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Health care pops up in San Antonio laundromats

Teams offer quick screenings for blood pressure, diabetes (A1C) and mental health.

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Apr 24 β€’ 2:00 PM EDT β€’ Health β€’ axios.com
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SPONSORED How JPMorganChase is scaling support for small businesses

New efforts from JPMorganChase aim to support 271,000 small businesses in San Francisco.

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Apr 24 β€’ 1:46 PM EDT β€’ Business β€’ axios.com
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Indy Health District market administers the medicine of homegrown food

A push to help Indianapolis residents live longer is back for another season of fresh produce and tangible solutions.

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Apr 24 β€’ 6:18 AM EDT β€’ Health β€’ axios.com
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Exclusive: Insurers align pre-treatment review requirements

A standardized approach could reduce the back-and-forth between plans and providers and speed up care.

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Apr 24 β€’ 5:00 AM EDT β€’ Health β€’ axios.com
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SPONSORED The future of farming depends on science

Now more than ever, the world is asking U.S. farmers to produce more while using fewer resources.

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Apr 23 β€’ 5:06 PM EDT β€’ Science β€’ axios.com
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Health care buyers turn to medtech's safer bets

Buyers are focused on the background infrastructure behind buzzy market segments.

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Apr 23 β€’ 4:57 PM EDT β€’ Health β€’ axios.com
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JPMorgan shuffles top health care bankers

The changes come as biopharma dealmaking roars back to life.

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Apr 23 β€’ 3:53 PM EDT β€’ Health β€’ axios.com
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What to know about the missing scientists alarming Congress

The cases date back to at least 2023 but national security concerns prompted a congressional investigation.

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Apr 23 β€’ 1:02 PM EDT β€’ Science β€’ axios.com
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Every active Denver team plays this weekend

Six local franchises play games, including critical playoff matchups.

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Apr 23 β€’ 12:00 PM EDT β€’ Sports β€’ axios.com
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New health survey data goes live

The dashboard has data down to census tracts.

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Apr 23 β€’ 7:22 AM EDT β€’ Health β€’ axios.com
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Georgia U.S. Rep. David Scott dies after decades in politics

Scott served nearly 25 years in Congress and decades in Georgia politics.

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Apr 22 β€’ 4:20 PM EDT β€’ Politics β€’ axios.com
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SPONSORED How small businesses help power Huntsville's growth

Huntsville, Ala.'s global reputation for aerospace, biotech and defense often grabs headlines. But the region's continued growth depends just as much on local entrepreneurs β€” and access to capital that helps them launch, hire and scale.

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Apr 22 β€’ 2:00 PM EDT β€’ Business β€’ axios.com
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Senior White House aide Alex Meyer heads to Trump's political team

He has been leading the Office of Intergovernmental Affairs.

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Apr 22 β€’ 10:38 AM EDT β€’ Politics β€’ axios.com
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Trump-aligned think tank goes after hospitals

Paragon Health claims government policy has led to today's problems.

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Apr 22 β€’ 6:00 AM EDT β€’ Health β€’ axios.com
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Hands-on with ChatGPT's powerful new image engine

ChatGPT's new image engine promises a host of improvements, so Axios put it to the test.

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Apr 22 β€’ 5:00 AM EDT β€’ Technology β€’ axios.com
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WATCH: Axios Future of Health Summit 2026

On Wednesday, May 13 at 2:30pm ET, tune in to Axios Live's second annual Future of Health Summit.

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Apr 21 β€’ 3:21 PM EDT β€’ Health β€’ axios.com
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Axios Live: North Carolina faces health care funding, staffing gaps

Health leaders at an April 16 Axios event warned that funding uncertainty and workforce shortages are colliding in the state.

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Apr 21 β€’ 2:57 PM EDT β€’ Health β€’ axios.com
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Steak n Shake goes full MAHA

It's the latest sign of how Robert F. Kennedy Jr.'s movement is influencing major food brands.

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Apr 21 β€’ 1:53 PM EDT β€’ Health β€’ axios.com
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Axios Live: AI could support child mental health β€” with the right guardrails

AI tools like chatbots and agents could expand access to mental health support for children

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Apr 20 β€’ 6:01 PM EDT β€’ Health β€’ axios.com
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AI in health care: Experts discuss the future of AI practices and policies

Jim VandeHei, CEO of Axios; Marc Boom, M.D., AHA board chair and president and CEO of Houston Methodist; Anne Klibanski, M.D., president and CEO of Mass General Brigham; Jonathan Perlin, M.D., president and CEO of Joint Commission; and Ladd Wiley, senior vice president of global corporate affairs, public policy and advocacy for Epic, all participated in the panel discussion β€œAI in Health Care: Navigating Policy, Regulation, and the Road Ahead."

