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Zoom founder and CEO Eric Yuan believes that AI assistants will finally allow us to shorten our workweek. Speaking on stage at the TechCrunch Disrupt 2025 conference on Monday, Yuan discussed his videoconferencing product’s embrace of AI, which includes a “digital twin” feature where an AI avatar can speak for you. Yuan began using his AI avatar in an earnings call with investors this year, demonstrating the technology’s potential and ability to push the “boundaries of communication,” he said. At Disrupt, the exec emphasized spending a lot of time talking about AI and the right products to bring to market.…
Elon Musk appears to have launched Grokipedia, an alternative to Wikipedia, on Monday.Musk said on X last month that the team at xAI was working on Grokipedia.Grokipedia.com was live on Monday afternoon, but some users reported experiencing errors with the site, according to the Washington Post. A screenshot of Grokipedia screenshot Business Insider was able to access Grokipedia.com shortly before 7:30 p.m. ET and view an entry for Musk himself. The page features a search bar on a dark background, and a font style reminiscent of Wikipedia. It is currently billed as v0.1 and says on the homepage that it…
Robots can be programmed to do a variety of tasks, like packing boxes and even performing surgery. But each individual movement or task requires its own specific training process, which makes it hard for robots to adapt in real-world scenarios. Mbodi wants to make training robots easier and quicker with the help of AI agents. The company will be showcasing this tech as one of the Top 20 Startup Battlefield finalists at TechCrunch Disrupt 2025. New York-based Mbodi built a cloud-to-edge system, a hybrid computing system using both cloud and local compute, that is designed to integrate into existing robotic…
Amazon is planning thousands of job cuts across its corporate workforce, and managers have been warned to prepare for an announcement this week, according to people familiar with the matter, an internal document, and internal messages seen by Business Insider.The move is expected to be announced on Tuesday, and will impact employees in the US, the UK, and Canada, according to recent internal messages sent to Amazon managers.A draft email that’s due to go out to impacted employees noted that Amazon is eliminating jobs “after a thorough review of our organization, our priorities, and what we need to focus on…
This as-told-to essay is based on a conversation with Christine Zhang, a 19-year-old startup cofounder, based in San Francisco. The following has been edited for length and clarity.I’m 19 years old, and people are trusting me with over a million dollars to build a company. At first, it seemed somewhat crazy, but I think this is a great opportunity.During the summer, I turned down an internship to spend two months living in a hacker house while building a startup with my college roommate and cofounder. I had no idea I wouldn’t be returning to Harvard for my sophomore year.After we…
OpenAI says it is working with mental health professionals to improve ChatGPT.The company disclosed estimates Monday for how many users are showing signs of concern.It estimates roughly 560,000 users a week show “possible signs of mental health emergencies.”OpenAI estimates that over half a million ChatGPT users are showing possible signs of mental health concerns during a given week.On Monday, OpenAI said it is working with mental health professionals to improve how ChatGPT responds to users who show signs of psychosis or mania, self-harm or suicide, or emotional attachment to the chatbot.As part of its findings, OpenAI estimated that roughly 0.07%…
Extending the length of your daily walks can benefit your heart, new research suggests.In a study conducted among healthy adults, people who accumulated most of their daily steps in bouts of 15 minutes or longer had significantly lower risks of heart disease and death nearly a decade later than those who got in several shorter walks throughout the day. The study was published Monday in the Annals of Internal Medicine.What’s more, adults who had been less active in the past and went on longer walks showed the greatest health gains.An international team of scientists looked at the daily movements of…
About 42 million Americans are poised to lose their Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) benefits when federal funding comes to a halt on Nov. 1 amid the government shutdown.The U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) said it would not use emergency funds to help cover benefits and posted a message on its website over the weekend that “the well has run dry.”SNAP, sometimes called the food stamp program, is a federal safety net program with eligibility based on income, household size and household expenses. About 260,000 retailers, including supermarket chains, discount grocery stores and farmers’ markets, are authorized to accept SNAP…
By Jonathan Stempel(Reuters) -PepsiCo has resolved a lawsuit accusing it of falsely marketing its Gatorade protein bars as good for you, though they contain more sugar than protein and more sugar than Snickers bars and chocolate-frosted Dunkin’ donuts.U.S. District Judge Casey Pitts in San Jose, California, on Monday dismissed the proposed class action with prejudice, meaning the case cannot be brought again, at the request of PepsiCo and three self-described fitness enthusiasts who sued.It was unclear whether the parties settled following court-ordered mediation. PepsiCo and its lawyers did not immediately respond to requests for comment. Maia Kats, a lawyer for…
The Trump administration must release millions of dollars in grants meant to address the shortage of mental health workers in schools, a federal judge ruled Monday.Congress funded the mental health program after the 2022 school shooting in Uvalde, Texas. The grants were intended to help schools hire more counselors, psychologists and social workers, with a focus on rural and underserved areas of the country. But President Donald Trump’s administration opposed diversity considerations used to award the grants and told recipients they wouldn’t receive funding past December 2025.The preliminary ruling by Kymberly K. Evanson, a U.S. District Court judge in Seattle,…