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☆ 6 major differences between Netflix's 'The Perfect Couple' and the book it's based on — including a dramatically altered ending
▼ + stars: | 2024-09-14 | by ( Eve Crosbie | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +7 min

Merritt's death is accidental in the bookMeghann Fahy as Merritt Monaco in "The Perfect Couple." Jack Reynor as Thomas Winbury, Dakota Fanning as Abby Winbury in "The Perfect Couple." The bride-to-be is called Celeste, not AmeliaEve Hewson as Amelia Sacks in "The Perfect Couple." Greer's scandalous past has been invented for the showNicole Kidman as Greer Winbury in "The Perfect Couple." Will, the youngest brother, doesn't exist in the bookSam Nivola as Will Winbury in "The Perfect Couple."

Persons: —, Amelia Sacks, Eve Hewson, Benji Winbury, Billy Howle, Merritt Monaco, Meghann Fahy, Greer Garrison Winbury, Nicole Kidman, Liev Schreiber, Elin Hilderbrand's, Jenna Lamia, Susanne Bier, Hilary Bronwyn Gayle, Lamia, Dakota Fanning, Thomas, Jack Reynor, Abby, Merritt, It's, ingests, Thomas Winbury, Abby Winbury, that's, Greer, Celeste, Amelia Eve Hewson, Celeste Otis, Netflix's, Kidman, That's, Isabel Nallet, Featherleigh Dale, Shooter Dival, Nikki Henry, Donna Lynne Champlin, Greer Winbury, Broderick Graham, Tommy Flanagan, doesn't, Sam Nivola, Will Winbury, Liam Daniel, Winbury, Will, Abby wouldn't, Amelia Organizations: Service, Business, Netflix, London Zoo Locations: Nantucket, British

☆ See the pitch deck that helped a former Goldman Sachs exec raise $5 million for an AI-powered networking startup that feeds deal ideas to bankers
▼ + stars: | 2024-03-22 | by ( Bianca Chan | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +5 min

Doctor, then a Goldman Sachs managing director who ran the bank-solutions group based in Hong Kong, was visiting the bank's London office. The AI startup was built to suggest potential deals based on the data it's exposed to. Louisa AI knows that a current Goldman employee used to work at the semiconductor company, and the AI knows a project-finance employee in New York. In an article about solar panels, Louisa AI would link the words "solar panels" to "solar" and then to "renewables." Here's the pitch deck Louisa AI used to raise $5 million to fund its AI-powered deal prompter.

Persons: Rohan Doctor, Goldman Sachs, Doctor, Jim Esposito, Louisa AI, Louisa, Janet Yellen Organizations: Business, Blue9, Insight Partners, Goldman, Oxford Locations: Hong Kong, London, Asia, Oxford, Canada, Here's, Taiwan, New York

☆ This company is using the AI that powers ChatGPT to help warehouse robots expect the unexpected
▼ + stars: | 2024-03-17 | by ( Lloyd Lee | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +3 min

This story is available exclusively to Business Insider subscribers. Since its founding, Covaraint has secured around $222 million in funding, Business Insider previously reported. And the company's software already powers sorting robots in warehouses across the globe, according to the Times. AdvertisementBut by relying on the same underlying technology ChatGPT uses, the robots powered by Covariant's software can learn through trial and error. A spokesperson for Covariant did not respond to a request for comment from Business Insider.

Persons: —, ChatGPT, Pieter Abbeel, Peter Chen, Rocky Duan, Tianhao Zhang, Abbeel, Chen, Duan, Covaraint Organizations: Service, The New York Times, Business, Times, The Times, YouTube, University of California Locations: California, The, Berkeley

☆ A significant number of US 12th-graders report using delta-8 products, study says, and it may be a public health concern
▼ + stars: | 2024-03-12 | by ( Jen Christensen | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +6 min

Delta-8 THC, or delta-8 tetrahydrocannabinol, is one of more than 100 chemical compounds found in the cannabis sativa plant. That’s at least one or two students in every average-sized high school class who may be using delta-8. Most of the participants were about 17 years old, so the study may not fully represent how many younger teens are using delta-8. There has been a general concern that the number of students using delta-8 has been growing, according to an editorial published Tuesday alongside this study. Calls to America’s Poison Centers about delta-8 products spiked 82% from 2021 to 2022, the group said in a recent report, with 3,358 exposures managed in 2022.

