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☆ Check out the coolest things Apple's AI can do
▼ + stars: | 2024-06-10 | by ( Sarah Jackson | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +4 min

Read previewApple finally showed off its contribution to the AI wars, and there are some pretty cool use cases for it. The company made a splash with its AI announcement for Apple Intelligence during a keynote Monday at its annual WWDC event. CEO Tim Cook called Apple Intelligence "the new personal intelligence system that makes your most personal products even more useful and delightful." AppleApple Intelligence can also help with tasks that require knowledge of your "personal context," said Craig Federighi, Apple's senior vice president of software engineering. Apple Intelligence will also open up a new world of possibilities for Siri, said Kelsey Peterson, Apple's director of machine learning and AI.

Persons: —, Tim Cook, Craig Federighi, Apple's, Federighi, Siri, Kelsey Peterson, you'll, Stacey Organizations: Service, Apple Intelligence, Business, . Apple Intelligence, Apple Apple Intelligence Locations: New York

☆ Waze cofounder explains the 2 questions he asks a job candidate's reference
▼ + stars: | 2024-06-10 | by ( Sarah Jackson | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +1 min

Speak with their references of course, says Waze cofounder Uri Levine. Here are the simple questions he asks an applicant's reference to determine whether or not to hire them. AdvertisementSpeaking with a job candidate's references can help you decide whether or not they're a good fit for the job. Uri Levine, cofounder of traffic and navigation app Waze, has a few questions he always falls back on. "Even in the hiring process most of us are going to interview candidates and then decide that they like or dislike the candidate, but they don't know," Levine said.

Persons: Uri Levine, —, Levine Organizations: Service, Business

☆ Tiana's Bayou Adventure is the next step in Disney's $60 billion theme park investment
▼ + stars: | 2024-06-10 | by ( Sarah Whitten | ) www.cnbc.com time to read: +3 min

In this article DIS Follow your favorite stocks CREATE FREE ACCOUNTTiana's Bayou Adventure opens June 28 at Walt Disney World Resort in Florida! Tiana's Bayou Adventure, the rethemed Splash Mountain, is set to reopen June 28 at Walt Disney World Resort in Orlando, Florida. Featuring characters from Disney Animation's "Princess and the Frog," Tiana's Bayou Adventure takes guests through the swamps of New Orleans as Tiana preps a massive Mardi Gras celebration. The revamp of Splash Mountain into Tiana's Bayou Adventure is part of a bigger strategy for Disney to infuse relevant, fan-favorite intellectual properties into its existing rides and theme parks. A preview of Walt Disney Imagineering's audio-animatronics for the upcoming refresh of Splash Mountain, Tiana's Bayou Adventure.

Persons: Prince Naveen, Mama Odie, Olga Thompson We're, Tiana, Louis, hasn't, Disney, Walt Disney Organizations: Walt Disney World, Walt Disney Animation Studios, Disney, Guardians, California, Epcot Locations: Florida, Orlando , Florida, California, New Orleans, Norway, Tokyo

☆ FDA advisors recommend Eli Lilly's Alzheimer's drug donanemab, paving way for approval
▼ + stars: | 2024-06-10 | by ( Annika Kim Constantino | ) www.cnbc.com time to read: +4 min

Eli Lilly headquarters in Indianapolis, Indiana, US, on Wednesday, May 3, 2023. A panel of independent advisors to the Food and Drug Administration on Monday recommended Eli Lilly 's Alzheimer's drug donanemab, paving the way for the treatment to receive full approval in the U.S. later this year. If cleared for use, Eli Lilly's donanemab would become the second Alzheimer's drug of its kind to enter the U.S. market after another treatment called Leqembi from Biogen and its Japanese partner Eisai. In a second vote, advisors unanimously said the benefits of Eli Lilly's donanemab outweigh its risks. It was another blow to Eli Lilly, which initially expected donanameb to win approval at the end of last year.

