to you, sign up here. Download Business Insider’s app here.This week’s dispatchSide-hustle shakeup An Uber Eats driver on the job. Shuji Kajiyama/AP Images The gig economy is…

With age comes a natural decline in cognitive function, even among otherwise healthy adults without dementia. A new study finds that a cognitive training program may boost production of a brain chemical that plays a role in memory and attention.Participants who completed game-like activities through BrainHQ, an online subscription program, showed increased production of acetylcholine, sometimes called the “pay attention” chemical. The process that produces acetylcholine in the brain is called the cholinergic system.Researchers at McGill University in Montreal led a clinical trial of 92 people ages 65 and older. All were healthy, meaning they had not been diagnosed with…

A new shopping feature on ChatGPT dropped just in time for my mom’s birthday.However, I’m not convinced it can help me find the right gift.OpenAI said September 29 that it was introducing a new shopping feature called Instant Checkout that would allow US-based ChatGPT free, Plus, and Pro users to search and purchase items right in their chats. For now, it’s available on items from Etsy, with Shopify merchants, like Glossier, Skims, Spanx and Vuori, coming soon.The ChatGPT maker, whose CEO, Fidji Simo, hails from Instacart, seems to have big plans for shopping. It struck a deal with Walmart that…

It started with coding. Generative AI’s aptitude for writing code was the death knell for traditional software development, and companies wanted “vibe” coders. Big Tech execs have been praising the vibes this year: Sundar Pichai is vibe coding a web page, Mark Zuckerberg says AI is coming for mid-level engineering work, and Klarna CEO Sebastian Siemiatkowski says he’s become an amateur coder thanks to vibe coding. Startups are vibe-coding their way into existence.Now, more of the corporate world is vibing. A small number of companies are seeking applicants for job titles like “Vibe Growth Manager,” who are tasked with experimenting…

By Christy Santhosh(Reuters) -Gilead Sciences’ Trodelvy lowered the risk of disease progression in an aggressive type of breast cancer by 38% when used as an initial treatment, according to trial results presented on Sunday.The trial compared Trodelvy to a standard treatment of chemotherapy in 558 previously untreated patients with advanced triple-negative breast cancer, or TNBC, whose tumors don’t express the PD-L1 protein — targeted by immune system checkpoint inhibitors such as Keytruda.The drug received its first U.S. approval in 2020 for the treatment of advanced TNBC in patients who had received at least two prior therapies.TNBC is an aggressive type…

By Mrinalika Roy(Reuters) -AstraZeneca and Daiichi Sankyo’s new breast cancer drug helped significantly extend survival in some patients in a late-stage trial, marking a potential breakthrough in one of the hardest-to-treat forms of the disease.Patients with triple-negative breast cancer who were given the drug, Datroway, had a median overall survival of 23.7 months, compared with 18.7 months for those given just chemotherapy. Patients on Datroway also had significantly better response to the drug and survival without progression of disease, the drug showed.The companies presented the data at European Society for Medical Oncology Congress on Sunday.”This is the first time we…