Steven Soderbergh Explains Why AI ‘Turned Out to Be Perfect’ for John Lennon ‘Last Interview’ Doc

Filmmaker Stephen Soderbergh defended and explained his decision to use some generative artificial intelligence in his upcoming documentary centered around John Lennon’s final interview. Announced last year, John Lennon: The Last Interview features the audio from an interview Lennon and Yoko Ono gave to RKO Radio on Dec. 8, 1980, just hours before Lennon was…

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How Merck turned its wonder drug into a blockbuster — and priced out cancer patients worldwide

How Merck turned its wonder drug into a blockbuster — and priced out cancer patients worldwide

Just days before Christmas 2025, leaders of nine pharmaceutical companies clustered in the Roosevelt Room of the White House, where Teddy Roosevelt’s 1906 Nobel Peace Prize once hung. Photographers flocked for pictures as the executives, three women and six men, stood awkwardly, tapping their feet and drumming their fingers while waiting for President Donald Trump….

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They Needed Treatment for Drug Addiction. The Company They Turned to May Have Used Them to Commit Fraud.

Reporting Highlights A Prosecutor’s Calling: Tim Robinson said God told him to start a drug treatment program in hard-hit Kentucky, which grew to the largest in the state.  The FBI Investigates: Former staff and investigators allege the drug treatment center falsified invoices to bill Medicaid for millions.  The State Acts: After years of warnings about…

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