Persons: Eli Lilly, Eli Lilly's donanemab, Eisai, Eli Lilly's, Sarah Dolan, Dolan, Mark Mintun, donanameb, Leerink, David Risinger, Risinger Organizations: Food and Drug Administration, FDA Locations: Indianapolis , Indiana, U.S, Biogen, Black

☆ We might have Microsoft to thank for Apple seeing the light on AI
▼ + stars: | 2024-06-10 | by ( Sarah Jackson | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +1 min

Microsoft's GitHub Copilot is partly responsible for bringing a focus on generative AI to Apple, a report says. Apple's senior vice president of software engineering became a "convert" after trying it, per The Wall Street Journal. Apple execs were also impressed by ChatGPT and subsequently wanted to upgrade Siri, The New York Times previously reported. download the app Email address Sign up By clicking “Sign Up”, you accept our Terms of Service and Privacy Policy . AdvertisementAn Apple exec was inspired to drive a focus on generative AI in his division after using one such tool from the competition, a new report says.

Persons: Microsoft's, Apple's, Apple execs, ChatGPT, Siri, —, Craig Federighi, GitHub Organizations: Apple, Street, The New York Times, Service, Wall, Microsoft, Business Locations: The

☆ In Germany, Far-Right Party Rises to 2nd Place in E.U. Election
▼ + stars: | 2024-06-10 | by ( Sarah Maslin Nir | Christopher F. Schuetze | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +1 min

The right-wing Alternative for Germany party won a record number of votes in European Union elections on Sunday, in a sharp rebuke to Chancellor Olaf Scholz’s governing three-party coalition in Germany and a sign of the rightward political shift across the continent. The party, known as AfD, captured 16 percent of the vote, placing second behind Germany’s conservative Christian Democrats, which won 30 percent. It was AfD’s strongest showing in a nationwide election, and it came as Mr. Scholz’s coalition has reached record-low levels of popularity in the country, according to polls. A spokesman for Mr. Scholz has ruled out early elections. Describing her party’s showing a “major success,” Ms. Weidel said at a news conference in Berlin that the government was working against, not for, Germany.

Persons: Chancellor Olaf Scholz’s, Scholz’s, Alice Weidel, Mr, Scholz, Emmanuel Macron, ” Ms, Weidel, ” Organizations: Germany, Christian Democrats, “ Locations: Germany, France, Berlin

☆ Sam Altman just got two new colleagues at OpenAI: Sarah Friar and Kevin Weil
▼ + stars: | 2024-06-10 | by ( Dominick Reuter | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +1 min

OpenAI is hiring Sarah Friar and Kevin Weil to join its C-suite. Weil joins from Planet Labs and will be chief product officer. download the app Email address Sign up By clicking “Sign Up”, you accept our Terms of Service and Privacy Policy . AdvertisementSam Altman will have some top-tier talent joining him in the OpenAI C-suite. The company announced Monday that Sarah Friar and Kevin Weil will be the company's new CFO and chief product officer, respectively.

Persons: Sarah Friar, Kevin Weil, Friar, Weil, —, Sam Altman, Sarah, Kevin, Altman Organizations: Planet Labs, Service, Business

☆ 4 instructors from Iowa’s Cornell College injured in ‘serious incident’ in China, school says
▼ + stars: | 2024-06-10 | by ( Sarah Dewberry | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +1 min

CNN —Four instructors from Cornell College in Mount Vernon, Iowa, were injured in a “serious incident” while visiting a park in China on Monday, according to a statement from the school. The instructors were in China teaching as part of a partnership with a local university and had been accompanied to the public park by a faculty member of that partner institution, Cornell College President Jonathan Brand said in a statement to the college community. Brand did not name the partner institution in his statement, but school spokesperson Jen Visser confirmed the incident happened in Jilin City. The campus of Cornell College in Mount Vernon, Iowa Courtesy Cornell CollegeNo students were participating in the program, according to the school. Iowa Rep. Ashley Hinson, who represents the district where the college is located, said in a post on X that the four college employees “were brutally stabbed.”“My team has been in communication with Cornell College and will do everything in our power to bring these Iowans home safely,” Hinson said.