Persons: ”, Adam Leventhal, “ Dr, Nora Volkow, ” Leventhal, Jennifer Whitehill, Kelly Dunn, Renee Johnson, Harlow et, Scientists don’t, Dr, Sanjay Gupta Organizations: CNN —, USC Institute for Addiction Science, Midwest, National Institute on Drug, University of Massachusetts Amherst, Johns Hopkins University, National Cannabis Industry Association, Scientists, Research, Get CNN, CNN Health, Centers

☆ ‘A false sense of security’: Experts say delta-8 THC products can still be dangerous
▼ + stars: | 2024-02-09 | by ( Jen Christensen | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +8 min

Delta-8 THC, or delta-8 tetrahydrocannabinol, is one of more than 100 chemical compounds found in the Cannabis sativa plant. To make delta-8 products, scientists typically make synthetic versions in the lab. Unlike regulated medical products like acetaminophen, which must have uniform ingredients and doses, the contents of delta-8 products vary from product to product — sometimes even from batch to batch. She also encourages people who buy delta-8 products to store them safely so children can’t get to them. Until there are more regulations on the products, experts said, poison centers will still get calls about delta-8 and other cannabis products.

Persons: Daniel Kruger, ’ ”, can’t, Kait Brown, ” Brown, Brown, ’ ” Brown, Kruger, Cassidy LoParco, aren’t, LoParco, They’ve, ” LoParco, Dr, Sanjay Gupta, “, you’re, ” Kruger Organizations: CNN, Centers, Jacobs School of Medicine, Biomedical Sciences, University at Buffalo, State University of New, US Food and Drug Administration, Federal Trade Commission, George Washington University, National Cannabis Industry Association, Delta, HHC, CNN Health Locations: State University of New York

☆ Chatbots just showed scientists how to make social media less toxic
▼ + stars: | 2023-11-14 | by ( Adam Rogers | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +14 min

AI bots, on the other hand, will do whatever you tell them to, practically for free. So researchers are starting to use chatbots as fake people from whom they can extract data about real people. In July 2020, Facebook introduced a walled-off simulation of itself, populated with millions of AI bots, to study online toxicity. His team created hundreds of personas for its Twitter bots — telling each one things like "you are a male, middle-income, evangelical Protestant who loves Republicans, Donald Trump, the NRA, and Christian fundamentalists." Scientists create experiments to be simpler than reality, to offer explanatory power uncomplicated by the messiness of real life.

Persons: chatbots, Donald Trump, Petter Törnberg, Törnberg, Emma, Terry Crews, mindlessly, we've, LLMs, Lisa Argyle, Joon, he's, Smallville's café, messier, it's, sims, Adam Rogers Organizations: ABC News, CNN, New York Times, Twitter, Institute, Logic, University of Amsterdam, Columbia University, Facebook, NRA, American, Election, Democratic, Chamber Twitter, Brigham Young University, Stanford University Locations: Alabama

☆ Citadel Securities is looking for business-savvy coders. Here's what you need to know to land a technologist job that can pay as much as $350,000.
▼ + stars: | 2023-10-19 | by ( Bianca Chan | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +7 min

Being a solid coder isn't going to cut it at Citadel Securities anymore. Citadel Securities, which generated about $7.5 billion in revenue last year, is now focused on hiring thoughtful technologists who drive commercial outcomes for the firm. We're looking for people who can drive a big commercial impact for the firm," Aaron Moss, head of technology recruiting for Citadel Securities, told Insider. In one recent case, Citadel Securities extended an offer to a promising young intern, even though the hiring manager had been looking for a more experienced hire. "The industry is getting very high level with things like AI, which push people even further away from that understanding," Neff told Insider.

