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The person who named Google’s Nano Banana AI image-generation model has a pretty good idea of why the world found it so appealing.”One reason we were successful is the model was available everywhere from day one — it didn’t matter what country you were in, or whether you were a developer or a consumer, you had it on the same day,” Product Manager Naina Raisinghani recently told Keyword, Google’s official blog. “And then culturally relevant prompts went viral everywhere, like the popular figurine trend, which started in Thailand, or the saree trend in India.”Google revealed that Raisinghani was the originator…
WASHINGTON (AP) — The Trump administration is delaying its plans to withhold pay from student loan borrowers who default on their payments, backing off a measure that threatened to deliver a financial blow to millions of Americans.The Education Department announced Friday involuntary collections on federal student loans will remain on hold as the agency finalizes new repayment plans. The shift reverses course on earlier plans to restart wage garnishments this month after a pandemic-era pause.Nicholas Kent, the department’s higher education chief, said the agency is “committed to helping student and parent borrowers resume regular, on-time repayment, with more clear and…
By Bhanvi Satija and Maggie FickLONDON, Jan 16 (Reuters) – Novo Nordisk’s Wegovy weight-loss pill has made an “encouraging” start after its launch this month, analysts said on Friday citing early U.S. prescription data, with the market watching closely its battle with U.S. rival Eli Lilly.Novo shares jumped 5% on the news.The U.S. prescription data only covers four days, but gives the first glimpse into the performance of the first such pill to hit the market as drugmakers shift towards cash-pay consumer models.The U.S. Food and Drug Administration is expected to make a decision on Lilly’s pill by April.About 3,071…
After a sharp uptick in flu cases in mid-December 2025, flu activity across the U.S. and Canada remains high.Although cases are trending downward in Canada as of Jan. 9, 2026, the season has yet to peak in the U.S., according to data from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.As an emergency room pediatrician in central Massachusetts, I’m seeing a tremendous amount of flu over the past few weeks. I’m hearing from colleagues in emergency rooms across the country that they are experiencing a similar explosion of flu cases.In early January, New York state recorded the highest number of flu…
It took Rebecca Yu seven days to vibe code her dining app. She was tired of the decision fatigue that comes from people in a group chat not being able to decide where to eat. Armed with determination, Claude, and ChatGPT, Yu decided to just build a dining app from scratch — one that would recommend restaurants to her and her friends based on their shared interests. “Once vibe-coding apps emerged, I started hearing about people with no tech backgrounds successfully building their own apps,” she told TechCrunch. “When I had a week off before school started, I decided it…
(This is an excerpt of the Health Rounds newsletter, where we present latest medical studies on Tuesdays and Thursdays.)Jan 16 (Reuters) – For the first time ever in a human, doctors have performed coronary artery bypass grafting without having to cut through the patient’s chest, similar to how many aortic valve replacement procedures are now done.The CABG procedure re-routes blood around a blockage in an artery carrying blood to the heart. In this case, the surgical tools were inserted and threaded through a blood vessel in the patient’s leg, according to a report published in Circulation Cardiovascular Interventions.The results suggest…
How confident are you in AI? Enough to bet your retirement on it?That’s become a debate thanks to a bold proclamation by Elon Musk: Saving for retirement in 10 or 20 years “won’t matter.”Musk’s confidence comes from the work he’s doing in artificial intelligence. The technological advancements will create an “abundance” of resources, granting everyone a “universal high income,” the Tesla and SpaceX CEO said.That’s easy to say when you have checks notes and almost passes out nearly $700 billion in the bank. What about people whose net worths have a lot fewer zeros?A group of BI reporters reached out…
Longevity and biohacking have become synonymous with the tech world, but an obsession with physical fitness wasn’t always the norm in Silicon Valley, according to one CEO.Brian Chesky, the 44-year-old cofounder and CEO of Airbnb, said he felt like his interest in bodybuilding made him stand out when he first arrived in the late 2000s, and not in a good way.When asked about the latest peptide craze during a “TBPN” livestream on Wednesday, Chesky said he’d been slightly surprised to see the way the tech community has embraced fitness.”When I came to Silicon Valley, I was slightly self-conscious about wearing…
BOSTON (AP) — A federal judge should order the Trump administration to come up with a plan to return a Babson College student mistakenly deported to Honduras just before Thanksgiving, her lawyer said in a court document filed Friday.Any Lucia Lopez Belloza, a 19-year-old freshman, was detained at Boston’s airport on Nov. 20 as she was preparing to fly to surprise her family in Texas for the holidays. She was flown to Honduras two days later. This happened despite an emergency court order to keep her in the U.S. for at least 72 hours. Government lawyers in court admitted they…
WASHINGTON (AP) — Before President Donald Trump’s administration started dismantling the Education Department, the agency served as a powerful enforcer in cases of sexual violence at schools and universities. It brought the weight of the government against schools that mishandled sexual assault complaints involving students.That work is quickly fading away.The department’s Office for Civil Rights was gutted in Trump’s mass layoffs last year, leaving half as many lawyers to investigate complaints of discrimination based on race, sex or disability in schools. Those who remain face a backlog of more than 25,000 cases.Investigations have dwindled. Before the layoffs last March, the…