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Canada takes on Google as its antitrust watchdog sues the tech giant for dominating the adtech market.

Having a child in an auspicious year may be a point of prestige for some parents, but experts say there are real drawbacks.

Donald Trump dined with Mark Zuckerberg at Mar-a-Lago, signaling a possible rapprochement after he threatened to jail the Meta CEO.

As many as one in ten software engineers lurk online, doing less than the bare minimum, a Stanford researcher says.

Scoop: Voice AI is gaining traction with French startup PyannoteAI looking to raise fresh funding. Read more at Business Insider. https://lnkd.in/eBWpG_3T

New for Business Insider: At what age should you retire? When should you start collecting Social Security? Will you need to work part time in retirement? Millions of Americans are asking these questions, and some told Business Insider what they've learned in a voluntary reader survey. Over the past two months, over 1,700 Americans and counting between the ages of 48 and 90 shared their biggest regrets with BI. (This is part three of an ongoing series.) A few dozen of those survey respondents talked about mistakes made while navigating their retirement years. Regrets included retiring too early, taking Social Security benefits prematurely, and draining retirement savings too quickly. Others said unpreventable life events like a spouse's death or medical emergency set them back. Many wished they held onto jobs longer or better understood how sudden costs could hurt their wallets. And a few talked about finding community — and themselves — in retirement.

Silicon Valley leaders all in on the artificial-intelligence boom have a message for critics: Their technology has not hit a wall. A fierce debate over whether improvements in AI models have hit their limit has taken hold in recent weeks, forcing several CEOs to respond. OpenAI's boss, Sam Altman, was among the first to speak out, posting on X this month that "there is no wall." Dario Amodei, CEO of the rival firm Anthropic, and Jensen Huang, CEO of NVIDIA, have also disputed reports that AI progress has slowed. Others, including Marc Andreessen, say AI models aren't getting noticeably better and are all converging to perform at roughly similar levels. Business Insider spoke with 12 people at the forefront of the AI industry, including startup founders, investors, and current and former insiders at Google DeepMind and OpenAI, about the challenges and opportunities ahead in the quest for superintelligent AI. Together, they said that tapping into new types of data, building reasoning into systems, and creating smaller but more specialized models were some of the ways to keep the wheels of AI progress turning. Read more about what they said: https://lnkd.in/e3GkiS56 (Credit: iStock; Rebecca Zisser/BI) #ai #generativeAI #siliconvalley

Rep. Ro Khanna, who represents the heart of Silicon Valley, cited his own interactions with Elon Musk as examples of why Democrats should stay on X.

Australia voted to ban social media for kids under 16. But how tech companies should comply with the new law remains a big question.

Inflation could rise as high as 5% as Trump enacts his economic policies, "Dr. Doom" Nouriel Roubini said.