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Cutting Through the Vaccine Noise – Emily Oster

Cutting Through the Vaccine Noise – Emily Oster

The fall is coming and, with it, school. As parents, we have all the usual concerns. Did my kid get the best homeroom teacher? Do we have the right pencils? When is pajama day, and can they please give us more notice this year? To this, many parents have added a new worry: Is my child’s class now full of …

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Man who asked ChatGPT about cutting out salt from his diet was hospitalized with hallucinations

Man who asked ChatGPT about cutting out salt from his diet was hospitalized with hallucinations

A 60-year-old man spent three weeks being treated at a hospital after replacing table salt with sodium bromide following consultation with the popular artificial intelligence bot ChatGPT. Three physicians published a report on the case in the Annals of Internal Medicine earlier this month. According to the report, the man had no prior psychiatric history when he arrived at the …

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Man who asked ChatGPT about cutting out salt from his diet was hospitalized with hallucinations

Man who asked ChatGPT about cutting out salt from his diet was hospitalized with hallucinations

A 60-year-old man spent three weeks being treated at a hospital after replacing table salt with sodium bromide following consultation with the popular artificial intelligence bot ChatGPT. Three physicians published a report on the case in the Annals of Internal Medicine earlier this month. According to the report, the man had no prior psychiatric history when he arrived at the …

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OpenAI’s GPT-5 is a cost cutting exercise • The Register

OpenAI’s GPT-5 is a cost cutting exercise • The Register

Comment For all the superlative-laden claims, OpenAI’s new top model appears to be less of an advancement and more of a way to save compute costs — something that hasn’t exactly gone over well with the company’s most dedicated users. As the flag bearer that kicked off the generative AI era, OpenAI is under considerable pressure not only to demonstrate …

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The hidden costs of cutting Medicaid : Planet Money : NPR

The hidden costs of cutting Medicaid : Planet Money : NPR

Amr Bo Shanab/Getty Images With the passage of the big Republican tax and spending bill, the federal government is poised to reduce support for Medicaid and the insurance marketplaces established by the Affordable Care Act. The Congressional Budget Office estimates that these cuts could cause 10 million Americans to lose health insurance by 2034. Lawmakers have justified these cuts as …

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A voice breaking from the Fed ranks just heightened her push for cutting interest rates fast – MarketWatch

A voice breaking from the Fed ranks just heightened her push for cutting interest rates fast  MarketWatch US Fed’s Bowman: Latest jobs data stiffens support for three rate cuts in 2025  Reuters A top Federal Reserve official says dour jobs data backs the case for 3 rate cuts  AP News Fed’s Bowman Calls for Community Bank Reform, Favors Rate Cuts  Bloomberg.com Fed’s Bowman Backs …

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Cutting federal funds for mRNA vaccine leaves the US vulnerable, experts say

Cutting federal funds for mRNA vaccine leaves the US vulnerable, experts say

Vaccines Respiratory viruses Donald Trump Corporate news See all topics Facebook Tweet Email Link This week, President Donald Trump called Operation Warp Speed, a public-private federal program that helped speed up the development and distribution of mRNA Covid-19 vaccines in record time “one of the most incredible things ever done in this country.” It was just a day after US …

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Republicans fear Trump tariffs are cutting into economy

Republicans fear Trump tariffs are cutting into economy

Republicans on Capitol Hill are feeling jittery about the economy after the latest jobs report showed the economy added far fewer jobs than previously estimated over the past three months. President Trump and his economic team insist the economy is going strong and poised for significant growth, but their bullish projections are meeting skepticism from some in the GOP who …

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Here’s how VA envisioned cutting 83,000 employees before scrapping its plans

Here’s how VA envisioned cutting 83,000 employees before scrapping its plans

The Department of Veterans Affairs is walking away from plans to cut 83,000 employees through “department-wide” layoffs. Documents and data obtained by Federal News Network, however, show how department officials planned to reach their workforce reduction goals, before scrapping the proposal. VA’s former workforce reduction plan considered cutting 20,000 clinical staff from the Veterans Health Administration, including nurses and other …

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