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BONHAM, Texas (AP) — Three brothers — ages 6, 8 and 9 — died in Texas during the massive winter storm gripping the U.S. after falling through an icy pond across the street from a house where they were staying, authorities said Tuesday.The brothers fell into a private pond Monday north of Bonham, a rural community of about 10,000 people near the Oklahoma border, the Fannin County Sheriff’s Office said. First responders and a neighbor pulled the two older boys from the water and the youngest sibling was recovered after an extensive search of the pond, according to the sheriff.Their…
Athletic footwear has entered a new era of ambition. No longer content to promise just comfort or performance, Nike claims its shoes can activate the brain, heighten sensory awareness and even improve concentration by stimulating the bottom of your feet.“By studying perception, attention and sensory feedback, we’re tapping into the brain-body connection in new ways,” said Nike’s chief science officer, Matthew Nurse, in the company’s press release for the shoes. “It’s not just about running faster — it’s about feeling more present, focused and resilient.”Other brands like Naboso sell “neuro-insoles,” socks and other sensory-based footwear to stimulate the nervous system.It’s…
Eat this, not that. This one food will cure everything. That food is poison. Cut this food out. Try this diet. Don’t eat at these times. Eat this food and you’ll lose weight. With society’s obsession with food, health and weight, statements like these are all over social media, gyms and even health care offices.But do you need to follow rules like these to be healthy? Most often the answer is no, because health and nutrition is much more complex and nuanced than a simple list of what to eat and what to avoid. Despite this, rules about health and…
China’s Moonshot AI, which is backed by the likes of Alibaba and HongShan (formerly Sequioa China), today released a new open-source model, Kimi K2.5, which understands text, image, and video. The company said that the model was trained on 15 trillion mixed visual and text tokens, and that’s why it is natively multimodal. It added that the models are good at coding tasks and handling agent swarms — an orchestration where multiple agents work together. In released benchmarks, the model matches the performance of the proprietary peers and even beats them in certain tasks. For instance, in the coding benchmark,…
AI is remaking creative industries at breakneck speed. And the growing pile of AI tools is turning the creative process into a game of model-hopping as artists, designers, and writers bounce between different platforms.Founded in Brooklyn, New York, in 2024, FLORA wants to help creatives streamline those processes. On Tuesday, FLORA revealed it had raised $42 million in Series A funding led by Redpoint Ventures. The company has raised $52 million in funding to date.FLORA combines the latest AI models — such as Google’s Nano Banana and OpenAI’s ChatGPT 5.1 — into a single interface that lets teams collaborate on…
Flora, a design tool used by designers at Alibaba, Brex, creative agency Pentagram, and entertainment company Lionsgate, has hit a new milestone. The startup has raised $42 million in Series A led by Redpoint Ventures, it announced on Tuesday. Generative AI models can be used in the design process via prompts and other multimodal inputs. Software companies like Adobe, Figma, and Canva have also added features to make AI more central to their products. Meanwhile, newer design startups believe that to accommodate AI and test the capabilities of different models, you need new workflows and a different interface. To address…
AI isn’t just reshaping the role of software engineers — it’s also making them more skilled.That’s according to Avishai Abrahami, the CEO and cofounder of website management company Wix. He told Business Insider that the technology equips developers with “superpowers” and that the value of smart, talented engineers will be “dramatically enhanced” with AI tools.”What would take you a month, you can do in a few hours,” Abrahami said, adding that not every task can be reduced in this way, but most can.What entry-level candidates needA Google Cloud report released in September found that AI adoption had surged to 90%…
A new risk assessment has found that xAI’s chatbot Grok has inadequate identification of users under 18, weak safety guardrails, and frequently generates sexual, violent, and inappropriate material. In other words, Grok is not safe for kids or teens. The damning report from Common Sense Media, a nonprofit that provides age-based ratings and reviews of media and tech for families, comes as xAI faces criticism and an investigation into how Grok was used to create and spread nonconsensual explicit AI-generated images of women and children on the X platform. “We assess a lot of AI chatbots at Common Sense Media,…
Ever since the introduction of ChatGPT, companies have been eagerly anticipating the day AI will turbocharge their workers and forever transform their businesses. Three years later, they’re still waiting. Why? And what’s the fix?These two questions dominated pretty much every single conversation I had with executives in Davos last week — including a Business Insider roundtable I moderated with 15 chief people officers and other senior executives.One explanation that came up again and again was incomplete adoption among employees. Many professionals are understandably worried about what these tools will mean for their jobs, or at least skeptical of their usefulness…
If your techie friend is texting a lobster, here’s why.Clawdbot is an open-source AI agent that works around the clock and can connect to many common consumer apps. Users have asked their Clawdbots to organize their schedules, monitor vibe-coding sessions, and build new AI employees.It’s scored some high-profile fans, from Y Combinator CEO Garry Tan to multiple Andreessen Horowitz partners. Many have praised it, others have meme’d it, and some have warned people about potential security concerns.What is Clawdbot?You can spot Clawdbot by its friendly lobster mascot.Founded by Peter Steinberger, Clawdbot is an AI agent that manages “digital life,” from…