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☆ Lyft riders look at their app about 9 times per ride. Now they'll see ads when they check it.
▼ + stars: | 2023-08-11 | by ( Gabriel Rivera | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +3 min

Lyft's app will now feature ads when a user is booking a ride and during the trip. Its main competitor, Uber, launched video ads on several of its apps back in June. "Lifestyle" is based on locations users "like to visit such as sports games, restaurants, gyms, etc," a spokesperson for Lyft told Insider in an email. All riders will see ads on the app, but they have the option to reject sharing "their behavioral and demographic data," the Lyft spokesperson said. Greenberger told the Journal that Lyft also intends on incorporating video ads on its app before year's end.

Persons: Uber, Lyft, Zach Greenberger, Greenberger, they're, Mark Grether Organizations: Lyft Media, Wall Street Journal

☆ Video calls are coming to X as part of Elon Musk's transformation of Twitter into an everything app, CEO says
▼ + stars: | 2023-08-11 | by ( Gabriel Rivera | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +3 min

X, formerly known as Twitter, is getting a new feature: video calls. CEO Linda Yaccarino said the update is part of Elon Musk's rebrand of Twitter into an everything app. "Even when we announced that I was joining the company, I was joining the company to partner with Elon to transform Twitter into X," Yaccarino told CNBC. Musk's vision for an everything app named X dates back to his days at PayPal at the turn of the millennium. After ending the video, Musk posted that X's live video feature "now works reasonably well."

Persons: Linda Yaccarino, you'll, Yaccarino, Elon, Andrea Conway, Enrique Barragan, X, We'll, —, Musk, livestreamed Organizations: Twitter, Elon Musk, CNBC, PayPal Locations: Elon Musk's

☆ Undergrad enrollment in petroleum engineering has dropped 75% over the past 10 years — even though they make 40% more than computer science grads
▼ + stars: | 2023-08-10 | by ( Gabriel Rivera | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +3 min

Undergraduate enrollment in petroleum engineering is down 75% since 2014, WSJ reported. That's despite the fact that the average petroleum engineering grad makes 40% more than a computer science grad. Heinze told the Journal of Petroleum Technology that over 90% of petroleum-engineering students at Texas Tech have jobs right after graduation. But when it came to picking which career paths were most attractive, the Gen Zers surveyed ranked finance as the most promising industry regarding career prospects. Education was ranked the second-most popular industry when it came to career prospects, and STEM, which includes engineering, was ranked fifth.

Persons: That's, Lloyd, Young, Heinze, Zers Organizations: Morning, Petroleum, Street Journal, Texas Tech University, University of Oklahoma's, Louisiana State University and Colorado School of Mines, Department of Education, US Bureau of Labor Statistics, Colorado School of Mines, Journal of Petroleum Technology, of Petroleum Technology, Texas Tech, CFA Institute, Education

☆ Restaurants are charging nonrefundable reservation deposits to combat no-shows, after nearly 30% of diners say they've ghosted
▼ + stars: | 2023-08-10 | by ( Gabriel Rivera | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +4 min

The next time you book a restaurant reservation, you also may have to pay a deposit. In 2021, online reservation service OpenTable found 28% of Americans said they'd ghosted a restaurant reservation in the last year. JC Myska, general manager at Kintsugi Omakase in Manhattan, said his luxury restaurant's $35-per-person reservation deposit is vital for the eatery, which has only 10 seats. "We have very few seats, and we plan and staff significantly around reservations," Page said. For other restaurants, no-shows can be killer.

Persons: they've, OpenTable, they'd, JC Myska, Kintsugi, Craig Page, Page, it's, Tom Kerridge Organizations: Morning, Michelin, New, Monkey Locations: Manhattan, Brooklyn , New York, Philadelphia, New York City

☆ UFOs are going mainstream. Here are 5 spots to visit if you're looking for aliens.
▼ + stars: | 2023-08-05 | by ( Gabriel Rivera | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +2 min

A former military officer testified at a congressional hearing last week that the US has evidence of alien life. The country's fascination with aliens and UFOs has translated into big money for some tourism sites. From Pennsylvania to California, here are some locations to visit to take a trip into the unknown. The growing belief in the extraterrestrial translates into big dollars for some of the hottest UFO tourism spots nationwide. If you're feeling a sense of intergalactic wanderlust, here are some of the most popular UFO tourism sites in the US:

