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Some advocates for gender-affirming care for youth say the report mischaracterizes the normal caution being taken by researchers to carefully present and interpret scientific data. “They’re in really good shape when they come in, and they’re in really good shape after two years,” Olson-Kennedy told the Times. Her description appears to contradict the baseline characteristics of the 95 study participants, which were published in 2022. Numerous studies have documented high rates of suicide and suicidal thoughts in transgender children and teenagers, and the physical changes of puberty can greatly increase the distress of feeling trapped in the wrong body. Nine children – about 4% of the sample – expressed regret over puberty blockers or hormones, and four discontinued their therapy.
Persons: , Alex Keuroghlian, Johanna Olson, Kennedy, Olson, , ” Olson, Amy Tishelman, Tishelman, ” Tishelman, , What’s, Hilary Cass, Dr, Sanjay Gupta, CNN’s Jen Christensen Organizations: CNN, The New York Times, Education, Fenway Institute, Center, Transyouth Health, Children’s Hospital of Los, Times, Boston College, Endocrine, Endocrine Society, Cass, CNN Health, Trans Locations: Children’s Hospital of Los Angeles, Netherlands
The post-training team is currently led by Liam Fedus, a researcher who helped develop ChatGPT. Fedus is the third person to lead the in the past six months. Among them is the post-training team, which is responsible for preparing AI models for wide release and has had three leaders in the past six months. Currently leading post-training is Liam Fedus , a machine learning researcher who was part of a group of researchers that developed ChatGPT. Fedus was also one of seven OpenAI researchers who developed a group of advanced reasoning models known as Strawberry .
Persons: Liam Fedus, Fedus, , Barret Zoph, Mira Murati, Bob McGrew ., Miles Brundage, It's, Sam Altman, Zoph, John Schulman, Anthropic, OpenAI Organizations: Service, MIT Technology, MIT, Fidelity, UC San Diego, collider, University of Montreal, Google, OpenAI Locations: OpenAI, Switzerland
China's steel exports will soon hit an eight-year high, before sweeping tariffs sink in and drag down the industry in 2025, industry watchers said. As the biggest exporter of steel, China accounts for about 55% of the world's steel production. Strategists at Macquarie Capital predicted that China's steel exports will reach 109 million tons this year, before declining to 96 million tons in 2025. Trade tariffs could further curb China's steel exports, "albeit this may require a while to play out," analysts from the the investment bank told CNBC. After hitting a record high of 112 million tons in 2015, the country's steel exports had been on a multi-year slide before it started improving in 2020.
Persons: Ren Zhuqian Organizations: Science & Technology, Macquarie Capital, CNBC, Citigroup, Steel Locations: JIUJIANG, CHINA, Jiujiang, Jiangxi Province, China
Urolithin A supplement company Timeline has investments from both Nestlé and L'Oréal. This year, the conversation quickly turned to the supplement du jour, the compound that has drawn investment from both Nestlé and L'Oréal: Urolithin A. Starting in 2008, Rinch's supplement company, Amazentis, funded over a dozen studies on urolithin A, including some relatively large, placebo-controlled trials in people — a rarity in supplement research. Urolithin A has also captured the attention of longevity researchers, who are typically more skeptical about products promising to make you young again. Timeline was on the agenda at this year's ARDD, an annual longevity research conference held in Copenhagen in August.
Persons: , There's, Urolithin, Hilary Brueck, Chris Rinsch, Rinsch, Johan Auwerx, Amazentis, Auwerx, He's, Mark Hyman, Dave Asprey, Gwyneth Paltrow's, Will Cole, Dominic Denk, Denk, wouldn't, Timeline's, Andrea Maier, it's, Maier Organizations: Service, VC, Business, Frankfurt University Hospital, National University of Singapore Locations: Gstaad, Swiss, skincare, urolithin, Davos, Copenhagen, Germany, Switzerland, Nestlé
Esther Granger was identified by the Kane County Coroner’s Office on Thursday as the woman whose skull was found in 1978, but she died more than 150 years earlier. The skull was turned back into the police and officials linked this skull to the 1978 report, which renewed the investigation. In 2023, Kane County officials contacted Othram, a Texas company that works on solving cold cases across the country, to assist with further DNA testing. Officials contacted Granger’s great-great grandson, Wayne Svilar, and he submitted his DNA for testing, which was a match, he said during Thursday’s news conference. Svilar, 69, said he did not believe the news when he was first contacted by county officials in April about his great-great grandmother.
