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2025-10-14T13:36:29Z 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. AMD is set to deploy 50,000 AI chips in Oracle data centers in the second half of 2026. It follows AMD’s recent mega chip deal with OpenAI, with both partnerships a boost against rival Nvidia. The Oracle-AMD deal is the latest AI infrastructure partnership among tech giants. The AI…

Water quality is the most important thing for aquaculture farms to monitor to ensure their livestock remain healthy. While there are existing ways to monitor water quality — sensors and water testing kits — they are too expensive for many farmers in regions like Southeast Asia. Aquawise wants to offer aquaculture farmers in Southeast Asia a better way to monitor their water quality by using AI and existing satellites — no hardware purchases required. Bangkok-based Aquawise takes satellite images of fish and shrimp farms and feeds them into its physics-based AI model that monitors the water for things like temperature,…

Defending champion UConn picked up where it left off as the No. 1 team in the country in The Associated Press Top 25 preseason women’s basketball poll released Tuesday.The Huskies received 27 first-place votes from a 31-member national media panel. South Carolina, last season’s runner-up to UConn, was picked second in the poll and garnered the other four first-place votes. It’s the fifth time in the last six years that Dawn Staley’s Gamecocks were picked in the top five of the preseason poll. UCLA and Texas were third and fourth and LSU was fifth. Oklahoma was sixth, the Sooners’ highest…

Google is making a $15 billion investment to set up a 1-gigawatt data center and AI hub in India, even as the Indian government pushes for reduced reliance on U.S. tech giants. On Tuesday, Google said it would build the data center in the southern state of Andhra Pradesh, in the port city of Visakhapatnam. The investment will take place over the next five years through 2030, the company added. Notably, this marks Google’s largest investment in India and comes five years after it first announced a $10 billion commitment to the South Asian nation in 2020. Weeks after President…

The play, in real time to the naked eye, might have looked very close to a violation. LeBron James leaped, got his right hand on the ball with a few tenths of the game’s final second remaining and tapped it through the basket to give the Los Angeles Lakers a buzzer-beating win last season.Referees on the floor called it correctly. Video replay backed up their call, and the Lakers got a victory over the Indiana Pacers.Turns out, it wasn’t close at all.The NBA has a relatively new tool called “automated officiating,” and the robotic eyes that are now tracking just…

By Amina NiasseNEW YORK (Reuters) -Americans headed to pharmacies for COVID-19 vaccines are running into roadblocks and confusion due to new U.S. guidance that abandoned broad support for the shots, contributing to the lowest vaccination rates since they were introduced.For the four-week period ended October 3, COVID immunizations were down about 25% nationally, according to IQVIA data in analysts’ research notes.Steven Thompson, a 41-year-old financial professional from Salt Lake City, routinely gets the COVID shot through employer-sponsored health insurance. In September, he was told at a Walgreens pharmacy he needed a prescription. Utah, Georgia and Louisiana had been requiring prescriptions…

By Amina NiasseNEW YORK (Reuters) -The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention adopted recommendations last week from its advisory panel on vaccines, signaling official guidance for pharmacists and patients who have been waiting for clarity on the updated COVID-19 shots.Prior to the CDC’s Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices’ recommendation to allow the vaccine with new restrictions, states including Georgia, Utah and Louisiana were only giving the shots to those with a prescription. Here’s what you need to know:WHO DOES THE CDC RECOMMEND FOR COVID BOOSTERS?Individuals aged 6 months and older can receive the COVID vaccine after consulting a provider,…

SANTA ANA, Calif. (AP) — Opening statements began Tuesday in the trial for the wrongful death lawsuit accusing the Los Angeles Angels of being responsible for the 2019 drug overdose death of one of its star pitchers. Lawyers for the Angels and the family of Tyler Skaggs will address the jury in the long-awaited civil trial over whether the MLB team should be held responsible after one of its employees was convicted of providing drugs that led to the pitcher’s overdose on a team trip to Texas.The wrongful death lawsuit filed by Skaggs’ widow, Carli, and his parents, alleges the…

This as-told-to essay is based on a conversation with Lara Sophie Bothur, Deloitte Germany’s first corporate influencer. Bothur now works freelance as a tech influencer. The following has been edited for length and clarity.I joined the Big Four firm Deloitte in February 2021 as a business analyst in the innovation consulting division. A year later, I’d transformed that consulting role into something entirely new: I became Deloitte’s first corporate influencer.The job developed very naturally. Around eight months in, a partner who knew that I had a background in marketing suggested I help on a campaign for the innovation team.My job…

By Kamal Choudhury(Reuters) -U.S. biotech firm Nabla Bio said on Tuesday it has signed a second major research partnership with Japanese drugmaker Takeda Pharmaceutical, deepening their use of artificial intelligence to accelerate drug discovery.Under the new multi-year agreement, which builds on an earlier collaboration launched in 2022, Nabla will receive upfront and research cost payments in double-digit millions. The company is also eligible for success-based payments worth more than $1 billion.The move underscores growing momentum across the pharmaceutical industry to harness AI in drug development, with hopes of significantly reducing timelines and costs in the coming years.Nabla said it would…