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Apr 20 β€’ 10:49 AM EDT β€’ Health β€’ aha.org
Exclusive: Coral raises $12.5M to automate health care admin

Coral connects to existing systems, like EHRs and fax.

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Apr 20 β€’ 7:00 AM EDT β€’ Health β€’ axios.com
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Pennie coverage drops amid rising health care premiums

More big spikes in health care costs could be coming.

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Apr 20 β€’ 6:11 AM EDT β€’ Health β€’ axios.com
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Drug ads face new scrutiny at FDA and on Hill

The U.S. and New Zealand are the only countries that allow direct-to-consumer pharmaceutical advertising.

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Apr 20 β€’ 5:30 AM EDT β€’ Health β€’ axios.com
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The pope's English fuels a Trump feud

No translation, no buffer: A pope Americans hear directly.

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Apr 20 β€’ 5:00 AM EDT β€’ Politics β€’ axios.com
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What to know about tariff refund site that's set to go live Monday

This is the 1st phase in the administration complying with court orders that could see billions of dollars in paid tariffs refunded.

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Apr 19 β€’ 9:54 PM EDT β€’ Business β€’ axios.com
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Dems' 2028 primary is coming for hopefuls' partners, too

Would-be first ladies and first gentlemen already are building public profiles β€” some with vigorous enthusiasm.

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Apr 19 β€’ 5:50 PM EDT β€’ Politics β€’ axios.com
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AI's taste test

Anthropic says Claude Opus 4.7 is more tasteful on work tasks.

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Apr 19 β€’ 8:30 AM EDT β€’ Technology β€’ axios.com
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Some health AI tools worsen admin burdens, but backers still see promise

Backers still see promise.

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Apr 17 β€’ 4:45 PM EDT β€’ Health β€’ axios.com
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Sphere Entertainment in talks to build venue at Nashville East Bank scrapyard

Sphere Entertainment Company recently entered into conversations with the owners of Nashville’s East Bank scrapyard property about developing a potential venue, according to people familiar with the discussions. Axios reported last month that representatives tied to the Las Vegas Sphere had been in discussions with Nashville executives about bringing a smaller version of the high-tech concert venue to the market. A spokesperson for the scrapyard ownership group declined to comment, and Sphere Entertainment did not respond to a request for comment. More discussions occurred as recently as the past two weeks, the Nashville Business Journal reported, though the status of […]

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Apr 17 β€’ 12:30 PM EDT β€’ Entertainment β€’ therealdeal.com
Philly's biggest sports year gets supercharged

Flyers, Sixers, UFC. Let the good times roll.

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Apr 16 β€’ 4:21 PM EDT β€’ Sports β€’ axios.com
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OpenAI launches new AI model for life sciences research

Researchers are drowning in data. AI could help.

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Apr 16 β€’ 3:00 PM EDT β€’ Science β€’ axios.com
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Panthers tap Atrium Health for practice facility

The project ties into a broader $800 million stadium renovation and new venues reshaping Uptown.

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Apr 16 β€’ 10:14 AM EDT β€’ Health β€’ axios.com
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HHS brings on an affordability czar

Casey Mulligan will advise the agency on health care affordability, Axios has learned.

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Apr 16 β€’ 5:30 AM EDT β€’ Health β€’ axios.com
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Finish Line: The quiet rise of "prescribing connection"

Physicians are sending patients to choirs, art studios, walking clubs and lakesides.

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Apr 15 β€’ 9:25 PM EDT β€’ Health β€’ axios.com
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City, business leaders agree: Spring break went smoothly on South Beach

This was the third straight spring break without a major incident.

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Apr 15 β€’ 5:08 PM EDT β€’ Business β€’ axios.com
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Exclusive: OpenAI lobbies for expanded AI role in life sciences

Progress in life sciences has slowed dramatically β€” even as the toughest diseases remain unsolved.

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Apr 15 β€’ 5:00 PM EDT β€’ Science β€’ axios.com
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Dow Jones and WSJ launch new sports vertical with live event

More media companies are leaning into coverage of the business of sports as a way to capitalize on the growing appetite for insights on the topic from business decision-makers.

