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The U.S. Department of Agricultures Food Safety and Inspection Service (FSIS) issued a public health alert on Monday for FreshRealm’s ready-to-eat meals shipped directly to consumers by HelloFreshdue to possible contamination from listeria. HelloFresh is a German-based meal-kit company operating in the United States and globally in Europe, Australia, Canada, and New Zealand. FreshRealm notified FSIS that the spinach used in the products tested positive for listeria bacteria. So far, no illnesses have been reported. However, FSIS said it expected additional products will be affected, and asked consumers to check this public health alert frequently as the agency will update it when more information becomes available. Last month, FreshRealm said tests confirmed that pasta used in linguine dishes sold at Walmart contained the same strain of listeria linked to a deadly outbreak in June, originally tied to chicken fettucine alfredo, that killed at least four people and sickened 20, the Associated Press noted. Here’s what to know about this week’s alert. What is listeria, and what are the symptoms of infection? According to the Food and Drug Administration (FDA), Listeria monocytogenes is a type of disease-causing bacteria that is generally transmitted when food is harvested, processed, prepared, packed, transported, or stored in manufacturing or production environments contaminated with the bacteria. Infection can lead to severe symptoms, such as abdominal pain, fever, nausea, and diarrhea, and poses a particular risk to vulnerable populations, including pregnant women, the elderly, and those with weakened immune systems. What is the product information for the alert? Here are the details of the products mentioned in the alert: Product Name: HELLO FRESH READY MADE MEALS CHEESY PULLED PORK PEPPER PASTA Establishment number and lot codes: Est. 47718 and lot code 49107, or Est. 2937, and lot code 48840 Package size and type: 10.1-oz. containers Product Name: HELLO FRESH READY MADE MEALS UNSTUFFED PEPPERS WITH GROUND TURKEY Establishment number and lot codes: Establishment number P-47718 and lot codes 50069, 50073, or 50698 Package size and type: 10-oz. containers What if I have these products in my refrigerator or freezer? Consumers who have purchased these products are urged not to consume them. Instead, these products should be thrown away or returned to the place of purchase. Consumers with questions may contact FreshRealms customer service hotline at 1-888-244-1562 or customerservice@freshrealm.com.
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The New York Stock Exchange’s parent company, Intercontinental Exchange (ICE), said on Tuesday it will invest up to $2 billion into the crypto-based betting platform Polymarket. The move marries the more traditional, regulated NYSE with the riskier prediction markets, and is generally seen as a move by the iconic 233-year-old exchange to keep up with its competitors by capitalizing on the growing popularity of betting on all kinds of things. “Our partnership with ICE marks a major step in bringing prediction markets into the financial mainstream,” Shayne Coplan, CEO of Polymarket, told Fast Company. Together, were expanding how individuals and institutions use probabilities to understand and price the future. . . . Realizing the potential of new technologies, such as tokenization, will require collaboration between established market leaders and next-generation innovators.” Launched in 2020, Polymarket allows users to bet on the outcome of real-world events, including hot topics such as political elections, sporting events, weather patterns, awards (this year’s Nobel Peace Prize winner), predictions in the finance market (“Will Bitcoin hit above $120,000 today?”), and random pop-culture questions (“What will be the highest-grossing movie in 2025?“). A look at the platform on Tuesday shows some of the biggest bets going were around questions like: “When will the government shutdown end?” (68% said October 15 or later); “Who will win the New York City Mayoral Election?” (Zohran Mamdani at 89%, Andrew Cuomo at 10%); and “Who is going to be the World Series Champion 2025?” (so far, the Los Angeles Dodgers are edging out the Toronto Blue Jays, 36% to 19%). And those predictions, while seemingly fun, are big businessvalued at roughly $8 billion, according to a statement from Intercontinental Exchange to Bloomberg, which also noted that ICE will distribute Polymarkets event-driven data and has also agreed to partner on future tokenization initiatives. The ICE investment also provides good optics for the betting platform, which is trying to boost its credibility and reestablish its presence in the United States following a probe by the Department of Justice and Commodity Futures Trading Commission, which was dropped back in July. The Justice Department had been investigating whether Polymarket allowed U.S. users onto the site when they were banned from doing so.
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Bernie Sanders says in a new ChatGPT-assisted report released Monday that AI and automation could eliminate nearly 100 million jobs over the next decade. Titled Big Tech Oligarchs War Against Workers: AI and Automation Could Destroy Nearly 100 Million U.S Jobs in a Decade, the report estimates that AI will automate away the jobs of 89% of fast food and counter workers, 64% of accountants, and 47% of truck drivers. The artificial intelligence and robotics being developed by . . . today will allow corporate America to wipe out tens of millions of decent-paying jobs, cut labor costs and boost profits, Sanders, an Independent from Vermont and ranking member of the Senate Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions Committee, wrote in an op-ed on Fox News. The result? The wealthiest people in the world will get even richer, while working people lose their jobs and their income. The report was compiled by Sanders and committee staffers, who derived their job loss estimates by asking ChatGPT how completely AI can automate various job tasks that are considered core or supplemental to more than 700 job types identified by the Bureau of Labor Statistics. Congress and the American people must stand up and fight back Its unlikely that ChatGPT would have a reliable view of AIs effects on the workforce today, much less in the next decade. The reports estimates fail to contemplate what kinds of new hybrid human/AI jobs (such as prompting or model training) might be created. Sanders also oversimplifies the real mix of tasks involved in a specific job type: A task to which a worker devotes 10% of their time might stubbornly resist automation, and save the workers job. There is tremendous uncertainty about the real capabilities of AI and automation, their effects on the rest of the economy, and how governments and markets will respond, the report states. The reports estimate represents one potential future in which corporations decide to aggressively push forward with artificial labor, the staffers write. But Sanders and his staff cite some (arguably) more reliable data points, including Anthropic CEO Dario Amodeis prediction that “AI could wipe out half of all entry-level white-collar jobsand spike unemployment to 10-20% in the next one to five years. They also cite Ford CEO Jim Farleys prediction that AI could eliminate literally half of all white-collar jobs in the U.S. within the next decade. The report also takes aim at the Trump administration, which has essentially abdicated any oversight of the AI industry, while taking steps to speed the arrival of the new technology. The Trump administration is poised to only entrench the power of [Silicon Valley] executives, the authors write. That must end. Congress and the American people must stand up and fight back to make sure workers benefit from AI and automation. The approaching storm Notably, Sanders chose to his op-ed the right-leaning Fox News, which has traditionally portrayed him as a far left progressive. But AIs impact on the workforce could be a rare issue that crosses partisan lines, especially when the benefactors of the new technology are identified as oligarchs and tech elites, as Sanders does. Sanders isnt the only one who seems to be sensing this. Arizona Democrat Mark Kelly recently released an AI for America plan, which proposes ways for AI companies like Google and OpenAI to help pay for the downside costs of the AI transformation, namely the necessary upgrades to the power grid (to support new data centers) and to expand the social safety net for workers who might be put out their jobs by automation. While the HELP reports 100-million-jobs number is provocative and contestable, the tech industry is working hard to suppress meaningful AI legislation — Sanders and Kelly are right to sound the alarm that a widespread disruption of the workforce is very likely coming. The real question is how soon.
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