Persons: — Organizations: Gallup, Roswell's Public Affairs Department Locations: Pennsylvania, California, Roswell , New Mexico

☆ Threads' user base has plummeted more than 80%. Meta's app ended July with just 8 million daily active users.
▼ + stars: | 2023-08-04 | by ( Gabriel Rivera | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +3 min

Threads closed July with 8 million daily active users, down 82% from its peak, according to Sensor Tower data. Meta's Twitter clone, which launched July 5, had 44 million daily active users on July 7. Data from the market intelligence firm Sensor Tower showed Meta's Twitter clone ended July with 8 million daily active users. That's about an 82% drop from its peak daily active user count of 44 million just days after Threads launched, Sensor Tower reported. Since then, Threads has added a following tab on its feed, among other features, Threads programmer Cameron Roth wrote in a Threads post.

Persons: Mark Zuckerberg, haven't, buzzy influencers, Zuckerberg, Adam Mosseri, Mosseri, Cameron Roth Organizations: Twitter, Meta

☆ TweetDeck is turning into XPro, as Elon Musk's Twitter rebrand continues
▼ + stars: | 2023-08-03 | by ( Gabriel Rivera | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +3 min

It's Elon Musk's latest change to Twitter's famous lexicon as part of the platform's rebrand to X. Elon Musk's X, formerly known as Twitter, seems to be in the process of renaming its TweetDeck feature "XPro." It's the latest change in Musk's ongoing transition of Twitter to X that has upended the social media platform's hallmarks, such as its lexicon and logo. TweetDeck is still undergoing changes, but its new name, XPro, is starting to appear on the webpage. "If successful, X will enter the vernacular in ways that we don't yet know," Musk wrote on X Wednesday regarding the rebrand.

Persons: It's Elon, Elon Musk's, Musk, We'll, — Organizations: Twitter, San Locations: San Francisco

☆ Nonprofit sued by Elon Musk's X claps back: It's 'straight out of the authoritarian playbook'
▼ + stars: | 2023-08-02 | by ( Gabriel Rivera | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +4 min

Elon Musk's X Corp. sued a nonprofit, alleging it made false claims about harmful content on Twitter. The nonprofit's CEO, Imran Ahmed, said the lawsuit was "straight out of the authoritarian playbook." The nonprofit that Elon Musk's X Corp. sued on Monday isn't holding back in its criticism of the billionaire. "Elon Musk didn't like the reflection he saw in the mirror, and so he sued the mirror," Ahmed wrote on X. Advertisers left in part due to rising concerns about hate speech and misinformation circulating on Twitter under Musk's direction.

Persons: Elon, Imran Ahmed, Ahmed, Musk, X Organizations: Elon Musk's X Corp, Twitter, Morning, Center

☆ Twitter's got a new tagline — and it sounds like something an aging rock band would say
▼ + stars: | 2023-07-31 | by ( Gabriel Rivera | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +2 min

X, the platform formerly known as Twitter, has a new motto, and it sounds like it belongs to an '80s cover band. It's the latest change in Elon Musk's rebrand of Twitter into an "everything app." X — the app formerly known as Twitter — has a new slogan, and it sounds a little too much like a Bon Jovi song. the app's page in the Apple App Store now reads, a change from the former tagline of "Let's talk." Declarative and reminiscent of an '80s rock band, the phrase is Elon Musk's latest change as he rebrands Twitter to X.

Persons: X, Twitter —, Elon, Musk, adieu Organizations: Apple, Twitter, X Corp Locations: Elon Musk's, San Francisco

☆ Facebook took down COVID-19 posts after pressure from the Biden administration. 'I can't see Mark in a million years being comfortable with that,' an exec said in newly uncovered emails.
▼ + stars: | 2023-07-28 | by ( Gabriel Rivera | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +3 min

The White House pressured Facebook to remove posts about COVID-19 , WSJ reported. But execs internally questioned and disagreed with the directives, according to newly uncovered emails. The White House lambasted Facebook in 2021 for its handling of COVID-19 misinformation, with Biden saying Facebook was "killing people." The Journal's report news as the House Judiciary Committee investigates the Biden administration's attempts to address misinformation on social media platforms. The internal Facebook emails were obtained by the Republican-led committee, the WSJ reported.

