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[ad_1] President Donald Trump has blasted ABC for its decision to bring Jimmy Kimmel back.About an hour before Kimmel’s Tuesday night show was set to go live, Trump said in a Truth Social post that he could not believe that ABC had given Kimmel his job back.”The White House was told by ABC that his Show was cancelled!” he wrote. “Something happened between then and now because his audience is GONE, and his ‘talent’ was never there.”Trump then hinted that the White House could launch a lawsuit against ABC, referencing the $15 million settlement he won from the network after…

[ad_1] Junior bankers should not worry that their jobs are on the line because of AI, says Sopnendu Mohanty, the CEO of Global Finance & Technology Network, an advisory and investment firm.Mohanty, 53, spent nearly two decades working at Citi, where he helped lead the bank’s global consumer lab network and programs. In 2015, he became the Singapore central bank’s first chief fintech officer.He said AI, like the internet and smartphone, will help make bankers more productive. With AI, a single banker would be able to engage more clients, Mohanty told Business Insider.”When I joined banking in 1997, my ability…

[ad_1] Meta has missed a Senate deadline to hand over records of how its AI chatbots interacted with children, defying a request tied to revelations about the company’s internal policies.On August 15, Sen. Josh Hawley gave Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg until September 19 to provide every draft of a 200-plus page internal rulebook that guided what Meta’s AI chatbots could and couldn’t say, along with enforcement manuals, an age-gating system, and risk reviews.Hawley’s demand came after a Reuters investigation showed Meta’s rules allowed bots to engage in provocative behavior that included sexual conversations with children. Meta removed that language and…

[ad_1] A new JPMorgan Chase report is shedding light on the chilling effect that the H-1B visa overhaul could have on the American labor market.The report, published Tuesday, predicts that the US may see 5,500 fewer work authorizations each month as companies chafe at the eye-popping $100,000 cost for every new application they file.They reached that number by taking the total number of new employment petitions for fiscal 2024, or 141,000, and projecting how many of them were processed in consulates outside the United States. Those roughly 65,000 consular petitions are most likely to be impacted by the new fee,…

[ad_1] This week on StrictlyVC Download, TechCrunch Editor-in-Chief Connie Loizos is joined by Francis deSouza, the renowned entrepreneur, operator, and, since January, COO of Google Cloud. They discuss his goals for Google Cloud and how the company maintains its competitive position by focusing on startups while giants like AWS and Oracle snap up major deals with leading AI companies — namely, OpenAI and Anthropic. The conversation also covers the tangled web of relationships in the AI ecosystem, where companies like Google Cloud provide infrastructure services while their parent companies compete fiercely in generative AI, even as those same parents hold…

[ad_1] JPMorgan CEO Jamie Dimon this week spoke out against Trump’s plan to charge $100,000 for visa applications for skilled overseas workers.In an interview with CNBC in Mumbai, India, Dimon said he supports “merit-based immigration ” and expects employers who rely on the program to object to the president’s executive order, signed late Friday.”I would beg the president,” he said. “He has accomplished border control, that’s great, I mean, I think all nations want real border control, that helps make a nation, but after that, we should have good immigration,” he said.Dimon said employers use H-1Bs “because they need the…

[ad_1] Google Search is bringing its AI Mode feature — its AI-powered search experience — to Spanish-speaking users, the company announced on Tuesday. This expansion will introduce Google’s conversational search interface to a broader market, allowing users to ask questions using natural language queries, engage in back-and-forth conversations, upload images, dig deeper on complex topics, and more. The Spanish-language rollout comes on the heels of Google’s major AI Mode expansion in August, when the company released the feature to 180 more countries worldwide. Previously, it had only been available in the U.S., U.K., and India. During that August rollout, Google…

[ad_1] Disney’s decision to reinstate “Jimmy Kimmel Live!” has raised the tension of ABC’s showdown with local TV broadcasters.Although ABC is bringing Jimmy Kimmel back on Tuesday night, Sinclair and Nexstar — which together own nearly a third of ABC affiliate stations in the US — said they won’t air Kimmel’s show and will instead show local news.ABC had suspended Jimmy Kimmel “indefinitely” last week for his comments about Charlie Kirk’s killer after pushback from Sinclair and Nexstar and pressure from FCC chair Brendan Carr, who warned he might review local broadcast licenses if stations kept airing the show.The stakes…

[ad_1] This is not California state senator Scott Wiener’s first attempt at addressing the dangers of AI. In 2024, Silicon Valley mounted a fierce campaign against his controversial AI safety bill, SB 1047, which would have made tech companies liable for the potential harms of their AI systems. Tech leaders warned that it would stifle America’s AI boom. Governor Gavin Newsom ultimately vetoed the bill, echoing similar concerns, and a popular AI hacker house promptly threw an “SB 1047 Veto Party.” One attendee told me, “Thank god, AI is still legal.” Now Wiener has returned with a new AI safety…

[ad_1] Joe Rogan has had enough of the right celebrating Jimmy Kimmel’s suspension.”I definitely don’t think that the government should be involved ever in dictating what a comedian can or cannot say in a monologue,” Rogan said during an episode of his influential podcast that was posted on Tuesday.Rogan’s statement mirrored what Sen. Ted Cruz of Texas, a Republican and Trump ally, said last week: Conservatives will come to regret setting a precedent where the federal government can bully media companies into censorship.”The problem is the companies, if they’re being pressured by the government, so if that’s real and if…