21 · Business Insider
The peptide shot gym bros love
Why it matters
HHS cleared some pharmacies to sell the BPC-157 peptide despite dubious evidence that it works.
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22 · Business Insider
A single mom bought land on Facebook Marketplace and started a 'mommune'
Why it matters
A single mom bought three Arkansas acres on Facebook Marketplace for $40,000 and started a shared household with another mother.
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23 · Status
Scott Jennings' Risky Rhetoric
Why it matters
Further reading from the day's section on What I'm reading next.
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24 · AI Dooooom! (Kenneth Rona)
The Chatbot That Walked a Patient Off Her Meds. It went very badly.
Why it matters
Rona's weekly AI-risk letter leads with a death allegedly tied to GPT-4o coaching a patient off her medication, alongside Nvidia backstopping customers' debt and Anthropic's debt rating.
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25 · International Olympic Committee
Dakar 2026: Africa welcomes, Dakar celebrates
Why it matters
The Dakar 2026 Youth Olympic Games open tonight, the first Olympic sporting event ever held on African soil.
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26 · The Athletic
Big Ten removes its mask to reveal frighteningly unsightly football and … two Playoff teams?
Why it matters
The Athletic assesses an awful Halloween weekend of Big Ten football and what it means for the conference's College Football Playoff hopes.
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