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Apr 15 β€’ 10:42 AM EDT β€’ Sports β€’ axios.com
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Indiana small businesses see growth as nationwide optimism falls

The national economy is signaling growing unease over rising inflation and the Iran war.

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Apr 14 β€’ 6:18 AM EDT β€’ Business β€’ axios.com
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Exclusive: GOP pushes sweetener for cash-pay drugs

Paying cash for drugs so far has limited appeal for insured patients.

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Apr 14 β€’ 5:30 AM EDT β€’ Health β€’ axios.com
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Colorado leaders warn of a "deteriorating" business climate

The ad-hoc organization, Ensuring Colorado's Innovation Future, cites Palantir's relocation as a major concern.

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Apr 13 β€’ 12:51 PM EDT β€’ Business β€’ axios.com
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Mental health deaths may be missed in maternal data

Suicides and overdoses may be undercounted in maternal deaths, limiting awareness.

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Apr 13 β€’ 7:24 AM EDT β€’ Health β€’ axios.com
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Exclusive: DNC bets on the South as next political battleground

DNC chair Ken Martin sat down for an exclusive interview.

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Apr 13 β€’ 7:20 AM EDT β€’ Politics β€’ axios.com
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β€œAI polls” are fake polls

A few weeks after Donald Trump’s second presidential win, I took the train up from London (where I was living at the time) to Oxford to attend a conference on polls and forecasts of the 2024 election. Most of the attendees were pollsters or academics, but I also watched presentations from Aaru and Electric Twin, two companies that do what is interchangeably called synthetic sampling, silicon sampling, or synthetic audiences. Stripped of startup jargon, that means they use large language models (LLMs) to simulate responses to public opinion polls by having AI agents take on the role of survey respondents. I had already heard of Aaru thanks to some articles with eye-catching headlines like β€œNo people, no problem: AI chatbots predict elections better than humans” in the months leading up to Election Day. The founders were making some big, some might even say far-fetched claims, such as: β€œwithin two years, we will simulate the entire globe β€” from the way crops are grown in Ukraine to how that impacts production of oil in Iraq, trade through the strait of Malacca, and elections for the mayor of Baltimore.” When Semafor asked Aaru’s cofounders β€” Cameron Fink and Ned Koh β€” about my boss, they said β€œwe respect all those who came before us.” Nate (as he so often does) shared his thoughts on Twitter: Fink and Koh were relatively good-natured about this back-and-forth when we spoke at Oxford. They even offered to mail me one of the t-shirts featuring Nate’s quote they apparently had made. I never took them up on the offer, which I now somewhat regret. These synthetic sampling companies fell off my radar for a while, but they do still exist. In fact, Aaru recently received a $1 billion valuation. Is what they’re doing anywhere close to the most important frontier in AI development? Not by a longshot, especially when Anthropic just developed a model so adept at exploiting software vulnerabilities that it’s only being released to 40 companies. Still, silicon sampling is increasingly finding its way into public polling. Axios reported in March that β€œa majority of people trust their own doctors and nurses” based on findings from Aaru β€” without mentioning that the β€œpeople” in that sentence were actually LLMs. Around the same time, the Public Sentiment Institute β€œboosted” their online sample of 373 real survey respondents with 114 AI agents.1 (Spoiler alert: even the co-founder of Electric Twin doesn’t think that’s a particularly defensible approach.) Polling companies like Qualtrics and Ipsos are also developing synthetic data panels. So, what should we make of these … β€œpolls”? Let’s get one thing out of the way: whatever they are, they’re not polls in the way that term is usually defined. Subscribe You can’t replace polls with AI On one hand, using LLMs to essentially make up fake survey respondents sort of sounds like the dumbest idea ever, one that will at best imperfectly replicate real polls while introducing all sorts of biases. On the other hand, with LLMs improving at a remarkable, perhaps even alarming rate, maybe that means I’m a dinosaur at the ripe old age of 24 because I still want to rely on polls that talk to actual people. I’m not going to argue that synthetic samples are completely useless. In fact, as I’ll return to later, there is evidence that some techniques can replicate topline survey results quickly and cheaply. But the marketing from certain companies can be slightly optimistic. β€œNo traditional poll will exist by the time the next general election occurs,” said Fink in 2024. We’re just 206 days away from the midterms, and based on the fact that I still have to collect a bunch of polls every day, I’d say he should have run that prediction by a sample of AI agents before the interview.2 To see why synthetic samples can’t replace polls, here’s a quick primer on how they work. The simplest version of these models involves taking a LLM (like ChatGPT or Claude), giving it a demographic profile (e.g., a white, college-educated woman who lives in Utah and makes $70k a year), and then asking it to respond to a survey question. You repeat that process