Persons: Esther Granger, Granger, Robert Russell, Russell, Kane, Othram, Granger’s, Wayne Svilar, , , ” Svilar, he’s, Esther, ” Russell Organizations: CNN, Coroner’s, Officials, Batavia Depot, Attorney’s Locations: Chicago, Kane, Indiana, Kane County, Merrillville , Indiana, Batavia , Illinois, Batavia, Texas, Portland , Oregon, Multnomah County
China's Xi Jinping negotiated a truce with India's leader, Narendra Modi. AdvertisementAt the BRICS summit in Russia this week, China's leader Xi Jinping and India's Prime Minister Narendra Modi shook hands for the first time in five years. AdvertisementAfter their meeting at the summit hosted by Russia's President Vladimir Putin, Xi and Modi said they would continue discussions on resolving the issue. AdvertisementIn any case, its a setback in US attempts to include India in a deeper security alliance, he said. "For a long time, the US has tried to develop security and defense ties with India," said Panda.
Persons: China's Xi Jinping, Narendra Modi, that's, , Xi Jinping, Vladimir Putin, Xi, Modi, Jagannath Panda, Putin, Zhiqun Zhu, Zhu, Yawar Nazir, Praveen Donthi, there's, Rahul Bhatia, Donthi, it's Organizations: Service, India's, Russia's, US, Stockholm Center, South, Pacific Affairs, Bucknell University, America, Reuters, Quad Alliance, Getty, Eurasia Group Locations: China, Russia, Washington ,, India, Japan, Australia, United States, Beijing, Asia, Pacific, Indian, Leh, South Asia, Europe, Ukraine, Taiwan
Share Share Article via Facebook Share Article via Twitter Share Article via LinkedIn Share Article via EmailLittle possibility that opposition parties will take power in Japan, professor saysYu Uchiyama, professor of political science at the University of Tokyo, discusses Japan's general elections.
Persons: Yu Uchiyama Organizations: University of Tokyo Locations: Japan
Since Otto Schott invented specialty glass in 1884, the simple material has become a cornerstone of modern technology, and driving innovation. From semiconductors to clean energy, home tech, and electric vehicles, glass is the silent enabler of progress. Specially engineered laser glass helped researchers achieve what was once thought impossible: creating more energy from a reaction than was put into it. The light, amplified by active laser glass and focused through precisely crafted optical glass, delivered significant energy to a tiny fuel pellet, triggering a fusion reaction that produced a net energy gain. The fusion reaction generated 3.15 megajoules of energy, exceeding the 2.05 megajoules of laser energy delivered to the target.
Persons: Bill James, Otto Schott, SCHOTT Organizations: SCHOTT North, Industry, photonics, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, SCHOTT, Insider Studios Locations: SCHOTT North America
The four-person crew, which spent nearly eight months aboard the International Space Station before landing in the Gulf of Mexico on Friday at 3:29 a.m. However, the astronauts “were taken to a local medical facility for additional evaluation,” NASA news chief Cheryl Warner said in a statement from the space agency shared at 8 a.m. “Out of an abundance of caution, all crew members were flown to the facility together.”Warner confirmed at 9 a.m. ET that the crew was still at the medical facility, but did not provide details about the nature of the medical checks. Additional weather delays also pushed the Crew-8 astronauts’ return into late October.
Persons: Cheryl Warner, ” Warner, Matthew Dominick, Michael Barratt, Jeanette Epps, Alexander Grebenkin, Roscosmos —, , Richard Jones, NASA’s, “ They’ll, ” Jones, Organizations: CNN, NASA, SpaceX, Space, International Space, Boeing Locations: Florida, Houston , Texas, Gulf of Mexico, Gulf, Houston
Robert Roberson, 57, was set to become the first person in the U.S. executed in a "shaken baby" case until members of the state House Criminal Jurisprudence Committee issued a subpoena to have him testify at a legislative hearing this week. Despite efforts by the attorney general's office to appeal, as the execution was scheduled to get underway on the evening of Oct. 17, the Texas Supreme Court, in an 11th-hour decision, sided with the lawmakers, handing Roberson a temporary reprieve. Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton during the annual Conservative Political Action Conference meeting in National Harbor, Md., on Feb. 23. The attorney general's office also described alleged sexual abuse. The attorney general's office said Wednesday that state lawmakers have "attempted to mislead the public by falsely claiming that Roberson was unfairly convicted through 'junk science' concerning 'shaken baby syndrome.'"
