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It’s the time of the year for holiday cheer, but also the season for coughing, sneezing and everything in between.Cases of common winter illness, such as COVID-19, influenza and norovirus, are spreading far and wide in schools and offices. The week of Dec. 8, norovirus activity was considered “high” by WasteWaterSCAN, a tool managed by Stanford University for tracking pathogens in wastewater. More specifically, WasteWaterSCAN analyzed a 42% increase of norovirus in the median concentration since November.Norovirus is a highly contagious virus that causes vomiting and diarrhea, according to the CDC. It is often called “stomach flu” or “stomach bug.” However,…
RALEIGH, N.C. (AP) — Four-term North Carolina Democratic Gov. Jim Hunt, a towering figure in North Carolina politics in the late 20th century who helped leaders from both major parties strive for public education reform, died Thursday at the age of 88, his daughter Lt. Gov. Rachel Hunt announced.Hunt, whose career provided a prototype for the modern “education governor,” served an unprecedented 16 years as governor as the state received the rewards and stings of shifting from textiles and tobacco to a high-tech economy.Rachel Hunt’s office said that her father died peacefully Thursday at his Wilson County home. “He devoted…
OpenAI isn’t trimming its sails.In a pair of videos and an accompanying chart, top OpenAI executives made the case that the startup’s biggest risk might be not spending enough on securing future compute, even though the company has already committed roughly $1.4 trillion on data center projects over the next eight years and is, according to CEO Sam Altman, five years away from profitability.”We want to be ahead of the curve,” OpenAI President Greg Brockman said in a video posted on X. “And the truth is, I don’t think we will be, no matter how ambitious we can dream of…
2025-12-18T17:31:06.314Z Share Facebook Email X LinkedIn Reddit Bluesky WhatsApp Copy link lighning bolt icon An icon in the shape of a lightning bolt. Impact Link Save Saved Read in app This story is available exclusively to Business Insider subscribers. Become an Insider and start reading now. Have an account? Log in. MrBeast said he’s considering launching a new YouTube channel focused on financial literacy. The world’s top YouTuber separately plans to launch a financial services business. Money is a common thread in MrBeast videos, where he doles out big cash giveaways to contestants. YouTuber MrBeast loves giving away piles of…
Multiple reports suggest that live sports viewing has declined for certain sports, especially among Gen Z. To solve this, leagues and broadcasters are trying to make sports more engaging for fans with different kinds of viewing experiences, stats, and analysis. One way to do this is using volumetric video generation that lets users view the play from various angles, giving an inside-the-video-game experience. The core technology uses numerous cameras to capture the footage in 3D for everyone to look at it from various viewpoints. Canada-based Peripheral Labs wants to make this technology affordable for leagues and teams to so it…
Extra subsidies that made Affordable Care Act plans more affordable for millions of Americans for the past five years are all but guaranteed to vanish on New Year’s Day.In January, most people who buy plans on HealthCare.gov or a state-run marketplace will see a rise in their monthly premium, ranging from a modest bump to hundreds or even thousands of dollars.Subscribe to The Post Most newsletter for the most important and interesting stories from The Washington Post. Congress has been locked in a fierce fight over extending the expiring subsidies, resulting in the longest government shutdown in history, which ended…
PROVIDENCE, R.I. (AP) — Authorities said Thursday that they’re looking into a connection between last weekend’s mass shooting at Brown University and an attack two days later near Boston that killed a professor at another elite school, the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.That is according to three people familiar with the matter who were not authorized to discuss an ongoing investigation and spoke on condition of anonymity. Two of the people said investigators had identified a person of interest in the shootings and were actively seeking that individual.The attacker at Brown on Saturday killed two students and wounded nine others in…
Luma, the a16z-backed AI video and 3D model company, released a new model called Ray3 Modify that allows users to modify existing footage by providing character reference images that preserve the performance of the original footage. Users can also provide a start and an end frame to guide the model to generate transitional footage. The company said Thursday the Ray3 Modify model solves the problems of preserving human performance while editing or generating effects using AI for creative studios. The startup said the model follows the input footage better, allowing studios to use human actors for creative or brand footage.…
For many TikTok employees, the days of working from home are numbered.The company has told US staffers across several large divisions that they will need to return to the office five days a week next year, two affected workers told Business Insider.The return-to-office push, which kicks off in September, will affect US employees across a wide set of roles, including staffers who work on advertising sales, marketing, and product, the employees said. A third staffer said they expected that much of TikTok’s US cohort would be back in the office five days a week next year.TikTok and its owner, ByteDance,…
Swedish vibe-coding startup Lovable has more than tripled its valuation in just five months. Stockholm-based Lovable on Thursday said it had raised $330 million in a Series B funding round that was led by CapitalG and Menlo Ventures, at a $6.6 billion valuation. Khosla Ventures, Salesforce Ventures, and Databricks Ventures also participated, as did other investors. This raise comes mere months after Lovable raised a $200 million Series A round that valued the company at $1.8 billion in July. One of the quickest to capitalize on the AI boom, Lovable has built a “vibe-coding” tool that lets people use text…