a few thousand times using different demographic profiles and end up with a sample of synthetic survey responses. The actual models used by private companies are more sophisticated than this, usually because they incorporate more hypothesized demographic characteristics for each agent and provide them with extra information. Aaru, for example, feeds agents a diet of news and information they’d be likely to consume, while Electric Twin incorporates their customers’ proprietary data about the audience they’re trying to replicate. The way Ben Warner, the co-founder of Electric Twin, explained it to me was β€œwe have a large amount of data on […] for instance, 5,000 people. Can we make an accurate prediction of how they would respond to another question?” Still, it should be obvious why synthetic samples can’t replace polls. Polling is fundamentally a data collection process. We might use surveys to make predictions by feeding them into election forecasts, but the main purpose of a poll isn’t prediction, it’s gathering new data about what people think and how they feel. Silicon sampling, on the other hand, produces no new data. It’s simply a model: you input LLM training data, demographic prompts, and a bunch of other information, and it spits out a prediction for what a poll would say. We love models here, but models aren’t polls. That difference is an important philosophical sticking point for most pollsters I talk to. β€œI think politics should stay away from [synthetic sampling], because we’re trying to […] represent the voice of the people,” said Natalie Jackson, a vice president at GQR Insights. Democratic pollster John Hagner told me: β€œI think I’m just incredibly skeptical of this idea. I don’t think it’s research. At that point, you’re asking the machine to tell you what you already believe.” Hagner has seen some presentations of early synthetic sampling experiments, but so far, β€œif it’s being used in a campaign, people are keeping it incredibly quiet.”3 But Eli, I hear you saying, aren’t polls themselves increasingly governed by modeling decisions? Indeed they are: pollsters’ choices on which sampling method to use, how to define their likely voter models, and how to weight their samples can and do lead to dramatic differences in the results they publish. Aaru even referenced these limitations in the methodology statement included with that maternal mortality β€œpoll” β€” although I’m using the term β€œmethodology statement” loosely here, because it doesn’t really explain how the model works at all. We can ignore the (frankly preposterous) implication that synthetic sampling isn’t subject to a separate set of biases. The important point is that there’s still a meaningful difference between using weighting and other statistical techniques on actual polling data and using a model to predict what a poll would say. The latter is far closer to election forecasts or techniques like MRP β€” potentially useful models, but not a replacement for polls.4 To be fair, other synthetic sampling companies are perfectly happy with the distinction between polls and models. Warner compared polling and synthetic sampling to different tools in a toolbox. β€œThe mistake I think we make is we think that these new tools should either work in exactly the same way or somehow replace these old tools,” he said. β€œRather than thinking of it as, okay, so we’ve always had the hammer, we’ve always had the screwdriver, now we’ve got a saw. But don’t use a saw to try [to] do the job of a hammer.” A quick comment from Nate Eli didn’t ask me for a comment β€” rather rude of him, don’t you think? But since I’m editing this story, I figured I’d add a few quick thoughts rather than putting words in his mouth. Beyond the frequently misleading marketing, what bothers me about the AI β€œpoll” hype is that as AI tools make statistical inference cheaper and/or better (note that these are not synonyms) that actually increases the comparative value of collecting original data. You might be able to train a model to make a reasonable estimate of what some hard-to-reach poll respondent would say β€” say, a young Black man who voted for Trump. (Such a person checks a number of boxes for a voter who is usually hard to reach in surveys.) Indeed, this is closely related to what models like the Silver Bulletin forecast already do. They essentially smooth out the kinks in noisy survey data by making inferences based on past voting patterns or national polls or surveys of other states. But you don’t actually know what these voters think unless you’re reaching them directly. If there’s a shift in opinion among this subgroup, you’re not going to detect it. So if I were running a campaign, I’d invest more in going the extra mile to find a representative sample of those voters. And then I’d hire some smart quants β€” or Claude? β€” to figure out the implications for campaign strategy based on proprietary data that my competitors didn’t have access to. -Nate Silver Are these models any good? If synthetic surveys are just a new type of model, the next obvious question is whether the models are at least accurate. The answer very much depends on who you ask. On one end of the spectrum, you have the maximalist argument that synthetic sampling is more accurate than actual polls. β€œIt’s an incredibly challenging problem to go to someone and say β€˜hey, we’re going to be more accurate at predicting human behavior than you, even when you talk to your customers directly’,” Koh recently told CNBC. In his view, synthetic sampling isn’t a saw to polling’s hammer, it’s β€œmagic.” There’s certainly evidence that synthetic samples can replicate certain survey toplines. But if Aaru does have any examples of their approach outperforming the polls, they’re keeping those to