Persons: Ken Paxton, Robert Roberson, Roberson, Paxton, Nikki, Mandel Ngan, Paxton's, Doug Deason, Greg Abbott, Joe Moody, untruths, general's, Robert, Brian Wharton, Wharton, Gretchen Sween Organizations: Texas Supreme, Conservative Political, Getty, Texas GOP, Gov Locations: Texas, U.S, National Harbor, Md, AFP
One reason why Republicans are optimistic about their chances to retake the state is Pennsylvania’s voter registration numbers: While there are still more registered Democrats than registered Republicans, in March 2021, there were 630,000 more registered Democrats than Republicans in Pennsylvania. Overall, it shows that there are about 110,000 fewer registered Democrats in 2024 than in 2021, and about 220,000 more registered Republicans. Over 160,000 people who were registered Democrats in 2021 are now registered Republicans. But new voter registrations have not played a role in the narrowing Democratic Party registration edge. In fact, slightly more people who have registered since 2021 are now registered Democrats than registered Republicans.
Persons: Marc Meredith, Lucas Zhu, Pennsylvania’s Organizations: Republicans, NBC, Democratic, , Party, Democrats, Pennsylvania, Republican Locations: Pennsylvania
And among young voters who say they will vote in the presidential election in November, Harris leads 56%-36%, a 20-point advantage. Young women said they’ll vote for Harris over Trump by a 33-point margin. The gender differences splashed across the issues young voters say are most important to their vote. Roughly a third of young voters said they’ll pay attention to endorsements by political leaders (38%) and organizations to which they belong (31%). One-third of young voters have a positive view of Trump’s VP pick, JD Vance, and 45% have a negative view of him.
Persons: Kamala Harris, Donald Trump, Harris, Trump, that’s, Joe Biden, Taylor Swift, Elon Musk, Elon, Swift, Tim Walz, JD Vance, Walz, Vance Organizations: NBC, Trump, Democratic National Convention, SurveyMonkey, American, Survey
In vulnerable groups, E. coli infection can also lead to serious kidney complications and death. People can become infected after consuming contaminated food or water, or coming into contact with the feces of animals or infected people. E. coli symptoms usually show up three to four days after ingesting the bacteria, but it may take up to 10 days. Once the contaminated food enters the kitchen, it’s also possible for cross-contamination to occur if ingredients are mixed or handled improperly. If you are experiencing diarrhea, don't swim in a public pool to minimize the risk of transmission.
Persons: , Prashant Singh, coli, Barbara Kowalcyk, don’t, ” Kowalcyk, Kevin, it’s, Donald Schaffner, Schaffner, ” Schaffner, Singh Organizations: Centers for Disease Control, Prevention, Florida State University, Institute for Food Safety, Nutrition Security, George Washington University Milken Institute School Public Health, Department of Food Science, Rutgers University, Food Safety Advisory Council Locations: U.S, New Jersey, California
LOS ANGELES — Dueling lawsuits against UCLA each describe a rise in antisemitic and anti-Palestinian bias since protests erupted on campus last year over the Israel-Hamas war. “UCLA has failed to provide Jewish students, faculty, and staff with the protection promised by such policies," the amended complaint says. Both complaints refer to task forces UCLA established to examine antisemitism and Islamophobia on campus. The antisemitism report was released this month, and the one on anti-Palestinian and anti-Muslim bias came out in May. Some pro-Israel students and faculty members said they did not feel safe walking to classes, and pro-Palestinian protesters said they were increasingly subjected to violence and suppression.
