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☆ Mark Zuckerberg's PR team can't stop him from posting, internal texts reveal
▼ + stars: | 2024-06-25 | by ( Katie Notopoulos | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +5 min

Read previewIn September 2021, Mark Zuckerberg threw his PR team into a crisis situation. The story said part of the strategy involved Zuckerberg posting more lighthearted content to help rehab his image, and cited a video he had posted of himself riding a hydrofoil while holding an American flag. In those messages, you can see how the PR team agonized over Zuckerberg's desire to post a zinger about the misidentified hydrofoil. Nick Clegg, head of public policy at Meta, was also strongly against Mark posting something flippant about the hydrofoil. A warning label is a misguided idea, in my opinion, but it is a pesky public problem for Meta.

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☆ Efficiency helped turn Silicon Valley around. China is taking it to the extreme to do the same.
▼ + stars: | 2024-06-24 | by ( Hasan Chowdhury | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +4 min

download the appSign up to get the inside scoop on today’s biggest stories in markets, tech, and business — delivered daily. Now, China's tech bosses seem ready to do the same. AdvertisementChina is pushing tech workers even harderChinese tech companies seem willing to take Silicon Valley's efficiency mantra even further. Big names on China's tech scene, like JD.com and Jack Ma's Alibaba, have faced a threat from fast-growing newcomers like Pinduoduo, the sister company of online marketplace Temu. AdvertisementQu left Baidu after her comments were made public, but the ferocity of what China's tech workers are hearing isn't abating.

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☆ 7 reasons Nvidia is poised to soar 67% as its rally continues for the next 2 years, according to a Wall Street research firm
▼ + stars: | 2024-06-24 | by ( Matthew Fox | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +4 min

Constellation Research said Nvidia stock will soar 65% to $200 per share over the next year. The research firm said it expects Nvidia stock to continue soaring for the next 18 to 24 months as it benefits from its AI dominance. These are the seven reasons Wang expects Nvidia stock to soar 65% from current levels. You're going to be locked in for quite some time and they've got quite a lead in terms of doing that." Wang isn't the only analyst on Wall Street with a $200 price target for Nvidia stock.

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☆ Mark Zuckerberg's summer vacation look includes a $1,150 hypebeast t-shirt
▼ + stars: | 2024-06-22 | by ( Jaures Yip | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +1 min

Mark Zuckerberg sported a $1,150 Balmain t-shirt on vacation in Ibiza with his wife. download the app Email address Sign up By clicking “Sign Up”, you accept our Terms of Service and Privacy Policy . AdvertisementMark Zuckerberg — CEO, chairman, up-and-coming fashion icon? The Facebook cofounder was recently spotted sporting a $1,150 Balmain t-shirt while vacationing in Ibiza, Spain, with his wife, Pricilla Chan, People reported. This story is available exclusively to Business Insider subscribers.

Persons: Mark Zuckerberg, —, Pricilla Chan, Zuckerberg Organizations: Balmain, Service, Saks Fifth, Business Locations: Ibiza, Spain

☆ How Mark Zuckerberg’s Meta Failed Children on Safety
▼ + stars: | 2024-06-22 | by ( Natasha Singer | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: 1 min

In April 2019, David Ginsberg, a Meta executive, emailed his boss, Mark Zuckerberg, with a proposal to research and reduce loneliness and compulsive use on Instagram and Facebook. In the email, Mr. Ginsberg noted that the company faced scrutiny for its products’ impacts “especially around areas of problematic use/addiction and teens.” He asked Mr. Zuckerberg for 24 engineers, researchers and other staff, saying Instagram had a “deficit” on such issues. A week later, Susan Li, now the company’s chief financial officer, informed Mr. Ginsberg that the project was “not funded” because of staffing constraints. Adam Mosseri, Instagram’s head, ultimately declined to finance the project, too.

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☆ This new technology for nuclear power could help fuel the AI revolution
▼ + stars: | 2024-06-20 | by ( Lakshmi Varanasi | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +6 min

Scientists have long considered nuclear energy one of the cleanest and most reliable forms of energy production. Tech companies at the forefront of the AI revolution are also turning to nuclear energy to power their vast AI data centers. A new fuel cycle for nuclear powerTransmutex's technology destroys nuclear waste and produces new nuclear fuel. AdvertisementNuclear physicists say the company's technology avoids one of the biggest concerns with nuclear energy: that the same fuel used to power nuclear plants can also be used to manufacture atomic weapons. Oklo, a startup backed by OpenAI CEO Sam Altman, is betting on generating nuclear power through small nuclear reactors.

