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☆ Engineers have found a way to bootstrap their way to smarter AI models as they wait for Chat GPT-5
▼ + stars: | 2024-08-23 | by ( Emma Cosgrove | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +4 min

Read previewChat GPT-5, the next version of OpenAI's language model that changed everything, is on the way. As AI developers wait to test GPT-5, some have found a new way to bootstrap their way to more advanced AI without an entirely new model. Fewer idle GPUs then translate to more affordable computing, as Davis explained on the No Priors podcast released Thursday. When Davis and his co-authors used the compound AI method, the layered model produced the correct answer 37% of the time — a nearly 10-fold increase. "I think people are getting more sophisticated at thinking about cost in more of a life-cycle way," Davis said.

Persons: —, Jared Quincy Davis, Davis, Sarah Guo, Elad Gil, iterating Organizations: Service, Business, Foundry, Lightspeed Venture Partners, Sequoia Capital, Systems

☆ A Harvard Medical School professor with ADHD shares how he retrained his brain for deep work and reached peak productivity
▼ + stars: | 2024-04-17 | by ( Dr. Jeffery Karp | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +10 min

Using two tactics to retrain his brain, Karp gained confidence and pursued a career in academia. The MIT and Harvard professor shares the benefits of working in a flow state in his new book. Though I still struggle every day in various ways, I'm grateful to be able to say that these LIT tools enabled me to meet and far exceed those dismal early expectations. AdvertisementYou're never too old to charge your brain this way, and most definitely no one is ever too young. In fact, LIT tools can be lifesavers for kids, as they were for me.

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☆ Amazon CEO Andy Jassy says he's committed to cost cutting while investing in AI in shareholder letter
▼ + stars: | 2024-04-11 | by ( Annie Palmer | In Annierpalmer | ) www.cnbc.com time to read: +41 min

This work diminished short-term revenue, but was best for customers, much appreciated, and should bode well for customers and AWS longer-term. We're also making progress on many of our newer business investments that have the potential to be important to customers and Amazon long-term. Being intentional about building primitives requires patience. Customers building their own FM must tackle several challenges in getting a model into production. Customers' AI models contain some of their most sensitive data.

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☆ I'm a Swede who used to work with Americans. These are the main differences I saw in our working cultures.
▼ + stars: | 2024-03-31 | by ( Megan Carnegie | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +6 min

These are the main aspects of working in Sweden that other cultures might find surprising. AdvertisementSupport for working parentsIn Sweden, parental leave has become an incubator for new ideas and people often change career direction during their leave. Being on leave gives you time to think with some distance from everyday life. I have been financially supported during my parental leave and as my children grow. Collective bargaining, another tenet of Swedish working culture, prioritizes employee needs and gives more power to the employee.

Persons: —, Sofia Brandt, Ally, There's, they're VAB, I'd, wouldn't, that's Organizations: Service, Accenture, Business Locations: Gothenburg, Sweden, American, San Francisco, America

☆ Instacart is using AI art. It's incredibly unappetizing.
▼ + stars: | 2024-01-28 | by ( Jake Swearingen | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +4 min

In May 2023, Instacart announced it was partnering with OpenAI to create an "Ask Instacart" AI model that would allow users to ask Instacart questions about what to make for dinner. In that press release, it did not disclose that it would also be adding AI recipes to the site too. AdvertisementMultiple companies have been accused of or admitted to using generative AI imagery in the past year. Reuters reported that large advertising agencies are using generative AI art in advertisements. Wizards of the Coast, a gaming company, apologized after it was caught using generative AI in some advertisements.

Persons: Fry, Instacart, OpenAI Organizations: Service, Business, Reuters

☆ Here's what AI startup founders say recent grads should know to land a job in the field
▼ + stars: | 2023-12-03 | by ( Lakshmi Varanasi | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +5 min

AI startup CEOs gave Business Insider their top tips for recent grads. NEW LOOK Sign up to get the inside scoop on today’s biggest stories in markets, tech, and business — delivered daily. download the app Email address Sign up By clicking “Sign Up”, you accept our Terms of Service and Privacy Policy . The speed at which the industry moves can be daunting for anyone trying to land a job in AI . Here are the top tips that founders and CEOs of fast-growing AI startups have for recent grads who want to jump into the field.

