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☆ 5 common survival myths that could get you killed in the wilderness
▼ + stars: | 2023-06-07 | by ( Gene Kim | Jessica Orwig | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +5 min

There are a lot of survival myths out there that could get you hurt, or even worse, killed. Getting outdoors this summer is great for your mental and physical health, but spending time in the wilderness can come with risks. Don't try to pick up or track snake either, if it bites you. Myth 3: If you're lost in the wild find a food supply immediately. So if you're trying to gain a sense of direction in the woods, don't use moss as your guiding north star.

Persons: —, Panish Shea, Boyle, Mayo, that's, you've, Moss, Clint Emerson, Emerson Organizations: Service, US Centers for Disease Control, National Park Service, NPS

☆ Top Wall Street firm writes a brutal open letter to Amazon CEO Andy Jassy: 'It's time to get back to Day One'
▼ + stars: | 2023-06-07 | by ( Eugene Kim | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +7 min

Bernstein, one of the top Wall Street research firms, wrote an open letter to Amazon's leadership. Jassy wrote in the letter that the company is optimistic about grocery, satellite internet, international businesses, and healthcare services. Bernstein wrote. Bernstein wrote. Investor communications win investor trust: Amazon's leadership should cut down on the rhetoric and share more specifics with investors.

Persons: Bernstein, you'd, Andy Jassy, Mark Shmulik, Amazon's, Jassy, There's, Eugene Kim Organizations: Amazon, Healthcare, Whole, Amazon Media, Alexa, Investor Locations: Amazon, Brazil, Mexico, Singapore, India

☆ 10 Things in Tech: Amazon’s guide to AI in different industries, Earth’s neighboring star, and workers look for less stressful jobs
▼ + stars: | 2023-05-30 | by ( Diamond Naga Siu | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +4 min

In other news:Tech workers are searching for low stress jobs on social media. Tech workers are looking for less stressful jobs. But one Amazon worker said there's "no such thing as [a] high pay low stress job in tech." Love Love Love: Award-winning engagement photos from around the world. Email dsiu@insider.com or tweet @diamondnagasiu) Edited by Alistair Barr (tweet @alistairmbarr) in San Francisco and Hallam Bullock (tweet @hallam_bullock) in London.

Share Share Article via Facebook Share Article via Twitter Share Article via LinkedIn Share Article via EmailHow I turned my love for baking into a $1 million businessJanie Deegan, 35, was homeless and battling addiction a decade ago. Now, she's 10 years sober and the owner of Janie's Life-Changing Baked Goods, a bakery that brought in over $1 million in 2022. The bakery is famous for its pie crust cookies, which ships across the U.S. and are available at retail locations in New York City.

☆ Amazon employees plan to walk out and accused the company of 'actively accelerating' the climate crisis, leaked email shows
▼ + stars: | 2023-05-26 | by ( Eugene Kim | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +8 min

In the email, the organizing group encourages employee participation in the walkout by pointing out five areas of concern over Amazon's climate initiatives. Here's what the email says:Emissions that are rising: Amazon's emissions have increased 40%(!!) Partnering with Big Oil: AWS Al and machine learning are being used by Big Oil to greatly accelerate oil and gas discovery and extraction. Amazon launched the Climate Pledge in 2019, committing to reach net-zero carbon emissions by 2040. Partnering with Big Oil: AWS Al and machine learning are being used by Big Oil to greatly accelerate oil and gas discovery and extraction.

☆ A leaked Amazon sales playbook lays out how companies in every industry can use generative AI
▼ + stars: | 2023-05-26 | by ( Eugene Kim | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +2 min

It shows that Amazon expects nearly every industry and business to adopt generative AI in some form. The analysis is part of a 12-page internal document, titled "Generative AI Sales Playbook." The mainstream success of ChatGPT and other consumer apps has shown users how generative AI can improve search and productivity. Amazon's analysis shows that companies can use generative AI for even more tasks, such as drug discovery and development or misinformation governance and national security. The analysis mentions the Congressional Research Service, Hyundai, and Siemens among the companies already taking advantage of generative AI.

