In defense of the girliest programming language.
Women hold some of the most consequential jobs in tech, but they’re still not cult figures. WIRED investigates why.

SoftBank Group has launched a bond sale of roughly $11bn, comprising $10bn in senior unsecured dollar notes and an additional €1bn in euros, according to term sheets reported separately by Reuters and Bloomberg on Monday. The deal comes in five tranche…

Firmus will open the institutional bookbuild for its Australian listing on 6 October and begin trading on the ASX on 22 October, according to a term sheet reported by Reuters. The timetable appears in no public document, and no other outlet has it inde…
U.S. states are enacting AI mental health laws. A federal version is in the offing. One approach would be to do a “federal floor, state ceiling”. An AI Insider analysis.
A recent GoodRx survey of a sample of Americans, conducted via YouGov, found that 26 percent of respondents reported at least one coverage gap in their health insurance.
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President Donald Trump told White House OMB director, Russell Vought, to draft an executive order to create a board that would determine which grants the NIH would fund.
NHS hasn’t budgeted for the spending increase entailed by the U.S.-U.K. deal to allow payment for more drugs while keeping funding levels constant for other healthcare.

Insta360 opened its first American store on Saturday at 1515 Broadway, in the middle of Times Square. It is the company’s second self-operated shop outside China, after Tokyo in August. The ribbon-cutting is the least interesting part. Iris Deng interv…