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• Almost all American billionaires are founders or heirs to family fortunes.
• Forbes identified just 26 out of 760 US billionaires who made it big by climbing the corporate ladder.
• They include Apple's Tim Cook, JPMorgan's Jamie Dimon, and ex-Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer.

Virtually all of America's

• Google is renaming its AI assistant Bard to Gemini.
• It's also finally giving users access to Gemini Ultra, its most powerful AI model yet.
• Google vice president Sissie Hsiao explains the thinking behind the rebrand.

Back in October, Business Insider sat down with Sissie Hsiao, Google's head of the AI

• Russia is exploiting shortages in Ukraine's air defenses with airstrikes, the White House said.
• It's forcing Ukraine to use what it has left, National Security Council spokesperson John Kirby said.
• The Russians "know they are not being replaced right now," he said.

Russia is exploiting

• This image of a napping polar bear won an international photography contest.
• Amateur photographer Nima Sarikhani took the image to inspire "hope" for the planet's future.
• The photo highlights a critical period for the vulnerable species.

An image of a young polar bear napping on an iceberg is

Google is famous for having a million similar products with confusingly different names and seemingly nothing in common. (Can I interest you in a messaging app?) But when it comes to its AI work, going forward there is only one name that matters: Gemini.

The company announced on Thursday that it is renaming its Bard chatbot to Gemini

If you felt an earthquake just now, it might have been Google’s latest announcement. In one of the biggest updates in Google’s history, the company unleashed the full version of its next-generation AI model Gemini. Google is changing its chatbot’s name from Bard to Gemini, releasing a dedicated Gemini mobile app, and…

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Before the year 2000, Super Bowl commercials from tech companies offered millions of viewers their first glimpses of the future. Gizmodo watched dozens of videos from the 1980s and ‘90s to find the most iconic Super Bowl commercials from the early tech industry.

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Apple is officially launching its Apple TV, Apple Music, Apple Devices apps on Windows this week. The apps were originally launched in preview last year, but Apple has now removed the preview tag after working with Microsoft to launch the apps.

The trio of apps, in combination with an overhauled iCloud for Windows app, are designed to move Windows

• Congress is working on a bill to reauthorize the FAA for five years.
• One measure could include raising the age pilots need to retire from 65 to 67.
• The FAA warned it needs more data first, while Captain Sully strongly opposed the move.

Captain Chesley 'Sully' Sullenberg and aviation regulators are warning

• A Ukrainian commander says he ended up fighting "son vs. father" on the battlefield.
• He said his estranged father had called him up and asked him to come fight for Russia.
• He believes their units — tanks versus infantry fighting vehicles — had fired on each other. 

A Ukrainian commander has detailed how he ended