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Last fall, teens younger than 18 who logged into Instagram last fall were met with a PG-13-like shroud on their feeds. No longer could they follow accounts that regularly share what Meta deemed “age-inappropriate content” or search for terms like gore and alcohol. To opt out of these automatically applied guardrails, they’d need their parents to grant permission through a connected account. The move was an expansion of Instagram’s efforts to give parents more control over teens’ accounts. As the chorus against social media and screentime at large rises, Meta has tried to do something to appease parents and keep…
Tesla is adding another cheaper Model Y to its lineup — and simplifying the car’s naming conventions in the process.The electric automaker is rolling out a pared-down version of the Model Y with an all-wheel-drive powertrain. The new trim starts at $43,630, about $7,000 less than the Model Y Premium AWD.Like Tesla’s other lower-cost efforts, the trim strips out high-end features like leather seats, the panoramic glass roof, and the second-row climate-control screen.The model has the shortest range of any Model Y, likely because of the added traction. It offers 294 miles on a full charge.The new trim expands Tesla’s…
Innovation can be hard when you’ve been around a while, but instilling these two values in employees can help, says Alibaba’s cofounder and chairman.”We’ve gone through periods where we stopped innovating, and we suffer from it as a large company,” Joe Tsai said in an interview at Stanford University released on Wednesday. “Everybody has their role. It’s very difficult to get people to think about new things about the future, innovate.”Creating a separate innovation division is not the solution, said Tsai, who joined the Chinese e-commerce firm in 1999 as a member of the founding team.”I think the one thing…
If you thought the Anthropic ads roasting ChatGPT were funny, you weren’t the only one.Sam Altman, CEO of OpenAI, said he, too, thought they were funny, but he also had some complaints.”First, the good part of the Anthropic ads: they are funny, and I laughed,” he wrote in a lengthy X post on Wednesday. “But I wonder why Anthropic would go for something so clearly dishonest.”Anthropic, the maker of the AI chatbot Claude, shared four ads online on Wednesday. The campaign is set to run during the Super Bowl on Sunday and takes direct aim at OpenAI’s decision to roll…
Emergency crews battled a blaze and evacuated patients from a northeastern Pennsylvania hospital after a fire broke out, authorities said. No injuries were reported.The fire began around 9:40 p.m. Wednesday at the Lehigh Valley Hospital campus in Dickson City. It started on the roof of an older building formerly known as Scranton Orthopedics, not inside the attached main hospital building, fire officials said. Smoke and water damage were reported.More than 70 patients were transported to hospitals and care facilities across the region, and all available EMS services within a 50-mile radius were used during the evacuation, officials said.Geisinger hospitals received…
DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) — An Indian teacher and activist known for creating hundreds of learning centers and painting educational murals across the walls of slums won the $1 million Global Teacher Prize on Thursday. Rouble Nagi accepted the award at the World Governments Summit in Dubai in the United Arab Emirates, an annual event that draws leaders from across the globe. Her Rouble Nagi Art Foundation has established more than 800 learning centers across India. They aim to have children who never attended school begin to have structured learning. They also teach children already in school. Nagi also…
Amazon will be the latest Magnificent Seven company to report earnings this week, with the e-commerce giant’s results due on Thursday after the closing bell.As analysts noted in their pre-earnings takes, Amazon has lagged behind most of its mega-cap tech peers for much of the past year. Yet, despite the lackluster performance, many investment banks are optimistic that the company will reveal fresh growth from Amazon Web Services (AWS) and provide key AI updates.Wall Street expects Amazon tp post earnings-per-share of $1.96 for the quarter and revenue of $211.2 billion to $211.56 billion. Analysts anticipate that Amazon’s earnings before interest…
Anthropic’s Super Bowl commercial, one of four ads the AI lab dropped on Wednesday, begins with the word “BETRAYAL” splashed boldly across the screen. The camera pans to a man earnestly asking a chatbot (obviously intended to depict ChatGPT) for advice on how to talk to his mom. The bot, portrayed by a blonde woman, offers some classic bits of advice. Start by listening. Try a nature walk! And then twists into an ad for a fictitious (we hope!) cougar-dating site called Golden Encounters. Anthropic finishes the spot by saying that while ads are coming to AI, they won’t be…
Google just reported another blockbuster quarter, with its fourth-quarter revenue soaring past Wall Street expectations,That said, you might not think it to look at the stock, which took a dip after Google announced it planned to double its capital expenditure in 2026, predicting it will spend between $175 billion and $185 billion — far beyond analysts’ prior expectations.Some upbeat numbers softened the blow, with Google’s search advertising and cloud business running hot. Google announced its annual revenue had exceeded $400 billion for the first time, while quarterly revenue hit $113.8 billion, above estimates of $111 billion. Google Cloud became a…
By Chad Terhune and Julie SteenhuysenSPARTANBURG, South Carolina/CHICAGO, Feb 4 (Reuters) – Measles vaccinations have doubled in recent months in a South Carolina region hit hard by the disease’s worst outbreak in the U.S. in more than two decades, but health officials warned that far more immunizations are needed to contain the virus’ spread.The outbreak, like those in other regions, has been fueled by a rise in vaccine hesitancy since the COVID-19 pandemic, leaving many U.S. communities vulnerable to outbreaks of measles and other vaccine-preventable diseases.The number of measles, mumps and rubella (MMR) vaccine doses administered in Spartanburg County, near…