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☆ Former Google employee says company's AI work is driven by 'a stone cold panic that they are getting left behind'
▼ + stars: | 2024-05-21 | by ( Kwan Wei Kevin Tan | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +4 min

Read previewGoogle might be one of the biggest players in the AI space, but an employee says the tech giant's work in the field has been motivated by "stone cold panic." But Google, Jenson said, wasn't the only tech giant guilty of making this mistake. AdvertisementJenson's scathing assessment comes as tech giants like Google and Apple have been struggling to play catch-up with AI upstarts like OpenAI. AdvertisementWhen Google unveiled its new AI model Gemini 1.5 on February 15, OpenAI dropped its text-to-video model Sora just a few hours later. Last week, OpenAI debuted its new flagship AI model, GPT-4o, a day before Google announced various updates for their models.

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☆ Elon Musk is mourning the loss of Red Lobster too
▼ + stars: | 2024-05-21 | by ( Kwan Wei Kevin Tan | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +1 min

Red Lobster filed for bankruptcy on Sunday and Elon Musk is sad to see them go. I have some fond memories from a long time ago of eating at Red Lobster," he said. AdvertisementElon Musk wasn't happy when he found out that Red Lobster is filing for bankruptcy. On Sunday, the seafood chain said in a statement that it had filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy. Red Lobster said its restaurants will "remain open and operating as usual during the Chapter 11 process."

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☆ Sundar Pichai says OpenAI might have breached YouTube's terms and conditions to train its text-to-video model Sora
▼ + stars: | 2024-05-21 | by ( Kwan Wei Kevin Tan | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +5 min

Read previewOpenAI might've breached YouTube's terms and conditions to train its text-to-video model Sora, says Google CEO Sundar Pichai. "So you felt like they had broken your terms and conditions, or potentially, or if they had, that wouldn't have been appropriate?" Sundar Pichai says he believes OpenAI's Sora breached YouTube's terms and conditions and he is sympathetic to creators whose content is being used to train AI models pic.twitter.com/mF1D6XjYf8 — Tsarathustra (@tsarnick) May 20, 2024Earlier in the interview, Pichai revealed that YouTube was still "following up and trying to understand" how OpenAI had trained Sora. "We have terms and conditions, and we would expect people to abide by those terms and conditions when you build a product, so that's how I felt about it." AdvertisementJohansson said in a statement that she had turned down OpenAI CEO Sam Altman's offer to voice its latest GPT-4o model.

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☆ Elon Musk says the match he had with a sumo wrestler was 'a few minutes of glory' that became '8 years of neck pain'
▼ + stars: | 2024-05-20 | by ( Kwan Wei Kevin Tan | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +1 min

Billionaire Elon Musk once fought a sumo wrestler, and says he's still paying the price for it. "Had a few minutes of glory and 8 years of neck pain," Musk wrote on Sunday. download the app Email address Sign up By clicking “Sign Up”, you accept our Terms of Service and Privacy Policy . AdvertisementElon Musk is still talking about that sumo fight he once had, and it sure sounds like battling a trained wrestler did land Musk in a world of hurt. "Had a few minutes of glory and 8 years of neck pain," Musk wrote.

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☆ The Author of ‘Crazy Rich Asians’ Can’t Go Home, Except in His Books
▼ + stars: | 2024-05-20 | by ( Elisabeth Egan | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +1 min

A reader of Kevin Kwan’s books could be forgiven for expecting him to make a grand entrance at lunch in Beverly Hills — in a Lamborghini, perhaps, or wearing a slick pair of shades. He wore tortoiseshell glasses, a blue cardigan and hair cut for maximum pensive tucking behind ears. Kwan immediately moved a vase of white roses from one table to another — “Do you mind? His debut novel, “Crazy Rich Asians,” published in 2013, has sold more than 5 million copies worldwide and been translated into over 40 languages. The movie version was the first since “The Joy Luck Club” to feature a majority Asian cast.

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☆ Elon Musk is serving up some Bali swag
▼ + stars: | 2024-05-20 | by ( Kwan Wei Kevin Tan | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +1 min

SpaceX CEO Elon Musk was in Bali, Indonesia, this Sunday. The billionaire was there to launch his company's Starlink satellite internet service. AdvertisementBillionaire Elon Musk was in Bali this Sunday, and boy, was he serving up some serious tropical swag. The SpaceX CEO headed to Indonesia on May 19 where he launched his company's Starlink satellite internet service. As part of his visit, Musk visited a community health center where he was seen wearing a Javanese batik shirt.

