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How IHH Healthcare CEO Prem Kumar Nair is planning for a longer-lived Asia

“There’s no point in living longer if you’re not healthy.”

Cursive's unlikely AI-fueled comeback, explained

Learning to read and write cursive was once a rite of passage for practically every American schoolchild.

AI can now credibly complete most undergraduate assignments, MIT warns

Generative artificial intelligence is advancing so rapidly and producing such massive, long-term disruptions to education that a committee at MIT proposed profound changes Tuesday to counter the technology’s risks.

The Medicare GLP-1 discount is here, so why are some sick people excluded?

In January, Jeff La Marca got a prescription for the popular weight loss drug Zepbound. But he couldn’t afford the $750 monthly price tag.

Now OpenAI’s former head of data centers is out.

The Wall Street Journal and Bloomberg report that Chris Malone, a “key executive” leading OpenAI’s massive build-out plans, left the company last week. The WSJ reports that Malone, who held similar roles at Meta and Google before joining OpenAI in early 2025, had previously reported directly to OpenAI president and cofounder Greg Brockman, but that changed earlier this year amid other reshuffling.

Every politician says they're for the working man, so why are only 1% of elected officials from the working class?

Both major U.S. political parties regularly tout their commitment to working-class Americans and claim to be the party of the working class. However, neither the Democrats nor the Republicans nominate many candidates who spent substantial time in working-class jobs.

Wall Street Journal defends billionaire’s use of AI to write op-ed

The Wall Street Journal said that billionaire investor Stanley Druckenmiller did not violate its policies by using artificial intelligence to write an op-ed published Monday that criticized Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent’s interventions in the U.S. bond market.

The creator economy is headed for $500 billion, so why do their fans feel like a prison?

If given the chance to gain thousands of admirers for your work, would you take it?

Florida lost 450,000 ACA enrollees as Trump officials and analysts clash over why

At 40%, Florida has the smallest proportion of its workforce receiving health insurance through their employer in the nation.

Health Brief: Washington’s AI Biosecurity Gap

AI’s biological capabilities are advancing, but safeguards are needed to manage the risks

Pope Leo XIV on AI's new 'form of domination': it risks becoming a tool of 'economic colonialism'

Pope Leo XIV warned that artificial intelligence risks becoming a new form of “economic colonialism,” deepening the gap between wealthy and poor nations, and said algorithms are already creating “a subtle form of domination” over who gets seen and heard.

Scott Bessent, Stanley Druckenmiller and a hedge-fund legend hoist on his own petard

A Shakespearean saga is playing out between the White House, Treasury Department, the Federal Reserve and Wall Street—and Scott Bessent, to paraphrase Shakespeare, is being hoist on his own hedge-fund petard.