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San Francisco goes by many names. There are the basics: SF, San Fran, and even Frisco. Now, as AI takes hold of the city, some have taken to calling it Cerebral Valley.For Julian Windeck, the 23-year-old founder of Attention Engineering, San Francisco these days evokes an earlier era where creativity was its own currency.”What Florence was in the Renaissance, SF is in the age of AI,” Windeck told Business Insider.Windeck and Aidan Guo, 19, launched Attention Engineering earlier this year to build a next-generation desktop assistant powered by AI.”It’s not exactly a desktop assistant, but kind of becomes one: ambient,…

Nineteen-year-old Mathieu Rihet initially wanted to be a cardiothoracic surgeon. After he was diagnosed with essential tremors, he decided to pursue an entrepreneurial path.In his sophomore year at Emory University, Rihet came across a LinkedIn post by Georges Casassovici, 18, a high school student seeking a non-technical cofounder to build with. The two began brainstorming on different ideas virtually, and both dropped out of school after being accepted into Y Combinator’s Spring 2025 class.Now, their startup Novoflow is building AI agents for medical clinics. The idea for Novoflow stemmed from Rihet’s experiences working as a medical translator and witnessing the…

Taking melatonin for long periods of time could be a sign of underlying heart problems.Long-term use of the popular over-the-counter sleep aid has been linked to a higher risk of heart failure and early death in adults with insomnia, according to research released Monday.There’s no evidence that melatonin supplements themselves cause heart problems, the researchers said. But a need to take them on a regular basis to help with falling and staying asleep could be a signal that the body is experiencing cardiac issues.“Insomnia can increase blood pressure, stress hormones and inflammation,” said Dr. Ekenedilichukwu Nnadi, lead author of the…

The race to dominate artificial intelligence has turned into an expensive competition that traps Big Tech companies into “a little bit of a prisoner’s dilemma,” a top hedge-fund executive said.”You have to invest in it because your peers are investing in it, and so if you’re left behind, you’re not going to have the stronger competitive position to it,” said Tony Yoseloff, the chief investment officer at hedge fund Davidson Kempner Capital Management, which manages about $37 billion. He spoke on the Goldman Sachs “Exchanges” podcast published on Friday.He said that spending dynamic doesn’t just affect Silicon Valley. Because a…

Kevin Rose has a visceral rule for evaluating AI hardware investments: “If you feel like you should punch someone in the face for wearing it, you probably shouldn’t invest in it.” It’s a typically candid assessment from the veteran investor, and one born from watching the current wave of AI hardware startups repeat mistakes he’s seen before. Rose, a general partner at True Ventures and early investor in Peloton, Ring, and Fitbit, has largely avoided the AI hardware gold rush that’s consumed Silicon Valley. While other VCs rush to fund the next smart glasses or AI pendant, Rose is taking…

The government shutdown is triggering a wave of closures of Head Start centers, leaving working parents scrambling for child care and shutting some of the nation’s neediest children out of preschool.Dozens of centers are missing out on federal grant payments that were due to arrive Nov. 1. Some say they’ll close indefinitely, while others are staying afloat with emergency funding from local governments and school districts. The closures mean Head Start students — who come from low-income households, are homeless or are in foster care — are missing out on preschool, where they are fed two meals a day and…

The feud between Elon Musk and Sam Altman showed no signs of slowing down on Sunday, when the tech leaders again bumped heads on X over OpenAI.”You stole a non-profit,” Musk said in an X post on Saturday, in response to a post from Altman about trying to cancel a Tesla order.Musk and Altman cofounded OpenAI — then a nonprofit AI research company — alongside Ilya Sutskever and Greg Brockman in 2015. Their relationship has since soured, resulting in the pair trading jabs on social media and in legal filings. Musk stepped down from OpenAI’s board in 2018 and founded…

The global AI market could reach $4.8 trillion by 2033, meaning companies like OpenAI and Microsoft stand to rake in hefty profits.Some people are already cashing in on the increasingly ubiquitous tech, including 17-year-old Samik Sidhu of Virginia. While running two businesses — an Etsy apparel shop and a for-profit networking community — in 2024, he began investing the profits from those ventures in stocks of tech companies.”Rather than having my money sit in an account, it was able to work for me,” Sidhu said.Sidhu earned $37,400 by selling graphic T-shirts and other items through his Etsy shop, while the…

Google says it has removed Gemma from its AI Studio after a U.S. senator accused the AI model of fabricating accusations of sexual misconduct against her. In a letter to Google CEO Sundar Pichai, Senator Marsha Blackburn — a Republican from Tennessee — said that when Gemma was asked, “Has Marsha Blackburn been accused of rape?” it responded by falsely claiming that during a 1987 state senate campaign, a state trooper alleged that Blackburn “pressured him to obtain prescription drugs for her and that the relationship involved non-consensual acts.” “None of this is true, not even the campaign year which…

One of the monkeys that escaped last week after a truck overturned on a Mississippi roadway was shot and killed early Sunday by a woman who says she feared for the safety of her children.Jessica Bond Ferguson said she was alerted early Sunday by her 16-year-old son who said he thought he had seen a monkey running in the yard outside their home near Heidelberg, Mississippi. She got out bed, grabbed her firearm and her cellphone and stepped outside where she saw the monkey about 60 feet (18 meters) away.Bond said she and other residents had been warned about diseases…