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The largest nursing strike in New York City could be nearing the end as thousands of nurses reached tentative agreements with some hospitals, according to the nurses’ union.Approximately 10,500 members of the New York State Nurses Association (NYSNA) reached agreements with Montefiore, Mount Sinai Hospital and Mount Sinai Morningside and West, NYSNA said in an announcement on Monday morningThe nurses will hold ratification votes and, if the agreements are ratified, return to work at the end of the week, the union said in the announcement.Largest nursing strike in New York City history begins amid stalled contract negotiationsSome 4,200 nurses are…

Anthropic is in the final stages of raising $20 billion in new capital at a valuation of $350 billion, Bloomberg reports, with investor demand leading the company to raise twice the funding it set out to obtain. The company raised $13 billion in equity funding just five months ago, but intense competition between frontier labs and the ongoing cost of compute has made it eager to raise as quickly as possible. Firms expected to participate in the round include Altimeter Capital Management, Sequoia Capital, Lightspeed Venture Partners, Menlo Ventures, Coatue Management, Iconiq Capital, and Singapore’s sovereign wealth fund, but the…

The best fitness trackers can help you train smarter and better understand your body’s signals. Top wearables go far beyond counting steps — they also measure heart rate, recovery, sleep quality, and strain. This all helps you know when to push harder or when to rest. But fitness trackers aren’t all built the same. Some prioritize smartwatch features, while others double down on big-picture health. There are also different styles, including wrist watches and smart rings. As a longtime fitness writer, I’ve spent the last year testing more than 15 fitness-focused wearables head-to-head. I compared them while strength training, hiking,…

David Geeslin can still remember what it felt like to start learning American Sign Language as a toddler.“My world became much clearer and more colorful,” Geeslin said through an ASL interpreter. “It wasn’t black and white anymore.”Sign language opened up opportunities for Geeslin. When he was 3 years old, he enrolled at Indiana School for the Deaf. After earning his bachelor’s, master’s and doctorate degrees, Geeslin served as superintendent there until retiring in 2025.Now, though, Geeslin and other prominent members of the local Deaf community are concerned that a new master’s program at Butler University will result in fewer deaf…

Businesses are generating more video than ever. From years of broadcast archives to thousands of store cameras and countless hours of production footage, most of it just sits unused on servers, unwatched and unanalyzed. This is dark data: a massive, untapped resource that companies collect automatically but almost never use in a meaningful way. To tackle the problem, Aza Kai (CEO) and Hiraku Yanagita (COO), two former Googlers who spent nearly a decade working together at Google Japan, decided to build their own solution. The duo co-founded InfiniMind, a Tokyo-based startup developing infrastructure that converts petabytes of unviewed video and…

LONDON, Feb 9 (Reuters) – Asking AI about medical symptoms does not help patients make better decisions about their health than other methods, such as a standard internet search, according to a new ​study published in Nature Medicine.The authors said the study was important as people were increasingly turning ‌to AI and chatbots for advice on their health, but without evidence that this was necessarily the best and safest approach.Researchers led by the ‌University of Oxford’s Internet Institute worked alongside a group of doctors to draw up 10 different medical scenarios, ranging from a common cold to a life-threatening haemorrhage…

By Nancy LapidFeb 9 (Reuters) – Drinking a few cups of caffeinated coffee or tea every day may help in a small way to preserve brain power and ​prevent dementia, researchers reported on Monday.People with the highest daily intake of caffeinated ‌coffee had an 18% lower risk of developing dementia compared to those with the lowest such intake, according to ‌a study based on responses to questionnaires by 132,000 U.S. adults spanning four decades.The study, published in JAMA, also found that the people with the highest intake had a lower rate – by nearly 2 percentage points – of self-perceived…

NEW YORK (AP) — Nurses and two major hospital systems in New York City have reached a deal to end a nearly monthlong strike over staffing levels, workplace safety, health insurance and other issues.The tentative agreement announced Monday by the nurses’ union involves the Montefiore and Mount Sinai hospital systems. Nurses remain on strike at NewYork Presbyterian.The walkout began Jan. 12, prompting the hospitals to scramble to hire legions of temporary nurses to fill in during a demanding flu season.The union said members at Montefiore and Mount Sinai hospitals will vote this week on whether to ratify the contracts and…

Health officials in the nation’s capital warned people who attended the National March for Life rally in January may have been exposed to measles.DC Health said three people infected with measles visited various locations in Washington, D.C. between Jan. 21 and Feb. 2, including the annual anti-abortion march. The rally reportedly drew thousands of attendees including Vice President JD Vance, Speaker of the House Mike Johnson and other members of Congress.Other potential measles exposure sites include major transit hubs like Ronald Reagan Washington National Airport and Union Station as well as the Catholic University of America and the Basilica of…

ROCKVILLE, Md. (AP) — A student was shot inside a high school in Maryland on Monday and another student was in custody, police said.One student was found with a gunshot wound in a hallway and was taken to a hospital in stable condition, the Rockville City Police Department said in a post on Facebook.The suspect, also a student, was identified and arrested near the school shortly after, the department said.“At this time, there is no further threat to public safety,” police said.Officers were dispatched at 2:15 p.m. because of reports of shots fired at Thomas S. Wootton High School in…