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TikTok and ByteDance employees are bracing for possible layoffs after the company informed staff it would announce “organizational and personnel changes” early Wednesday morning, according to a memo viewed by Business Insider.The changes would impact workers in the company’s global e-commerce business, TikTok Shop, which has had several rounds of layoffs this year.”Over the past month, we have assessed how we can best support our evolving Global E-commerce business in alignment with our mission and evolving goals in the market,” the company wrote in the memo.These changes come from “careful analysis of how to create more efficient operating models for…

The détente between two of the world’s most powerful men did not hold.After their very public fallout over President Donald Trump’s Big, Beautiful Bill in early June, Elon Musk, the former face of DOGE, softened his tone on the president. Musk deleted several posts on X, and Trump also simmered the war of words.The Tesla CEO restarted his posting spree on X, however, after the Senate narrowly cleared a procedural vote on the spending bill over the weekend. By Tuesday, when the Senate ultimately passed its version of the Big, Beautiful Bill, the feud was back in full swing.From the…

Minnesotans call it “Amara’s Law” — named for Amara Strande.Starting this year, it’s America’s strictest state law policing PFAS, compounds known as “forever chemicals.” They are found in everyday products such as non-stick cookware and cosmetics and linked to childhood cancers and other health issues.”It’s in products. In humans. It’s in animals. It’s in the air. It’s in the water. It’s in fish,” said Katrina Kessler, commissioner of the Minnesota Pollution Control Agency. “And we all need to think about exposure to PFAS and ways to mitigate PFAS.”Strande was 20 and dying of liver cancer when she testified before state…

ATLANTA (AP) — Serhou Guirassy scored a pair of first-half goals, both assisted by Karim Adeyemi, and Borussia Dortmund held off Monterrey 2-1 Tuesday night in the final round of 16 game at the Club World Cup.Guirassy drove a shot just inside the left post in the 14th minute, then sent another past keeper Esteban Andrada in the 24th when left unmarked from 15 yards at the top of the penalty area.Both times, it was Adeyemi delivering the pass that set up Guirassy, a native of France who plays for Guinea’s national team. The 29-year-old striker has three goals in…

MINNEAPOLIS (AP) — Caitlin Clark may have been missing, but Natasha Howard and her Indiana Fever teammates more than made up for her absence on both ends of the court.Howard had 16 points, 12 rebounds and four assists on Tuesday night as the Fever defeated the Minnesota Lynx 74-59 in the WNBA Commissioner’s Cup final.Indiana played without Clark, their All-Star guard who has been sidelined since June 24 with a strained groin. That didn’t slow down the Fever, who overcame an early 13-point deficit with balanced scoring and a stout defensive performance against the team with the best record in…

The social platform X will pilot a feature that allows AI chatbots to generate Community Notes. Community Notes is a Twitter-era feature that Elon Musk has expanded under his ownership of the service, now called X. Users who are part of this fact-checking program can contribute comments that add context to certain posts, which are then checked by other users before they appear attached to a post. A Community Note may appear, for example, on a post of an AI-generated video that is not clear about its synthetic origins, or as an addendum to a misleading post from a politician.…

By Christine Soares(Reuters) -Well-known AI chatbots can be configured to routinely answer health queries with false information that appears authoritative, complete with fake citations from real medical journals, Australian researchers have found.Without better internal safeguards, widely used AI tools can be easily deployed to churn out dangerous health misinformation at high volumes, they warned in the Annals of Internal Medicine.“If a technology is vulnerable to misuse, malicious actors will inevitably attempt to exploit it – whether for financial gain or to cause harm,” said senior study author Ashley Hopkins of Flinders University College of Medicine and Public Health in Adelaide.The…

Gaiser’s European Style Provisions has issued a recall for nearly 150,000 pounds of bologna because of misbranding, health officials announced Friday.In total, 143,416 pounds of the New Jersey-based company’s ready-to-eat bologna is being recalled because it contains “meat or poultry source materials that are not declared on the product labels,” the Agriculture Department’s Food Safety and Inspection Service said.The recalled items include “Family Tree bologna veal” containing undeclared pork, “Babushka’s recipe chicken bologna” containing undeclared pork, “Fancy Bologna” labeled with pork but containing undeclared beef and chicken, and “Gaiser’s Russian Brand Doktorskaya Bologna” containing undeclared beef, as well as other…

For most of my life, I loved living alone and prioritized having my own space over everything else.In my 30s, my best friend convinced me to move in with her. I was surprised by how much I like it.It changed my perspective on living alone and I love splitting bills and household responsibilities.As the youngest child and only girl in my family, I rarely had to share anything — not my toys, not my clothes, and definitely not my room.That early autonomy shaped my idea of what defined a perfect living situation: I love being able to move through my…

AI-native startups are rewriting the rules of what early traction looks like — and too often, investors are still playing by the old ones. At TechCrunch All Stage, happening in Boston on July 15, Kleida Martiro, partner at Glasswing Ventures, will lead a breakout that cuts straight to the core of this disconnect. Her session, Winning Capital in a Competitive Market: How to Fund Your AI-Native Startup, on the Foundation Stage, explores how early-stage AI founders can frame their growth story in a way that resonates with forward-thinking investors — and filter out the ones still stuck in SaaS-era metrics.…