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Canada has lost its measles elimination status, the country’s Public Health Agency announced Monday. It’s the first country in the Americas to do so since the pandemic, and it could serve as a warning sign for others.There are multiple criteria for losing an official measles elimination status, including declines in vaccination rates. The most significant factor is the ongoing spread of the same strain of the virus for a full year.Canada’s outbreak started in October 2024 in New Brunswick, a province on the country’s eastern seaboard. As of Monday, Canada’s health officials had tallied 5,138 measles cases since the outbreak…
Google Maps is adding new AI features, including a builder agent and an MCP server — a tool that connects AI assistants to Google Maps’ technical documentation — to help developers and users create interactive projects using Maps data and code. The company said it is using Gemini models across the board to power these features. Among these new tools, the builder agent is a tool that, just like many other coding tools, lets you describe the kind of interactive map-based prototype you want to build in text and creates one for you. For instance, you can type “create a…
In the wake of a measles outbreak in Canada that has infected thousands of people over the past year, an international health agency revoked the country’s measles-free status on Nov. 10, 2025.The Pan American Health Organization, which serves as the World Health Organization’s regional office for the Americas, made this announcement after the agency’s measles elimination commission met in Mexico City to review the latest public health data.As a global health epidemiologist who studies the spread of infectious diseases, this change in status does not surprise me. Measles is highly contagious, and a drop in childhood vaccination rates in Canada…
YouTube TV is offering subscribers a rebate as its fight with Disney drags on — with a few caveats.The Google-owned TV service said Sunday that it’s offering customers a $20 bill credit, partially reimbursing them for the sports and shows they’ve missed on Disney’s networks, like ESPN, in the last 11 days. This rebate takes off about a quarter of YouTube TV’s $83 a month price tag.”We know it’s been disappointing to lose Disney content, and we want you to know we deeply appreciate your patience,” YouTube TV said in an email to subscribers about the $20 bill credit. YouTube…
(Reuters) -MeiraGTx Holdings has signed a deal with Eli Lilly, potentially worth over $475 million, granting the pharma giant rights to its experimental gene therapy for a rare, inherited disorder that causes severe vision loss from birth.Shares of the gene therapy developer rose 12.5% to $9.55 in premarket trading on Monday after the news.Under the deal, MeiraGTx will get an upfront payment of $75 million and potentially over $400 million more in milestone payments. MeiraGTx is also eligible to receive tiered royalties on licensed products.This marks Lilly’s latest effort to tap the market for eye treatments and bolster its focus…
After helping several enterprises document how work actually happens, Scribe has raised $75 million at a $1.3 billion post-money valuation to roll out Scribe Optimize, a platform that maps workflows across the enterprise to reveal where automation and AI will actually yield returns — instead of becoming another sunk cost. The all-equity Series C round was led by StepStone, with participation from existing investors Amplify Partners, Redpoint Ventures, Tiger Global, Morado Ventures, and New York Life Ventures. The new funding comes over a year after Scribe raised its $25 million Series B, capital the five-year-old startup has largely not needed…
Although LLM-powered AI agents are a fairly new phenomenon, one of the areas where they’ve been most popular so far is in sales. 1mind, a startup co-founded by Amanda Kahlow, has been quietly shipping its sales agent, named Mindy, for about a year. On Monday, the startup announced a $30 million Series A round led by Battery Ventures. This brings 1mind’s total raise to $40 million, the company says. Kahlow is well known in the sales and marketing tech world as the founder and former CEO of 6sense. It was launched in 2013 as a lead-generation tool that tracked signals across social media and other sites to identify potential customers. She left in…
Ring founder Jamie Siminoff turned his video doorbell into a $1 billion sale to Amazon. He has some advice for the next generation of founders.In an interview with Business Insider, Siminoff offered a handful of tips, ranging from the books founders should read to the reasons they should build. He even recommended they go on “Shark Tank.”Asked which book a founder should read, Siminoff first referenced his own, “Ding Dong.” He said the “best book,” though, was an almost 20-year-old biography of a business maverick.Siminoff recommended Neal Gabler’s “Walt Disney: The Triumph of the American Imagination.””When you read stuff from…
HONG KONG (AP) — Vaishnavi Srinivasagopalan, a skilled Indian IT professional who has worked in both India and the U.S., has been looking for work in China. Beijing’s new K-visa program targeting science and technology workers could turn that dream into a reality. The K-visa rolled out by Beijing last month is part of China’s widening effort to catch up with the U.S. in the race for global talent and cutting edge technology. It coincides with uncertainties over the U.S.’s H-1B program under tightened immigrations policies implemented by President Donald Trump.“(The) K-visa for China (is) an equivalent to the H-1B…
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