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☆ Elon Musk is paying $10,000 to settle a Tesla critic's defamation lawsuit against him
▼ + stars: | 2023-05-01 | by ( Sindhu Sundar | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +2 min

A Tesla critic said he is accepting Elon Musk's offer of $10,000 to resolve a defamation suit. Hothi had alleged the Tesla chief defamed him in an email claiming Hothi "almost killed Tesla employees." Elon Musk is settling a lawsuit filed by a Tesla critic who had accused the electric carmaker's chief executive officer of defaming him. Hothi and Tesla had been at odds for some time then, as Hothi had taken pictures of Tesla vehicles at their facility, Insider previously reported. Still, Musk around the time had then sent an email alleging that Hothi "actively harassed" Tesla employees and "almost killed" them, Hothi said.

☆ Can you delete your ChatGPT conversation history? Here's what OpenAI says happens if you disable it.
▼ + stars: | 2023-05-01 | by ( Sindhu Sundar | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +4 min

In April, OpenAI said it's also giving users the choice to disable their conversation record with ChatGPT, seeking to offer more visibility and control over data. The company offers a "privacy dashboard" where users can get a sense of how their search history is used, and explore options to clear that history. The dashboard essentially allows users to "view, export, and delete stored conversation history," according to a recently updated Microsoft document entitled, "The new Bing: Our approach to Responsible AI." A note on the page says Bing uses "web search history to improve your search experience by showing you suggestions as you type, providing personalized results, and more." "We also provide users with transparency and control over their search data via the Microsoft Privacy Dashboard," the representative said.

☆ Amazon is spending less on warehouses — and more on AI and its cloud business
▼ + stars: | 2023-04-27 | by ( Sindhu Sundar | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +3 min

Amazon signaled its commitment to AI investment amid a surge of interest in the technology. Amazon plans to build "the world's best personal assistant," CEO Andy Jassy told analysts Thursday. "And we are adding more dollars for large language models and generative AI." Amazon CEO Andy Jassy echoed the company's commitment to AI, saying the e-commerce giant would be among the few companies to prioritize developing large language models, the technology behind generative AI tools like chatbots. "If you look at the really significant leading large language models, they take many years to build, and many billions of dollars to build," he told analysts Thursday.

☆ Disney's lawsuit against Gov. Ron DeSantis has teeth, legal experts say
▼ + stars: | 2023-04-27 | by ( Sindhu Sundar | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +6 min

Disney's lawsuit accused Florida officials of infringing on its constitutional rights. Ron DeSantis culminated in a stunning lawsuit on Wednesday, where the entertainment giant said state officials retaliated against it, citing a lawmaker who said "You kick the hornet's nest, things come up." Schultz said Disney could even seek in the lawsuit to depose DeSantis, who is widely expected to run for president. It targets The Walt Disney Company." The position articulated by state officials — including that the bill's focus extends beyond Disney — shows Disney will likely keep drawing on more pointed material to support its retaliation claims, said Schutz.

Disney alleges that DeSantis tried to "weaponize government power" over the company. It alleges that DeSantis' continued action against Disney "threatens Disney's business operations." Ron DeSantis on Wednesday, alleging that he tried to "weaponize government power" over the company. As retaliation to the Disney executives' pledges, DeSantis took aim at a decades-long provision that gives Disney special self-governing privileges in Florida. Unlike rival parks Universal Studios and Sea World, Disney doesn't have to run their plans by zoning commissions or building-inspection departments.

☆ Check out these ultra-realistic masks of Elon Musk, Jeff Bezos, and Mark Zuckerberg that cost $20,000 a piece and a month to make
▼ + stars: | 2023-04-26 | by ( Sindhu Sundar | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +4 min

Landon Meier is the artist behind realistic masks of tech figures like Elon Musk and Mark Zuckerberg. The digital artist Beeple showed the masks at an event this month during the NFT conference in New York. It seemed the likes of Andy Warhol, Elon Musk, Mark Zuckerberg, Jeff Bezos, and North Korean leader Kim Jong Un had all at once taken the spotlight together. The masks themselves were made by Denver, Colorado-based artist Landon Meier, who meticulously crafts the life-like visages, Beeple tweeted. Landon Meier.

