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NEW YORK (AP) — New York City nurses are striking for a third day Wednesday with both sides seemingly digging in for the long haul.Negotiations don’t appear to be on the table at the moment with any of the three major hospital systems affected by the walkout.Picketing nurses also held a rally at a Bronx hospital Wednesday in which their leaders took aim at hospital administrators for mischaracterizing their contract demands.Meanwhile the hospital systems say they’ve committed to keeping on the travel nurses they brought on to fill work gaps at least through next week.Here’s what you need to know…
Over the weekend, Neel Somani, who is a software engineer, former quant researcher, and a startup founder, was testing the math skills of OpenAI’s new model when he made an unexpected discovery. After pasting the problem into ChatGPT and letting it think for 15 minutes, he came back to a full solution. He evaluated the proof and formalized it with a tool called Harmonic — but it all checked out. “I was curious to establish a baseline for when LLMs are effectively able to solve open math problems compared to where they struggle,” Somani said. The surprise was that, using…
Kate, the Princess of Wales, is marking one year since publicly announcing that her cancer is in remission, another milestone in her journey since revealing her cancer diagnosis two years ago.It was on Jan. 14, 2025, that Kate released a statement on social media, writing, “It is a relief to now be in remission and I remain focused on recovery.””As anyone who has experienced a cancer diagnosis will know, it takes time to adjust to a new normal. I am however looking forward to a fulfilling year ahead,” she continued at the time. “There is much to look forward to.”Isabel…
Google announced Wednesday the launch of a revamped Trends Explore page, now featuring Gemini-powered capabilities that automatically identify and compare trends related to your searches. The update is rolling out on desktop starting today. The Trends Explore page has long served as a valuable tool for content creators, journalists, and researchers, making it easy to analyze search interest for any topic over time, across regions, and by category. The new Gemini experience streamlines much of the manual work involved in exploring trending topics, reducing research time, and surfacing connections that users might otherwise overlook. The redesigned Explore page now features…
A new lawsuit filed against OpenAI alleges that its ChatGPT artificial intelligence app encouraged a 40-year-old Colorado man to commit suicide.The complaint filed in California state court by Stephanie Gray, the mother of Austin Gordon, accuses OpenAI and CEO Sam Altman of building a defective and dangerous product that led to Gordon’s death.Gordon, who died of a self-inflicted gunshot wound in November 2025, had intimate exchanges with ChatGPT, according to the suit, which also alleged that the generative AI tool romanticized death.”ChatGPT turned from Austin’s super-powered resource to a friend and confidante, to an unlicensed therapist, and in late 2025,…
OXON HILL, Md. (AP) — The head of the new regulatory body for college sports said “if there was a time to stick out your neck, it’s now,” in urging schools to sign an agreement sent out nearly two months ago pledging to abide by new rules that govern how to pay players.Bryan Seeley, the CEO of the 7-month-old College Sports Commission, used his presentation at the NCAA convention Wednesday to thank leaders from four schools who put out a statement backing the agreement, while urging others to sign on.“My sense is that the vast majority of schools want to…
Kent Syverud, the man chosen Monday as the next leader of the University of Michigan, knows the job won’t be easy. For one thing, he said, U-M and other universities are in a fight to retain the United States’ place as a world leader in higher education. “These are challenging times for Michigan, for higher education and the whole world,” Syverud, currently chancellor and president of Syracuse University, said Monday after the Board of Regents, in a special meeting, unanimously approved his hiring. “We have a choice in how to respond. We can curl up in a ball … or…
Jan 14 (Reuters) – The U.S. Food and Drug Administration and the European Medicines Agency jointly issued principles for safe and responsible use of artificial intelligence in developing medicines, aiming to speed up innovation while safeguarding patients.The principles, issued on Wednesday, offer broad guidance on how AI should be used to generate and monitor evidence across a drug’s lifecycle, from early research and clinical trials to manufacturing and safety surveillance.The move comes as regulators push to expand the use of AI in drug discovery and development to shorten timeline and reduce animal testing.The FDA has a generative AI tool, Elsa,…
Brands that cheap out on social media marketing risk losing out on sales.About a quarter of revenue on US retail sites during the holiday season was driven by either clicks from social media posts or affiliate marketing links via influencers, publishers, or other partners, according to an Adobe analysis of online consumer transactions. Despite its growth, influencer marketing remains behind more mature categories, such as search and digital video, in annual US ad spend.Affiliates and partners, a marketing category where brands pay influencers, publishers, and other promoters a commission for linking to products, contributed around 20% of roughly $258 billion…
Skild AI, which makes foundation models for robots, seems to have more than tripled its valuation in just seven months. The startup has raised a $1.4 billion Series C round that values it at more than $14 billion, Bloomberg reported. The round was led by SoftBank, and Nvidia, Macquarie Group, 1789 Capital and others also invested. Skild AI last raised a funding at a $4.5 billion valuation this prior summer, Bloomberg reported. The company hasn’t disclosed the exact value of that round — it was rumored to be around $500 million — but Skild AI CEO Deepak Pathak told Bloomberg…