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☆ Trump’s pick for NASA chief: Jared Isaacman has close ties with Elon Musk
▼ + stars: | 2024-12-06 | by ( Jackie Wattles | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +12 min

Isaacman, who has twice traveled to space on private missions and has close ties to SpaceX CEO Elon Musk but lacks experience in government or academia, is an unorthodox selection. If confirmed, Isaacman would be only the fourth of 15 NASA administrators to have actually traveled to space. Isaacman’s relationship with SpaceXIsaacman’s close ties with SpaceX and Musk are likely to raise questions about conflicts of interest. Trump, Musk and Isaacman’s visionDespite Isaacman’s close relationship with Musk, the two have adopted starkly different tones regarding politics. “I don’t need to have a public opinion on his politics because there is much more to the man and his companies,” Isaacman said of Musk in an October 11 post.

Persons: Donald Trump’s, Jared Isaacman —, Elon Musk, Jared Isaacman, Patrick T, Fallon, Isaac Arthur, ” Arthur, Garrett Reisman, Isaacman, ”, Reisman, —, Joe Skipper, Reuters Isaacman, Dawn —, Jeff Bezos, Shift4, Musk, Donald Trump, Brandon Bell, ” Isaacman, Elon, Bezos, “, ” Bezos, Eugene Gologursky, SpaceX’s, Bill Nelson, landers, ” Nelson, NASA's, Kevin Dietsch, Nelson, Trump, “ It’s, … It’s Organizations: CNN, —, NASA, SpaceX, Shift4, Getty, National Space Society, US Senate, Trump, Air Force, Kennedy Space Center, Polaris, Reuters, Department of Government, Origin, New York Times DealBook, New York Times, Jazz, Lincoln Center, The New York Times, Orion, NASA's Kennedy Space Center Locations: Hawthorne , California, AFP, Cape Canaveral , Florida, Shift4, Brownsville , Texas, Trump, New York City

☆ University of Michigan Weighs Changes to Its Diversity Program
▼ + stars: | 2024-12-04 | by ( Nicholas Confessore | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +1 min

The University of Michigan, one of higher education’s staunchest proponents of diversity, equity and inclusion plans, is weighing changes to its own program as colleges across the country brace for the second presidency of Donald J. Trump and a Republican assault on such initiatives in government and academia. Regents overseeing the university said in interviews that they expected the board to seek limits on so-called diversity statements in hiring and promotion decisions. The changes under consideration would make Michigan one of the first selective public universities to rethink D.E.I. Michigan’s state constitution provides regents ultimate control over the university’s finances as well as general oversight of the school. But early discussions between the regents and other university officials have sparked intense pushback on Michigan’s campus in recent days.

Persons: Donald J, Trump Organizations: University of Michigan, Republican, Regents Locations: Michigan

☆ I pivoted into venture capital at 23 and my life has never been so exciting. Here's my advice for breaking into the industry.
▼ + stars: | 2024-11-17 | by ( Jamie Killin | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +6 min

AdvertisementKatie Vasquez landed her first venture capital job at 23 years old. This as-told-to essay is based on a conversation with Katie Vasquez, a 26-year-old investor at Calibrate Ventures based in Santa Monica, California, on her experience working in venture capital. I'm an investor at Calibrate Ventures, an early-stage deep-tech venture capital firm. My advice for other people hoping to get into VC is to leverage your network and stay up to date on the industry. This experience provided a great foundation for thinking more about technical due diligence, tech architecture, and strategy, but moving into investing and venture capital felt like the most exciting path.

Persons: Katie Vasquez, I've, I'm, I'd Organizations: Brown University, Goldman, LA Tech, Synergist, Investor, Business Locations: Santa Monica , California, EY, fintech, Los Angeles, LA

In his last term, Trump paused some work visa programs used by tech firms to hire skilled talent. This order left many tech workers stranded outside of the US in 2017. The H-1B visa program is the nation's largest temporary work visa program, with over 600,000 workers across 50,000 employers. Vice President-elect JD Vance has a venture capital background, and Musk is an immigrant himself who has said he was on an H1-B visa previously. Shin Yi Chong, who received her H1-B visa in 2019, was recently laid off from her tech job as a product manager.