☆ An ex-Apple designer showed off a futuristic AI device that projects phone calls onto your hand
▼ + stars: | 2023-04-22 | by ( Sindhu Sundar | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +3 min

A new device by Humane can project phone calls onto the palm of a hand. In a video of the event that Ali shared with Insider, Chaudhri's talk appeared to be interrupted by the insistent chime of a call. But instead of reaching for a device in his pocket, Chaudhri simply turned over his hand to gaze at his palm. A representative for TED indicated that the video that Ali shared was likely captured from a livestream. "Humane will be releasing further details on how the device works in the coming months," a company spokesperson told Insider.

☆ CEO says many of his remote workers didn't open their laptops for a month, and 'only the rarest of full-time caregivers' can be productive employees
▼ + stars: | 2023-04-20 | by ( Sindhu Sundar | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +4 min

Clearlink CEO James Clarke said remote workers "quietly quit" and didn't open laptops in a month, Vice reported. A representative didn't address the remarks, but said Clarke "could not be more excited" for the company. Clearlink's CEO James Clarke reportedly told employees that he believed many remote workers have "quietly quit" and become so brazen that dozens at his company "didn't even open" their laptops for a month. "And those were all remote employees, including their manager — for a whole month." Clearlink is a private company with 800 employees, a company representative told Insider.

☆ An AI researcher that Elon Musk hired was arrested in a domestic violence case
▼ + stars: | 2023-04-20 | by ( Sindhu Sundar | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +3 min

Elon Musk's new AI researcher Igor Babuschkin was arrested in March in a domestic violence case. Musk reportedly hired Babuschkin as part of a push to develop a competitor to OpenAI's ChatGPT. The case involved "a minor injury," but did not otherwise pose a threat to public safety, Philip told Insider. Babuschkin was arrested at 588 Webster Street, according to a police report log posted last month on the Palo Alto Police Department's website. Musk has also brought on resources including roughly 10,000 graphics processing units to execute his AI plans, Insider previously reported.

☆ Shaq was finally served in FTX lawsuit over the weekend, after a 3-month chase
▼ + stars: | 2023-04-18 | by ( Will Gendron | Sindhu Sundar | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +4 min

Shaquille O'Neal was finally served in an FTX lawsuit over the weekend following a three month chase. Shaquille O'Neal was served papers over the weekend in a lawsuit involving the fallen crypto firm FTX — after a three month chase, according to a law firm representing investors in the suit. "Plaintiffs in the billion $ FTX class action case just served @SHAQ outside his house," The Moskowitz Law Firm tweeted Sunday night. O'Neal had evaded getting served the lawsuit for three months, according to additional tweets from the law firm. Following the collapse of FTX, O'Neal tried to separate himself from the fiasco, noting to CNBC that he was "just a paid spokesperson."

☆ Elon Musk has registered X.AI in Nevada and is reportedly talking to SpaceX and Tesla investors about backing his planned AI startup
▼ + stars: | 2023-04-14 | by ( Sindhu Sundar | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +3 min

Elon Musk is reportedly planning an AI startup amid the chatbot craze kicked off by OpenAI's ChatGPT. He is talking to Tesla and SpaceX investors about backing the startup, FT reported. Musk has recruited AI experts and obtained graphics processing units, Insider previously reported. Musk did not respond to emailed requests for comment sent to his Tesla and SpaceX email addresses. Insider's Kali Hays has also previously reported that Musk has brought on artificial intelligence experts, and obtained roughly 10,000 graphics processing units.

☆ The tech consultant charged with murdering Bob Lee listed UC Berkeley as one of his schools. The university says it doesn't have a record of him.
▼ + stars: | 2023-04-14 | by ( Sindhu Sundar | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +2 min

But there's no record of him going there, a representative for the school told Insider. Momeni was arrested on Thursday over the murder of Cash App founder Bob Lee in San Francisco. But a representative for UC Berkeley told Insider that they couldn't find records that a Nima Momeni went to the elite institution. "We do not have a match for that name, meaning no record of graduation or attendance," the representative told Insider. Momeni also started the IT consulting company Expand IT, according to the San Francisco Chronicle.

☆ Tech consultant Nima Momeni's attorney is on vacation, delaying a court date in the case of Bob Lee's killing
▼ + stars: | 2023-04-14 | by ( Lloyd Lee | Sindhu Sundar | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +3 min

Momeni's lawyer, Paula Canny, is on vacation, Canny's brother and fellow attorney told the court. The arraignment was posposted to April 25 after a brief hearing in San Francisco state court. That's because Momeni's attorney, Paula Canny, is on vacation, her brother and fellow attorney Robert Canny told the court. A representative for the San Francisco District Attorney's office did not respond to emailed requests for comment on Friday. The 38-year-old Momeni was arrested in Emeryville, California, the San Francisco police department said at a press conference on Thursday.

