You can order your own blood work now. Interpreting the results is another story

Firms like Function Health and Oura market regular blood tests to people wanting to take their health into their own hands.
CBS News

DHS funding bill passes House, but shutdown drags on as Senate approves its own plan

The House passed a measure to fund every agency under the Department of Homeland Security at current levels through May 22, marking the latest attempt to end a partial government shutdown that began ...
Wired

Arm Is Now Making Its Own Chips

The chip design firm says Meta, OpenAI, Cerebras, and Cloudflare are among the first customers of its new artificial intelligence hardware. “Let me be clear: We are now in a new business for ARM, and ...
PBS

Iran dismisses U.S. ceasefire plan and issues its own counterproposal

Iran on Wednesday dismissed an American plan to pause the war in the Middle East, issuing its own counterproposal instead, as it launched more attacks on Israel and Gulf Arab countries. Two officials ...
Forbes

Microsoft Builds Its Own AI Model Stack To Reduce OpenAI Dependence

This voice experience is generated by AI. Learn more. This voice experience is generated by AI. Learn more. Microsoft made three in-house AI models available for commercial use through its Foundry ...
Seeking Alpha

Tesla is building its own semiconductor facility. This could be its most 'Herculean task' ever.

To get past the artificial intelligence-induced bottleneck at the major semiconductor foundries, Tesla (TSLA) is building its own semiconductor facility, with the work set to commence this weekend, ...
Hackaday

Python Comes To The Arduino Uno Q

MicroPython is a well-known and easy-to-use way to program microcontrollers in Python. If you’re using an Arduino Uno Q, ...
The Economist

China’s huge pork industry is a victim of its own success

Pork holds a unique place in the Chinese diet. It was once a symbol of the good life; the Chinese character for “home” is a pictogram of a pig under a roof. It is so important that the government has ...
Forbes

Iran Is Allowing Its Own Oil And Some Ships To Pass Through Blocked Hormuz Strait

Iran has continued to export its crude oil through the Strait of Hormuz at nearly pre-war levels while also allowing a small number of commercial vessels linked to “friendly” nations to pass through ...
CNBC

Arm releases first in-house chip, with Meta as debut customer

CNBC got an exclusive first look at Arm's first ever in-house chip, the AGI CPU, purpose-built for running AI inference in data centers. Meta is the first official customer for the new chip, with ...
The Washington Post

Iran is already ramping up its next war. Guess who the ‘enemy’ is.

Karen Kramer is deputy director of the Center for Human Rights in Iran. Esfandiar Aban is the center’s director of research. The bombs are still falling, and the Islamic Republic’s future is uncertain ...
CNN

In the AI industry, ‘agentic’ takes on a life of its own

Earlier this year, former Google CEO Eric Schmidt offered some advice on how to get rich. “If you really want to make money, it’s actually easy,” he said during a panel at the annual World Economic ...