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Manage your relationships like you manage your stock portfolio.That’s the advice that Andrew “Boz” Bosworth, the CTO of Meta, gave in a blog post this week about what he described as managing your “emotional economy.””Imagine each person in your life as a publicly traded security,” Bosworth, who has been at Meta since 2006, wrote. “You’re heavily invested in a few — your parents, your partner, your manager. You hold small positions in many others, like coworkers or acquaintances. And then there are people you have no stake in at all — strangers on the street, commenters online, passing critics.”Bosworth said…

COPENHAGEN (Reuters) -Bavarian Nordic announced on Friday a new contract with the European Commission, allowing countries across Europe to buy up to eight million doses of its smallpox and mpox vaccine over the next four years.Under the framework replacing a 2022 deal, 1.1 million doses have already been committed, with 750,000 scheduled for delivery in 2026, while provisions are made for donations to low-income countries at adjusted pricing, the Danish biotech said.”This agreement is a recognition of public health security as part of the resilience that the EU is building to unify against threats on a larger scale,” Bavarian CEO…

Almost two years after a jury awarded the family at the center of the “Take Care of Maya” case more than $261 million against Johns Hopkins All Children’s Hospital in St. Petersburg, Florida, an appellate court has reversed the entire verdict and cleared the pathway for a new trial.The Second District Court of Appeals released its opinion on Wednesday, Oct. 29, reversing the entire verdict, including the $208 million in compensatory and punitive damages, and cleared a path for a new trial on a limited number of claims, including Maya Kowalski’s intentional-infliction-of-emotional-distress (IIED) claim, and the remaining false imprisonment, battery and…

This as-told-to essay is based on a conversation with 28-year-old Jen Baik, a former Google employee who left the company to focus on AI safety. The following has been edited for length and clarity.My first two years at Google, working as a product operations manager for Google Meet, were magical in a way I could have never imagined. The job was challenging, and I got to collaborate with some of the best people I’ve ever encountered.It was perfect on paper, but something was missing. As time went on, being on the outskirts of the suffering I knew was happening in…

On TikTok last week, I watched a woman bury her dog in the snow on Mount Everest after he died during the punishing trek. Commenters berated the woman for animal cruelty, but this isn’t actually a sad story where the dog dies. The woman, the pup, and the mountain are all AI-generated, presumably by OpenAI’s video generator Sora 2 (although the watermark from the video had been removed, the account’s handle is Soralice). Likely from just a few lines prompting, the whole scene was born.Researchers have sounded alarms about realistic generative AI images and videos bolstering bad actors to create…

Corporate America has touted artificial intelligence as the start of a new era of productivity, but Goldman Sachs’ latest report suggests job cuts are already on the horizon.Goldman’s analysis is based on a survey of 105 Goldman bankers, who service clients across various industries. It offers a behind-the-scenes look at how major US companies are actually utilizing AI and what that means for their workforces.The survey found that companies are primarily turning to AI to boost productivity and revenue — not to slash costs — with nearly half of banking clients using the technology to drive growth. This compares with…

Sam Altman wants his money back. The OpenAI CEO made a post on X on Thursday, titled “A tale in three acts.” In his post, Altman shared a screenshot of an email from July 2018 confirming a $45,000 deposit for a second-generation Tesla Roadster.He also attached screenshots of a follow-up email he sent on Thursday, asking to cancel the order and requesting a $50,000 refund, only for the email to bounce.”I really was excited for the car! And I understand delays. But 7.5 years has felt like a long time to wait,” Altman said in a follow-up post on Thursday.Representatives…

In the southern Idlib countryside, once a frontline in Syrian civil war, residents are trickling back to their villages after years in exile. Repairing and reopening damaged and looted schools is key to the return of the displaced, but nearly a year after former President Bashar Assad was ousted in a rebel offensive, hundreds of schools are still destroyed. Millions of children in Syria remain out of school, while others are attending class in gutted buildings without basic supplies. A student reads a book while leaning against a wall of the Maar Shmarin Primary School, its surface scarred by bullet…

MAAR SHAMARIN, Syria (AP) — In the southern Idlib countryside, once a frontline in Syrian civil war, residents are trickling back to their villages after years in exile.Repairing and reopening damaged and looted schools is key to the return of the displaced, but nearly a year after former President Bashar Assad was ousted in a rebel offensive, hundreds of schools are still destroyed. Millions of children in Syria remain out of school, while others are attending class in gutted buildings without basic supplies. A schoolhouse with no windows or chairsSafiya al-Jurok and her family fled the town of Maar Sharamin…

WASHINGTON (AP) — Across the country, school crossing guards provide a vital service protecting children as they go to and from school. Many of them say the job is rewarding. But an investigation by AP and Cox Media Group Television Stations shows it can also be dangerous. Here are some key takeaways from the AP and Cox Media Group Investigation:—There is no systematic way to track how many crossing guards are injured or killed each year.A database compiled by the AP and Cox Media Group shows that at least 230 school crossing guards across 37 states and Washington, D.C., were…