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OSLO, Norway (AP) — The award Friday of the Nobel Peace Prize to Venezuelan opposition leader María Corina Machado has brought this week’s Nobel announcements to a conclusion. Only, the economics prize on Monday remains.The peace prize is the only Nobel awarded in Oslo, Norway. The others are awarded in Stockholm.The award ceremony will be held on Dec. 10, the anniversary of the death of Alfred Nobel, who founded the prizes. Nobel was a wealthy Swedish industrialist and the inventor of dynamite. He died in 1896.Here are this year’s winners so far:MedicineOn Oct. 6, the Nobel Prize in medicine was…
By Deena Beasley(Reuters) -Retail pharmacies and prescription drug savings site GoodRx are talking with the Trump administration about joining its TrumpRx website, they told Reuters, suggesting an expansion beyond the early description of it as a link to pharmaceutical companies’ direct discounts.Drugmakers, including Pfizer and Amgen, are offering to sell some brand-name medications directly to consumers at the negotiated prices they get from insurers rather than much higher list prices.Some say they will work with TrumpRx, spurred in part by President Donald Trump’s threats of steep tariffs on drugmakers that don’t cut prices and increase U.S. manufacturing. The site is…
This is an as-told-to conversation with Grant Hill, a junior at Brigham Young University, majoring in music and economics. He will intern at Boston Consulting Group in the summer of 2026. This conversation has been condensed and edited for clarity.When I started college, I never thought I’d end up in consulting. I was a music major playing the cello at Brigham Young University, and consulting seemed like something only economics or finance students did.That changed when I got a message from someone in BYU’s Management Consulting Association, a group for students interested in consulting. At the time, I was serving…
Having spent a week on Sora 2, I’ve been closely watching its main public feed. I’m sorry to report that I’m seeing some very bad signs on OpenAI’s new social video app.It’s not just the potential copyright violations or the misinformation, but something even more corrosive to a burgeoning social platform: Sora 2 seems to be overrun with teenage boys.One of the earliest things I noticed looking at the “Latest” feed of all new posts is that there were very, very few women. This is not good news for OpenAI. Generally speaking, if a social platform is a scary place…
Microsoft plans to ward off competition from AI coding tools by overhauling its GitHub service, according to audio from an internal meeting reviewed by Business Insider.The transformation has its roots in something that used to frustrate cofounder Bill Gates.”Bill used to always say that there’s only one category: It’s called Information Management,” CEO Satya Nadella said in the meeting. “In fact, the thing he used to get frustrated by is, why the heck do I have a different app for writing a document, a different app for a website, and a different (development software) for writing an app?”AI is finally…
KILIFI, Kenya (AP) — The daily grind of putting food on the table is stressful for people the world over, especially for women, who still provide the bulk of that work. A changing climate adds to the anxiety.Kaloleni in Kilifi County is one of Kenya ’s poorest areas. Women carry buckets of water for miles through the dusty landscape. Homes are mostly built of mud and have no indoor plumbing. Maize plants wither in the heat.“These communities are struggling to grow their crops and have to spend money on food,” said Zul Merali from The Aga Khan University, who has…
By Jennifer RigbyLONDON (Reuters) -The Gates Foundation and the Pan American Health Organization are both working on ways to make weight-loss drugs like Novo Nordisk’s Wegovy and Eli Lilly’s Mounjaro more accessible in lower-income countries, the global health groups told Reuters.In separate interviews, Microsoft founder Bill Gates and PAHO director Dr Jarbas Barbosa said for the first time that their organizations were each seeking strategies to remedy the unequal availability of the highly effective but expensive treatments.About 70% of the roughly one billion people with obesity live in low and middle-income countries which may struggle to meet the costs of…
MANCHESTER, England (AP) — Manchester is saying its last goodbye to boxing icon Ricky Hatton.The former world champion died last month aged 46. His funeral was being held Friday in the city’s cathedral and fans lined up as the cortège made its way through the streets.Former boxing world champions at the funeral included Tyson Fury, Amir Khan and Kell Brook. Fans began to line up outside the cathedral hours before the coffin carrying Hatton arrived. “As a boxing fan, and as a friend of his, I think he leaves a massive legacy behind him because he was one of the…
Some call it parity. Others consider it bad football.No matter how it’s viewed, the NFL is providing plenty of close games, thrilling comebacks, big upsets and late-minute heroics. It keeps viewers entertained — or at least tuned in until the end.Five weeks in, 24 games have featured a winning score in the final two minutes of regulation or in overtime. That’s the most through Week 5 in league history. Seven teams did it last week, including Tampa Bay for the fourth time already this season. Six teams overcame double-digit deficits last week. Four of those teams trailed by 14 points…
LOS ANGELES (AP) — The Los Angeles Dodgers are on track to be the first repeat World Series champions in a quarter century, helped along by superb starting pitching, a flame-throwing rookie in the bullpen and strong defense.They were swigging and spraying from bottles with — oops — NLCS on the labels while partying in the team’s batting cage after a wild 2-1 victory over the Philadelphia Phillies in 11 innings on Thursday night.“We’re going to find a way to win a ballgame even when things aren’t going our way,” utility player Kiké Hernández said.NL West champion Los Angeles took…