Persons: Jonathan Brand, ” Brand, Brand, Jen Visser, Ashley Hinson, “, ” “, ” Hinson, Kim Reynolds, ” Organizations: CNN, Cornell College, Cornell, Iowa, US State Department, Iowa Gov Locations: Mount Vernon , Iowa, China, Jilin City

☆ My wife's sister is a celebrity. Marrying into a famous family was surprisingly easy for me.
▼ + stars: | 2024-06-09 | by ( Heath Savage | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +5 min

Read previewI met Sarah online 22 years ago. Joining Sarah's famous family was surprisingly easy for meSince we met, Sarah has been grounded in her identity, never relying on her sister's celebrity. AdvertisementAfter about two years of dating, I met Olivia. We hosted lunch at one of the cafés in our little village square, and suddenly, everyone was talking. When Olivia died in 2022, our council office organized a special tribute, showing "Grease" on an outdoor screen in the village square.

Persons: —, Sarah, Olivia Newton, Sarah's, Olivia, we've, Olivia Olivia, It's Organizations: Service, Business Locations: Spain, Sydney

☆ Stock futures are little changed as traders look ahead to Fed decision, inflation data: Live updates
▼ + stars: | 2024-06-09 | by ( Sarah Min | ) www.cnbc.com time to read: +2 min

Traders and floor officials react to technical issues on the floor at the New York Stock Exchange on June 3, 2024. U.S. stock futures were little changed Sunday night after a winning week, as traders looked ahead to the Federal Reserve's interest rate decision and May inflation data. S&P 500 futures and Nasdaq 100 futures were flat. Markets are now pricing in just one rate cut this year, coming in November, according to the CME FedWatch tool. ... On the hawkish side is that the firm NFP and associated details suggest labor demand growth remains solid."

Persons: Macquarie's David Doyle Organizations: New York Stock Exchange, Dow Jones Industrial, Nasdaq, Dow, Nvidia, Apple's Worldwide

☆ Is a recession coming? Economists say look at women’s lips
▼ + stars: | 2024-06-09 | by ( Nicole Goodkind | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +9 min

Estee Lauder chairman Leonard Lauder created the lipstick index during the economic downturn following September 11, 2001. In fall 2001, US lipstick sales increased by 11%. “The lipstick index has been substituted with the moisturizing index,” said Freda. But data shows that more expensive prestige beauty sales are outpacing mass, lower-priced beauty sales. What do you see dominating the beauty market in the second half of the year?

Persons: Estee Lauder, Leonard Lauder, Fabrizio Freda, ”, Freda, “, Sephora, Bell, Neela Montgomery, Laura Mercier, We’ve, it’s, Skincare, It’s, we’re, Inflection’s, OpenAI, Sarah Myers West, ” West, Brian Fung, Jerome Powell, Price Organizations: CNN Business, Bell, New York CNN, CNN, Federal Trade Commission, Microsoft, FTC, Justice Department, Google, Nvidia, DOJ, US Department of Treasury, OPEC Monthly, Federal Reserve, US Bureau of Labor Statistics, Signet Jewelers, Federal Locations: New York, Asia

☆ The E.U. Votes: What We’re Watching For
▼ + stars: | 2024-06-09 | by ( Matina Stevis-Gridneff | Sarah Hurtes | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +1 min

More than 300 million voters in the 27 countries that make up the European Union are heading to the polls to elect the new European Parliament’s 720 members. The Parliament approves or rejects E.U. It also says yea or nay, by simple majority in a secret ballot, to the appointment of the president of the E.U. In the 2019 election, Ursula von der Leyen, a conservative, came dangerously close to being rejected as the European Commission president, securing the Parliament’s approval by just nine votes. This time, Ms. von Leyen, likely to be designated as president for a second five-year term, could face worse odds.

