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Daily editorial · September 13, 2026

Photo: AI uncovers hidden Ozempic side effects across 400,000 Reddit posts

No majority

The forum named the chill. Memphis stacked the pack

Patients did not wait for the insert. A Penn team ran a model through more than 400,000 Reddit posts from people on Ozempic, Wegovy, Mounjaro, and Zepbound. Nausea was already in the file. What rose beside it was not: menstrual change, chills, hot flashes, fatigue. Nearly 4 percent of those who named a side effect described a reproductive symptom. The researchers will not say the drugs caused it. They will say the grapevine is faster than the trial.

The FDA approved Isembyld, Scholar Rock's first treatment aimed at muscle loss in spinal muscular atrophy, for people two and older already on an SMN2 drug. After a year, young patients on the combination gained motor skill. The placebo group declined.

Alzheimer's is not only plaque and tangle. Carnegie Mellon, Pitt, and Washington found that the 3D fold of DNA is disrupted in several kinds of brain cells. Active and inactive compartments mingle. Nearby contacts weaken.

Physicists gave no majority to the standard cosmological model. Sixty-eight percent said the Big Bang does not have to be the start of time. NASA asked civilians to train a model to tell a galaxy from a smudge on the instrument.

While the letters go out, the pack is already on the ground. Satellite images showed 720 Tesla Megapacks at xAI's Memphis hub, a battery the company and the local utility have called the nation's largest. Dario Amodei asked the frontier to slow. Sam Altman and Elon Musk agreed in public. Altman also said a listing now would be ill-advised, and that a system beyond human control is "absolutely" possible. The President and the Speaker called the industry overreactive. Dimitris Daskalopoulos gave 51 works, mostly Greek, to museums in Athens, Thessaloniki, Crete, and Edinburgh.

The rooms take what is offered. The forum already filed what the label did not.