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- Health Insurer Centene Offers Companywide Worker Buyouts To Cut Costs
Obamacare insurer Centene is offering employees buyouts companywide to cut costs after losing more than two million health plan members this year.
- Rebeca Andrade To Begin Olympic Comeback At This Week’s Pan American Championships
Six-time Olympic medalist Rebeca Andrade makes her comeback at the 2026 Pan American Gymnastics Championships in Rio de Janeiro, her first competition since facing off with Simone Biles at the 2024 Paris Olympics.
- The Strait of Hormuz is finally reopening, but energy flows may not get back to normal until next year
"Our working assumption is that ~80% of energy flows will resume by the end of Q3 but a return to 'normal' could stretch into 2027."
- Crucial Aspects Of Trump’s Iran Deal Remain Secret: Nuclear Program, Strait Of Hormuz Tolls And Sanctions Relief
Trump said he went to war with Iran to stop it from developing a nuclear weapon, but it’s unclear if the new deal includes any additional controls on its nuclear program.
- Gavin Newsom accuses Trump of launching political probe into him. The real issue may be his wife’s taxes
Federal agents have contacted friends, former employees, and organizations tied to Newsom and his wife.
Technology
- Heart protection from COVID shots remains amid updates, study finds
Despite continued benefits, anti-vaccine rhetoric has driven down vaccination.
- UK to ban social media for kids under 16, may impose overnight curfews
Critics say bans push kids to riskier alternatives and can be beaten with VPNs.
- Chipmaker Nvidia seeks to raise over $25B in first bond deal since 2021
Debt sale set to test investor appetite for further exposure to AI sector amid a deluge of borrowing.
- A Chinese rocket breaks apart dangerously close to the Starlink constellation
The rocket's breakup likely generated 100 to 150 new pieces of space junk.
- Why do South Koreans love AI so much?
This story originally appeared in The Algorithm, our weekly newsletter on AI. To get stories like this in your inbox first, sign up here. When I landed in Seoul after a grueling 12-hour flight from San Francisco, I walked through an unmanned immigration checkpoint, where a machine scanned my face and passport. On the subway home,…
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