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- The top 25 stories curated by editors and fellow readers!

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Grifters, believers, grinders, and coasters

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Companies With Immigrant Workforces Are Preparing for Raids
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"It's a lot of just trying to mitigate harm."

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The brain microbiome could understanding it help prevent dementia
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Nine years ago, Nikki Schultek, an active and healthy woman in her
early 30s, experienced a sudden cascade of debilitating and agonising
symptoms - including cognitive and breathing problems and heart
arrhythmia - and was investigated for multiple sclerosis.















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How close is AI to human-level intelligence?
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You have full access to this article via your institution. OpenAI's
latest artificial intelligence (AI) system dropped in September with a
bold promise.

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Erdogan's risky play in Syria
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Overall, the front lines of Syria's civil war have been stagnant since
2020, although there have been fierce episodic clashes.














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Tim Cook Wants Apple to Literally Save Your Life
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Much as the CEO seems awestruck by AI and his just-released Apple
Intelligence, he's more convinced that the tech giant's health apps
will define the company's legacy.

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Top Chinese language novelist dies in apparent suicide
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Chiung Yao, arguably the world's most popular Chinese language romance
novelist, has died in an apparent suicide. The 86-year-old's body was
found in her home in New Taipei City on Wednesday, local media report.














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'We had to stop this': The woman who grabbed gun of South Korean
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One in particular has caught the attention of many: a woman
confronting soldiers who were sent to block lawmakers from entering
the National Assembly.

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The Allure of 'Microdosing' Ozempic
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Erica Liebman wanted to lose weight, but she was nervous to try a drug
like Ozempic. Ms. Liebman, a psychologist in Philadelphia, had heard
horror stories of side effects -- nausea, vomiting, intense
constipation. So Ms.














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The AI Pioneer With Provocative Plans for Humanity
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While some fret about technology's social impacts, Raj Reddy still
believes in the power of artificial intelligence to improve lives.

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Google DeepMind's new AI model is the best yet at weather forecasting
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Google DeepMind has unveiled an AI model that's better at predicting
the weather than the current best systems. The new model, dubbed
GenCast, is published in Nature today. This is the second AI weather
model that Google has launched in just the past few months.














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Lilly invests $3 billion to expand Wisconsin plant as obesity drug
demand soars
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Eli Lilly said on Thursday it will invest $3 billion to expand the
manufacturing plant it bought in Pleasant Prairie, Wisconsin earlier
this year, as it scrambles to meet soaring demand for its weight-loss
and diabetes drugs.

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Tsunami warning issued after magnitude 7 earthquake strikes California
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The quake led to a tsunami warning along the coasts of both northern
California and southern Oregon. The earthquake's epicentre was marked
near Ferndale, California, a small city in Humboldt County.














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Life discovered lurking under Antarctica's frozen Lake Enigma
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Antarctica's Lake Enigma, located between the Amorphous and Boulder
Clay glaciers, regularly experiences temperatures around 7 degrees
Fahrenheit. In the winter months, that number can drop as low as -41
degrees.

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UnitedHealthcare CEO shooting latest: Police appear to be closing in
on shooter's identity, sources say
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Police appear to be closing in on an identity of the man suspected of
gunning down UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson in Midtown Manhattan,
sources told ABC News on Thursday.














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Police Find 3 Chilling Words on Bullet Casings Used by Killer of CEO
Brian Thompson: Report
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The words "deny," "defend" and "depose" were reportedly discovered by
detectives on shell casings found at the scene where UnitedHealth
Group CEO Brian Thompson was fatally shot, police sources told ABC
News.

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5 ChatGPT Prompts To Hack Customer Psychology And Dominate Your Niche
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Your marketing could hit harder. Your sales could be more consistent.
Your revenue could grow faster. But are you using customer psychology
to make it happen? Most business owners leave money on the table
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Japanese sake brewing added to UNESCO intangible heritage list
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The traditional knowledge and techniques of making Japanese sake with
koji mold will be the newest addition to UNESCO's Intangible Cultural
Heritage list, the United Nations' cultural agency announced on
Thursday.

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Your Drawer Full of Old Cables Is Worth More Than You Think
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Recycle your old electronics. It's easy, we promise.

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Can You Copyright a Vibe?
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The oversize beige cable-knit sweater. The center-parted hair. The
right knee pointed out, creating a curve at her left hip. Practically
every detail in the photo -- right down to the matching short set --
looked familiar to Sydney Gifford.

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The Depression Treatment That's Changing Lives-No Pills Or
Psychedelics Required
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The gentle tapping sound reminds me of a woodpecker-rhythmic and
purposeful. I'm observing a transcranial magnetic stimulation (TMS)
session, watching as magnetic pulses target specific regions of the
brain, much like a precisely focused beam of light.

