OSPIRG, Oregon Consumer Justice and Health Care for All Oregon say that the deal is likely to raise prices and hurt consumers if approved without stronger protections dictated by state officials. The university says it's addressed the concerns already in its application.
If you want to build a company that truly lasts, you have to see where this is going. You are going to be hiring AI agents, building with AI agents, and competing against them. Here’s what’s coming:
Health monitoring is a key part of technology, from the brilliant Oura Ring to the many health and fitness features on the Apple Watch. Now, Samsung has announced that it is working on a feature many have seen as the holy grail for wearable tech: a non-invasive glucose monitor.
In case you missed it — and how could you? — President Donald Trump earlier this week held an event with OpenAI CEO Sam Altman, Oracle chairman Larry Ellison, and Masayoshi Son, the CEO of SoftBank, to announce Stargate, a new venture that promises to invest $500 billion in U.S.-based AI infrastructure. It’s early days, but still the whole thing is somewhat nebulous. The assembled executives praised Trump for facilitating the deal, but besides providing space for a press conference, he has only said his role in all this will be aiding the effort through emergency declarations.
The CDC is operating without an acting director, leaving the agency responsible for defending the U.S. against emerging pandemics and responding to health emergencies without a clear chain of command. A leadership vacuum atop the CDC is unprecedented. Under previous administrations, including the first term of President Trump, officials made sure either to immediately appoint their pick for the position or decide during the transition on whom would assume the top post in an acting capacity.
The Trump administration has instructed federal health agencies to pause all external communications, such as health advisories, weekly scientific reports, updates to websites and social media posts, according to nearly a dozen current and former officials and other people familiar with the matter. The instructions were delivered Tuesday to staff at agencies inside the Department of Health and Human Services, including officials at the FDA, CDC, NIH, and FDA , one day after the new administration took office.