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From robotic surgery performed 7,000 miles away to the first blood test to help diagnose Alzheimer’s disease, 2025 has been a year full of medical breakthroughs.Scientists discovered a brain implant to give some patients back their independence, prevented others from needing to take opioids and made a discovery that could help solve the organ shortage crisis.Here are seven of the biggest innovations in the health and science space this year.ALS patient is 1st to control iPad by thought with implantable brain sensorA patient with amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS) became the first person in the world to control an iPad entirely…
Dating app fatigue has gone mainstream, with many people growing tired of swiping, ghosting, being ghosted, and generally treading water while searching for the right fish in the sea.Luckily, there’s a barrage of new apps on the market aiming to help you find the love of your life, a friend with benefits, or both.Some apps, like Sitch and Ditto, use AI to narrow the dating pool, limiting matches or skipping the app interface entirely in favor of text messages. Other apps match users through mutual connections. For singles who are sick of algorithms altogether, there are startups betting on the…
This as-told-to essay is based on a conversation with Rodin Roohipour, a 15-year-old from Los Angeles. It’s been edited for length and clarity. Business Insider verified the email correspondences mentioned.I’ve wanted to start a company since I was 12.When I was younger, at 8, I loved building things. I started coding very early. Then I turned 12, I did this entrepreneurship program, and I got really into it. I kept trying to build these companies, these little side projects, but nothing took off.Eventually, I realized a really important thing you need to have is knowledge. I knew nothing about tech…
Mark Zuckerberg has struck again. Meta Platforms is acquiring Manus, a Singapore-based AI startup that’s become the talk of Silicon Valley since it materialized this spring with a demo video so slick it went instantly viral. The clip showed an AI agent that could do things like screen job candidates, plan vacations, and analyze stock portfolios. Manus claimed at the time that it outperformed OpenAI’s Deep Research. By April, just weeks after launch, the early-stage firm Benchmark led a $75 million funding round that assigned Manus a post-money valuation of $500 million. General partner Chetan Puttagunta joined the board. Per…
Meta said it is acquiring Singapore-based AI startup Manus as part of a push to expand general-purpose AI agents across its products.”Meta’s acquisition of Manus AI will enable us to provide the most advanced technology to our users with safeguards in place to eliminate areas of potential risk,” a spokesperson for Meta told Business Insider in a statement. “There will be no continuing Chinese ownership interests in Manus AI following the transaction, and Manus AI will discontinue its services and operations in China.”Manus was founded in China but relocated to Singapore in mid-2025.The social media giant’s acquisition is another step…
Bubble or no bubble, AI won’t have just one winner, says Jeffrey Katzenberg.On an episode of the “Sourcery” podcast released on Monday, the former DreamWorks CEO turned investor said 2026 will sift out companies that are producing real outcomes with AI from those that aren’t.”Rather than look at it from the sort of extreme notion of what that means for a bubble to burst, I think there’ll be a reckoning here in which those that actually are producing real results and are being deployed in really effective and efficient ways,” he said when asked about whether the AI bubble could…
Climate change worsened by human behavior made 2025 one of the three hottest years on record, scientists said.It was also the first time that the three-year temperature average broke through the threshold set in the 2015 Paris Agreement of limiting warming to no more than 1.5 degrees Celsius (2.7 Fahrenheit) since preindustrial times. Experts say that keeping the Earth below that limit could save lives and prevent catastrophic environmental destruction around the globe.The analysis from World Weather Attribution researchers, released Tuesday in Europe, came after a year when people around the world were slammed by the dangerous extremes brought on…
Flu activity is increasing across the U.S. amid holiday travel and gatherings, according to the latest data the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.The CDC estimates there have been at least 4.6 million illnesses, 49,000 hospitalizations and 1,900 deaths from flu this season so far, according to data updated as of Dec. 19, and experts expect these numbers will continue to rise.Public health experts previously told ABC News that many of this season’s cases are linked to a new flu strain called subclade K — a variant of the H3N2 virus, which is itself a subtype of influenza A –…
A proposed billionaire tax in California has the wealthy threatening to flee, according to a letter written by power lawyer Alex Spiro to Gov. Gavin Newsom.In a December 11 letter that was obtained by Business Insider, Spiro lays out his opposition to the proposed tax on behalf of his clients, who he calls “California residents who would be subject to the proposed Billionaire Tax Act.””It will trigger an exodus of capital and innovation from California,” Spiro wrote. “Our clients have made clear they will permanently relocate if subjected to this tax.”The measure proposes that California residents with assets exceeding $1…
This as-told-to essay is based on a conversation with Gregor Konzett, a 27-year-old former Google employee based in London. It’s been edited for length and clarity.When I got relocated to work out of Google’s Mountain View headquarters in 2024, it was a dream come true.I was raised in a small village in Austria, but I always dreamed of living in Silicon Valley. As a child who was excited about tech, I wanted to be where innovation happened.My team was based in California, but I was working from London. Not even a year into my job, I was asking if I…