☆ Billionaire Barry Diller says the media should 'absolutely' sue AI makers over ingesting text from articles
▼ + stars: | 2023-04-12 | by ( Sindhu Sundar | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +3 min

Barry Diller warned publishers to prepare to fight in order to get paid for AI's use of their work. Diller made the comments at the Semafor Media Summit in New York. "Companies can absolutely sue under copyright law," he said. "It's not clear right now to what extent that has copyright implications," Gerratana said. "It's possible we'll see court decisions that apply copyright law in ways that we wouldn't have expected, because this technology is new, the circumstances are new, and the facts are new."

☆ 130 Regal, Eastgate, and other movie theaters could close in the US — see the list of those already shuttering
▼ + stars: | 2023-04-11 | by ( Travis Clark | Sindhu Sundar | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +4 min

Cineworld has sought to exit its leases for 130 theaters in the US. A bankruptcy court in Texas has already approved its plan to walk away from 47 of those locations. Cineworld filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy in September. So far, the Texas bankruptcy court overseeing the proceedings has approved the company's plan to exit 47 leases, according to court filings. The North American box office hit $7.4 billion in 2022, according to Comscore, down from over $11 billion in 2019 and 2018.

☆ Should you sign that severance package? Here are 5 things to consider first.
▼ + stars: | 2023-04-10 | by ( Sindhu Sundar | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +7 min

Some employees being laid off by Big Tech companies can expect generous severance packages. Employees should consider their options before signing a severance agreement, they said. Here are five things to consider when signing your severance agreement, according to labor lawyers:1. Consider what you are willing to give up in exchange for the severance paymentWhen employees accept a severance package, they're asked to give up something in exchange — like their ability to sue the company. "We have been receiving a lot of calls from workers laid off by tech companies," she said.

☆ SF police chief says there's 'evidence that we found that I can't talk about' in Bob Lee death investigation
▼ + stars: | 2023-04-07 | by ( Sindhu Sundar | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +3 min

The SFPD chief said Thursday there are "good developments" in the investigation, per ABC's KGO-TV. But the city's District Attorney said "this is one that's going to take time to solve," per the report. Representatives for the San Francisco police department and the city's department of emergency management did not respond to Insider's requests for comment on Friday. The San Francisco police previously said in a statement that they responded to a call regarding the attack early morning on Tuesday at 2:35 a.m. The District Attorney's office can't make a determination on bringing charges until police have concluded their investigation and made an arrest, a representative for the DA's office previously told Insider.

☆ Olaplex is losing top employees as it faces falling sales and a hair-loss lawsuit
▼ + stars: | 2023-04-06 | by ( Alex Bitter | Sindhu Sundar | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +6 min

Eight top Olaplex employees have left the company since October, Insider has learned. Her LinkedIn profile says she joined the online-game company Big Fish this year as vice president of people and culture. Kathy Lewis, Olaplex's vice president of education, had been on "contracted sabbatical" since December, according to her LinkedIn profile. The hair-care brand Wella said in a LinkedIn post last week that it hired Lewis as the vice president and global head of education. Olaplex grew its head count over the following year to 174 employees, according to its 10-K filing in February.

☆ Security footage reportedly shows Cash App creator Bob Lee looking for help in downtown San Francisco after he was stabbed
▼ + stars: | 2023-04-06 | by ( Grace Kay | Sindhu Sundar | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +3 min

The Mayor of San Francisco, London Breed, called Lee's fatal attack a "horrible tragedy." The video shows Lee apparently seeking help after his stabbing attack in the Rincon Hill neighborhood in downtown San Francisco, according to a report from ABC's San Francisco affiliate, KGO-TV. But The San Francisco Standard said the car pulled away and Lee then appeared to drop down to the ground. The San Francisco Police Department did not respond to Insider's request for comment on Thursday morning ahead of publication. San Francisco Mayor London Breed said that "San Francisco is prioritizing public safety," amid calls by tech industry leaders including Elon Musk to address safety concerns in the city.