Persons: execs, Mark Zuckerberg wouldn't, Biden, Zuckerberg, Nick Clegg, Meta's COVID, Karine Jean, Pierre, Biden's Organizations: White, Facebook, Street Journal, Big Tech, Meta, Republican

☆ Model 3 owners want to buy another Tesla — and they are most interested in a Cybertruck next, survey shows
▼ + stars: | 2023-07-27 | by ( Gabriel Rivera | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +3 min

A majority of Model 3 owners planning to buy a Tesla in the next two years would consider a Cybertruck, according to a Bloomberg Survey. Tesla manufactured its first Cybertruck earlier this month, though it hasn't announced an official price. Tesla's long-awaited Cybertruck has yet to hit the road, but Tesla owners are sold on its potential. A majority — 51.8% — of those who said they'd want to buy a Tesla said they would be most interested in a Cybertruck. The survey polled 5,000 owners of Tesla Model 3s, the company's first mass-market vehicle that was released in 2017.

Persons: Tesla, hasn't, Cybertruck, Musk, we're Organizations: Bloomberg Survey, Morning, Bloomberg, Tesla Locations: Tesla's Texas

☆ Elon Musk pushed for PayPal's website to be rebranded as X.com more than 20 years ago, but focus groups reportedly thought it sounded like a porn website
▼ + stars: | 2023-07-24 | by ( Gabriel Rivera | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +3 min

Elon Musk rebranded Twitter as X over the weekend — a name that has long been one of his favorites. But focus groups thought the name sounded "seedy," according to Musk biographer Walter Isaacson. Musk wanted the company to be rebranded either as X.com or X-PayPal, but his fellow executives disagreed. Several of Musk's brands among his slate of companies include the letter X, including SpaceX and the more recent company xAI. Over the weekend, he changed the company's logo from the iconic blue bird to a white letter X against a black backdrop.

Persons: Walter Isaacson, Elon Musk, Musk, Peter Thiel, Max Levchin, Max Chafkin, Chafkin, Isaacson Organizations: Elon, PayPal, Service, Twitter, musing, SpaceX Locations: Wall, Silicon

☆ How can you tell if an image is AI-generated? Soon, there'll likely be a watermark.
▼ + stars: | 2023-07-21 | by ( Gabriel Rivera | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +4 min

But seven Big Tech and AI companies just partnered with the White House to step up efforts to flag such content. The companies may soon roll out systems that watermark or identify the origins of AI-generated materials. A coalition of tech giants and startups pledged Friday to watermark content produced by AI. The pledge included commitments for the companies to make "robust systems" that identify or watermark content produced by their AI tools. A political ad released Tuesday in support of Florida Governor Ron DeSantis reportedly used AI to replicate Donald Trump's voice and create a soundbite that never actually occurred.

Persons: Biden, ChatGPT, Ron DeSantis, Donald Trump's, Trump, Anthony Fauci Organizations: Big Tech, White, Google, Microsoft, Meta, AFP Locations: Florida

☆ You won't have to pay extra for a good seat for Barbenheimer. AMC is ditching its controversial plan to charge more for movie theater seats with the best view.
▼ + stars: | 2023-07-21 | by ( Gabriel Rivera | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +4 min

AMC Theatres isn't going ahead with its plan to charge more for the best seats at the movie theater. After trials at select locations, the chain scrapped the plan to ensure "its ticket prices stay competitive." AMC's unpopular tiered-pricing plan would have raised costs for middle seats and charged less for seats in the front row. The US box office dropped from $11.3 billion in 2019 to just $7.3 billion in 2022, according to Box Office Mojo. The domestic box office has grossed just over $5 billion in 2023 to date, per Box Office Mojo.

Persons: Oppenheimer, Adam Aron Organizations: AMC, AMC Theatres, Office, National Association of Theater, Regal Cinemas, National Association of Theater Owners, CNBC Locations: Canada

☆ Threads use is down to about 6 minutes a day — plummeting from 21 minutes when it first launched
▼ + stars: | 2023-07-19 | by ( Gabriel Rivera | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +3 min

Users are only spending 6 minutes on the app a day — down from 21 minutes, according to Similarweb data. Threads is losing daily users just as fast as it gained them. On July 7, two days after the app's launch, users were on Threads for around 21 minutes a day on average. In a Threads post, Cameron Roth, a software engineer for Instagram and Threads, announced a slate of new bug fixes and upgrades to the platform's feed and follow features. Mosseri echoed Zuckerberg's early enthusiasm in a Saturday Threads post, also sent to Insider by a Meta spokesperson.