Persons: Ken Griffin, Aaron Moss, Josh Woods, It's, Olga Naumovich, Jayson Bevacqua, opportunistically, Damien Neff, it's, Neff, Costas Bekas, extroverts, Bekas, didn't, Moss Organizations: Citadel Securities, Citadel, Solaris Search, LinkedIn Locations: Miami

☆ Grand Canyon issues warning about ‘love locks’
▼ + stars: | 2023-10-13 | by ( Lilit Marcus | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +1 min

CNN —“Love is strong, but our bolt cutters are stronger,” reads a new Facebook post from Grand Canyon National Park in Arizona. Many people believe that the locks are good luck for a relationship, and that throwing away the key symbolizes an unbroken love. However, while the locks themselves are considered “littering” and “graffiti” in the park, it’s the keys that can cause even more serious problems. When the city of Paris removed the locks in 2015, the weight of the 700,000 metal objects was the equivalent of 20 elephants. Once they were all removed, the city put glass partitions up on the bridge to prevent anyone from adding new locks.

Organizations: CNN, California condor, “, “ Condors, Paris ’ Pont des Arts Locations: Arizona, California, Paris

☆ Generative AI needs tools to avoid copyright infringement, Databricks' Naveen Rao says — or more companies could meet Napster's fate
▼ + stars: | 2023-10-10 | by ( Ellen Thomas | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +4 min

Naveen Rao is VP of Generative AI at Databricks and co-founder of LLM-training platform MosaicML. Rao says copyright infringement could prevent companies from successfully monetizing AI. Rao, who oversees generative AI strategy for Databricks after it bought his startup MosaicML for $1.3 billion, likens it to the issue that crushed Napster, the 2000s-era music-sharing platform. "We build tools that enable companies to differentiate their AI from everyone else's and leverage their data uniquely," Rao told Insider. The more people building generative AI technology the better, Rao says.

Persons: Naveen Rao, Rao, —, ChatGPT, Jodi Picoult, George R.R, Martin, OpenAI, he's Organizations: Service, Napster, Apple, iTunes, Thrones, Metallica, Qualcomm, Intel

☆ Here's the 14-page pitch deck a startup helping people build credit through rental payments used to raise $4.5 million from Clocktower VC and Plaid's cofounders
▼ + stars: | 2023-06-21 | by ( Bianca Chan | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +4 min

Boom is a startup that helps people build credit by reporting rent payments to credit bureaus. The startup raised $4.5 million in a seed round led by Starting Line. "I started helping them on their housing, find a new rental, build credit, get things removed from their credit report, access rental assistance, things like that," Whiting told Insider. That's when the lightbulb went off to start Boom, a startup that helps people build credit by reporting their rent payments to credit bureaus. Here's the 14-page pitch deck Boom used to raise its $4.5 million seed.

Persons: Rob Whiting, Whiting, Kirill Moizik, helms, Boom . Whiting, Moizik, Boom, Plaid's cofounders Zach Perret, William Hockey Organizations: Boston Consulting Group, Clocktower

☆ Big media is gearing up for battle with Google and Microsoft over AI chatbots using their articles for training: 'We are actively considering our options'
▼ + stars: | 2023-03-03 | by ( Lucia Moses | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +9 min

Publishers want Google and Microsoft to pay them for the use of media content to train their AI. Media companies are also studying how to change their business models to protect themselves from the bots' threat. Within media companies, the topic is being discussed at the highest levels, from the C-suite to the boardroom. Executives are also strategizing with peers and competitors about the possibility of forging a united position against the tech companies, according to multiple publishing sources. The same year, an Australia law forced tech companies to pay news outlets for linking to their articles.

☆ Inside the self-proclaimed first generative AI conference, executives explain why the hot new technology behind ChatGPT is 'not just hype, but something real'
▼ + stars: | 2023-02-18 | by ( Thomas Maxwell | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +7 min

AI startup Jasper hosted what it claims was the first conference dedicated to generative AI. The mood was reminiscent of the hype around crypto, but attendees say generative AI is here to stay. Thomas Maxwell/InsiderInsiders say generative AI is not just a fadGenerative AI has already run into some road bumps. Anthropic's Amodei said that consumers, businesses, and developers alike are moving at "record speeds" to adopt generative AI. Thomas Maxwell/InsiderWhat's different with generative AI is that large language models have been quietly in development for some time, , executives said.

