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Wegovy semaglutide tablets.Michael Siluk | Universal Images Group | Getty ImagesWhen the Wegovy pill launched in January, telehealth provider LifeMD said its business doubled almost overnight. LifeMD went from seeing between 300 and 400 new patients a day to 600 to 1,000 new patients a day, said CEO Justin Schreiber. He knew there would be demand, but that level of interest surprised him. “There’s no question that the launch of oral medications has improved access,” Schreiber said. Tens of thousands of people have started taking Novo Nordisk’s Wegovy pill in the four months since it launched in the U.S., the majority of them…
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Bill Ready, CEO of Pinterest, speaks at the 28th annual Milken Institute Global Conference at the Beverly Hilton in Beverly Hills, California, on May 5, 2025.Patrick T. Fallon | AFP | Getty ImagesPinterest reported first-quarter earnings on Monday that beat on the top and bottom lines. Shares soared 17% after the report.Here’s how the company did, compared to analysts’ consensus estimates from LSEG:Earnings per share: 27 cents adjusted vs. 23 cents expectedRevenue: $1.01 billion vs. $966 million expectedSales in Pinterest’s first quarter rose 18% year-over-year while the company posted a net loss of $73.59 million, a loss of 12 cents…
U.S. Rep. Joe Morelle (D-NY) looks on during a press conference about the SAVE America Act in the U.S. Capitol on March 17, 2026 in Washington, DC. Heather Diehl | Getty ImagesHouse Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries announced on Monday that he’s deploying Rep. Joe Morelle this week to meet with New York Gov. Kathy Hochul and state legislators about mid-decade redistricting in the state.Jeffries and Morelle, both New York Democrats, said in a joint statement the effort is a response to the Supreme Court’s decision last week weakening a section of the Voting Rights Act, a landmark 1965 civil rights…
Elon Musk appears in the courthouse to attend the trial in his lawsuit over OpenAI for-profit conversion at a federal courthouse, in Oakland, California, U.S., April 29, 2026. Manuel Orbegozo | ReutersThe SEC agreed to settle a lawsuit it filed against Elon Musk last year that accused the world’s wealthiest person of violating securities law in the run-up to his purchase of Twitter. Filings on Monday, signed by attorneys representing the SEC and Musk, said that Musk’s revocable trust would pay a civil penalty of $1.5 million to the commission as part of the settlement. The judge has yet to…
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A study that claimed OpenAI’s ChatGPT can positively impact student learning has been retracted nearly one year after publication. The journal publisher, Springer Nature, cited “discrepancies” in the analysis and a lack of confidence in the conclusions—but not before the paper racked up hundreds of citations and made the rounds on social media. “The paper’s authors made some very attention-grabbing claims about the benefits of ChatGPT on learning outcomes,” said Ben Williamson, a senior lecturer at the Centre for Research in Digital Education and the Edinburgh Futures Institute at the University of Edinburgh in Scotland, in an email to Ars.…
Sen. Thom Tillis, R-N.C., speaks to a reporter as he arrives for the Senate Republicans’ lunch meeting in the U.S. Capitol on Wednesday, March 11, 2026. Bill Clark | Cq-roll Call, Inc. | Getty ImagesCrypto companies such as Coinbase are calling for Congress to advance a major market structure bill known as the CLARITY Act as soon as next week after senators released compromise language meant to end a battle between banks and crypto over when rewards can be offered on stablecoins.The proposal — from Sens. Thom Tillis, R-N.C, and Angela Alsobooks, D-Md. — would ban crypto companies from giving…
Politicians on both sides of the aisle want to block Chinese vehicles from the United States.But over 100 Chinese automakers, auto tech companies, and parts suppliers already have a presence in the U.S., according to a survey done by Dunne Insights, a consultancy that focuses on electric vehicles and autonomous markets. Despite the United States implementing a 100% tariff on EVs from the country and considering a rule banning Chinese connected cars from U.S. roads, a few Chinese companies are finding ways to invest in the country. Chinese behemoth BYD builds buses in California, and Chinese battery maker CATL has struck…
Swiss lawmakers delay UBS capital rules decision until August Source link