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- The top 25 stories curated by editors and fellow readers!
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Editor's Note: Robin Carhart-Harris, a neuroscientist studying the effect of psychedelics, said that it was possible the drugs could help leaders in the workplace. Mr. Carhart-Harris, a professor at the University of California, San Francisco, examines people's brains on drugs. His brain scans show that psychedelics increase entropy. Where the brain usually tries to helpfully compress information, these drugs have the opposite effect, which he argues could shake loose new thinking on the knotty challenges of leadership.
| Work Many New Jersey a??dronesa?? are manned aircraft being flown lawfully, White House says  The Republican assemblyman Erik Peterson, whose district includes parts of the state where the drones have been reported, said he also attended Wednesday's meeting at a state police facility in West Trenton. The session lasted for about 90 minutes. |
| Work Guide to Saudi Arabia's mad stadium plans for 2034 World Cup  Fifa has confirmed that Saudi Arabia will be awarded the 2034 World Cup. The Gulf state emerged as the only bidder and has already started building ambitious stadiums for the event. |
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| Work A.D.H.D. Diagnoses Are Surging Among Older Americans  Over her life, Tanya Murphy had become accustomed to hiding her depression. In the Christian social circles in Georgia where she raised her three children, this was the rule -- not the exception, she said. "God forbid you have a mental health issue," said Ms. |
| Work Why Crypto Bros Are So Obsessed with 'Debanking'  Marc Andreessen made headlines recently when he brought up the issue of "debanking" on the Joe Rogan podcast, claiming that the U.S. government was "terrorizing" crypto companies with it. |
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| Work 'There Was Almost a Utopian Feeling to It': How StumbleUpon Pioneered the Way We Use the Internet  StumbleUpon, a tool that led users to random websites, had a stranglehold on millennials in the 2010s. Its influence echoes through everything we do online. |
| Work Designer Babies Are Teenagers Now--and Some of Them Need Therapy Because of It  For years now, aspiring parents have been designing their children. Screening embryos for disease-causing genes during IVF, selecting their future baby's sex, picking egg and sperm donors to influence their child's traits. |
| Work Running On Empty: How Corporate Cultures Fuel Burnout  In my work advising organizations, I've observed a disturbing trend that's about to reach critical mass. |
| Work Tech predictions for 2025 and beyond  We have entered an era of unprecedented societal challenges and rapid technological advancements. Harnessing technology for good has become both an ethical imperative and a profitable endeavor. |
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| Work Diagnostic accuracy of deep learning in medical imaging: a systematic review and meta-analysis  Deep learning (DL) has the potential to transform medical diagnostics. However, the diagnostic accuracy of DL is uncertain. Our aim was to evaluate the diagnostic accuracy of DL algorithms to identify pathology in medical imaging. Searches were conducted in Medline and EMBASE up to January 2020. |
| Work The Incredibly True Story of Renting a Friend in Tokyo  When you're alone in Tokyo and you need someone to talk to, do as the locals do: Rent a friend. |
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| Work Parkinson's Law: It's Real, So Use It  Parkinson's Law states that "work expands so as to fill the time available for its completion." Although it is counter-intuitive, you will find that through practice and experience, there is a lot of truth to this. |
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| Work Prices for 5 drugs were hiked without proof of new benefits, costing the U.S. $815M in 2023, report finds  Consequently, spending for this drug climbed by $359 million, according to the report issued by the Institute for Clinical and Economic Review, a nonprofit that assesses the cost-effectiveness of medicines. The report noted that Gilead maintained that certain important study data were “rejected” or “overlooked,” and that in at least one instance, the analysis “contradicts standard research practice.” |
| Work Pfizer's blockbuster Ibrance slows tumor progression in another type of breast cancer  Although not a game changer for Pfizer, the data could help cushion Ibrance’s losses of market share to Kisqali, a similar drug from Novartis. Kisqali has shown to improve survival in advanced breast cancer; Ibrance has not. While early data had indicated a medicine like Ibrance, known as a CDK 4/6 inhibitor, should work in HER2+ patients, this is the first data showing that to be the case. This could result in increased use of Ibrance in this group. |
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| Work The bird flu mystery that might never get solved  The study was published just days after, here in the U.S., President-elect Donald Trump suggested that he shares some of Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s concerns about common childhood vaccines (which, to be clear, are scientifically unsubstantiated). |
| Work The biotech news you need to read today  However, analysts say that the bill is far from a sure bet, particularly given the upcoming change in administrations. They believe other legislative priorities will get more attention, despite a focus on health care matters more broadly. |