☆ A leaked Amazon generative AI sales playbook shows how the company is going after ChatGPT-maker OpenAI, Microsoft and Google
▼ + stars: | 2023-05-25 | by ( Eugene Kim | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +9 min

The strategy is revealed in a detailed internal sales guideline, titled "Generative AI Sales Playbook," obtained by Insider. The guidelines may help Amazon make a stronger push in the generative AI space, where companies including Microsoft, OpenAI, Anthropic, and Google have taken an early lead. 'ChatGPT is a brand new, experimental offering'The guidelines focus on SageMaker's appeal to companies looking to build their own generative AI services. For example, for c-suite executives, Amazon salespeople are told to focus on how generative AI can "improve efficiency by automating operations," the document said. For those with a bit more experience in AI, Amazon salespeople are advised to recommend new generative AI capabilities and AWS offerings to accelerate their development process.

Persons: Bard, SageMaker, JumpStart, Sam Altman Drew Angerer, Sparrow, It's, I'm, haven't, you've, Canva's, Eugene Kim Organizations: Microsoft, Google, Amazon, Stability, AI21 Labs, Amazon Alexa, AWS, Burnham

☆ Adidas and Yeezy staff were told to carry on as usual and ignore Kanye West's antisemitic rants, new report says
▼ + stars: | 2023-05-25 | by ( Mary Hanbury | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +2 min

Adidas and Yeezy staff were told to carry on as usual after Kanye West made antisemitic comments. A new Bloomberg report sheds light on the unraveling of the Adidas-Yeezy partnership. One unnamed source told Bloomberg that after Kanye West – now known as Ye – made antisemitic comments that led him to be suspended from Twitter and Instagram, Adidas was slow to react. Yeezy and Adidas workers were reportedly told "to keep working as if nothing unusual was happening," Bloomberg's Eugene Kim and Tim Loh wrote. "I can say antisemitic things and Adidas can't drop me.

☆ AI startup cloud deals by Microsoft, Google and Amazon ring 'accounting alarm bells' across Silicon Valley over revenue 'round-tripping'
▼ + stars: | 2023-05-19 | by ( Eugene Kim | Stephanie Palazzolo | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +10 min

Some investors question whether these arrangements are artificially juicing cloud revenue growth. When Microsoft announced a multibillion-dollar investment in OpenAI earlier this year, the deal made Azure the ChatGPT-maker's "exclusive cloud provider." There's another deal in the works with similar attributes involving Runway AI and a major cloud company. But they are drawing more scrutiny lately because they could artificially inflate cloud revenue, a key driver of growth for Microsoft, Google, and Amazon, according to Ted Mortonson, managing director of financial-services firm Baird. Is OpenAI a regular cloud customer that is getting no investment money from Microsoft?

☆ Transition your wardrobe from college to work in 3 easy steps: 'Build a uniform for yourself'
▼ + stars: | 2023-05-18 | by ( Morgan Smith | ) www.cnbc.com time to read: +5 min

Is there an unspoken dress code for working from home? It's also important to understand what different corporate dress codes, which can range from "casual" to "formal," mean, she adds. Zoom In Icon Arrows pointing outwards You only need a few basic pieces to build your professional wardrobe, including low-top sneakers and a comfortable pair of slacks. When in doubt, go back to blackStart with a neutral palette, which works for any season or professional dress code. "Unfortunately, how we dress at work can be very political," says Tan, who identifies as non-binary.

This is an installment of CNBC Make It's Millennial Money series, which profiles people across the globe and details how they earn, spend and save their money.

☆ Amazon VP in charge of the Astro home robot leaves after less than 2 years, leaked email shows
▼ + stars: | 2023-05-15 | by ( Eugene Kim | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +3 min

Ken Washington, VP of consumer robotics, is leaving Amazon. Amazon's VP of consumer robotics Ken Washington is leaving the company, according to an internal email seen by Insider. At Amazon, he was in charge of the consumer robotics unit, which oversees Astro, the home monitoring robot that remains invite-only 18 months after its launch. Amazon executive Dave Limp AP/Jeff ChiuIn an email to Insider, Amazon's spokesperson confirmed Washington's departure. Amazon's spokesperson told Insider the invite requests for Astro "remain strong" and it plans to add "even more new features."