Persons: —, Ian Cairns, Cairns, Benji Barash, you've, it's, Henry Scott, Green, David Hsu, Navrina Singh, Sam Altman, Singh Organizations: Business, Service Locations: OpenAI

NEW YORK, Nov 6 (Reuters Breakingviews) - Elon Musk does well when his back is against the wall. His investment in X now fills the longshot role, which leaves him little to lose. Grok, as it is called, has “real-time access to info via the X platform,” Musk noted in a post, which gives it a “massive advantage” over other AI models. Although the product is still being tested, Musk says it already can out-compute OpenAI’s GPT-3.5 and Meta Platforms' (META.O) Llama 2. X may be near, or already has hit, rock bottom, right where Musk often does his best work.

Persons: Elon, Tesla, Musk, ” Musk, Linda Yaccarino, X, Billionaire Elon Musk, Jeffrey Goldfarb, Sharon Lam Organizations: Reuters, Twitter, New York Times, Microsoft, New, Billionaire, OpenAI, Thomson

☆ A biographer spent years following Elon Musk and Steve Jobs. Here's how he says they're alike — and how they're different
▼ + stars: | 2023-10-15 | by ( Sarah Jackson | Grace Kay | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +8 min

Walter Isaacson trailed Elon Musk for years and interviewed Steve Jobs over 40 times to write their biographies. Elon Musk's biographer, Walter Isaacson, once said that the Tesla CEO was "in some ways the Steve Jobs of our time." AdvertisementAdvertisementBoth Musk and Jobs had a "dark streak""When I was reporting on Steve Jobs, his partner Steve Wozniak said that the big question to ask was 'Did he have to be so mean? AdvertisementAdvertisementIsaacson said Steve Jobs (left) took on the role of "alpha male" at Apple and "marginalized" his cofounder Steve Wozniak (right). "As much as I think Steve Jobs is a total genius, Steve Jobs would design a product, be it the Mac or the iPhone, and then it would be thrown over the wall to some manufacturing facility in China or something.

Persons: Walter Isaacson, Elon Musk, Steve Jobs, —, Elon Musk's, Tesla, Jobs, Isaacson, Musk, Steve Wozniak, Grimes, " Isaacson, didn't, Kimberly White, Wozniak, Martin Eberhard, Tom Mueller, It's, Frederic J . BROWN, Musk's, Franz von Holzhausen Organizations: Service, Apple, Jobs, Twitter, SpaceX, Getty, Wall Street, Tesla, Economic, of New Locations: AFP, China, of New York

☆ SpaceX no longer taking losses to produce Starlink satellite antennas, a key step to improving profitability
▼ + stars: | 2023-09-13 | by ( Michael Sheetz | In Michaeljsheetz | ) www.cnbc.com time to read: +1 min

PARIS – Elon Musk's SpaceX is no longer absorbing the cost of the Starlink antennas that it sells with its satellite internet service, a company executive said on Wednesday, a key step to the company improving its profitability. "We were subsidizing terminals but we've been iterating on our terminal production so much that we're no longer subsidizing terminals, which is a good place to be," Jonathan Hofeller, SpaceX vice president of Starlink and commercial sales, said during a panel at the World Satellite Business Week conference. SpaceX sells consumer Starlink antennas, also known as user terminals, for $599 each. For more demanding Starlink customers – such as mobile, maritime, or aviation users – SpaceX sells antennas with its service in a range from $2,500 to $150,000 each. When SpaceX first began selling its Starlink service, company leadership said the terminals cost about $3,000 each to manufacture.

