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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 credit card-sized notetaker has…

French tech giant Capgemini is divesting a US subsidiary that held a contract with US Immigration and Customs Enforcement.In a press release on Sunday, Capgemini said that “legal constraints” stopped it from controlling this subsidiary’s operations.Capgemini has come under pressure from French lawmakers and its trade union over a contract its subsidiary signed with ICE. Capgemini Government Solutions has been under contract since December to provide software that can detect and locate foreign nationals, public records showed.Last week, Capgemini’s CEO Aiman Ezzat wrote on LinkedIn that the company was recently made aware of “the nature and scope of this work.”…

Two detainees were infected with measles at a Texas immigration facility where 5-year-old Liam Conejo Ramos and his father had been held, a Department of Homeland Security official said Sunday.The two patients at Dilley Immigration Processing Center were quarantined, alongside anyone else who may have made contact, DHS spokesperson Tricia McLaughlin said in a statement. “All movement” within the facility was halted, she said.The detainees in question, who were not identified, were in good hands, she said. “This is the best healthcare than many aliens have received in their entire lives,” McLaughlin said.Dilley Immigration Processing Center is where 5-year-old Liam…

U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement has ceased “all movement” at a detention center for families in Texas after two measles cases were confirmed at the facility, the Department of Homeland Security said.Two people detained at the South Texas Family Residential Center have “active measles infections,” Department of Homeland Security spokesperson Tricia McLaughlin told USA TODAY on Sunday, Feb. 1. The South Texas Family Residential Center is an ICE detention center in Dilley, a small town over 70 miles southwest of San Antonio.The Texas Department of State Health Services confirmed the measles cases on Saturday, Jan. 31, and ICE quarantined the…

How many of the companies with recent layoffs are truly adapting their workforces to the efficiencies and challenges of artificial intelligence? And how many of them were just using AI as an excuse to cover other problems? That’s the question posed by a New York Times article on the trend of “AI-washing,” where companies will cite AI as the reason for layoffs that might actually be caused by other factors, like over-hiring during the pandemic. AI was the stated reason for more than 50,000 layoffs in 2025, with Amazon and Pinterest among the tech companies who blamed the technology for…

Indonesia has followed Malaysia and the Philippines in lifting a ban on xAI’s chatbot Grok. The Southeast Asian countries banned Grok after it was used to create a flood of nonconsensual, sexualized imagery on X (now a subsidiary of xAI), including images of real women and minors. In late December and January, Grok was used to create at least 1.8 million sexualized images of women, according to separate analyses by The New York Times and the Center for Countering Digital Hate. In a statement, Indonesia’s Ministry of Communication and Digital Affairs said that it was lifting the ban after X…

As the global race to build AI infrastructure accelerates, India has offered foreign cloud providers zero taxes through 2047 on services sold outside the country if they run those workloads from Indian data centers — a bid to attract the next wave of AI computing investment, even as power shortages and water stress threaten expansion in the South Asian nation. On Sunday, India’s finance minister Nirmala Sitharaman announced (PDF) the proposal in the country’s annual budget, offering a tax holiday — effectively zero taxes — on revenues from cloud services sold outside India if those services are run from data…

In a world of incessant distractions and pings, it can feel harder than ever to stay locked in on one task.Three executives from Slack, EY, and Superhuman shared how they reset to make room for deep thinking amid stacked calendars.The common theme: Whether they’re putting their phones away or changing rooms, they all said that finding a way to physically disconnect from distractions helps them focus on the task at hand.Parker Harris, CTO Slack Parker Harris said he turns the sound off on his notifications when turning to deep thinking. BRENDAN SMIALOWSKI/AFP via Getty Images Slack’s chief technology officer, Parker…

Many women may not realize their greatest health threat isn’t cancer; it’s heart disease.In 2023, heart disease led to one in five female deaths in the U.S., according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. However, the CDC also found that only 56% of women were aware of the risks.”It is the leading killer of women at all ages so, starting at the age of 18, more women will die of heart disease than breast cancer,” Dr. C. Noel Bairey-Merz, a professor of cardiology and director of the Barbra Streisand Women’s Heart Center at Cedars-Sinai, told ABC News.’Night owl’ lifestyle may bring…

Elon Musk is running some of the world’s most valuable companies. But they’ve been doing business with each other long before recent merger chatter around Elon Inc.The billionaire leads five major companies: Tesla, SpaceX, Boring Company, Neuralink, and xAI, which recently absorbed his social media company, X.Over the last three years, those companies have stepped up their internal dealings, buying one another’s products, exchanging software and materials, and announcing investments worth billions of dollars.The result is a tightly knit corporate ecosystem with Musk at its center.For consumers and Tesla’s many fans, that kind of vertical integration can look like a…