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| Work Pharmalittle: We're reading about unsupported drug price hikes, an annual HIV prevention shot, and more  Gilead plans to begin Phase 3 testing soon for a drug it believes could prevent HIV infection with a single shot every year |
| Work How RFK Jr. could impact addiction treatment  STAT’s Lev Facher examined Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s past statements on drug use and his personal recovery from drug and alcohol misuse. His philosophy toward addiction policy is inconsistent, but one thing that stands out is that Kennedy believes the country should turn to law enforcement, jailing those who fail to recover. |
| Work Investors in Padlock Therapeutics sue Bristol Myers Squibb over 'milestone' payments  Adam Feuerstein is a senior writer and biotech columnist, reporting on the crossroads of drug development, business, Wall Street, and biotechnology. He is also a co-host of the weekly biotech podcast The Readout Loud and author of the newsletter Adam’s Biotech Scorecard. |
| Work The pharma industry's silence on RFK Jr., and efforts by parents to develop gene therapies for their children  Adam Feuerstein is a senior writer and biotech columnist, reporting on the crossroads of drug development, business, Wall Street, and biotechnology. He is also a co-host of the weekly biotech podcast The Readout Loud and author of the newsletter Adam’s Biotech Scorecard. |
| Work Centene warns Republicans against cutting Medicaid or letting ACA subsidies expire  Bob Herman covers health insurance, government programs, hospitals, physicians, and other providers — reporting on how money influences those businesses and shapes what we all pay for care. He is also the author of the Health Care Inc. newsletter. |
| Work When AI becomes a tool to fight insurance denials  Mario Aguilar covers technology in health care, including artificial intelligence, virtual reality, wearable devices, telehealth, and digital therapeutics. His stories explore how tech is changing the practice of health care and the business and policy challenges to realizing tech’s promise. He’s also the co-author of the free, twice weekly STAT Health Tech newsletter. |
| Work Editas Medicine lays off 65% of staff and shelves lead gene-editing program  Editas launched with immense fanfare a decade ago, as one of the first three companies founded around the promise of CRISPR genome editing. But it struggled on execution, choosing to go after hard-to-reach diseases, and it saw significant turnover as early programs failed or stagnated. |
| Work CDC finds no evidence of bird flu virus in California toddler  California is currently the epicenter of the outbreak of H5N1 in dairy cows, with over 600 herds having tested positive for the virus since spread there was first detected in late August. Nationally, 832 herds in 16 states have tested positive for the virus since the outbreak in cows was first confirmed in late March. |
| Work Archer Aviation raises $430 million through equity offering, partners with Anduril  The San Jose, California-based air-taxi maker ended the third quarter with $502 million of cash and cash equivalents. The latest funding brings Archer's total capital raised to nearly $2 billion to date. |
| Work Stocks will end 2025 lower due to sticky inflation, economic slowdown, Stifel predicts  RBC Capital Markets head of US equity strategy Lori Calvasina recently pointed out in her 2025 outlook why economic growth meeting or exceeding positive expectations could be crucial to the stock market rally. Dating back to 1947, GDP has grown between 1.1% and 2% five times. Stocks were higher just 40% in those years, with an average decline of 3.4%. Meanwhile, in years when GDP tracked between 2.1% and 3%, stocks were higher 70% of the time, with an average return of nearly 11%. |
| Work Can You Guess What Percent Of People Retire With A $5 Million Nest Egg? Hint: It's Way Less Than 1%  Studies show 50% of consumers think Financial Advisors cost much more than they do — to debunk this, this company provides matching for free and a complimentary first call with the matched advisor. |
| Work Why Intel Stock Is Gaining Today  Keith Noonan has no position in any of the stocks mentioned. The Motley Fool has positions in and recommends Intel. The Motley Fool recommends Mobileye Global and recommends the following options: short February 2025 $27 calls on Intel. The Motley Fool has a disclosure policy. |
| Work These Are the 5 Worst-Performing Stocks in the Dow Jones Industrial Average With 2024 Almost Over  Jeremy Bowman has positions in Nike. The Motley Fool has positions in and recommends Merck and Nike. The Motley Fool recommends Alaska Air Group, Amgen, Johnson & Johnson, and On Holding. The Motley Fool has a disclosure policy. |
| Work Adobe stock sinks as weak outlook stokes fears over AI monetization, growing competition  William Blair analyst Jake Roberge wrote in his own note to investors early Thursday: “While in the near term we expect this guidance will likely put an overhang on the stock as investors contemplate whether the lack of pricing/growth tailwinds from the company’s new GenAI solutions is due to competitive/market pressure versus Adobe playing the long game in fostering top-of-funnel activity for its new AI solutions, we remain positive on the long-term trajectory of the business and believe that Adobe remains well positioned to capitalize on the GenAI opportunity.” |
| Work If You Had Invested $95 in Warren Buffett's Berkshire Hathaway 59 Years Ago, Here's How Much You Would Have Today  American Express is an advertising partner of Motley Fool Money. Selena Maranjian has positions in American Express, Apple, and Berkshire Hathaway. The Motley Fool has positions in and recommends Apple and Berkshire Hathaway. The Motley Fool has a disclosure policy. |
