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The White House is blocking CNN from traveling aboard Air Force One with President Donald Trump on Saturday, a CNN spokesperson confirmed, days after a federal judge ordered the administration to restore the network’s access to the White House, along…
Pope Leo XIV has a new warning about AI.The Pope cautioned against an overreliance on artificial intelligence and other technology during a speech to French diplomats, including President Emmanuel Macron, on Friday. Earlier that day, he traveled from Rome to…
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Does the customer always have to be right? Germany’s national airline has apologized after its snarky reply went viral this week, raising important points about customer relations and brand strategy.After an X user accused Lufthansa of ignoring their messages about a payment issue, the airline appeared fed up as it…
This as-told-to essay is based on a conversation with Kathie Schwartz, 72, who built a tiny home in her California backyard. The conversation has been edited for length and clarity.I…
OpenAI recently published one of the clearest signals yet about which workplace skills may become most valuable in the AI era.In a report on how its researchers use AI, the…
My first child was born a few days after I turned 19. Looking into his eyes as I held him, I told myself I wanted to give him a better life than I had.I was a homeless teenager, and I…
This as-told-to essay is based on a conversation with Kelsey Fiegle, an independent game developer behind Vortella’s Dress Up. She developed the game with her husband, Wes Thorburn. Their games are available on the browser gaming platform Poki. The essay…
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I turn 40 in a few months. Every year around my birthday, my wife and I have the same conversation.We make coffee, the kids disappear into a screen for an hour, and we pull up the numbers. Between our day…
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Political candidates are attacking AI in ads, and they’re focusing on the one thing scarier than a killer robot: a high electricity bill.Republicans, Democrats, and Independents are peddling anti-AI messaging this year, with subtle differences. The attacks pose a challenge…
The Boeing VC-25 is arguably the most famous jetliner in the world, even though most people have never heard of it by that name.Most do…
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The Trump administration can blacklist AI firm Anthropic from all Pentagon contracts, a federal appeals court ruled Friday, in a decision that expands the executive branch’s authority to designate US businesses as national security risks.The D.C. Circuit Court of Appeals…
Meta’s smart glasses have a new opt-out.Meta spokesperson Dina El-Kassaby confirmed to Business Insider that the company is changing the setting options on its camera-wielding…
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When I first heard of Life360, my first thought was that I knew I never wanted to use the app to track my two kids, despite its popularity among parents. Almost a decade later, I still feel the same. But…
Tesla on Thursday announced that the electric vehicle maker was beginning deliveries of its Semi trucks to customers this week. Executives at Tesla’s plant in Sparks, Nevada, made the announcement that the first customers will take delivery of the electric…
A Google employee said he resigned from the company, citing the pursuit of powerful artificial intelligence as “inherently irresponsible.”Robert O’Callahan, who worked at Google DeepMind, wrote in an X post that his team was developing chips to make AI faster…
Walmart CEO John Furner wants to clear the air about how the retail giant is using new pricing technology.”We don’t set different prices based on who you are or the time of day, and we won’t,” he said in a…
A Roth conversion ladder can help early retirees access retirement savings before age 59 ½ without triggering the usual early withdrawal penalty. The strategy works by gradually converting pretax retirement money to a Roth IRA. However, timing is critical: Each…
Ron Johnson spent more than a decade working alongside Steve Jobs — including a stretch when the two spoke on the phone every night for about a year.The former head of retail at Apple oversaw the creation of 350 stores…
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Costco on Thursday said it received $184 million in tariff refunds in the company’s fourth quarter, the majority of which was reinvested into lower pricing for members shopping at the retail giant’s warehouses. The big box retailer said the lower…
Bill Gates has some serious fears about how AI can be misused.The cofounder of Microsoft made grave warnings about the tech in an interview with NBC’s “Meet the Press,” saying that “AI is certainly powerful enough to drive events that…
My colleague Pranav Dixit attended Meta Connect this week and he stopped by AI Insider to share his thoughts with newsletter subscribers.Here’s how the Q&A went down, in longer form:What was your biggest surprise while at the event?The biggest surprise…
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Melania posed for photos in front of pyramids in Egypt wearing cream trousers, a white blouse, a black tie, and a sand-colored Ralph Lauren blazer. A white-and-black boater hat completed the look.The outfit may have been innocuously stylish in another venue, but some social-media…