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☆ 5 tips from Mark Zuckerberg on how to run a company and manage your team
▼ + stars: | 2024-06-19 | by ( Sarah Jackson | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +4 min

download the appSign up to get the inside scoop on today’s biggest stories in markets, tech, and business — delivered daily. Read previewMark Zuckerberg has been at the helm of Facebook, now Meta, since he created it in his Harvard dorm room 20 years ago. Advertisement"I don't think you want a management structure that's just managers managing managers, managing managers, managing managers, managing the people who are doing the work," Zuckerberg said in an internal Q&A last year. Founders, don't delegateZuckerberg said one of his "most controversial" leadership tips for business leaders is to avoid delegating responsibility. It's an abbreviated version of what is perhaps Zuckerberg's best-known saying, "Move fast and break things," a mantra from Facebook's early days.

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☆ Social media has gotten so bad that America's top doctor is intervening
▼ + stars: | 2024-06-18 | by ( Dan Defrancesco | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +7 min

In today's big story, we're looking at the surgeon general suggesting warning labels for social media . The big storyA solution for socialsAnna Moneymaker/Getty Images; Chesnot/Getty Images; Chelsea Jia Feng/BISocial media has gotten so bad that the country's top doctor is intervening. AdvertisementIn his piece, Murthy said social media is a key culprit of the mental health crisis young people are facing. Generative AI adds more fuel to the misinformation fire social media platforms have been battling for years. Many of them are making fast use of social media platforms like TikTok and investing heavily in AI.

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☆ A surgeon general's warning on social media wouldn't be as powerful as good-old-fashioned parenting, experts say
▼ + stars: | 2024-06-18 | by ( Erin Snodgrass | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +6 min

But social media experts and researchers are mixed on just how effective such a move would be. According to one August 2022 study, almost half of all adolescents said social media makes them feel bad about their bodies. And what exactly would the warning say, North wondered, noting that social media is rarely exclusively harmful. Proactive parentingFor most kids, social media use begins at home. AdvertisementAre you a parent who has struggled with your children's social media use?

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☆ Surgeon General demands warning label on social media apps
▼ + stars: | 2024-06-17 | by ( David Goldman | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +4 min

CNN —Surgeon General Dr. Vivek Murthy said the threat social media poses to children requires urgent action, and he demanded Congress to put a label on the apps as it does with cigarettes and alcohol. Teens spend nearly five hours a day on social media apps, according to a Gallup poll. Drew Angerer/Getty Images North America/Getty Images“It is time to require a surgeon general’s warning label on social media platforms, stating that social media is associated with significant mental health harms for adolescents,” Murthy said. Congress has long chastised social media companies, claiming they pose harm to children. And Murthy urged parents to restrict children’s use of social media until they graduate from middle school.

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☆ Forget Elon Musk’s record pay package from Tesla. More could be on the way.
▼ + stars: | 2024-06-17 | by ( Chris Isidore | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +7 min

New York CNN —Tesla shareholders on Thursday confirmed they want Elon Musk to get a massive record pay package for running Tesla for the last six years. “The chancellor found a number of defects in the process.”But Tesla shareholders also approved moving Tesla’s state of incorporation to Texas, partly in reaction to the Delaware decision. “What we recognized in 2018 and continue to recognize today is that one thing Elon most certainly does not have is unlimited time,” Tesla board chair Robyn Denholm wrote to Tesla shareholders ahead of the most recent vote. Ark Invest has a five-year target price for Tesla shares at $2,600 a share. Not everyone on that list got there through packages of stock options.

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☆ Insider Today: Meta's manager squeeze
▼ + stars: | 2024-06-16 | by ( Matt Turner | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +5 min

download the appSign up to get the inside scoop on today’s biggest stories in markets, tech, and business — delivered daily. Apple announced Apple Intelligence at WWDC 2024. CEO Tim Cook unveiled Apple Intelligence, a generative AI system partly powered by ChatGPT (for now). Assuming Apple Intelligence works as intended, there will be even more reason to switch to or stay with Apple. Add it all together, and, as Linette Lopez writes, Apple may be the one Big Tech company getting AI right.

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☆ Photos show Mark Zuckerberg's style evolution — from hoodies to silver chains
▼ + stars: | 2024-06-15 | by ( Jordan Hart | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +1 min

Mark Zuckerberg isn't style icon by any means, but he's working on it. Sign up to get the inside scoop on today’s biggest stories in markets, tech, and business — delivered daily. download the app Email address Sign up By clicking “Sign Up”, you accept our Terms of Service and Privacy Policy . All eyes were on him even in his early 20s, and the public quickly noted his laid-back style that consisted mostly of gray t-shirts. This story is available exclusively to Business Insider subscribers.