Persons: Elon, Meta, Adam Mosseri, Mark Zuckerberg, Mosseri, Cameron Roth Organizations: Meta, Twitter Locations: Similarweb

☆ Even the CEO of a top AI startup thinks that AI will 'be the biggest bubble of all time'
▼ + stars: | 2023-07-19 | by ( Gabriel Rivera | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +3 min

Stability AI founder Emad Mostaque Courtesy of Stability AIThe CEO of one of the biggest AI startups warned that AI will "be the biggest bubble of all time." Emad Mostaque, the cofounder of Stability AI, compared the hype around the technology to the dot-com bubble, CNBC reported. Stability AI CEO Emad Mostaque told UBS analysts that he thinks AI will "be the biggest bubble of all time," CNBC reported. "I call it the 'dot AI' bubble, and it hasn't even started yet," the cofounder of the generative AI startup said on the call, according to CNBC. And in May, Wharton finance professor Jeremy Siegel was careful not to prognosticate about the future of AI companies.

Persons: Emad Mostaque, hasn't, Mostaque, Sam Altman, James Penny, Michael Hartnett, Dan Ives, Wharton, Jeremy Siegel Organizations: CNBC, Investment, Service, UBS, Investors, Bank of America Global Research, Federal Reserve, Wedbush Securities Locations: Wall, Silicon, Pitchbook, Silicon Valley

☆ You may have downloaded the wrong Threads. A four-year-old app with the same name has seen a surge in popularity since Instagram launched its Twitter clone.
▼ + stars: | 2023-07-18 | by ( Gabriel Rivera | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +3 min

Earlier this month, Meta launched its Twitter-like app Threads, which already has over 100 million users. The "other" Threads has added disclaimers to its website and on the App Store. If you accidentally downloaded the wrong Threads app, you're not alone. Meta launched its wannabe "Twitter Killer" app, which it calls Threads, earlier this month, prompting millions of people to rush to the App Store. But it's not the only app that's growing: Some people appear to have downloaded the wrong Threads app.

Persons: Mark Zuckerberg, Adam Mosseri, it's, Threads.com, haven't, Rousseau Kazi, he's, Meta, Kazi, Zuckerberg, Mosseri Organizations: Meta, TechCrunch, Google, Big Tech, Elon, Facebook Locations: Data.ai, Spain, Italy, Germany

☆ Here's 9 ways to turn ChatGPT Plus into your personal data analyst with the new Code Interpreter plug-in
▼ + stars: | 2023-07-15 | by ( Aaron Mok | Gabriel Rivera | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +8 min

Here's 9 ways ChatGPT Plus users have used Code Interpreter, from data analysis to game creation. Last week, OpenAI launched a beta version of its plug-in called Code Interpreter to users of ChatGPT Plus, which costs $20 a month. Thanks to the new plug-in, users may now be able to turn ChatGPT into their own personal data analyst. After that, Ker found open source code to help Code Interpreter devise a version of the game. Analyze playlistsWith Code Interpreter, there may be no need to wait all year for your Spotify Wrapped playlist.

Persons: OpenAI, Ethan Mollick, there'd, Mollick, Alex Ker, Ker, Greg Howe, Jason Gulya, Drake Surach, —, Surach, Kris Kashtanova, ChatGPT, Salma Aboukar, Midjourney, Wharton, — Salma Aboukar, Rick Astley Organizations: LinkedIn, ChatGPT, Twitter, University of Pennsylvania's Wharton School of Business, Berkeley College, YouTube

☆ Tucker Carlson and his former college roommate are reportedly looking to raise 'hundreds of millions' to launch a new media company
▼ + stars: | 2023-07-14 | by ( Gabriel Rivera | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +3 min

Tucker Carlson is teaming up with his Daily Caller cofounder to raise money for a new media venture, WSJ reported. The former college roommates want to build the platform off of Carlson's Twitter videos. Tucker Carlson has moved on from Fox News — and has his sights set on a media empire all his own. Carlson and Neil Patel, his former college roommate and fellow Daily Caller cofounder, are looking to raise "hundreds of millions of dollars" for a new business venture, The Wall Street Journal reported. In the lawsuit, Epps alleged that "Fox, and particularly Mr. Carlson, commenced a years-long campaign spreading falsehoods about Epps."

