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TechCrunch Disrupt 2025 takes place October 27-29 in San Francisco’s Moscone West, and exhibit space is nearly full. With less than two days left to secure your table, now is the time to step in before a competitor takes your place. Showcase your brand to 10,000 founders, investors, media, and tech leaders on the hunt for the next breakthrough. Build a year’s worth of connections in just 3 days. Generate hot leads. Capture investor attention. If your work is making waves, your vision excites, or your team is ready to grow, this is your moment to shine at one of…
Medal, a platform for uploading and sharing video game clips, has spun out a new frontier AI research lab that’s using its trove of gaming videos to train and build foundation models and AI agents that can understand how objects and entities move through space and time – a concept known as spatial-temporal reasoning. Called General Intuition, the startup is betting that Medal’s dataset – which consists of 2 billion videos per year from 10 million monthly active users across tens of thousands of games – surpasses alternatives like Twitch or YouTube for training agents. “When you play video games,…
Ticktock! TechCrunch Disrupt 2025 hits San Francisco’s Moscone West on October 27–29, and this is your final chance to lock in major savings before doors open. Ticket prices increase after tomorrow, October 17 at 11:59 p.m. PT, so don’t wait. Save up to $624 on your pass right now, and if you’re coming with your team, you can save 15% to 30% on group passes. Why attend Disrupt? Disrupt is where the startup world converges. Join 10,000 founders, VCs, and tech innovators to hear 250+ industry leaders across 200+ sessions, explore startup breakthroughs from 300+ showcasing startups, and experience the…
Uber’s gig workers now have another way to earn money: training AI models. The company said on Thursday it would start offering gigs meant to train AI — a group of jobs that Uber calls “Digital Tasks” — to some workers in the US through a pilot in its driver app. Uber already offers this sort of work to gig workers in India, where users complete tasks such as taking photos that are then fed into AI models.”Drivers have asked for more ways to earn, even when they’re not on the road,” CEO Dara Khosrowshahi said in a statement about…
2025-10-16T13:56:52Z 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. ChatGPT is fielding a staggering number of messages from its users every day. The immensely popular AI chatbot gets 2.5 billion messages a day. Business Insider is keeping tabs on the biggest numbers driving OpenAI news. Check back daily for updates. The speed of AI adoption is unprecedented for…
Spotify on Thursday announced a series of deals with major record labels to develop new AI products designed ensure fair compensation and center artists and songwriters in the experience. In partnership with Sony, Universal, Warner, and Merlin, the streamer said it would develop “responsible AI” products that respect copyright, but also allow the artists to choose whether or not they want to allow the use of AI tools. Spotify didn’t delve into the specifics of how the new tools would operate, but the company already offers generative AI experiences for users, including with its AI DJ that plays a personalized…
IOWA CITY, Iowa (AP) — Democrat Jackie Norris ended her campaign for Iowa’s open U.S. Senate seat Thursday, saying she would focus on her job leading the Des Moines public school board following the superintendent’s arrest by immigration authorities.Norris said the Sept. 26 detention of Superintendent Ian Roberts by U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents demanded her focus as chair of the board overseeing Iowa’s largest school district and put “our community, and me personally in the crosshairs of vicious and coordinated attacks.”“Those realities took time and oxygen away from the work I set out to do: stand up for…
NEW YORK (AP) — With the U.S. experiencing a significant hiring slowdown, it’s a daunting time to be looking for a job. Many workers are staying put instead of changing jobs to secure better pay. Artificial intelligence tools increasingly screen the resumes of applicants. Now may seem like an inappropriate time to request a raise.But sticking around doesn’t mean wages and salaries have to stagnate. Career experts say it’s not wrong, even in a shaky economy, to ask to be paid what you’re worth. Raises aren’t even necessarily off the table at organizations that are downsizing, according to some experts.“A…
Mental health distress among LGBTQ+ youth in the United States has been increasing amid a surge in anti-LGBTQ+ legislation, but strong support networks and access to health care were shown to ease symptoms for some, a study found.The findings were published Thursday by The Trevor Project, an LGBTQ+ advocacy organization that provides crisis intervention and suicide prevention services. Researchers followed 1,689 LGBTQ+ young people between the ages of 13 and 24 between September 2023 and March 2025.The study is the first to follow a sample of LGBTQ+ young people over an extended period of time, said Ronita Nath, vice president…
When someone opens the door and enters a hospital room, wearing a stethoscope is a telltale sign that they’re a clinician. This medical device has been around for over 200 years and remains a staple in the clinic despite significant advances in medical diagnostics and technologies.The stethoscope is a medical instrument used to listen to and amplify the internal sounds produced by the body. Physicians still use the sounds they hear through stethoscopes as initial indicators of heart or lung diseases. For example, a heart murmur or crackling lungs often signify an issue is present. Although there have been significant…