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Tim Cook has been running Apple for more than 14 years, but he won’t be CEO forever.With leadership transitions this year, including Cook’s longtime number two, Jeff Williams, announcing his retirement before 2026, John Ternus has emerged as a likely frontrunner for the top job, according to reports in the last year and a half.The 65-year-old could leave the role as early as next year after Apple’s January earnings report, the Financial Times recently reported, and that the iPhone maker has intensified succession planning. Bloomberg previously identified Ternus as “the most likely heir apparent.”Cook has previously said that his ideal…
Alice Wong, the trailblazing disability rights advocate and author, died on Nov. 14 at a hospital in San Francisco. She was 51.Wong, the founder of the Disability Visibility Project, died of an infection, her family said in a statement posted on social media by Wong’s friend Sandy Ho, executive director of the Disability & Philanthropy Forum.”She will be remembered as being a fierce luminary in disability justice, a brilliant writer, editor and community organizer,” her family said.Alice Wong, author of “Disability Visibility.”Ho shared a message Wong wrote before her death in which she said she never imaged she “would live…
By Jacob Gronholt-Pedersen and Maggie FickCOPENHAGEN (Reuters) -Novo Nordisk said on Monday it would lower the U.S. price of its injectable Wegovy obesity drug and pledged to go “all in” on its upcoming oral weight-loss pill, as the firm races to claw back lost ground in the lucrative market.The Danish drugmaker is waiting for a U.S. regulatory decision on the oral version of Wegovy by year-end, with the pill format expected to appeal to patients who prefer to avoid injections of the current Wegovy formulation.”We have more than enough pills this time, so we’re going to go all in and…
Hours after savoring that perfectly grilled steak on a beautiful summer evening, your body turns traitor, declaring war on the very meal you just enjoyed. You begin to feel excruciating itchiness, pain or even swelling that can escalate to the point of requiring emergency care.The culprit isn’t food poisoning – it’s the fallout from a tick bite you may have gotten months earlier and didn’t even notice.This delayed allergic reaction is called alpha-gal syndrome. While it’s commonly called the “red meat allergy,” that nickname is misleading, because alpha-gal syndrome can cause strong reactions to many products, beyond just red meat.The…
A Chinese Tesla rival is betting on huggability to take on Elon Musk’s Optimus robot.EV startup Xpeng unveiled the latest version of its humanoid robot, called Iron, earlier this month, and CEO He Xiaopeng said the company wanted its bipedal bots to be “highly human-like.”In an earnings call on Monday, he told analysts that Xpeng had found adding fake muscles and “bionic skin” to Iron made people more comfortable touching and even hugging the robot.”This is very exciting because traditional robots really were not that attractive and appealing for human beings to give them a hug,” said Xiaopeng. Xiaopeng said…
The biggest companies in the world are spending billions and billions on AI — specifically on “large language models” like the kind that power the likes of ChatGPT, Google’s Gemini, and Meta’s Llama.That’s a mistake, says the man who, until recently, headed Meta’s AI push.”LLMs are great, they’re useful, we should invest in them — a lot of people are going to use them,” said Yann LeCun, who’s still an AI researcher at Meta for the moment, speaking at an event in Brooklyn Sunday night. “They are not a path to human-level intelligence. They’re just not. Right now, they are…
Google is rolling out new AI-powered features to book and plan travel in Search, the company announced on Monday. The tech giant is expanding availability for its AI-powered “Flight Deals” tool, adding the ability for users to organize travel plans with its “Canvas” tool in AI Mode, and launching agentic booking capabilities to more people. Google first launched Flight Deals back in August in the U.S., Canada, and India. Now, the company is expanding the AI-powered search tool within Google Flights globally to help people quickly find affordable destinations. To get started, users need to describe where, when, and how…
“I’ll worry about my heart health when I’m older.”That may be too late, doctors warn.While the average age for being diagnosed with heart disease in the United States is typically in the mid-60s for men and early 70s for women, the factors, such as high blood pressure, diabetes and bad cholesterol levels, can start years, sometimes decades, earlier.A new online heart risk calculator could help younger adults learn whether they’re likely to develop heart disease, as much as 30 years in the future, according to a study published in the Journal of the American College of Cardiology on Monday. That’s…
Novo Nordisk is cutting the out-of-pocket prices of its popular weight-loss drug Wegovy and diabetes drug Ozempic for some consumers.Current customers who pay for the drugs out of pocket — without the help of health insurance — will now be charged $349 per month, down from $499, the Danish drugmaker said Monday.Novo Nordisk also announced that it will charge $199 per month for new patients who pay for the drugs out of pocket, with the offer covering two months of the treatments. After that, the cost of the drugs will rise to $349 per month. The introductory $199 offer will…
If you pay attention to what the biggest tech companies are saying about AI demand, you’ll notice a common thread: they’re running short of compute capacity. That means the large language models underpinning AI products today need even more data centers to be trained and for inferencing, and therefore, they need more power. Against that backdrop, energy efficiency has suddenly become a critical priority for semiconductor manufacturers. PowerLattice, a startup founded by veteran electrical engineers from Qualcomm, NUVIA, and Intel in 2023, claims to have developed a groundbreaking approach that reduces the power needs of computer chips by more than…