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☆ Kirsten Dunst says the 'major pay disparity' between her and Tobey Maguire in 'Spider-Man' was so normal she didn't think to challenge it
▼ + stars: | 2024-04-03 | by ( Eammon Jacobs | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +3 min

Kirsten Dunst said the "major pay disparity" between herself and Tobey Maguire was normalized in her youth. She told BBC News that she didn't think to challenge it at the time. AdvertisementKirsten Dunst said that the "major pay disparity" between herself and Tobey Maguire at the start of her career felt so normal that she didn't think to challenge it — even though was more successful at the box office. "I definitely grew up in a time with major pay disparity between the lead actor and myself, even though I had been in 'Bring it On' and he hadn't, you know what I mean?" I was just like, 'Oh yeah, Tobey is playing Spider-Man,'" she said.

Persons: Kirsten Dunst, Tobey Maguire, Dunst, she's, —, Claudia, Brad Pitt, Tom Cruise, Torrance Shipman, Mary Jane Watson, Maguire, Tobey, Mary Jane, Sam Raimi Organizations: BBC News, Service, Office, Independent Locations: Hollywood

☆ I've been an expat for 20 years. Facebook has been at the center of both the best and worst parts of my life abroad.
▼ + stars: | 2024-02-02 | by ( Nicola Prentis | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +5 min

At that point, I could see that the problem wasn't Facebook. Those Facebook groups gave me a real writing career that has allowed me to stay afloat through single motherhood as an expat. The advice I get from Facebook groups is often better and faster than I get from the accountant I have on retainer. Sometimes, my Facebook expat network and work collide, like the time I bought a secondhand kids' bike, and the seller's husband became my favorite content writing client ever. AdvertisementIf I moved again, I'd join a few Facebook local groups with the word "expat."

Persons: —, I'd, He'd, Nicola Prentis, I'm, cutie, Tobey, hadn't Organizations: Service, Business, Facebook, Cosmopolitan Locations: Istanbul, Turkish, Madrid, Spain, Girona, Barcelona, Brisbane, Australia

☆ Researchers spotted a baby great white for the first time ever, and it could help solve one of shark science's biggest mysteries
▼ + stars: | 2024-01-29 | by ( Jenny Mcgrath | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +3 min

AdvertisementLast summer, a drone captured footage of a ghostly white shark near the coast of Santa Barbara, California. It turned out to be an extremely rare sighting of a baby white shark, and its appearance could help scientists solve some big mysteries. A strange white colorDespite their name, white sharks are usually gray and white. AdvertisementPregnant white sharks produce the yellowish fluid, uterine milk, to provide nutrition for the developing embryo. "Observations of free-swimming newborn white sharks are extremely rare," Tobey Curtis, a National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration shark scientist who didn't participate in the research, told Science.

Persons: —, Carlos Gauna, Phillip Sternes, Sternes, Tobey Curtis, Curtis Organizations: Service, University of California, Administration, Science Locations: California, Santa Barbara , California, Riverside

☆ Challenging norms and finding your North Star with AI in 2024
▼ + stars: | 2024-01-18 | by ( Sponsor Post | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +5 min

In the following months, business leaders across every industry grappled with executive mandates to quickly build and implement a new AI strategy. Not all AI will be specifically tuned to the requirements you need in an AI solution. Without trust, any AI solution will falter in delivering the results your employees and customers expect and deserve. Any AI solution you want to champion must be accurate every time, the first time, in any challenge you give it. AI solutions in 2024 have incredible potential to automate tasks to make work more efficient, answers more accessible, and reduce cognitive overload.

Persons: Elizabeth Tobey, — Organizations: Digital, NICE, Star, Insider Studios Locations: Star

☆ Why conversation is at the heart of an excellent customer experience
▼ + stars: | 2023-11-16 | by ( Sponsor Post | Created Insider Studios With Nice | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +6 min

NICE Enlighten, a purpose-built AI for customer experience, has operations, agents, and customers covered across the end-to-end customer journeyAI chatbots that understand and respond to customer emotions can be used to personalize the customer experience and provide expedited resolutions. Conversation as a means of delivering exceptional customer experience (CX) has reached a tipping point in today's modern business landscape. This mismatch between consumer expectations and business capabilities is a significant opportunity for generative AI to improve the customer experience. The future of conversational customer experienceAlthough AI has the potential to revolutionize the customer experience, it is not without its drawbacks. These chatbots can be used to personalize the customer experience and provide expedited resolutions to customer problems.

