Day: September 19, 2025

• Jimmy Fallon took to “The Tonight Show” to talk about Jimmy Kimmel’s show getting yanked off-air.
• Fallon called Kimmel a “decent, funny, and loving guy,” and added that he hoped he would be back.
• ABC suspended “Jimmy Kimmel Live!” on Wednesday after the host’s comments on Charlie Kirk’s death.

Jimmy Fallon spoke up for his friend in late-night comedy, Jimmy Kimmel, whose show “Jimmy Kimmel Live!” was pulled by ABC on Wednesday.

Fallon, the host of “The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon,” said on Thursday night that he hoped Kimmel would get to film the show again.

“Well, guys, the big story is that Jimmy Kimmel was suspended by ABC after pressure from the FCC, leaving everyone thinking ‘WTF,'” Fallon said.

He then joked that because he and Kimmel share the same first name, he had woken up to 100 text messages from his father expressing sorrow that his show had been canceled.

Fallon then got serious, saying, “But to be honest with you all, I don’t know what’s going on, and no one does.”

“But I do know Jimmy Kimmel, and he’s a decent, funny, and loving guy. I hope he comes back,” he said, drawing loud cheers and applause from the audience.

Fallon still found a way to make a joke about President Donald Trump during the episode. He said he would continue speaking on his show without fear of censorship, but when he started describing how Trump looked on his recent trip to the UK, a loud voiceover drowned out his voice, saying Trump looked “incredibly handsome.”

Kimmel’s “Jimmy Kimmel Live!” was indefinitely suspended by Disney after Brendan Carr, the Trump-appointed chairman of the Federal Communications Commission, took offense to Kimmel’s comments about the killing of conservative political activist Charlie Kirk.

Fallon was one of several late-night hosts who commented on Kimmel’s suspension on Thursday. Jon Stewart gave a sarcasm-laden monologue on the topic, Seth Meyers said the suspension was a “big moment for our democracy,” and Stephen Colbert called it a “blatant assault on the freedom of speech.”

Following Kimmel’s suspension, Fallon also canceled his appearance at Fast Company’s Innovation Festival, where he had been scheduled to talk about his coming NBC reality series, “On Brand.”

“In light of recent events, Jimmy couldn’t be here,” a spokesperson for Fast Company told Business Insider.

A representative of Fallon did not respond to a request for comment from Business Insider.

• OpenAI showcased how college students are using ChatGPT at school.
• The company revealed the top prompts it gathered after inviting 70 students out to its ChatGPT lab to share and refine prompts.
• AI remains a major topic of conversation in education.

What kind of prompts are college students plugging into ChatGPT these days? A new list of 100 AI prompts created by college students who collaborated through OpenAI’s remote lab offers a window into exactly that.

The prompts, which were shared and voted on by 70 college students, are organized into three categories — study, career, and life — and show the students asking ChatGPT to perform roles ranging from a study buddy to a career counselor or even a lawyer.

OpenAI said students from over 50 universities, including Stanford, the University of Pennsylvania, Ohio State, UCLA, BYU, and Washington University in St. Louis, participated in the weekly group discussions. The entire list of participants, who were selected through an application process, is available here.

Other times, the prompts are incredibly short and simple, such as asking for synonyms for “sophisticated.” They can also veer into more heady territory, such as when one student asked the chatbot to deduce their “true goals in life.”

Then, there’s the practical — such as asking ChatGPT to “pre-game the dining hall menu” and develop a meal plan for breakfast, lunch, and dinner that’s healthy, high in protein, and includes fruits and vegetables.

“Earlier this year, we invited 70 students into the ChatGPT Lab to swap their best chats,” Nick Turley, the head of ChatGPT, wrote Wednesday on X. “Together they tested, refined, and voted on the most useful chats, and today we’re sharing their top 100 for students everywhere.”

Many of the prompts — you can see the entire list here — seem to fit within OpenAI CEO Sam Altman’s goal of creating an AI that has a Ph. D.-level expertise that can be relied on to answer a variety of questions, though we would be curious what their professors would say about the results.

Here are a few of the prompts from each category that stood out. If you click through the prompt on the site, it opens up ChatGPT and plugs it in so you can try it out yourself.

Study prompts

Career prompts

Life prompts

As students use AI, educators adapt

The study prompts, in particular, demonstrate that students are increasingly looking to AI to help them save time in their studies.

