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Dr. Betsy Grunch is a neurosurgeon in Georgia, where she’s been operating on brains and spines for 13 years. Since 2020, her role has expanded to content creator. To her combined 3.8 million followers on Instagram and TikTok, Grunch is known as “Ladyspinedoc,” a source of guidance on health matters ranging from weighted vests to chiropractors. She does it, she tells Yahoo, for the sake of “combating misinformation.”“I really felt like I could reach a population of people that didn’t have the correct information,” says Grunch, whose posts have taken on claims regarding vaccine safety and the Guardian Caps some…
A measles outbreak in South Carolina has grown to 15 cases, state health officials said on Friday.The newly identified cases were close contacts of people who were quarantining at home and were not in any school settings when contagious, according to the South Carolina Department of Public Health (SCDPH).”Because they were quarantining before they became infectious, no additional exposures have occurred with these new cases,” the department said.Measles outbreak that sickened more than 700 declared over in TexasThe outbreak was first identified in the South Carolina upstate region in early October, according to the SCDPH. Several of the cases have…
Silicon Valley’s rule? It’s not cool to be cautious. As OpenAI removes guardrails and VCs criticize companies like Anthropic for supporting AI safety regulations, it’s becoming clearer who the industry thinks should shape AI development. On this episode of Equity, Kirsten Korosec, Anthony Ha, and Max Zeff discuss how the line between innovation and responsibility is getting blurrier, plus what happens when pranks go from digital to physical. Listen to the full episode to hear about: Why advocating for AI safety has become “uncool” in Silicon Valley from Anthropic facing backlash to California’s SB 243 regulation of AI companion chatbots…
A Facebook feature that gives Meta AI the ability to suggest edits to photos stored on your phone’s camera roll, but haven’t yet been shared, is now rolling out to all users in the U.S. and Canada. The company announced on Friday that users can choose to opt in to receive these sharing suggestions, which will then prompt them to post photos to their Facebook Feed and Stories with the AI edits. First launched as a test over the summer, Facebook’s app pops up a permission dialog box requesting access to “allow cloud processing” so users can get “creative ideas…
ChatGPT’s mobile app growth may have hit its peak, according to a new analysis of download trends and daily active users provided by the third-party app intelligence firm Apptopia. Its estimates indicate that new user growth, measured by percentage changes in new global downloads, slowed after April. The firm looked at the global daily active user (DAU) growth and found that the numbers have begun to even out over the past month or so. Global DAUs for ChatGPT mobile app.Image Credits:Apptopia Although October is only half over, the firm says it’s on pace to be down 8.1% in terms of…
Tension between Indiana University and its student newspaper flared this week with the elimination of the outlet’s print editions and the firing of a faculty adviser, who refused an order to keep news stories out of a homecoming edition.Administrators may have been hoping to minimize distractions this homecoming weekend as the school prepares to celebrate a Hoosiers football team with its highest-ever national ranking. Instead, the controversy has entangled the school in questions about censorship and student journalists’ First Amendment rights.Advocates for student media, Indiana Daily Student alumni and high-profile supporters including billionaire Mark Cuban have blasted the school for…
ChatGPT, OpenAI’s text-generating AI chatbot, has taken the world by storm since its launch in November 2022. What started as a tool to supercharge productivity through writing essays and code with short text prompts has evolved into a behemoth with 300 million weekly active users. 2024 was a big year for OpenAI, from its partnership with Apple for its generative AI offering, Apple Intelligence, the release of GPT-4o with voice capabilities, and the highly-anticipated launch of its text-to-video model Sora. OpenAI also faced its share of internal drama, including the notable exits of high-level execs like co-founder and longtime chief…
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Jascha Kaykas-Wolff is a veteran Silicon Valley executive who’s seen waves of different technology sweep across the industry as CMO of Mozilla, BitTorrent, and other companies.This time, generative AI is the hot new thing. There’s a healthy debate right now over whether this technology is truly valuable for end users or not. Kaykas-Wolff’s hands-on experience is instructive here.He and his partner, the artist Alexandra Roberts, created a high-end, cannabis-infused cocktail that launches in early 2026. It’s called “Eleanore,” part of a broader brand they’re developing to take pot products from stinky, bong-filled basements into more luxurious environments such as private…