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Google told employees it will be “ramping up” PERM applications in 2026 for eligible employees, a crucial step to securing a green card.The company told staff in a December newsletter that employees eligible for PERM would hear from its outside lawyers in Q1, according to a copy of the memo seen by Business Insider.PERM allows employees to move from working on a visa to securing a green card. Tech companies commonly use it to transition staff from H-1 B status to a green card, which allows them to live and work permanently in the US.Tech employees on work visas have…
Doctors across the country say flu season has arrived earlier than usual and is hitting people — mainly kids, so far — especially hard.“I don’t think I ever remember seeing it this severe, this soon,” said Dr. Suchitra Rao, an infectious disease specialist at Children’s Hospital Colorado in Aurora. “Our emergency department is full of kids coming in with the flu.”Colorado is one of the nation’s current hot spots of flu activity, according to the latest report from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.Michigan, too, is experiencing a marked increase in cases.“Flu, flu, flu. So much flu,” said Dr.…
Even as OpenAI works to harden its Atlas AI browser against cyberattacks, the company admits that prompt injections, a type of attack that manipulates AI agents to follow malicious instructions often hidden in web pages or emails, is a risk that’s not going away any time soon — raising questions about how safely AI agents can operate on the open web. “Prompt injection, much like scams and social engineering on the web, is unlikely to ever be fully ‘solved’,” OpenAI wrote in a Monday blog post detailing how the firm is beefing up Atlas’s armor to combat the unceasing attacks.…
ChatGPT doesn’t want to be left out of the “Wrapped” party that Spotify popularized. So say hello to “Your Year with ChatGPT.”OpenAI launched the new retrospective on its app on Monday, informing users about the top themes of their chats, the number of messages they have sent, and the awards they have earned.It’ll even generate some pixel art that depicts some of the your themes.The recap is available in the US, UK, Canada, New Zealand, and Australia. To see it, click the plus button in the app and ask, “Show me my year with ChatGPT.”It’s available to Free, Pro, and…
Google parent Alphabet has agreed to buy Intersect Power, a data center and clean energy developer, for $4.75 billion in cash, plus the assumption of the company’s debt. The acquisition, which was announced Monday, will help Alphabet expand its power-generation capacity alongside new data centers without having to rely on local utilities that are struggling to keep up with the demand of AI companies. Securing access to energy that powers data centers has become a critical part of training AI models. Alphabet previously held a minority stake in Intersect Power after Google and TPG Rise Climate led an $800 million…
TikTok is increasing how much it spends on high-performing staffers in 2026, according to a memo from owner ByteDance sent last week and viewed by Business Insider.Starting with its coming annual performance reviews, the company said it aims to spend 50% more globally on incentives like bonuses or raises that increase the total take-home pay for some staff compared to the previous cycle. The payouts are reserved for top talent at the company as part of a push to keep them happy and also attract new hires, per the memo.The compensation adjustments will be applied across most departments, but not…
For the hefty price of $1 million — plus at least $15,000 in fees — you could potentially get permanent residency in the United States.That’s the promise of President Donald Trump’s “Gold Card” visa program, which formally launched in early December.The program is designed to attract wealthy foreigners to the US. Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick said at an event on Friday that the program had already raised $1.3 billion since launching.Yet it also comes at a time when the Trump administration is otherwise cracking down on other legal forms of immigration.Trump signed an executive order establishing the Gold Card program…
ChatGPT is releasing its own version of Spotify Wrapped. That is, the OpenAI-owned chatbot is now rolling out an annual review feature called “Your Year with ChatGPT” to eligible consumers in select markets, including the United States. Other English-speaking markets with access to the new offering include Canada, the U.K., Australia, and New Zealand. At launch, the feature will be offered to those with the free, Plus, and Pro plans who have the “reference saved memories” and “reference chat history” options turned on and have met a minimum conversation activity threshold, the company told TechCrunch via email. Image Credits:OpenAI Team,…
Barry Manilow will be having surgery to remove a cancerous spot on his lung and will reschedule his January concerts, the singer announced Monday.Manilow, 82, said doctors found the cancer after he had an extended bout of bronchitis — six weeks, then a relapse of another five weeks.“My wonderful doctor ordered an MRI just to make sure that everything was OK,” Manilow wrote on Instagram. “The MRI discovered a cancerous spot on my left lung that needs to be removed. It’s pure luck (and a great doctor) that it was found so early.”The singer added that doctors don’t believe cancer…
Doctors and scientists say this year’s influenza season could be tougher than usual. A new version of the flu virus, called H3N2, is spreading quickly. At the same time, fewer people are getting flu shots.”This flu season is no joke. We are seeing more cases than we would expect for this time of year,” Dr. Amanda Kravitz, a pediatrician at Weill Cornell Medicine in New York, said on “CBS Mornings.” Specifically, she explained, “we are seeing influenza A, and within influenza A we are seeing a subtype or variant called H3N2.””It’s pretty likely to be an H3N2-dominated flu season,” said…