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Stripe, Anthropic, and OpenAI are backing an effort to stop respiratory infections

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The common cold comes for us all—often more than once a year. And there is no way to prevent it. The best you can do is take vitamin C and stay away from people with the sniffles.



Now the payment company Stripe, founded by brothers Patrick and John Collison, says it will fund a new $500 million nonprofit whose goal is preventing both the common cold and the flu. Its eventual aim is to get rid of respiratory viruses altogether.



The new organization, called Intercept, will use grants and inv

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