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Digital meeting notetakers like Read AI, Fireflies.ai, Fathom, and Granola help record and transcribe online meetings. But for in-person or more versatile options, many people prefer physical recording devices. These physical notetakers transcribe audio and give users summaries and action items of meetings using AI. Some of these devices are wearable — pins or pendants with dedicated mics for recording — while others are credit card-sized with dedicated mobile apps to transcribe and extract insights using AI. A few even offer live translation. Below is a non-exhaustive list of physical AI notetakers and transcription tools. Plaud Note/Plaud Note Pro This…
Self-driving cars, cyborgs, and catching rockets in midair: Elon Musk can’t resist the lure of the impossible.The world’s richest man has made a habit of taking on the world’s most difficult engineering challenges at Tesla and SpaceX — and has often proved the doubters wrong. His latest target is a tall order even by his standards.For several months, Musk has been talking about building a “Terafab,” a mammoth factory that would churn out semiconductors critical for Tesla’s ambitious rollout of robotaxis and humanoid robots.On Saturday, he teased that an announcement was imminent. “Terafab Project launches in 7 days,” Musk wrote…
March 20 (Reuters) – Taking GLP-1 drugs for diabetes has been shown to lower the risk of adverse heart events, but a new analysis found that going off the medication – even for a few months – may increase the odds of heart attack, stroke or death.“Stopping GLP-1 drugs can rapidly erode and potentially reverse the cardiovascular protection these medications provide,” said study leader Dr. Ziyad Al-Aly of the Veterans Affairs Saint Louis Health Care System in Missouri. “Months of stopping can undo years of progress.”Researchers studied more than 333,000 adults who were treated for type 2 diabetes with either…
By Sneha S K and Sahil PandeyMarch 20 (Reuters) – The U.S. Food and Drug Administration expanded the use of Rhythm Pharmaceuticals’ therapy for a rare form of obesity caused by brain damage, making it the first treatment to be approved in the country for the condition.Shares of the company were up 6.6% at $96.34 premarket.The therapy received approval on Thursday to treat acquired hypothalamic obesity, which causes excess and sustained weight gain due to injuries such as tumor growth or stroke in the brain.The hypothalamus of the brain regulates appetite and affects how the body burns calories and stores…
Scott Galloway wants to save the world … sort of. Loading audio narration… The entrepreneur-turned-professor-turned-media-juggernaut is leading a movement against Big Tech on two fronts.One is over the harmful impact he believes it has on young men. The other is a form of protest against President Donald Trump’s immigration policies, calling on people to “Resist and Unsubscribe” from Big Tech’s products and services.Just don’t call him an activist. By his own description, Galloway is “too lazy, selfish, and socially minded” to be one, he told BI’s Henry Chandonnet.The irony is that Galloway is taking aim at an industry that helped…
This as-told-to essay is based on a conversation with Tejal Rives, 35, who lives in Arizona. The following has been edited for length and clarity.In October 2025, I read a news article that Amazon was planning to cut jobs. I’d survived other layoffs, but this time my gut told me I’d be affected. Sure enough, not long after, I received an email that my position as a product marketer was being eliminated.I was one of 14,000 people impacted, and even though I understood the decision wasn’t personal, it was very disheartening. I thought up-skilling in AI would make me safer…
AI is coming for your job — or at least part of it.A January study from IT services company Cognizant, which analyzed 18,000 workplace tasks, found that 93% of jobs are affected by AI to some degree. In the US, that could result in roughly $4.5 trillion of human labor shifting to AI — and it’s happening at a faster rate than expected.Cognizant projected in 2023 that 90% of jobs would be impacted by 2032. Now, a slightly elevated level of disruption is arriving about six years ahead of schedule. The pace of exposure has surged, too. Instead of rising…
By Maggie Fick and Bhanvi SatijaLONDON, March 20 (Reuters) – Britain has so far avoided medicine shortages linked to the war in the Middle East, but soaring freight costs are squeezing generic drugmakers’ margins and could soon trigger price rises, supply shortages or both, trade group Medicines UK warned.Chief Executive Mark Samuels said Britain was “one step away” from medicine shortages if instability persisted, with stockpiles providing only a temporary buffer.While supplies are still flowing, he said makers of cheap generics, which account for most NHS medicines by volume, were already under pressure from higher transport costs and shipping disruption.…
WASHINGTON (AP) — The dangerous heat wave shattering March records all over the U.S. Southwest is more than just another extreme weather blip. It’s the latest next-level weather wildness that is occurring ever more frequently as Earth’s warming builds.Experts said unprecedented and deadly weather extremes that sometimes strike at abnormal times and in unusual places are putting more people in danger. For example, the Southwest is used to coping with deadly heat, but not months ahead of schedule, including a 110-degree Fahrenheit (43.3 Celsius) reading in the Arizona desert on Thursday that smashed the highest March temperature recorded in the…
Mark Cuban believes in a future where humans live alongside robots, just not the ones you’re probably picturing.”Everybody’s making this push for humanoid robots. I think they might have a 5-year lifespan, and then they’ll fail miserably. Maybe 10,” Cuban said Thursday on the live-streamed tech show TBPN.Humanoid robots have plenty of fans, including Elon Musk, who has said he believes Tesla’s Optimus could be the company’s future. Business Insider reported in January that OpenAI had quietly built up a humanoid robotics lab last year.But Cuban said he thinks co-designing spaces and robots would be better than simply making robots…