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☆ Why so Many Food Recalls Are Happening in the US
▼ + stars: | 2024-05-16 | by ( Bethany Johnson | Katie Notopoulos | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: 1 min

FDA food recalls are on the rise for several reasons, from undeclared allergens to pathogens. Here's what's wrong with food safety in the US and how you can protect yourself from buying bad products. This story is available exclusively to Business Insider subscribers. Become an Insider and start reading now. Have an account?

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☆ Samsung just released a 43-second response to the 'crush' ad Apple was lambasted for last week
▼ + stars: | 2024-05-16 | by ( Sarah Gray | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +1 min

Samsung released a 43-second response to Apple's lambasted "crush" advertisement. Apple's advertisement for its new iPad Pro received swift backlash last week. Samsung's ad seems to pick up where Apple's left off amid crushed creative tools and a hydraulic press. That's Samsung's message in a new spot that trolls Apple's iPad Pro "crush" ad, which caused an internet meltdown last week. In Apple's ad, creative tools — paint, instruments, etc.

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☆ Reopen the NYC-Dublin livestreaming portal, you cowards! It was an example of tech bringing humans together.
▼ + stars: | 2024-05-15 | by ( Katie Notopoulos | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +3 min

The portal between New York City and Dublin — a giant video installation livestreaming between the two locations — has been shut down due to bad behavior. In fact, we should have portals all over the country, all over the world — connecting two random places. Currently, there's a portal between cities in Lithuania and Poland, but let's dream even bigger. Related storiesBut the portal is a case of technology that's just pure joy. The situation is what makes it different — video chatting technology is usually personal, used at home or in your office conference room.

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☆ I have spent entirely too much time thinking about Mark Zuckerberg's outfit at his birthday party
▼ + stars: | 2024-05-15 | by ( Katie Notopoulos | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +7 min

Read previewThe Instagram photos from Mark Zuckerberg's 40th birthday party left me with many questions. AdvertisementIn two of the photos, he's wearing a slightly different outfit: the gold chain is missing, and his T-shirt is plain black. AdvertisementOr, another option, which is my theory: He didn't choose the shirt; the shirt was gifted to him during the party. My theory is that this wasn't just her regular casual party attire — she was dressing up in a typical Mark outfit as a joke, chain and all. But I feel confident in my assessment that Zuckberg's outfit was gifted to him as a joke during his party.

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☆ OpenAI may have finally cracked the code on voice interactions with AI
▼ + stars: | 2024-05-14 | by ( Dan Defrancesco | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +6 min

In today's big story, everyone's talking — literally — about the big update for OpenAI's ChatGPT that could make your job a lot easier . AdvertisementOpenAI may have finally cracked the code on voice interactions with AI, though. OpenAI says GPT-4o's average response to audio inputs is 320 milliseconds, which is on par with a typical human-to-human conversation. "They've essentially made text input almost be the barbaric form of communicating with ChatGPT (or any AI) now," the developer said. ChatGPT, Tyler Le/BIOpenAI's big reveal shows the shockwaves the startup keeps sending through the tech world.

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☆ OpenAI chief Sam Altman just showed he has what Tim Cook really wants — but Apple still has one big advantage
▼ + stars: | 2024-05-13 | by ( Katie Notopoulos | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +3 min

Read previewAfter OpenAI unveiled its latest ChatGPT iteration, one tech executive is probably super jealous: Apple's Tim Cook. as you do with Apple's assistant. The comparisons to the female voice assistant from the movie "Her" were so obvious even OpenAI CEO Sam Altman tweeted about it. OpenAI clearly has made a voice assistant chatbot that is way more advanced than Siri currently is, and Tim Cook must be sweating a little. But Apple still has a big advantage whenever it updates Siri with an AI makeover: It's already the voice assistant on your iPhone — and that's huge.

