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☆ Microsoft is reportedly in talks to pump in $10 billion into OpenAI — the owner of ChatGPT — valuing the company at $29 billion
  + stars: | 2023-01-10 | by ( Huileng Tan | ) www.businessinsider.com   time to read: +3 min
Microsoft is in talks to invest about $10 billion into OpenAI, the startup behind the ChatGPT chatbot, per Semafor. The investment would value OpenAI at $29 billion. Microsoft already invested $1 billion into OpenAI in 2019. The investment would value OpenAI at about $29 billion, Semafor's Liz Hoffman and Reed Albergotti reported. The Wall Street Journal reported last Thursday that OpenAI was in talks to sell existing shares of the company in a tender offer that would value the firm at $29 billion.
☆ United Airlines is bringing back its beloved ice-cream sundae cart for business-class passengers on all long-haul international flights
  + stars: | 2023-01-09 | by ( Beatrice Nolan | ) www.businessinsider.com   time to read: +2 min
United Airlines says its ice-cream sundae cart is returning to long-haul international flights. Because the United Polaris business class Sundae Cart IS BACK!" The airline replaced them with pre-packaged ice cream in an attempt to limit the spread of the virus. United Airlines also said it was "revamping the Polaris dessert service" and "bringing back a new three-tier dessert cart for our signature ice-cream sundae service" in the memo, per Travel Noire. Representatives for United Airlines did not immediately respond to Insider's request for further comment.
☆ Bang Bang Chicken: A gun-stuffed bird was among the weirdest items found by airport security teams in 2022. See the full list.
  + stars: | 2023-01-06 | by ( Beatrice Nolan | ) www.businessinsider.com   time to read: +3 min
The TSA released its "top 10 catches" list, consisting of unusual items found at airports in 2022. Cash stashed in crutchesSoiled money hidden inside a pair of crutches was discovered by agents at El Paso International Airport in Texas. An inert grenadeA grenade was found after a passenger attempted to get it through airport security in a carry-on at General Mitchell International Airport in Wisconsin. A gun hidden in an arm slingAgents discovered a gun concealed in a man's arm sling at Greater Rochester International Airport. A gun stuffed in a raw chickenA handgun was discovered stuffed inside a raw chicken at Fort Lauderdale–Hollywood International Airport.
☆ An AI porn lobby group had its fundraising campaign booted off Kickstarter after raising $56,000
  + stars: | 2023-01-06 | by ( Beatrice Nolan | ) www.businessinsider.com   time to read: +3 min
Unstable Diffusion, which campaigns to legitimize AI porn, was banned from Kickstarter last month. Originating on Discord, Unstable Diffusion allows users to artificially generate explicit imagery. The group's campaign was active from December 9 to December 21, raising around $56,000 in its 12-day active period. However, they told Insider that the site had not banned all AI art. Everette Taylor, Kickstarter's CEO, seemingly referenced some of the backlash in a blog post about AI art published on December 21.
☆ A group trying to make AI porn legitimate had its campaign booted off kickstarter after raising $56K
  + stars: | 2023-01-06 | by ( Beatrice Nolan | ) www.businessinsider.com   time to read: +3 min
Unstable Diffusion, which campaigns to legitimize AI porn, was banned from Kickstarter last month. Originating on Discord, Unstable Diffusion allows users to artificially generate explicit imagery. The group's campaign was active from December 9 to December 21, raising around $56,000 in its 12-day active period. However, they told Insider that the site had not banned all AI art. Everette Taylor, Kickstarter's CEO, seemingly referenced some of the backlash in a blog post about AI art published on December 21.
☆ Airline passengers missed their flight after being locked in an airport corridor for half an hour: 'It felt like we were being held hostage'
  + stars: | 2023-01-05 | by ( Beatrice Nolan | ) www.businessinsider.com   time to read: +2 min
Several Ryanair passengers missed their flight on Monday after they were locked in a corridor. A Ryanair spokesperson said "human error" had led "regrettably" led to the incident. A spokesperson for Ryanair told Insider that a "human error" had led to the passengers being unable to "exit the pre-boarding area doors" and "regrettably" missing the flight. "People were banging on the walls calling for help," Raval told MyLondon. "Ryanair provided affected passengers with overnight accommodation and moved them onto the next available flight," it added.