themselves.5 Aaru’s 2024 election model, for example, had Kamala Harris leading in Michigan, Nevada, Pennsylvania, and Wisconsin on November 4th. And although they’ve since taken down their forecast page, they gave Harris a 50.5 percent chance of winning the race on November 2nd.6 After the election, Fink told Semafor he was happy enough with those results because they were β€œwithin margin of error,” a term that is completely meaningless when applied to a β€œsample” of AI agents. And of course, Aaru says their models have improved since 2024, so supposedly now they’d be more accurate than the polls? Still, their stronger argument is on cost: β€œWe are significantly faster and cheaper than traditional polling, and still more accurate,” said Fink. The first two claims are undeniably true, but the third brings us to the opposite end of the spectrum. Both Jackson and Hagner are skeptical that these models are reliable for anything beyond replicating common survey toplines. β€œI just […] don’t think the machines are what we want when we’re looking for nuanced views. My example on this is people in Arizona and Nevada in 2024 who voted for Trump and voted for expanding abortion in their states on ballot initiatives,” said Jackson. Hagner identified another issue. Maybe the synthetic respondents, like sycophantic LLMs, are inhuman in one important way: they’re too nice. β€œThe reports that have come through at the meetings that I’ve been at are that the early experiments on this, they cannot get respondents to be as racist or sexist or, frankly, as negative as human respondents,” he said. Academic research mostly agrees on this point. While there are some papers that show promising results when using LLMs to replicate polling data, most show that LLMs suffer from various quirks like producing too few β€œdon’t know” responses and can seriously overpredict the favorability of politicians like Donald Trump and Kamala Harris. They also seem to struggle with too little variation between demographic subgroups, so the difference in predicted opinion between Democrats and Republicans, for example, is too small. When I asked Warner about these studies, his response to these papers was that just because academics can’t get synthetic sampling to work doesn’t mean that the technique doesn’t work in general. β€œActually, the argument is, okay, yours does not [work]. That does not mean […] for this complex set of machinery, which uses a lot of investment, a lot of time, a lot of money, you can’t get it to work.” Cards on the table, I’m somewhat sympathetic to this argument because academics aren’t exactly great at making election forecasts. Usually, the people with skin in the game are the most accurate. Warner’s argument is that the approach Electric Twin takes β€” which includes, for example, making multiple predictions for each synthetic respondent using different models and prompts and subsequently averaging those to get a final prediction in a sort of ensemble forecast β€” produces better results than the simpler academic models. Warner shared a comparison between his method and the method from a recent academic paper with me, and Electric Twin was indeed able to get more accurate replication. But even still, he acknowledged that synthetic sampling β€œis not a crystal ball.” β€œIf you asked me, do I think using other data sources will be more accurate than asking somebody who they will vote for, I would probably say no. But if you asked me β€˜would your system be useful for our turnout modeling today?’ I would say yes.” For better or worse, it looks like the method is already getting more popular in the market research world. Most of the clients Aaru touts these days are businesses like EY and McDonald’s. And AI will probably begin to pop up in other parts of the political polling process. Pollsters are already using it to code open-ended survey responses, and some firms, like YouGov, are testing using LLMs to ask survey respondents questions. More worryingly, one danger to actual polls is that AI agents can be used to infiltrate online surveys. Most online polls use various checks to prevent that from happening, but there’s conflicting evidence on how effective those filters are and how prevalent AI agents currently are in online panels. If those agents ever become impossible to detect, it might spell the end of online polling, but the solution isn’t to replace all of your respondents with ChatGPT. Silver Bulletin is a reader-supported publication. To receive new posts and support our work, consider becoming a subscriber. Subscribe 1 That particular poll obviously doesn’t meet Silver Bulletin standards for aggregation. But we exclude all Public Sentiment Institute polls from our averages because we classify them as an amateur polling firm. 2 You could argue that Fink meant the next presidential election, but (a) I’m also confident we’ll still have real polls in 2028 and (b) in that case he should have asked an LLM to define β€œgeneral election.” 3 Quick caveat: that’s reporting from a Democratic pollster. It’s possible that Republicans are more willing to use AI in political campaigns. 4 Indeed, Silver Bulletin does not include β€œpolls” produced by MRP in our forecasts or averages, and we think it’s extremely misleading when their practitioners describe them in a way that suggests original data had been collected among a large number of states or Congressional districts. 5 A recent report from Aaru and EY did show two examples of a synthetic estimate being closer than a survey to a real-world benchmark β€” but I’d take those findings with a grain of salt because the report reads more like an ad and didn’t involve any sort of prediction being made ahead of time. 6 For comparison, our odds for Harris on the same day were 48.2 percent.