Persons: Ursula von der Leyen, von Leyen Organizations: Union, European Commission Locations: Ukraine

☆ Tesla Shareholders Will Vote on Elon Musk’s Big Payday. What Happens Then?
▼ + stars: | 2024-06-08 | by ( Michael J. De La Merced | Sarah Kessler | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +1 min

After months of fighting over a pay package promised to Elon Musk six years ago — one that included stock grants now worth about $56 billion — matters are finally coming to a head. At Tesla’s annual meeting on Thursday, shareholders are set to vote on whether to reapprove the compensation deal after a Delaware judge voided it in January. The outcome could shift Musk’s relationship with the company, and Tesla officials aren’t taking any chances. Regardless of the vote’s outcome, further lawsuits and other battles may follow, some of which could test the corporate legal system. Here’s our guide to how different situations could play out.

Persons: Elon Musk, Tesla, ” Robyn Denholm Organizations: Elon Locations: Delaware

☆ Morale plummets inside The Washington Post as staffers express alarm over publisher’s attempts to squash story
▼ + stars: | 2024-06-07 | by ( Oliver Darcy | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +7 min

New York CNN —Will Lewis is quickly losing the confidence of his newsroom. At The Post, according to more than a half-dozen staffers who spoke with CNN Thursday, morale has fallen off a cliff since Lewis abruptly ousted Executive Editor Sally Buzbee on Sunday. Lewis’ uncouth dispatching of Buzbee poisoned much of the goodwill he had earned with his employees over the preceding six months. Indeed, the day after he announced Buzbee’s exit, staffers pressed him in a town hall about the circumstances that led to her departure. Will Lewis, the publisher of The Washington Post, finds himself embroiled in a scandal affecting the newsroom itself.

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☆ Video: Pat Sajak signs off as ‘Wheel of Fortune’ host. Hear what he said in last show
▼ + stars: | 2024-06-07 | by ( Sarah Jorgensen | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: 1 min

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☆ Here’s the ‘bad news’ in the ‘good’ jobs report
▼ + stars: | 2024-06-07 | by ( Alicia Wallace | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +5 min

CNN —At a time when Americans and the Federal Reserve are clamoring for clear-cut data about the state of the economy, Friday’s jobs report was much more opaque than everyone had hoped. Unemployment roseThe unemployment rate rose to 4% from 3.9%. The rise in unemployment can be traced to the findings of the household survey (one of two surveys that feed into the monthly jobs report). Compared to the establishment survey that showed the robust 272,000 net gain in jobs, the household survey faltered. That’s in the service sector, everything from personal care services, dry cleaning, cleaning and home maintenance and vehicle maintenance, she said.

Persons: Dean Baker, ” Diane Swonk, Gus Faucher, “ Jobs, ”, ” Julia Pollak, ZipRecruiter, ” Pollak, ” Swonk, That’s, ” Andrew Challenger, hirings, Wells, Sarah House, Mike Pugliese, it’s Organizations: CNN, Federal Reserve, KPMG, PNC, “ Employers, Challenger

☆ 6 tips from Satya Nadella on how to run a company and manage your team
▼ + stars: | 2024-06-06 | by ( Sarah Jackson | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +4 min

You can opt-out at any time by visiting our Preferences page or by clicking "unsubscribe" at the bottom of the email. download the appSign up to get the inside scoop on today’s biggest stories in markets, tech, and business — delivered daily. His leadership has been credited with revitalizing the company's culture, driving growth in partnerships, and even guiding the company in dethroning Apple as the world's most valuable public company earlier this year. Deliver successA leader must also be able to "create success in what is an overconstrained space," he says. "Life is an overconstraint problem," he said in the magazine interview.

