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Senator Steve Padilla (D-CA) introduced a bill on Monday that would place a four-year ban on the sale and manufacture of toys with AI chatbot capabilities for kids under 18. The goal is to give safety regulators time to develop regulations to protect children from “dangerous AI interactions.” “Chatbots and other AI tools may become integral parts of our lives in the future, but the dangers they pose now require us to take bold action to protect our children,” Senator Padilla said in a statement. “Our safety regulations around this kind of technology are in their infancy and will need…
While CES 2026 is full of tech giants unveiling their latest innovations, the real excitement comes from discovering unexpected, quirky gadgets that make you ask, “Who thought of this?” We’re here to spotlight the wildest products we’ve found so far at CES 2026, from an AI-powered panda that responds to your touch, to Razer’s holographic anime assistant, and plenty more weirdness that makes you do a double-take. An AI anime companion that watches you from your desk Razer’s Project AVA, originally introduced last year as an esports AI coach, has evolved into something new: a 5.5-inch animated holographic desk companion…
Amid a record-breaking flu season, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention announced Monday that multiple vaccinations, including for flu, RSV, and COVID, are no longer universally recommended for all children, a departure from previous, long-standing guidance to parents and caregivers.Here are five things parents and caregivers should know about the new vaccination schedule changes for children.1. The CDC cut the number of vaccines universally recommended for kidsJackyenjoyphotography/STOCK PHOTO/Getty Images – PHOTO: Stock photo of a child receiving a shot.The new guidelines no longer universally recommend children receive vaccines for rotavirus, hepatitis A and hepatitis B, meningitis (meningococcal disease), RSV…
Intel is looking to double down on gaming hardware with a new chip and platform for portable gaming devices. The platform will include hardware and software, Intel vice president and general manager of PC products, Daniel Rogers, announced at CES on Monday. It will be built off of the company’s Intel Core Series 3 processors, known as Panther Lake, which was announced last year and is now being rolled out in a variety of PCs. This future platform includes a chip specifically for handheld gaming devices, according to reporting from IGN, which was confirmed by TechCrunch. These Panther Lake chips…
2026-01-06T18:43:51.296Z Share Copy link Email Facebook WhatsApp X LinkedIn Bluesky Threads lighning bolt icon An icon in the shape of a lightning bolt. Impact Link Save Saved Read in app This story is available exclusively to Business Insider subscribers. Become an Insider and start reading now. Have an account? Log in. Meta hired C.J. Mahoney, a former Trump administration official, as chief legal officer. He replaces Jennifer Newstead, who is leaving Meta to become Apple’s general counsel. The move comes as Meta faces continued regulatory scrutiny worldwide. Meta has hired C.J. Mahoney, a former senior Microsoft legal executive and onetime…
Flu activity could continue to increase in the U.S. over the next few weeks, according to a top flu epidemiologist at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.”There’s a lot of influenza out there right now,” Dr. Carrie Reed, chief of the epidemiology and prevention branch of the CDC’s influenza division, told ABC News.”We often see activity continue into the spring … I think the reality is that it’s going to continue to be elevated for a little bit longer,” she continued.What you need to know about flu treatments as cases spike across the USThe CDC’s latest estimates indicate that there have been at least…
Mark Cuban believes businesses need to embrace AI to succeed, but he says those that use it incorrectly are doomed to failure.”There’s going to be two types of companies: those who are great at AI, and everybody else,” the celebrity billionaire of “Shark Tank” fame said. “And the ‘everybody else’ is going to fail because AI is such a transformative tool.”The comments came during a call with Clipbook founder Adam Joseph, whose startup secured a seven-figure investment from Cuban. Business Insider reviewed a recording of the call.On the call, Cuban explained to Joseph how he believed everyone, from entrepreneurs to…
BOSTON (AP) — The man identified by law enforcement as the shooter who killed two Brown University students and an MIT professor had been planning the attack for months and left behind videos in which he confessed to the murders but provided no motive, according to information released Tuesday by the U.S. Department of Justice. Claudio Neves Valente, 48, a former Brown student and Portuguese national, was found dead in a New Hampshire storage facility after he killed two students and wounded nine others in an engineering building on Dec. 13. Two days later, he killed MIT professor Nuno F.G.…
Commonwealth Fusion Systems (CFS) said on Tuesday at CES 2026 that it had installed the first magnet in its Sparc fusion reactor, the demonstration device that it hopes to turn on next year. The magnet is the first of 18 that, when the reactor is complete, will create a doughnut-like shape that will produce a powerful magnetic field to confine and compress superheated plasma. If all goes well, that plasma will release more energy than it takes to heat and compress it. After decades of promise and delay, fusion power appears to be just around the corner — CFS and…
Jan 6 (Reuters) – Variant Bio, a private biotech firm, said on Tuesday it has launched a platform that uses artificial intelligence on genetic data to discover new drug candidates to send into human trials.Drug developers are increasing adoption of AI for discovery and safety trials to get faster and cheaper results, in line with a push by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration to reduce animal testing in the near future.Variant’s Inference platform uses agentic AI – autonomous AI agents that work with minimal human intervention – to discover drugs by analyzing proprietary and public human genomic data from…