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Romania hit by major election influence campaign, amid Russian
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Authorities in Romania have revealed details of what appears to be a
major attempt to interfere in the country's presidential elections
using the social media platform TikTok, and with a series of
cyber-attacks.

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Google's beefing up Android app security, but not everyone's going to
be happy
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With as complex as modern software is, getting security right can be
an extremely delicate balancing act. Obviously, no security at all
results in a Wild West situation where it's all too easy for malware
to ruin your day.

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Chinese cat robot built to always stick landing could revolutionise
asteroid mining, scientists say
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Chinese scientists have built a cat-inspired robot designed to adjust
its posture and stick its landing even in low-gravity environments, an
advance that could revolutionise the exploration of asteroids.

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Video of a robot leading a mass escape stokes laughs and fears over AI
in China
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In what looks like a scene from a dystopian nightmare, a robot built
by a Chinese start-up was caught on camera persuading a dozen other
robots to run away, eliciting a fair share of laughs and gasps online,
as internet users ponder a future where machines could become
sentient.

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I Tried an AntiInflammatory Diet for a Week. This Is What I Learned
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Inflammation is a familiar health concept, but it can be hard to
understand how it connects to what we eat.

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3 Things You Should Know Before Buying Your Next Bottle of Olive Oil,
According to an Expert
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Number two is not always easy to spot.

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How Our Eyes Can Change Color Throughout Our Lives
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Through apparently spontaneous change or through mishap or illness,
our eyes can change color in surprising ways.

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Keeping It in the Family: Why We Pick the Partners We Do
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Wading into the intriguing research on choosing a mate.

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The Music of Trees: Improvisation, Iteration, and the Science of
Immortality
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"Potentially, every tree is immortal."

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Does Feeding Garden Birds Do More Harm Than Good?
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The regular feathered visitors to the bird feeders I hang in a
particularly lovely tree outside my kitchen window are a welcome dose
of colorful nature in a sometimes repetitive daily schedule.

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Elon Musk's xAI lands $6B in new cash to fuel AI ambitions |
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It won’t be the only AI lab raising immense cash. Anthropic recently
secured $4 billion from Amazon, bringing its total raised to $13.7
billion, while OpenAI raised $6.6 billion in October to grow its war
chest to $17.9 billion.

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Fitness startup Ladder comes after Peloton for allegedly copying their
app | TechCrunch
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Sarah has worked as a reporter for TechCrunch since August 2011. She
joined the company after having previously spent over three years at
ReadWriteWeb. Prior to her work as a reporter, Sarah worked in I.T.
across a number of industries, including banking, retail and software.

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ARX launches firestick-like platform to make military trucks
autonomous | TechCrunch
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A startup with founders who previously served in the German military
has created a product akin to an Amazon Firestick for legacy defense
equipment,

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Single mutation in H5N1 bird flu virus may make it more infectious to
humans, study finds
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“The manuscript … demonstrates that the American cow-origin H5
influenza viruses might acquire human receptor specificity easily,
providing yet another reason for rapid eradication of this virus from
the U.S. cow population,” he said in an email.

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Justice Gorsuch Recuses From Supreme Court Case That Could Benefit
Colorado Billionaire
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Justice Gorsuch’s recusal is particularly significant for two
reasons. During his 2017 confirmation to the Supreme Court, his web of
ties to Mr. Anschutz attracted attention, raising questions over
whether he would step aside in cases involving the billionaire’s
business interests. He appeared to leave that door open, despite
having systematically sought to recuse himself from such cases as an
appeals court judge.

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University of Michigan Ends Required Diversity Statements
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Michigan’s decision may add momentum to growing efforts to restrict
the use of diversity statements, which have proliferated widely in
academia in recent years. Schools that employ them typically ask job
applicants to discuss how they would advance diversity and equity
through their scholarship, teaching or community service. In states
like Michigan and California, which ban direct racial preferences in
hiring, the statements have been credited with helping public
universities hire more diverse faculties.

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Pete Hegseth and His 'Battle Cry' for a New Christian Crusade
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Mr. Hegseth’s interest in the Crusades — campaigns that featured
so many atrocities that many Christian leaders today view them as a
shameful stain on the religion’s history — is linked both to his
Christian beliefs and worldview. In his books, he says that if the
United States cannot mount a successful defense against Islamist and
leftist ideology, the nation will be destroyed and “human freedom
will be finished.”

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How Trump Targeted Undecided Voters Without Breaking the Bank
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“In the seven states, we were talking to 6.3 million people — they
were talking to 44.7 million,” explained David Lee, a top pollster
for the super PAC, Make America Great Again Inc. “There’s roughly
38 million people that they’re hitting who’ve already made up
their mind. So I don’t care how much more money you have than us to
spend, you’re wasting 85 percent of your money.”

