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SCARBOROUGH, Maine (AP) — Messy winter weather brought snow, ice, freezing rain and dangerous driving to the New England states on Wednesday as the region prepared for more unpleasant conditions later in the week.The combination of rain, snow and slush blanketed the region, causing dozens of school districts to close for the day or begin on a delay. Snow accumulations were not expected to be high, but the road conditions made it unsafe to roll buses on Wednesday morning, districts said. Sam Ruth of Brattleboro, Vt., shovels the walkway after a wintry mess passed through the region on Wednesday, Jan.…
By Nancy LapidJan 7 (Reuters) – Artificial intelligence can use brain recordings from a single night in a sleep lab to predict a person’s risk of developing more than 100 health conditions, researchers say.Known as SleepFM, the AI model was trained on more than half a million hours of sleep data collected via polysomnography from 65,000 participants.Polysomnography is considered the gold-standard overnight sleep exam that uses various sensors to record brain activity, heart activity, respiratory signals, body movements, eye movements and other data. It is “an untapped gold mine of physiological data,” according to the researchers.“We record an amazing number…
Articul8, an enterprise AI company spun out of Intel in early 2024, has secured more than half of a planned $70 million funding round at a $500 million pre-money valuation, according to its CEO, as it looks to capitalize on growing demand for AI systems in regulated industries. The Series B funding round is structured in two installments, with the first led by Spain’s Adara Ventures, Articul8 founder and CEO Arun K. Subramaniyan (pictured above, center) said in an interview. He declined to disclose the size of the initial installment, but said the company expects to close the round in…
Nvidia is challenging Tesla’s robotaxi dreams — but Elon Musk isn’t worried yet.The Tesla CEO said it would take years for the company’s rivals to match its self-driving tech, after Nvidia unveiled an alternative suite of tools it said would help automakers “fast-track” robotaxi deployments.Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang unveiled the tech, called Alpamayo, at the CES conference on Monday and said it would bring “reasoning” to autonomous vehicles. Responding to questions on X about what Alpamayo means for Tesla, Musk said that even with Nvidia’s help, it would take “several years” for automakers to advance their self-driving systems from being…
WASHINGTON (AP) — The Trump administration is giving Iowa more power to decide how it spends its federal education money, signing off on a proposal that is expected to be the first of many as conservative states seek new latitude from a White House promising to “return education to the states.”Iowa was the first state to apply for an exemption from certain spending rules after Education Secretary Linda McMahon invited states to request the flexibility last year. Such waivers have been offered for years but are finding new interest as Trump officials leverage all available tools to remove the federal…
At 25 years old, Molly Graham was thriving in Facebook’s HR department when a senior executive urged her to transfer out of her stable role and help build a mobile phone instead.She took the risk — and it could have derailed her career.But Graham, who later became a C-suite executive at some of America’s biggest companies and philanthropies, now views that risky bet as one of the most important moves she ever made.”It just felt like falling off a cliff,” Graham, now the founder of Glue Club, said in a recent interview on Lenny Rachitsky’s podcast. “Taking risks, accepting the…
Earlier this week, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention abruptly changed the childhood immunization schedule, reducing the number of recommended shots for all children from 18 down to only 11.According to the new schedule, shots will now be categorized in three groups: those recommended for all children, those recommended for only certain high-risk children and others left up to shared clinical decision making, meaning only given if recommended by an individual’s doctor or based on parental preference.Some pediatricians told ABC News that this decision will only cause more confusion and fuel a growing trend of vaccine skepticism and refusal…
A few times a week, Jonathan Freidin, a medical malpractice attorney in Miami, says he’ll notice that people will fill out his firm’s client contact sheet with text littered with emojis and headings. That’s a telltale sign that they copied and pasted from ChatGPT. Other clients will say they’ve “done a lot of research” on their potential case using AI. “We’re seeing a lot more callers who feel like they have a case because ChatGPT or Gemini told them that the doctors or nurses fell below the standard of care in multiple different ways,” Friedin tells me. “While that may…
A few times a week, Jonathan Freidin, a medical malpractice attorney in Miami, says he’ll notice that people will fill out his firm’s client contact sheet with text littered with emojis and headings. That’s a telltale sign that they copied and pasted from ChatGPT. Other clients will say they’ve “done a lot of research” on their potential case using AI. “We’re seeing a lot more callers who feel like they have a case because ChatGPT or Gemini told them that the doctors or nurses fell below the standard of care in multiple different ways,” Friedin tells me. “While that may…
This past weekend, the internet was set ablaze by a post on r/Confessions claiming to be from a software engineer-turned-whistleblower working at a food delivery app. “I’m posting this from a library wi-fi on a burner laptop because I am technically under a massive NDA,” wrote the purported Deep Throat. “You guys always suspect the algorithms are rigged against you, but the reality is so much more depressing than the conspiracy theories.”The poster then went on to make a series of claims about the exploitation of both workers and customers at the unnamed company. Delivery drivers, they said, were called…