| Work From $470 To $3,300 In Dividend Income in 5 Years - Investor Shares Stock Portfolio And Tips, Says It's A 'Big Mountain To Climb'  Dividend investing has been an efficient way for investors to protect against inflation. For example, data shows that between 1974 and 1980, when inflation averaged 9.3%, stocks delivered a total return of 10%, with 5% from dividend income and 4.8% ... |
| Work Costco tops quarterly sales, profit estimates on steady early holiday demand  The recent hike in its annual membership fee to $65 for Gold Star members and $130 for Executive members resulted in earnings from the fees rising 7.7% to $1.17 billion in the reported quarter. |
| Work Warren Buffett Says Ignore 'Tarot' Card Predictions by So-Called Experts: 'The Risks of Being Out of the Game Are Huge Compared to Being In'  Studies show 50% of consumers think Financial Advisors cost much more than they do — to debunk this, this company provides matching for free and a complimentary first call with the matched advisor. |
| Work Intel Says It's an Open Question Whether to Break Up Company  In artificial intelligence accelerator chips, where Nvidia Corp. has taken a dominant role, Intel has struggled as well. The company’s Gaudi chip is difficult to use, Johnston Holthaus acknowledged. Intel is now focusing on more generic graphics-chip offerings that won’t be great at first but will be rapidly updated to make them competitive, she said. |
| Work Costco posts another quarter of sales growth against an uncertain consumer environment  "We do also recognize that there's a benefit of the stock feeling more affordable for our retail investors and employees who are very important constituents for us, so we'll continue to evaluate over time," he added. |
| Work Broadcom Shares Jump After Chipmaker Predicts AI Sales Surge  Bloomberg News reported earlier that Apple would start switching away from a key Broadcom wireless chip starting next year. The iPhone maker has been replacing suppliers’ components with in-house versions, a trend that’s also set to hit chipmaker Qualcomm Inc. |
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| Work Intel executives say a manufacturing spinoff is possible  Zinsner, also chief financial officer, outlined how Intel is already separating the finances and operations of this manufacturing division into a standalone subsidiary. Zinsner said Intel Foundry, as the division is known, is already run separately from Intel's other businesses and is setting up a separate operational board and business process software system. |
| Work Rule of 70 vs. Rule of 72: What's the Difference?  A financial advisor can help you analyze investments and manage risk for your portfolio. Finding a financial advisor doesn't have to be hard. SmartAsset's free tool matches you with up to three vetted financial advisors who serve your area, and you can have a free introductory call with your advisor matches to decide which one you feel is right for you. If you're ready to find an advisor who can help you achieve your financial goals, get started now. |
| Work Broadcom forecasts Q1 revenue above estimates on strong AI chip demand  While hailed as a chipmaker, Broadcom has proliferated into a tech conglomerate owing to buyouts such as its $69 billion acquisition of cloud-computing firm VMware. The infrastructure software segment grew 196% from a year earlier to $5.82 billion in the fourth quarter. |
| Work Schwab Found This Was the Average Retirement Income Strategy. How Does Yours Compare?  Are you a financial advisor looking to grow your business? SmartAsset AMP helps advisors connect with leads and offers marketing automation solutions so you can spend more time making conversions. Learn more about SmartAsset AMP. |
| Work Apple went public 44 years ago--what your $10,000 investment would be worth today  Berkshire’s position at the start of 2024 would currently be worth over $220 billion, but Buffett likely won’t fret about missing the upswing. Stock sales propelled Berkshire’s profits to $26.25 billion last quarter, compared to a loss of $12.77 billion during Q3 a year ago. As Fortune’s Shawn Tully recently noted, Buffett’s Apple gambit will likely go down as one of the best wagers in the storied investor’s career. |
| Work Twelve Labs is building AI that can analyze and search through videos | TechCrunch  “The investment from In-Q-Tel reflects the versatility and potential of our technology across many sectors, including national security,” Lee said. “We’re always open to exploring opportunities where our technology can have a positive, meaningful, and responsible impact that aligns with our ethical guidelines.” |
| Work The founders of SlideShare are making sharing docs more social with their new platform, Jaunt | TechCrunch  The company plans to add more features over time, including direct messaging, a verification system, and support for video embedding. Currently bootstrapped, Jaunt is exploring monetization strategies such as a premium tier, and is open to incorporating ads, as well as seeking investment from venture capitalists in the future. |
| Work Exclusive: Evinced's $55M C round will help bring its accessibility dev tools (and AI) to Europe  Expect adoption of accessibility-focused tools like Evinced to accelerate as companies continue to realize that it’s not just the law to build with accessibility in mind, it’s just simply a good idea. |
| Work ServiceTitan's IPO is a big winner that could inspire fintechs | TechCrunch  “We expect ServiceTitan’s debut to be an encouraging indicator that could inspire other fintech players in the extensive fintech IPO pipeline to follow suit,” said PitchBook senior emerging technology analyst Rudy Yang. |
