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LOS ANGELES (AP) — A doctor charged with giving Matthew Perry ketamine in the month leading up to the “Friends” star’s overdose death will plead guilty, according to an agreement filed in court Monday.Dr. Salvador Plasencia agreed to plead guilty to four counts of distribution of ketamine, according to the signed document filed in federal court in Los Angeles. In exchange for his plea, prosecutors agreed to drop three additional counts of distribution of ketamine and two counts of falsifying records.Federal prosecutors said in a statement that the plea carries a maximum sentence of 40 years in prison. They said…
That delicate conversation about your wife, or a call for help about your daughter — or the weird pocket dial that recorded a conversation with your friend — are all less likely to accidentally end up on the public feed of Meta’s AI app.Mark Zuckerberg’s company is now giving users a new pop-up warning before they share something to Meta AI’s “Discover” feed.This comes after Business Insider reported last week that the feed was full of personal information that appeared to have been accidentally shared — things like a post that showed a parent asking the AI for advice about a…
The 17 members of a federal vaccine advisory committee, who were ousted last week, argued their abrupt dismissal has “left the U.S. vaccine program critically weakened.”The group, speaking collectively for the first time since Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. dismissed them, said his actions “have stripped the program of the institutional knowledge and continuity that have been essential to its success over decades” in an editorial published Monday in the Journal of the American Medical Association.In an unprecedented move last week, Kennedy dismissed each of the 17 members of the Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices, or…
MIAMI GARDENS, Fla. (AP) — Benfica overcame a two-goal deficit, getting Ángel Di María’s penalty kick in first-half stoppage time and Nicolás Otamendi’s 84th-minute goal for a 2-2 draw against Boca Juniors on Monday night in a heated Club World Cup match that included three red cards, four yellows and 21 fouls.Boca Juniors played in a home-like environment with the Argentine club’s supporters making up most of the 55,574 crowd at Hard Rock Stadium against one of Portugal’s premier teams. Both teams finished a man down and one Boca player was sent off after he was substituted from the match…
WASHINGTON (AP) — Shares of Sarepta Therapeutics plunged Monday after the biotech drugmaker reported a second death in connection with its gene therapy for muscular dystrophy.Sarepta reported the death over the weekend and provided additional details about its response, which includes pausing shipments of the therapy, Elevidys, for older patients who are no longer able to walk. The one-time treatment is approved for children with a genetic variant of Duchenne’s muscular dystrophy, which causes weakness, loss of mobility and early death in males.Elevidys is the first gene therapy approved in the U.S. for the rare muscle-wasting condition, but it has…
COLUMBUS, Ohio (AP) — A former Ohio doctor who was fired before being found not guilty on murder charges in the deaths of 14 patients lost a defamation lawsuit against his former employers on Monday, after a judge stepped in for a jury on grounds the evidence presented by the defendants was incontrovertible.Franklin County Common Pleas Judge Stephen McIntosh issued his directed verdict against former doctor William Husel, whose attorneys accused Michigan-based Trinity Health and Mount Carmel Health System in Columbus of orchestrating a campaign to destroy his reputation.Husel was seeking more than $18 million from the health care companies.His…
WASHINGTON (AP) — A federal judge ruled Monday it was illegal for the Trump administration to cancel several hundred research grants, adding that the cuts raise serious questions about racial discrimination.U.S. District Judge William Young in Massachusetts said the administration’s process was “arbitrary and capricious” and that it did not follow long-held government rules and standards when it abruptly canceled grants deemed to focus on gender identity or diversity, equity and inclusion.In a hearing Monday on two cases calling for the grants to be restored, the judge pushed government lawyers to offer a formal definition of DEI, questioning how grants…
Partner, sue, or block?Those tend to be the three available options for publishers when it comes to dealing with artificial intelligence companies scraping their content to train large language models.Nextdoor, the hyperlocal social network, is emphatically choosing the blocking path.”If you spread your content far and wide, there’s a very good chance that one of these better funded, larger operating companies — like a ChatGPT, or Microsoft, or whomever — is going to take all that content, train its models, and then consumers will never have to come to you,” Nirav Tolia, Nextdoor’s CEO, told BI in an interview at…
AI coding tools are everywhere. So what’s the approach that software engineers should be taking to get the most use out of them?GitHub CEO Thomas Dohmke explained what he believes is the “key for winning” in this arena during an episode of “The MAD Podcast with Matt Turck” released Thursday.”I think the key for winning is to have a continuum where you can have an agent write code for you and submit a pull request, but then if you as a developer see that code and you want to make three quick changes, you’ve got to be able to take…
OMAHA, Neb. (AP) — Arkansas’ Gage Wood pitched the third no-hitter in College World Series history and first in 65 years on Monday, striking out a record 19 and never letting Murray State come close to getting a hit in the Razorbacks’ 3-0 victory.Wood joined Jim Ehrler of Texas in 1950 and Jim Wixson of Oklahoma State in 1960 as the only pitchers to throw CWS no-hitters, and his defense was never really challenged as he dominated a Racers team that was making its first Omaha appearance.The junior right-hander, who set the CWS record for strikeouts in a nine-inning game,…