☆ Elon Musk, Jack Dorsey, and other tech execs respond to the fatal stabbing of Cash App creator Bob Lee: 'Violent crime in SF is horrific'
▼ + stars: | 2023-04-05 | by ( Grace Kay | Sindhu Sundar | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +5 min

Bob Lee's peers and industry leaders wrote social media posts mourning the Cash App creator. At the company, the executive created Cash App, a mobile payment platform. YCombinator CEO Garry Tan called Lee's death a "huge loss for the tech community and for San Francisco." "We do not tolerate these horrific acts of violence in San Francisco," she tweeted. —Brooke Jenkins 謝安宜 (@BrookeJenkinsSF) April 5, 2023The San Francisco police department must conclude its investigation before the DA's office can step in, Randy Quezada, communications director at the San Francisco District Attorney's office, told Insider.

☆ San Francisco's homicide rate is low compared to other big cities, but the killing of tech founder Bob Lee shows that doesn't tell the whole story
▼ + stars: | 2023-04-05 | by ( Paayal Zaveri | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +6 min

The tragic killing of tech founder Bob Lee has reignited the debate over crime in San Francisco. Those stats compare relatively favorably to other big cities in the US, the San Francisco Chronicle reported, citing FBI data. Meanwhile, the homicide rate in San Francisco was 5 per 100,000 in 2020, the FBI's crime data shows, as analyzed by the San Francisco Chronicle. It's also lower than other cities of comparable sizes to San Francisco, including Columbus, Ohio. Additionally, the San Francisco Police Department must conclude its investigation before the DA's office can step in, Randy Quezada, communications director at the San Francisco District Attorney's office, told Insider's Grace Kay and Sindhu Sundar.

☆ I use ChatGPT 50 to 70 times a day for everything from preparing for professional meetings to getting super glue off my fingers
▼ + stars: | 2023-04-05 | by ( Sindhu Sundar | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +5 min

He uses ChatGPT often to do things like synthesizing emails and researching professional networks. And I use ChatGPT 50 to 70 times a day. I post often on LinkedIn to give practical ways for people to use ChatGPT to level up their personal and professional life across any industry. We can ask ChatGPT, "I'm about to give you a job posting, and I'm about to give you my experience. Doing research for networking with fellow professionalsMake sure that anything you're looking up, you're able to verify.

☆ Logan Roy's fiery speech atop printer-paper boxes on 'Succession' evokes a real-life Rupert Murdoch moment
▼ + stars: | 2023-04-04 | by ( Sindhu Sundar | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +4 min

"Succession" patriarch Logan Roy rallied his fictional newsroom with a speech atop printer-paper boxes. In his speech, Murdoch told the reporters present that "We have to entertain, inform, enrich all our readers in their lives and in their businesses," according to Ellison's book. Representatives for Dow Jones and the Wall Street Journal did not respond to Insider's request for comment. "Then we all kind of stood around as people were literally dispatched to drag the printer boxes over to where Rupert planned to stand," she added. "The printer boxes, especially since we literally saw them dragged to their place, were key to the mood of menace and worry that day."

☆ Tim Cook says he met with Elon Musk and Donald Trump because 'it's even more important to engage when there's disagreement'
▼ + stars: | 2023-04-03 | by ( Sindhu Sundar | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +3 min

Apple CEO Tim Cook told GQ that he believes in "engaging" even in "disagreement." Cook made the remarks in reference to past meetings with figures like Donald Trump and Elon Musk. "I actually think it's even more important to engage when there's disagreement," Cook told GQ. Cook had also met with Donald Trump when, as president at the time, Trump was pushing for a series of tariffs on imports from China. In 2019, amid Trump's escalating moves on trade, Cook met with Trump, reportedly earning the then president's praise as a "a great executive" who "calls me and others don't," and possibly the moniker "Tim Apple."

☆ The FBI is struggling to analyze Sam Bankman-Fried's laptop because it has so much data on it, prosecutors say
▼ + stars: | 2023-03-30 | by ( Sindhu Sundar | Jacob Shamsian | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +4 min

Prosecutors said they're struggling to analyze a laptop for their case against Sam Bankman-Fried. Sam Bankman-Fried pleaded not guilty to federal prosecutors' new criminal charges against him. In a hearing in Manhattan federal court Thursday morning, Assistant US Attorney Nicholas Roos said the FBI was struggling to extract data from a laptop they obtained from the FTX founder. Prosecutors have already produced around 6 million pages' worth of discovery material to Bankman-Fried's legal team, Roos said at the hearing. Federal judges look to sentencing guidelines articulated by a pre-sentence department, part of the US probation office that works for the federal court.

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