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‘People Are Going to Die’: A Malnutrition Crisis Looms in the Wake of USAID Cuts

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Despite announcing a $50 million pledged to fund RUTFs earlier this summer, the Trump administration's deep cuts to foreign assistance have wreaked havoc on RUTF distribution globally, and the State Department hasn’t placed orders with leading suppliers this year. Nkubizi is seeing this unfold firsthand.

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Microsoft, OpenAI, and a US Teachers’ Union Are Hatching a Plan to ‘Bring AI into the Classroom’

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Anthropic, which develops the Claude chatbot, also recently became a collaborator on what the union described as a first-of-its-kind $23 million initiative funded by the tech companies to bring free training to teachers. The question was whether we would be chasing it or we would try to harness it.”

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The Enshittification of American Power

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When businesses engage in global finance and trade, they regularly route their transactions through a platform called the dollar clearing system, administered by just a handful of US-regulated institutions. Here’s how it works: Global banks convert currencies to and from US dollars so their customers can sell goods internationally.

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Does Anyone Know What ‘Wellness’ Means Anymore?

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has fired every member of the CDC’s advisory committee on immunization practices, replacing them with a mixed bag of credible experts and “vaccine skeptics”; laid off thousands of civil servants and cut billions in research funding to colleges and public health departments; and used his White House perch to take shots of raw milk on camera.

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Trump’s AI Action Plan Is a Crusade Against ‘Bias’—and Regulation

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The AI Action Plan doesn’t recommend reinstating the moratorium, but it does attempt to place limits on how states attempt to rein in AI’s major players, recommending that federal funding be withheld from states with “burdensome” AI regulations. Trump has also taken steps to help build out US AI capacity domestically and abroad.

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Americans Are Obsessed With Watching Short Video Dramas From China

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Globally, these apps were downloaded 370 million times in the first quarter, a 500 percent increase from 2024. Many actors and production teams were on strike or out of work after the major streaming giants slashed funding for original programming. There’s nothing else for you to move on from. There’s no future for you anymore.

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Dyson Has Killed Its Bizarre Zone Air-Purifying Headphones

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Alan Sircom, editor of globally respected Hi-Fi+ magazine, goes even further. million in funding and Meta’s former AR boss on its team, AllFocal Optics is looking to revolutionize the screens in car heads-up displays—and it's coming for smart glasses too. Why would Dyson want to do ‘that’ when what it is good at is ‘this’”?