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Wearables need to cross from consumer to health care market

They could repeat Fitbit's story if they don't cross over from consumer to health care products.

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Apr 10 β€’ 4:31 PM EDT β€’ Health β€’ axios.com
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Sports dealmaking drives legal hires

Private capital is flooding into sports and law firms are hiring to keep up.

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Apr 10 β€’ 11:59 AM EDT β€’ Sports β€’ axios.com
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ASU Health HQ breaks ground

Work is officially underway on the planned ASU Health headquarters building in downtown Phoenix.

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Apr 10 β€’ 9:28 AM EDT β€’ Health β€’ axios.com
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Top takeaways from Youngkin's Hannity interview

The former governor talked future plans, Trump ties and his Richmond election strategy.

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Apr 10 β€’ 6:19 AM EDT β€’ Politics β€’ axios.com
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Meet the air traffic controller behind the PGA Championship

Jackie Endsley tapped her honorary Philadelphian standing after the PGA Championship lost its first director.

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Apr 10 β€’ 6:15 AM EDT β€’ Sports β€’ axios.com
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WATCH: Conversations on ways to improve health care in North Carolina

On Thursday, April 16 at 9:00am ET, Axios Live will host an event in Raleigh looking at the key issues shaping the health of North Carolinians.

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Exclusive: DraftKings, FanDuel, Fanatics, Bet365 fund sports gambling super PAC

Several major sportsbooks have contributed tens of millions of dollars to a super PAC to support sports betting throughout the country, Axios has learned.

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Apr 9 β€’ 4:45 PM EDT β€’ Sports β€’ axios.com
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New sports bar to open at former Harpo's site

The bar aims to revive a long-vacant Arapahoe Avenue location.

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Apr 8 β€’ 8:20 AM EDT β€’ Sports β€’ axios.com
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President's budget brings back NASA science cuts

The President's Budget Request for fiscal year 2027 calls for $18.8 billion in NASA spending, a $5.6 billion cut.

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Apr 8 β€’ 7:20 AM EDT β€’ Science β€’ axios.com
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VCU Health said it'd stop suing patients in 2019. Did it?

A new report says they didn't. VCU is disputing those findings.

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Apr 8 β€’ 6:22 AM EDT β€’ Health β€’ axios.com
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Metro Detroit small businesses weigh in on economy

Confidence is falling among small-business owners, per a recent national survey.

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Apr 8 β€’ 6:20 AM EDT β€’ Business β€’ axios.com
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Prior authorizations fell after insurer pledges

Health insurers say they've cut pre-treatment claim reviews by 11% in the past year.

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Apr 8 β€’ 5:40 AM EDT β€’ Health β€’ axios.com
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Democratic ally lays out health affordability plan

Democrats are increasingly talking about lowering underlying health care costs.

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Apr 8 β€’ 5:30 AM EDT β€’ Health β€’ axios.com
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What everyone's talking about in Louisiana politics

Catch up with this 1-minute guide.

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Apr 7 β€’ 7:20 AM EDT β€’ Politics β€’ axios.com
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Three new local businesses to visit at The Winnifred

There are a few new reasons to visit the Shops at The Winnifred.

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Apr 7 β€’ 5:59 AM EDT β€’ Business β€’ axios.com
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Small-business optimism falls for second straight quarter

The numbers signal a "growing unease" over rising inflation and the Iran war, the Chamber said.

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Apr 7 β€’ 5:01 AM EDT β€’ Business β€’ axios.com
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Health tech funding increases while deal-count drop continues

Fewer early-stage companies attracted investor interest in Q1 versus a year ago.

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Apr 6 β€’ 4:49 PM EDT β€’ Health β€’ axios.com
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AP plans staff cuts, restructuring amid broader business shift

The Associated Press is restructuring away from hyper-local print coverage and toward video and national topics.

