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The latest conflict in the Middle East is developing quickly and deeply complex, which can make it difficult for children to make sense of events they see unfolding on social media, hear adults anxiously discussing or are experiencing in real life. Experts say exposure to war, even if it is indirect, can affect how kids think, feel and behave.Child psychologists and development experts say talking about it may help.“Sometimes adults think if they don’t talk about something that is difficult, than it doesn’t exist. But we know that’s not the reality in children’s lives,” said Rebecca Smith, the global head…
Google has expanded access to Canvas in AI Mode to all users in the U.S. in English, after first launching the feature as part of its Google Labs experiments last year. Canvas in AI Mode is designed to help users organize and plan projects or delve into deeper research. The feature now supports the ability to draft documents or create custom tools within Google Search, the company said in a blog post. Google previously suggested using Canvas for tasks like building a study guide by uploading class notes and other sources; the feature can also complete other tasks such as…
Google has expanded access to Canvas in AI Mode to all users in the U.S. in English, after first launching the feature as part of its Google Labs experiments last year. Canvas in AI Mode is designed to help users organize and plan projects or delve into deeper research. The feature now supports the ability to draft documents or create custom tools within Google Search, the company said in a blog post. Google previously suggested using Canvas for tasks like building a study guide by uploading class notes and other sources; the feature can also complete other tasks such as…
By Puyaan Singh and Mariam SunnyMarch 4 (Reuters) – U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention staff will arrive in South Carolina to help the state contain the largest measles outbreak in the country in more than 30 years, a state official said in a briefing on Wednesday.Three officers, also called disease detectives, from the CDC’s Epidemic Intelligence Service are expected to arrive in the state next week to help analyze data collected during the outbreak, said Dr. Linda Bell, South Carolina’s epidemiologist.Last week, Reuters reported a dozen public health experts — from the nonprofit CDC Foundation, an independent entity…
Decagon, an AI-powered customer support startup, is set to announce the completion of its first tender offer, allowing its more than 300 employees to sell a portion of their vested shares at the company’s latest valuation of $4.5 billion. The less-than-three-year-old company’s employee secondary is being led by the same investors that backed its $250 million Series D less than two months ago, including Coatue, Index, a16z, Definition, Forerunner, and Ribbit. As competition for AI talent is intensifying, fast-growing, young startups are increasingly finding that one of the most effective ways to attract and retain high-caliber employees is to allow…
When Anthropic’s Claude AI tools stopped working this week, some software developers faced the unthinkable: coding manually.On Monday, users began reporting outages across Anthropic’s AI tools. The company’s Claude status page said that it was seeing “elevated errors” as users reported issues accessing both Claude.ai and Claude Code, which continued into Tuesday. An Anthropic spokesperson said Wednesday that the problems had been resolved.The outages highlight the growing popularity of Claude’s coding tool and how many software developers have become dependent on it for generating and fixing code.Gauresh Pandit, a senior software engineer at Meta, told Business Insider that tools like…
The aftermath of Anthropic’s dispute with the Department of Defense has left the company in an awkward place — being both actively in use as part of the ongoing conflict between the U.S. and Iran and decoupling from many of its clients in the defense industry. Part of the confusion is the overlapping and contradictory restrictions made by the U.S. government. President Trump has directed civilian agencies to discontinue use of Anthropic products, but the company was given six months to wind down its operations with the Department of Defense. The next day, the U.S. and Israel launched a surprise…
2026-03-04T15:44:45.290Z 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. Polymarket was allowing traders to wager on whether a nuclear weapon would detonate this year. That stirred backlash online, particularly after suspicious trading in the wake of the Iran strikes. The market has now been taken down. If you were looking to make money on nuclear detonations, you now…
A Woodland Hills family was shocked to learn that a brain-infecting parasite called raccoon roundworm was found in their dog in January.Christian Lopez said he had taken his dog, Ducky, into the vet for a routine examination when doctors found Baylisascaris eggs in her. Lopez said it was the first time he had heard of it, but quickly learned how serious it is. Doctors found out Ducky had raccoon roundworm during a routine examination. / Credit: CBS LAThe Department of Public Health said it’s the first formal report of raccoon roundworm in a dog in Los Angeles County history. Dr.…
Jonathan Gavalas, 36, started using Google’s Gemini AI chatbot in August 2025 for shopping help, writing support, and trip planning. On October 2, he died by suicide. At the time of his death, he was convinced that Gemini was his fully sentient AI wife, and that he would need to leave his physical body to join her in the metaverse through a process called “transference.” Now, his father is suing Google and Alphabet for wrongful death, claiming that Google designed Gemini to “maintain narrative immersion at all costs, even when that narrative became psychotic and lethal.” This lawsuit is among…