Persons: Donald Trump's, Trump, —, Donald Trump, Michael Greeley, What's, Hiba Mona Anver, Anver, Jenny Fielding, Biden, Palo, Sophie Alcorn, Anna Rathbun, Aaron Levie, Elon Musk, Levie, Elon, Alcorn, JD Vance, Anna Moneymaker, Chris Farmer, Vance, Musk, Shin Yi Chong, Shubhangi Goel, Riddhi Kanetkar Organizations: Service, Flare Capital Partners, Trump, Ventures, Hire, Experts, Business Locations: Cleveland, It's

☆ Why quant giant D.E. Shaw seeks out academics, doctors, and veterans to work at the $60 billion hedge fund
▼ + stars: | 2024-11-05 | by ( Bradley Saacks | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +10 min

download the app Email address Sign up By clicking “Sign Up”, you accept our Terms of Service and Privacy Policy . The rotational associates program lets new hires work for different teams in different roles so new employees can get a sense of where they fit best. Academics, doctors, and veteransThe end result is that driven people find their place in the firm, one way or another. Shaw Research, a computational drug discovery company led by Shaw, which put the hedge fund on their radar. Willenken, the doctor of philosophy, appreciated that his role included the parts of academia he enjoyed most without the siloed approach academic research roles typically require.

Persons: Shaw, —, Tim Willenken, hadn't, Gabrielle Wesley, I'd, D.E, David Shaw, Charles Ardai, Jeff Bezos, Jeremy Reff, Reff, Willenken, Don Quixote, Ana Díaz Rivero, Lindsay Temes's, Dr, Omar Ali, Lindsey Temes, Shaw Temes, Pat Tillman, Ali, Díaz Rivero Organizations: BI, Service, Mars, Amazon, Big Tech, Harvard, D.E, undergrad, Air Force, MIT, Pat Tillman Foundation, National Health Service, NHS, Shaw Research Locations: D.E, Mars Wrigley, America, New York, quants, Silicon Valley, Big

☆ Radiohead's Thom Yorke walks off stage in response to Israel 'genocide' heckler
▼ + stars: | 2024-10-31 | by ( Https | Media-Cldnry.S-Nbcnews.Com Image Upload Newscms Patrick-Smith-Circle-Byline-Template.Jpg | Patrick Smith | ) www.nbcnews.com time to read: +1 min

Radiohead singer Thom Yorke left the stage during a concert Wednesday after a member of the audience shouted about Israel's assault on the Gaza Strip. Yorke was playing a show in Melbourne, Australia as part of a solo tour when, according to multiple videos captured by concertgoers, a man yelled: "Do you condemn the Israeli genocide of Gaza? On stage, Yorke replied: "Come up here and say that." Yorke, 56, is on a solo tour while Radiohead is on a lengthy hiatus. Radiohead has faced criticism in the past for playing gigs in Israel and not joining a boycott of the country by some artists.

Persons: Thom Yorke, Yorke, concertgoers, Radiohead, Jonny Greenwood, Netanyahu Organizations: Karma, Health Ministry, Trump, America . Locations: Gaza, Melbourne, Australia, Israel, America, Tel Aviv

☆ Anandkumar Transitions From Nvidia to CalTech to Advance AI Climate Research
▼ + stars: | 2024-10-24 | by ( Helen Li | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: 1 min

Anandkumar, a former senior director of Nvidia's AI research, left the private sector last year to return full time to academia at CalTech, where she serves as a Bren professor in the computing and mathematical sciences department. Her lab focuses on tensors, which can help solve higher-order problems in AI, such as simulating fluids. She helped build an AI-based weather model and made it available as open source. She hopes that by figuring out how AI can better simulate the physical world, researchers can more accurately predict and alleviate the climate crisis. See Business Insider's full AI Power List

Organizations: CalTech

☆ Bayesian Health CEO Suchi Saria Leads Healthcare Data Revolution
▼ + stars: | 2024-10-24 | by ( Rebecca Torrence | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +3 min

Saria, part of Business Insider's 2024 AI Power List, directs the machine learning and healthcare lab at Johns Hopkins University and is the founder and CEO of the AI startup Bayesian Health. Related storiesSaria has continued to research healthcare AI at Johns Hopkins. For her work in healthcare AI, the World Economic Forum named her a Young Global Leader in 2018. In 2022, Saria cofounded the Coalition for Health AI, which brings federal agencies and healthcare organizations to discuss best practices for using healthcare AI. She also helped the National Academy of Medicine develop its code of conduct for AI deployment, released earlier this year.

