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[ad_1] A central policy of President Donald Trump’s second administration has been sweeping tariffs on imports from more than 90 countries, leading to uncertainty that has hung over global supply chains throughout 2025.The disruption has only recently subsided as the US has secured deals with major trading partners like the European Union, South Korea, and Japan, all striking deals that settled on a 15% tariff rate. Tariffs are still far higher in places like India and Brazil, both of which the Trump administration stamped with a 50% tariff rate this summer.As companies of various sizes reckon with these rising tariff…

[ad_1] Google is making it possible to now share your Gemini Gems — custom AI assistants and experts designed for specific tasks — the company announced on Thursday. The feature launched last year, initially as part of the Gemini Advanced paid subscription, allowing users to write instructions to create an AI chatbot for different scenarios. For instance, Google launched with premade Gems like a learning coach, a brainstorming assistant, a career guide, a writing editor, and a coding partner. Now, Google says you’ll be able to share your Gems with friends, family, or coworkers as easily as you can share…

[ad_1] 2025-09-18T17:35:05Z Share Facebook Email X LinkedIn Reddit Bluesky WhatsApp Copy link 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. I recently left my home in New York to move across the country and start med school at Stanford. My weeks are busy, filled with long lectures and social engagements. Although medical school is difficult and involves working with cadavers, I’m building community. There’s a quiet moment each…

[ad_1] The entire Meta superintelligence lab could sit on a Boeing 737 Max — and still have seats to spare.Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg likens it more to a boat where seats are extremely limited.”Seats on the boat are precious,” Zuckerberg said on “The State of AI with Rowan Cheung” podcast. Any bad hires or organizational bloat could weigh the whole operation down.”You don’t need many, many hundreds of people — you need 50 to 100 people,” Zuckerberg said. “It’s a group science project.”Zuckerberg recently said that he was looking to build “small, talent-dense teams” to progress the company’s AI vision.…

[ad_1] If you can’t resist the urge to check your phone over and over, even if you’re out with friends, Meta has a solution: check your glasses instead. “The promise of glasses is to preserve this sense of presence that you have with other people,” said CEO Mark Zuckerberg at the Meta Connect 2025 keynote. “I think that we’ve lost it a little bit with phones, and we have the opportunity to get it back with glasses.” In reality, Meta wants its own hardware to eat into the marketshare of Apple and Google so that it doesn’t have to keep…

[ad_1] The lights are dimming on late-night TV, and Jimmy Kimmel’s suspension by ABC is the latest reminder of a fading era.Once the crown jewel of network television, the format faces pressure on multiple fronts. Hosts have become the target of Trump and his allies, who don’t find their satirical jokes funny and want them off the air. At the same time, late-night shows are grappling with declining ratings and ad revenue as audiences shift away from linear TV viewing to streaming and social media.On Wednesday, Disney’s ABC said it had pulled “Jimmy Kimmel Live!” off the air indefinitely. The…

[ad_1] Sinclair, the largest ABC affiliate in the US, says the network didn’t do enough to reprimand Jimmy Kimmel for his remarks about Charlie Kirk.ABC, owned by Disney, said it “indefinitely” suspended production of “Jimmy Kimmel Live!” on Wednesday.Earlier that day, Federal Communications Commission Chairman Brendan Carr criticized Kimmel and suggested the agency could get involved during an interview with Benny Johnson, a conservative commentator. Then, Nexstar, another ABC affiliate, said it would “preempt” the show “for the foreseeable future.” Sinclair also suspended the show on its stations.The company said in a press release that ABC’s decision to suspend “Jimmy…

[ad_1] FCC Commissioner Anna Gomez took ABC to task for suspending Jimmy Kimmel, saying the broadcaster “has put the foundation of the First Amendment in danger.””When corporations surrender in the face of that pressure, they endanger not just themselves, but the right to free expression for everyone in this country,” Gomez, a Biden appointee, said in a statement on Thursday. “The duty to defend the First Amendment does not rest with government, but with all of us. Free speech is the foundation of our democracy, and we must push back against any attempt to erode it.”ABC suspended the late-night host…

[ad_1] Google announced Thursday that it’s rolling out Gemini in Chrome to all Mac and Windows desktop users in the U.S. after previously limiting the capability to Google AI Pro and Google AI Ultra subscribers. The tech giant also announced that it’s bringing agentic capabilities to Chrome in the future, adding its AI Mode search feature to the address bar, launching new Gemini features, using AI to combat AI-generated scams, rolling out automatic password resets, and more. U.S. users who have their language set to English can now ask Gemini to clarify complex information on any web page they’re reading…

[ad_1] ChatGPT, OpenAI’s text-generating AI chatbot, has taken the world by storm since its launch in November 2022. What started as a tool to supercharge productivity through writing essays and code with short text prompts has evolved into a behemoth with 300 million weekly active users. 2024 was a big year for OpenAI, from its partnership with Apple for its generative AI offering, Apple Intelligence, the release of GPT-4o with voice capabilities, and the highly-anticipated launch of its text-to-video model Sora. OpenAI also faced its share of internal drama, including the notable exits of high-level execs like co-founder and longtime…