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☆ BlackRock's COO said he gave his staff a memo written by ChatGPT and they couldn't tell AI wrote it
▼ + stars: | 2024-05-17 | by ( Kwan Wei Kevin Tan | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +3 min

Read previewEmployees at the investment behemoth BlackRock couldn't tell that a strategy memo they were reading was actually written by ChatGPT, the company's COO said on Thursday. BlackRock COO Robert Goldstein recounted the anecdote during an interview with Fortune's Lee Clifford. Goldstein said he'd worked with his team to prepare a memo on the company's generative AI strategy for a board meeting that took place "several months ago." But instead of drafting it themselves, Goldstein decided that the team should get ChatGPT to write the memo instead. Last month, BlackRock CEO Larry Fink said in an earnings call that the company's investments in AI would bolster productivity.

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☆ A top NATO general says Russian troops don't have the numbers or the skills to mount a strategic breakthrough in Kharkiv
▼ + stars: | 2024-05-17 | by ( Kwan Wei Kevin Tan | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +1 min

A top NATO general says Russia won't be able to achieve a "strategic breakthrough" in Kharkiv. US Army Gen. Christopher Cavoli said Russia just doesn't have the numbers or skills to pull it off. Last month, Cavoli told Congress that the Russian army is 15% bigger than when it invaded Ukraine. AdvertisementRussian forces are unlikely to achieve a "strategic breakthrough" in Ukraine's Kharkiv region, a top NATO general said on Thursday. "The Russians don't have the numbers necessary to do a strategic breakthrough," US Army Gen. Christopher Cavoli, NATO's Supreme Allied Commander Europe, told reporters at NATO headquarters in Brussels, per Reuters.

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☆ Elon Musk axed the entire Tesla Supercharger team after their division chief defied orders and said no to more layoffs
▼ + stars: | 2024-05-16 | by ( Kwan Wei Kevin Tan | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +4 min

Read previewTesla CEO Elon Musk made the snap decision to fire the entire Supercharger team after its division chief refused to make further layoffs happen, Reuters reported on Wednesday. The billionaire said in an email to staff on April 29 that he was dissolving the entire team behind Tesla's charging infrastructure, per The Information. AdvertisementRepresentatives for Tesla, Musk, and Tinucci didn't respond to Reuters' request for comment. The Tesla chief moved quickly to assuage concerns, and assured investors that Tesla's Supercharger network isn't going anywhere. A slowdown in the rollout of Tesla's charging infrastructure would thus be a setback for Biden's clean-energy agenda.

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☆ Trump is going out of his way to defend Kristi Noem for shooting her dog, saying she's just 'had a bad week'
▼ + stars: | 2024-05-16 | by ( Kwan Wei Kevin Tan | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +1 min

But former President Donald Trump says he isn't too bothered by the bad press. "She had a bad week. We all have bad weeks," Trump said. AdvertisementFormer President Donald Trump doesn't appear to be too bothered by the criticism surrounding South Dakota Gov. She had a bad week.

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☆ Looks like Elon Musk's belated 40th birthday present to Mark Zuckerberg is reviving that bizarre cage match bet
▼ + stars: | 2024-05-16 | by ( Kwan Wei Kevin Tan | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +5 min

Turns out, if you're Elon Musk, the biggest birthday present you can gift to a tech world nemesis may just be yourself. All of this is to say that one day after Mark Zuckerberg's 40th birthday, Elon Musk is back on their old beef, bringing up that fight he challenged Zuckerberg to last year. "I'm up for a cage match if he is lol," Musk said in an X post on June 20, 2023. — Elon Musk (@elonmusk) August 11, 2023Zuckerberg, however, said Musk never made it clear when they were scheduled to glove up and face off in the ring. Advertisement"Zuck is a chicken," he wrote in an X post on August 13.

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☆ The IMF's chief is sounding the alarm, says the AI revolution is striking the job market 'like a tsunami'
▼ + stars: | 2024-05-15 | by ( Kwan Wei Kevin Tan | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +1 min

IMF chief Kristalina Georgieva says AI will hit the job market "like a tsunami." "We have very little time to get people ready for it, businesses ready for it," she said on Monday. AdvertisementThe AI revolution could have a huge negative impact on the global job market, IMF Managing Director Kristalina Georgieva said on Monday. The IMF chief was delivering a speech at the Swiss Institute of International Studies in Zurich, where she talked about the impact AI could have on job seekers. AI, Georgieva said, is striking the job market "like a tsunami."

