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By Ricardo Brito, Manuela Andreoni and Adriano MachadoSAI CINZA, Brazil (Reuters) -Deep in the Amazon, Indigenous women say they fear getting pregnant.Rivers that have been the lifeblood of their people now carry mercury from illegal gold mining, threatening the health of their unborn children.”Breast milk is no longer reliable,” said Alessandra Korap, a leader of the Munduruku people.At Sai Cinza, a Munduruku community surrounded by illegal mines, the family of three-year-old Rany Ketlen struggles to understand why she has never been able to raise her head and suffers from muscle spasms.Scientists may soon have an answer. Rany is one of…

I’ll admit I’m fairly skeptical of the results of xAI’s new Grokipedia and its mission to be an anti-woke version of Wikipedia.And yet, after testing it out a little bit, I was surprised to find that, in certain cases, it seems better than Wikipedia.Of course, its entries for hot-button things like “Elon Musk” or “gender” are exactly what you’d expect for its “unbiased” mission. It hurts my head to think about this too much, so I won’t linger on this.But most pages are not hotbeds of “wokism,” so they end up almost word-for-word identical to Wikipedia. (Grokipedia is able to…

By Jonathan Stempel(Reuters) -A federal judge on Friday said 36 drugmakers and executives must face nearly all claims in an antitrust lawsuit brought by most U.S. states, accusing them of conspiring to fix prices of 80 generic drugs.Chief Judge Michael Shea of the federal district court in Connecticut rejected claims that 45 states, the District of Columbia and four U.S. territories waited an unreasonably long time to pursue federal antitrust claims, and missed formal deadlines to file similar claims under state laws.Led by Connecticut, the states accused drugmakers including Pfizer, Perrigo and Sandoz of conspiring to raise prices, limit competition…

Eric Zelikman, a top AI researcher who departed xAI in September, is raising $1 billion at a $4 billion valuation for his new startup, Humans&, according to sources with knowledge of the deal.Humans&’s eye-popping funding round comes amid a frenzy of early-stage AI deals, where valuations have soared despite limited products or revenue. Thinking Machines Labs, the AI firm started by former OpenAI CTO Mira Murati, raised $2 billion in a seed round earlier this year at a $12 billion valuation.Venture capitalists are pouring billions into startups led by prominent researchers, betting that the next breakthrough in AI will come…

Powder supplements sold at Sam’s Club stores are linked to at least 11 cases of Salmonella in seven states, federal health authorities said Friday.Member’s Mark Super Greens Powder Supplements, which were sold at the discount chain’s stores nationwide and online, have been pulled from store shelves because they contain moringa leaf powder that may be contaminated with Salmonella bacteria, the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention said in an alert posted on its website.”If you have any of the products listed below in your home, throw them out or return them to the store,” the agency said, while noting…

I told you in July that there have never been companies like these. I was talking about tech giants, including Apple, Amazon, Google, Meta, Microsoft, and Nvidia. Most of the Magnificent 7.After this week, I’m narrowing the group to three. Bernard Golden, a cloud industry veteran who literally wrote the book on the technology, calls this group “AMG.” That’s Amazon, Microsoft, and Google.These are the largest cloud providers by far. This business has reached a scale that the world has never seen before. It creates a powerful financial loop that builds momentum almost every quarter.To get in the game, you…

At least 11 people have been sickened, including three who were hospitalized, with salmonella infections linked to powder supplements sold at Sam’s Club stores nationwide and online, federal health officials said Friday.Member’s Mark Super Greens Powder Supplements have been pulled from store shelves because they contain moringa leaf powder that may be contaminated with salmonella bacteria, the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention said.Infections were confirmed in seven states: Florida, Kansas, Michigan, North Carolina, New York, South Carolina and Virginia. Illnesses were reported between May and September.The source of the salmonella was traced to a single lot of organic…

In the new AI gold rush, startups aren’t raising money every year; they’re raising massive rounds every month. Perplexity, the buzzy AI search challenger to Google, has become the poster child for back-to-back fundraising, facing investor demand at valuations from $14 billion to as high as $50 billion in just a few months, Business Insider has learned.The frenzy is fueling investor FOMO — and fears of a modern-day bubble.Perplexity and its peers are buoyed by AI juggernauts like OpenAI and Anthropic, which continue to raise money at eye-popping valuations. OpenAI was most recently valued at $500 billion in a secondary…

2025-10-31T18:59:53Z 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. Tom Occhino, chief product officer at Vercel, knows a lot about AI, open-source technology, and software development. He spent over a decade at Meta, where he helped build React, a wildly popular framework for developing web user interfaces and apps.Tom was one of the first technologists to introduce me…

Core Scientific shareholders on Thursday voted down an all-stock acquisition offer from partner and competitor CoreWeave that was valued at the time at $9 billion.   They did so following a vote-no recommendation from their largest shareholder, Sina Toussi of Two Seas Capital, a firm that focuses on post-bankruptcy companies. Core Scientific emerged from its bankruptcy in January 2024.   Core Scientific, which began as a crypto miner and still is one, shares that early history with AI data center provider CoreWeave, which also started as a miner.   But CoreWeave, with investor and partner Nvidia, has now transitioned to serving…