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OpenAI is reshaping its infrastructure leadership, with data center chief Chris Malone departing in what the company calls a reorganization to support the scale and pace of its work. It's the latest in a string of senior exits that raises real questions about operational stability inside one of the most capital-intensive AI buildouts in history.
Turning to healthcare, Medicare's new pilot program offers GLP-one weight loss drugs like Zepbound for just fifty dollars a month, a dramatic reduction from the seven hundred fifty dollar monthly retail price. But the program's eligibility criteria are leaving some patients who could genuinely benefit medically on the outside looking in, exposing gaps in how the policy was designed.
In commodities, coffee prices reversed sharply on Tuesday after reports that warehouses in Brazil are running out of storage space, signaling a supply surge hitting the market. December arabica contracts fell nearly two percent, and robusta dropped close to three percent, as the world's largest coffee producer effectively ran out of room to store its own harvest.
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