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Focusing on future AI doom lets companies dodge responsibility today, professor says

Tobias Osborne, a Leibniz Universität Hannover physics professor, says AI apocalypse fears distract regulators and let companies evade accountability for real harms happening today. Yuichiro Chino/Get...

Jan 15Business InsiderTechnologyImpact

China’s population shrinks for fourth straight year

A decade after ending China's longtime one-child policy, authorities are pushing a range of ideas and policies to try to encourage more births – tactics that range from cash subsidies to taxing condom...

Jan 19France 24world_newsImpact

End of de-facto Kurdish autonomy as Damascus takes control of Northeast Syria

The Syrian government Sunday announced a ceasefire with the Syrian Democratic Forces, taking almost full control of the country and dismantling the Kurdish-led forces that controlled the northeast for...

Jan 19France 24PoliticsImpact

I founded a wellness startup after leaving McKinsey. Hustle culture is a liability, not an asset.

Cesar Carvalho worked at McKinsey from 2010 to 2012. Pascal Perich/© Pascal Perich Cesar Carvalho left a consulting job at McKinsey to launch Wellhub, a wellness startup. 14 years later, Wellhub is ch...

Jan 18Business InsiderTechnologyImpact

Vintage photos show American life under Trump's tariff hero, William McKinley

The turn of the century saw a rise in labor movements as industry grew largely unregulated. Bettmann/Getty Images Trump has credited a 19th-century US president for inspiring his aggressive approach t...

4dBusiness InsiderPoliticsImpact

One person killed in Barcelona train crash, days after deadly train collision in Adamuz

The crash in Catalonia in northeastern Spain came just two days after a separate deadly train collision killed at least 42 people in the country's south and injured dozens more....

6dEuronewsaccidentsImpact

Australian boy injured by shark dies

A 12-year-old boy has died of his injuries after being mauled by a shark in Sydney Harbour, his family says. The attack came amid a spate of attacks in Australia's east....

3dDeutsche Welleaccidents

Davos 2026: 'We prefer respect to bullies,' Macron says

France's president said it was "fundamentally unacceptable" for the US to use tariff threats as "leverage against territorial sovereignty." His speech came ahead of US President Trump's visit to Davos...

6dDeutsche WellePoliticsImpact

DHS: ICE officers in Minneapolis shoot Venezuelan man in the leg

The Department of Homeland Security says the shooting happened after the agent came under attack. Protestors have taken to the streets in Minneapolis, clashing with federal agents, after Renee Macklin...

Jan 15NPR NewscrimeImpact

Epic and Google have a secret $800 million Unreal Engine and services deal

A judge is questioning whether Epic Games and Google are settling their long-running antitrust fight partly because of a previously unannounced partnership involving the Unreal Engine, Fortnite, and A...

4dThe VergeTechnologyImpact

Show HN: mdto.page – Turn Markdown into a shareable webpage instantly

Hi HN I built mdto.page because I often needed a quick way to share Markdown notes or documentation as a proper webpage, without setting up a GitHub repo or configuring a static site generator. I want...

Jan 16Hacker NewsTechnologyImpact

Show HN: FastScheduler – Decorator-first Python task scheduler, async support

Hi! I've built this because I kept reaching for Celery for simple scheduled tasks and it felt like overkill. I just needed "run this function every hour" or "daily at 9am", not distributed workers. So...

Jan 13Hacker NewsTechnologyImpact

Anthropic says its buzzy new Claude Cowork tool was mostly built by AI — in less than 2 weeks

Anthropic's Claude Cowork AI tool, which has launched as a research preview this week. Anthropic Anthropic employees used Claude to build Cowork, its new agentic tool launched this week. The AI startu...

Jan 13Business InsiderTechnologyImpact

I'm set to inherit my childhood home abroad. I'm not sure it will be worth the headache.

Katarina Polonska and her husband are both set to inherit properties abroad from their parents. Courtesy of Katarina Polonska Katarina Polonska lives in Canada but is set to inherit her childhood home...

2dBusiness Insiderreal_estateImpact

Apple is losing its grip on the world's tech supply chain

Google CEO Sundar Pichai (right) and Apple CEO Tim Cook (left). Anna Moneymaker—Getty Images/Reuters Apple enjoyed a long run at the top of the tech supply chain. Now, this prized position is be...

Jan 16Business InsiderTechnologyImpact

Italian fashion designer Valentino dies at 93. His legacy was his devotion to dressing women — many adored him.

Italian fashion designer Valentino Garavani has died at age 93. Stephane Cardinale - Corbis/Corbis Via Getty Images Italian fashion designer Valentino Garavani has died at 93 in Rome. He launched the ...

Jan 20Business InsiderlifestyleImpact

Vibe coding startup Emergent has raised $70 million, led by Khosla and SoftBank

Emergent cofounders Mukund Jha (left) and Madhav Jha. Emergent Emergent is an AI software creation platform that helps anyone build web and mobile applications. The startup just raised $70 million in ...

6dBusiness InsiderTechnologyImpact

Anthropic’s new Claude ‘constitution’: be helpful and honest, and don’t destroy humanity

Anthropic is overhauling Claude's so-called "soul doc." The new missive is a 57-page document titled " Claude's Constitution ," which details "Anthropic's intentions for the model's values and behavio...

5dThe VergeTechnologyImpact

Data Activation Thoughts

i've been working with healthcare/biobank data and keep thinking about what "data moats" mean now that llms can ingest anything. some a16z piece from 2019 said moats were eroding — now the question se...

Jan 18Hacker NewsTechnologyImpact

Hundreds of America's rural hospitals have vanished. Maps show closures by state.

Rural hospital closures limit healthcare for millions of Americans. Thomas Northcut/Getty Images Over `100 rural hospitals have closed since 2005, making it hard for millions to access healthcare. ERs...

Jan 19Business InsiderHealthImpact
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