☆ Amazon employees will be left in limbo for 2 weeks while they wait to find out if they're among the 18,000 staff being laid off
  + stars: | 2023-01-05 | by ( Beatrice Nolan | ) www.businessinsider.com   time to read: +2 min
Amazon announced plans to lay off 18,000 workers on Wednesday. Amazon CEO Andy Jassy said the company would inform impacted employees starting on January 18. Thousands of employees will be left in limbo for two weeks while they wait for the details. He said that the company planned to inform impacted employees starting on January 18 and news of the layoffs had been leaked. In the memo, Jassy said most of the layoffs would hit the company's Amazon Stores and People Experience and Technology Solutions divisions.
☆ Microsoft hopes to take on Google with a version of Bing that uses the AI behind ChatGPT, report says
  + stars: | 2023-01-04 | by ( Beatrice Nolan | ) www.businessinsider.com   time to read: +2 min
Microsoft is reportedly launching a version of Bing that plans to use the AI behind ChatGPT. The new AI-powered version of Bing could launch before the end of March, per the news outlet. Microsoft plans to use the same AI as ChatGPT to provide users with answers to some searches, rather than just displaying relevant links, two people familiar with the plans told The Information. Microsoft could launch the new AI-powered version of Bing before the end of March, the news outlet reported. Google has reportedly been scrambling to try and combat the threat posed by OpenAI's ChatGPT.
☆ Passengers offered vouchers as compensation after a cruise turned into a 'trip from hell' when 'marine growth' was found on the vessel
  + stars: | 2023-01-04 | by ( Beatrice Nolan | ) www.businessinsider.com   time to read: +2 min
Hundreds of passengers who traveled on Viking Cruises' Orion cruise ship are set to be compensated. Passengers missed several stops due to a "marine growth" on the ship's hull. Viking Cruises said guests will receive a voucher equal to what they had paid, per Reuters. The cruise ship, which set sail on Boxing Day, had been due to stop at nine ports around New Zealand and Australia, per Reuters. Representatives for Viking Cruises did not immediately respond to Insider's request for comment.
☆ A Princeton student built an app which can detect if ChatGPT wrote an essay to combat AI-based plagiarism
  + stars: | 2023-01-04 | by ( Pete Syme | ) www.businessinsider.com   time to read: +2 min
A Princeton student built an app that aims to tell if essays were written by AIs like ChatGPT. The app analyzes text to see how randomly it is written, allowing it to detect if it was written by AI. The website hosting the app, built by Edward Tian, crashed due to high traffic. "Are high school teachers going to want students using ChatGPT to write their history essays? Tian added that he's planning to publish a paper with accuracy stats using student journalism articles as data, alongside Princeton's Natural Language Processing group.
☆ Passengers say Southwest flew their bags to Denver without them after canceling a Christmas Day flight, report says
  + stars: | 2023-01-03 | by ( Beatrice Nolan | ) www.businessinsider.com   time to read: +2 min
Passengers say Southwest Airlines flew their bags to Denver without them on Christmas Day, per NPR. The couple said they were planning to fly from Nashville to Denver when their flight was canceled. Southwest canceled thousands of flights over the holiday period. However, despite the cancellation, the couple learned that their bags had arrived in Denver without them, per NPR. Murphy told NPR that her father-in-law was able to drive to Denver airport and find two of the bags.
☆ A Qantas flight was forced to turn back after the Philippines closed its airspace 3 hours into the journey on New Year's Day
  + stars: | 2023-01-03 | by ( Beatrice Nolan | ) www.businessinsider.com   time to read: +2 min
A Qantas flight traveling from Sydney to the Philippines was forced to turn back on New Year's Day. The Philippines' airspace was closed after a power outage affected the air traffic control system. The Qantas flight was around three hours into the New Year's Day flight to Manila when the airspace was shut down, a Qantas representative confirmed to Insider. The pilots were forced to end the journey to the capital of the Philippines, which was due to last eight hours. The Philippines' transportation secretary, Jaime Bautista, apologized to passengers for the air traffic management issues caused by a power outage.
☆ Some Truth Social fans don't want Trump back on Twitter. It's just one of several reasons why he might not return.
