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2026-03-13T21:32:06.943Z 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. Shopify CEO Tobi Lütke recently shared how he used AI to create software for an incredibly niche, but important, situation. Loading audio narration… His annual MRI scan comes on a USB stick, but requires commercial Windows software to open. Instead of going in search of this existing software, he…
The former Uber CEO is venturing into robotics.Travis Kalanick announced that Atoms is out of stealth mode and expanding beyond food delivery infrastructure into industries such as food service, mining, and transportation.The ex-Uber CEO published a 1,600-plus manifesto of his company on Friday.”When I told my friends, family, and colleagues about my plans for what was next, they were really excited that I was ‘coming back,'” Kalanick wrote on the website for the new venture.”The thing is, I never left.” Kalanick did not immediately respond to a request for a comment.In an interview on “TBPN” on Friday, Kalanick told show hosts…
The CEO of a popular protein bar company is speaking out in defense of his product following a recent proposed class action lawsuit over the bars’ nutrition labels.Peter Rahal, CEO and founder of David Protein, shared a letter to customers and partners on LinkedIn on Thursday, addressing the lawsuit and breaking down the science of calorie measurement.The proposed class action suit was filed in the Southern District Court of New York and accuses Linus Technologies Inc., the food technology company behind the cult-favorite gold label protein bars, of mislabeling calories and fat.”The lawsuit alleging that David Protein bars contain more…
Utah’s measles outbreak is speeding up as it spills into the eighth month, getting so bad that some local health officials have turned to talk radio to get the message about vaccination to more people.As South Carolina seems to be getting a handle on its outbreak — the largest in the United States in three decades — measles in Utah is raging through unvaccinated children in several communities. There have been almost 100 confirmed illnesses in Utah in the last three weeks and likely many more families have been affected, experts say. More people have caught measles in the first…
An avian flu outbreak, which killed several elephant seals at California’s Año Nuevo State Park last month, has spread to two other mammal species, according to researchers.Laboratory testing confirmed the virus had spread to nine additional elephant seals, a southern sea otter and a sea lion, Christine Johnson, director of the Institute for Pandemic Insights at the UC Davis Weill School of Veterinary Medicine, and other wildlife specialists said during a media briefing on March 12.UC Santa Cruz researcher in Hazmat suit taking nasal sample from elephant seal pup, Ano Nuevo State Park, California, USAScientists estimated that more than 60 marine mammals may…
Legendary filmmaker Steven Spielberg spoke out against the use of AI technology when used in creative endeavors in an interview at the SXSW conference in Austin on Friday. Asked how he viewed AI’s utility as part of the filmmaking process, Spielberg said, “I’ve never used AI on any of my films yet,” to which the audience erupted with cheers and applause. The director/producer/screenwriter, who became a household name for blockbusters like “Jaws,” “E.T.,” “Close Encounters of the Third Kind,” “Raiders of the Lost Ark,” and many others, is not anti-technology, necessarily. His own films have imagined worlds filled with technology,…
You can chart a year through product launches, or you can measure it in the greater moments that change the way we look at AI. The AI industry is constantly churning out news, like major acquisitions, indie developer successes, public outcry against sketchy products, and existentially dangerous contract negotiations — it’s a lot to untangle, so we’re taking a glimpse at where we’re at and where we’ve been so far this year. Anthropic vs. the Pentagon Once business partners, Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei and Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth reached a bitter stalemate in February as they renegotiated the contracts that…
New cholesterol guidelines advise doctors to begin screening and treating people in their 30s, long before the risks of a heart attack and stroke become significantly higher.For the first time, the American Heart Association, along with the American College of Cardiology and other medical groups also recommend screening for two biomarkers in the blood that have been linked to heart risks.The updated guidance was jointly published Friday in Circulation and the Journal of the American College of Cardiology.The guidelines — the first revamp since 2018 — focus on controlling dyslipidemia, or abnormal levels of blood lipids such as cholesterol and…
There are over 1,200 data centers scattered across the United States, and thanks to the AI boom, many more are on the way. Loading audio narration… Those data centers also, it seems, confirm the adage “familiarity breeds contempt.”A new survey from the Pew Research Council, conducted in January and published Thursday, found that the more Americans learn about data centers — and their effects on home energy costs, quality of life, the environment, local jobs, and tax revenue — the more cynical they feel about them.”Two-thirds of adults who have heard a lot about data centers say they’re mostly bad…
NEW YORK (AP) — As the U.S. flu season winds down, health officials say the flu vaccine didn’t work very well, with one of its worst effectiveness rates in more than a decade.A new strain that dominated the early winter was not well matched to the vaccine, leading to an intense early onslaught of flu.The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention on Friday posted data that showed a continued decline in doctor’s office and hospital visits for flu symptoms through last week. The number of states reporting high flu activity dropped to 16, many of them in a belt stretching…