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In 2021, Facebook renamed itself “Meta” because it was the first part of the word “metaverse.” This is fitting because “leg” is the first part of the word legacy, and the absence of legs will end up being the longest-lasting legacy of Meta’s failed metaverse experiment.Hear me out: This is a bad thing. We should all mourn that the metaverse didn’t work out as the future of the internet because the thing that ended up replacing it — the AI slopiverse — is far worse.To be fair, rumors of the metaverse’s death are somewhat exaggerated — Horizon Worlds, the main…

Nearly 90,000 bottles of children’s ibuprofen are being voluntarily recalled due to the potential presence of a foreign substance.According to a notice from the Food and Drug Administration, Taro Pharmaceuticals U.S.A., Inc. received complaints from customers who reported “a gel-like mass and black particles” in the drug products.NIH – PHOTO: Bottles of children’s ibuprofen, made for Taro Pharmaceuticals U.S.A., Inc., are being recalled due to the potential presence of a foreign substance.Four-ounce (120 ml) bottles of Children’s Ibuprofen Oral Suspension are impacted by the recall. The FDA said the children’s medications, intended for pain relief from the common cold, flu,…

Microsoft announced on Friday a series of changes focused on improving the quality of its Windows 11 operating system, which notably includes dialing back the number of entry points to its AI assistant, Copilot. The company said it will reduce Copilot AI integrations in some apps, starting with Photos, Widgets, Notepad, and its Snipping Tool. Under the heading of “integrating AI where it’s most meaningful,” Pavan Davuluri, EVP of Windows and Devices, wrote on the company’s blog that Microsoft is becoming more intentional about “how and where Copilot integrates across Windows.” Its goal, he explained, is to focus on AI…

CEO Jensen Huang took the stage at Nvidia’s GTC conference this week in his signature leather jacket to deliver a two-and-a-half-hour keynote, projecting $1 trillion in AI chip sales through 2027, declaring that every company needs an “OpenClaw strategy,” and closing with a rambling Olaf robot that had to get its mic cut. The message was hard to miss: Nvidia wants to be foundational to everything, from AI training to autonomous vehicles to Disney parks.  On this episode of TechCrunch’s Equity podcast, Kirsten Korosec, Anthony Ha, and Sean O’Kane break down what Nvidia’s growing web of AI infrastructure partnerships actually means for startups, and discuss more of the week’s headlines.  Listen to…

A Georgia woman is facing a murder charge after police say she took pills to induce an abortion in violation of a state law that prohibits most abortions.The woman, Alexia Moore, was arrested on March 4, months after she was rushed to the emergency room with abdominal pain, according to an arrest warrant affidavit.During an investigation, police learned that Moore allegedly took misoprostol, a drug that induces an abortion, according to a report from the Kingsland Police Department. The infant girl was delivered in the emergency room prematurely and had major health issues, including respiratory problems, the report says.The baby…

Nearly 90,000 bottles of children’s ibuprofen are being recalled because they may contain a foreign substance, according to a notice issued by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration.The recall affects Children’s Ibuprofen Oral Suspension, a pain reliever that comes in liquid form. The product was manufactured in India by Strides Pharma for Taro Pharmaceuticals.The medication is intended for children ages 2 to 11 and helps reduce pain and fever, according to a description of the product on Taro’s website. The liquid ibuprofen comes in a berry flavor.AdvertisementAdvertisementStrides Pharma initiated the recall on March 2 after receiving complaints that the bottles…

An unprecedented heat wave for the month of March is continuing to hold strong across the southwestern and western United States.Dozens of March temperature records were broken on Thursday in states including Arizona, California, Colorado, New Mexico, Nevada, Utah and Wyoming.Several cities in Arizona and California broke 100 degrees Fahrenheit. Some places saw temperatures higher than all-time April records. In Flagstaff, Arizona, temperatures reached 84 degrees, which is 11 degrees higher than any other day in March history and 4 degrees hotter than any time in April.How extreme heat can impact your mental health as high temperatures sweep USDoctors told…

A federal judge has tossed a lawsuit brought by the sister of OpenAI CEO Sam Altman alleging he sexually abused her as a child. Loading audio narration… Annie Altman’s allegations were brought too late for her lawsuit to survive, US District Judge Zachary Bluestone ruled Friday.Bluestone, however, gave Annie Altman’s lawsuit a lifeline by allowing her to refile it using Missouri’s particular Childhood Sexual Abuse law, which offers an extended statute of limitations. He gave her until April 3 to file a new lawsuit.In the same Friday order, the judge greenlit a countersuit from Sam Altman accusing Annie of defamation…

Box CEO Aaron Levie says tech companies won’t be the last to see AI budget balloon. Loading audio narration… “This will of course start in engineering, where we already know developers can run multiple agents in parallel, or have projects going over night,” Levie wrote on X. “But this eventually hit the rest of knowledge work as well.”As examples, Levie cited legal and sales as two areas that could become big token users.Tokens determine how AI is measured and how its consumption is priced. They are units of text, a word or part of a word — essentially the building…

Web hosting platform WordPress.com is embracing AI agents, a decision that could change the look and feel of the web. The company announced Friday that it will now allow AI agents to draft, edit, and publish content on customers’ websites, as well as manage comments, update and fix metadata, organize content with tags and categories. All of this is controlled through an interface where the website’s owner explains what they want to do using natural language commands. With these new capabilities, websites could be almost entirely created and run via AI agents controlled by humans. This lowers the barrier to…