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AstraZeneca, the UK-based maker of popular inhalers like Symbicort and Airsupra, announced Monday it plans to cap costs for patients using its inhalers in the U.S. at $35 per month starting June 1. The inhalers treat asthma and chronic obstructive pulmonary disease, which combined affect roughly 41 million Americans and can make breathing extremely difficult.Do We Have to Send Humans to Mars for Exploration?The announcement comes after rival company Boehringer Ingelheim announced earlier this month that the cost of its…

The rising tide of AI scams targets vulnerable populations; US hosts first military AI conference with global allies; Israeli startup harnesses AI for antibody discovery; AR Rahman advocates AI as tool for music enhancement, not job displacement- this and more in our daily roundup. Let us take a look.1. The rising tide of AI scams targets vulnerable populationsAI scams proliferate, preying on vulnerable demographics, notably via social media ads. Complaints to the FTC spiked, rising from 2 to 14 in a year, mirroring the…

One of the most pressing questions in American politics has finally been answered: Who would Elizabeth Warren most want to smoke copious amounts of weed with?Nvidia’s Almost Worth 2 Trillion. Is It a Bubble, or Is It Just Getting Started?Warren recently went on the left-leaning political podcast Pod Save America, where she was asked by host Jon Favreau (not to be confused with the director of Iron Man) who her “dream blunt rotation” would be. Warren seemed disinterested in smoking weed with most of her Washington D.C.…

US Senator Bernie Sanders, Independent of Vermont, speaks during a rally by the People's Action, protesting pharmaceutical companies' lobbying against allowing Medicare to negotiate lower prescription drug prices, outside Pharmaceutical Research and Manufacturers of America (PhRMA) headquarters in Washington, DC, September 21, 2021.Saul Loeb | AFP | Getty ImagesThe CEOs of Merck and Johnson & Johnson have voluntarily agreed to testify at an upcoming Senate hearing on high drug prices in the U.S., Sen. Bernie Sanders…

On Tuesday night, the United States Senate tabled a resolution that would have required the State Department to report to Congress on Israeli human rights violations committed in Gaza involving the use of U.S. arms and equipment.  Only 11 senators voted in favor of the resolution: nine Democrats , one Republican , and one Independent . 72 senators voted against advancing the resolution. “The United States is complicit in the nightmare that millions of Palestinians are now experiencing,” Sanders, who…

Sen. Markwayne Mullin months-long feud with Teamsters President Sean O’Brien came to a head during Tuesday’s HELP Committee hearing Oklahoma Senator Markwayne Mullin stood up and tried to fight a congressional witness during a Senate Health, Education, Labor & Pensions (HELP) Committee hearing on Tuesday. Mullin and Teamsters President Sean O’Brien have been beefing for months, with Mullin even challenging O’Briend to an MMA-style fight this summer. O’Brien had previously called Mullin a…

Congress released a highly anticipated report on Wednesday detailing how major tax prep companies and big tech firms like Google and Meta, parent of Facebook and Instagram, “recklessly” shared the sensitive tax data of tens of millions of Americans without proper safeguards. The senators cited evidence from their report in a fiery letter to the IRS, FTC, DOJ, and Treasury Inspector General, whom they urged to fully investigate the matter and to prosecute companies found to have violated tax laws.Is Google's New $1,800…

Vermont Senator Bernie Sanders launched an investigation into what he calls “dangerous and illegal conditions” running rampant in Amazon’s warehouse facilities. In a fiery letter addressed to CEO Andy Jassy Tuesday, Sanders accused Amazon of putting profits over people and creating a corporate culture that “treats workers as disposable.”Uh Oh, Amazon Bought Your Favorite Robot Company“At every turn—from warehouse design and workstation setup, to pace of work requirements, to medical care for injuries and subsequent…

U.S. Senator Bernie Sanders (I-VT) speaks at a press conference on Capitol Hill about 11 Senate Democrats who sent a letter to President Joe Biden urging him to invoke the 14th Amendment to avoid a catastrophic debt default, in Washington, May 18, 2023.Evelyn Hockstein | ReutersSen. Bernie Sanders vowed to oppose President Joe Biden's pick to lead the National Institutes of Health – and any other health nominee – until the administration delivers a plan to lower prescription drug prices. "I will oppose all nominations…

Eli Lilly CEO Dave Ricks on Wednesday promised not to raise prices on the company's insulin products again — the only executive to do so before a Senate Health Committee hearing on making the life-saving diabetes drug more affordable.Sen. Bernie Sanders, the committee's chair, asked Ricks and the CEOs of Novo Nordisk and Sanofi to commit to "never increase the price of any insulin drug again." The three companies control over 90% of the global insulin market. Ricks was the only executive who outright agreed to Sanders'…