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☆ Zuck's birthday t-shirt is a tribute to ancient Rome, Facebook's history, and going hard
▼ + stars: | 2024-05-15 | by ( Kieran Corcoran | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +3 min

Read previewCarthago delenda est — mean anything to you? In a series of photos showing the Meta founder celebrating his 40th birthday, Zuckerberg had a striking black shirt with a Latin phrase on it. Advertisement"Carthago delenda est" means — very emphatically — Carthage must be destroyed. As well as being a throwback to Roman history, it's a throwback to Zuckerberg's own history. So it seems appropriate that a throwback — if obscure — Latin phrase should be at the center of it.

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☆ Rapper swag Zuck has gone too far
▼ + stars: | 2024-05-15 | by ( Kwan Wei Kevin Tan | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +1 min

Silicon Valley, it's time you noticed how one of your boys is looking more and more like a Rap God. Mark Zuckerberg showed up to his 40th birthday bash in what looked like an Eminem-inspired outfit. download the app Email address Sign up By clicking “Sign Up”, you accept our Terms of Service and Privacy Policy . AdvertisementMeta founder and CEO Mark Zuckerberg seems to really love channeling his inner Eminem — but how much rapper Zuck is too much rapper Zuck? Zuckerberg celebrated his 40th birthday on Tuesday with friends and family.

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☆ China is asking its tech giants to ditch Nvidia chips and buy local instead: report
▼ + stars: | 2024-05-14 | by ( Kwan Wei Kevin Tan | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +4 min

download the appSign up to get the inside scoop on today’s biggest stories in markets, tech, and business — delivered daily. Read previewChinese officials are asking domestic tech giants to buy locally-made AI chips instead of Nvidia's, The Information reported on Monday. Chinese tech giants, The Information's sources said, are now expected to purchase equal numbers of locally and foreign-made AI chips for their new data centers. China is a very important market for the technology industry," Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang told the Financial Times in May 2023. Cupertino-based tech giant Apple, for instance, has been working to diversify its supply chains away from China.

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☆ Elon Musk realized he needs his Supercharger team after all, weeks after axing the whole division
▼ + stars: | 2024-05-14 | by ( Kwan Wei Kevin Tan | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +1 min

It looks like Elon Musk realized he needs his Supercharger team after all. The mercurial billionaire axed the entire charging infrastructure team two weeks ago. AdvertisementTesla CEO Elon Musk is re-hiring some of the workers from the Supercharger team he dissolved two weeks ago, Bloomberg reported on Monday. Last month, Musk said in an email to his staff that he was dissolving the team behind Tesla's Supercharger charging-station network, per The Information. Musk has brought back some Supercharger workers, including Tesla's charging director for North America, Max de Zegher, Bloomberg reported, citing people familiar with the matter.

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☆ Meet the students stacking internships and battling each other to get a foot in Goldman Sachs' and JPMorgan's doors
▼ + stars: | 2024-05-13 | by ( Kwan Wei Kevin Tan | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +8 min

All this, the business administration student says, is part of his quest to land a job with a big bank like Goldman Sachs or JPMorgan. Advertisement"I have to grind a lot for academics and then do internships on top of that," Loh said. Many Singapore students have adopted a similar playbook to Loh's, padding their résumés with stacks of internships in the hopes of landing a spot at a top bank. AdvertisementHussain ended up doing five internships throughout his college career, including stints at a hedge fund and a private bank. Tan is slated to join a top European bank as an investment banking analyst this summer.

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☆ Citadel CEO Ken Griffin says the anti-Israel college campus protests are just 'performative art'
▼ + stars: | 2024-05-13 | by ( Kwan Wei Kevin Tan | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +4 min

Anti-Israel protesters are just engaging in a form of performance art, says Citadel CEO Ken Griffin. Griffin said he was pausing his donations to Harvard over its approach to on campus antisemitism. AdvertisementCitadel founder and CEO Ken Griffin, 55, isn't a fan of the anti-Israel protesters that have taken over American college campuses. That's just anarchy," Griffin said of the student protesters. Griffin's criticisms of student protesters highlight the huge influence that Corporate America has on higher education.

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☆ Putin axes defense minister, replaces him with an economist
▼ + stars: | 2024-05-13 | by ( Kwan Wei Kevin Tan | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +4 min

Putin replaced his longtime defense minister Sergei Shoigu with an economist Andrey Belousov. AdvertisementRussian leader Vladimir Putin is replacing his longtime defense minister Sergei Shoigu, 68, with an economist. On Sunday, Putin named former deputy prime minister and economic development minister Andrey Belousov, 65, as his new defense chief. Shoigu, who served as defense minister since 2012, now runs Russia's Security Council instead, taking over from Putin ally Nikolai Patrushev. Representatives for Russia's defense ministry didn't immediately respond to a request for comment from BI sent outside regular business hours.