Persons: counterprotests, , , Graeme Blair, counterprotesters Organizations: UCLA, American Civil Liberties Union of, University of California, Regents, UC, “ UCLA, , Israel, Jewish, University, Los Angeles, Police Locations: Israel, American Civil Liberties Union of Southern California, Gaza, Los
People in the LGBTQIA+ community often use the word partner to describe their relationship to other parties. ‘Boyfriend’ can sound juvenileLike many couples, Rouzer found “boyfriend” an inaccurate description of her close companion. Carey explained that “the relationship escalator” is a concept where couples are expected to follow several steps in a romantic relationship. Even the term “partner” could feel ambiguous since people might not know if you’re talking about a life or business partner. For Rouzer, “partner” is the most appropriate label for her nine-year relationship.
Persons: Rouzer, ’ it’s, , Patricia S, Dixon, Zers, , Leah Carey, ” Carey, “ I’ve, Domenique Harrison, Carey, , , ” Harrison, Harrison, “ You’re, It’s, ” Jocelyn Solis, Moreira Organizations: CNN, National Louis University in, , United, United States Census Locations: National Louis University in Florida, Millennials, California, United States, New York
Parker manages Nvidia's internal sustainability efforts by measuring and managing its water use and its conversion to renewable energy sources. He also evangelizes the potential for AI tools and data science to improve sustainability outside the company. Before joining Nvidia in 2023, Parker worked as a lawyer specializing in ethics and compliance in-house for the data storage company Western Digital and for a tech-focused law firm. He studied electrical engineering before law school at New York University School of Law. See Business Insider's full AI Power List
Persons: Parker Organizations: Nvidia, Western Digital, New York University School of Law
Pachocki, part of Business Insider's 2024 AI Power List, joined OpenAI in 2017 after completing a doctorate in computer science at Carnegie Mellon University. He was promoted to the company's chief scientist in May following the departure of its cofounder Ilya Sutskever. Pachocki had already been working closely with Sutskever on some of OpenAI's most ambitious projects including an advanced-reasoning model known as Q* and later renamed Strawberry. Even before officially taking on the mantle of chief scientist, Pachocki had already emerged as a guiding force behind OpenAI's research efforts. See Business Insider's full AI Power List
Persons: Ilya Sutskever, Pachocki, Sam Altman Organizations: Carnegie Mellon University
Prabhakar, part of Business Insider's 2024 AI Power List, has headed the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy since 2022. In her role, she advises President Joe Biden on science and technology with a particular focus on AI's risks and benefits. Previously, she was the director of the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency and was the first woman to lead the National Institute of Standards and Technology. She also founded the nonprofit Actuate, which manages research to solve societal challenges. See Business Insider's full AI Power List
Persons: Prabhakar, Joe Biden Organizations: White, Office of Science, Technology, Defense, Research Projects Agency, National Institute of Standards, Research, US Venture Partners
Saria, part of Business Insider's 2024 AI Power List, directs the machine learning and healthcare lab at Johns Hopkins University and is the founder and CEO of the AI startup Bayesian Health. Related storiesSaria has continued to research healthcare AI at Johns Hopkins. For her work in healthcare AI, the World Economic Forum named her a Young Global Leader in 2018. In 2022, Saria cofounded the Coalition for Health AI, which brings federal agencies and healthcare organizations to discuss best practices for using healthcare AI. She also helped the National Academy of Medicine develop its code of conduct for AI deployment, released earlier this year.
Persons: Saria, Barack Obama, Andreessen Horowitz, Oracle's Cerner, It's, Johns, She's, — she's Organizations: Johns Hopkins University, Stanford, Bayesian, Nature Medicine, Cleveland Clinic, Northwell, Johns Hopkins, Economic, Global, Coalition for Health, National Academy of Medicine
And now scientists have confirmed a new one: Diverse firefly species lit up the night during the late Mesozoic. The discovery comes from a fossil of an ancient firefly species that was initially discovered in 2016, trapped in 99 million-year-old Burmese amber from northern Myanmar. The beetle is only the second firefly species from the Mesozoic to be identified. Because only one other Cretaceous firefly species has been identified, “this new species can be used to revisit the (July 2022 study) to better date the evolution of fireflies given the new evidence,” he added. Firefly diversityThere are more than 2,000 firefly species found today, according to the Natural History Museum in London.
