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Life

Briefing: STAT+: Eli Lilly and the ‘societal obligation’ of GLP-1s

Strategic angle: Eli Lilly discusses the 'societal obligation' of GLP-1s amidst other biotech news.

Editorial Staff Mar 25

Life

Briefing: Merck to Acquire Terns Pharmaceuticals for $6.7 Billion

Strategic angle: The acquisition aims to enhance Merck's portfolio with a promising leukemia treatment.

Editorial Staff Mar 25

Life

Briefing: How to make emergency rooms safer for people with dementia

Strategic angle: A federal vaccine adviser departs ACIP, adults turn to AI chatbots for health info, and radiologists sift through deepfake X-rays.

Editorial Staff Mar 25

Tech

Agentic commerce runs on truth and context

Strategic angle: Imagine telling a digital agent, “Use my points and book a family trip to Italy. Keep it within budget, pick hotels we’ve liked before, and handle the details.” Instead of returning a list of links, the agent assembles a

Editorial Staff Mar 25

Tech

The AI Hype Index: AI goes to war

Strategic angle: AI is at war. Anthropic and the Pentagon feuded over how to weaponize Anthropic’s AI model Claude; then OpenAI swept the Pentagon off its feet with an “opportunistic and sloppy” deal. Users quit ChatGPT in droves. People

Editorial Staff Mar 25

Sports

Briefing: Woods targets Masters after return to action in TGL

Strategic angle: Tiger Woods says he is "trying to play" at next month's Masters after returning to action for the first time in more than a year in the TGL.

Editorial Staff Mar 25

Politics

Briefing: CERN's most delicate road trip: Scientists take antimatter out of the lab for the first time

Strategic angle: Housed in a high-tech, super-cooled container, the fragile particles survived a short truck journey without touching normal matter, which would have made them vanish in a flash of energy.

Editorial Staff Mar 25

Life

Briefing: Trump’s $1B payoff to stop offshore wind is even stranger than it sounds

Strategic angle: The government is paying TotalEnergies to halt a wind farm it isn’t building, in exchange for fossil fuel investments it’s already making.

Editorial Staff Mar 25

Politics

Briefing: Huge crowd marks 50 years since Argentina’s 1976 coup in Buenos Aires

Strategic angle: Tens of thousands gather in Buenos Aires to commemorate the 50th anniversary of Argentina’s 1976 military coup.

Editorial Staff Mar 25

Life

Briefing: Project Hail Mary meets reality: 45 planets could harbor alien life

Strategic angle: Astronomers have narrowed down the cosmic search for life, identifying fewer than 50 rocky planets among thousands of known exoplanets that may have the right conditions to support life.

Editorial Staff Mar 25