Very important result. Relieving debt is appealing because it is so tangible but this work suggests it may be too downstream or “too little too late” to be helpful.

Today we launched The Prompt, a Forbes newsletter covering all things AI. The first edition of the weekly roundup covers scathing reviews of Humane's AI pin, a $400 'AI toothbrush' and a new AI billionaire. Sign up here: forbes.com/newsletter/the…

Lawsuit alleges call centers paid big bucks to buy names of people responding to misleading ads in scheme to switch Affordable Care Act plans without consumers’ consent, KFF Health News reports
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.UnitedHealth Group CFO says on Q1 earnings call company estimates Change #cyberattack will have total direct costs of between $1 billion & $1.15 billion this year.

Reminder that UnitedHealth projects $400 billion in rev this year.

New: The National Center for Missing and Exploited Children got 36 million reports of suspected CSAM in 2023.

A small but growing volume of that child sex abuse material was made with generative AI.

OpenAI, Anthropic, Stability are now reporting to NCMEC:forbes.com/sites/alexandr…

Investors have thrown billions of dollars at loss-making luxury clothing resale platforms. But Vinted, Lithuania’s first unicorn, is now turning a profit by selling secondhand clothes for cheap
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Founded in 1989 by new billionaire Roger Samuelsson, SHL Medical is one of the world's largest makers of autoinjectors, producing the pen-like devices for blockbuster drugs like Ozempic--plus many other conditions from asthma to psoriasis. Read Forbes:
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Thrilled to share that I've been selected by Columbia Journalism for the 2024-25 Knight-Bagehot Fellowship!!

Read my latest investigation for Forbes: The inside story of how Les Wexner, the Jeffrey Epstein-tarnished billionaire, quietly engineered one of the biggest semiconductor projects in history.

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Hospitals must report charity care to the government and their investors / bondholders. But charity care numbers are not always the same — and in some cases are way off. Tara Bannow did some digging and found big inconsistencies at HCA and elsewhere. statnews.com/2024/04/08/hca…

It's billionaires day here at Forbes (though isn't it always?): Our 2024 list of every billionaire on the planet is out—a roadmap of who the richest (i.e. most powerful) people are, how they made it and how they're spending it. #ForbesBillionaires forbes.com/billionaires/

Just wanted to dedicate this to the voters of the great Garden State. youtu.be/UMVjToYOjbM?si…

An AI company claimed its model could detect STIs in men, based on photos it encouraged women to submit of their partners' genitalia.

But after public outcry, its founders have been quietly changing its data practices and removing alleged affiliations.

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NEW - Hackers have launched what researchers say are unprecedented cyberattacks on companies' AI workloads, targeting the Ray framework.

Most are installing cryptominers on the accidentally exposed servers.

Some OpenAI/Stripe/Slack tokens leaked.

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We’re asking Megan Rapinoe and Sue Bird to pull out of Forbes’ Equal Pay Day forum tomorrow.

We informed the company of gender pay inequity at last year’s event, and produced a full study in July. Instead of fixing the problem, management has called us liars.

So are the women at Forbes. Hey Megan Rapinoe show the members of Forbes Union your support!

Scoop: Y Combinator is raising at least $2 billion across three new funds, in its biggest raise ever and first under CEO Garry Tan.

YC plans to take a more systemized approach to follow-on checks into its alumni startups, sources tell me in Forbes.

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Scoop:

Multiple Stability AI researchers are departing, including the original coauthors on the research that evolved into viral text-to-image model Stable Diffusion.

It's the latest big blow to the cash-strapped startup. From Iain Martin and me:

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