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Harvard University is reinvestigating connections between its former president Larry Summers and Jeffrey Epstein, a university spokesperson said Wednesday.The university didn’t mention Summers by name, but the decision to reopen a probe follows the release of emails showing that Summers, a former U.S. Treasury Secretary, maintained a friendly relationship with Epstein long after the financier pleaded guilty to soliciting prostitution from an underage girl in 2008. “The University is conducting a review of information concerning individuals at Harvard included in the newly released Jeffrey Epstein documents to evaluate what actions may be warranted,” spokesperson Jason Newton said in a statement…
SOKOTO, Nigeria (AP) — Nigeria’s leader promised authorities would intensify efforts to rescue 24 schoolgirls who were abducted by gunmen earlier this week from a school in the country’s northwestern region.The girls were kidnapped from their dormitory before dawn on Monday, when gunmen attacked their boarding school, the Government Girls Comprehensive Secondary School, in the town of Maga in Nigeria’s Kebbi state. Local police said that the gunmen scaled the fence to enter the dorm and exchanged gunfire with police officers guarding the school before seizing the girls and killing a staff member.No group has claimed responsibility for the attack,…
TikTok, an app that was once just a place for user-generated content, is launching a new setting that lets users choose how much AI-generated content they want to see in their “For You” feed. The company is also introducing more advanced labeling technologies for AI-generated content. The new AI-generated content (AIGC) control is rolling out within the app’s “Manage Topics” tool, which lets users choose what they see on TikTok. “Manage Topics already enables people to adjust how often they see content related to over 10 categories like Dance, Sports, and Food & Drinks,” TikTok explained in a blog post.…
2025-11-19T01:00:22.657Z 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. Elon Musk made his first public visit to the White House since his feud with Trump. He appeared at a dinner with Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman on Tuesday night. The two men have recently experienced a thaw in their relationship. Elon Musk made it back to the…
By Jennifer RigbyLONDON (Reuters) -Ultra-processed foods are a major public health threat that must be urgently addressed, according to a new series of papers authored by 43 global experts in the Lancet medical journal.The scientists, including the Brazilian professor who coined the term with colleagues around 15 years ago, argue that UPFs are now increasingly common worldwide and linked to a decline in diet quality and a number of diseases, from obesity to cancer.“It’s about the evidence we have today about … ultra-processed foods and human health,” Carlos Monteiro, professor at the University of Sao Paulo, said at an online…
Soumith Chintala, a former AI leader at Meta and one of the most influential figures in modern AI infrastructure, has joined former OpenAI CTO Mira Murati’s startup, Thinking Machines Lab.”[T]hinking machines…the people are incredible,” Chintala posted to his X account on Tuesday. He also updated his X bio and LinkedIn profile to indicate that he is now working at the startup, marking his first move since leaving Meta earlier this month.Chintala was one of the creators of PyTorch, an open-source AI framework developed at Facebook and widely used in tech and academia. He is a significant addition for Thinking Machines…
WILMINGTON, N.C. (AP) — Michael Jordan is giving $10 million to a North Carolina regional medical center in honor of his mother.The six-time NBA champ and now businessman announced the gift to Novant Health New Hanover Regional Medical Center in Wilmington on Tuesday. With the donation, the medical center will name its neuroscience institute after Deloris Jordan.“My mother taught me the importance of compassion and community, and I can’t think of a better way to honor her than by helping to ensure those in need can obtain the most advanced neurological care available,” Jordan said about his donation.The money helps…
Hugging Face co-founder and CEO Clem Delangue says we’re not in an AI bubble, but an “LLM bubble” — and it may be poised to pop. At an Axios event on Tuesday, the entrepreneur behind the popular AI platform and community site agreed that bubble talk is today’s “trillion dollar question,” but said he doesn’t believe AI’s future is at risk if the bubble bursts. Instead, as Delangue sees it, it’s large language models (LLMs) — like those powering ChatGPT, Gemini, and other chatbots — are receiving outsized attention and that attention may not last. “I think we’re in an…
ChatGPT could be exactly what the doctor ordered when you’ve got a burning medical question at 2 a.m. Or, its advice might hurt you.The problem? It’s hard to tell the difference.Subscribe to The Post Most newsletter for the most important and interesting stories from The Washington Post. I selected a dozen real conversations that people had with ChatGPT about medical problems, from a trove of 47,000 ChatGPT conversations compiled by The Washington Post.Then I gave them to Robert Wachter, chair of medicine at University of California at San Francisco and asked him to grade ChatGPT’s work. How did the chatbot’s…
This was always the thing OpenAI needed to fear.On Tuesday, Google announced Gemini 3, its latest AI model. Google says it’s better at coding, and much more creative — but that’s not what its rivals should be most worried about.Google’s all-out offensive is putting the “Pro” version of Gemini 3 directly into the hands of users and developers, and, most significantly, it marks the first time Google is introducing its new AI model to search on day one. That means users can access Gemini 3 in Google search by clicking “AI mode,” rather than downloading an app or visiting a…