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Within throwing distance of Apple stores around Manhattan and Google’s New York HQ, bus stop posters teased the Big Tech giants.”AI can’t generate sand between your toes,” one read. “No one on their deathbed ever said: I wish I’d spent more time on my phone,” said another.The ribbing came from Polaroid, promoting its point-and-click Flip camera.”We are such an analog brand that basically gave us the permission: We can own that conversation,” said Patricia Varella, Polaroid’s creative director.It has some competition. A wave of anti-AI ads is appearing on TV screens, billboards, and social media feeds worldwide, as big brands…

Elon Musk wants Grok’s name in lights.Grok Imagine, an image and video generation tool, debuted in July. Musk said earlier this month that the company plans to release a “watchable” full-length film by the end of 2026, and “really good movies” in 2027. He has hyped up the chatbot’s image generation skills, from reenactments of the final scene of “King Kong” to a version of “Iron Man” in which he plays Tony Stark.Over the past few months, employees at the AI company have worked on multiple internal video annotation projects.In August, dozens of AI tutors began painstakingly annotating short video…

WELLINGTON, New Zealand (AP) — Swathes of New Zealand were pummeled by dangerous winds for the second time in a week on Thursday, with howling gales canceling hundreds of flights, causing electricity blackouts and forcing school closures. The gales were worst in the lower North Island, where the capital Wellington is located, and in parts of the South Island, including the city of Christchurch. The national forecaster MetService issued rare “red” wind warnings, the highest level of alert, for several regions. No deaths or serious injuries were reported. When a different weather system battered the country on Monday, a Wellington…

Elon Musk capped Tesla’s latest earnings call with a tirade about his proposed $1 trillion pay package — and the people trying to block it.The CEO said he doesn’t even want to call it “compensation,” insisting the real issue is whether he’ll have enough voting power to control Tesla’s next chapter in AI, robotaxis, and humanoid robots.”I just don’t feel comfortable building a robot army here and then being ousted because of some asinine recommendations from ISS and Glass Lewis,” Musk said, calling the proxy advisory firms “corporate terrorists.”He said he needs about “mid-20s” percent voting power to maintain “a…

It’s officially the season of text prompts and phone call reminders to get your seasonal vaccines.Cases of flu, RSV, COVID-19, and other common respiratory illnesses tend to spike as temperatures go down and the holidays approach, sending many Americans to pharmacy lines and waiting rooms to get up-to-date on immunizations.Confusion has persisted around one specific shot: the COVID-19 vaccine. After a year of rapidly changing guidance from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and Food and Drug Administration under Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr., many Americans have been left to wonder how easily a person could…

Pottstown, Pennsylvania — Illeana Casiano-Vazquez and her husband Sam cherish every minute together. Six years ago, she was diagnosed with triple-negative breast cancer, an aggressive form of the cancer that has fewer treatment options and a higher rate of recurrence.”The first thing I thought about were my boys,” Casiano-Vasquez told CBS News. “So, in the same feeling of, ‘Oh my God, am I going to die?’ sort of was this immediate like, ‘I’m not going to die.'”Chemotherapy and a double mastectomy eliminated signs of cancer. But naturally, she is still worried.”The mental struggle that comes with the fear of recurrence…

Remember that Tea app everyone was talking about this summer? Apple has removed it from its iOS App Store.The Tea app, which lets women post anonymous reviews of men, gained traction in July and stirred a whole lot of debate around privacy and modern dating.In reaction to Tea — technically named Tea Dating Advice — other copycats made their way onto the app store. TeaOnHer, an alternative version for men, had a viral moment in August.Both TeaOnHer and Tea were removed by Apple on October 21, according to app analytics firm Appfigures.A spokesperson for Apple told Business Insider that both…

The U.S. Food and Drug Administration is warning consumers not to consume, sell, or serve certain types of Black Sheep Egg Company eggs that were voluntarily recalled last month due to potential salmonella contamination.The nationwide, voluntary recall, first initiated in late September, impacts more than 6 million eggs linked to the Arkansas-based producer, according to FDA enforcement reports.According to the FDA, Black Sheep Egg Company distributed the recalled eggs to other companies in several states between July 9, 2025, and Sept. 17, 2025, and the companies “may have repackaged them.”On Oct. 16, one of those companies, Kenz Henz of Santa…

(Reuters) -The World Health Organization led the medical evacuation of 41 critical patients and 145 companions out of Gaza, Director-General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus said on Wednesday. Around 15,000 Gaza patients are awaiting evacuation, Tedros said in an X post.”We continue to call on countries to show their solidarity and for all routes to be opened to expedite the medical evacuation,” the WHO chief said.Many suffer from injuries sustained during the two-year-long Israel-Hamas conflict. Others have chronic conditions such as cancer and heart disease that the enclave’s decimated health system cannot cope with. During the war, more than 7,000 patients have…

Leaders at one of Tesla’s competitors simply don’t understand why Elon Musk is so critical of LiDAR.James Philbin, Rivian’s head of autonomy, said the EV leader’s “rigid point of view” doesn’t align with the engineering realities of autonomous vehicles or the declining prices of top-tier sensors, such as LiDAR, which uses lasers to measure distances.”I think they have a very sort of rigid point of view, I guess, on different sensor modalities, which I don’t think is fully explainable just from an engineering point of view,” Philbin told Business Insider’s chief news editor, Steve Russolillo, during an event focused on…