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☆ Mark Zuckerberg is planning a massive 7-building compound in Lake Tahoe: report
▼ + stars: | 2024-06-14 | by ( Jordan Pandy | Alcynna Lloyd | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +1 min

Mark Zuckerberg is planning a 75,000-square-foot compound in Lake Tahoe, news site SFGate reported. The compound will include a bunkhouse, a guesthouse, and a gym, per documents seen by SFGate. download the app Email address Sign up By clicking “Sign Up”, you accept our Terms of Service and Privacy Policy . AdvertisementFor years, people have been wondering what Mark Zuckerberg is up to in Lake Tahoe. The Meta CEO plans to build a 75,000-square-foot, seven-building compound on the lake's western shore, according to planning documents seen by California news site SFGate.

Persons: Mark Zuckerberg, —, Zuckerberg, Robert Quist Organizations: Service Locations: Lake Tahoe, California

☆ 'Win-win-win': Three-day hybrid work week is a success, largest study to date published in Nature says
▼ + stars: | 2024-06-14 | by ( Kaya Ginsky | ) www.cnbc.com time to read: +6 min

The three-day in-office hybrid work schedule is a "win-win-win," according to a study published in the prestigious science journal Nature. Non-manager attrition for hybrid employees had a 2.4% rate, a one-third reduction from the control group of 7.2%. When managers measured employees in nine categories of performance, execution and results, hybrid employees succeeded at the same rate. By the end of the experiment, managers positively viewed hybrid work as a potential asset to the company rather than a detriment to productivity. From an economic policymaking standpoint, hybrid work is one of the few instances where there aren't major trade-offs with clear winners and clear losers.

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☆ Nvidians Reveal Jensen Huang's Leadership Style: Admit Your Mistakes
▼ + stars: | 2024-06-14 | by ( Jyoti Mann | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +6 min

Eight current and former Nvidia employees spoke to Business Insider about Huang's leadership style and what it's like to be grilled by him. This story is available exclusively to Business Insider subscribers. AdvertisementThree former senior-level employees said Huang's leadership style is based on this focus on continuous improvement and learning from mistakes. The 'Jensen grilling'Senior-level employees often experience what some have referred to as a "Jensen grilling"— intense questioning by Huang. One employee likened Huang's grilling to an attorney's interrogation, noting that he wouldn't back down until he'd made his point.

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☆ Elon Musk sure seems to be following Donald Trump's playbook
▼ + stars: | 2024-06-13 | by ( Aditi Bharade | Jyoti Mann | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +3 min

download the appSign up to get the inside scoop on today’s biggest stories in markets, tech, and business — delivered daily. Read previewElon Musk seems to be taking a page out of Donald Trump's playbook. This story is available exclusively to Business Insider subscribers. Musk admitted in his March interview with Don Lemon that he takes a "small amount" of ketamine every other week. Representatives for Musk didn't immediately respond to a request for comment from Business Insider, made outside normal working hours.

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☆ Elon Musk's payday drama comes to a head today
▼ + stars: | 2024-06-13 | by ( Dan Defrancesco | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +7 min

It's always sunny at Business Insider when "Welcome to Wrexham" star Rob McElhenney is around. In today's big story, we're looking at the drama between Tesla shareholders over Elon Musk's bumper pay package that gets decided on today . As funny as that sounds, the battle over Elon Musk's pay package is no joke. One longtime Tesla investor said the EV maker is " kind of the bottom of the pecking pole of Elon's companies ." Vote here on if you're for or against Musk's pay package .

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☆ Larry Ellison is $19 billion richer after Oracle shares rally the most since 2021
▼ + stars: | 2024-06-12 | by ( Jordan Novet | ) www.cnbc.com time to read: +3 min

Larry Ellison, chairman and co-founder of Oracle Corp., speaks during the Oracle OpenWorld 2017 conference in San Francisco on Oct. 1, 2017. Oracle Chairman Larry Ellison is almost $19 billion richer after the software maker he founded in 1977 forecast double-digit revenue growth for the fiscal year, lifting the stock to its sharpest rally since 2021. Ellison owns about 1.15 billion Oracle shares, equal to around 42% of the company's outstanding stock. Oracle shares soared 13% on Wednesday to a record $140.38, their best day since Dec. 10, 2021. Oracle said its database will become available on Google's public cloud and that OpenAI will be able to use Microsoft's cloud-based AI tools atop Oracle's cloud infrastructure.