Persons: Tucker Carlson, Carlson, Neil Patel, Patel, Ray Epps, Epps, Fox Organizations: Fox News, Dominion Voting Systems, Street Journal, Twitter, Elon, Trinity College, Trump

☆ Open AI is being investigated by the FTC over data and privacy concerns. It could be ChatGPT's biggest threat yet.
▼ + stars: | 2023-07-13 | by ( Gabriel Rivera | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +3 min

The FTC is investigating OpenAI over its lack of transparency regarding data and privacy. The FTC is demanding Open AI detail how and where it collects data. The investigation adds to growing legal challenges filed against the AI company behind ChatGPT. Like the FTC's current probe, many existing legal challenges to OpenAI concern the company's collection of data to train ChatGPT. But Altman has yet to comment on any of the recent legal challenges aimed at his company.

Persons: —, OpenAI, ChatGPT, Sarah Silverman, Sam Altman, Altman Organizations: FTC, Morning, Federal Trade Commission, The Washington, The Post, Twitter, Facebook Locations: Abu Dhabi

☆ An AI detector mislabeled nearly every essay written by a non-native English speaker as being written by a bot
▼ + stars: | 2023-07-13 | by ( Gabriel Rivera | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +5 min

Researchers found popular GPT-detectors flagged essays by non-native English speakers as AI-written. Systems that detect AI-generated writing are flagging essays written by non-native English speakers as bot-generated, researchers from Stanford University said. In the study published Monday, the researchers ran more than 100 essays written by non-native English speakers through seven popular GPT detectors. The researchers also fed the detectors essays written by US eighth graders who speak English natively. More than half of the essays written by non-native English speakers were marked as AI-generated by the detection systems, the Stanford researchers found.

Persons: chatbots, James Zou, Zou, OpenAI, Sam Altman, ChatGPT, Altman Organizations: Systems, Stanford University, Stanford, The New York Times

☆ Generative AI tools are quickly 'running out of text' to train themselves on, UC Berkeley professor warns
▼ + stars: | 2023-07-11 | by ( Gabriel Rivera | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +5 min

A Berkeley professor said AI developers are "running out of text" to train chatbots at a UN summit. But Russell's insights point toward another potential vulnerability: the shortage of text to train these datasets. A study conducted last November by Epoch, a group of AI researchers, estimated that machine learning datasets will likely deplete all "high-quality language data" before 2026. Language data in "high-quality" sets comes from sources such as "books, news articles, scientific papers, Wikipedia, and filtered web content," according to the study. Russell added that while there are possible explanations for such a purchase, "the natural inference is that there isn't enough high-quality public data left."

Persons: Stuart Russell, Russell, OpenAI, Elon Musk, he's, Sarah Silverman, Mona Awad, Paul Tremblay, Sam Altman, Altman Organizations: UN, University of California, International Telecommunication Union, OpenAI Locations: Berkeley, UN, Abu Dhabi

☆ 2 authors say OpenAI 'ingested' their books to train ChatGPT. Now they're suing, and a 'wave' of similar court cases may follow.
▼ + stars: | 2023-07-09 | by ( Gabriel Rivera | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +4 min

Two writers are suing OpenAI, accusing the company of ingesting their books to train ChatGPT. A law professor anticipates more lawsuits involving copyright law and generative AI in the future. Two award-winning authors recently sued OpenAI, accusing the generative-AI bastion of violating copyright law by using their published books to train ChatGPT without their consent. The suit is the latest example of tension between creatives and generative AI tools capable of producing text and images in seconds. Daniel Gervais, a law professor at Vanderbilt University, told Insider that the writers' lawsuit is one of a handful of copyright cases against generative AI tools nationwide.

Persons: OpenAI, Mona Awad, Paul Tremblay, Daniel Gervais, Gervais, Awad, Andres Guadamuz, Guadamuz, Tremblay Organizations: Morning, Vanderbilt University, University of Sussex, Guardian, Big Tech Locations: US, Northern California

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