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Will Smith posted a video on social media that shows oceans of fans cheering him on during his recent European tour. “My favorite part of the tour is seeing you all up close,” the caption says. “Thank you for seeing me too.” In these thousands-deep crowds, some fans are holding up signs espousing their love for Smith, with one even saying that his music helped them survive cancer. But the video gives off an odd aura — it looks believably real at first glance, until you look closer and find digitally mangled faces, nonsensical finger placements, and oddly augmented features…

I’ve been writing a lot lately about the potential of generative AI to disrupt established software businesses and related jobs.A new Google AI image-editing tool offers another good example of this threat. It offers many of the capabilities of Adobe software, and yet the Google version is either free or cheaper and baked into a broader AI service that offers a lot more features.So, is Google’s new AI photo editing tool any good?My colleague Hugh Langley tested an early version of this Google image model, called Nano Banana. He found it to be generally better than rival tools. It’s not…

The pagers of emergency room staff at Hennepin Healthcare, in downtown Minneapolis, buzzed yet again — this time carrying especially dire news. About 20 victims needed urgent medical care after a shooting at Annunciation Church about 6 miles away.The hospital had already taken in patients from another mass shooting in south Minneapolis less than 24 hours earlier that left one dead and six others injured.”Taking care of one child that’s injured is difficult,” Dr. Jon Gayken, a Hennepin Healthcare trauma surgeon, told reporters on Aug. 28, as nine people, mostly children, remained hospitalized. “Eight of them is nearly impossible, but…

Health officials are investigating a salmonella outbreak linked to eggs that has sickened 95 people across the United States, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention said Thursday.California-based Country Eggs LLC issued a recall of its large brown cage-free sunshine yolk eggs on Wednesday. The eggs were also sold under the brand names Nagatoshi Produce, Misuho and Nijiya Markets, according to the Food and Drug Administration. They were also packed for food service as large brown “sunshine yolks” or “omega-3 golden yolks.”The eggs were delivered to grocery stores and food service distributors in California and Nevada from June 16 through…

At least 95 people in more than a dozen states have been sickened since January in an outbreak of salmonella poisoning tied to recalled eggs, federal health officials said Thursday. Country Eggs LLC, of Lucerne Valley, California, has recalled large, brown cage-free “sunshine yolks” or “omega-3 golden yolks” eggs and production has been suspended. The eggs were sold in cartons bearing the brand names Nagatoshi Produce, Mishuo and Nijiya Markets. The cartons contain the code CA 7695 and sell-by dates of July 1 through Sept. 16.The outbreak has sickened people in at least 14 states, with illnesses beginning between Jan.…

Micah Parsons is headed to the Green Bay Packers after a blockbuster trade on Thursday, leaving the Dallas Cowboys following a lengthy contract dispute.The Packers gave up first-round picks in 2026 and 2027 along with three-time Pro Bowl defensive tackle Kenny Clark to get the two-time All-Pro edge rusher, who agreed to a contract extension with Green Bay.A person with knowledge of the details told The Associated Press the Packers are giving Parsons a record-setting $188 million, four-year contract that includes $136 million guaranteed. Cowboys owner Jerry Jones said he offered Parsons more guaranteed money. The person, who spoke to…

Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. is pushing for doctors to receive more education about nutrition.He announced Wednesday that a team within the Health and Human Services Department would target “the woeful lack of nutrition education in medicine” by making it a greater part of premed and medical school curricula, medical licensing exams, residencies, board certification and doctors’ continuing education.“We can reverse the chronic disease epidemic simply by changing our diets and lifestyles, but to do that, we need nutrition to be a basic part of every doctor’s training,” Kennedy said in a video on X. “We’ll start by embedding…

DENVER (AP) — The U.S. Education Department said Thursday that Denver Public Schools violated Title IX protections against sex-based discrimination in education by creating all-gender bathrooms and allowing students to use bathrooms corresponding with their gender identity.The finding followed an unprecedented probe of Denver’s East High School, marking a sharp departure from the department’s investigations under former President Joe Biden. The investigation began after the school district converted a girl’s restroom into an all-gender restroom while leaving another bathroom on the same floor exclusive to boys in January. The school district has said that was done as a result of…

This as-told-to essay is based on a transcribed conversation with Alexander Cobb, 25, a University of Cambridge graduate who pivoted from a career in music to AI. Business Insider has verified his music contract and academic credentials. The following has been edited for length and clarity.Before I saw Sam Altman give a talk at the University of Cambridge in November 2023, I was set on pursuing a career in music.But by the end of the talk, I realized we were on the cusp of something major, and that AI could be the most revolutionary thing to happen in my lifetime.With…

This as-told-to essay is based on a conversation with Manoj Tumu, a 23-year-old machine learning engineer at Meta based in Menlo Park. It’s been edited for length and clarity. Business Insider has verified Tumu’s salary and employment.Machine learning has gone mainstream.I started my master’s program in 2022, around the time ChatGPT was released. The advancement of AI and AI tools has made it a very competitive field, and many people are trying to get in.It took me one year to get my undergraduate degree because I had college credits from classes I took in high school. Then I worked full-time…