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Imagine you purchase a bag of gummies labeled nootropic – a term used to describe substances that claim to enhance mental ability and function, or “smart drugs.” However, within hours of consuming them, your heart starts racing, you’re nauseated and vomiting. Then you begin convulsing and have a seizure, resulting in a trip to the hospital.You certainly did not expect to have such a severe reaction to an over-the-counter edible product, which is available online and in herbal and vape shops nationwide. What happened?So-called “microdosing” of mushrooms has been on the rise over the past few years, accompanying a shift…
AstraZeneca is making flu protection more convenient with the launch of an at-home delivery option for FluMist, its nasal spray flu vaccine, the company announced Friday.On the market since 2003, FluMist was previously only available at pharmacies or doctors’ offices.Beginning Friday, eligible customers can order it online and have it shipped directly to their door, allowing some parents to vaccinate their children at home without shots or a trip to the pharmacy.“This launch of FluMist Home is a transformational moment in the evolution of influenza protection, bringing a simple and accessible option directly into the hands of consumers,” Joris Silon,…
Pavel Durov, the founder and CEO of Telegram, shared three pieces of advice his dad gave him for leading the messaging app.”A month ago, my father — a leading expert in Ancient Roman literature — turned 80. I asked what advice I should pass to the next generation,” the Russian entrepreneur wrote in a post on X on Thursday. Valery Durov was head of classical philology — the study of language in historical sources — at St Petersburg State University until 2013, the year Pavel cofounded the encrypted messaging service with his brother Nikolai.Durov shared his father’s advice on the…
ANN ARBOR, Mich. (AP) — The NCAA is expected to announce the results of its sign-stealing investigation into Michigan’s college football program on Friday.In a notice sent to the school last year, the NCAA alleged that Michigan football coach Sherrone Moore violated rules as an assistant under former coach Jim Harbaugh.Harbaugh, who left the Wolverines after they won the 2023 national championship and now coaches the Los Angeles Chargers, served a three-game suspension in exchange for the Big Ten dropping its investigation into the allegations after the two ended up in court. Moore also was accused of deleting text messages…
The US has been trailing China in the race for open-source AI. OpenAI’s latest move could help close that gap — but it could also spur China to speed up its own releases.Last week, OpenAI CEO Sam Altman announced GPT-oss, a family of large language models with “open weights.”That means anyone can see or use information determining how the model works after it’s been trained — but not the full source code.”We believe this is the best and most usable open model in the world,” Altman wrote on X on Aug 6.GPT-oss is OpenAI’s first open-weight language model in over…
This as-told-to essay is based on a conversation with Daniel Snell, a 53-year-old cofounder and CEO of Arrival, based in London. The following has been edited for length and clarity.As efficiency starts to improve, whether driven by AI or not, underperformers will get squeezed out.I’ve been running my management consulting and social impact company, Arrival, for 20 years now. Lately, I’ve experienced investors and business leaders hoping that AI can unlock efficiency, productivity, and performance to get organizations growing again.Having worked with senior leaders at companies like Tesco and GSK to help develop high-performing teams, I tell my clients that…
Months ago, Ahmet Tozal took out three credit card loans and withdrew his life savings to make a fortune off crypto.The 44-year-old Turkish garment worker, who lived in Istanbul at the time, said he’d been goaded by a new friend who contacted him via a random WhatsApp message in 2023.The woman claimed she’d messaged him accidentally, but was friendly and seemed interested in Turkey, Tozal said. She told him she was a wealthy businesswoman who would soon be visiting his country on holiday.Tozal said she sent him dozens of photos of herself, a young East Asian woman traveling the world…
In the weeks and months before the Aug. 8 shooting at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention headquarters in Atlanta, posts tying Covid vaccines to mental illness accrued millions of views online.Previously more tightly moderated, some of the world’s largest social media platforms now operate with far fewer guardrails, allowing vaccine misinformation to flourish.On X, for example, verified accounts with hundreds of thousands of followers openly claimed in recent weeks that Covid vaccines act like “chemical lobotomies,” which is false.On Facebook, health influencers with broad reach alleged that Covid vaccines cause severe brain damage or other severe side effects…
WASHINGTON (AP) — As President Donald Trump attempts to reshape college admissions, he’s promising a new era of fairness, with an emphasis on merit and test scores and a blind eye toward diversity. Yet the Republican president’s critics — and some allies — are questioning his silence on admissions policies that give applicants a boost because of their wealth or family ties. While he has pressed colleges to eliminate any possible consideration of a student’s race, he has made no mention of legacy admissions, an edge given to the children of alumni, or similar preferences for the relatives of donors.Trump…
The 2025-26 Premier League season begins Friday with defending champion Liverpool hosting Bournemouth at Anfield.Here’s what to know heading into the new campaign in the world’s most popular soccer league: Emotions high at LiverpoolLiverpool will attempt to retain the top-flight title for the first time since the mid-1980s to the backdrop of a tragedy.It is sure to be an emotional evening Friday as Anfield hosts a competitive match for the first time since the death of Diogo Jota, who played for Liverpool for the past five seasons. Jota and his brother, Andre Silva, were killed in a car accident in…