Persons: PARIS – Elon, Jonathan Hofeller Organizations: SpaceX

☆ The tech world is being dividing into 'GPU rich' and 'GPU poor.' Here are the companies in each group.
▼ + stars: | 2023-08-28 | by ( Alistair Barr | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +4 min

SemiAnalysis, a respected research firm, just divided the tech world into 2 groups. You now actually have to have the tech components, other infrastructure, and a smart plan to deploy this incredibly expensive gear. The GPU-PoorPatel and Nishball divide the tech industry into 2 main groups: The "GPU-poor" and the "GPU-rich." Then there are well-known AI firms, such as Hugging Face, Databricks, and Together, that are also GPU-poor. The internet giant is "the Most Compute Rich Firm In The World," with "unbeatably efficient architecture," Patel and Nishall wrote.

Persons: you've, Dylan Patel, Daniel Nishball, Patel, Jules Verne, Rich Patel, Nishball, Elon Musk's, Nishall Organizations: Morning, Nvidia, Google, Meta Locations: Saudi Arabia, UAE

☆ X CEO says she's seen Elon Musk training for a cage fight with Mark Zuckerberg. But she's not so sure it'll happen.
▼ + stars: | 2023-08-10 | by ( Grace Kay | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +3 min

X CEO Linda Yaccarino said she's not sure if Elon Musk will actually fight Mark Zuckerberg. She said she's seen Musk train, but it "may be a humorous back-and-forth between Zuck and Musk." Linda Yaccarino, the CEO of X, which was formerly known as Twitter, said on Thursday that's she not sure if Elon Musk will go through with his offer to fight Mark Zuckerberg in a cage match. The X CEO said it's important that the excitement around a potential matchup between the two billionaires doesn't take away from "the potential of X." Musk and Zuckerberg have a longstanding feud and Meta's recent roll-out of its X competitor Threads only appears to have fueled the fight.

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☆ X is ‘close to breakeven’ says CEO Linda Yaccarino
▼ + stars: | 2023-08-10 | by ( Clare Duffy | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +5 min

New York CNN —X CEO Linda Yaccarino, leader of the platform formerly known as Twitter, said the company is keeping an eye on new competitor Threads, despite the sharply slowing growth of the rival app from Meta. Musk, who is now the company’s chief technology officer, has also been preparing for a cage fight with Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg. Yaccarino joined the company after months of turmoil caused by Musk’s takeover, including mass layoffs, controversial policy decisions and various legal battles. Yaccarino, a former marketing executive with NBCUniversal, was brought on to Twitter in part to help revive its advertising business. And she said on Thursday that the company is “close to breakeven.”“Coca Cola, Visa, State Farm is a huge partner, they’re coming back — the last bunch of weeks, continued revenue growth,” Yaccarino said.

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☆ I'm an engineer on one of the most innovative teams at Ken Griffin's Citadel. Here are 7 lessons that have been critical to my rise at the $59 billion hedge fund.
▼ + stars: | 2023-07-30 | by ( Bianca Chan | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +7 min

Kristofer Baxter leads a team of about 20 UI engineers at Citadel, a $59 billion hedge fund. Now I work at Citadel, leading user interface (UI) on the Citadel X team. But it's really important to be quick. We work really closely with front-office partners and investment professionals so we know what to build. The really important thing there is that you can't be afraid of scale, or even failure.

Persons: Kristofer Baxter, Bianca Chan, Ken Griffin, I've, iterating Organizations: Citadel, Citadel X, Netflix, LinkedIn, Google Locations: Miami

☆ Elon Musk's X rebrand reignites his goal to turn Twitter into an app like China's WeChat
▼ + stars: | 2023-07-26 | by ( Arjun Kharpal | ) www.cnbc.com time to read: +3 min

In October, the billionaire said buying Twitter was an "accelerant to creating X, the everything app," without providing further details. Musk called WeChat 'great'Super apps refer to a type of app that allow users to carry out multiple functions without having to leave the app. The biggest super app in the world is called WeChat which is run by Chinese technology giant Tencent and has over 1.3 billion users. While China pioneered the super app, the idea has taken off in other parts of Asia. Musk has likely taken inspiration from WeChat, an app he called "great" last year.