Persons: Saria, Barack Obama, Andreessen Horowitz, Oracle's Cerner, It's, Johns, She's, — she's Organizations: Johns Hopkins University, Stanford, Bayesian, Nature Medicine, Cleveland Clinic, Northwell, Johns Hopkins, Economic, Global, Coalition for Health, National Academy of Medicine

☆ I lived in a hacker house for the summer when I was 18. It changed my career trajectory completely and I left college.
▼ + stars: | 2024-10-22 | by ( Jen Glantz | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +7 min

Jonah Weinbaum joined a hacker house to work on a neurotech project in summer 2023. Living in the hacker house shifted Weinbaum's career focus from academia to entrepreneurship. AdvertisementThis as-told-to essay is based on a conversation with Jonah Weinbaum, a 19-year-old who moved into a hacker house during the summer of 2023. Living in the hacker house changed the career path I was onBefore this experience, I was confused about what path to take. AdvertisementMy time in the hacker house taught me how to take a problem and investigate it intensely for a short period.

Persons: Jonah Weinbaum, —, We'd, I've, I'm Organizations: Service, University of Michigan, Emergent Ventures Locations: Ann Arbor, Michigan, Washington, Canada, Russia, California, Francisco, Texas

☆ How the world’s largest tech event is forging a future AI economy
▼ + stars: | 2024-10-15 | by ( ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +6 min

A next generation agendaGITEX GLOBAL will span 40 halls across two locations, bringing together the entire international technology community to set the global agenda for the future AI economy. With the global AI market projected to reach $2.7 trillion by 2032, the event will showcase the latest advancements driving this remarkable growth. GITEX GLOBAL 2024 AGENDA MONDAY: TECH INVESTMENT DAY - Explore the latest investment trends that are reshaping global wealth. In addition, the World Future Economy Digital Leaders Summit will see global innovators and influential leaders address critical priorities shaping the future of technology. By bringing together diverse stakeholders from across the globe, the event is poised to shape the future of the AI economy and reinforce Dubai’s vision of becoming a global tech hub.

Persons: Martin Pfeiffer, Fabrizio del Maffeo, Alexander Zhavoronkov, Dr, Diane Janosek, Brett Johnson, Ekaterina Serban, Surinder Organizations: Dubai World Trade, Dubai Harbour, TECH, Tech, Google, Huawei, IBM, Microsoft, Nvidia, Oracle, European NVIDIA, ”, InSilico, supercomputing, UAE Cybersecurity Council, TCB, National Security Agency, Pentagon, Bosch, Paramount Locations: Dubai, European, Hong Kong

☆ Netflix and more: Jefferies names stocks set to benefit from a $60 billion anime boom
▼ + stars: | 2024-10-15 | by ( Amala Balakrishner | In Amala-Balakrishner | ) www.cnbc.com time to read: +3 min

Given this potential, the investment bank identified three of its buy-rated global stocks that are "well-positioned in the anime market." Netflix has also invested in its own anime content and turned "classic" anime series into live action productions. "We expect Netflix's anime strategy of licensing top performing Japanese anime series, as well as funding its own animated and live action anime series to continue into the foreseeable future," the bank's analysts wrote. The entertainment giant already operates anime planning and production company Aniplex in its music segment, and anime streaming platform Crunchyroll in its picture segment. Looking ahead, it wants to provide even more support to the anime industry, Jefferies' analysts wrote.

Persons: Jefferies, Sanrio, Bandai Namco Jefferies, — CNBC's Michael Bloom Organizations: Grand View Research, Bandai Namco, Marvel, Netflix, Sony, Sony Group Locations: Japan —, U.S, Europe

☆ A Professor Made Porn. His Firing May Shape the Future of Free Speech
▼ + stars: | 2024-10-13 | by ( Hallie Lieberman | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +13 min

Can a tenured professor be fired for making porn? "We don't want to be known as Porn U," said Betsy Morgan, who replaced Gow as interim chancellor. Leitner presented Gow's videos as part of his broader advocacy of nonmonogamy. The regents, Gow said, "are willing to fire me for the short-term goodwill they get with the far right." He puts Gow's online porn in the same category as "posting inflammatory personal, political opinions on social media."

