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Google CEO Sundar Pichai told employees Monday the company is going to need all hands on deck to test Bard, its new ChatGPT rival. He also said Google will soon be enlisting help from partners to test an application programming interface, or API, that would let others access the same underlying technology.The internal memo came shortly after Pichai publicly announced Google’s new conversation technology, powered by artificial intelligence, which it will begin rolling out in the coming weeks. Google has faced pressure from investors and employees to compete with ChatGPT, a chatbot from Microsoft-backed OpenAI, which took the public by…

Cameron and Tyler Winklevoss.Adam Jeffery | CNBCCrypto exchange Gemini will contribute up to $100 million in cash, earmarked for its customers, as part of an agreement with bankrupt Genesis Global Capital and parent Digital Currency Group, Genesis’ lawyers said in a court hearing on Monday.The restructuring deal and recovery plan were announced during a status conference for crypto lender Genesis, which filed for bankruptcy protection in New York on Jan. 19. Genesis owed its creditors, including Gemini and its users, billions of dollars.Gemini, founded by Cameron and Tyler Winklevoss, had been engaged in a high-profile back-and-forth with Barry Silbert, who…

A luxury apartment complex in Missouri has seemingly shocked a TikTok user with its pet rent fee for fish, and it has started a conversation about the costs of having a furry, scaly or feathery friend in modern apartments.A St. Louis woman named Nicole, whose surname was omitted from a New York Post article, told the outlet she was searching for an apartment in Kansas City while browsing Apartments.com, a popular website that lists available home rentals.She reportedly came across the Westover at The Crosswalks, one of four buildings that make up the complex on Armour Boulevard.GAMING YOUTUBER IN JAPAN…

The state of New Mexico may soon have an official aroma, thanks in no small part to the spirited advocacy of a fifth-grade class. Senate Bill 188 would designate “the aroma of green chile roasting in the fall” as the “official aroma of New Mexico.”The bill is sponsored by state Sen. William P. Soules, D-Las Cruces.HIGHWAY SIGN MISHAP IN NEW MEXICO: ALBUQUERQUE SPELLED WRONG IN ‘SIMPLE MISTAKE’On Jan. 31, the bill unanimously cleared the Senate Indian, Rural and Cultural Affairs Committee by a 5-0 vote.A fifth-grade class from Monte Vista Elementary School in Las Cruces, New Mexico, served as the “expert…

Want to grab the best seat in the house at your next screening of “Avatar”? Get ready to pay up.AMC Theatres, the nation’s largest movie theater chain, has announced plans to change the way that it prices tickets. The company on Monday revealed a new initiative called “Sightline at AMC,” which will eliminate the one-price-fits-all approach to selling tickets.Under the new model, AMC will divide up an auditorium’s seats into “Standard Sightline,” “Value Sightline” and “Preferred Sightline” tiers.The “standard” seats, which AMC identifies as “the most common in auditoriums” will be available for the normal price of a ticket. “Value”…

Pinterest shares slipped in extended trading on Monday after the company reported revenue that missed analyst expectations and issued a light forecast for the first quarter. The stock pared its losses after earlier falling by as much as 12%.Here’s how the company did.Revenue: $877 million vs. $886.3 million expected, according to Refinitiv.Earnings: 29 cents per share vs. 27 cents expected, according to Refinitiv.Pinterest said it expects sales in the first quarter to increase in the “low single digits” from a year earlier. Analysts were expecting growth of 6.9% to $614.8 million.The company said that its chief financial officer and head…

An 11-year-old in North Carolina is supplying a local bakery with farm-fresh eggs, and both the bakery owner and the budding entrepreneur are benefiting from their agreement.Courtney Johnson, owner of Sweet Anna’s Bakery in Dallas, North Carolina, appeared on “Fox & Friends” on Monday, February 6, along with 5th-grader Rylen Robbins, to explain how their “egg-cellent” business relationship began.Johnson said she has watched prices go up for all ingredients she uses in her baking. She knows the Robbins family, she said — and has provided cakes and baked goods for their birthday and Christmas parties.PENNSYLVANIA COUPLE STARTS ‘RENT THE CHICKEN’…

During last night’s Grammys, I wasn’t transfixed by Harry Styles’s bedazzled Harlequin jumpsuit with tattoo-revealing décolletage nor was I charmed by Jack Antonoff’s skinny-tie-Buddy-Holly get-up. The red carpet parade all seemed too flashy, too attention seeking, too much. Instead, the man who really stole my heart was Bad Bunny, who wore the simplest of outfits while performing songs from his Grammy-nominated album Un Verano Sin Ti: a T-shirt and jeans. There was something incredible about his look, specifically the high-rise, snug stovepipe pants. They looked familiar, like they belonged to dorky Jerry Seinfeld, a high-fiving Mitt Romney, and definitely someone’s father. The denim was uncharacteristically simple for Bad Bunny, someone…

Despite the plethora of symptoms reported by patients with long COVID, a new study points to just seven that are unique to the illness. However, some long COVID researchers and doctors who’ve treated the disease believe this list is far from comprehensive.The goal of the study was to look for long COVID symptoms that appear or persist more than a month after the initial infection and are distinct from symptoms of other common respiratory viruses, such as the flu or common cold. To do so, researchers used Cerner Real-World Data, a database containing information extracted from the electronic medical records…

Ranked as fifth best overall in the U.S. News & World Report’s annual ratings of popular eating plans, the TLC, which was devised by the National Institutes of Health to help people lower their LDL cholesterol levels, is more of a program than a diet plan.TLC, or Therapeutic Lifestyle Changes, not only offers an eating plan, but also recommends other lifestyle modifications including 30 minutes of activity each day and weight management in an 80-page booklet available online.What is the TLC diet?The program focuses on how changing eating habits might help lower “bad” cholesterol. The dietary part of the program…