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Elon Musk said AI will make desk jobs now feel like when workers used to make calculations by hand before the computer age.”I think there will be actually a high demand for jobs, but not necessarily the same jobs,” Musk recently told Joe Rogan on the comedian’s podcast. “So I mean this is actually, this process has been happening throughout modern history.”The xAI CEO says AI is already replacing and will continue to replace desk jobs that are digitally centric, “at an accelerated rate.””It’s just happening,” Musk said. “Like I said, AI is the supersonic tsunami.”Not all jobs are immediately…

Hello, Yahoo readers! My name is Brett Arnold, film critic and longtime Yahoo editor, and I’m back with another edition of Trust Me, I Watch Everything.In theaters this week, a new Predator film crash-lands into theaters alongside Christy, the latest star turn for Sydney Sweeney.At home, you can rent Black Phone 2 and Dwayne “the Rock” Johnson’s Best Actor Oscar vehicle The Smashing Machine. And on streaming services that you’re likely already paying for, Guillermo Del Toro’s highly anticipated Frankenstein makes its debut on Netflix, alongside The Fantastic Four: The First Steps, which arrives on Disney+.Read on, because there’s more,…

A generic blood pressure drug called prazosin, made by Teva Pharmaceuticals, is being recalled by the Food and Drug Administration because it contains elevated levels of cancer-causing chemicals called nitrosamines.The recall, which Teva announced on Oct. 7, 2025, affects more than 580,000 prazosin capsules. Prazosin is prescribed to around 510,000 patients yearly and is used to treat post-traumatic stress disorder as well as high blood pressure.I am a pharmacologist and pharmacist who has studied nitrosamine contamination of popular blood pressure, diabetes and heartburn drugs, as well as other issues in generic drug manufacturing.Prazosin has been available as a generic medication…

Hello Yahoo! I’m Derek Carty of EV Analytics and the creator of THE BLITZ projection system, which if you have Yahoo+, you’ll notice is available this year to help you manage your teams. Each Friday morning, I’ll be digging into 3 players projected to play above their usual level, and 3 players projected to play below their usual level. (I’ll also be doing an AMA in the Yahoo Fantasy Discord every Thursday at 3 p.m. ET, so be sure to stop by, say hi, and get your questions answered.)[Upgrade to Fantasy Plus and gain your edge in player projections and…

Good morning, folks. This weekend, why not make time for a retro game like Battleship or Trivial Pursuit? They’re hall of famers for a reason. Now, on to the news.Subscribe to get this newsletter in your inbox each morning.NEED TO KNOWAndrew Caballero-Reynolds/AFP via Getty ImagesAnti-obesity drugs would become more available to Medicare enrollees, and drugmakers would reduce the average cost of the meds to about $250 over the next two years, under new deals announced by President Trump yesterday.The details: The deals with Eli Lilly, which makes Zepbound, and Novo Nordisk, the maker of Wegovy and Ozempic, would dramatically lower…

In Mount Pleasant, it’s not unusual for first-grade teacher Danielle Bruursema to have a quarter of her 24 students absent on the same day, an alarmingly higher rate than just a few years ago.In Ypsilanti last year, plummeting attendance in now-retired Debbie Swanson’s fifth grade class made it difficult to build course lessons. Maybe 50% of students bothered to show up for scheduled half days.And in Holt, third-grade teacher Michael Adams draws a straight line between rising absenteeism and declining standardized test scores. Days when attendance was too low to teach new material put his class one and a half…

WASHINGTON (AP) — Cornell University has agreed to pay $60 million and accept the Trump administration’s interpretation of civil rights laws in order to restore federal funding and end investigations into the Ivy League school.Cornell President Michael Kotlikoff announced the agreement on Friday, saying it upholds the university’s academic freedom while restoring more than $250 million in research funding that the government withheld amid investigations into alleged civil rights violations.The university agreed to pay $30 million directly to the U.S. government along with another $30 million toward research that will support U.S. farmers.“This agreement revives that partnership, while affirming the…

By Bhanvi Satija and Chad TerhuneLONDON/LOS ANGELES (Reuters) -A Trump administration deal to cut prices for popular weight-loss drugs like Wegovy and Zepbound will allow millions more Americans to give them a try, but the cost may still be too high to ​keep patients long term, U.S. obesity specialists said.President Donald Trump announced on Thursday that Novo Nordisk would reduce monthly prices for Wegovy ‌to $350. Eli Lilly said Zepbound would cost about $300 monthly for the lowest dose, used by many patients solely to start treatment. At higher doses, the cost will go up to $450 ‌per month for…

By Bhanvi Satija and Chad TerhuneLONDON/LOS ANGELES (Reuters) -A Trump administration deal to cut prices for popular weight-loss drugs like Wegovy and Zepbound will allow millions more Americans to give them a try, but the cost may still be too high to ​keep patients long term, U.S. obesity specialists said.President Donald Trump announced on Thursday that Novo Nordisk would reduce monthly prices for Wegovy ‌to $350. Eli Lilly said Zepbound would cost about $300 monthly for the lowest dose, used by many patients solely to start treatment. At higher doses, the cost will go up to $450 ‌per month for…

Mortgage rates are at least a half-point lower than one year ago. According to Freddie Mac, the national average 30-year fixed mortgage rate rose five basis points this week to 6.22% — 57 basis points lower than one year ago. The 15-year rate was up nine basis points to 5.50%, a half-point lower than last year at this time. “This week the 30-year fixed-rate mortgage averaged 6.22%,” said Sam Khater, Freddie Mac’s chief economist. “On a median-priced home, this could allow a homebuyer to save thousands annually compared to earlier this year, showing that affordability is slowly improving.” Here are…