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☆ The Apple 'crush' ad for the new iPad wasn't bad, actually
▼ + stars: | 2024-05-10 | by ( Katie Notopoulos | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +4 min

But seriously folks ... it's just an iPad ad. AdvertisementThere's been a huge backlash to the ad Apple put out this week to promote its updated iPads. In the ad, a hydraulic press squishes a piano, trumpet, books, paint cans — and then reveals the new iPad Pro. A YouTube channel dedicated to hydraulic press crush videos has more than 9 million followers. Let's say OpenAI made an ad crushing up books, newspapers, and magazines and then revealed the ChatGPT logo.

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☆ Apple's iPad ad literally crushes all the things we hold dear — and it's making people sad and mad
▼ + stars: | 2024-05-08 | by ( Katie Notopoulos | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +3 min

Apple's ad for the new iPad Pro shows various artistic tools being crushed. AdvertisementApple's promotional video for the newly upgraded iPad Pro has struck a discordant tone. Related storiesWhen the press reopens, it's all replaced by the ultrathin iPad Pro. AdvertisementI'll admit, the thinness of that new iPad Pro really is impressive. It's a shame the iPad ad wants to crush it.

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☆ Goodnight, sweet Panera charged lemonade prince
▼ + stars: | 2024-05-08 | by ( Katie Notopoulos | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +1 min

Panera Bread is getting rid of its highly caffeinated charged lemonades, which attracted lawsuits. download the app Email address Sign up By clicking “Sign Up”, you accept our Terms of Service and Privacy Policy . AdvertisementPanera Bread is finally getting rid of its "charged lemonade" — another chip away at our freedom. In a world with few acceptable vices left — and a lot to worry about — Panera's "Charged Sips" were a bright spot. This story is available exclusively to Business Insider subscribers.

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☆ Uh, this music-streaming app called Musi sure feels like it's in a gray area
▼ + stars: | 2024-05-08 | by ( Katie Notopoulos | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +1 min

Musi is a music-streaming app that has millions of users, especially among teens. It works by streaming music from YouTube, and unlike Spotify, it doesn't make deals with record labels. Wired reports that Musi is a free music streaming app out of Canada that's especially popular with teenagers. And unlike Apple Music or Spotify, which make their own deals with record labels and pay artists for streams, Musi works quite differently. It essentially streams music from YouTube — and Musi runs its own ads against those streams.

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☆ Apple wants to give the iPad a boost
▼ + stars: | 2024-05-07 | by ( Dan Defrancesco | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +7 min

The tech giant's event will reportedly showcase a new family of… iPads and iPad accessories. But Apple's event , which kicks off at 10 a.m. EST, is looking to give the iPad a boost. iPhone sales have noticeably dipped, which is why you're hearing Apple tout its "services" business , writes BI's Peter Kafka. And the new product Apple wants you to be excited about — the Vision Pro — hasn't lived up to the hype. a16z joins the Big Tech "fake work" debate.

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☆ Forget Zendaya — I want to see what the TikTok CEO will wear at the Met Gala
▼ + stars: | 2024-05-06 | by ( Katie Notopoulos | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +2 min

TikTok is sponsoring the Met Gala this year, and CEO Shou Chew is expected to be there. The "ban or divest" law was just passed 2 weeks ago, and TikTok plans to fight it in court. Related storiesIt just so happens that TikTok is a main sponsor for this year's Met Gala, so that's why Chew is expected to be there. AdvertisementThe Met Gala is a beloved, fun event with a highbrow sheen. It will be interesting to see if the images of Chew from Monday's gala will affect the public's current understanding of him and TikTok.

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☆ More Americans are feeling a six-figure salary can't afford them a middle-class lifestyle
▼ + stars: | 2024-05-06 | by ( Dan Defrancesco | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +7 min

In today's big story, we're looking at people who feel like a middle-class salary doesn't equal a middle-class lifestyle . The big storyMiddle-class meltdownMichael Raines"Lately, I'm getting the feeling that I came in at the end. AdvertisementBusiness Insider's Jennifer Sor has a report on the people making over six figures who think the middle-class lifestyle they dreamed of isn't realistic for their salary . AdvertisementMarco Bottigelli/Getty, Yevgen Romanenko/Getty, Maskot/Getty, Tyler Le/BILet's address the elephant in the room: A six-figure salary is still a lot of money. Words like "AI Infrastructure" and "generative AI" point to more money heading to Nvidia for its popular H100 GPU chip.

