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Typically, when a company acquires another, it will absorb the new company’s branding or integrate it with its own identity. Grammarly is doing something different: After acquiring email client Superhuman in July, the company is renaming itself “Superhuman.” Despite the branding change, Grammarly, the product, will continue to be known as it has. However, the company says it is thinking about rebranding products like Coda, a productivity platform it acquired last year, in the long run. The company is also launching an AI assistant called Superhuman Go that’s built into Grammarly’s existing extension. The assistant can provide writing suggestions, give…

Teenagers are trying to figure out where they fit in a world changing faster than any generation before them. They’re bursting with emotions, hyper-stimulated, and chronically online. And now, AI companies have given them chatbots designed to never stop talking. The results have been catastrophic. One company that understands this fallout is Character.AI, an AI role-playing startup that’s facing lawsuits and public outcry after at least two teenagers died by suicide following prolonged conversations with AI chatbots on its platform. Now, Character.AI is making changes to its platform to protect teenagers and kids, changes that could affect the startup’s bottom…

When Phia‘s founders Phoebe Gates and Sophia Kianni decided to build an AI startup, they targeted an area they understood well: online shopping. The founders, who met at Stanford when they were randomly paired up as roommates, understood e-commerce because they had spent hours upon hours trying to find the right items to expand their wardrobe. And AI, they realized, had the potential to help people discover, shop and buy in new ways. They also realized that capability was a market opportunity. “There felt like there was this giant white space for, like, what should we actually buy, and why…

2025-10-29T12:16:12Z Share Facebook Email X LinkedIn Reddit Bluesky WhatsApp Copy link lighning bolt icon An icon in the shape of a lightning bolt. Impact Link Save Saved Read in app This story is available exclusively to Business Insider subscribers. Become an Insider and start reading now. Have an account? Log in. Tesla shareholders are set to vote on Elon Musk’s $1 trillion pay plan on November 6. Proxy firms have criticized the massive pay package, leading Musk to brand them “corporate terrorists.” Here’s where major Tesla shareholders stand on the plan to make Musk the world’s first trillionaire. The battle…

Higher prices, less help and a government shutdown all hang over health insurance markets as shoppers start looking for coverage this week.The annual enrollment window for millions of people to pick an individual plan opens Saturday in nearly all states, and a heavy dose of politics weighs on this year’s search.The federal government shut down earlier this month as Democrats in Congress demanded negotiations to extend enhanced tax credits that have helped people buy coverage the past few years. Republicans say they won’t negotiate until Democrats vote to reopen the government.Stuck in the middle are insurance customers, many of whom…

(Reuters) -Merck and Japan’s Eisai said on Wednesday they will shut down a late-stage study testing an experimental combination therapy to treat a type of liver cancer, after interim results showed the treatment was unlikely to improve overall survival.The study tested Merck’s blockbuster drug Keytruda and Eisai’s Lenvima, along with a liver cancer procedure called transarterial chemoembolization (TACE), in patients with unresectable, non-metastatic hepatocellular carcinoma, which is the most common type of liver cancer.This type of cancer is often diagnosed at an intermediate stage, where curative treatments such as resection, ablation or transplant are not viable. However, some patients may…

Elon Musk’s Grokipedia promises to be a “massive improvement over Wikipedia.” How do the two compare?On Monday afternoon, Grokipedia.com went live. Musk did not immediately claim ownership of the site, but its X account was linked to xAI, Musk’s AI venture. The site’s landing page listed 885,279 articles, calling it v0.1.”The goal here is to create an open source, comprehensive collection of all knowledge,” said Musk, who later confirmed the domain.Business Insider examined Grokipedia’s pages about some of the most contentious issues and events, from January 6 and Gamergate to Donald Trump.Here’s how it compares to Wikipedia.January 6Both Grokipedia and…

Microsoft AI CEO Mustafa Suleyman has added nine direct reports in the past year or so, according to internal organization charts viewed by Business Insider. Five of those previously worked for Google or DeepMind.Last year, Microsoft appointed Suleyman — cofounder of AI pioneer DeepMind and former head of startup Inflection AI — as CEO of a new Microsoft AI division. The organization is responsible for consumer AI products such as Microsoft’s Copilot chatbot and the Bing search engine.Business Insider wrote about Suleyman’s organizational chart a few months after the new unit came together. Now, an updated org chart shows how…

On Tuesday, a collective shudder ran down the spine of America’s white-collar workforce. Amazon announced it’s laying off 14,000 employees in a memo that cited AI, kicking off a plan that the Wall Street Journal reports will affect as many as 30,000 corporate jobs.CEO Andy Jassy had hinted this was coming back in June, when he said that AI’s capabilities would allow Amazon to shrink its white-collar workforce in the future. But he’d framed that future as “the next few years.” I figured Amazon would get there the same way it had already been: by hiring very little and quietly…

BERLIN (AP) — The organization that handles claims on behalf of Jews who suffered under the Nazis said Wednesday that Germany has agreed to extend another $1.076 billion (923.9 million euros) for Holocaust survivors ‘ home care around the globe for the coming year.The compensation was negotiated with Germany’s finance ministry and is the largest budget for frail and vulnerable Holocaust survivor home care in the organization’s history.“This historic increase to home care funding reflects the complex and growing needs of Holocaust survivors worldwide,” said Gideon Taylor, the president of the New York-based Conference on Jewish Material Claims Against Germany,…