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The battle for enterprise AI is heating up. Microsoft is bundling Copilot into Office. Google is pushing Gemini into Workspace. OpenAI and Anthropic are selling directly to enterprises. Every SaaS vendor now ships an AI assistant.  In the scramble for the interface, Glean is betting on something less visible: becoming the intelligence layer beneath it.  Seven years ago, Glean set out to be the Google for enterprise — an AI-powered search tool designed to index and search across a company’s SaaS tool library, from Slack to Jira, Google Drive to Salesforce. Today, the company’s strategy has shifted from building a…

Hollywood organizations are pushing back against a new AI video model called Seedance 2.0, which they say has quickly become a tool for “blatant” copyright infringement. ByteDance, the Chinese company that recently finalized a deal to sell TikTok’s U.S. operations (it retains a stake in the new joint venture), launched Seedance 2.0 earlier this week.  According to the Wall Street Journal, the updated model is currently available to Chinese users of ByteDance’s Jianying app, and the company says it will soon be available to global users of its CapCut app. Similar to tools such as OpenAI’s Sora, Seedance allows users…

If you’re still relying on your TV’s built-in speakers, upgrading to one of the best Dolby Atmos soundbars can make a night-and-day difference. Dolby Atmos is designed to create a three-dimensional soundstage that spreads audio in every direction — even overhead. So when rain falls in a movie or a plane flies across the screen, it can sound as if it’s coming from above with a level of immersion that regular soundbars simply can’t replicate.My team and I have spent more than a decade testing home theater gear, and we’ve heard just about every soundbar worth considering. Drawing on that…

Norovirus, which is most often spread through contaminated food or water, has been making its rounds again during the winter season.While the symptoms can hit hard and fast, the small silver lining is that the illness is usually short-lived, clearing the system within one to three days.If you’re unlucky enough to catch it, here’s what to know about getting through the next few days, including how to ease your symptoms and reduce the risk of spreading it to others.Norovirus outbreak: What to knowWhat are the symptoms of norovirus?These are symptoms of norovirus infection, according to the Minnesota Department of Health…

As the definition of autism has widened, there’s been a growing push to create a new diagnosis, called profound autism, for those who need constant and lifelong care.The reason? To ensure that they get the support and services they need.Judith Ursitti, president of the Profound Autism Alliance, said people in this category now lack appropriate treatments, support and enough providers trained to handle their level of care. And the vast majority of clinical research doesn’t include them.“If you don’t have research, you won’t have treatments. You won’t have achievable services and supports,” said Ursitti, whose adult son has profound autism.…

AYER, Mass. (AP) — Connor Murphy walked in circles around his dad, then flopped down on the kitchen floor, got up and walked in circles again.His dad turned the 9-year-old’s repetitive behavior into a chance to connect. “Want me to pick you up?” Matthew Murphy asked, lifting, tickling and spinning with his son.Such spontaneous moments are common in the Murphy household, which revolves around the needs of Connor and his twin brother Ronan, who both have profound autism.“They’re going to need 24-7 care for the rest of their lives,” their father said. “Life will be a challenge for them, and…

The recent death of the 48-year-old actor James Van Der Beek is again highlighting how colorectal cancer is increasingly killing younger people.Overall, cancer death rates in people younger than 50 have dropped by 44% since 1990. But after increasing for decades, colorectal cancer is now the leading cause of cancer death in people under 50. Colorectal cancer starts either in the colon or rectum.“We anticipate that this is going to be a continued trend,” said Van Karlyle Morris, section chief for colorectal cancer at MD Anderson Center in Houston.Federal cancer screening guidelines and the American Cancer Society recommend that people…

Devan Barker has never spent so long job-hunting.The 31-year-old from West Hollywood is looking for serving and bartending gigs. After a bad electric scooter accident, Barker spent months out of work. Meanwhile, hiring for hospitality jobs has dropped off. Now he spends his days looking for openings on job boards like Indeed, Culinary Agents — and Grindr.Growing up in Georgia, dating apps like Grindr were the “gay newspaper,” Barker said. Why not look for a job there? He’s had some wins. One connection got him an interview, but the manager later decided to explore promoting in-house for the position. Other bartenders…

When Jesal Gadhia cofounded a software company a year ago, he expected that the AI agents it was creating would save its customers a lot of work.He didn’t predict the same tools would save his own team at the startup Cora so much time.Agents wrote all of the code the company uses — something that wouldn’t have been possible before last year, he told Business Insider.The company’s six-person team produced what Gadhia calls “unprecedented” amounts of code in its first 12 months. Five years ago, he said, reaching the same level of productivity would have required 20 to 30 engineers.”It’s…

AI fatigue won’t hit everyone the same way, AI researcher Gary Marcus said.”In some domains, AI might actually make a person’s job more fun,” Marcus told Business Insider.Software engineers are increasingly discussing how AI is draining them. Siddhant Khare, who builds AI tools, recently wrote about how he’s experiencing AI fatigue.”If someone who builds agent infrastructure full-time can burn out on AI, it can happen to anyone,” Khare wrote.Marcus said that not all industries are set to be disrupted in the same way AI has upended programming and engineering. “If somebody needs to do some artistic work and they don’t…