Viking Stock Skyrockets On Obesity Drug Data; Eli Lilly, Novo Fall

Viking Stock Skyrockets On Obesity Drug Data; Eli Lilly, Novo Fall

Viking shares soared Tuesday with “stellar” results from trials of its weight-loss shot, dragging down shares of rivals Eli Lilly (LLY) and Novo (NVO). The study examined weekly and monthly doses of Viking Therapeutics (VKTX) injection, VK2735, for three months as a means of maintaining weight loss with weekly dosing. Patients in the biweekly program … Read more

The Opener: Rays/Yankees, Gore, Alonso

The Opener: Rays/Yankees, Gore, Alonso

After only three games on Monday, the schedule is much more abundant today. There are 16 games on Tuesday’s slate. All but one of the confrontations are at night. 1. Rays can take the AL East The Rays and Yankees have a day/night doubleheader available for Tuesday. Tampa Bay can clinch the American League East … Read more

Florida video shows a great blue heron swallowing a juvenile alligator

Florida video shows a great blue heron swallowing a juvenile alligator

A Florida wildlife clip is making people do a double take: Instead of an alligator lurking in the shallow waters, a great blue heron is the one doing the swallowing. The disturbing scene inverts a familiar food chain script and also offers a glimpse of how adaptable wildlife can be in landscapes increasingly shaped by … Read more

What to know about covid vaccines — and if you need one this fall

What to know about covid vaccines — and if you need one this fall

If you haven’t given much thought to covid-19 lately, that’s understandable. The impact of the coronavirus has “substantially diminished” since the early pandemic years, said William Schaffner, a professor of infectious diseases at the Vanderbilt University Medical Center. As a result, “people are perhaps less attentive to covid.”

First Thing: News outlets suspend coverage of Trump in escalating media access row | US news

First Thing: News outlets suspend coverage of Trump in escalating media access row | US news

Good day. The dispute over media access to the presidency has deepened, with major US television news outlets agreeing to suspend their video coverage of Donald Trump after the administration banned journalists from several outlets from entering the White House grounds. The president had abruptly announced his ban against CNN, MS Now and Politico, saying … Read more

What is an “AI swarm,” and why is it giving tech experts nightmares?

What is an "AI swarm," and why is it giving tech experts nightmares?

Central to the dire warnings about the potential danger of artificial intelligence to humanity is the risk that a “swarm” of AI agents could collaborate in nefarious ways, like hordes of digital extras from “The Matrix.” Such fears have intensified following an attack by OpenAI bots this summer on another AI developer, Hugging Face, in … Read more