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When Maureen Green was diagnosed with breast cancer several years ago, the finance professional and mom-of-two decided to try scalp cooling, a treatment that helps preserve hair during chemotherapy.”I was really afraid I would look in the mirror and really not know who I was and that I wouldn’t recognize myself,” Green, who was treated at Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center in New York, said.MSK Cancer Center – PHOTO: Scalp cooling is expensive, but Maureen Green and her family decided it was worth the price while she was being treated for breast cancer.Breast cancer resources: What you need to know…
Every day, your immune system performs a delicate balancing act, defending you from thousands of pathogens that cause disease while sparing your body’s own healthy cells. This careful equilibrium is so seamless that most people don’t think about it until something goes wrong.Autoimmune diseases such as Type 1 diabetes, lupus and rheumatoid arthritis are stark reminders of what happens when the immune system mistakes your own cells as threats it needs to attack. But how does your immune system distinguish between “self” and “nonself”?The 2025 Nobel Prize in physiology or medicine honors three scientists – Shimon Sakaguchi, Mary Brunkow and…
The last six months for my fellow Temu victims have been a roller coaster of emotions. Denial, bargaining, anger, acceptance … I’ve been through it all since April when President Trump announced big plans to close a shipping loophole. But now, I bring good news on my ongoing journey of buying cheap plastic garbage for low, low prices: I was able to get a new Temu order in — with no big extra fees. The sweet, sweet smell of bargains and microplastics was once again filling my nostrils, and my heart is full.To explain how we got here, I have to…
OpenAI unveiled new API updates at its Dev Day on Monday, introducing GPT-5 Pro, its latest language model, its new video generation model Sora 2, and a smaller, cheaper voice model. The updates were part of a series of announcements geared toward wooing developers to OpenAI’s ecosystem, including the launch of an agent-building tool and the ability to build apps in ChatGPT. The addition of GPT-5 Pro might appeal to developers building applications in finance, legal, and healthcare — industries that need “high accuracy and depth of reasoning,” per OpenAI CEO Sam Altman. Altman also noted that voice capabilities will be essential in the future as it quickly becomes one of the…
Top YouTube creator MrBeast is worried about AI’s impact on creators’ livelihoods, despite having dabbled with using the technology himself. On Monday, the creator posted his concerns on social media, where he openly wondered how AI-generated videos could affect the “millions of creators currently making content for a living.” “Scary times,” he added. MrBeast, whose real name is Jimmy Donaldson, is No. 1 on Forbes’ 2025 list of top creators, with $85 million in earnings and 634 million followers. What he says and does, as a result of his position, has an outsized influence across the industry. So if MrBeast…
Amazon is one of the world’s largest retailers, which means it has perfected the process of quickly fulfilling orders to a science. Still, that doesn’t mean mistakes don’t occasionally arise. If you experience a problem with your Amazon order, contacting Amazon customer service can help you resolve it, whether you need to initiate a return or exchange, make changes, or troubleshoot other issues that arise.Luckily, contacting Amazon customer service is a painless, quick, and easy process. That said, there are a few ways to go about it, which is why we’ve broken it all down for you right here. Ahead,…
TEMPE, Ariz. (AP) — Arizona Cardinals coach Jonathan Gannon said he apologized to Emari Demercado after a heated sideline conversation following the running back’s costly, unforced fumble during a 22-21 loss to the Tennessee Titans on Sunday.“I woke up this morning and didn’t feel great about it, honestly,” Gannon said Monday. “So in the team meeting I addressed it, I apologized to Emari, apologized to the team. I just told them I let the moment of what happened get the better of me.”Demercado looked like he had a 72-yard touchdown run early in the fourth quarter that would have increased…
OpenAI CEO Sam Altman on Monday announced the launch of AgentKit, a toolkit for building and deploying AI agents, at the firm’s Dev Day event. “AgentKit is a complete set of building blocks available in the open AI platform designed to help you take agents from prototype to production. It is everything you need to build, deploy, and optimize agent workflows with way less friction,” Altman said. The launch highlights OpenAI’s push to increase developer adoption by making agent building faster and easier. It also signals a competitive move against other AI platforms racing to offer integrated tools for building autonomous agents for enterprises…
OpenAI is launching a new way for developers to build applications inside of ChatGPT. Starting Monday, users in ChatGPT will be able to access interactive applications from companies like Booking.com, Expedia, Spotify, Figma, Coursera, Zillow, and Canva. OpenAI is also launching a preview of the Apps SDK, the developer-facing toolkit to build these apps. OpenAI made the announcement at its annual developer conference, DevDay 2025. “We want ChatGPT to be a great way for people to make progress, to be more productive, more inventive, to learn faster, to do whatever they’re trying to do in their lives better,” said CEO…
OpenAI CEO Sam Altman said Monday that ChatGPT has reached 800 million weekly active users, marking an increase of adoption among consumers, developers, enterprises, and governments. ChatGPT’s impressive growth comes as OpenAI is on a race to secure as many AI chips and build as much AI infrastructure as possible. In August, OpenAI said it was on the cusp of reaching 700 million weekly active users, already an increase from 500 million weekly active users at the end of March. “Today, 4 million developers have built with OpenAI,” Altman said. “More than 800 million people use ChatGPT every week, and we process over 6 billion tokens per…