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Walgreens Boots Alliance Inc. is scheduled to release earnings figures on January 4.</media:description></media:content></item><item><title><![CDATA[Sam Altman’s Brain Chip Venture Is Mulling Gene Therapy Approach]]></title><link>https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2025-08-15/sam-altman-brain-chip-venture-is-mulling-gene-therapy-approach</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2025-08-15/sam-altman-brain-chip-venture-is-mulling-gene-therapy-approach</guid><dc:creator><![CDATA[Ike Swetlitz]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Fri, 15 Aug 2025 16:39:55 GMT</pubDate><media:content url="https://assets.bwbx.io/images/users/iqjWHBFdfxIU/iYarIJQd36Jk/v1/piHJkQ_WoLj1E/-1x-1.jpg" type="image/jpeg"><media:thumbnail url="https://assets.bwbx.io/images/users/iqjWHBFdfxIU/iYarIJQd36Jk/v1/piHJkQ_WoLj1E/-1x-1.jpg"/><media:description>Sam Altman, chief executive officer of OpenAI Inc., during a Senate Commerce, Science, and Transportation Committee hearing in Washington, DC, US, on Thursday, May 8, 2025. The leaders of some of the biggest technology and artificial intelligence companies will go to Congress on Thursday with a wish list of sorts that at its top has doing away with regulation they say inhibits their firms’ growth and by default, sends business to China.</media:description></media:content></item><item><title><![CDATA[Arkansas Governor Seeks to Block Health Insurance Rate Hikes]]></title><link>https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2025-08-06/arkansas-governor-seeks-to-block-health-insurance-rate-hikes</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2025-08-06/arkansas-governor-seeks-to-block-health-insurance-rate-hikes</guid><dc:creator><![CDATA[John Tozzi]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Wed, 06 Aug 2025 23:12:13 GMT</pubDate><media:content url="https://assets.bwbx.io/images/users/iqjWHBFdfxIU/iIKpZdwjwVPM/v0/piHJkQ_WoLj1E/-1x-1.jpg" type="image/jpeg"><media:thumbnail url="https://assets.bwbx.io/images/users/iqjWHBFdfxIU/iIKpZdwjwVPM/v0/piHJkQ_WoLj1E/-1x-1.jpg"/><media:description>Sarah Huckabee Sanders Photographer: Al Drago/Bloomberg</media:description></media:content></item><item><title><![CDATA[Gates Foundation Commits $2.5 Billion for Women’s Health]]></title><link>https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2025-08-04/gates-foundation-commits-2-5-billion-for-women-s-health-efforts</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2025-08-04/gates-foundation-commits-2-5-billion-for-women-s-health-efforts</guid><dc:creator><![CDATA[Ike Swetlitz]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Mon, 04 Aug 2025 14:00:00 GMT</pubDate><media:content url="https://assets.bwbx.io/images/users/iqjWHBFdfxIU/iJc_hEXhUjk0/v3/piHJkQ_WoLj1E/-1x-1.jpg" type="image/jpeg"><media:thumbnail url="https://assets.bwbx.io/images/users/iqjWHBFdfxIU/iJc_hEXhUjk0/v3/piHJkQ_WoLj1E/-1x-1.jpg"/><media:description>Bill Gates, chair of the Gates Foundation.</media:description></media:content></item><item><title><![CDATA[Neuralink Launches Clinical Trial in Britain to Test Brain Chip]]></title><link>https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2025-07-31/neuralink-launches-clinical-trial-in-britain-to-test-brain-chip</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2025-07-31/neuralink-launches-clinical-trial-in-britain-to-test-brain-chip</guid><dc:creator><![CDATA[Ike Swetlitz]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Thu, 31 Jul 2025 15:29:04 GMT</pubDate><media:content url="https://assets.bwbx.io/images/users/iqjWHBFdfxIU/iN02lU0I4Qlw/v1/piHJkQ_WoLj1E/-1x-1.jpg" type="image/jpeg"><media:thumbnail url="https://assets.bwbx.io/images/users/iqjWHBFdfxIU/iN02lU0I4Qlw/v1/piHJkQ_WoLj1E/-1x-1.jpg"/><media:description>The Neuralink website on a smartphone arranged in New York, US, on Wednesday, Jan. 31, 2024. Elon Musk said that the first human patient has received a brain implant from his startup Neuralink Corp., a significant step forward for the company that aims to one day let humans control computers with their minds.</media:description></media:content></item><item><title><![CDATA[CVS Up After Raising Full Year Outlook on Insurance Strength]]></title><link>https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2025-07-31/cvs-raises-2025-profit-outlook-on-insurance-pharmacy-operations</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2025-07-31/cvs-raises-2025-profit-outlook-on-insurance-pharmacy-operations</guid><dc:creator><![CDATA[Ike Swetlitz]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Thu, 31 Jul 2025 10:30:00 GMT</pubDate><media:content url="https://assets.bwbx.io/images/users/iqjWHBFdfxIU/iqf_bvt2JK6A/v0/piHJkQ_WoLj1E/-1x-1.jpg" type="image/jpeg"><media:thumbnail url="https://assets.bwbx.io/images/users/iqjWHBFdfxIU/iqf_bvt2JK6A/v0/piHJkQ_WoLj1E/-1x-1.jpg"/><media:description>A CVS pharmacy in San Francisco. 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Photographer: Jon Cherry/Bloomberg</media:description></media:content></item><item><title><![CDATA[Elon Musk’s Neuralink Joins Study Working Toward a Bionic Eye]]></title><link>https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2025-07-25/elon-musk-s-neuralink-joins-study-working-toward-a-bionic-eye</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2025-07-25/elon-musk-s-neuralink-joins-study-working-toward-a-bionic-eye</guid><dc:creator><![CDATA[Ike Swetlitz]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Fri, 25 Jul 2025 19:42:31 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[Centene Lays Out Path to Boost 2026 Profit After ACA Stumbles]]></title><link>https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2025-07-25/centene-earnings-fall-short-of-expectations-as-woes-mount</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2025-07-25/centene-earnings-fall-short-of-expectations-as-woes-mount</guid><dc:creator><![CDATA[Ike Swetlitz]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Fri, 25 Jul 2025 10:15:12 GMT</pubDate><media:content url="https://assets.bwbx.io/images/users/iqjWHBFdfxIU/ia_7v1OZyHrI/v1/piHJkQ_WoLj1E/-1x-1.jpg" type="image/jpeg"><media:thumbnail url="https://assets.bwbx.io/images/users/iqjWHBFdfxIU/ia_7v1OZyHrI/v1/piHJkQ_WoLj1E/-1x-1.jpg"/><media:description>The Centene logo.</media:description></media:content></item><item><title><![CDATA[Molina Drops After Lowering Guidance Twice in One Month]]></title><link>https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2025-07-24/molina-drops-after-lowering-guidance-twice-in-one-month</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2025-07-24/molina-drops-after-lowering-guidance-twice-in-one-month</guid><category><![CDATA[personal-finance]]></category><dc:creator><![CDATA[Ike Swetlitz]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Thu, 24 Jul 2025 14:22:40 GMT</pubDate><media:content url="https://assets.bwbx.io/images/users/iqjWHBFdfxIU/iz0ry2HQvyaM/v1/piHJkQ_WoLj1E/-1x-1.jpg" type="image/jpeg"><media:thumbnail 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