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Today begins the seven-day countdown to TechCrunch Disrupt 2025, the flagship technology conference bringing together more than 10,000 leaders, venture capitalists, operators, and innovators, to be held from October 27th to 29th at Moscone West in San Francisco. To celebrate the countdown, we’re offering a special 60% discount on Plus Ones. Save up to $444 when you purchase a pass, plus 60% off a second ticket for co-founders, partners, friends, and team members. Get two discounted passes here. Disrupt 2025 ticket type benefits Industry stage programming: 5 stages For attendees, founders, investors, students, and non-profit passes Five massive stages designed…

Hong Kong — Chinese leader Xi Jinping will convene a key political meeting this week to press ahead with his next five-year strategy to strengthen the world’s second-largest economy amid escalating tensions with the United States. The gathering, known as the Fourth Plenary Meeting, will be a perfect opportunity for Mr Xi to showcase China’s brand of sophisticated economic planning and tight control over its political institutions, days before he is likely to meet with US President Donald Trump on the sidelines of an international summit in South Korea. It also highlights the stark contrast between the two countries as…

In an updated statement released by Buckingham Palace, Andrew said: “I stand by my decision made five years ago to step back from public life. With Your Majesty’s consent, I now feel we must take a further step forward. I will therefore no longer use my title or the honors bestowed upon me. As I have said before, I strongly deny the charges against me.” Carpenter said the decision shows the king “wants to put as much distance as possible between the monarchy and the disgraced prince at this time.” It added: “His personal relationship with his family is likely…

Jim Cramer can’t guarantee that following any particular financial strategy will give you a secure retirement, but he believes there are some strategies that won’t.In the foreword to his book, How to Make Money in Any Market, Kramer offers several warnings about building long-term wealth. For one thing, if you’re looking to rely on Social Security to fund your retirement, that confidence “could be misplaced.” The other thing is that betting on the outcome of basketball games is not a solid investment strategy.”Third, and perhaps worst of all, trolling the internet for ‘meme’ stocks like GameStop or chasing short-term wins…

Wired reports that the Federal Trade Commission has removed three Lina Khan-era blog posts that talked about open source AI and its risks to consumers. One post titled “About the Open Weight Foundation Model” was published on July 10, 2024. Another post titled “Consumers are raising concerns about AI” was published in October 2023. A third post written by Mr. Khan’s staff was published on January 3, 2025, with the title “AI and the risk of consumer harm.” The post said the FTC “noted that AI can cause real-world harm, from encouraging commercial surveillance to enabling fraud and identity theft…

OpenAI announced in a joint statement Monday that it will work with Bryan Cranston, SAG-AFTRA and other actors’ unions to prevent deepfakes in its artificial intelligence video creation app, Sora.The “Breaking Bad” and “Malcolm in the Middle” actor raised concerns after unauthorized AI-generated clips featuring his voice and likeness appeared on the app after the release of Sora 2 in late September, the Screen Actors Guild and National Federation of Television and Radio Artists said in a post on X.”We appreciate OpenAI’s improved policies and guardrails and hope that OpenAI and all companies involved in this work will respect our…

Paris’s Louvre museum said it would remain closed Monday as investigations into Sunday’s unusual theft of historic jewelry continued, but experts said the chances of recovering the treasure were slim. In a post to The thieves used a ladder attached to a truck to enter the Apollo Museum, one of the Louvre’s most ornate rooms, through a window. Armed with tools including angle grinders and blowtorches, they targeted two high-security display cases. Paris prosecutors said it took four minutes for the robbers to break into the gallery, take the jewelry and leave. “At 9:34 a.m., 30 minutes after the doors…

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Psychologist Thomas Chamorro-Premuzic says “just be yourself” is bad advice when it comes to the workplace.Chamorro-Premzic, a professor of business psychology at Columbia University, says that while integrity is often touted as a desirable trait, if you want to advance your career, you’re better off learning skills like tact and self-control.Having high emotional intelligence, which Chamorro Premzic defines as “the ability to understand and manage oneself and others,” is a “fundamental currency” in the workplace, he says.“That makes you more employable and more rewarding,” he says.As Chamorro Premzic writes in his latest book, “Don’t Be Yourself: Why Authenticity Is Overrated…

Anthropic on Monday released a web app for its viral AI coding assistant, Claude Code. This allows developers to create and manage multiple AI coding agents from the browser. Claude Code for Web is currently rolling out to subscribers of Anthropic’s $20/month Pro plan, $100/month and $200/month Max plans. Pro and Max users can access Claude Code on the web by going to claude.ai (the same website as Anthropic’s consumer chatbot) and clicking the “Code” tab, or through the Claude iOS app. This announcement marks Anthropic’s latest effort to evolve Claude Code beyond a command-line interface (CLI) tool that developers…