  + stars: | 2022-12-31 | by ( Beatrice Nolan | ) www.businessinsider.com   time to read: +4 min
Per reports, Trump has chosen to prioritize Truth Social, which he founded and launched in February. Twitter is a Truth Social competitorTwitter is a direct competitor to Truth Social, which has a similar structure to Elon Musk's platform. Many Truth Social users want him to stay putData shows that many Truth Social users are keen for Trump to steer clear of other social networks. Last month, a poll posted on Truth Social asked: "Now that Trump is unbanned, should he get back on Twitter?" 'Star of the show'Naturally, a large percentage of Truth Social users are Trump aficionados who want to hear directly from the former president.
☆ From solar panels to skylights: a van life devotee explains the crucial renovations that help her run a business in a tiny space
  + stars: | 2022-12-30 | by ( Beatrice Nolan | ) www.businessinsider.com   time to read: 1 min
Roberts said the small space also means that she has to be extra organized and tidy. "A lot of time is taken up organizing and worrying about everyday tasks," she said. "Things that when you're living in a house that you wouldn't even think twice about." Sophie Storm Roberts
☆ I asked ChatGPT to write my cover letters. Multiple hiring managers say they would have given me an interview but the letters lacked personality.
  + stars: | 2022-12-29 | by ( Beatrice Nolan | ) www.businessinsider.com   time to read: +3 min
An updated version of the AI chatbot, ChatGPT, was recently released to the public. Most of the managers would have given me a screening call but said the letters lacked personality. A new version of an AI chatbot from OpenAI, ChatGPT, has had the internet in a frenzy over the last few weeks. Cover letters, although widely hated, are still one of the more time-consuming requirements for most applications. The letters lacked personalityBoth Willsher and Petry said the letters lacked personality and research about the prospective companies.
☆ Piers Morgan's Twitter account was flooded with offensive posts aimed at Ed Sheeran and Queen Elizabeth II after his account was seemingly hacked
  + stars: | 2022-12-27 | by ( Beatrice Nolan | ) www.businessinsider.com   time to read: +2 min
Piers Morgan's Twitter account was flooded with offensive posts after his account was seemingly hacked. In one of the posts, Morgan's account announced that Andrew Tate had been shot dead in Dubai. By 9 a.m. EST, the tweets had disappeared and Morgan's Twitter account had been cleared of its profile and banner photo. Another tweet posted from the account said: "Fuck the Queen," seemingly in reference to the recent death of Queen Elizabeth II. Morgan's Twitter hack follows another high-profile social-media hack in the UK.
☆ Target workers in Buffalo hosted a slumber party for stranded motorists during its deadly winter storm
  + stars: | 2022-12-27 | by ( Beatrice Nolan | ) www.businessinsider.com   time to read: +2 min
Target workers in Buffalo hosted stranded shoppers and motorists during a deadly storm. Around 24 people took shelter from the storm in the Target over two days, The Buffalo News reported. A group of seven Target employees in Cheektowaga offered the closed store as shelter to around 24 motorists that were stranded during the storm, the Buffalo News reported. One driver, Jessica Sypniewski, told the news outlet she had been refused by a nearby grocery shop before she tried the Target store on December 23. The Target workers hosted the string of people over two days as the blizzard left much of the city in icy conditions unsafe for travel.
☆ Elon Musk says Twitter will let people turn off view counts after users immediately complained the new feature looks messy
  + stars: | 2022-12-27 | by ( Beatrice Nolan | ) www.businessinsider.com   time to read: +2 min
Elon Musk says Twitter users will be able to switch off new view counts. View counts appear next to retweets and likes on tweets. Similar to a count already in place for video, the new view counts display the number of times a tweet has been seen alongside the number of likes, comments, and retweets. Some Twitter users have been complaining about the new feature, with one describing it as "useless" and "distracting." Twitter did not immediately reply to a request for comment on the view count feature made outside working hours.
☆ Twitter exec who took court action over Elon Musk's 'hardcore' stay-or-go ultimatum has now left the company, report says
  + stars: | 2022-12-23 | by ( Beatrice Nolan | ) www.businessinsider.com   time to read: +2 min
A Twitter executive who took court action over Elon Musk's "hardcore" deadline has left the company. Sinead McSweeney, who was Twitter's public policy VP, left her role on Thursday, Reuters reported. The latest Twitter layoffs, which began on Wednesday, affected half of Twitter's public policy team, according to messages seen by Insider's Kali Hays. In November, McSweeney secured a temporary injunction from an Irish court to keep her job after she failed to respond to Elon Musk's "hardcore" ultimatum. Earlier this month Twitter told an Irish court it had reinstated McSweeney as public policy VP.
