Nvidia Corp. CEO Jensen Huang said on Wednesday that his company has already invested in Elon Musk's artificial intelligence firm xAI and confirmed reports of further financing. He said he is "super excited" about the deal, adding that "almost everything Elon is part of, you want to be a part of too."
Huang told CNBC in an interview that Nvidia's "number one strategy" is to increase the performance of its products "by very significant margins" every year, adding that Nvidia is the only company that builds all chips in the AI infrastructure. Huang warned that the United States is "not far ahead" of China on AI, stressing that China's tech industry is underregulated and able to "move very fast." He urged US businesses to adopt AI applications faster in order to remain competitive.
Nexalin Technology (Nasdaq: NXL) reported peer-reviewed clinical results (Radiology, Oct 8, 2025) showing its Gen-2 SYNC 40-Hz, 15 mA DIFS neurostimulation device produced statistically significant cognitive gains and measurable brain-connectivity changes in mild Alzheimer’s disease.
Key findings: significant MMSE and MoCA score improvements versus sham (P = .001 and .03), increased hippocampal-cortical and network functional connectivity on resting-state fMRI, a connectivity–naming-test correlation (r = 0.65, FDR-adjusted P = .008), and no reported adverse events. Device has regulatory approvals for other indications in China, Brazil, and Oman.
Most of us are glad to see the back of Joe Biden, but there are still little tidbits worth looking at that tell us so much about the incompetence and corruption of all his time in office.
RealClearPolitics has a good one, by Philip Wegmann, indicating that U.S. intelligence sources knew all about Joe Biden's corrupt dealings with Ukraine as President Obama's point man, before the country was invaded by Russia, because Ukrainian officials told them all about it.
It ended up in a CIA report ... and to no one's surprise, Biden deep-sixed it.
It the specific request of then-Vice President Joe Biden, the CIA buried an embarrassing intelligence report detailing the poor view the Ukrainian government took of his diplomatic efforts and the business dealings of his own family in that country.
Biden had traveled to Kyiv in December 2015, ostensibly to meet with leaders of that fledgling democracy and to deliver a warning against “the cancer of corruption.” And during an address to the Ukrainian parliament, he did condemn the “pervasive poison of cronyism, corruption, and kleptocracy.”
But behind the scenes, Ukrainian officials expressed “bewilderment and disappointment” that the vice president had crossed the Atlantic “almost exclusively to deliver a generic speech.” Officials close to then-President Petro Poroshenko had hoped for guidance “in support of or against specific officials within the Ukrainian government.” They discovered instead that Biden “had no intention of discussing substantive matters.”
After Biden returned stateside, members of the Poroshenko administration “privately mused” at how American media treated “the alleged ties” of his family “to corrupt business practices in Ukraine.” It was, in their minds, “evidence of a double standard within the United States Government towards matters of corruption and political power.”
So the Ukrainians asked early about corruption and who was the worst that the U.S. would have known about and Biden couldn't care less about the topic.
Then Biden suddenly wanted prosecutor Victor Shokin fired, making all manner of noise about corruption, in what was obvious to the Ukrainians a bid to keep him from investigating Hunter Biden's cash cow, Burisma, where he sat on the board.
They saw right through it, knew exactly what his dirty game was.
And this take found its way into U.S. intelligence reports, which Biden scuppered.
"Thanks for understanding," one of Biden's minions wrote.
Perspective is important here: Has there ever been a designated special envoy -- think Averell Harriman, or Henry Kissinger, or even Warren Christopher -- who had those kinds of allegations of corruption coming out of his ears the way Biden did?
Barack Obama didn't seem to have a problem with it, because everything was justifiable by any means necessary.
But word would have gotten around from Ukraine, too, and to other countries, that American diplomacy was an exercise in pocket-lining and hypocrisy, cloaked in diplomatic pieties about human rights and fighting corruption.
They knew it was baloney. They probably told all their friends too -- rendering America weaker and less influential than it ever was in the post-World War II era.
In this atmosphere, is it any surprise that Vladimir Putin decided that with Biden in the presidency, it was time to invade Ukraine?
Japan's trade balance on a current account basis swung to a ¥105.9 billion surplus in August, according to a report released by the country's Ministry of Finance on Wednesday.
The broader current account surplus widened to ¥3.78 trillion, while the adjusted current account also improved to ¥2.46 trillion.
United States Secretary of State Marco Rubio spoke with Swiss Foreign Minister Ignazio Cassis to discuss opportunities for increased bilateral cooperation.
The two also touched upon Switzerland's contributions to peace and security in Europe, the State Department said in a brief readout of the call.
A new analysis suggests that millions of Americans with chronic pain are being prescribed an opioid that likely does little to ease their suffering.
To make matters worse, the research indicates the drug significantly increases the risk of serious side effects — including heart disease, the nation’s leading killer.
Chronic pain is associated with increased healthcare costs and lost productivity.My Ocean studio – stock.adobe.com
Across the US, 51.6 million adults — roughly 1 in 5 — live with chronic pain, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. For 17.1 million of them, the agony disrupts work, daily activities or both.