Persons: Flammarionella, , Chenyang Cai, Cai, Oliver Keller, Ann Arbor, ” Keller, Keller, Camille Flammarion, Robin Kundrata, Kundrata, ” Kundrata Organizations: CNN, Royal Society, Biological Sciences, Nanjing Institute of Geology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, University of Michigan, Palacký University Olomouc Locations: Myanmar, Beijing, Ann, London, Czech Republic
Editor’s Note: This article was originally published by The Art Newspaper, an editorial partner of CNN Style. CNN —Sotheby’s will sell its first work credited to a humanoid robot using artificial intelligence (AI) later this month. Portrait of Alan Turing (2024)” was created by Ai-Da Robot, the artist robot and brainchild of British gallerist Aidan Meller. The work "AI God Polyptych," by Ai-Da Sotheby’sBut Ai-Da is more than a pretty face. Read more stories from The Art Newspaper here.
Persons: CNN —, “ A.I, Alan Turing, , Ai, Aidan Meller, Meller, CNN’s Anna Stewart, gallerist, Da, Aidan Mellor, Mellor, Turing, Sotheby’s, , Marcel Duchamp, Lucy Seale, ” Ai, Polyptych, I’m Organizations: The Art, CNN, United, CBS, Digital Locations: Geneva, United Nations
SpaceX's Crew-8 from right to left: NASA astronauts Jeanette Epps, Matthew Dominick, Michael Barratt, and Roscosmos cosmonaut Alexander Grebenkin. Williams and Wilmore, for the record, have now been on the space station more than 18 weeks. The SpaceX Dragon Endeavour spacecraft is pictured beyond the Candarm2 robotic arm moments after undocking from the Harmony module of the space station with four Crew-8 members. And NASA previously confirmed the Starliner astronauts are prepared to make such a shift. Extended stays in spaceIt’s not uncommon for astronauts to unexpectedly extend their stay aboard the space station — for days, weeks or even months.
Persons: Suni Williams, Butch Wilmore —, Williams, Wilmore, Matthew Dominick, Michael Barratt, Jeanette Epps, Alexander Grebenkin, Roscosmos, SpaceX Williams, That’s, Wilmore —, Cardman, Stephanie Wilson —, Boeing’s Starliner, they’re, , Dana Weigel, “ Butch, Suni, ” Weigel, , Nick Hague, Russia’s Aleksandr Gorbunov, ” Williams, Frank Rubio, yearlong, “ I’m Organizations: CNN, International Space Station, NASA, SpaceX, ISS, SpaceX's, Cape Canaveral Space Force, SpaceX’s, Spaceflight, Boeing, Expedition, Space Station Locations: Florida, Russian
Luis von Ahn is the cofounder and CEO of Duolingo, a popular language-learning app with more than 31 million monthly active users. Von Ahn led the development of "Birdbrain", a machine learning model that estimates a user's language proficiency and then personalizes exercises. In 2023, Duolingo launched a new "Max" tier for its language-learning users. This year, Duolingo launched a Video Call feature where learners can practice talking in real time with an AI character. Von Ahn is a former computer science professor at Carnegie Mellon University and the co-inventor of CAPTCHAs, the way to determine if a computer user is human.
Persons: Luis von Ahn, Von Ahn, Duolingo Organizations: Carnegie Mellon University
Reddit acquired Memorable AI in August in a deal that valued the startup at just under $40 million, including performance-based earnouts. Memorable AI uses AI models to predict which images and videos will catch users' attention and encourage them to engage with an ad. Acevedo, a Memorable AI cofounder who had been the startup's CEO, now leads product for Reddit's new ads media intelligence team, which combines data on creative performance with the company's advertising AI models. Fosco, a fellow cofounder who had been Memorable AI's chief technology officer, leads engineering in the ads intelligence team. "The acquisition of Memorable AI, coupled with its focus on creative effectiveness, now gives Reddit the missing piece to continue improving performance for our advertisers," Fosco said.
Persons: Reddit, Acevedo, Fosco Organizations: Unilever, Mars, MIT
Karpathy is the founder and CEO of Eureka Labs, an education AI startup. He's known for his YouTube educational content on AI. Eureka Labs uses an AI teaching assistant to allow students to ask questions and get more of a customized experience than they would otherwise get from a series of recorded lessons. According to its website, the company's first product is an AI course titled LLM101n, which aims to teach students to develop AI models. Karpathy is a renowned AI researcher who has attracted an audience with over a million followers on X and 500,000 YouTube subscribers.
Persons: Karpathy Organizations: Eureka Labs, Stanford
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