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This intelligent novel is instead interested in the effects of gossip, bias and assumptions, and the ways that a single set of facts can be used to construct completely different conclusions.

From The Wall Street Journal

The agriculture and environment ministries said laboratory tests confirmed the substance was glyphosate, a chemical used to destroy vegetation, with concentrations in some samples "between 20 and 30 times the levels usually accepted".

From BBC

Limited production capacity for the blockbuster drug led the FDA to temporarily allow pharmacies to create so-called "compound" or copycat versions of Wegovy and Ozempic, an analogue used to treat diabetes.

From Barron's

The new Claude Opus 4.6 model improves on the coding skills of Opus 4.5 and can be used to conduct research and create documents and files, Anthropic said in a blog post Thursday.

From Barron's

One doesn’t need to follow the ins and outs of the latest research to gather that Americans’ reading habits aren’t what they used to be.

From The Wall Street Journal