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One of Silicon Valley’s main airports just made its newest hire, a robot named “José.” Loading audio narration… San José Mineta International Airport is turning to artificial intelligence to ease the strain of modern air travel, debuting “José,” a humanoid robot, as some US airports grapple with staffing shortages and widespread delays.Developed by Silicon Valley startup IntBot, José is designed to greet passengers, answer questions, and provide real-time updates while autonomously navigating busy terminals.The robot will be stationed in SJC’s Terminal B as part of a four-month pilot, “singlehandedly running his own gate,” according to an email previewing the test…
A secretive AI lab founded by serial entrepreneur Brett Adcock shared new details about what it believes is a novel marriage of model-building and hardware design that will change how humans interact with intelligent software. The company said in a statement it would design multi-modal end-to-end models, their hardware, and their interfaces in tandem to deliver a “seamless end-to-end personal intelligence product.” The system will have a persistent memory of your life and can listen, see, and interact with the world in real time. How that will be executed remains unclear outside the company, but Hark’s ambition is representative of…
A Democratic senator launched an investigation Monday into the nation’s two largest for-profit child care providers, as rising child care prices squeeze voters already concerned about the cost of living.Sen. Jeff Merkley (D-Oregon) sent letters to KinderCare Learning Companies and Learning Care Group and their private equity owners requesting financial records and information on their ownership structure, cost and pricing trends, safety protocols and employment practices.Subscribe to The Post Most newsletter for the most important and interesting stories from The Washington Post. Merkley wrote in the letters that each company’s market influence and substantial use of public subsidies “carry a…
March 24 (Reuters) – The European Union’s medicines regulator said on Tuesday it expects Baxter International’s cancer drugs containing ifosfamide will remain in shortage in the bloc well into the first quarter of next year.Ifosfamide is used by itself or in combination with other therapies to treat multiple cancers including testicular, small cell and cervical cancers.The European Medicines Agency said the shortage was due to a technical disruption at Baxter’s contract manufacturing site, but did not disclose details.AdvertisementAdvertisement* Baxter is the primary supplier of ifosfamide across theEU. * The brands, Holoxan, Tronoxal and Mitoxana, containifosfamide either as the main ingredient…
Bracket-busting upsets, Cinderella stories, OT buzzer beaters – March Madness is here! Or, as some urologists think of it, vasectomy promotion season.Since 2004, urologists have been promoting vasectomies every March, promising patients who elect the procedure an excellent excuse to relax on the couch and watch college basketball.There’s evidence that these “Vas Madness” promotional tactics – sometimes paired with food giveaways and cheeky swag – may be effective. At least one study has noted an increase in vasectomy rates in the U.S. during the month of March.This spike in vasectomies illustrates how communication about this procedure – and its perceived…
Israeli startup Onit Security has raised $11 million to identify and fix cybersecurity vulnerabilities with AI agents.The Tel Aviv-based startup was founded in early 2025 to address a problem that Ofer Amitai, one of its cofounders, experienced firsthand at a previous company: a cyberattack stemming from a missed vulnerability.In late 2020, a hacking group with ties to Iran breached Portnox, an Israeli security firm, and stole customer data.”They didn’t use any super sophisticated attack,” Amitai, who was CEO of Portnox at the time, told Business Insider. The damage was “largely contained,” he said, but added that an incident like that…
Mirage, the maker of video editing app Captions, has raised $75 million in growth financing from General Catalyst’s Customer Value Fund (CVF). Over the past year, the startup has made significant changes both to its product and corporate identity. The startup rebranded from Captions to Mirage to position itself as an AI lab that produces different models and also caters to industries like advertising and marketing. It has also trained a model specifically for pacing, framing and attention dynamics in short videos. The company also switched to a freemium model in January 2025 to better compete with apps like ByteDance’s…
ATLANTA (AP) — Georgia could become the first state to require every student to be checked for weapons when arriving at a public school each day.A bill is nearing passage that would require weapons detection systems in a further reaction to a 2024 school shooting that killed four. “That rifle would have never reached our hallways,” said Daria Lezczynska, a junior at Apalachee High School in Winder, where the shooting took place. “Lives would have been saved. Families would not be grieving, Students like me would not be carrying this trauma.”Some schools have long used metal detectors or required students…
Imagine you’re a server at a busy restaurant that requires you to wear a form-fitting, polyester shirt as part of the uniform. When a hot flash hits, you are a sweaty mess. You really wish your employer would let you wear a cotton T-shirt instead.If you live in Philadelphia, relief is on the way.Beginning Jan. 1, 2027, the city of Philadelphia will prohibit discrimination on the basis of menstruation, perimenopause and menopause, and it will require employers to provide reasonable accommodations to employees for needs related to these conditions.Perimenopause is the transitional period before menopause, marked by fluctuations in the…
Agile Robots has landed a partnership with Google DeepMind to develop robots with the artificial intelligence research lab, the latest in a string of robotics company to do so. Munich, Germany-based Agile Robots announced it entered into a strategic research partnership with Google DeepMind on Tuesday. The partnership involves Agile Robots implementing Google DeepMind’s Gemini Robotics foundation models into its bots and the data being collected by the robots being used to improve the underlying Gemini AI models. The companies will work together to test, fine tune, and deploy robots that use Gemini foundation models in industrial use cases across…