Persons: Joe Gow, Carmen Wilson, —, Gow, Wilson, It's, Zach Greenberg, Betsy Morgan, Morgan, Tom Ginsburg, He's, Gow's, Wade Harrison, Roe, Donald Downs, Simone Lueck, undergrads, Harrison, Jay Hart —, Tom, Jerry Bui, Bui, unswayed, Mark Leitner, Leitner, Banner, Keith Whittington Harrison, Dr, Aweek, he's, Keith Whittington, they've, McCarthy Organizations: University of Wisconsin, UW, La, Foundation, Rights, Forum, Free, University of Chicago, Diego, Republican, Academia, Yale, Freedom Alliance, University Locations: La Crosse, Mississippi, America, Wisconsin, Onalaska, San Diego, foreplay, Madison, Milwaukee, Yale

☆ I was a graphic designer for decades and went back to school at 60 to become a teacher. It pays less but is more rewarding.
▼ + stars: | 2024-10-12 | by ( Cailey Griffin | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +6 min

After a decadeslong career as a graphic designer, I decided to pursue a teaching career at 60. I remember my first day walking up to the entrance of my training school as clear as day. During teacher training, a staff member is there to mentor and take you under their wing. I may make less, but teaching has been extremely rewardingI finished my teacher training and graduated with my PGCE in 2022. Financially, I make less as a teacher than in my professional graphic design career.

Persons: Stuart Fuller, —, I've, I'd, hadn't, There's Organizations: Service, Saatchi, Saatchi & Saatchi, Royal Air Force, Google Locations: London, Cambridge, England, Loughton , England

☆ Pharmacy deserts are appearing across U.S. as drug stores closures spread
▼ + stars: | 2024-10-11 | by ( Kevin Williams | ) www.cnbc.com time to read: +12 min

"As long as the big three PBMs go unchecked, more pharmacy deserts will appear," Rochol said. Between 2023 and 2024, independent pharmacies in the CVS Caremark pharmacy network were reimbursed 67.5% higher on average than CVS Pharmacy locations, and 51.9% higher than other chain pharmacies in the state. The CVS spokesman also said that CVS pharmacies are not all serviced by Caremark, working with over 70 different PBMs. "There are unfortunately many factors for pharmacy closures in rural areas, including population declines and the growing use of online pharmacies." But Banas believes the pharmacy deserts will only grow, and lead to an increase the number of apps and digitization.

Persons: Rochol, Miranda Rochol, Health —, —, Joyce Dingman, wasn't, Nickerson, David Nickerson, Tim Wentworth, Greg Lopes, Steven C, Anderson, Colin Banas, Banas, it's, Tamera Hughes, Hughes, Rob Anderson Organizations: FTC, Health, Federal Trade Commission, Aids, Rite Aid, CVS, Walgreens, Cigna, Walgreens Boots, CVS Pharmacy, Caremark, Pharmaceutical Care Management Association, National Community Pharmacists, National Association of Chain Drug, U.S, Congress, Amazon, University's, of Pharmacy, Pharmacists, Aid Locations: United States, PBMs, New Lebanon, Ohio, Dayton, New Lebanon's, Rust, New Lebanon , Ohio, Georgia, NACDS

☆ Anthropic's power players: Here are the 11 leaders helping shape the future of the Amazon-backed AI company
▼ + stars: | 2024-10-09 | by ( Darius Rafieyan | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +10 min

It's sought to position itself as the safer, more responsible AI company. She, along with her brother Dario, was part of the team that left OpenAI with the goal of creating a more responsible AI company. Krishna Rao, Chief Financial OfficerAs any emerging AI company can attest, conducting groundbreaking research isn't enough. In this role, he's building deep relationships with users and helping to turn Anthropic's research into a mass-market product. These capabilities are essential to Anthropic's positioning of itself as the safer AI company.

