Robert F. Kennedy Jr., the head of Health and Human Services, said Tuesday that he is launching a new initiative to study the supply chain for infant formula in the U.S. to get a better understanding of nutrients inside these products—including increased testing for heavy metals and other contaminants.
Category: 25 March 2025
BITCOIN OP_CAT UPGRADE COULD BRING POWERFUL NEW FUNCTIONALITIES
Bitcoin might soon get a major boost with a proposed change called OP_CAT. This Bitcoin Improvement Proposal (BIP) would add a new tool to Bitcoin’s “Tapscript” coding system, letting it glue two pieces of data together—like taping together two notes into one.
ALCOHOL COULD BE FACING ‘BIG TOBACCO MOMENT’ AMID GENERATIONAL SHIFT
Americans have put down the bottle amid a movement away from alcohol, as the federal government links alcohol to cigarette-level risks to the public’s health—and as more Americans look to drugs to get their high.
AI BRIEFS
Scientists at Imperial College London worked for 10 years to figure out exactly how a superbug virus—one that has become drug-resistant—gained its ability to infect a range of kinds of bacteria instead of just one or a related few.
YOUNG PEOPLE IN THE U.S. ARE UNHAPPY AND DON’T HAVE FAITH IN THE GOVERNMENT, SURVEY SAYS
A newly released survey found that young people in the U.S. are not excited about their future and have little faith in the government.
YUM BRANDS IS IN THE CHIPS
The conglomerate that owns KFC, Pizza Hut, and Taco Bell has partnered with Nvidia, the world’s dominant maker of AI chips, to ease and improve customers’ experiences, boost franchisees’ technological infrastructure, and earn more money for shareholders, Joe Park, the company’s chief technology officer, said in a statement.
BOEING WINS CONTRACT TO DEVELOP THE NEXT-GENERATION U.S. FIGHTER, LIKELY RAMPING UP ARMS RACE WITH RUSSIA, CHINA
U.S. President Donald Trump announced Friday that his administration tapped Boeing to develop a sixth-generation fighter jet called the F-47 that will eventually replace the F-22 Raptor.
TOP U.S. COLLEGE GRADS SEND THEIR RESUMES TO CHINA
New graduates from Harvard, Stanford, and other leading U.S. universities are applying for work at China’s Manycore AI company, Bloomberg reported.
THE BLACKROCK-MICROSOFT AI PARTNERSHIP JUST GOT BIGGER
Market-leading chipmaker Nvidia and Elon Musk’s xAI have joined the partnership between Microsoft and private equity giant BlackRock to build up to $100 billion worth of AI data centers and electricity supplies to power them.
TRUMP ADMINISTRATION HITS CHINESE ‘TEAPOT’ REFINERIES WITH SANCTIONS FOR ALLEGEDLY IMPORTING IRANIAN CRUDE
The Trump administration, in an effort to enforce its “maximum pressure campaign,” announced last week that it was imposing new sanctions on Chinese “teapot” refineries for importing Iranian crude—thus, providing an economic “lifeline for the Iranian regime, the world’s leading state sponsor of terror.”