☆ Cruz Foam makes styrofoam alternative from shrimp shells and food waste
▼ + stars: | 2023-02-08 | by ( Lora Kolodny | ) www.cnbc.com time to read: +2 min

Meanwhile, companies that ship or sell fragile goods, food or medical supplies that need to stay cold during shipping still need materials with the lightweight, insulating qualities and manufacturability of styrofoam. That's where startup Cruz Foam comes in. Cruz Foam is made from naturally occurring materials including chitin (pronounced like "kite-in") along with starches and fibers diverted from agricultural waste streams. Chitin is a polymer contained in the shells of shrimp and other crustaceans, as well as insect exoskeletons. Besides that, styrofoam products are usually treated with flame retardants and can absorb other pollutants from water around them, increasing the threat to any wildlife that eats or lives amid the discarded styrofoam.

☆ Pitch Decks That Advertising Tech Startups Used to Raise Millions
▼ + stars: | 2023-01-10 | by ( Business Insider | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +19 min

Check out these pitch decks that they've used to sell their vision and raise millions from private equity and VC investors. Blocking ad fraudAdtech startup Lunio, announced a $15 million Series A funding round in September 2022. In May 2022, the software-as-a-service startup raised a $30 million Series B round, led by Insight Partners. Marketing in the metaverseAnima, an augmented-reality startup, raised a $3 million funding round from investors in Janury. He raised $50 million in Series D after closing a $34 million Series C last year, bringing its total raised to $100 million.

☆ A new cholera outbreak is killing hundreds in Haiti. Scientists think it's the same strain that was brought to the country by UN troops more than a decade ago.
▼ + stars: | 2022-12-29 | by ( Sarah Braner | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +5 min

The current strain may be descended from the 2010 strain that UN troops likely brought. The current outbreak was first reported on October 2, according to the WHO, after three years of no reported cholera cases. Before going to Haiti, there had been a cholera outbreak in Kathmandu, where the troops trained before deployment. Scientists don't yet know why this new cholera outbreak is occurringScientists aren't yet sure how cholera has reemerged in Haiti after three years of no reported cases. However, the authors say this third option is unlikely, partially because other countries in the region have not reported recent cholera cases.

☆ Lacework: 2022 Top Startups for the Enterprise
▼ + stars: | 2022-11-07 | by ( Cnbc.Com Staff | ) www.cnbc.com time to read: +1 min

Lacework is a cybersecurity company that relies on a patented form of machine learning built specifically within the cloud to protect an organization from the inside out. This approach provides insights internally to automatically learn patterns, flag deviations and provide alerts at the right time, without wasted time investigating false positives. Lacework prides itself on a comprehensive cybersecurity service that can be accessed from a single platform across Amazon Web Services, Microsoft Azure and other cloud platforms, and it has a recent integration with Snowflake. Its investors include Altimeter Capital, Tiger Global Management, Morgan Stanley's Counterpoint Global, Franklin Templeton, General Catalyst and Snowflake's venture arm. The 2022 Top Startups for the Enterprise list is powered and inspired by the members of CNBC's Technology Executive Council (TEC).

☆ Edge Computing Helps Feed Taco Bell’s Digital Business
▼ + stars: | 2022-10-20 | by ( Kim S. Nash | ) www.wsj.com time to read: +5 min

Taco Bell is making aggressive use of edge computing to support the many digital ways customers can place orders, the fast-food chain’s head of technology said. PREVIEW“We took [on] our most critical workloads in order processing and menu data,” Mr. Parizher said. General Electric Co. and Siemens AG , for example, are using edge computing to optimize factory machines in real time. The Wall Street Journal's Steven Rosenbush, left, talks with Vadim Parizher, Taco Bell's vice president of technology, at an online event Thursday. With edge-computing foundations in place, he said, Taco Bell can experiment with connected robotic equipment that can fry food, warm up tortillas or pour drinks.

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