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NEW YORK (AP) — Sometimes it’s a fall that brings a broken hip and a loss of mobility. Or memory problems that bubble into danger. Or the death of the partner who was relied upon for care.The need to move to a nursing home, assisted living facility or another type of care setting often comes suddenly, setting off an abrupt, daunting search. It’s likely something no one ever wanted, but knowing what to look for and what to ask can make a big difference.What to do when looking for a long-term care facility:Start with government ratingsRegulation of assisted living facilities…
Elon Musk’s SpaceX just overhauled its to-do list.In an X post on Sunday, the CEO said that the company is shifting its focus from Mars to creating a “self-growing city” on the moon.”It is only possible to travel to Mars when the planets align every 26 months (six month trip time), whereas we can launch to the Moon every 10 days (2 day trip time),” Musk wrote. “This means we can iterate much faster to complete a Moon city than a Mars city.”The announcement is a big departure from Musk’s previous comments about reaching the red planet this year.In 2020,…
2026-02-09T02:07:33.356Z Share Copy link Email Facebook WhatsApp X LinkedIn Bluesky Threads lighning bolt icon An icon in the shape of a lightning bolt. Impact Link Save Saved Read in app This story is available exclusively to Business Insider subscribers. Become an Insider and start reading now. Have an account? Log in. Kalshi said it experienced delays in fund transfers due to a Super Bowl traffic surge. Kalshi’s cofounder said on X that users’ “money is safe and on the way.” Kalshi and Polymarket are benefiting from a sharp interest in prediction markets. Kalshi said that some transfers on its prediction…
WELLINGTON, New Zealand (AP) — The man who killed 51 Muslim worshipers at two mosques in New Zealand’s deadliest mass shooting told an appeals court Monday that he felt forced to admit to the crimes because of “irrationality” due to harsh prison conditions, as he sought to have his guilty pleas discarded.A panel of three judges at the Court of Appeal in Wellington will hear five days of evidence about Brenton Tarrant’s claim that he was not fit to plead to the terrorism, murder and attempted murder charges he faced after the 2019 attack in the city of Christchurch. If…
2026-02-09T00:32:33.402Z Share Copy link Email Facebook WhatsApp X LinkedIn Bluesky Threads lighning bolt icon An icon in the shape of a lightning bolt. Impact Link Save Saved Read in app This story is available exclusively to Business Insider subscribers. Become an Insider and start reading now. Have an account? Log in. OpenAI debuted its Super Bowl LX ad on Sunday. The one-minute ad encouraged people to build things using AI. The ad didn’t mention Anthropic, which mocked OpenAI in its own Super Bowl ad. OpenAI is running a Super Bowl LX ad that encourages people to use its coding agent…
Artificial intelligence has entered the realm of online dating. But Coffee Meets Bagel’s CEO says there’s a mark it can’t meet.Shn Juay, the co-CEO of the dating app that has around 20 million users worldwide, said her team was exploring how to integrate AI into its app.But she said using AI chatbots to flirt with potential matches was taking it one step too far.”I’m on the fence about using a chatbot to represent yourself in the online app to flirt better,” Juay, who is based in Singapore, said.”You have to eventually meet your partner offline, and when you meet, there…
Just in time to create a new Super Bowl ad, Crypto.com founder Kris Marszalek has made the priciest domain purchase in history, buying AI.com for $70 million, according to the Financial Times. The deal, paid entirely in cryptocurrency to an unknown seller, shatters previous records. (Broker Larry Fischer, who facilitated the sale, is presumably celebrating his good fortune.) Marszalek plans to debut the site during Sunday’s big game, offering consumers a personal AI agent for messaging, app usage, and stock trading. “If you take a long-term view — 10 to 20 years – [AI] is going to be one of…
When a startup announced plans last fall to recreate lost footage from Orson Welles’ classic film “The Magnificent Ambersons” using generative AI, I was skeptical. More than that, I was baffled why anyone would spend time and money on something that seemed guaranteed to outrage cinephiles while offering negligible commercial value. This week, an in-depth profile by the New Yorker’s Michael Schulman provides more details about the project. If nothing else, it helps explain why the startup Fable and its founder Edward Saatchi are pursuing it: It seems to come from a genuine love of Welles and his work. Saatchi…
“Vibe-coding” just celebrated its first birthday. That’s a lifetime in the AI boom.Now, the man who coined the term is celebrating the birth of a new one: “agentic engineering.”While vibe-coding is when humans prompt AI to write code, OpenAI cofounder Andrej Karpathy says agentic engineering is when AI agents write the code themselves. “Many people have tried to come up with a better name for this to differentiate it from vibe coding, personally, my current favorite is ‘agentic engineering,'” he wrote in a recent X post.Karpathy said he calls it “agentic engineering” not just because agents are writing the code,…
The following is the transcript of the interview with Dr. Scott Gottlieb, former FDA commissioner, that aired on “Face the Nation with Margaret Brennan” on Feb. 8, 2026. Dr. Gottlieb also sits on the boards of Pfizer and United Health Care.MARGARET BRENNAN: We turn now to former FDA commissioner, Dr. Scott Gottlieb. He is also on the board of Pfizer and United Healthcare. Dr Gottlieb, welcome back.DR. SCOTT GOTTLIEB: Thank you.MARGARET BRENNAN: You have a history of making accurate predictions that are also terrifying on this program, and it was around this time last year that you said you were…