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When wildfires began racing through the Los Angeles area on Jan. 7, 2025, the scope of the disaster caught residents by surprise. Forecasters had warned about high winds and exceptionally dry conditions, but few people expected to see smoke and fires for weeks in one of America’s largest metro areas.Environmental health scientist Yifang Zhu studies air quality at UCLA and began collecting samples from inside and outside homes the day after the fires began. In this Q&A, she describes findings by her team, a consortium of universities and local projects, that are painting a picture of the health risks millions…
Google believes AI can improve the TV-watching experience, which is why it brought its Gemini AI to Google TV devices in November. At the Consumer Electronics Show (CES 2026) in Las Vegas, the company is now showing off a series of new Gemini features that will soon arrive on the TV, making it possible for viewers to deep dive into topics, search for and “reimagine” their personal photos and videos with AI, and, perhaps best of all, tell the TV what to do instead of having to navigate through complicated settings. The company is first bringing these Gemini features and…
2026-01-05T10:55:01.223Z 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. Vibe coding has upended software engineering, strapping developers with a suite of new AI tools. OpenAI and Tesla alum Andrej Karpathy, who coined the term, recently said he’s “never felt this much behind.” Are you a software developer? Take our vibe-coding survey below. Software engineering is changing — and…
Deborah Carrillo made a classic lawyer pivot. After a decade at a white-shoe firm, she left to join one of her clients, the venture capital firm Menlo Ventures.What came next is far less common. Menlo has elevated Carrillo, its general counsel and only in-house lawyer, to partner after nearly six years with the firm — a rare distinction inside a venture fund.Carrillo’s promotion suggests the role of the legal department is shifting in the venture industry. Carrillo said she’s at the table for weekly partner meetings where they pitch deals and bat around ideas.”My voice is valued,” she said.Lawyers who…
Jason Lemkin, known to some as the Godfather of SaaS, says the time has come to push the limits of AI in the workplace.In practice, Lemkin, the founder of SaaStr, the world’s largest community of business-to-business founders, said on Lenny’s Podcast recently that this means he will stop hiring humans in his sales department.Instead, SaaStr is going all in on agents, which are commonly defined as virtual assistants that can complete tasks autonomously. They break down problems, outline plans, and take action without being prompted by a user.He said the company now has 20 AI agents automating tasks once handled…
The winter holiday season is a strange time of year when routines are often thrown out the window. We kick things off with a massive feast on Thanksgiving. December is typically a rush of holiday parties, shopping, year-end work obligations and (if you’re lucky) lots of cookie baking and eating. Then we spend that strange week between Christmas and New Year’s Day in a sort of comatose state where it’s never really clear what day of the week it is.After 31-plus days of (somewhat) controlled chaos, it shouldn’t be surprising that come Jan. 1, most of us are eager to…
COPENHAGEN, Jan 5 (Reuters) – Denmark’s Novo Nordisk will offer its 1.5 and 4 milligram Wegovy weightloss pills at $149 per month to self-paying patients in the United States from January 5, it said on Monday.It will from the same date offer the highest doses of the drug pill, of 9 and 25 milligram, at $299 per month, it said on its website.The price for the 4 milligram dose will rise to $199 per month from April 15, it said.AdvertisementAdvertisementAdvertisementAdvertisementThe U.S. Food and Drug Administration on December 22 approved the pill, giving Novo Nordisk a leg up as it looks…
Artificial intelligence won’t be training AI anytime soon, says the CEO of a data labeling startup.On an episode of the “20VC” podcast released last week, Matt Fitzpatrick, the CEO of Invisible Technologies, said that one of the biggest misconceptions in the AI training industry is that humans won’t be needed in a few years.”When I first started this job, the main push back I always got was that synthetic data will take over and you just will not need human feedback two to three years from now,” said Fitzpatrick, who joined the startup last year. “From first principles, that actually…
ALTADENA, Calif. (AP) — “DANGER: Lead Work Area” reads a sign on a front door of an Altadena home. “May damage fertility or the unborn child. Causes damage to the central nervous system.”Block after block there are reminders that contaminants still linger.House cleaners, hazardous waste workers and homeowners alike come and go wearing masks, respirators, gloves and hazmat suits as they wipe, vacuum and power-wash homes that weren’t burnt to ash.It’s been a year of heartbreak and worry since the most destructive wildfires in the Los Angeles area’s history scorched neighborhoods and displaced tens of thousands of people. Two wind-whipped…
HARARE, Zimbabwe (AP) — When Tafara Muvhevhi, a Zimbabwean driving instructor, began work 16 years ago, his job was simple: teach the highway code and prepare learners to ace their driving test.Today, his priorities have changed. His main concern is no longer just the exam, but whether his students will survive some of the world’s deadliest roads. This is vital in a country where road crashes rank among the top killers, according to the national statistics agency, and road accident fatality rates are among the continent’s worst. In Zimbabwe, a crash hits every 15 minutes and five die and 38…