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This as-told-to essay is based on a conversation with Justin Parnell, 39, an AI consultant based in San Francisco. This piece has been edited for length and clarity.As an AI consultant, I automate cumbersome parts of my workflow to save me hours and make me far more efficient.Through my business, Justin GPT, I build custom AI agents for clients who want to do the same.I advise every client to follow these five simple steps for using AI agents to lighten their workload. (My advice is model-agnostic. It doesn’t matter whether you use ChatGPT, Gemini, or CoPilot).1) Understand how AI worksKeep…
With each contraction, Maria Ibarra’s plan to deliver her daughter in her Ohio living room seemed less likely. The baby’s heart rate was slowing, her midwife said. They needed to go to the hospital right away.Ibarra’s midwife, Meghan Nowland, tried calling the labor and delivery unit at the closest hospital from the car but had trouble reaching anyone. When a charge nurse finally answered, Nowland identified herself as a midwife and asked if the hospital would be able to admit Ibarra, whose baby had a concerning heartbeat.But she was taken aback by the nurse’s response.“She was like, ‘We just won’t…
By Jody Godoy and Steve GormanLOS ANGELES, Feb 25 (Reuters) – The former psychotherapist of a California woman suing Meta’s Instagram and Alphabet’s YouTube, claiming a childhood addiction to the platforms damaged her mental health, testified on Tuesday that adolescent social media usage was a contributing factor.Victoria Burke, the licensed therapist, appeared as a witness in a landmark civil trial in Los Angeles County Superior Court testing whether Big Tech can be held liable for the design of apps widely blamed for fueling a mental health crisis among young people.Burke was called by lawyers for the plaintiff, known in court…
This as-told-to essay is based on a conversation with Ishraq Khan, the 22-year-old CEO of Kodezi in the San Francisco Bay Area. It’s been edited for length and clarity.I moved to the US from Bangladesh with my family in 2011. My path to becoming a teen founder of an AI company began with my interest in programming. When I moved, my dad bought me a laptop, and I stumbled across YouTube. One video I watched was a coding tutorial, which led me to start learning to code and fall in love with it.During my freshman year of high school, I…
Nvidia’s annual report, released Wednesday, came in leaner this year.The chipmaker axed or trimmed sections on climate change and diversity, equity, and inclusion compared with last year’s version.A 2025 section titled “sustainability and governance,” which delved into clean energy and emission commitments, was absent from Wednesday’s report. That report mentioned sustainability, but in the context of Nvidia’s business sustainability or adherence to sustainability-related laws.The report published last year read: “These issues are important for our continued business success and reflect the topics of highest concern to Nvidia and our stakeholders.” Next, a section on human capital was significantly cut. In…
Nvidia moved quickly to calm investor nerves during its earnings call on Wednesday.The chipmaker delivered another blowout earnings report that underscored how little momentum the AI boom has lost. As the world’s most valuable company by market capitalization, Nvidia topped Wall Street expectations across the board in its fiscal fourth quarter and issued a forecast that sailed past analyst estimates.The upbeat results arrive at a delicate moment for AI-linked stocks, which have recently shown signs of fatigue.From incorporating Groq into Nvidia systems to an update on the new Vera Rubin chips, here are the biggest takeaways from Nvidia’s fourth-quarter earnings…
Salesforce pulled out all the stops to convince investors that the AI revolution won’t be its death when it announced fourth-quarter earnings on Wednesday. Salesforce reported a solid quarter of $10.7 billion in revenue, up 13% year-over-year. For the year, it reported $41.5 billion in revenue, up 10% over the previous year, with both results boosted by its $8 billion acquisition of data management company Informatica last May. Net income landed at $7.46 billion, and the company offered strong guidance for the year ahead, projecting revenue of $45.8 billion to $46.2 billion — a 10% to 11% increase. It also…
As AI-powered search tools reshape how businesses are discovered online, India-founded startup Gushwork is helping companies capture customers from platforms such as ChatGPT, Gemini, and Perplexity — with early traction that is beginning to draw investor support. The two-year-old startup said Thursday it had raised $9 million in a seed round led by Susquehanna International Group (SIG) and Lightspeed, with participation from B Capital, Seaborne Capital, Beenext, Sparrow Capital, and 2.2 Capital. The round values Gushwork at $33 million post-money, up from about $7.5 million following its Lightspeed-led $2.1 million pre-seed in July 2023, a person familiar with the matter…
Anthropic on Wednesday announced that it has acquired Vercept, an AI startup with deep roots to some of the biggest names in Seattle’s tech scene. The acquisition marks the latest after Anthropic acquired coding agent engine Bun in December to help scale Claude Code. Vercept had created tools for more complex agentic tasks, including its product Vy, a computer-use agent in the cloud that could operate a remote Apple MacBook. Vercept is one of the many startups working on re-imagining the personal computer for the age of AI agents. As part of the deal, Anthropic is shuttering Vercept’s product on…
Researchers say seven seal pups have tested positive for an avian flu virus at California’s Año Nuevo State Park and several more are showing signs of the illness. The outbreak has prompted park officials to cancel the park’s popular seal-watching tours for the remainder of the seal breeding season.Researchers with University of California-Santa Cruz and University of California-Davis made the announcement Wednesday, calling it the first detected outbreak of the virus among marine mammals in California.The worldwide bird flu outbreak that began in 2020 has led to the deaths of millions of domesticated birds and spread to wildlife around the…