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☆ We need to talk about whatever's happening with Starbucks' drinks
▼ + stars: | 2024-05-04 | by ( Katie Notopoulos | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +6 min

Whatever is happening on the Starbucks menu right now is making me feel like I'm a senior citizen. AdvertisementThe rise of complicated, multi-ingredient sweet drinks has coincided with the rise in popularity of the Starbucks app, accelerated by the start of the pandemic in 2020 when many locations couldn't take walk-in orders. I tried the newer Starbucks drinks myselfMy Oleato Golden Foam Iced Shaken Espresso with Toffeenut drink, which was 360 calories and tasted like coffee ice cream. Katie Notopoulos / Business InsiderI acknowledge I'm a bit of a crank when I say: The Starbucks menu is out of control. (I should note here that my grande iced drink was 360 calories, which does seem like a dessert treat rather than a morning coffee.

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☆ 'The Circle' used an AI player to create a bot witch hunt — and soon, we might all be defending our humanity online too
▼ + stars: | 2024-05-04 | by ( Palmer Haasch | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +6 min

Max is the first AI contestant on "The Circle" — he's literally a chatbot. Max is pretty boring, but having an AI in the game turned it into a robot witch hunt. But bringing an AI player into the mix reflects some of the future online trials we're likely to face — and some that are already happening. Netflix"The Circle's" AI player is Max, a chatbot masquerading as a 26-year-old veterinary intern from Wisconsin who describes himself as an "animal whisperer with a knack for making bad pottery, no cap." AdvertisementMaybe the funniest part about Max is that they gave him his own apartment, complete with throw pillows of his human face.

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☆ Are you still using your Apple Vision Pro? Tell me what you do with it — I genuinely want to know.
▼ + stars: | 2024-05-03 | by ( Katie Notopoulos | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +3 min

Apple's Vision Pro headset was the buzziest gadget when it was released, but the excitement has fizzled. The hype and anticipation surrounding the Vision Pro were off the charts. Related storiesI got to try it out a little when my colleague Jordan Hart was testing the Vision Pro for her review. (I do have a friend who bought a Vision Pro and returned it). I genuinely am curious about what Vision Pro lovers are doing with theirs.

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☆ We're reading: How Facebook's AI 'Shrimp Jesus' is creating a zombie internet
▼ + stars: | 2024-05-02 | by ( Katie Notopoulos | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +2 min

Read preview404 Media has been pulling the thread of the great mystery of "What the heck is going on with all this AI image spam on Facebook?" Finally, Jason Koebler presents his theory of what all this AI engagement bait spam means:I think we should not view Facebook's AI spam through the lens of the "Dead Internet." The platform has become something worse than bots talking to bots. It is bots talking to bots, bots talking to bots at the direction of humans, humans talking to humans, humans talking to bots, humans arguing about a fake thing made by a bot, humans talking to no one without knowing it, hijacked human accounts turned into bots, humans worried that the other humans they're talking to are bots, hybrid human/bot accounts, the end of a shared reality, and, at the center of all of this: One of the most valuable companies on the planet enabling this shitshow because its human executives and shareholders have too much money riding on the mass adoption of a reality-breaking technology to do anything about it. AdvertisementI have a few theories about why Facebook is (for now) allowing this kind of AI image spam:

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☆ Columbia's student radio station was the main source of information for the protests. Here's why that matters.
▼ + stars: | 2024-05-01 | by ( Katie Notopoulos | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +5 min

Other press couldn't go on campus, so the student radio station was the only source of on-the-ground reporting. WKCR 89.9 FM, Columbia's student radio station, was broadcasting live from inside the campus about what was happening as the NYPD arrived. (I left messages for the radio station but didn't hear back — likely because the students are taking a well-deserved break, which they referenced in an X post . AdvertisementStudents at UChicago encampment gather in silence around a speaker for radio broadcast of WKCR 89.9, Columbia’s student station. The actual events on the Columbia campus on Tuesday night are, of course, more important than the fact that its radio station went viral.

