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The internet is abuzz with tributes to a liquid chemical called methylene blue that is being sold as a health supplement.Over the past five or 10 years, methylene blue has come to be touted online as a so-called nootropic agent – a substance that enhances cognitive function. Vendors claim that it amps up brain energy, improves memory, boosts focus and dispels brain fog, among other supposed benefits.Health influencers, such as podcaster Joe Rogan, have sung its praises. In February 2025, shortly before he was confirmed as health and human services secretary, Robert F. Kennedy Jr. appeared in a video squirting…

What’s on deckMarkets: Wall Street executives share tips for standing out when you’re getting started.Tech: The mounting anxiety over tech jobs is getting ugly.Business: We got our hands on a recording of a training session at Tesla discussing company culture.But first, no more freebies.If this was forwarded to you, sign up here.The big storyTimes up for TikTok sellers Tiktok; BI The “For You” page is now for a fee.TikTok is shifting away from sending traffic to US merchants for free. Instead, businesses will need to pay for TikTok ads to get the type of views they might have previously enjoyed,…

PARIS (AP) — Some tennis players, like plenty of people in other walks of life, absolutely hate waking up early to go to work. Not so Coco Gauff, who is just fine with competing at any time of day.Indeed, the 2023 U.S. Open champion prefers a morning match time to what she referred to as “the graveyard shift” — and at Grand Slam tournaments, there often are contests that stretch past midnight.So at the French Open, Gauff probably didn’t mind when she saw she was scheduled to face Australian Open champ Madison Keys at 11 a.m. local time (5 a.m.…

Golf is hard enough without having a famous father who set a standard hard to match even by the very best. Tiger Woods is certain to watch that unfold over the next several years.Jack Nicklaus already has seen it.A few hours before Scottie Scheffler set out to win the Memorial for the second straight year, Nicklaus was asked about another big win that week. Charlie Woods, the 16-year-old son of the biggest name in golf, won his first American Junior Golf Association title.It’s a wonder which win — Scheffler or Woods — got more attention on social media.“I think it’s…

AI has taken part in some unsettling behavior recently.Last week, Anthropic’s latest AI model, Claude Opus 4, displayed “extreme blackmail behavior” during a test in which it was given access to fictional emails revealing that it would be shut down and that the engineer responsible was supposedly having an affair.The situation didn’t transpire organically. Claude Opus 4 was baited — and it took it. However, the test scenario demonstrated an AI model’s ability to engage in manipulative behavior in an effort to self-preserve.It’s not the first time.Another recent experiment conducted by researchers said that three of OpenAI’s advanced models “sabotaged”…

Prosecutors said they may seek to introduce excerpts from some of Sean “Diddy” Combs’ recorded jail calls when he was planning a social media campaign around his birthday. Assistant US Attorney Madison Smyser said the calls rebut the defense’s implication that “Mia,” Combs’ former employee, must be lying about the alleged assaults because of her social media posts, and support Mia’s testimony that she felt compelled to post for his birthday. “The defendant views his birthday and social media around his birthday as a marketing opportunity, as an opportunity to change the narrative,” she said. Over three days of testimony,…

Facebook Tweet Email Link A former employee of Sean “Diddy” Combs concluded her testimony Monday afternoon after three days on the stand at his federal criminal trial, during which she recounted multiple alleged instances of physical, emotional and sexual abuse by Combs. The employee, testifying under the pseudonym “Mia,” was the 21st witness in the case and gave one of the lengthier testimonies thus far, second only to key witness Cassie Ventura. In her final statement to the court, Mia said she did not want to testify in the trial but did so for one reason. “Because I can’t look…

Eating food that lowers inflammation in the body may help people with advanced colon cancer survive longer, according to research presented at a meeting of the American Society of Clinical Oncology in Chicago.The findings, presented Sunday, suggest that cancer patients can have at least some control over the outcome of their disease, even at later stages.“This is the most common question that patients ask me when I see them in clinic,” said Dr. Kimmie Ng, an author of the new study and associate chief of the division of gastrointestinal oncology at Dana-Farber Cancer Institute in Boston. “What is it that…

Amit Elor makes flourishing in a male-dominated sport look easy. As a 20-year-old competing at the Paris Olympics last year, she became the youngest American — male or female — to win a gold medal in wrestling. These days, the Gen Z-er can be found documenting her life on and off the mat on social media. Sometimes, that means lifting weights. Other times, it’s wearing sheet masks.“I feel feminine even when I’m wrestling,” Elor, 21, tells me during a conversation for Yahoo Life’s OT Diaries. “It’s important for me to do things like paint my nails before every competition. I…

The president of World Boxing has apologized after Olympic champion Imane Khelif was singled out in the governing body’s announcement to make sex testing mandatory.Algerian boxer Khelif, who won gold at the Paris Games last summer amid scrutiny over her eligibility, was specifically mentioned when World Boxing released its new policy last Friday.On Monday, its president Boris van der Vorst contacted the Algerian Boxing Federation to acknowledge that was wrong.“I am writing to you all personally to offer a formal and sincere apology for this and acknowledge that her privacy should have been protected,” he wrote in a letter seen…