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xAI is losing one of its cofounders.Igor Babuschkin, who founded xAI alongside Elon Musk in 2023, said he’s leaving the artificial intelligence startup.In a farewell post on X on Wednesday, Babuschkin wrote that he’s leaving xAI to start Babuschkin Ventures. It will focus on AI safety research and startups developing AI and agentic systems that can “advance humanity and unlock the mysteries of our universe.”In his post, Babuschkin recounted his journey from a CERN particle physics Ph.D. student to helping Musk build xAI from scratch.Babuschkin said he learned two major lessons from Musk.”I learned 2 priceless lessons from Elon: #1…

By Bhanvi Satija(Reuters) -More than one in four U.S. adults with diabetes used one of the injectable medicines that target the GLP-1 protein last year, the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention said on Thursday.The wildly popular and effective GLP-1 drugs Mounjaro from Eli Lilly and Ozempic from Novo Nordisk are approved in the United States for treating type 2 diabetes. They are sold as Zepbound and Wegovy, respectively, for weight loss and are being tested for other conditions.Use of the injectable drugs was highest among adults with diabetes aged 50–64 at 33.3%, reflecting the more significant disease burden…

xAI CEO Elon Musk paid a rare compliment to his rival Google on Wednesday.”Outside of real-world AI, Google has the biggest compute (and data) advantage for now, so currently has the highest probability of being the leader,” Musk wrote in an X post.But that “may change in a few years,” he added.”For the foreseeable future, the major AI companies will continue to prosper, as will xAI. There is just so much to do!” Musk wrote.Musk and Google did not respond to requests for comment from Business Insider.Google has long been a mainstay in AI.In 2017, Google Research released a paper…

PARIS (AP) — Paris Saint-Germain dominated Ligue 1 last season, losing only two games as it benefited from a lack of domestic rivalry to also embark on a victorious Champions League campaign.But things might prove more difficult for coach Luis Enrique and his PSG team this season, because Marseille and Monaco are determined to mount credible title challenges after strong summer signings.PSG, whose first competitive test of the new season came in a comeback win Wednesday over Tottenham in the UEFA Super Cup, also has a long-awaited local derby against newly-promoted Paris FC to contend with. Get ready for PSG…

GAINESVILLE, Fla. (AP) — No matter the offense, states must educate students in juvenile detention. It’s a complicated challenge, no doubt — and success stories are scarce.In Florida, where more than 1,000 students are in long-term confinement, the state last year put those kids’ schooling online. That’s despite strong evidence that online learning failed many kids during the pandemic. The state juvenile justice system contracted with the Florida Virtual School, one of the nation’s oldest and largest online learning systems.State leaders were hoping Florida Virtual School would bring more rigorous, uniform standards across their juvenile justice classrooms. When students left…

LONG BEACH, Calif. (AP) — It’s a beach run, a coastal row and a music party rolled into one, and it’s about to become an Olympic event. On a sunny Southern California morning, nearly two dozen athletes gathered to try their hand at beach sprints at a camp run by USRowing in Long Beach, not far from where the inaugural Olympic races will be held in 2028. Many were long-time flatwater rowers who wanted to take a shot at something new. Others were already hooked on the quick-paced and unpredictable race format and have been training with an eye on…

GAINESVILLE, Fla. (AP) — To earn his freedom, 15-year-old Cayden Gillespie had to complete three school assignments a day. But school had gone virtual for Cayden and other incarcerated young people in Florida. And sometimes, he didn’t understand it.One day last summer, he kept failing an online pre-algebra test. There were too many words to read. He didn’t know how to find the value of x. And there were no math teachers to show him.“I couldn’t figure it out, and it kept failing me,” Cayden says. He asked the adult supervising the classroom for help. “She didn’t understand either.”Frustrated, Cayden…

ANAHEIM, Calif. (AP) — Shohei Ohtani racked up seven strikeouts and pitched into the fifth inning. He tripled, scored and reached base twice at the plate.The two-way superstar still couldn’t stop his team from falling deeper into a losing streak in Anaheim.Sound familiar? Angels fans know this melancholy story all too well — and now Dodgers fans have experienced it, too.Ohtani stepped back in time in more ways than one when he returned to the Angel Stadium mound Wednesday night for the first time since he switched teams in Los Angeles’ crosstown rivalry.For six seasons, the three-time MVP couldn’t make…

LOS ANGELES (AP) — Los Angeles students and teachers return to class for the new academic year Thursday under a cloud of apprehension after a summer filled with immigration raids and amid worries that schools could become a target in the Trump administration’s aggressive crackdown.Los Angeles Unified School District Superintendent Alberto Carvalho has urged immigration authorities not to conduct enforcement activity within a two-block radius around schools starting an hour before the school day begins and until one hour after it classes let out.“Hungry children, children in fear, cannot learn well,” Carvalho said in a news conference.He also announced a…

The Food and Drug Administration may revoke authorization for Pfizer’s COVID-19 vaccine for healthy children under age 5, the pharmaceutical company confirmed, which would limit parents’ vaccine options ahead of the winter respiratory virus season.The possibility comes several months after President Donald Trump’s Department of Health and Human Services began placing limits on COVID-19 vaccines. For the last four years, updated COVID-19 vaccines have been made available in the fall for most Americans before the cold sets in.The federal agency told Pfizer that it might not renew the emergency use authorization, or EUA, for the Pfizer-BioNTech COVID-19 vaccine Comirnaty for…