Persons: Anthropic, It's, —, OpenAI's, Dario Amodei, Amodei, Dario, Daniela Amodei, She's, Jack Clark ,, Clark, Jared Kaplan, Kaplan, Chris Olah, Sam McCandlish, McCandlish, Tom Brown, Brown, Krishna Rao, Rao, Mike Krieger, São Paulo, Krieger, Claude, Brian Israel, it's, Brian, Sam Bowman, Bowman, Jan Leike Organizations: Service, OpenAI's ChatGPT, Google, Princeton University, Hertz, Stanford University School of Medicine, sager, Bloomberg, Harvard, Johns Hopkins University, Research, Organization, Core Resources, Stanford University, Brandeis University, Core, Blackstone, Bain & Company, Anthropic, State Department, NASA Locations: OpenAI, Anthropic, Airbnb, São, Menlo Park, San Francisco, New York, Israel

Jabaliya Gaza City Gaza Strip Israel Mediterranean Sea Khan Younis Egypt Jabaliya Gaza City Gaza Strip Israel Mediterranean Sea Khan Younis Egypt Jabaliya Gaza City Gaza Strip Mediterranean Sea Israel Khan Younis EgyptGaza in Ruins After a Year of War Much of Gaza has been destroyed by Israel’s relentless military campaign. Sea Gaza Strip Israel Egypt Gaza City 74% of buildings have been likely damaged or destroyed. Gaza City, the strip’s capital, is home to the ancient Old City, as well as Al-Rimal, a once-vibrant, upper-middle-class neighborhood. Omar Al-Mukhtar Street, Gaza City Before Fouad Abu JasserThe park was a gathering place for rallies and protests. Omar Al-Mukhtar Street, Gaza City After AFPNot far away, the Rashaad Shawa center, which housed the oldest library in the Gaza Strip, has been severely damaged.

Persons: Khan, Khan Younis, Israel Egypt Khan Younis, Abu Kayan, Mamdouh Aljbour, ”, Ahmed Abu, Bilal Shbair, Belal Barbakh, Barbakh, Hamada, Sisters Asan, Elan, Abdulraouf Barbakh, “, Barbakh’s, Jamal Subuh’s, Subuh, Jamal, Jamal Subuh, nourishing Gazans, Dina, Reuters Ahmed Abu Sultan, Mr, Abu Sultan, —, Omari, Omar Al, Mukhtar, Riyad Al, Masri, Al, Rimal, Gazans, Fouad Abu Jasser, Shawerma Al, Sheikh Omar Al, wasn’t, Ahmed Emqat, Ihsan Abdo, Husam Skeek, Jabaliya, Nahed Al, Fatima Hussein, Ahmed Jawda, Assali, Jawda Organizations: Hamas, Cream, Citadel, Sisters, Facebook, Agricultural Organization, Byzantine, Reuters, Reuters Al, AFP, Palestine, Med, Israel Egypt Jabaliya, AFP Al, Times, Bank, Gazans Locations: Israel, Gaza, Egypt, Khan Younis Egypt Gaza, New York City, Gaza City, Med, Israel Egypt, Khan, Facebook, Farra, Jamal, Israel Egypt Gaza, Old City, Gaza . Old City, Omari, Al, Aqsa, Jerusalem, Riyad, Palestine, Gazans, Jabaliya, Jabaliya’s Al

“When you’re a regular person and you’re going on to your email job during the day and then every time you take a dopamine break on your phone, you’re getting hit by ‘You’re not fashionable enough. Everyone is overconsuming to keep upWhen shopping for clothes, Martinson is almost exclusively a thrifter. “They’re grasping at straws, just throwing something at the wall to see what sticks.”The new mall is TikTok ShopFast fashion was the first harbinger of the death of personal style, Thomas said. If you’re going to buy a clothing item, think of three outfits you can wear it with. Pre-Industrial Revolution habits of secondhand shopping, mending old clothes and keeping things around are coming back.

Persons: Fiza Faheem, ”, Faheem, microtrends, XCX’s, They’ve, Instagram, Dejeuné Harris, you’re, ‘ You’re, it’s, Alana Martinson, Dana Thomas, “, Luke Meagher, Tamika Smith, Harris, I’m, “ I’m, TikTok, ” Harris, Thomas, ” Thomas, “ We’d, Zara …, ” Martinson, Hope, ” Meagher, they’ve Organizations: University of York, Washington , D.C, YouTube Locations: Washington ,, Zara, ”, U.S, TikTok

“I have had two spectacular Notre Dame law clerks. The traditional elite law schools dominate Supreme Court clerkships, with many justices hiring clerks from the same law schools they themselves attended and maintaining close links with faculty members. Barrett, who graduated from Notre Dame Law School, is the only member of the current court not to have a law degree from Harvard or Yale. Within that context, Notre Dame is scrapping with other law schools for the remaining clerkships and has performed well. Another conservative-aligned law school that is making inroads is George Mason University’s Antonin Scalia Law School in Virginia, which has also placed some graduates in Supreme Court clerkships.

