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HOUSTON (AP) — Carlos Correa is returning to Houston, giving the Astros a needed jolt for their infield with a stunning trade from the Minnesota Twins ahead of Thursday’s trade deadline, according to a person with direct knowledge of the deal.The person spoke to The Associated Press on the condition of anonymity because the trade hadn’t been announced. Additional terms of the swap weren’t immediately available.Correa spent his first seven years in Houston, where he became one of the most beloved players in franchise history, helping the team to six playoff appearances, three American League pennants and its first World…
(Reuters) – Elon Musk’s brain implant company Neuralink said on Thursday it will launch a clinical study in Great Britain to test how its chips can enable patients with severe paralysis to control digital and physical tools with their thoughts.The company is partnering with the University College London Hospitals trust and Newcastle Hospitals to conduct the study, it said in a post on X.Neuralink said patients living with paralysis due to conditions such as spinal cord injury and a nervous system disease called Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis (ALS) qualify to participate in the study.The company raised $650 million in its latest…
One person has died and nearly two dozen others are sick in a Legionnaires’ disease cluster in New York City, officials said.The New York City Department of Health said July 30 that it is investigating the cluster, which has left one dead and 22 others sick in Central Harlem.Legionnaires’ disease is a severe pneumonia caused by a type of bacteria called Legionella, according to the CDC.The risk to most people is low, and the disease is not contagious, the agency said. Some people, including those older than 50, smokers or those with a weakened immune system, are at higher risk…
An Austrian startup that has built encryption software to share private data without decrypting it has raised $5.5 million in seed funding from investors including A16z and Archetype VC.Taceo, founded in 2022, has created software that lets companies verify or compute information without decrypting it. That could help payment providers verify transactions or hospitals collaborate on clinical trials without sharing patient data, the startup said.”They can run the algorithms on our encrypted data without prying on us, but still delivering the service that we find so useful,” Lukas Helminger, the cofounder and CEO, told Business Insider.The startup has combined two…
OpenAI said Thursday that it plans to launch Stargate Norway, its first AI data center in Europe, in partnership with British AI cloud infrastructure provider Nscale and Norwegian energy infrastructure firm Aker. Nscale will design and build the site, and it will be a 50/50 joint venture between the two companies. OpenAI will be an “off-taker” in the project, buying capacity from the data center. The announcement comes as Europe races to achieve AI sovereignty and invest in data centers and compute power. Earlier this week, the bloc unveiled details of its multibillion-dollar investment into AI infrastructure, including €10 billion…
ChatGPT, OpenAI’s text-generating AI chatbot, has taken the world by storm since its launch in November 2022. What started as a tool to supercharge productivity through writing essays and code with short text prompts has evolved into a behemoth with 300 million weekly active users. 2024 was a big year for OpenAI, from its partnership with Apple for its generative AI offering, Apple Intelligence, the release of GPT-4o with voice capabilities, and the highly-anticipated launch of its text-to-video model Sora. OpenAI also faced its share of internal drama, including the notable exits of high-level execs like co-founder and longtime chief…
NEW YORK (AP) — U.S. kindergarten vaccination rates inched down again last year and the share of children with exemptions rose to an all-time high, according to federal data posted Thursday.The fraction of kids exempted from vaccine requirements rose to 4.1%, up from 3.7% the year before. It’s the third record-breaking year in a row for the exemption rate, and the vast majority are parents withholding shots for nonmedical reasons.Meanwhile, 92.5% of 2024-25 kindergartners got their required measles-mumps-rubella shots, down slightly from the previous year. Before the COVID-19 pandemic, the vaccination rate was 95% — the level that makes it…
This as-told-to essay is based on a conversation with 59-year-old Marc Kriguer, a software engineer who has been laid off multiple times. His employment history has been verified by Business Insider. This essay has been edited for length and clarity.I fell in love with computers and writing programs when I was in fifth grade. I debugged somebody else’s code a month before turning 10.People didn’t have personal computers in the late 1970s, and people didn’t talk about becoming a software engineer, but I knew then that I wanted to do something with computers.I’ve been a software engineer for 28 years…
Several elite U.S. colleges have made deals with President Donald Trump’s administration, offering concessions to his political agenda and financial payments to restore federal money that had been withheld.Ivy League schools Columbia, Brown and the University of Pennsylvania reached agreements to resolve federal investigations. The Republican administration is pressing for more, citing the deal it negotiated with Columbia as a “road map” for other colleges.There is a freeze on billions of dollars of research money for other colleges including Harvard, which has been negotiating with the White House even as it fights in court over the lost grants.Like no other…
Autonomous vehicles have long been touted as “just around the corner,” but the reality of what it takes to bring self-driving cars to the streets is anything but simple. At TechCrunch Disrupt 2025, happening October 27–29 at Moscone West in San Francisco, Waymo co-CEO Tekedra Mawakana joins the Disrupt Stage for a wide-ranging conversation on the current state of AVs — and where the industry goes from here. Inside the self-driving reality check While the headlines often focus on crashes, controversies, or overblown promises, Tekedra has spent years navigating the real-world path to autonomous mobility. At Disrupt, she’ll dig into…