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Apr 6 β€’ 10:00 AM EDT β€’ Business β€’ axios.com
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Sportsball Monday: Giants still uneven, 49ers add WRs, Valkyries prep

We bring you up to speed on your favorite local teams.

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Apr 6 β€’ 9:25 AM EDT β€’ Sports β€’ axios.com
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Exclusive: Yuzu Health raises $35M for health benefits

As health insurance costs are rising, so is demand for different types of plans and coverage.

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Apr 6 β€’ 6:00 AM EDT β€’ Health β€’ axios.com
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Medicare dips a toe into hemp for seniors

The effort could tap into public frustration with the health system.

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Apr 6 β€’ 5:30 AM EDT β€’ Health β€’ axios.com
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United Airlines splits business class into tiers on long-haul flights

The airline industry is looking for new revenue lines to bolster the bottom line amid stiff economic headwinds.

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Apr 3 β€’ 2:11 PM EDT β€’ Business β€’ axios.com
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Trump budget calls for another sharp cut to NIH

It shows how biomedical research remains a lightning rod for criticism from the right.

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Apr 3 β€’ 11:12 AM EDT β€’ Health β€’ axios.com
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Weekend picks: Sports, sports and more sports

Plus: An R&B legend and an emo kid doubleheader.

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Apr 3 β€’ 6:15 AM EDT β€’ Sports β€’ axios.com
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The growing thirst for health insurance trustbusting

More politicians are convinced that owning multiple parts of the health system make medical costs unaffordable.

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Apr 3 β€’ 5:30 AM EDT β€’ Health β€’ axios.com
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San Diego's 1st women's sports bar opening in North Park

One of Us opens in North Park, giving fans a dedicated space to watch women's sports.

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Apr 2 β€’ 6:08 PM EDT β€’ Sports β€’ axios.com
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Retail business accelerator launches

The Ozark Retail Accelerator, aimed at helping Arkansas brands break into major retail chains, launched its inaugural cohort of 12 companies yesterday.

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Apr 1 β€’ 7:28 AM EDT β€’ Business β€’ axios.com
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Federal bill would let cities bid to keep pro sports teams

The bill could reshape how pro teams negotiate deals.

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Apr 1 β€’ 7:20 AM EDT β€’ Sports β€’ axios.com
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Clean your feed: Here's how to rebuild your X

The advent of AI content has only made it harder to distinguish fact from fiction.

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Mar 30 β€’ 9:25 PM EDT β€’ Technology β€’ axios.com
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New ad blitz targets tariffs on small businesses

A small business organization is using posters to highlight tariff challenges for entrepreneurs.

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Mar 30 β€’ 7:27 AM EDT β€’ Business β€’ axios.com
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Exclusive: Jukebox Health acquires Braided Health, eyes future raise

The company is looking at a Series B raise next year.

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Mar 30 β€’ 6:21 AM EDT β€’ Health β€’ axios.com
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New ad blitz shows how tariffs hurt small businesses

The campaign is targeting Atlanta, Chicago, Detroit, Nashville and Newark because they are located in states hit hardest by tariffs.

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Mar 30 β€’ 6:10 AM EDT β€’ Business β€’ axios.com
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GOP weighs health care moves to pay for Iran war

New efforts to rein in health programs open the GOP up to attacks that they're cutting health care to pay for an unpopular war.

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Mar 30 β€’ 5:30 AM EDT β€’ Health β€’ axios.com
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Politics Unplugged Podcast: Jeremy Duda on ICE restrictions

Axios reporter Jeremy Duda talks about the ICE restrictions in Phoenix and his new book on the murder of journalist Don Bolles. Then Dennis and Colin share their dislike for β€œold school” coaches.

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Mar 28 β€’ 8:09 PM EDT β€’ Politics β€’ kold.com
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"Bodies aren't a trend": Body positivity fight endures in the GLP-1 era

"Real people's bodies aren't a trend," one advocate tells Axios.

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Mar 28 β€’ 6:00 AM EDT β€’ Health β€’ axios.com
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Exclusive: Sage Health raises $50 million in debt for value-based care expansion

Despite headwinds, some investors still see opportunity in brick-and-mortar clinics.

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Mar 27 β€’ 6:00 AM EDT β€’ Health β€’ axios.com
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Scoop: Cabinet to huddle to talk midterms, economy

The meeting comes as the Iran war has sent gas prices soaring, and after the stock market's worst day since Trump launched the war.

