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The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention has issued a food safety alert for a salmonella outbreak the agency said is linked to ready-to-eat, home delivery meals made by the company Metabolic Meals, the agency said Friday.”CDC and public health officials in several states are investigating a multistate outbreak of Salmonella infections linked to certain home delivery meals made by Metabolic Meals,” the CDC stated. “Do not eat affected Metabolic Meals products while the investigation is ongoing. Check your refrigerator and freezer for these products and throw them away or contact the company.”What to know about salmonella outbreak from delivery…

Scale AI, the data-labeling startup that Meta invested $14 billion in, has made cuts to a key team that helps the company test artificial intelligence models for potential harms.Twelve contractors working for Scale AI’s Red Team received emails terminating their work on Friday evening, according to multiple current and former workers who requested anonymity due to the sensitivity of the matter.The email, which Business Insider viewed, read, “Your assignment is being terminated as your performance has fallen below the standards of the role.”Based in San Francisco, Scale AI helps tech companies improve their latest chatbots by doing things like rewriting…

CLEVELAND (AP) — Slade Cecconi didn’t need anyone in Cleveland’s dugout to tell him he was throwing a no-hitter. He found out on his own.Stealing a glance at Progressive Field’s giant scoreboard in the fourth inning, Cecconi noticed something unusual.“I was like, huh, a lot of zeros up there on our side,” he said.He kept it like that for a while.Cecconi took a no-hitter into the eighth before Kansas City’s Micheal Massey hit a leadoff single to spoil the right-hander’s bid to throw the majors’ first no-hitter this season and finally end Cleveland’s four-plus-decades-long drought without a no-hitter.But that hardly…

COVID-19 cases remained relatively steady week-over-week in late August, though data from states showed “very high” viral activity at the end of the month, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC).Some regions of the United States are experiencing higher rates of positive COVID-19 tests than others, though reporting has slowed down enough nationwide that the CDC has begun allowing more time to pass between certain types of updates, such as those on variant prevalence.However, amid the confusion of new strains, changing vaccine guidelines and cuts to vaccine development funding, the CDC continues to track cases, hospitalizations and deaths on a weekly basis.Here’s…

Palmer Luckey just added a new vehicle to his collection — one that flies.Over the weekend, Luckey took the Jetson One for a spin. The electric VTOL (vertical take-off and landing) aircraft was first announced in 2021, spawning a flurry of news about the future of flying vehicles. Almost four years later, Jetson completed its first worldwide delivery to the Oculus and Anduril cofounder.In a video of his test flight, Luckey “christened” the vehicle by removing what appeared to be the protective plastic covering the aircraft’s control panel. Jetson founder and CTO Tomasz Patan and CEO Stéphan D’haene assisted in his…

I’ve been testing home entertainment products for over a decade, so I have lots of experience with different TV brands. Year after year, LG’s displays are among the top options I review, and the company is an especially good choice if you’re looking for an OLED TV. That said, certain models are definitely better than others. To help you find the right set for your needs, I’ve picked the best LG TVs for different budgets and viewing habits.The C4 OLED is my top recommendation as the best LG TV overall. This midrange display offers an exceptional balance between price and…

AI needs a better brain — and Edo Liberty is building it. At TechCrunch Disrupt 2025, happening October 27–29 at Moscone West in San Francisco, Pinecone founder and CEO Edo Liberty will explain why the next wave of AI-native apps won’t be driven by bigger models, but by smarter search. With 10,000+ startup and VC leaders expected to be at Disrupt, this AI Stage fireside chat and presentation is a must-attend session. The future of AI isn’t more data — it’s better retrieval As AI becomes more embedded in every workflow, the real differentiator isn’t just the algorithm — it’s…

Cognition AI, the startup behind AI coding agent Devin, has hit a $10.2 billion valuation after raising $400 million, marking a jump from the company’s $4 billion valuation earlier this year, reports Bloomberg.  Founders Fund, the Peter Thiel-backed VC, led Cognition’s latest round, with participation from existing investors like Lux Capital, Joe Lonsdale’s 8VC, Elad Gil, Definition Capital and Swish Ventures. In July, Cognition acquired AI coding startup Windsurf, just days after Google poached the startup’s CEO, co-founder, and research leads. The raise comes after serious growth for Cognition’s core product. The startup’s annual recurring revenue from Devin has climbed…

Google is expanding AI Mode — its AI-powered Search experience — to five new languages, opening access to additional users around the world, after being limited to English for over six months. On Monday, Google announced that AI Mode will now support Hindi, Indonesian, Japanese, Korean, and Brazilian Portuguese. The update follows last month’s rollout of the AI-powered experience to 180 new markets in English, after initially launching in the U.S. and later expanding to the U.K. and India. “With this expansion, more people can now use AI Mode to ask complex questions in their preferred language, while exploring the…

Rising temperatures in the United States are prompting people to reach for products with added sugar, like sodas and ice cream, according to a new study.In the study, published Monday in Nature Climate Change, researchers used household food purchase data from 2004 to 2019 in the U.S. to determine how monthly average temperature affected daily added sugar consumption. They found consumption steeply increased in temperatures between 12 and 30 degrees Celsius, or about 54 and 86 degrees Fahrenheit, with a marked spike in consumption when temperatures exceeded 20 degrees Celsius, or 68 degrees Fahrenheit.The biggest driver of sugar consumption came…