The percentage of US citizens currently taking GLP-1 drugs such as Wegovy for weight loss has almost quadrupled to 11% from 3% in 2024. A further 4% of Americans say they’ve used the drugs in the past, Gallup polling found. Meanwhile, US obesity rates, which peaked in 2022 at 39.9%, ...
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US, China space ventures raise capitalUS, China space ventures raise capital
Commercial space ventures in the US and China are tapping broader pools of capital as the superpowers vie for dominance in a fierce space race. Jeff Bezos’ Blue Origin is seeking its first outside capital, aiming to raise $10 billion at a valuation of about $130 billion, The New York ...
Trump keeps shifting tone on NATOTrump keeps shifting tone on NATO
President Donald Trump offered both sticks and carrots to NATO, threatening to cut off trade with Spain before offering rare praise for the alliance. At the summit on Wednesday, Trump reignited his feud with Madrid over the Iran war, made renewed claims on Greenland, and rehashed his grievances with NATO. ...
US to help Ukraine build Patriot interceptorsUS to help Ukraine build Patriot interceptors
President Donald Trump agreed to supply licenses for Ukraine to build Patriot missile interceptors during a meeting with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy on Wednesday at the NATO summit in Türkiye. The move stops short of the immediate transfer of Patriots to Ukraine that Kyiv would have preferred, but nevertheless is ...
IMF slashes growth outlook on Iran conflictIMF slashes growth outlook on Iran conflict
The global economy will grow at a slower rate in 2026, the IMF said Wednesday, as high energy prices resulting from the Iran conflict drag on growth and drive inflation. The fund lowered its global forecast to 3%, down from April and below the last two years’ averages, but noted ...
Chinese cities rank higher on ‘liveability’ indexChinese cities rank higher on ‘liveability’ index
Copenhagen topped the Economist Intelligence Unit’s ranking of the world’s most livable cities for the second year in a row, though Chinese metropolises made the largest gains. Tokyo was the world’s only megacity to break into the top 10 of the ranking, which uses criteria such as healthcare, culture and ...
Trump’s ‘sober’ approach to quantumTrump’s ‘sober’ approach to quantum
In closed-door discussions with quantum industry leaders at a White House event on Tuesday, government officials pushed the importance of domestic supply chain security, according to a person in attendance. The tone of the Trump administration was “sober” and “serious,” they said. While officials highlighted actions taken by the White ...
DeepSeek takes control of its hardware: reportDeepSeek takes control of its hardware: report
China’s DeepSeek is taking a page out of OpenAI’s playbook by developing its own AI chip for inference. The move would reduce the country’s reliance on semiconductors made by American Nvidia, which has struggled to reestablish a sales pipeline in China after US President Donald Trump began allowing chip exports ...
China pitches the world on open-source AIChina pitches the world on open-source AI
GENEVA — Chinese government officials are using the United Nations’ AI for Good summit in Switzerland this week to, in part, reframe the open-source models that have proliferated in China. The implicit pitch: In contrast to the most advanced US models, which can be restrictive and expensive, open-source AI tools ...
AI makes mistakes, tooAI makes mistakes, too
Reed’s view It isn’t just big companies fretting about high and unexpected bills for AI tokens. It is also … me. On Sunday morning, I woke up jet-lagged after two weeks in Europe to find that OpenAI was repeatedly charging me $5, more than 20 times a day in some ...