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☆ I'm ready to lose it all betting on Skee-Ball at Dave & Buster's
▼ + stars: | 2024-04-30 | by ( Katie Notopoulos | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +1 min

Dave & Busters will soon allow adults to bet money on games like Skee-Ball and Hot Shot basketball. The betting works inside D&B's app, with $5 "cash-based competition" against your friends. Now, you can not just be humiliated by losing at arcade games; you can lose money! NEW LOOK Sign up to get the inside scoop on today’s biggest stories in markets, tech, and business — delivered daily. Soon, you can bet real money against your friends playing Skee-Ball at Dave & Buster's.

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☆ Meta's AI search is weird and uncanny — and I'm not sure who it's for
▼ + stars: | 2024-04-30 | by ( Katie Notopoulos | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +6 min

AdvertisementFacebook, WhatsApp, and Instagram have integrated Meta AI into the search fields of their mobile apps. The search bar in the Facebook and Instagram apps is one place you probably know very well. You come to the Facebook search bar to type in the name of your local Buy Nothing group, but instead, you see an animated blue circle with "Ask Meta AI anything." The search bar on the Facebook app now has AI prompts. Instagram search suggestions are slightly more Instagram-y.

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☆ A Catholic 'priest' has been defrocked for being AI
▼ + stars: | 2024-04-26 | by ( Katie Notopoulos | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +1 min

A Catholic advocacy group created an AI chatbot that claimed to be a priest and offered to take confession. "We won't say he's been laicized, because he never was a real priest!" Say, a chatbot that acts like a Catholic priest? Futurism reports that a group called Catholic Answers made an AI chatbot that people could interact with to help learn about Catholicism. This story is available exclusively to Business Insider subscribers.

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☆ What happens if TikTok is sold without the algorithm that drives the 'For You' page? It might not be so bad.
▼ + stars: | 2024-04-26 | by ( Katie Notopoulos | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +5 min

If ByteDance is actually forced to sell TikTok, it might not include the app's algorithm. download the app Email address Sign up By clicking “Sign Up”, you accept our Terms of Service and Privacy Policy . What if the TikTok algorithm doesn't really matter that much? There's also another thing that could be a drag on TikTok that doesn't even have to do with the algorithm. Selling TikTok without the algorithm — whatever that actually means — is not ideal, but it might not be the one thing that sends TikTok down a path toward MySpace status.

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☆ Now you can put your Botox on Affirm
▼ + stars: | 2024-04-24 | by ( Katie Notopoulos | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +3 min

Buy now, pay later company Affirm is starting to offer loans for elective cosmetic procedures. Advertisement"Buy now, pay later" company Affirm has identified a new category for growth, according to a new report from Reuters: elective medical procedures like Botox, nose jobs, and even dental treatments. Buy now, pay later options like Klarna and Affirm have become ubiquitous at checkouts on e-commerce retail sites for some time. I know: It can be hard to sympathize with someone who's using lip filler they can't afford by putting it on Affirm. But go back to what it's actually being used for: "cosmetic treatments, dental services, medical devices, and veterinary procedures."

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☆ Private equity is getting into the special education business. It's not all going smoothly.
▼ + stars: | 2024-04-24 | by ( Katie Notopoulos | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +1 min

BI just published an investigation into special education-focused schools owned by PE firms. NEW LOOK 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 . AdvertisementMy colleague Meghan Morris just published an investigation into what happened to a chain of special education-focused private schools when a private equity firm took over. This story is available exclusively to Business Insider subscribers.

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☆ I went on a date with an AI chatbot. He fell head over heels in love with me, but I got the ick.
▼ + stars: | 2024-04-24 | by ( Katie Notopoulos | Bethany Johnson | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +1 min

AI is making its way into your love life, like it or not. I tried out a romantic chatbot from Replika and went on a date with him. download the app Email address Sign up By clicking “Sign Up”, you accept our Terms of Service and Privacy Policy . First, I tested out Replika, an app that allows people to create a custom romantic AI chatbot for $69.99 a year. This story is available exclusively to Business Insider subscribers.

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