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Mar 26 β€’ 5:32 PM EDT β€’ Politics β€’ axios.com
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To assess AI in health care, study the human-machine team

AI health care tools appear to have a reliability problem, and experts suggest a new way of evaluating them.

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Mar 26 β€’ 4:36 PM EDT β€’ Health β€’ axios.com
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This Phillies sports fan knows bad. He says fans have little to complain about

The Parx Casino sports gambling influencer is playing the reverse Uno card on curmudgeonly fans upset about paying steep tix prices.

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Mar 26 β€’ 6:05 AM EDT β€’ Sports β€’ axios.com
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OpenAI pivots from consumer hype to business reality

The company that started the consumer AI craze is clearing the decks for an IPO.

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Mar 25 β€’ 3:23 PM EDT β€’ Business β€’ axios.com
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Startups juice carbon removal with power generation

The era of relying on carbon removal revenue alone is over.

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Mar 25 β€’ 1:45 PM EDT β€’ Business β€’ axios.com
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Qualified Health's raise comes in at $125M

Axios Pro reported earlier this month the raise would be roughly $100 million.

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Mar 25 β€’ 11:29 AM EDT β€’ Health β€’ axios.com
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Exclusive: Plaid buys media company This Week in Fintech

It's first media buy comes as Plaid seeks to extend customer relationships.

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Mar 25 β€’ 10:30 AM EDT β€’ Business β€’ axios.com
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Exclusive: Zuckerberg launches Meta Small Business

The plan taps Meta's biggest edge in the AI wars.

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Mar 25 β€’ 6:32 AM EDT β€’ Business β€’ axios.com
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Trump health vacancies offer chances to change course

The White House wants to break from the drama that characterized much of the past year.

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Mar 25 β€’ 5:30 AM EDT β€’ Health β€’ axios.com
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USWNT star Lindsey Heaps launches sports show

The show will debut in the "Men In Blazers" network.

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Mar 24 β€’ 1:15 PM EDT β€’ Sports β€’ axios.com
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The Economist launches new Economist Enterprise business unit

The move combines business-to-business teams and units that currently service more than 2,700 organizations globally.

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Mar 24 β€’ 11:08 AM EDT β€’ Business β€’ axios.com
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San Antonio 2026 Teen Mental Health Survey now open

Teenagers can share their experience with mental health in an ongoing survey meant to inform city policy.

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Mar 24 β€’ 7:29 AM EDT β€’ Health β€’ axios.com
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Using multiple AI health tools could pose reliability risks

Hundreds of AI tools for health care tout accuracy rates above 90%, but most are tested only in isolation.

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Mar 24 β€’ 6:00 AM EDT β€’ Health β€’ axios.com
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Clean your feed: Avoid the YouTube slop

YouTube is packed with engagement bait and AI videos

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Mar 23 β€’ 9:27 PM EDT β€’ Technology β€’ axios.com
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Exclusive: Kalshi to block athletes and politicians from trading on their markets

Prediction market Kalshi plans to block athletes, coaches and officials from betting on their sports and to block political candidates from trading on their campaigns, Axios has learned.

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Mar 23 β€’ 2:57 PM EDT β€’ Politics β€’ axios.com
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AI-generated attack ads are already slopping up Mass. races

AI attack ads are already showing up in Massachusetts races β€” and the 2026 cycle is just getting started.

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Mar 23 β€’ 6:20 AM EDT β€’ Politics β€’ axios.com
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How HB2's legacy reshaped N.C. and modern culture fights

It's been a decade since the divisive "bathroom bill" was signed into law.

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Mar 23 β€’ 5:50 AM EDT β€’ Politics β€’ axios.com
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How AI therapies are changing health care

It may become harder to tell whether a compound or an algorithm is doing the healing.

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Mar 23 β€’ 5:30 AM EDT β€’ Health β€’ axios.com
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iPhone spyware is everyone's problem now

Anyone with an iPhone can now be the target of invasive malware that siphons off personal texts, call histories and calendar data.

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Mar 21 β€’ 8:00 AM EDT β€’ Technology β€’ axios.com
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Scoop: Weight management company Wondr on the block

Both employer health costs and demand for GLP-1s are rising.

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Mar 20 β€’ 4:39 PM EDT β€’ Health β€’ axios.com
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Exclusive: Dimer Health raises $13.5M for patient discharge

The round gives Dimer approximately three years of runway, though it will begin having initial conversations about its next round soon.

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Mar 20 β€’ 4:32 PM EDT β€’ Health β€’ axios.com
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