While AI can be used to help students digest and understand information, college students who previously spoke to Business Insider voiced conflicting feelings about their use of the tech, with some worried about developing an overreliance.

As some colleges embrace the technology and create AI degrees, teachers are grappling with how to navigate a new learning landscape. Some are banning AI use in the classroom. Others say they’re relying more on in-person tests and handwritten papers that are harder to game with ChatGPT.

Classroom assignments are also evolving. Business Insider previously spoke with a lecturer whose college had developed an in-house system to detect how difficult it might be for someone to use AI to cheat on a specific assignment.

• The Yang Gang, tech bros, and two Business Insider reporters partied in Flatiron on Thursday night.
• We put our phones away for the first time in too long.
• The free, offline party inspired dance moves, a little flirting, and great pics.

Manhattan’s most analog party starts with a confiscation. At the door on Thursday night, I slipped my iPhone into a black pouch and clicked it shut. No excuses. Time to make eye contact.

I’m 35 and newly back in New York. My plus one, Amanda, is 24 and could sort the room in seconds: tech bros here, corporate girls there, the deadpan “Gen Z stare” everywhere.

We treated the no-phones Offline party like an anxiety-inducing field test. I brought millennial loneliness and a habit of hiding behind a screen. Amanda brought cheerleader confidence and a faster stride. We stepped onto a roof of strangers to see who could survive longer without a screen.

I found the Offline party through, of all places, host Andrew Yang’s Instagram. I’d been prepping to interview the former presidential candidate about Noble Mobile, his new cellphone plan that pays users back for the data they don’t use.

A few days earlier, he’d posted shots from the last Offline bash — sweaty crowds of tech bros dressed for a demo day and women dancing shoulder-to-shoulder. Later in the week, he shared a video of himself plopping down in a park. The words “touch grass” burst into frame.

Going offline is on brand for Yang. In his 2020 presidential run, he appealed to voters by warning of the ills of automation and the threat to jobs. His proposed solution: a universal basic income that gives every adult American $1,000 a month with no strings attached.

The Yang Gang eats it up. They’re a low-key yet dedicated group of younger, mostly male tech workers, many of whom joined the hive during his presidential campaign. In the years since, they’ve diligently followed and frequented his no-phone parties, which require an RSVP through the online invite app Posh.

Yang’s seventh Offline of the year drew 1,600 RSVPs for a Manhattan rooftop lounge that holds about 500, organizers said. Entry was free and first-come, first-served.

While phones were banned, cameras were not. And so, equipped with a good old-fashioned camera and with Amanda by my side, we stepped into the party. Here’s what it was like.

The first question we had going into Offline was: Who’s going to these parties?

Three minutes in, we had our answer. The Yang Gang.

These guys made a beeline for the merch table and picked up shirts to promote Yang’s cellphone plan.

We talked to a Harlem real-estate agent who worries about a tech-driven wipeout of entry-level jobs. He’s into UBI.

Early in the party, we saw Yang snake across the dance floor, shaking hands with people as he fled to the roof for air.

Behind a velvet rope, the star was a box of turf.

Partygoers lined up for their official “touch grass” portrait, laying tender hands on the sod, which was literally put on a pedestal.

Bartenders poured themed drinks like the Offline Mode with mezcal and banana liqueur.

“Touch Grass” and “End the Brain Rot” pulsed in projected letters, turning the walls into a “Black Mirror”-style PSA.

The venue — the popular club Somewhere Nowhere in Flatiron’s tech hub — was not the bumping, noisy lounge of Amanda’s nights past.

Downstairs, the vibe was nightclub-meets-WeWork happy hour, where the DJ frat-flicked to pop music. Message boards invited you to share favorite books and pickup lines.

The no-phone rule really did inspire connection. Without a screen to check every few minutes, we were forced to look up, which meant making eye contact, which meant having a conversation.

There was no dating app-inspired shyness in this room. Single men approached us openly. If you want to date a New York tech bro, Andrew Yang’s Offline parties are a swell place to start.

Upstairs, the vibe shifted dramatically. It was cooler, calmer, and reminded us of the backyard house parties we reveled in as teenagers.

Standing on top of the boarded-up pool — post-Labor Day in New York City, remember — we ran into a group of four 20-something women who’d just arrived.

Why did they come? They thought it looked cool on Instagram.

Do you have a story to share about tech parties or connecting offline? Contact these reporters at mrussell@businessinsider.com and ayen@businessinsider.com.