Persons: Elon, Harun Ozalp, Elon Musk, China's WeChat, Musk, Linda Yaccarino, WeChat Organizations: HK, Anadolu Agency, Getty, Twitter, Google Locations: China, Asia, Singapore

"Is there going to be a challenge to Royal Enfield? It sold fewer than 30,000 motorcycles - less than the number of bikes Royal Enfield sells each month. Triumph said it has received orders for over 14,000 Speed 400 bikes, exceeding its total India sales of the past decade. Still, the frenzy over the new models is reflected in the surge in Google searches about Harley-Davidson and Triumph in India. Improved financing options is also encouraging lower-income buyers to consider premium bikes, said HDFC Securities analyst Aniket Mhatre.

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☆ Google execs admit users are 'not quite happy' with search experience after Reddit blackouts
▼ + stars: | 2023-06-26 | by ( Jennifer Elias | ) www.cnbc.com time to read: +2 min

Google users have long been able to append their search queries with the term "Reddit" to find helpful resources on specific topics. When thousands of Reddit forums went dark earlier this month, that tactic lost its effectiveness. "Many of you may wonder how we have a search team that's iterating and building all this new stuff and yet somehow, users are still not quite happy," Raghavan said. "What can we do to improve the user experience on the core product that made Google a household name?" At its annual developer conference in May, the company said it was experimenting with an effort called Search Generative Experience, which still isn't available to the public, showing more in-depth results powered by generative AI.

Persons: Prabhakar Raghavan, Google's, Raghavan, that's, Bard Organizations: Google, YouTube, CNBC Locations: U.S

☆ Apple Vision Pro: Impressive specs, new way of interacting could help it break the VR curse
▼ + stars: | 2023-06-09 | by ( Kif Leswing | ) www.cnbc.com time to read: +11 min

The Apple Vision Pro is significantly more powerful than nearly all competing products on the market. Huge specsThe new Apple Vision Pro headset is displayed during the Apple Worldwide Developers Conference on June 05, 2023 in Cupertino, California. A new interfaceApple Vision Pro Source: AppleJust as the iPhone did, the Apple Vision Pro introduces a new kind of user interface. Apple Vision Pro Source: AppleEye tracking often uses small sensors to see where the user's gaze is resting. The Apple ecosystemApple CEO Tim Cook stands next to the new Apple Vision Pro headset.

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☆ The World Bank is betting on this company to 'green' the $1.6 trillion steel industry — take a look inside
▼ + stars: | 2023-06-05 | by ( Catherine Clifford | In Catclifford | ) www.cnbc.com time to read: +8 min

Boston Metal CEO, Tadeu Carneiro Photo courtesy Boston MetalThe Boston Metal offices in Woburn, Mass. A diagram of the process Boston Metal is using to make green steel. Zoom In Icon Arrows pointing outwards This is where the electricity is converted from AC to DC in the Boston Metal location. (A portion of the photo has been altered to protect the intellectual property of Boston Metal.) Zoom In Icon Arrows pointing outwards The Boston Metal electrolysis process releases oxygen as a byproduct.

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☆ Google's patents cover tech in ChatGPT. But fighting rivals in court isn't worth it, legal experts say.
▼ + stars: | 2023-05-26 | by ( Thomas Maxwell | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +5 min

Google invented AI technology like the Transformer, which led to breakthroughs in the chatbot race. Essentially, outside researchers gain access to a piece of AI technology from Google and continue iterating on it, which in turn benefits Google's own products. Several experts in patent law spoke to Insider about Google's AI patents, namely why it hasn't used them against competitors and whether it even could. Technical and legal questions aside, it would be somewhat hypocritical for Google to sue anyone for infringing its AI patents. Patent warsLegal experts pointed to the idea of "mutually assured destruction" to explain why tech companies would file patents without enforcing them offensively.

