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It’s time for day two of TechCrunch Disrupt 2025, which means San Francisco’s Moscone West will be jam-packed with another marathon of speakers, workshops, networking opportunities, and after-parties for attendees. Keep in mind that you can still register for tickets to join the excitement, and since we’re already a day in, you can get a ticket for 50% off the standard walk-up price. Refresh yourself on our speaker lineup right here, or dive deeper into each of our stages, events, networking opportunities, and more by following the anchor links below.  Most importantly, have fun out there, and if you want…

PORTLAND, Ore. (AP) — A federal judge in Oregon has blocked President Donald Trump’s administration from pulling sexual education funding over curricula mentioning diverse gender identities.U.S. District Judge Ann Aiken issued the preliminary injunction Monday as part of a lawsuit filed against the Health and Human Services Department by 16 states and the District of Columbia, which argued that pulling such money violated the separation of powers and federal law. The complaint, filed last month, says the department is attempting to force the states to “rewrite sexual health curricula to erase entire categories of students.” It describes the action as…

After two years of trying to get pregnant, Maggie Quinn and Ricardo Escobar faced a financial obstacle they hadn’t expected: the cost of in vitro fertilization in the United States.”It was astronomical, and you don’t know how many rounds you’re going to need,” Quinn said.With limited insurance coverage, the Florida couple started researching what’s known as “fertility tourism,” where patients travel abroad for more affordable fertility care.Ricardo, who is originally from Colombia, found a clinic in the country’s capital of Bogota offering a dramatic price difference—a package of four IVF rounds in Colombia for $11,000 compared to around $60,000 for…

(Reuters) -The makers of Tylenol, Johnson & Johnson and Kenvue, were sued on Tuesday by Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton, who accused them of knowingly hiding the drug’s links to autism and attention deficit hyperactivity disorder.Paxton, a Republican, sued five weeks after Republican President Donald Trump said using Tylenol during pregnancy can cause autism in children. Trump is not a doctor, and his claim is unproven and not backed by scientific evidence.Johnson & Johnson sold Tylenol for more than six decades, and its former Kenvue unit has sold it since 2023 after being spun off. The pain reliever is known…

OpenAI announced on Tuesday that it had completed its restructuring — a move it has previously said is vital to attract future capital and remain competitive in the AI race. It also struck a new definitive agreement with Microsoft, its largest investor, crossing a key hurdle in completing the recapitalization.The AI startup’s unusual structure, including its control by a non-profit board, was thrust into the spotlight in November 2023 when the board briefly removed Sam Altman as CEO before he returned days later.”OpenAI has completed its recapitalization, simplifying its corporate structure. The nonprofit remains in control of the for-profit, and…

Good morning. Although that’s not the case for some Amazon employees. The tech giant just announced that it’s cutting 14,000 corporate jobs, marking one of the biggest rounds of layoffs in the company’s history.Amazon’s senior vice president of people experience and technology, Beth Galetti, announced the cuts in a blog post and said the reductions are a continuation of CEO Andy Jassy’s drive to operate the company “like the world’s largest startup.”Speaking of staffing reductions, artificial intelligence’s impact on company headcounts remains a top concern for workers. Today we’re looking at how a top Wall Street bank and a tech…

Amanda Porretto isn’t sure she’ll ever have children.At 27, she is the average age of new mothers in the United States, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. She’s feeling the pressure as an only child. Her father wants to be a grandfather and her mother, before she died, always told Porretto that she would eventually want to be a mom.“Some people think it’s a bad thing” not to have a child, said Porretto, who works in advertising. “I just don’t think I need to bring more people into (the world) when there’s so much here currently that…

(Reuters) -Merck and Eisai’s experimental combination treatment helped extend the time certain patients with advanced kidney cell cancer lived without their disease progressing, according to interim data from a late-stage study.The combination of Merck’s Welireg and Eisai’s Lenvima, however, failed to show statistical significance in extending overall survival, compared to Exelixis’ approved treatment Cabometyx, the drugmakers said on Tuesday. Overall survival, which measures the length of time patients live after diagnosis or start of treatment, is a key indicator of how well a treatment works.The combination, which met one main goal and failed another, also helped a higher proportion of…

Adobe said on Tuesday that it is launching the latest iteration of its image generation model, Firefly Image 5. The company is also adding more features to the Firefly website, support for more third-party models, the ability to generate speech and soundtracks. Notably, the update allows artists to come up with their own image models using their existing art. Image 5 model can now work at native resolutions of up to 4 megapixels, a massive increase from the previous gen model, which could natively generate images at 1 megapixels but then would upscale them to 4 megapixels. The new model…

Adobe today released new AI assistants Creative Cloud products, Express and Photoshop, that can help users with image creation and editing. Most companies like to put AI assistants into a sidebar in their products to grab on-screen context. But for Express, Adobe has created a new mode that lets you use text prompts to create new images and designs. You can switch on the assistant mode to use AI prompts and then switch back to use editing tools and controls that are available in Express in the current version. Meanwhile, the new Photoshop assistant, which is in closed beta testing,…