Persons: Elizabeth Tobey, Tobey Organizations: NICE, CX, Insider Studios

☆ Jeff Bezos and Lauren Sanchez's superyacht engagement party reportedly included business titans and celebs, from Bill Gates and his girlfriend to Leonardo DiCaprio
▼ + stars: | 2023-08-07 | by ( Haley Tenore | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +3 min

Some big names attended, including Bill Gates, Bumble CEO Whitney Wolfe Herd, and Kris Jenner. The party took place on Bezos' $500 million yacht, which first set sail in February. Jeff Bezos and Lauren Sanchez celebrated their engagement last week — and their party aboard the Amazon cofounder's $500 million superyacht attracted some big names. Attendees included Kris Jenner, Bumble CEO Whitney Wolfe Herd, and fashion designer Sarah Staudinger, according to photos on Sanchez's Instagram. Bezos and Sanchez have been spending lots of time on their $500 million yacht, which first hit the seas in February.

Persons: Jeff Bezos, Lauren Sanchez, Bill Gates, Bumble, Whitney Wolfe Herd, Kris Jenner, Sarah Staudinger, Instagram, Paula Hurd, Page, Wendi Murdoch, Rupert Murdoch's, Ari Emanuel, Staudinger, Andrew Garfield, Tobey Maguire, Rania Al Abdullah, Queen of Jordan, Leonardo DiCaprio, Bezos, DiCaprio, Sanchez, Mackenzie Scott Organizations: Morning, Black Ops Aviation, Good Locations: Positano, Italy

April 26 (Reuters) - With more and more lawyers at major law firms using fast-advancing generative artificial intelligence tools, legal AI startup Harvey said Wednesday that it raised $21 million in fresh investor cash. Sequoia Capital, which is leading the Series A fundraising round, said more than 15,000 law firms are on a waiting list to start using Harvey. The company says it builds custom large language models for law firms. Technology companies and investors have rushed to embrace large language model-based generative AI since Microsoft-backed OpenAI's ChatGPT debuted in November. Casetext in March released its AI legal assistant product, CoCounsel, which uses GPT-4 to speed up tasks like legal research, contract analysis and document review.

Wells warned of the contents of the video, called it "horrific," and asked people to protest in peace after its release. Crump has said it reminded him of “the Rodney King video,” referring to the 1991 bystander video of Los Angeles police officers beating a Black man. Two of the officers, Mills and Smith, posted $250,000 bond and were released late Thursday. Haley, Martin and Bean had remained in custody Thursday night, jail records showed. “I expect you to feel what the Nichols family feels,” she said.

☆ Elizabeth Banks Thinks This Interview Is Dangerous for Her
▼ + stars: | 2022-09-26 | by ( David Marchese | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +21 min

I don’t know where, but people are seeing it. I don’t know what they thought that movie was meant to be marketing-wise, but it was a little gem for us. He basically said, Pay me or I’m going to tell your wife. Let’s do another one.” Ray said, “OK, what do you want me to do differently?” The director said: “I don’t know. I don’t know that there’s any way to communicate that to you.

☆ The 5 best Nintendo Switch games for kids in 2023
▼ + stars: | 2022-02-16 | by ( Tobey Grumet | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +6 min

That’s why we tried enticing them back to the familial circle with the Nintendo Switch. Though our boys abandoned their Nintendo Wii long ago in lieu of an Xbox, they were psyched to be back in the fold with the versatility of the more portable, lower-cost Switch, which starts at $199 for the Nintendo Switch Lite and goes to $349 for the Nintendo Switch OLED. Here are the best Nintendo Switch games for kids of all ages. One of the best Nintendo Switch fitness games, Ring Fit Adventure comes packaged with a pliable Pilates ring dubbed the Ring-Con and a Leg Strap pouch that secures one of your Joy-Con controllers. And lucky we did, because Big Brain Academy: Brain vs.

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