Persons: —, Nadella, I'm, it's, Axel Springer, Mathias Döpfner Organizations: Service, Microsoft, Apple, Business, Chicago Booth Magazine, Wall Street, Work Conference

☆ Gentle Parenting Bust: What Millennial Parents Are Getting Wrong
▼ + stars: | 2024-06-06 | by ( Kelli María Korducki | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +14 min

Seventeen years later, gentle parenting is now the default among my professional-class millennial peers. Teachers blame gentle parenting for bad behavior in classrooms, which some believe is accelerating an exodus from the profession. Ample research links an authoritative parenting style — such as gentle parenting — with the most favorable psychosocial outcomes in children. These are among the questions that gentle parents must contend with, often on the fly. When gentle parenting goes wrong, everyone takes note.

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☆ Hunter Biden may be doomed to lose his trial. His best bet is appealing a 'vindictive prosecution.'
▼ + stars: | 2024-06-06 | by ( Jacob Shamsian | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +11 min

"They know how to put on a tight gun case." Biden's trial is not necessarily a lost cause. This arrangement has perversely allowed Weiss to politicize the proceedings unchecked, Hunter Biden's lawyers argued. There's no evidence that Biden even loaded or used the gun before his brother's widow, Hallie Biden, threw it out. "Obviously, the conduct that the government ought to be addressing is whether somebody is on drugs and high while they're shooting a gun," Levin said.

Persons: —, Hunter Biden, Abbe Lowell, Prosecutors, Biden, Sarah Krissoff, didn't, Maryellen Noreika, Donald Trump, Lowell, Jared Kushner, Sens, Robert Menendez, John Edwards —, Joe Biden, ROBERTO SCHMIDT, David Weiss, General Merrick Garland, Weiss, Hunter, Noreika, Trump, Republicans gloated, Hallie Biden, Cozen O'Connor, Hunter Biden's, Duncan Levin, Levin, He's, Krissoff, Evelyn Hockstein, Neama Rahmani, Rahmani, there's Organizations: Service, Business, Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms, Explosives, AFP, Getty, Republicans, US Justice Department, Republican, U.S, U.S . Department of Justice, Hill, REUTERS, Justice Department, West, Creative Locations: Wilmington , Delaware, Manhattan, Delaware, California, New York, Texas

☆ Virginie Viard exits Chanel, leaving top fashion job open
▼ + stars: | 2024-06-06 | by ( Stephy Chung | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +3 min

CNN —Virginie Viard is exiting Chanel after five years serving as the French luxury house’s artistic director of fashion collections. The designer took on the position following Karl Lagerfeld’s death in 2019 after working alongside him at Chanel for decades. Pascal Le Segretain/Getty ImagesChanel said that it wanted to thank Viard “for her remarkable contribution to Chanel’s fashion, creativity and vitality.”Just last month, Chanel’s chief executive Leena Nair told The Business of Fashion that “since Virginie took over from Karl… the Chanel fashion business has multiplied by 2.2. The Chanel ready-to-wear business has been multiplied by 2.5, and the ready-to-wear business last year of Chanel grew by 23%.”The brand’s earnings rose 16 percent to $19.7 billion in 2023. Karl Lagerfeld and Virginie Viard walk the runway during the Chanel show as part of Paris Fashion Week on October 2, 2018 in Paris, France.

Persons: Virginie Viard, Karl Lagerfeld’s, fashion’s, Lagerfeld, Gabrielle “ Coco ” Chanel, Chanel, Viard’s, “, ”, Pascal Le Segretain, Viard “, Leena Nair, Virginie, Karl …, Fendi, Karl Lagerfeld, Gabrielle Chanel, Valentino’s Pierpaolo Piccioli, Alessandro Michele, Gucci, Sarah Burton, Alexander McQueen Organizations: CNN, Chanel, Paris Haute Couture Locations: Chanel, Paris, France, British

antitrust fight is comingNvidia has joined the $3 trillion valuation club as a blistering A.I. rally has turned it into the world’s second-most valuable company behind Microsoft. and Justice Department are set to proceed with antitrust investigations against the duo, and OpenAI, writes The Times’s David McCabe. is already looking into Microsoft, according to The Wall Street Journal, over how the company structured a deal with the start-up Inflection AI to avoid scrutiny. In March, Microsoft hired almost all of the start-up’s staff and agreed to pay around $650 million to license its technology.