| Work A comprehensive list of 2024 tech layoffs | TechCrunch  Alyssa Stringer was formerly the Audience Development Manager for TechCrunch. She previously worked for HW Media as Audience Development Manager across HousingWire, RealTrends and FinLedger media brands. Prior to her experience in audience development, Alyssa worked as a content writer and holds a Bachelor’s in Journalism at the University of North Texas. |
| Work Carta is making it too difficult to cancel subscriptions, some founders say | TechCrunch  Carta’s practices have come under scrutiny before. In January 2024, coding startup Linear’s founder, Karri Saarinan, accused Carta of sharing private cap table data, claiming that a Carta employee contacted one of his angel investors claiming to have an offer for his shares without notifying Saarinen first. Carta ended up exiting the secondary stock trading market, selling it this August to stock trading startup Public. |
| Work Cooler temperatures forecast to help firefighters battle Malibu wildfire  The Woolsey fire that roared through the area in 2018, killing three people and destroying 1,600 homes, was sparked by Edison equipment. Asked on Wednesday if Edison equipment was involved in the Franklin fire, Ornelas referred all questions regarding the cause to fire officials. |
| Work Pete Hegseth decried out gay troops in US military as part of Marxist agenda  “Through don’t ask, don’t tell and women in the military and these standards, they’re going to inevitably start to erode standards because they want that one female special operator, that one female Green Beret, that one female Army Ranger, that one female Navy Seal, so they can put them on a recruiting poster and feel good about themselves – and [that] has nothing to do with national security,” he said. |
| Work Inspector general finds no FBI agents were involved in January 6 attack a?? as it happened  In addition to the group of people included in today's announcement, the Brennan Center and a coalition of allies have been calling on the president to commute the sentences of the more than 40 people on federal death row to life without parole, and to thousands of people who are serving unfairly long, racially disparate drug sentences." |
| Work Louisville and DoJ strike police reform deal in wake of Breonna Taylor shooting  It remains to be seen what will happen to attempts to reach such agreements between cities and the justice department once Trump returns to the White House. The justice department under the first Trump administration curtailed the use of consent decrees and the Republican president-elect is expected to again radically reshape the department’s priorities around civil rights. |
| Work Suspect in UnitedHealthcare CEO killing may not have been a client, say police  Mangione is an Ivy League graduate from a prominent Maryland real estate family. On Wednesday, police said investigators are looking into an accident that injured Mangione’s back and sent him to an emergency room in July 2023. They are also looking at his writings about the injury and his criticism of corporate America and the US healthcare system. |
| Work Some jury trials may be scrapped in England and Wales as court backlog hits record high  Katie Kempen, the chief executive of Victim Support, which helps victims of crimes through the court process, said: “Whilst fundamental reform is needed, it is shortsighted to think that this crisis will be solved without serious investment in court staff, infrastructure and victims’ services.” |
| Work Housing must take priority over nature, says Starmer in green belt reform plan  Florence Eshalomi, the chair of the housing committee, criticised the remarks, saying: “For the shadow secretary of state to reduce this about immigration is wrong. Think about those many children who will be sleeping rough this Christmas.” |
| Work Tory peer faces suspension over a??Lord Poppadoma?? remark  Complaining that security officers had insisted on "the rules", he told the Lords commissioner for standards: "Perhaps I need [to] try not to be angered by this sort of senseless, inconvenient ruling." |
| Work UK housing crisis: what does Laboura??s shake-up of planning rules involve?  The introduction of the "golden rules" do seem to represent a relaxation of what had been previously rigid planning rules. The Conservatives accused the government of waging a "war on rural England", with the shadow housing secretary, Kevin Hollinrake, claiming that most of the 1.5m proposed new homes would be going to migrants. |
| Work Police hunt for culprits after Christmas lights damaged in five Suffolk villages  He urged anyone with CCTV or doorbell cameras in the affected areas to review their footage for anything that may be relevant. Anyone with information is asked to contact Suffolk police by calling 101 or by emailing cccidentifysuffolk.police.uk. |
| Work Birmingham fairground ride crashes to the ground, injuring several people  “Two women were treated by ambulance staff for injuries not believed to be serious and conveyed to Midland Metropolitan university hospital,” a West Midlands ambulance service spokesperson said. “Nine women and two men were assessed by medics before being given self-care advice and discharged at the scene.” |
| Work American found in Damascus appears to have been released from Syrian prison  Maria Cure, of SETF, said: “He has made it a priority while he’s there to find all Americans wrongfully detained in Syria, including Majd Kamalmaz, Austin Tice and others whose names are not public.” |