Category: EsstN
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Patient Hospitalised After Following AI Chatbot’s Dangerous Health Tip
Artificial intelligence is infiltrating nearly every aspect of daily life. From booking trips to writing emails, AI chatbots are becoming go to tools for quick answers. The phrase “just ask ChatGPT” has become second nature for many. But when it comes to health advice, experts warn we may be leaning too far into uncharted (and…
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Marriage Addiction: Inside the Lives of People Who Just Can’t Stop Saying “I Do”
Beyond the Fairytale Ending Forty two per cent of UK marriages end in divorce, yet weddings still hold an irresistible grip on the cultural imagination. We cling to the narrative that there’s “one person out there for everyone,” and once you find them, happiness will follow until death. But what about those who collect multiple…
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Gerry Cardinale’s $2 Billion Stake Reshapes Paramount’s Future
On Thursday, the closing of the $8.4 billion merger of Paramount Global and Skydance Media ushered in a new era for the iconic entertainment company, and a new Hollywood mogul: David Ellison, CEO of Paramount, a Skydance Corporation. Ellison, a film producer and the founder of Skydance, is rapidly becoming a household name amid intense…
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Billionaire Giving Pledge at 15 Years: Most Signatories Still Far Richer Than When They Joined
The Giving Pledge is a charitable campaign, launched in 2010 by Bill and Melinda French Gates and Warren Buffett, that invites the world’s wealthiest individuals and families to publicly commit to giving away at least 50% of their wealth to philanthropy, either during their lifetimes or in their wills. The Institute for Policy Studies’ report…
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Why Wall Street Keeps Climbing Despite Trump’s Tariff Turbulence
Despite these economic speed bumps, the S&P 500 Index is up nearly 8% so far this year. How long this rise can continue depends on whether the fundamental strength of the U.S. economy can withstand the wrenching transformation to the global trading system that President Trump has forced.” Economics textbooks maintain “that stock prices reflect…
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I’m with Trump: US Jobs Reports Are Wildly Misunderstood
HR automatons keep saying no. But when someone writes that all eyes will be on the US payrolls numbers on Friday, that’s a sackable offense. Few beyond finance actually care although the farmers down at the local pub apparently speak of nothing else. Donald Trump cared enough to fire the head of the Bureau of…
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Billionaire Philanthropy & the Education Question: Bezos and Gates Weigh In
Jeff Bezos announced a massive $2 billion philanthropic initiative focused on early childhood education and homelessness. Jeff Bezos has joined fellow billionaires in investing deeply in the US education system. Earlier this fall, Bezos set up a Day One Fund with $2 billion committed, with the intent to fund free preschools in low‑income communities. We’ll use…
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Ph.D. Economists Face Bleak Job Market as Demand Declines Across Sectors
The moment Thomas Fullagar realized things were not going as expected came in April, six months into the job hunt. He applied for a position at CivicPlus, a tech company in Manhattan, Kansas. The role? Straightforward data analysis — a step below the complexity of the work he tackled during his Ph.D. at the University…
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Grocery Costs Top List of Financial Stressors for Americans, Poll Shows
More than half of Americans are stressed about buying groceries — significantly more than the financial pressure they feel about credit card debt, child care or student debt, an AP NORC poll out Monday found. Key Poll Findings Financial Pressure % Who Say It’s a Major Source of Stress The cost of groceries 53% The…
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Teacher Charged in Arkansas Stabbings Once Concerned Parents With ‘Grooming’ Behavior
Two years before his arrest in the brutal stabbing deaths of a couple at Devil’s Den State Park in Arkansas, Andrew J. McGann was already drawing concern from parents at Donald Elementary School in Flower Mound, Texas. According to Lindsay Camp Polyak, whose son was occasionally in McGann’s class, he displayed off putting behavior that…