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Nvidia shares hit a record high on Wednesday, closing at $154.31 and lifting the chipmaker’s market value to $3.77 trillion. The move allowed the AI titan to reclaim the title of the world’s most valuable company — but one firm thinks the rally isn’t even close to being over.The stock extended its record high on Thursday, rising about 1% to $155.The latest jump to record highs marks an impressive comeback for Nvidia after struggling against headwinds like the reveal of China’s DeepSeek AI and the impact of tariffs earlier in the year.But the party is just getting started, according to…
NEW YORK (AP) — Jeremy Didier had taken her son to a psychologist for a possible ADHD evaluation when she spotted an article about women with the condition. As she read it in the waiting room, she thought to herself: They’re describing me.“Lots of risk-taking, lots of very impulsive behavior growing up,” Didier said. As the magazine described, she’d excelled in school but gotten in trouble for talking too much. She’d amassed too many speeding tickets as an adult. She turned to her husband and said, “I think I might have ADHD.”Didier is now the board president of Children and…
The overabundance of attention paid to how people are turning to AI chatbots for emotional support, sometimes even striking up relationships, often leads one to think such behavior is commonplace. A new report by Anthropic, which makes the popular AI chatbot Claude, reveals a different reality: In fact, people rarely seek out companionship from Claude, and turn to the bot for emotional support and personal advice only 2.9% of the time. “Companionship and roleplay combined comprise less than 0.5% of conversations,” the company highlighted in its report. Anthropic says its study sought to unearth insights into the use of AI…
The overabundance of attention paid to how people are turning to AI chatbots for emotional support, sometimes even striking up relationships, often leads one to think such behavior is commonplace. A new report by Anthropic, which makes the popular AI chatbot Claude, reveals a different reality: In fact, people rarely seek out companionship from Claude and turn to the bot for emotional support and personal advice only 2.9% of the time. “Companionship and roleplay combined comprise less than 0.5% of conversations,” the company highlighted in its report. Anthropic says its study sought to unearth insights into the use of AI…
YouTube is rolling out new AI-powered features to help users find content and information more easily, the company announced on Thursday. The platform is launching an AI-powered search results carousel similar to Google’s AI Overviews and is also testing conversational AI with more users. The new AI-powered search results carousel, available only to YouTube Premium users in the United States, will suggest videos and display brief AI-generated topic descriptions to help users find what they’re looking for faster. YouTube says the AI-powered search results carousel will appear in searches related to shopping, places, or things to do at a specific…
NEW YORK (AP) — Johni Broome is like most basketball players, dreaming of being drafted as a kid and then working hard enough to make it possible.So the fact that it didn’t happen until the second round and a second day wasn’t going to dampen his enthusiasm.The Auburn All-American was taken by the Philadelphia 76ers with the No. 35 selection on Thursday night, five picks into the second round.“Being here, this is probably the most exciting moment of my life so far,” Broome said. “As a kid you always want to be drafted, hear your name called, put on the…
College sports leaders seeking antitrust and other protections from Congress have a potential bargaining chip: School assurances that they will provide funding for their increasingly imperiled Olympic programs, by far the biggest pipeline of talent for Team USA. Four people familiar with the talks told The Associated Press that lawmakers, mostly from the Democratic side that will need to provide votes to help any legislation pass the Senate, have been approached by college sports experts and policy shapers to explore options in exchange for support of a bill that some Democrats oppose. One of the clearest tradeoffs would be for…
In their first vote since appointed by Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr., the eight members of a vaccine committee voted to recommend a shot that protects infants against respiratory syncytial virus, or RSV.Clesrovimab, a monoclonal antibody created by pharmaceutical giant Merck, is recommended for use in infants younger than eight months born during or entering their first RSV season.Martin Kulldorff, who led the June 26 meeting, recently served as an expert witness for plaintiffs who accused Merck of concealing the risks of Gardasil, a vaccine used to prevent cancer from human papillomavirus, or HPV.The eight new…
In the four months since he began serving as secretary of the Department of Health and Human Services, Robert F. Kennedy Jr. has made many public statements about vaccines that have cast doubt on their safety and on the objectivity of long-standing processes established to evaluate them.Many of these statements are factually incorrect. For example, in a newscast aired on June 12, 2025, Kennedy told Fox News viewers that 97% of federal vaccine advisers are on the take. In the same interview, he also claimed that children receive 92 mandatory shots. He has also widely claimed that only COVID-19 vaccines,…
The Trump administration’s vaccine advisers are bringing up an old flu-shot debate: whether it’s time to wipe out the last small fraction of those vaccines that contain a controversial preservative called thimerosal.It’s a question seemingly laid to rest years ago, as studies showed no evidence that the preservative causes any health problems.“This is really a nonissue,” said Dr. Sean O’Leary of the American Academy of Pediatrics.Here are some things to know about the substance.What is thimerosal?Thimerosal is a preservative used in certain vaccines since the 1930s, as well as in some other medical products.It was mostly used in multi-dose vials…