☆ Amazon is working on a secret AI home robot that can understand things and monitor whether kids had friends over after school
▼ + stars: | 2023-05-15 | by ( Eugene Kim | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +2 min

Amazon is working on a new home robot that comes with ChatGPT-like AI features. Potential uses include identifying an unattended burning stove, or which of your kids' friends came over after school. The upgrade would be another example of Amazon incorporating generative AI into its productsAmazon's Astro home robot is up for a major upgrade, with ChatGPT-like features that can help it observe and understand things like a human does, Insider has learned. It's also the latest example of Amazon adding generative AI and LLM technology into its existing products and services, following the explosive popularity of chatbot sensation ChatGPT. Burnham may not be limited to just the one robot product either.

☆ Alexa may soon be able to make up bedtime stories using AI and based on your children's toys
▼ + stars: | 2023-05-14 | by ( Eugene Kim | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +2 min

Amazon plans to upgrade its Alexa voice-assistant with ChatGPT-like AI capabilities. One use-case cited in an internal document is to generate bedtime stories based on a child's toys. That's where a large language model (LLM) AI can create entirely new things like fictional stories, from studying other similar examples. But when the feature is released, Amazon hopes the age-old request by drowsy children could become slightly modified to, "Alexa, tell me a bedtime story." Read the full story: Amazon plans to reboot its struggling Alexa business by working on its own ChatGPT-like technology, leaked document shows

☆ Bowlero, the public company that reimagined bowling, faces dozens of discrimination claims that the feds want to settle for $60 million
▼ + stars: | 2023-05-11 | by ( Gabrielle Fonrouge | ) www.cnbc.com time to read: +19 min

The 73 EEOC claims brought by individual former employees against the company sparked the larger pattern or practice investigation into age discrimination. Only a fraction of EEOC age discrimination complaints — 2.8% in fiscal 2021 — resulted in reasonable cause determinations, EEOC data show. It went from running six bowling alleys to 272 overnight after it acquired AMF, which was then the largest bowling company in the world and was in bankruptcy. The following year, Shannon's company acquired the Brunswick Corporation, the second-largest bowling company in the world, and changed his company's name to Bowlero. Dowe said negotiations fell apart when Bowlero countered the EEOC's $60 million settlement proposal with a proposal of $500,000.

☆ 10 Things in Tech: Amazon is offering money to pick up your order, ChatGPT writes a “Succession” scene, and tips from an OnlyFans creator
▼ + stars: | 2023-05-10 | by ( Diamond Naga Siu | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +4 min

Amazon Astro Amazon1. Internal documents revealed that Amazon plans to make Astro "more intelligent, more useful, and conversational." The project is internally called "Burnham" and is the latest example of Amazon's push to bring AI to its services and products. Internal documents signal that Amazon is pretty confident that this is a major upgrade to the home robot. Amazon is offering $10 for you to pick up your own order.

☆ Codename Burnham: Amazon has a secret new home robot with ChatGPT-like features that understands a lot more of its surroundings.
▼ + stars: | 2023-05-09 | by ( Eugene Kim | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +7 min

Amazon is working on an upgraded version of its home robot Astro, powered by 'Burnham' technology. The robot has ChatGPT-like features, using large language models and other advanced AI. This is a new phase for Astro and the latest example of Amazon adding AI models to existing products. In one of these documents related to Burnham, Amazon describes an Astro product that costs $995. As LLMs were growing in scale, they started demonstrating "emergent skills in both inference and problem-solving," one of the Amazon documents stated.

Share Share Article via Facebook Share Article via Twitter Share Article via LinkedIn Share Article via EmailHere's what's killing PayPal's growthPayPal is a powerhouse in the digital-payment industry with a market valuation of over $85 billion. The company's annual revenue has also seen impressive gains, reaching $27.5 billion in 2022. But the PayPal's performance in the stock market paints a different picture. After reaching new heights during the pandemic, shares have since seen significant losses. So, what has been causing PayPal's recent struggles?

☆ 10 Things in Tech: AI-generated Drake songs, discounted startups, and Amazon’s upgraded Alexa
▼ + stars: | 2023-05-03 | by ( Diamond Naga Siu | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +4 min

I'm Diamond Naga Siu, and in this turbulent economy, I definitely want stability over most other things. And my colleague Grace Mayer highlights how retail, finance, and other (seemingly more stable) industries are piquing our interest instead. A leaked document viewed by Insider revealed that Amazon wants to focus on entertainment features for Alexa. The upgrade will feature Amazon's own generative AI technology instead of using OpenAI's technology (like how Microsoft paired ChatGPT with Bing). Bell dished to my colleague Ashley Stewart on why he made the move, how he met Satya Nadella, and more.

