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Lovable CEO Anton Osika says he isn’t bothered by Mark Zuckerberg’s aggressive AI hiring spree at Meta.In an interview that aired Monday, Osika told podcaster Harry Stebbings that his vibe-coding startup was looking for a “very different type of talent” than Meta.”For Zuck, it’s like there’s these 10 people that know everything about how to train foundation models and he’s paying more for that knowledge than for these people,” Osika told Stebbings.But that sort of talent isn’t what Lovable is looking for, Osika said.”They wouldn’t perform as well as the engineers in my team, doing what we are doing. So…

KAMPALA, Uganda (AP) — Alice Nekesa did not know she was infected with malaria-causing parasites until it was too late. She was in the fourth month of pregnancy last year when she started bleeding, a miscarriage later attributed to untreated malaria in her.The Ugandan farmer said recently that she regretted the loss of what would have been her second child “because I didn’t discover malaria and treat it early.”Variations of such cases are commonly reported by Ugandan health workers who witness stillbirths or feverish babies that die within days from undiagnosed malaria. The deaths are part of a wider death…

The death toll in New York City’s Legionnaires’ disease outbreak has risen to five with more than 100 cases confirmed across five ZIP codes in Central Harlem, local health officials announced.Since the outbreak began on July 25, the New York City Health Department has reported 108 cases of Legionnaires’ disease in Central Harlem — a historically Black neighborhood in Upper Manhattan. The latest death was reported on Aug. 18 after health officials concluded that a person with the disease who died before mid-August was associated with the Central Harlem cluster.”Based on epidemiological evidence, remediation efforts have been effective as new cases…

TAMPA, Fla. (AP) — José Caballero hit two home runs in 86 games with the Tampa Bay Rays this season. The speedy utilityman matched that total in one night Tuesday as the New York Yankees put on quite a power show. “I think it’s from hanging around with these guys,” Caballero explained after helping his new team to a 13-3 victory over the Rays.In his first game back at George M. Steinbrenner Field to face his former club, Caballero connected twice for his first career multihomer game.And he was hardly alone.Giancarlo Stanton and Cody Bellinger both hit two home runs,…

TAMPA, Fla. (AP) — Giancarlo Stanton and Cody Bellinger both hit two home runs, Aaron Judge launched his 40th of the season and the New York Yankees matched a franchise record with nine longballs Tuesday night in a 13-3 win over the Tampa Bay Rays.Judge, Bellinger and Stanton went back-to-back-to-back in the first inning to give the Yankees a 3-0 lead four batters into the game — after the first pitch was delayed nearly two hours by rain. José Caballero connected twice for his first career multihomer game. Jazz Chisholm Jr. and Ben Rice also went deep for the Yankees,…

The American Academy of Pediatrics released its vaccine recommendations on Aug. 19 in a break from federal guidance shaped by Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr.The AAP, in tandem with multiple other professional medical associations, previously decried a May announcement made by Kennedy Jr. that the COVID-19 vaccine would no longer be included in the Centers for Disease Control’s recommended immunizations for healthy children and pregnant women, a move that went against previous expert guidance and bypassed the normal scientific review process.The AAP, a professional organization of over 65,000 board-certified pediatricians dedicated to advancing children’s medicine, said in a June 26…

Andy Cross/MediaNews Group/The Denver Post via Getty Images 2025-08-19T23:23:54Z Share Facebook Email X LinkedIn Reddit Bluesky WhatsApp Copy link lighning bolt icon An icon in the shape of a lightning bolt. Impact Link Save Saved Read in app This story is available exclusively to Business Insider subscribers. Become an Insider and start reading now. Have an account? Log in. A mysterious new AI image model has been generating buzz for being so good. There is speculation that Google is behind it, and the company may have just confirmed this. It’s bananas! Nano Banana.Unless you’re deep in the weeds of AI…

Walmart has recalled frozen, raw shrimp sold in 13 states because federal health officials say it could have potential radioactive contamination.The U.S. Food and Drug Administration asked Walmart to pull three lots of Great Value brand frozen shrimp from stores after federal officials detected Cesium-137, a radioactive isotope, in shipping containers and a sample of breaded shrimp imported from Indonesia.The products could pose a “potential health concern” for people exposed to low levels of Cesium-137 over time, FDA officials said.“If you have recently purchased raw frozen shrimp from Walmart that matches this description, throw it away,” FDA officials said in…

Within the AI boom — or bubble, as Sam Altman called it at a recent dinner — there will be winners and losers. Some will likely soar like Amazon did out of the dot-com days; others may flounder like Pets.com.In the late 1990s, the stock market reached new heights, propelled by the rise of digital-first companies. The dot-com bubble eventually burst, sending companies like Webvan and eToys.com into bankruptcy. That era also spawned some of the tech mammoths we still use today, like Amazon and eBay.OpenAI chairman Bret Taylor thinks that era and the AI boom have a lot in common. On…

The Food and Drug Administration said Tuesday that the public should avoid eating certain frozen shrimp sold at Walmart due to concerns that the seafood may have been contaminated with radioactive material.Health officials said in a news release that it is investigating reports of Cesium-137 (Cs-137) contamination in shipping containers and frozen shrimp products processed by an Indonesian company, PT. Bahari Makmur Sejati of Indonesia, also known as BMS Food.Some of the raw frozen shrimp products processed by an Indonesian company are sold at Walmart stores in 13 states, including Alabama, Arkansas, Florida, Georgia, Kentucky, Louisiana, Missouri, Mississippi, Ohio, Oklahoma,…