Tramadol has been widely used to relieve that pain, with doctors writing 16 million prescriptions for the short-acting opioid in 2023 alone.
Long considered a “safer alternative” to stronger opioids, tramadol isn’t as heavily regulated as other drugs in its class and has a reputation for causing fewer side effects and carrying a lower risk of addiction.
Conflicting findings from the limited research that has been published prompted a group of Danish scientists to ask: Is tramadol really effective and safe for treating chronic pain?
Tramadol is among the most commonly prescribed opioids in the US.mbruxelle – stock.adobe.com
To find out, they reviewed 19 clinical trials involving 6,506 people taking tramadol to manage chronic pain stemming from ailments such as fibromyalgia, osteoarthritis and nerve damage or dysfunction.
The average age of participants was 58. Tablets were the main form of medication, with treatment lasting between two and 16 weeks.
The pooled analysis showed that while tramadol eased some pain, the effect was small and fell below the threshold considered clinically effective.
Eight of the trials also found that tramadol users faced a higher rate of serious side effects. Statistical analysis showed they had twice the odds of suffering harms linked to the drug compared to those on a placebo during follow-up periods of seven to 16 weeks.
This increased risk was largely driven by a higher number of “cardiac events,” including chest pain, coronary artery disease and congestive heart failure.
Tramadol also appeared to raise the risk of milder side effects such as nausea, dizziness, constipation and sleepiness.
The analysis suggests tramadol may not effectively reduce common pain — but it can increase the risk of side effects.Andy Dean – stock.adobe.com
The drug may be linked to a higher risk of certain cancers, though researchers called this finding “questionable” due to the short follow-up period.
The research team acknowledged a high risk of bias in the study outcomes but suggested that the positive effects of tramadol were likely overstated, while the negative effects were probably downplayed.
“The potential harms associated with tramadol use for pain management likely outweigh its limited benefits,” they concluded.
These findings — published Tuesday in BMJ Evidence Based Medicine — come as the US continues to struggle with an opioid crisis, which has claimed hundreds of thousands of lives since it began in the late ’90s.
Studies show that up to 12% of people treated with opioids for chronic pain end up addicted to the drugs or misuse them, increasing their risk for adverse outcomes like overdose.
Doctors at a gender clinic in California doled out puberty blockers to kids as young as 9 — despite reportedly admitting behind the scenes that some research backing gender-affirming care for children was “shoddy.”
The revelations were laid bare in a trove of emails from top doctors at the University of California San Francisco’s Child and Adolescent Gender Center, which were recently obtained by The Daily Caller as part of a Freedom of Information lawsuit.
The cache of emails from UCSF medical directors, Maddie Deutsch and Stephen Rosenthal, which were among the 2,491 pages of records turned over, included an admission that a 9-year-old child had previously been given puberty blockers.
The revelations were laid bare in a trove of emails from top doctors at the University of California San Francisco’s Child and Adolescent Gender Center.MichaelVi – stock.adobe.com
Deutsch and Rosenthal are co-authors of the World Professional Association of Transgender Health’s Standards of Care version 8, which helps inform clinical practices across the world.
In one email exchange from October 2022, Rosenthal was asked to respond to a request from journalists about reports that an eight-year-old involved in a National Institute of Health study had developed a bone condition after being given puberty blockers.
Rosenthal, who co-founded UCSF’s gender center, apparently fired back — telling those within his organization internally that the youngest participant was actually aged nine.
His response led to the inquiring reporters being told that the notion that an 8-year-old had been given the blockers was “incorrect.”
“There is no such participant in our study,” the email read, according to the outlet.
Separately, another email exchange from May 2022 captured Rosenthal responding to accusations he and a colleague, Dr Diane Ehrensaft, had relied on “shoddy research” in an op-ed they penned for the San Francisco Chronicle.
The research that they quoted cited a controversial study — spearheaded by Stanford professor Diana Tordoff — that suggested puberty blockers helped lower depression in gender-confused youngsters.
“You cite the Diana Tordoff study from Seattle Children’s Hospital as evidence of the ‘clear mental health benefits’ of gender-affirming care. Except that, apparently, that study says no such thing,” the email from an unidentified sender read.
“The same shoddy research is wheeled out again and again.”
In his reply, Rosenthal fessed up that he wished he had known about “significant methodological concerns” prior to the opinion piece being published.
“I completely agree with you about the Tordoff et al. paper, and wish that I had realized the significant methodological concerns,” Rosenthal wrote in the email.
“We are still actively involved in our 4-site NIH study and now publishing articles on the impact of the first two years of gender-affirming care… I couldn’t agree more for the need for long-term follow-up, and that is exactly what we are committed to do.”
The trove of emails was turned over after Judicial Watch — a conservative foundation — sued UCSF on behalf of the Daily Caller when the school refused a request for any communications referencing, in part, the phrases “gender-affirming hormone therapy” and “puberty suppression.”
“There is something rotten in the state of California: UCSF and LA Children’s Hospital were conducting transgender drug and surgical experiments on little children – and trying to cover it up,” Judicial Watch President Tom Fitton said in a statement.
The Post reached out to UCSF about the emails, but didn’t hear back immediately.