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☆ Apple's software chiefs decided they needed to upgrade Siri after spending weeks testing out ChatGPT themselves
▼ + stars: | 2024-05-13 | by ( Kwan Wei Kevin Tan | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +3 min

Apple executives knew they needed to upgrade Siri after they started using ChatGPT. The company's software chiefs spent weeks using the OpenAI chatbot before making the decision. AdvertisementApple executives realized their digital assistant Siri badly needed an upgrade after they began testing OpenAI's chatbot, ChatGPT. Unlike most tech giants, Apple has remained relatively coy about how it intends to compete in the field of AI. The Sam Altman-led AI company has long been on Apple's radar, with Cook admitting in an interview with Good Morning America last year that he, too, uses ChatGPT.

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☆ Ukraine lawmakers just passed a bill that'll allow the country to mimic Russia's tactic of drafting convicts to fight in the war
▼ + stars: | 2024-05-09 | by ( Kwan Wei Kevin Tan | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +3 min

The bill, if enacted, imitates the Russian approach of using prisoners to fuel its war efforts. AdvertisementLawmakers in Ukraine passed a bill on Wednesday that would allow the country's military to recruit prisoners to fight on the battlefield. The bill, which has yet to be signed into law by Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy, will allow Ukraine to mimic the Russian tactic of drafting convicts for their war effort. Related storiesBut while Russia hasn't imposed many restrictions on which prisoners they conscript, the Ukrainian bill is a lot more particular on who gets selected. The passing of the bill comes at a precarious time for Ukraine, which has to reckon with what US officials are calling a reinvigorated Russian army.

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☆ RFK Jr. says he might have a dead worm in his brain but he'll eat '5 more' and still be able to beat Biden and Trump in a presidential debate
▼ + stars: | 2024-05-09 | by ( Kwan Wei Kevin Tan | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +3 min

RFK Jr. said in a 2012 divorce deposition that doctors found a dead worm in his brain. "I offer to eat 5 more brain worms and still beat President Trump and President Biden in a debate," he said. Kennedy said on Wednesday that he's confident of winning a presidential debate even if he were to eat a couple more of those "brain worms." "I offer to eat 5 more brain worms and still beat President Trump and President Biden in a debate," Kennedy wrote in a post on X. Kennedy claimed that doctors found a dead worm in his brain during his divorce deposition in 2012, per The Times.

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☆ People are tearing into Apple for its latest iPad commercial: 'Steve wouldn't have shipped that ad'
▼ + stars: | 2024-05-09 | by ( Kwan Wei Kevin Tan | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +3 min

download the appSign up to get the inside scoop on today’s biggest stories in markets, tech, and business — delivered daily. The tech giant unveiled its latest iPad models on May 7. The ad certainly made a statement, just probably not in the manner that Apple intended. "Maybe hire Ridley Scott again next time instead," read one X post referencing the award-winning director behind the "1984" ad. Representatives for Apple didn't immediately respond to a request for comment from BI sent outside regular business hours.

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☆ Elon Musk is looking to deploy Tesla's robotaxis in China, state media reports say
▼ + stars: | 2024-05-08 | by ( Kwan Wei Kevin Tan | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +1 min

Tesla is planning to rollout its robotaxis in China, state-owned newspaper China Daily reported. Elon Musk suggested implementing Tesla's Full Self-Driving technology in China's taxi services. download the app Email address Sign up By clicking “Sign Up”, you accept our Terms of Service and Privacy Policy . AdvertisementTesla CEO Elon Musk is looking to to deploy his company's Full Self-Driving (FSD) technology in China's taxi services, Chinese state-owned newspaper China Daily reported on Tuesday. The Tesla chief made a surprise visit to China last month, where he met the country's second-highest-ranking politician, Premier Li Qiang.

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☆ Boeing is celebrating the latest employee to come forward with dirt on the company 'for doing the right thing'
▼ + stars: | 2024-05-08 | by ( Kwan Wei Kevin Tan | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +1 min

Boeing is lauding an employee who reported a lapse with the 787 Dreamliner's safety checks. A senior Boeing executive said the employee should be celebrated for doing the "right thing." download the app Email address Sign up By clicking “Sign Up”, you accept our Terms of Service and Privacy Policy . AdvertisementThe Boeing employee who raised an issue with the 787 Dreamliner's quality checks to his superiors did the "right thing," a senior executive of the company said last week. "I wanted to personally thank and commend that teammate for doing the right thing," Scott Stocker, who heads the 787 manufacturing program, said in an internal memo on April 29.

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