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Two companies processed and supplied dried milk powder that could be a culprit in the outbreak of botulism tied to ByHeart infant formula that has sickened dozens of babies, The Associated Press has learned.Organic whole milk powder that tested positive for the type of bacteria that causes botulism was made from milk provided by Organic West Milk Inc., a California company, and processed at a Dairy Farmers of America plant in Fallon, Nevada, company officials said.The source of the contamination, however, is not yet known. Both companies and the U.S. Food and Drug Administration emphasized that the investigation into the…
Elon Musk’s X is the latest social network to roll out a feature to label edited images as “manipulated media,” if a post by Elon Musk is to be believed. But the company has not clarified how it will make this determination, or whether it includes images that have been edited using traditional tools, like Adobe’s Photoshop. So far, the only details on the new feature come from a cryptic X post from Elon Musk saying, “Edited visuals warning,” as he reshares an announcement of a new X feature made by the anonymous X account DogeDesigner. That account is often…
ServiceNow announced a deal with major AI player Anthropic just a week after it announced a partnership with OpenAI. Enterprise workflow software company ServiceNow has entered into a multi-year deal with AI research lab Anthropic on Wednesday. This partnership involves further embedding of Anthropic’s AI models into ServiceNow’s platform for its customers and bringing Anthropic’s AI to its employees. ServiceNow declined to clarify the duration of the partnership or the monetary size of the deal. This deal entails making Anthropic’s Claude model family the preferred AI models across ServiceNow’s AI-driven workflow products. Claude is now also the default model powering…
Roughly a year after starting a weight loss drug, tennis champion Serena Williams says the medication has made her the healthiest she has ever been.Williams, 44, announced her exit from professional tennis in 2022 after a 27-year career, 23 Grand Slams and four Olympic gold medals. Even during the peak of that career, she told NBC News, she struggled to lose weight from diet and exercise. Williams also worried about the risk of diabetes, which runs in her family and is diagnosed at higher rates among Black people compared with the general population.Advertisement“Sometimes, no matter what you do, no matter…
Meta announced Wednesday that it will charge developers for running chatbots on WhatsApp in regions where regulators are forcing the company to allow them. The move comes after the company’s ban on third-party chatbots on WhatsApp took effect on January 15. For now, Meta will charge developers in Italy, where the country’s competition watchdog asked the company to suspend its policy last December. The company said that the new pricing for non-template responses will begin on February 16. Meta plans to charge $0.0691/ €0.0572 / £0.0498 per message to developers for AI responses. This could result in steep bills for developers…
America’s Poison Centers, the organization representing more than 50 accredited poison control centers nationwide, is reporting a spike in weather-related calls including carbon monoxide poisonings following last weekend’s winter storm, which dropped massive amounts of snowfall and caused a deep freeze across much of the country.Nearly 200 winter-related calls have come into poison centers since Jan. 21, with 32.8% of exposures involving carbon monoxide and more than a quarter of poison center calls for winter-related exposures involving children under 6, America’s Poison Centers told ABC News.Monroe Carell Jr. Children’s Hospital at Vanderbilt in Nashville, Tennessee, reported an increase in carbon monoxide…
AI data-labeling startup Handshake has acquired data label-auditing startup Cleanlab, the companies tell TechCrunch. Handshake began in 2013 as a platform for hiring college grads and launched a human data-labeling business about a year ago to serve foundational AI model companies. Cleanlab, founded in 2021, is a startup that provides software for improving the quality of data produced by human labelers. The deal’s purpose is primarily to acquire talent, aka an acqui-hire, adding nine key Cleanlab employees to Handshake’s research organization. This includes the startup’s co-founders, who earned their PhDs in computer science from MIT: Curtis Northcutt (pictured above), Jonas…
Jan 28 (Reuters) – Elon Musk’s brain implant company Neuralink said on Wednesday it now has 21 total participants enrolled in trials worldwide, as it completes two years since it officially began testing on humans.This marks an increase from the 12 people the company in September said had received its chips and were using them to control digital and physical tools through thought.The implant is designed to help people with conditions such as a spinal cord injury. The first patient has used it to play video games, browse the internet, post on social media and move a cursor on a…
The best 85-inch TVs can transform your living room into a home theater, delivering a level of immersion that smaller TVs just can’t match. The downside? Prices jump quickly at this size, so choosing the right model is crucial if you want great performance without blowing your budget.To make that choice easier, I’ve rounded up the best 83- and 85-inch TVs you can buy right now. I’ve been reviewing home theater gear for more than a decade, and I test TVs with a focus on picture quality, smart features, and overall value. For most people, the TCL QM7K is the…
CAMBRIDGE, Mass. (AP) — Rose Byrne, fresh off her Golden Globe Award win and Oscar nomination for the leading role in “If I Had Legs I’d Kick You,” was named as the 2026 Woman of the Year by Harvard University’s Hasty Pudding Theatricals on Wednesday. Byrne, who also has starred in “Bridesmaids,” “Neighbors,” “Insidious,” and “Damages,” will be honored Feb. 13 with a parade through the streets of Cambridge, Massachusetts. After that, she will receive her pudding pot award at a celebratory roast. She will then attend a performance of Hasty Pudding Theatricals’ 177th production “Salooney Tunes.”In her review of…