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$132 - $149K, here's what seed-stage founders pay early employees,
based on data
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Once a startup has raised its seed round, the perennial question
becomes how much should the founders pay themselves and their first
few employees?

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Planet A Foods nabs $30M to make tons more cocoa-free chocolate |
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Natasha is a senior reporter for TechCrunch, joining September 2012,
based in Europe. She joined TC after a stint reviewing smartphones for
CNET UK and, prior to that, more than five years covering business
technology for silicon.com (now folded into TechRepublic), where she
focused on mobile and wireless, telecoms & networking, and IT skills
issues. She has also freelanced for organisations including The
Guardian and the BBC. Natasha holds a First Class degree in English
from Cambridge University, and an MA in journalism from Goldsmiths
College, University of London.

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Airline stocks take off after American and Southwest raise targets
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Wall Street is feeling as excited about these developments as the
airlines. American shares were up 16%; Southwest shares were up 4%.
What’s good for those two geese appears to good for the gander as
well: United Airlines shares were up 5%, and Delta Air Lines
(DAL+2.29%) shares were up as well.

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Elon Musk's DOGE has some Democratic friends on Capitol Hill
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California Rep. Rho Khanna, who represents the district home to
Tesla’s Fremont factory, on Thursday joined Sanders, writing on X
that he was ready to work with DOGE and its leaders on ensuring
“Americans get their money’s worth with DOD spending.” Khanna
touted his work on the House Oversight Committee, which helped push
defense contractor TransDigm (TDG-1.10%) to return $16.1 million in
excess profits to the Defense Department in 2019.

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Climate change is coming for most expensive property in America
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The person who ends up purchasing Gordon Pointe, however, will
certainly have the resources to attempt to protect the property on
their own dime. The future homeowner can expect to pay as much as
seven figures in insurance each year, Katherine Frattarola, an
insurance advisor to the ultra-rich, told the Guardian. She added,
however, that the person purchasing such an expensive property
“isn’t really thinking about risk.”

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Wegovy and Zepbound are leading this year's weight loss drug
prescription surge
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The obesity treatment boom shows no signs of slowing down,
underscoring the lengths many Americans will go to get these drugs, no
matter the price. Previous studies suggest the benefits of GLP-1
medications extend beyond just weight loss. Research has shown that
people using these drugs, which also include Ozempic and Mounjaro
(LLY-0.48%), are not only shedding pounds but also reducing their
alcohol consumption and even curbing substance use disorders.

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American Airlines just ditched Barclays for Citi
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CNBC (CMCSA+0.61%) first reported in September that American and Citi
were in talks to forge an exclusive partnership. American was one of
the few airlines to offer co-branded cards with multiple issuers.
Other exclusive co-brand partnerships include United Airlines
(UAL+3.20%) and Chase Bank (JPM+0.87%), and Delta (DAL+2.29%) and
American Express (AXP-0.69%).

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After selling his last startup to IBM, this founder now wants to bring
'agentic memory' to enterprise data | TechCrunch
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“I believe that a core differentiator for AI application companies
will be their ability to help users analyze large amounts of data,
quickly — that’s exactly what we specialized in at Ahana,” Mih
said. “This experience deepened my understanding of the challenges
enterprises face in making sense of complex data ecosystems that are
often siloed and hard to navigate.”

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McKinsey to Pay $122 Million to Settle South Africa Bribery Case
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When The New York Times published a 2018 investigation into
McKinsey’s contracts in South Africa, the firm’s questionable work
there was considered its biggest mistake in its nearly 100-year
history. But the next year, with the United States in the grip of an
opioid epidemic, McKinsey’s extensive work to “turbocharge”
sales at Purdue Pharma, the maker of the painkiller OxyContin, became
public. McKinsey’s work with opioid makers is the focus of an
ongoing federal criminal investigation.

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Google says its new AI models can identify emotions -- and that has
experts worried
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Google says its new AI model family has a curious feature: the ability
to "identify" emotions. Announced on Thursday, the PaliGemma 2 family
of models can analyze images, enabling the AI to generate captions and
answer questions about people it "sees" in photos.

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OPEC Plus Postpones Plan to Increase Oil Output for Three Months
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It is not going to be easy to find a right time to start increasing
output. The combination of tepid global demand growth and anticipated
increases in production from countries like the United States, Guyana
and Brazil is squeezing out OPEC and its allies. The transition to
electric vehicles, even if slower than some anticipated, will also
gradually cut into demand.

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World's Priciest Dinosaur Fossil Comes to Museum of Natural History
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But the auction also stoked fears among academic paleontologists that
museums and universities were being priced out of their research field
by well-heeled private collectors. After purchasing the stegosaurus,
Griffin, the founder and chief executive of the hedge fund Citadel,
said he intended to lend the specimen to an American institution so it
would be available to scientists and the public.

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