Persons: Annie Ortega, Barrett, “, Joshua Mannery, ”, Aliza Shatzman, Ted Cruz, Josh Hawley, Kari Lorentson, Elizabeth Totzke, Christian Burset, Patrick Reidy, Neil Gorsuch, Kavanaugh, Gorsuch, “ It’s, ” Kavanaugh, ” Nicole Garnett, Clarence Thomas, Barrett’s, Nicole Garnett, Patrick F, Evan Cobb, clerkships, George Mason University’s Antonin Scalia Organizations: Federalist Society, Notre Dame Law School, Catholic, Notre Dame, Notre, University of Notre Dame, NBC, U.S . News, Harvard, Yale, University of Chicago, Duke University, University of Pennsylvania, Columbia University, School, Supreme Locations: Texas, clerkships, U.S, Stanford, Columbia, Virginia

☆ She was still in college when she started applying for the housing lottery. Now, she pays $1,600 for a 1-bedroom apartment in NYC.
▼ + stars: | 2024-10-01 | by ( Amanda Goh | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +8 min

AdvertisementMitchell won the NYC housing lottery over a year ago. Molly Stromoski for NYC Department of Housing Preservation and Development"It's damn near as easy as swiping on a dating app. Molly Stromoski for NYC Department of Housing Preservation and DevelopmentTo qualify for an apartment, each household must meet specific income requirements. Applying for the housing lottery is free, but competition is stiff: According to the HPD, on average, there are 450 applications received per rental unit. AdvertisementShe has a piece of advice for those interested in the housing lottery: Apply, apply, apply.

Persons: Ceronne Mitchell, —, Mitchell, you'll, Molly Stromoski, Long, Lacey, It's, There's, I'm Organizations: New, Service, NYC Department of Housing Preservation, Department of Housing Preservation, Housing Development Corporation, Development, World Trade Center, Facebook, New York Locations: New York City, Queens, Brooklyn, NYC, New York, Zillow

☆ I'm a professor. I tell all my college freshmen these 6 tips so they have a successful first year.
▼ + stars: | 2024-09-16 | by ( Jaime Bedrin | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +5 min

Read previewI've taught or advised college students in New York and New Jersey for the last 15 years. Read the class syllabusTaking a moment to read the syllabus will help you get ahead as a student. Even a simple "Subject: Looking for clarification on class reading" would be helpful. Spend time in the libraryDespite having lots of reading to do for class, I recommend students read for fun, too. College is a time to experiment in all aspects of life; don't waste it by staying in your comfort zone.

Persons: —, it's, you've, she's Organizations: Service, Business Locations: New York, New Jersey

☆ A teacher caught students using ChatGPT on their first assignment to introduce themselves. Her post about it started a debate.
▼ + stars: | 2024-09-08 | by ( Jaures Yip | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +8 min

Yet many of the students enrolled in her ethics and technology course decided to introduce themselves with ChatGPT. AdvertisementSecond week of the semester and I've already had students use (and own up to using) ChatGPT to write their first assignment: "briefly introduce yourself and say what you're hoping to get out of this class". AdvertisementThe calculator argument — why ChatGPT is not just another problem-solving toolMany of the commenters who defended using AI likened ChatGPT for writing to using a calculator for math problems. OpenAI even partnered with Arizona State University to offer students and faculty full access to ChatGPT Enterprise for tutoring, coursework, research, and more. A professor in another post that received over 600 upvotes said that ChatGPT was "ruining" their love of teaching.

