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(Reuters) -Microsoft is partnering with Harvard Medical School to enhance its Copilot AI assistant with health content, as part of a broader effort to reduce its dependence on ChatGPT-maker OpenAI, the Wall Street Journal reported on Wednesday.Copilot, following an update scheduled for release as soon as this month, is set to use Harvard Health Publishing information to respond to healthcare queries, the report said, citing people familiar with the matter.Microsoft will pay Harvard a licensing fee, the report added.In an interview with the Journal, Dominic King, vice president of health at Microsoft AI, said that the company’s aim is for…

LOS ANGELES (AP) — Kyle Schwarber homered twice, his first towering shot clearing the right-field pavilion in a three-run fourth inning, and the Philadelphia Phillies avoided a sweep with an 8-2 victory over the Los Angeles Dodgers in Game 3 of their NL Division Series on Wednesday night.It was the first Schwarbomb of the postseason for the NL’s leading home run hitter and the first allowed by the Dodgers in these playoffs. Schwarber snapped an 0-for-8 skid in the NLDS, slugging a 96-mph fastball from Yoshinobu Yamamoto 455 feet. “It’s ridiculous how far that ball went,” Phillies shortstop Trea Turner…

Jensen Huang said President Donald Trump’s $100,000 H-1B visa fee could’ve prevented his own family from immigrating to the United States.The Nvidia CEO, who has previously said the fee is probably too high, told CNBC’s “Squawk Box” on Wednesday how it might’ve affected him personally had it been in place when he immigrated to the United States.”I don’t think that my family would have been able to afford the $100,000, and so the opportunity for my family and for me to be here would not have been possible with this current policy,” Huang said.Huang, who is 62, was born in…

At nearly the same moment as Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang was expressing surprise over OpenAI’s multibillion-dollar deal with competitor AMD — shortly after his company agreed to invest up to $100 billion into the AI model maker — Sam Altman was saying that more such deals are in the works. Huang appeared on CNBC’s Squawk Box on Wednesday. When asked if he knew about the AMD deal before it was announced, he answered, “Not really.”   As TechCrunch previously reported, OpenAI’s deal with AMD is unusual. AMD has agreed to grant OpenAI large tranches of AMD stock — up to 10%…

DAKAR, Senegal (AP) — An Ebola outbreak that has plagued southern Congo in recent weeks is starting to be contained, the World Health Organization said Wednesday, with no new cases reported since the U.N. health agency’s last update on Oct. 1.“As of Oct. 5, 2025, 10 days have passed without any newly reported cases, indicating potential control of transmission in the affected areas,” the agency said during a news conference.The agency said a total of 64 cases, including 53 confirmed and 11 probable, have been reported in Congo’s Kasai Province as of Oct. 5. The WHO also reported 43 deaths,…

PHOENIX (AP) — The Las Vegas Aces didn’t play their best late in Game 3 in the WNBA Finals, coughing up a 17-point lead in the final quarter that meant the game came down to one offensive possession with five seconds remaining.Even so, there wasn’t any panic. The security of having a four-time MVP in the paint is nice.A’ja Wilson made a turnaround jumper with 0.3 seconds left, capping a stellar 34-point, 14-rebound night and lifting the Aces over the Phoenix Mercury 90-88 on Wednesday night for a 3-0 lead in the WNBA Finals.Aces coach Becky Hammon said there wasn’t…

NEW YORK (AP) — Aaron Judge walked slowly from first base to the Yankees dugout after Cody Bellinger ended the game with a strikeout, then turned his his head to watch the Toronto Blue Jays celebrate on New York’s infield.“You don’t like seeing it and it kind of leaves an impression,” Judge said. “Make sure this doesn’t happen next year.”New York’s 16th consecutive season without a championship ended Wednesday night with a 5-2 loss to Toronto, which won the AL Division Series 3-1 and advanced to a pennant matchup against Seattle or Detroit. An hour after the game, Giancarlo Stanton…

NEW YORK (AP) — Vladimir Guerrero Jr. and George Springer each drove in a run, and eight Toronto pitchers shut down the New York Yankees in a 5-2 victory Wednesday night that sent the Blue Jays to the American League Championship Series for the first time in nine years.“Kind of fitting that it took everyone to win today,” said manager John Schneider, soaked in bubbly from the clubhouse celebration inside Yankee Stadium.Nathan Lukes provided a two-run single and Addison Barger had three of Toronto’s 12 hits as the pesky Blue Jays, fouling off tough pitches and consistently putting the ball…

After two years of war and dire food shortages, more than 54,600 children younger than 5 in Gaza may be acutely malnourished, with more than 12,800 severely affected, according to a new study by a U.N. agency.By early August, roughly 16% of children ages 6 months to just under 5 years in Gaza were suffering from a life-threatening type of malnutrition known as acute wasting, including nearly 4% with severe wasting, according to the analysis by the U.N. Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees in the Near East, the primary health care provider to Palestinian refugees in the region.Wasting…

By Nancy Lapid(Reuters) -Last year’s updated COVID-19 vaccines helped prevent severe outcomes including hospitalizations and deaths, according to data from a large study of U.S. military veterans published on Wednesday.Vaccinated veterans who developed COVID after receiving the 2024-2025 boosters from Moderna or Pfizer/BioNTech were also less likely to visit the emergency room for complications, compared with unvaccinated COVID patients, researchers reported in The New England Journal of Medicine.The researchers tracked 164,132 veterans who simultaneously received a 2024-2025 COVID booster and a flu shot, and 131,839 who received only the flu vaccine.The vast majority of participants were at least 45 years…