☆ Samsung bans employees from using AI tools like ChatGPT and Google Bard after an accidental data leak, report says
▼ + stars: | 2023-05-02 | by ( Sawdah Bhaimiya | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +3 min

Samsung has banned employees from using ChatGPT in the workplace, per Bloomberg. Samsung has introduced a new policy banning employees from using generative AI tools like Open AI's ChatGPT and Google Bard in the workplace, Bloomberg reported Tuesday. Staff are now banned from using generative AI tools on company-owned devices including computers, tablets, phones, and internal networks, per Bloomberg. Tech giant Amazon similarly warned staff against using ChatGPT because of instances of the chatbot's responses resembling internal Amazon data, Insider's Eugene Kim reported in January. OpenAI, the company behind ChatGPT, introduced new measures in April to address concerns about managing data on the chatbot.

☆ Ramit Sethi: How renting could make you richer than buying
▼ + stars: | 2023-05-02 | by ( Gene Kim | ) www.cnbc.com time to read: 1 min

Share Share Article via Facebook Share Article via Twitter Share Article via LinkedIn Share Article via EmailRamit Sethi: How renting could make you richer than buyingRamit Sethi, self-made millionaire and star of the new Netflix show "How To Get Rich," explains why it can often be a better financial decision to rent than to own a home.

☆ Amazon plans to reboot its struggling Alexa business by working on its own ChatGPT-like technology, leaked document shows
▼ + stars: | 2023-05-02 | by ( Eugene Kim | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +7 min

One of its ideas is to add entertainment features for Prime Video search and recommendations. "It feels like Alexa is thinking vs. fetching from a database," the document, titled "Alexa LLM Entertainment Use Cases," said. The document focused on new entertainment features for Alexa, including more conversational video search, personal recommendations, and storytelling and news-reading capabilities. When the user asks about one of the recommended shows — Paramount+'s "Younger" is the example used in the document — Alexa shares a one-line summary. 'World's best personal assistant'Other video search features listed in the document include semantic search and personal recommendations.

☆ 'Oh Amazon, why are you making this issue so difficult?' Employees who can't commute to their assigned offices fear the consequences.
▼ + stars: | 2023-04-28 | by ( Eugene Kim | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +10 min

Change in remote statusSome Amazon employees hired during the pandemic said they were promised permanent remote work, through what they saw as a "handshake agreement." One employee shared their vice president's email in the Slack channel, saying this manager was willing to be more flexible. People walk into the lobby of Amazon offices in New York. Over 30,000 Amazon employees joined an internal Slack channel shortly after the RTO announcement and signed a petition to demand a reversal of the mandate. "Amazon, oh Amazon, why are you making this issue so difficult?"

☆ Amazon is tracking employee badge swipes ahead of its return-to-office mandate. Some workers are worried.
▼ + stars: | 2023-04-26 | by ( Eugene Kim | Julie Bort | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +4 min

Amazon tracks team-level office badge data, internal emails show. Companies commonly use badge data for facilities management and safety reasons. Workers fear this data will be used to monitor for compliance with its return-to-office mandate. One of the contentious issues among employees is how Amazon plans to use employee badging data to track them. Amazon currently shares a weekly building occupancy report with managers, according to emails seen by Insider.

☆ Amazon's rush to bring employees back to office stirs anxiety over badge tracking, relocation, and impact on performance reviews
▼ + stars: | 2023-04-25 | by ( Eugene Kim | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +9 min

this person asked in the Slack channel called "remote-advocacy," according to a screenshot seen by Insider. Change in remote statusSome Amazon employees hired during the pandemic said they were promised permanent remote work, through what they saw as a "handshake agreement." One employee shared their vice president's email in the Slack channel, saying this manager was willing to be more flexible. People walk into the lobby of Amazon offices in New York. Over 30,000 Amazon employees joined an internal Slack channel shortly after the RTO announcement and signed a petition to demand a reversal of the mandate.

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