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Time’s ticking. Register by September 26 at 11:59 p.m. PT to save up to $668 on your pass to TechCrunch Disrupt 2025, happening at San Francisco’s Moscone West on October 27-29. Join 10,000+ startup and VC leaders in San Francisco At Disrupt 2025, you’ll have access to: Image Credits:Kimberly White / Getty Images An exclusive look at 100+ startup innovations across Moscone West in an immersive, hands-on showcase. Plus, catch live demos on the industry stages from tech leaders at Apptronik and Waabi. Three full days of unparalleled networking, investor-founder meetings, hands-on workshops, and parties with 10,000+ Disrupt attendees and…
Elon Musk’s xAI has designed its Grok chatbot to be deliberately provocative. It has a flirtatious female avatar that can strip on command, a chatbot that toggles between “sexy” and “unhinged” modes, and an image and video generation feature with a “spicy” setting.The workers who train xAI’s chatbot have seen firsthand what it means to carry out this vision. In conversations with more than 30 current and former workers across a variety of projects, 12 told Business Insider they encountered sexually explicit material — including instances of user requests for AI-generated child sexual abuse content (CSAM).Sexual material and CSAM crop…
On Friday, the White House announced a new $100,000 fee for H-1B visa applications, sparking a wave of confusion and panic as companies and workers scrambled to make sense of the order.Three tech workers from across the US explained how they spent Friday night and Saturday.Two spoke on the condition of anonymity because they feared retaliation for speaking to the media; Business Insider has verified their identities.1. Sherin Sunny, a senior software engineering manager at WalmartI studied engineering back home in India and got recruited into a US-based tech company straight out of college.After working at the company’s Indian operations…
PHILADELPHIA (AP) — Bernie Parent, the Hall of Famer considered one of the great goalies of all time who anchored the net for the Philadelphia Flyers’ only two Stanley Cup championships in the 1970s during their Broad Street Bullies heyday, has died. He was 80.The Flyers made the announcement Sunday but provided no details. Parent died overnight in his sleep, former teammate Joe Watson said.Watson, a star defenseman on the Stanley Cup teams, said by phone that he saw Parent and other former Flyers players at a function Friday night in Delaware.“Bernie was in such pain, he could hardly walk,”…
A goal by Erling Haaland was perhaps to be expected. What Manchester City did next certainly wasn’t.With an ultra-defensive performance so unlike a team coached by Pep Guardiola, City came close to holding out against Arsenal for the most unusual of wins in a Premier League match between two title contenders on Sunday.Then, in the third minute of stoppage time, Eberechi Eze played a ball over City’s packed defense and substitute Gabriel Martinelli latched onto it before lobbing goalkeeper Gianluigi Donnarumma for Arsenal’s dramatic equalizer. The game ended 1-1.“We’ve obviously gained the respect of the opposition,” Arsenal midfielder Declan Rice…
Welcome back to our Sunday edition, where we round up some of our top stories and take you inside our newsroom. Corporate America was thrown into chaos Friday night. The Trump administration issued a surprise executive order that would implement a new $100,000 fee for H-1B visa holders. Stakeholders (and their lawyers) immediately scrambled to understand who exactly it would impact.Tech and finance companies rushed to tell their employees on these visas to stay in the US. The worry was Trump’s order would make it far more expensive — and potentially impossible — for them to return if they traveled…
Las Vegas Aces star A’ja Wilson is in a class by herself, winning the WNBA MVP for an unprecedented fourth time.She won the award last season as the unanimous choice and also in 2020 and 2022. Sheryl Swoopes, Lisa Leslie and Lauren Jackson all won the award three times.Wilson and former Houston Comets star Cynthia Cooper were the only ones to win the award unanimously. Cooper was the only other player to win it in consecutive years, doing so in the first two seasons of the WNBA (1997, 98).Wilson again led the league in scoring (23.4 points per game) as…
On a Tuesday evening at the swanky Ned hotel in Manhattan, venture firm Lux Capital pitted me against fellow journalists, investors, professors, and scientists to compete for attention.I’d signed up for the firm’s latest “risk game,” an elaborate thought experiment disguised as play. Since last year, Lux’s partners have been inventing complex scenarios inspired by real-world trends and gamifying them.The games draw in heavy-hitters across tech and politics, fitting for a firm led by cofounder Josh Wolfe, who’s best known for defense and biotech bets.That September night, I stepped into a world where three experimental “pattern-recognition” drugs had been released…
Whether it’s spam or reminders about veterinary appointments, I get a lot of unknown numbers calling my phone.It reached the point in May when I installed a third-party call filtering app that sent suspicious calls straight to voicemail. So, as an iPhone user, I was excited when Apple said it was releasing its own feature to monitor calls in its iOS 26 update.I deleted my third-party call filtering app on Tuesday after updating my iPhone 15 to iOS 26. I was looking forward to testing out a new way to filter my calls, but first, I had to learn how Apple’s…
TOKYO (AP) — Sha’Carri Richardson and Noah Lyles blasted through the anchor legs of back-to-back wins in the rainy 4x100s Sunday night to close out world championships with a relay sweep for the U.S. Richardson received the baton with a .01-second deficit against Jamaica, but made it up and then held on for a .04-second margin. The winning time was 41.75 seconds. It handed teammate Melissa Jefferson-Wooden her third gold medal of the meet and sent 38-year-old Shelly-Ann Fraser-Pryce home with silver — her 17th medal from the worlds in a career she says is ending this year.Sydney McLaughlin-Levrone anchored…