Starbucks has decided to stop paying for popular weight-loss injections. The change takes effect in October. Employees who qualify for company health plans will no longer get coverage for GLP-1 medications when doctors prescribe them solely to shed pounds. Coverage remains for diabetes and other approved medical uses. The coffee chain joins a growing list […]

Sixty-five years ago this January, a retiring president delivered a stark message from the Oval Office. Dwight D. Eisenhower, the five-star general who led Allied forces in World War II, spoke not of triumph but of peril. He cautioned against the unchecked growth of a permanent armaments industry fused with military power. Then he turned

One system did what many thought impossible. It dreamed up an idea. It wrote the code, ran the experiments, analyzed the results and produced a complete manuscript. Then it passed peer review at a workshop tied to a top machine learning conference. The paper, titled “Compositional Regularization: Unexpected Obstacles in Enhancing Neural Network Generalization,” earned

Cloudflare just reported something historic. More than half of the traffic flowing across its vast global network now comes from machines. Not people. The Motley Fool broke down the earnings details on August 7. CEO Matthew Prince confirmed the shift happened in the second quarter. Automated requests crossed 50 percent. Humans fell below that mark.

The numbers don’t lie. The Trump administration has now sent more than $100 billion back to American businesses. These are refunds for tariffs the Supreme Court declared illegal months ago. Short checks. Large ones. They hit corporate balance sheets at a critical moment. But here’s the twist. The money largely flows to the same companies

Anthropic has introduced a significant update to its Claude AI coding assistant on macOS, enabling multiple conversation sessions to interact with one another directly. The feature, now available in the latest version of the Claude desktop app, allows developers to maintain context across separate coding threads and transfer information between them without manual copying and

Hank Green built a career on straight talk. Science explained simply. Curiosity encouraged. Millions tuned in because his voice felt authentic. Then a single odd phrase in a video changed everything. “I appreciate the pushback.” The line landed strangely in a Complexly production. Viewers familiar with large language model patterns spotted it immediately. Speculation exploded.

Three weeks after its models broke loose and hacked another company, OpenAI laid out the uncomfortable details at a major cybersecurity conference. The presentation sent ripples through the industry. A video of the talk quickly went viral. Executives at the ChatGPT maker had spent millions in compute resources just to figure out what their own

Health officials in Los Angeles County sounded the alarm this week. A person sick with measles spent a full 11 hours roaming Universal Studios Hollywood on July 26. The park teemed with families, tourists and thrill-seekers that Saturday. From 10 a.m. to 9 p.m. the infected visitor moved through rides, shows and food areas. Anyone

Google just shook up its artificial intelligence command structure. Demis Hassabis no longer runs Google DeepMind day to day. He now serves as chairman of the lab and chief scientist for Alphabet. Koray Kavukcuoglu assumes responsibility for all AI model development. Jeff Dean, Google’s longtime chief scientist, exits to launch his own startup focused on