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An AI analysis of people on sertraline found that the popular antidepressant would only work on one-third of patients. The findings, which were published this week in the American Journal of Psychiatry, offer hope for better treatment of depression. By applying machine learning to medical data, the researchers accurately predicted early responses to the drug — the most commonly prescribed

• Those trying to climb Mount Everest must now buy poop bags and bring their waste down with them.
• Authorities implemented the rule in response to a smelly, unsightly situation on Everest.
• The mountains have begun to stink, and human stools are visible, a local official told BBC News.

Climb

Sony's Funimation purchased Crunchyroll from WarnerMedia for $1.175 billion in 2020, and they kicked off their transformation into a unified anime subscription service under the latter's name a year after the deal was announced. By 2022, Crunchyroll has already added more than 50 shows that were either exclusive to Funimation and weren't available with dubs to its library. Now, it sounds like they

• 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

Starting February 8, Google Bard, now called Gemini, will be available to users across Canada.

Google is rebranding Bard to Gemini, adding a new mobile app, and offering an AI subscription as the company revamps its approach.

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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