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“Vibe-coding” just celebrated its first birthday. That’s a lifetime in the AI boom.Now, the man who coined the term is celebrating the birth of a new one: “agentic engineering.”While vibe-coding is when humans prompt AI to write code, OpenAI cofounder Andrej Karpathy says agentic engineering is when AI agents write the code themselves. “Many people have tried to come up with a better name for this to differentiate it from vibe coding, personally, my current favorite is ‘agentic engineering,'” he wrote in a recent X post.Karpathy said he calls it “agentic engineering” not just because agents are writing the code,…
The following is the transcript of the interview with Dr. Scott Gottlieb, former FDA commissioner, that aired on “Face the Nation with Margaret Brennan” on Feb. 8, 2026. Dr. Gottlieb also sits on the boards of Pfizer and United Health Care.MARGARET BRENNAN: We turn now to former FDA commissioner, Dr. Scott Gottlieb. He is also on the board of Pfizer and United Healthcare. Dr Gottlieb, welcome back.DR. SCOTT GOTTLIEB: Thank you.MARGARET BRENNAN: You have a history of making accurate predictions that are also terrifying on this program, and it was around this time last year that you said you were…
Following last year’s trend of showcasing AI in multimillion-dollar ad spots, the 2026 Super Bowl advertisements took it a step further by leveraging AI both to create the commercials and to promote the latest AI products. Love it or hate it, the technology has become a star in its own right, alongside the latest movie trailers and snack brands. Let’s explore the biggest moments from this year’s Big Game ads, which featured everything from robots and AI glasses to a touch of drama involving tech founders. Svedka Vodka brand Svedka went with what it touts as the first “primarily” AI-generated…
It was just before 9 p.m. on Dec. 23, 2023, when police arrived on scene in Friendswood, Texas.OFFICER (bodycam): What happened?CONNOR HILTON: I screwed up so bad.OFFICER: Somebody hurt?CONNOR HILTON: (nods to affirm)Bodycam video shows Connor Hilton, 17, center, sitting on the curb outside his Friendswood, Texas, home, on Dec. 23, 2023. He is holding up two fingers in response to the officer’s question OFFICER: Who’s hurt?CONNOR HILTON (holds up two fingers): Two people.OFFICER: Two people. …OFFICER: Where are they at in the house?OFFICER: Where are your friends at?CONNOR HILTON: They’re — they’re in the walkway. They’re in the walkway.…
The future of softwareSoftware stocks had a brutal week, aside from a Friday rally, extending what has been a rough year for the industry. I touched base with our tech columnist, Ali Barr, the best I know on AI business models. He also wrote this piece in the midst of the selloff.Ali, you’ve been covering AI adoption and costs by big business since you started our Tech Memo newsletter. What’s your gut on whether the recent selloff was overblown?Software business models have underpinned the tech industry for decades. Companies invest heavily upfront to build software, but each additional copy costs…
“Bad,” or LDL, cholesterol is a major risk factor for heart disease and most people are screened for it as part of their yearly physicals.There’s another marker in the blood that may be a better predictor of heart disease risk, a recent large review suggests. But it’s not part of routine blood testing.Apolipoprotein B (apoB) is a protein that attaches to harmful fat particles in the blood. The apoB protein is found on the surface of harmful lipoproteins like low density lipoprotein, or LDL, that contribute to heart disease. Since each one of the harmful particles contains one apoB molecule,…
Steven Wang planned to start a business after graduating from Harvard.But eight months into college life, in June 2021, he dropped out to pursue his entrepreneurial ambitions, inspired by the boom in meme stocks and crypto.Investing was one of his long-term interests, and Wang wanted to take advantage of that year’s retail investor craze, and his company, Dub, was born.The platform allows retail investors to automatically copy the trades of more experienced investors. In an interview published in February 2025, Wang told Business Insider that Dub had a team of around 25 people and had raised $17 million, including from…
Meta poured billions into its VR and metaverse efforts. It even renamed the company after it. But after the recent round of cuts and product pullback, Meta’s CTO acknowledge that the industry was growing “more slowly than we had hoped.”Andrew “Boz” Bosworth did a Q&A on his Instagram story on Monday. One of the questions Meta’s chief technology officer received: “There is a lot of doom and gloom about the future of Quest and gaming. What is the truth?”Bosworth said that the doom and gloom was mostly “overwrought.””There is a real cause for sadness here,” Bosworth said, referencing Meta’s recent…
Boxing legend Mike Tyson is out with an emotional Super Bowl ad sponsored by the Department of Health and Human Services-aligned organization MAHA Center, amid the agency’s push to promote healthy eating.Tyson’s 30-second ad posted on his X account ahead of Super Bowl LX details what he says is his personal journey with his weight, where the former boxing champion said at one point his addiction to processed foods caused him to weigh nearly 350 pounds and consider harming himself.AdvertisementIn the ad, which was paid for by nonprofit MAHA Center Inc. — a reference to the Trump administration’s Make America…
BERLIN, Feb 7 (Reuters) – Swiss pharmaceutical company Roche said on Saturday its experimental multiple sclerosis drug fenebrutinib met the main goal in a late-stage trial in patients with primary progressive multiple sclerosis, a rare form of the disease with few treatment options.In the Phase III study, fenebrutinib cut the risk of worsening disability by 12% compared with Roche’s Ocrevus, the only approved therapy for PPMS, the Swiss drugmaker said.Separation of the treatment curves was seen after 24 weeks, and additional analyses suggested potential benefits in upper-limb function.PPMS is the least common form of multiple sclerosis and is marked by…