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Yahoo LifeBird flu: The latest on U.S. spread, the safety of milk and new federal funding to prevent outbreaks
Everything you need to know about the spread of avian influenza, aka bird flu, in the U.S. and new federal funding.
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Are milk and ground beef safe from bird flu? What the latest testing tells us.
U.S. scientists have tested everything from milk to sour cream and ground beef for bird flu amid an outbreak among dairy cattle.
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UK opens office in San Francisco to tackle AI risk
Ahead of the AI safety summit kicking off in Seoul, South Korea later this week, its co-host, the United Kingdom, is expanding its own efforts in the field. The AI Safety Institute, a U.K. body set up in November 2023 with the ambitious goal of assessing and addressing risks in AI platforms, has said it will open a second location in San Francisco. The Bay Area is the home of companies like OpenAI, Anthropic, Google and Meta that are building foundational AI technology.
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PGA Championship: Xander Schauffele drains dramatic birdie on 18 to win first career major
Xander Schauffele hit a six-foot putt on 18 to win the 2024 PGA Championship.
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Why companies are turning to internal hackathons
One way to do that is by running an internal hackathon around a theme and having employees attack a problem together. Brandon Kessler, CEO and co-founder at DevPost, a company that helps customers organize and manage internal and external hackathons, says that he’s seen how hackathons help companies encourage their employees to solve big problems. “Without question, innovation and collaboration are the two key value props when it comes to running internal hackathons, and almost everyone wants both,” Kessler told TechCrunch.
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This Week in AI: OpenAI moves away from safety
This week in AI, OpenAI once again dominated the news cycle (despite Google's best efforts) with a product launch, but also, with some palace intrigue. The company unveiled GPT-4o, its most capable generative model yet, and just days later effectively disbanded a team working on the problem of developing controls to prevent "superintelligent" AI systems from going rogue. Reporting -- including ours -- suggests that OpenAI deprioritized the team's safety research in favor of launching new products like the aforementioned GPT-4o, ultimately leading to the resignation of the team's two co-leads, Jan Leike and OpenAI co-founder Ilya Sutskever.
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Should the law recognize polyamorous relationships?
Multi-partner relationships are becoming more culturally accepted, but they're still considered legally illegitimate nearly everywhere in the United States.
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Michigan to begin alcohol sales at Big House for 2024 football season
Michigan fans have another reason to celebrate in 2024.
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EU opens child safety probes of Facebook and Instagram, citing addictive design concerns
Facebook and Instagram are under formal investigation in the European Union over child protection concerns, the Commission announced Thursday. The proceedings follow a raft of requests for information to parent entity Meta since the bloc's online governance regime, the Digital Services Act (DSA), started applying last August. The development could be significant as the formal proceedings unlock additional investigatory powers for EU enforcers, such as the ability to conduct office inspections or apply interim measures.
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Cannabis industry and gaming payments startup Aeropay is now offering an alternative to Mastercard and Visa
The key to taking on legacy players in the financial technology industry may be to go where they have not gone before. The provider of pay-by-bank solutions for businesses started out helping cannabis retailers and gaming companies with their payments and is now entering into Visa's and Mastercard’s territory by innovating the payment networks. Co-founder and CEO Dan Muller has a background as head of product for a company that built digital solutions for brands and retailers.
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Accion's new $152.5M fund will back financial institutions serving small businesses globally
Accion, a global nonprofit, announced on Tuesday the launch of the Accion Digital Transformation Fund, a $152.5 million fund for large financial institutions, including microfinance serving small businesses currently excluded from the world’s financial system. The firm said in a statement that it will provide growth capital and strategic support to these companies for “digital transformation.” For over six decades, the nonprofit has been active in the financial services sector: first, by developing and scaling solutions tailored to small business orders, smallholder farmers, and women; second, by providing investments and advisory services to traditional financial institutions and microfinance companies, which in turn create accessible products.
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OpenAI co-founder and Chief Scientist Ilya Sutskever is leaving the company
Last year, Ilya Sutskever admitted that he regretted the role he played in the sudden dismissal of OpenAI CEO Sam Altman and President Greg Brockman.
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The geomagnetic storm is a nightmare for farmers relying on precision agriculture tech
According to a report by 404 Media, the intense solar activity over the last few days has disrupted critical GPS systems that guide modern tractors. Modern John Deere tractors as well as those from other brands rely on this technology for precision.
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Sona, a frontline workforce management platform, raises $27.5M with eyes on US expansion
More than two-thirds of the U.S. workforce are reportedly in frontline jobs, which might be anything from customer service and healthcare to retail environments and hospitality. "Sona intelligently deploys our customers' largest cost base — frontline labor," Sona's co-founder, Steffen Wulff Petersen, told TechCrunch. Founded in London in 2021, Sona helps companies manage just about every facet of their frontline workforce, from shift scheduling, timesheets and soliciting feedback to absence management and connecting with agencies to ensure shifts are covered during staff shortages.
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12 rookie fantasy ranking hot takes heat checked by Matt Harmon
We put a bow on our draft season coverage on the pod with the one and only Dalton Del Don. It's been a minute since we've had our beloved 'Stat Nerd' co-host on the show and boy does he deliver in his glorious return. Del Don shares 12 rookie fantasy ranking hot takes that get heat checked by Matt Harmon. Some takes are thought provoking while others have Harmon's head spinning
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Cruise founder Kyle Vogt is back with a robot startup
Kyle Vogt, the former founder and CEO of self-driving car company Cruise, has a new VC-backed robotics startup focused on household chores. Vogt announced Monday that the new startup, called the Bot Company, has raised $150 million from former GitHub CEO and investor Nat Friedman, Pioneer founder and investor Daniel Gross, Spark Capital general partner Nabeel Hyatt, Stripe CEO Patrick Collison, Stripe co-founder John Collison and Quiet Capital.
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How Intuitive Machines 'totally disrupted' the economics of flying to the moon
Intuitive Machines made history in February when it became the first private space company to touch down on the surface of the moon. Now, it’s looking to accelerate the development of the lunar economy.
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Fed officials stick to Powell’s higher-for-longer script as a key inflation reading looms
Jay Powell’s colleagues spent the last week backing a stance the central bank chair hammered home at his last press conference: Interest rates will be staying higher for longer.
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Healthcare: Latinos still 'experience particularly high uninsured rates,' new data shows
According to a new report from the Center on Budget and Policy Priorities (CBPP) exclusively shared with Yahoo Finance, the Latino uninsured rate in the US stands at 18%, twice as high as the US average.
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TikTok will automatically label AI-generated content created on platforms like DALL·E 3
TikTok is starting to automatically label AI-generated content that was made on other platforms, the company announced on Thursday. With this change, if a creator posts content on TikTok that was created with a service like OpenAI’s DALL·E 3, it will automatically have an “AI-generated” label attached to it to notify viewers that it was created with AI. The social video platform is doing so by implementing Content Credentials, a technology from the Coalition for Content Provenance and Authenticity (C2PA), which was co-founded by Microsoft and Adobe.