Persons: hasn't, Matthew D'Amore, Idong Ebong, Nixon Peabody Organizations: Google, Cornell University, Big Tech, Microsoft, Samsung, Apple, HTC, IBM Locations: OpenAI, ChatGPT

☆ Pledge, a carbon accounting startup founded by ex-Revolut and Freetrade staffers, just raised $10 million with this 10-slide pitch deck
▼ + stars: | 2023-05-16 | by ( Tasmin Lockwood | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +3 min

London-based carbon accounting startup Pledge just secured a $10 million Series A round. A startup founded by former staffers at Revolut and Freetrade has raised $10 million to build out its carbon accounting product aimed at the logistics industry. London-based Pledge, set up in 2021, enables businesses in the sector to track, reduce, and manage their carbon footprint. Some 70% of a company's emissions sit in its supply chain, which are referred to as scope three emissions. Pledge adheres to the Global Logistics Emissions Council framework, the only globally-recognized methodology for calculating greenhouse gas emissions in the logistics supply chain.

☆ I'm a UI engineer at Citadel who's worked at Netflix and Google. Here are 7 important lessons that have been critical to my rise at Ken Griffin's $57 billion hedge fund.
▼ + stars: | 2023-05-15 | by ( Bianca Chan | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +7 min

Kristofer Baxter leads a team of about 20 UI engineers at Citadel, a $57 billion hedge fund. I started my career at a golf tee-time reservation company, then worked in roles at Netlflix, LinkedIn, and Google. But it's really important to be quick. We work really closely with front-office partners and investment professionals so we know what to build. The really important thing there is that you can't be afraid of scale, or even failure.

☆ Meta is younger dog learning newer new tricks
▼ + stars: | 2023-04-26 | by ( Anita Ramaswamy | ) www.reuters.com time to read: +3 min

NEW YORK, April 26 (Reuters Breakingviews) - Meta Platforms (META.O) is a full generation younger than its Big Tech peers, and it’s looking pretty fresh, too. The company's first-quarter profit announced on Wednesday beat analysts’ expectations, sending shares of the $530 billion company up 12% in after-market trading. A 3% year-over-year boost in revenue, the first such increase the company has had in a while, was a pleasant surprise. In order to grow ads 26%, the company had to slice the average price per ad by 17%. Operating expenses jumped 10% from the same period last year, giving the company a 25% operating margin for the quarter.

☆ Google asks staff to test new chatbot features that write and fix code as it races against ChatGPT
▼ + stars: | 2023-04-14 | by ( Hugh Langley | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +3 min

Google is rolling out new coding features to an internal version of its Bard AI chatbot. Google is asking staff to test new coding features for its chatbot Bard as it prepares to make the features publicly available, according to an internal email sent Friday. The company told staff on Friday they could test out new features that let Bard generate and fix code, turning the chatbot into a programming assistant. ChatGPT, OpenAI's Bard competitor, is already able to generate code and write documentation for it. On the public release of Bard, Google said these features would come to its chatbot too.

☆ Tech companies including Adobe are taking a new look at a big industry debt issue
▼ + stars: | 2023-04-13 | by ( Rachel Curry | ) www.cnbc.com time to read: +5 min

Adobe cloud business insightsDespite the drag of technical debt that the data suggests, some industry executives say it gets a bad reputation. In this sense, technical debt is a signal of iteration. Adobe head of strategic development for creative cloud partnerships Chris Duffey is looking to reshape technical debt. "I would offer to reframe technical debt as the value of insight gathering throughout the innovation creation process," Duffey said. Despite reduction of operational costs, legacy systems in the technical debt bucket are core operational functions that an organization can't just turn off.

☆ Mark Cuban called this CEO a 'great example' for any 'Shark Tank' contestant—he landed 3 offers and a $200,000 deal
▼ + stars: | 2023-04-03 | by ( Ashton Jackson | ) www.cnbc.com time to read: +3 min

While on a camping trip, someone asked Thurmond to create a firepit that wasn't so "massive" and "cumbersome," Thurmond said. Cuban, himself a billionaire entrepreneur, seemed impressed by Thurmond's commitment to getting his product right. Thurmond asked the show's panel of investors — including Cuban — for $200,000 of funding, in exchange for a 10% equity stake in LavaBox. Then, Lori Greiner asked Thurmond a question: What's the most important thing to you in a partner? She offered Thurmond $200,000 for a 15% equity stake, adding a 75 cent royalty per product sold until making back her investment.

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