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Some cancers can be faster and more aggressive than others, but it can be difficult for doctors to know which is which. That’s where technology from startup Ataraxis comes in.
The company, which emerged from stealth Thursday armed with $4 million in funding, has developed an AI-powered diagnostic test to accurately assess whether a patient’s breast cancer is high-risk or low-risk.
The company said in a study that its model could be up to 30% more accurate than current tests, and help thousands of breast cancer patients avoid unnecessary treatments. “If you don’t benefit from chemotherapy, you want to avoid it,” says its CEO Jan Witowski.
Facebook co-founder, Chairman and CEO Mark Zuckerberg.
Just days before America heads to the polls, Facebook is running hundreds of ads from pages that falsely claim that the upcoming election may be rigged—with Meta’s ad library showing that the pages behind the ads have paid more than $1 million for them. Meta’s election rules prohibit posts containing “misinformation about the dates, locations, times, and methods of voting,” and its ad rules prohibit ads that “call into question the legitimacy of an upcoming or ongoing election.”
Shares of Amazon jumped more than 5% in after-hours trading Thursday after the e-commerce giant beat Wall Street expectations in its third-quarter earnings report. Amazon has undergone major cost-cutting efforts since 2022 under the direction of CEO Andy Jassy, laying off more than 27,000 employees, according to CNBC. But it’s also betting big elsewhere, including a commitment to spend more than $52 billion in nuclear power deals to expand data centers, Forbes previously reported.
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For cryptocurrency holders with something to hide, so-called crypto mixers can cloak the identity of owners, and U.S. law enforcement authorities say a North Korean-hacker outfit has been using mixers, including Blender.io, Tornado Cash, Railgun and Sinbad.io, to launder stolen crypto. New information suggests that Digital Currency Group, owner of $25 billion crypto fund manager Grayscale, likely benefited from the laundering through Railgun. A Forbes investigation supported by data from blockchain intelligence firm ChainArgos shows that DCG received $436,906 in fees from Railgun from June 2023 to the present.
The largest American drone manufacturer announced Wednesday it is being forced to ration batteries for its customers due to supply constraints caused by Chinese government........