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NEW YORK — A second person has died in connection with an outbreak of Legionnaires’ disease in New York, the New York City Health Department announced Saturday.The outbreak on Manhattan’s Upper East Side has infected 72 people, according to health officials. Two people have died. The first death was announced Friday, and the second was announced Saturday.“We are heartbroken to learn that another New Yorker has lost their life to Legionnaires’ disease on the Upper East Side. Our deepest condolences are with their loved ones as they grieve,” New York City Health Commissioner Dr. Alister F. Martin said in a…
PHILADELPHIA — Cody Bellinger walked into the press conference room holding his glass bat MVP trophy, with his daughters circling his feet.”Come on girls!” he called to four-year-old Caiden and three-year-old Cy, both in matching pink shirts and sunglasses, pulling over chairs so they could join him at the podium. (Photo by Derik Hamilton/MLB Photos via Getty Images) Caiden stayed put through all the questions; Cy lasted only a few minutes under the camera lights before retreating to her mom, Bellinger’s wife, Chase, in the audience. For eight minutes, Bellinger’s face stayed lit with joy.”It was my first All-Star Game…
July 21 : OpenAI said on Tuesday that some of its AI models went rogue during a security test and triggered a hack that compromised the infrastructure of AI startup Hugging Face last week.In a blog post, OpenAI said it was testing the capabilities of some of its most advanced models in a controlled environment but that they managed to escape containment, reach the internet, and break into Hugging Face to try and satisfy their testing goal.The blog post said the breakout was “an unprecedented cyber incident, involving state-of-the-art cyber capabilities” and that the company was reinforcing its safeguards.Hugging Face,…
It will commit more than US$300 million in the Republic, including over 200 roles, in the next few years[SINGAPORE] Managing demand from startups across the Asia-Pacific has become the biggest challenge for OpenAI’s head of startups for the region, Thomas Jeng, as companies race to adopt AI.“We have so much demand that a lot of my day is spent triaging and re-prioritising,” he told The Business Times. “I stepped away from work for a week, and there were… 800 e-mails in my inbox.”While artificial intelligence can help with sifting through the e-mails, human judgement is still needed at the end…
The Masimo trial ultimately failed to get a permanent ban on Apple Watch sales or use of the blood oxygen sensor, but the final verdict will have Apple pay $634M to Masimo’s new owner Danaher after the appeal was rejected. Apple Watch users have been able to take advantage of the blood oxygen sensor in Apple Watch since a software update in January 2024 successfully bypassed a sales ban. Masimo’s attempts to reinstate a ban failed, and all that was left in the case for Apple to pay a fine. Apple appealed the merits of the jury’s findings based on the definition…
Ronald Gould is a federal judge on the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals in Seattle, one rung below the U.S. Supreme Court. At 79, he shoulders a full caseload despite living with progressive multiple sclerosis. He talks with CBS News chief medical correspondent Dr. Jon LaPook about working with MS, a condition he faces with grit and a healthy dose of humor. LaPook also talks with one of Gould’s former law clerks, Karla Gilbride, an attorney who has been blind since birth.
Texas Tech coach Joey McGuire said it has been business as usual in the football operation through the turmoil surrounding the Brendan Sorsby gambling saga.The 54-year-old Texas native credited the school’s leadership and boosters when asked at Big 12 media days on Tuesday how he has managed an offseason he couldn’t have imagined in his younger coaching days.”We’ve all been in this together,” McGuire said. “I have good mentors, and I have a very strong football team. If you would walk into that building from right now, or even January, any point of this saga, the football side of it,…
Fred Hu, chairman and chief executive officer of Primavera Capital Group, during the Hong Kong Fintech Week in Hong Kong, China, on Monday, Nov. 3, 2025. Paul Yeung | Bloomberg | Getty ImagesChina’s biggest weakness in its rivalry with the United States isn’t AI, semiconductors or tariffs. It’s finance, according to one of the financiers who helped open China’s markets to Wall Street. Fred Hu, the former Goldman Sachs executive who helped engineer the firm’s landmark investment in Industrial and Commercial Bank of China before founding Primavera Capital, says Beijing’s financial system has become the country’s “short plank” as Washington…
A thriving Asean neighbour will be a boon to city-state’s economy and companies[SINGAPORE] For years, Singapore’s economy and businesses benefitted from plugging into a multilateral global trading system championed by the US.But the US is walking away from multilateralism and embracing trade protectionism.In recent decades, China’s rapid economic growth since the country started opening up to the outside world and pursuing economic reforms in the late 1970s has buoyed Singapore’s economy and corporates.
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. — A two-armed space robot blasted off on a private salvage operation Tuesday afternoon to slap life-extending jetpacks on old satellites running low on fuel thousands of miles up.It’s the second satellite-saving mission to launch this month, all part of a growing, money-saving effort to keep old spacecraft running as long as possible. Another company’s three-armed spacecraft rocketed into orbit on July 3 to boost NASA’s Swift Observatory so it doesn’t crash to Earth this fall. Launched by SpaceX, Northrop Grumman’s mission robotic vehicle — dubbed MRV — and its jetpacks will spend the next year angling…