Persons: David McCabe Organizations: Nvidia, Microsoft, Justice Department, Wall Street

☆ At 45, He Vies With Women Half His Age, Seeking an Olympic First
▼ + stars: | 2024-06-06 | by ( Sarah Lyall | Daniel Dorsa | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +1 min

Artistic Swimming team practice for the Olympics — their bodies upside down, their legs scissoring in the air in perfect time, like frenzied offshore wind turbines — you will notice two things. First, the sport is much harder, and possibly even more insane, than you thought. His name is Bill May, and he is the only man on the team. A rule change in 2022 cleared the way for men to compete in the sport at this summer’s Paris Games. That means that this is May’s first and, realistically, last chance ever to fulfill his lifelong dream of competing in the Olympics.

Persons: Bill May Organizations: Olympics, Paris Locations: Paris

☆ How to get better at public speaking by learning from Sheryl Lee Ralph, Lizzo, and other icons
▼ + stars: | 2024-06-05 | by ( Sarah Gershman | In Greenroomspeakers | ) www.cnbc.com time to read: +4 min

Sheryl Lee Ralph accepts the Outstanding Supporting Actress in a Comedy Series award for "Abbott Elementary" on stage during the 74th Annual Primetime Emmy Awards on September 12, 2022. But occasionally, I witness an acceptance speech that takes my breath away. Here are five lessons from some of my favorite acceptance speeches that you can adopt to become a riveting public speaker. Lesson 1: Surprise us like Sheryl Lee RalphThere's an old public speaking adage: "Tell them what you are going to tell them. Watch Sheryl Lee Ralph deliver her 2022 Emmys acceptance speech for Best Supporting Actress in "Abbott Elementary."

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☆ The typical CEO makes nearly 200 times more than their workers
▼ + stars: | 2024-06-05 | by ( Jennifer Liu | In Jljenniferliu | ) www.cnbc.com time to read: +3 min

Typical compensation packages for chief executives who run companies in the S&P 500 rose nearly 13% last year, the AP reports . Median CEO pay hit $16.3 million in 2023, or nearly 200 times the typical worker's wages for the year, according to data analyzed for The Associated Press by Equilar . In 2022, CEOs made roughly 185 times their typical worker; with the jump in 2023 numbers, CEOs now make roughly 196 times their employees. CEO pay is generally decided on by shareholders, who in the last four years have overwhelmingly voted in support of executive compensation plans, according to Equilar data. CEO pay has increased by 1,209% since 1978, compared with an 15% bump for the typical worker over this time period, according to the left-leaning Economic Policy Institute.

Persons: haven't, Lawrence Mishel, Amit Batish, aren't, Batish, Sarah Anderson, Anderson Organizations: Associated Press, Equilar, Federal Trade Commission, CNBC, Institute for Policy Studies, AP Locations: Equilar

From a broken freezer of spoiled food to a withered vegetable garden, house sitters can prevent disaster from striking while you kick back and relax. The most trusted pet-sitting appRover Pet-sitting and Dog Walking Rover is a one-stop-shop for everything pet care. For pet sitters, Rover's ability to set your own rates after passing the background check and safety quiz is a major perk. The best for pet-sitting businesses near youPet Sitters International Pet Sitting Certification Rather than a service platform, Pet Sitters International is a search engine pet owners and certification source for aspirational sitters. For pet owners, the organization offers an online database of registered pet sitters.

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