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☆ How to Save Tech Industry: Fire Managers, Put Tech People in Charge
▼ + stars: | 2024-06-11 | by ( Ed Zitron | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +11 min

This disastrous mindset has hollowed out Silicon Valley's ability to innovate and caused regular people to grow increasingly frustrated with everyday tech. The large platforms have generally ignored this feedback for one big reason: The tech industry has been taken over by career managers. Now Google Search is more profitable and worse, elevating spammy content and outright scams, a problem exacerbated by artificial intelligence. AdvertisementBut today's tech products feel built to sell a dream of the future rather than solve a customer's existing pains. As long as the tech industry is controlled by people who don't build things, it will continue to build products that help raise growth metrics rather than help consumers with tangible problems.

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☆ These stocks should be the cornerstone of an AI portfolio, according to Evercore ISI
▼ + stars: | 2024-06-10 | by ( Brian Evans | ) www.cnbc.com time to read: +3 min

A group of stocks are at the helm of the artificial intelligence revolution — and they are worth buying and holding for the long run, according to Evercore ISI. To compile this list, Evercore scanned the Russell 1000 for companies whose executives mentioned AI on call transcripts in 2023 more frequently compared to their peers. Also on Evercore's list is Google parent company Alphabet , which notched 169 AI mentions last year. The company's suite of AI products include its own large language model, Gemini, and Vertex AI, which targets enterprise companies. "Our leadership in AI research and infrastructure, and our global product footprint, position us well for the next wave of AI innovation."

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☆ How to behave as a superyacht guest
▼ + stars: | 2024-06-09 | by ( Madeline Berg | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +8 min

Meantime, Giorgio Armani held a party on his yacht for the likes of Sydney Sweeney and Kerry Washington. Being a guest on a superyacht is probably the best kind of guest to be — but the etiquette aboard the multimillion-dollar vessels comes with its own idiosyncrasies. The very few who need to know them — there are only about 5,800 yachts longer than 30 meters at sea, according to SuperYacht Times — already know them. The price to charter Triumph, a 65-meter superyacht, starts at $650,000 a week. According to the industry standard, owning a superyacht will cost 10% of its new-build price annually.

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☆ The Walmart heirs have added more than $53 billion to their combined net worth this year — second only to Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang
▼ + stars: | 2024-06-07 | by ( Dominick Reuter | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +1 min

The heirs to Walmart founder Sam Walton have added $53.7 billion to their combined wealth this year. Only Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang has seen a larger increase in his net worth on Bloomberg's Billionaire Index. AdvertisementIt's no secret that Nvidia founder and CEO Jensen Huang has had an explosive year so far when it comes to his personal net worth. Huang has more than doubled his fortune since January, adding more than $62 billion as the chipmaker's stock is up 40% year-to-date. And while Mark Zuckerberg saw the second-highest growth in individual wealth in 2024, according to Bloomberg's Billionaire Index, the combined gains seen by the Walmart heirs outpaced the Meta CEO.

Persons: Sam Walton, Jensen Huang, Walton, —, Huang, Mark Zuckerberg Organizations: Walmart, Nvidia, Service, Meta

☆ The historic rise of Facebook in photos — from a Harvard dorm room to one of the world's biggest companies
▼ + stars: | 2024-06-05 | by ( Sarah Jackson | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +1 min

This is a big year for Meta: Facebook turned 20 in February. The company's meteoric rise is one of Silicon Valley's biggest success stories. Here's how Facebook grew from a website built in a Harvard dorm to one of the world's biggest companies. AdvertisementFacebook is a classic Silicon Valley success story: It's gone from an idea hatched in a Harvard dorm to one of the most powerful and influential companies in the world. These days, Meta has more than 2 billion people using its social network monthly and is one of the world's biggest companies.

Persons: Facebook, —, It's, Mark Zuckerberg Organizations: Meta, Facebook, Harvard, Service, Business

☆ OpenAI is facing controversy. Again.
▼ + stars: | 2024-06-05 | by ( Dan Defrancesco | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +7 min

In today's big story, we're looking at the latest controversy to embroil OpenAI amid a difficult few months for the startup . Their takeaway was simple: OpenAI wants to have it both ways regarding how it's perceived about safety and commercialization. It's structured as a "capped-profit" company governed by a nonprofit, and Altman doesn't hold equity directly in OpenAI. The result, the VC told me, is people feel OpenAI is talking out of both sides of its mouth. It doesn't help that some OpenAI employees joined when that split was closer to 80/20 and favored safety over business, they added.

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