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Some States Say They Can’t Afford Ozempic and Other Weight Loss Drugs

✇NYT: Science
Oliver Whang
Public employees in West Virginia who took the drugs lost weight and were healthier, and some are despondent that the state is canceling a program to help pay for them.

© Maddie McGarvey for The New York Times

Dr. Joanna Bailey said most of her patients in Pineville, W.Va. who need weight loss drugs don’t have insurance to cover the cost and can’t afford the sticker price.

From Baby Talk to Baby A.I.

✇NYT: Technology
Oliver Whang
Could a better understanding of how infants acquire language help us build smarter A.I. models?

© Hiroko Masuike/The New York Times

For an hour each week for the past 11 months, Brenden Lake, right, a psychologist at New York University, with his wife Tammy Kwan, has been attaching a camera to their daughter Luna and recording things from her point of view.

From Baby Talk to Baby A.I.

✇NYT: Science
Oliver Whang
Could a better understanding of how infants acquire language help us build smarter A.I. models?

© Hiroko Masuike/The New York Times

For an hour each week for the past 11 months, Brenden Lake, right, a psychologist at New York University, with his wife Tammy Kwan, has been attaching a camera to their daughter Luna and recording things from her point of view.
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