Author: IQ TIMES MEDIA
Got (whole) milk? The U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) says it’s time to “drink up.”The agency shared an image of President Donald Trump sporting a milk mustache makeover on social media on Jan. 11, quickly amassing millions of views and thousands of comments. The post, accompanied by the hashtag “#DrinkWholeMilk,” features an image of Trump looking into the camera while leaning against his Oval Office desk with a glass of milk.Reminiscent of the “Got Milk?” ads of the 90s and 2000s, Trump can be seen in the apparently edited image with a line of milk on his upper lip beneath…
As open enrollment for Affordable Care Act insurance comes to an end, people are moving to cheaper plans or dropping their coverage entirely, according to state and federal data.Last year, Congress failed to extend enhanced tax credits for Obamacare customers. The result was soaring monthly premiums across the U.S.“People are saying: ‘I just can’t make the math work. I cannot afford this. I’m going to just have to roll the dice and hope I don’t have any health issues this year,’” said Audrey Morse Gasteier, executive director of the Massachusetts Health Connector, the state’s ACA marketplace.NBC News reached out to…
2026-01-12T22:27:26.366Z Share Copy link Email Facebook WhatsApp X LinkedIn Bluesky Threads 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. Meta unveils new Checkpoint performance program with higher bonuses for top employees. The updated system introduces four performance ratings and rewards exceptional impact at Meta. Changes take effect in 2026 and aim to simplify reviews and boost high-performance culture. Meta is overhauling how it grades workers and rewarding top…
Smart rings, smart screens, smart TVs, smart pins, smart … ice cube makers? Sure, why not! AI was everywhere at this year’s Consumer Electronics Show (CES) in Las Vegas, where companies large and small were showing off how they’re bringing AI to more devices. For Amazon, CES was a time to show off its newest acquisition in the space: Bee, an AI device that can be worn as a clip-on pin or a bracelet. Amazon already has an entry in the AI consumer devices space with Alexa, whose upgraded AI-powered version, Alexa+, can run on 97% of the hardware devices Amazon…
When Meta announced capital expenditure projections last year, the company made it known that it planned to spend big to build out capacity for its AI business. “We expect that developing leading AI infrastructure will be a core advantage in developing the best AI models and product experiences,” said Susan Li, Meta CFO, during an earnings call last summer. Now the tech giant appears to be making good on that promise. On Monday, CEO Mark Zuckerberg announced the launch of Meta Compute, a new initiative designed to bolster the tech giant’s AI infrastructure. Zuckerberg said the company intended to drastically…
On the heels of OpenAI’s ChatGPT Health reveal, Anthropic announced on Sunday that it’s introducing Claude for Healthcare, a set of tools for providers, payers, and patients. Like ChatGPT Health, Claude for Healthcare will allow users to sync health data from their phones, smart watches, and other platforms (both OpenAI and Anthropic have said that their models won’t use this data for training). But Anthropic’s product promises more sophistication than ChatGPT Health, which seems as though it will be more focused on a patient-side chat experience as it rolls out gradually. Though some industry professionals are concerned about the role…
Are AI giants nurturing the web, the most valuable store of human data the world will ever see? Or are they scraping content for free and giving little back? Updated data from Cloudflare sheds new light on this important question.This is one of the most under-discussed parts of the AI revolution. While tech companies spend lavishly on data centers, GPUs, and talent, they avoid talking about the other key ingredient of AI success: data.That’s because they don’t want to pay for the high-quality human data that’s needed for AI model training, inference, and AI outputs. Instead, they send out bots to crawl…
On Monday, Anthropic announced a new tool called Cowork, designed as a more accessible version of Claude Code. Built into the Claude Desktop app, the new tool lets users designate a specific folder where Claude can read or modify files, with further instructions given through the standard chat interface. The result is similar to a sandboxed instance of Claude Code, but requires far less technical savvy to set up. Currently in research preview, Cowork is only available to Max subscribers, with a waitlist available for users on other plans. The new tool is inspired in part by the growing number…
Amazon offered a bit more insight into how it sees its AI platform competing in the real world at the Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas last week. Namely, Amazon plans to leverage the extensive footprint its devices already have in the home as well as consumers’ existing familiarity with its Alexa brand. “Ninety-seven percent of devices we ever shipped can support Alexa+,” noted Amazon Alexa and Echo VP Daniel Rausch in an interview at CES. He said the latest figures Amazon has on hand indicate the company has sold more than 600 million devices, and the “vast majority” will…
After a particularly rough December with record-high health care visits, flu cases are on the decline so far in January.Centers for Disease Control and Prevention data previously found that 8% of visits to medical professionals were related to the flu or a flu-like illness the week ending Dec. 27, the highest since tracking began in 1997. While these numbers were on a downward trajectory the week ending Jan. 3, the season has already proven especially deadly for children, with eight new pediatric deaths being reported. In total, 17 known children have died from influenza-associated disease this season.”Elevated influenza activity is…