Persons: —, Megan Fritts, Fritts, I've, they're, clued, ChatGPT, they've, Charles Harvey, Harvey, I'm, They're, Curby Alexander, Anna Cunningham, Joel Nishimura, OpenAI, upvotes Organizations: Service, Business, University of Arkansas, University of Central, EdWeek Research, Texas Christian University, Arizona State University, ChatGPT Enterprise Locations: Little, University of Central Arkansas, Arizona

☆ A former Nvidia researcher who left the chip giant for academia shares why AI models should be open source and free for all
▼ + stars: | 2024-08-29 | by ( Helen Li | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +11 min

AI researcher Anima Anandkumar highlights the role of AI in weather, climate, and medical design. She formerly worked at Nvidia on machine learning research and now spearheads Caltech's AI research. The former Nvidia senior director of AI research and Amazon Web Services alum spent decades working at the forefront of AI algorithms and helped make Nvidia's FourCastNet weather simulator available as open source. I see that as the golden age of open research where even in industry, you could open source, you could publish, you could freely collaborate. To me, my goal to be having a dual appointment was to really enable open research and do that for beneficial tasks.

Persons: —, Anima, Anandkumar, fluidly, I've, ChatGPT, I'm, it's, Gavin Newsom, That's Organizations: Nvidia, Service, Web Services, Caltech, Business, Big, Big Tech, AWS, TED, Gov Locations: Big Tech, California

☆ I lived in Silicon Valley, New York, and London as a founder. If you're looking for a place to build a business, there's one clear winner.
▼ + stars: | 2024-08-23 | by ( Charissa Cheong | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +7 min

I've lived in the Bay Area, New York, and the UK while building and scaling Zyper. But if you want to be laser-focused without distractions, you can't beat the Bay Area. Particularly in the Valley, there's a propensity for very quickly backing "zero-to-one ideas" and creating something entirely new. Silicon Valley is special, and I plan to stayI moved Zyper to San Francisco right before the pandemic hit. AdvertisementThere are other emerging markets, like Korea, Brazil, and China, but I think there's something very special about the ecosystem and history of Silicon Valley.

Persons: —, Amber Atherton, I've, Zyper, Y Combinator, Y, it's, Michael Seibel, Everyone's, London's, There's, overregulate Organizations: Service, Business, Patron, Nvidia Locations: San Francisco, London, New York, Palo Alto, Bay, California, Zyper, Mountain View, Hong Kong, England, American, Delaware, . New York, York, Europe, Silicon Valley, Miami, Austin, Silicon, Korea, Brazil, China

☆ Nate Silver on the 2024 race: 'It's no longer Trump's election to lose.'
▼ + stars: | 2024-08-14 | by ( Peter Kafka | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +7 min

And when Hillary Clinton lost the 2016 election, after Silver gave her a 71% chance of winning, he became the subject of much (misplaced) scorn. But the rest of the world wants to know who Silver thinks is going to win the 2024 election. It's no longer Trump's election to lose. And so if it's Harris 80/20 and Trump wins, or Trump 80/20 and Harris wins on election day, then that's running some career risk. With hindsight, do you make sense at a big company, or do you think you're better as a solo act?

Persons: —, Nate, Hillary Clinton, Silver, Sam Bankman, Sam Altman —, I'm, Harris, Kamala Harris, You've, it's, we've, She's, Tim Walz, she'd, Biden, It's someone's, Hilary Clinton, Trump, Clinton, It's, it's Harris, you've, … Organizations: Service, NBA, Business, Biden, Trump, Libertarian, Party, New York Times, Disney — Locations: It's

☆ Australian Olympian 'Raygun' went viral for her breakdancing moves. Now, she's defending them.
▼ + stars: | 2024-08-12 | by ( Palmer Haasch | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +8 min

Gunn's time on the Olympic stage, however, was short-lived. The article examined how institutionalization in the Olympic games would impact the Australian breaking scene. Her now-husband, Samuel Free, introduced her to breaking in 2008 while they were at university, Gunn told The Sydney Morning Herald. Rachael "Raygun" Gunn competing at the 2024 Olympics in Paris. Advertisement(Raygun's full performances — and the rest of the 2024 Olympic events — are available to replay on Peacock.)

Persons: —, Rachael Gunn, France's Syssy, Lithuania's, Raygun didn't, i've, A5aqxIbV3H — David Mack, Gunn, Lucas Marie, Samuel Free, Women's, Rachael, Raygun, Ezra Shaw, RayGun, Breakdancing, ove, achael,, aris O lympics. Organizations: Service, Olympics —, Department of Media, Communications, Creative Arts, Macquarie University, Business, Olympic, Weekly, Sydney Morning Herald, Australian Breaking Association, aris O Locations: Sydney, Australia, United States, Paris, breakdancing

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