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An AI assistant on display at Mobile World Congress 2024 in Barcelona.Angel Garcia | Bloomberg | Getty ImagesArtificial intelligence is shaking up the advertising business and “unnerving” investors, one industry leader told CNBC.”I think this AI disruption … unnerving investors in every industry, and it’s totally disrupting our business,” Mark Read, the outgoing CEO of British advertising group WPP, told CNBC’s Karen Tso on Tuesday.The advertising market is under threat from emerging generative AI tools that can be used to materialize pieces of content at rapid pace. The past couple of years has seen the rise of a number of…

WASHINGTON (AP) — Just over a month after Pope Leo XIV became the first U.S.-born pontiff in the history of the Catholic Church, a new poll shows that American Catholics are feeling excited about their new religious leader.About two-thirds of American Catholics have a “very” or “somewhat” favorable view of Pope Leo, according to the new survey from The Associated Press-NORC Center for Public Affairs Research, while about 3 in 10 don’t know enough to have an opinion. Very few Catholics — less than 1 in 10 — view him unfavorably. Among Americans overall, plenty of people are still making…

Alexandr Wang, CEO of Scale AI, speaking on CNBC’s Squawk Box outside the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland on Jan. 23rd, 2025.CNBCAlphabet’s Google, the largest customer of Scale AI, plans to cut ties with Scale after news broke that rival Meta is taking a 49% stake in the AI data-labeling startup, five sources familiar with the matter told Reuters.Google had planned to pay Scale AI about $200 million this year for the human-labeled training data that is crucial for developing technology, including the sophisticated AI models that power Gemini, its ChatGPT competitor, one of the sources said.The search giant already held…

(The Center Square) – A group that opposed gender-affirming care for minors says the treatments are harmful and permanent, and is calling for the practice to end in the U.S. should be ended in the U.S.A report – released by Do No Harm and written by its medical director, Dr. Kurt Miceli – debunks popular beliefs concerning gender-affirming care for minors, such as the idea that it improves quality of life and mental health or that it decreases suicides.Do No Harm is an organization of “physicians, nurses, medical students, patients, and policymakers focused on keeping identity politics out of medical…

WASHINGTON (AP) — The Supreme Court is in the homestretch of a term that has lately been dominated by the Trump administration’s emergency appeals of lower court orders seeking to slow President Donald Trump’s efforts to remake the federal government.But the justices also have 21 cases to resolve that were argued between December and mid-May, including a push by Republican-led states to ban gender-affirming care for transgender minors. One of the argued cases was an emergency appeal, the administration’s bid to be allowed to enforce Trump’s executive order denying birthright citizenship to U.S.-born children of parents who are in the…

Jensen Huang, co-founder and chief executive officer of Nvidia Corp., left, and Emmanuel Macron, France’s president at the 2025 VivaTech conference in Paris, France, on Wednesday, June 11, 2025. Nathan Laine | Bloomberg | Getty ImagesNvidia boss Jensen Huang has been on a tour of Europe this week, bringing excitement and intrigue to everywhere he visited.His message was clear — Nvidia is the company that can help Europe build its artificial intelligence infrastructure so the region can take control of its own destiny with the transformative technology.I’ve been in London and Paris this week following Huang around as he met…

Blythe Christopher attends a demonstration to protest Tesla robotaxis on June 12, 2025 in Austin, Texas.Todd WisemanWith Elon Musk looking to June 22 as his tentative start date for Tesla’s pilot robotaxi service in Austin, Texas, protesters are voicing their opposition.Public safety advocates and political protesters, upset with Musk’s work with the Trump administration, joined together in downtown Austin on Thursday to express their concerns about the robotaxi launch. Members of the Dawn Project, Tesla Takedown and Resist Austin say that Tesla’s partially automated driving systems have safety problems.Tesla sells its cars with a standard Autopilot package, or a premium…

(The Center Square) – California is moving forward with a budget that will provide $12.1 billion for illegal immigrant health care this year. But a new poll from the Public Policy Institute of California found 58% of Californians oppose that allocation.California first expanded eligibility for Medi-Cal, the state’s taxpayer-funded health care program for low-income households, to illegal immigrants in 2016 for minors. Then the state expanded it in 2020 for those up to 25 years old, in 2020 for those 50 or older and in 2024 to all illegal immigrants. While the federal government reimburses most Medicaid expenditures, it does…

23andMe Founder and Board Member Anne Wojcicki speaks during a House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform hearing on June 10, 2025 in Washington, DC. Andrew Harnik | Getty ImagesAnne Wojcicki, the co-founder and former CEO of 23andMe, has regained control over the embattled genetic testing company after her new nonprofit, TTAM Research Institute, out bid Regeneron Pharmaceuticals, the company announced on Friday. TTAM will acquire substantially all of 23andMe’s assets for $305 million, including its Personal Genome Service and Research Services business lines as well as telehealth subsidiary Lemonaid Health. It’s a big win for Wojcicki, who stepped down from…

(The Center Square) – Even as Washington’s latest carbon auction generated $322 million for the state – bringing total revenue to nearly $3.2 billion since the cap-and-trade program took effect in January 2023 – critics say the state Department of Ecology is not being upfront about the program’s impact on fuel prices.Under the Climate Commitment Act of 2021, emitters must obtain “emissions allowances” equal to their covered greenhouse gas emissions at quarterly auctions hosted by the Department of Ecology. Washington’s carbon auctions are meant to reduce greenhouse gas emissions and achieve the state’s climate goals, while funding programs to address…