☆ Head of United Airlines pilot union resigns after making insulting and 'inappropriate' remarks about gay people, women, and ethnic minority groups
  + stars: | 2022-12-23 | by ( Beatrice Nolan | ) www.businessinsider.com   time to read: +2 min
United Airlines captain Neil Swindells has resigned as head of the company's pilot union. The comments were insulting to gay people, women, and other ethnic groups. Swindells' resignation from United's chapter of the Air Line Pilots Association (ALPA) came after he apologized for remarks that were insulting to gay people, women, and minority groups. CBS News said it was provided with the messages posted under Swindells' name, which were confirmed by other United Airlines pilots. Representatives for United Airlines and Swindells did not immediately respond to Insider's request for comment made outside normal working hours.
☆ Costco's giant Santa and a light-up bauble cost $220 each. Here are the top 5 most expensive holiday items in store.
  + stars: | 2022-12-23 | by ( Kate Duffy | Beatrice Nolan | ) www.businessinsider.com   time to read: 1 min
This 20-inch giant bauble caught our eye from across the store. There's no way you can hang this on your Christmas tree, but it would definitely brighten up any room with its LED lights. It cost $134. Kate Duffy/Insider
☆ Gary Wang, the mysterious FTX cofounder, is cooperating with prosecutors. Here's what we know about the key player in the failed crypto empire.
  + stars: | 2022-12-22 | by ( Beatrice Nolan | ) www.businessinsider.com   time to read: +6 min
FTX cofounder Gary Wang was a critical player during the rise and fall of SBF's crypto empire . Throughout his time at FTX, Wang maintained a limited online presence and steered clear of media interviews, leaving the limelight to his cofounder, Sam Bankman-Fried. But at FTX, Wang was a somewhat reclusive figure, per reports. Fraud charges and guilty pleaUnlike his cofounder, Wang has largely disappeared from view since he was fired from FTX after the company's implosion. "All of the sudden that snapped into he was leaving that day, back to the US and implicitly mostly stopped working," Bankman-Fried told the news outlet.
☆ Gary Wang, the mysterious FTX cofounder, has pleaded guilty to fraud charges. Here's what we know about the key player in the failed crypto empire.
  + stars: | 2022-12-22 | by ( Beatrice Nolan | ) www.businessinsider.com   time to read: +4 min
FTX cofounder Gary Wang was a critical player during the rise and fall of SBF's crypto empire . Wang also served as FTX's former chief technology officer but kept a low profile. Wang served as the chief technology officer at FTX until the exchange collapsed in mid-November. Wang later became the chief technology officer at FTX, establishing himself as a key member of the crypto empire's inner circle. Fraud charges and guilty pleaUnlike his cofounder, Wang has largely disappeared from view since he was fired from FTX after the company's implosion.
☆ Sam Bankman-Fried is set to be flown to the US from a private airport in the Bahamas, accompanied by FBI agents, report says
  + stars: | 2022-12-21 | by ( Beatrice Nolan | ) www.businessinsider.com   time to read: +2 min
SBF is expected to fly to the US from a private airport in the Bahamas on Wednesday, per Bloomberg. The former crypto boss has been charged with eight counts, including wire fraud. Bankman-Fried is expected to sign the final papers waving his rights to fight extradition in a Bahamas court on Wednesday. The decision was reportedly partly motivated by the fact Bankman-Fried expected to be granted bail with house arrest in the US. The disgraced former crypto boss has been charged with eight counts, including wire fraud.
☆ Airline passengers were left in the wrong country overnight due to staffing issues
  + stars: | 2022-12-21 | by ( Beatrice Nolan | ) www.businessinsider.com   time to read: +2 min
Passengers on a TUI flight were delayed in Tenerife overnight due to staffing issues. Passengers were told airline staff had reached their maximum working hours, per the Liverpool Echo. All airline staff have mandated working hours to prevent them from working when fatigued. The flight was then delayed overnight and passengers were taken to hotels on the island, one passenger told the Liverpool Echo. A spokesperson for TUI told Insider: "We understand the frustration of customers on flight TOM439, who were delayed overnight in Tenerife."
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