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☆ The US is boosting production for artillery crucial to Ukraine's forces as it struggles to keep up with Russia's war machine
▼ + stars: | 2023-09-15 | by ( Jake Epstein | Erin Snodgrass | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +8 min

The US is ramping up its artillery production to continue aiding Ukraine and resupply its stockpile. A Pentagon official said the US aims to be producing 100,000 155mm artillery shells by 2025. "But every country struggles with munitions production as war goes on beyond a few months." Western officials, meanwhile, believe Russia is on track to manufacture two million artillery shells a year, the Times reported this week. A Ukrainian soldier carries 155mm shells for M777 artillery at a artillery position in the Donetsk Oblast on August 6, 2023.

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☆ Leaders in Southeast Asia say they want to be friends with both the U.S. and China
▼ + stars: | 2023-09-15 | by ( Charmaine Jacob | ) www.cnbc.com time to read: +1 min

"All the countries in Southeast Asia, including Singapore, are friends with both China and the US. We have close links with both countries and we want to maintain those links," said Singapore's Deputy Prime Minister Lawrence Wong. But that consensus is over," Wong said Wednesday at the 10th Milken Institute Asia Summit in Singapore. "This idea where you have to be either with China or the United States? "We, as ASEAN, have a role to play in engaging both U.S. and China, and we appeal to them to reduce tensions."

Persons: Joe Biden, Xi Jinping, Lawrence Wong, Wong, Anwar Ibrahim, Anwar Organizations: SINGAPORE —, Milken, Milken Institute Asia Summit, Malaysia's, ASEAN Locations: Nusa Dua, Bali, SINGAPORE, SINGAPORE — The U.S, China, Southeast Asia, Singapore, United States, Malaysia

☆ A second Nikola electric semi-truck caught fire during tests to determine the cause of another blaze
▼ + stars: | 2023-09-10 | by ( Jyoti Mann | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +2 min

A Nikola electric semi-truck caught fire during a battery test outside its Phoenix headquarters. It comes after another Nikola Tre truck caught alight this week in Tempe, Arizona. The electric vehicle maker was testing why a battery pack on another of its trucks caught fire this week when the incident occurred. The semi-truck was undergoing a "battery fire investigation and testing" when it caught alight in its second fire incident this week, the company told Bloomberg in an email. In the first fire, a Tre battery-electric vehicle caught alight in Tempe, Arizona, Reuters reported.

Persons: Nikola Tre, Nikola, Steve Girsky, Michael Lohscheller, Girsky, Nikola didn't Organizations: Service, Bloomberg, Reuters, Street, General Motors Locations: Phoenix, Tempe , Arizona, Wall, Silicon

☆ You're more productive in the office, say elite CEOs. Data seems to back them up.
▼ + stars: | 2023-09-03 | by ( Tom Carter | Beatrice Nolan | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +7 min

The idea of permanent remote work is slipping away. After almost three years of relaxed work-from-home policies, CEOs are starting to drag their remote employees back to the office most days of the week. The remote work genie is out of the bottleInfluential remote work researchers, including Stanford researcher Nicholas Bloom, have been backing a flexible, hybrid approach as the way forward. Bloom previously told Insider that well-organized hybrid work is a "win-win" for companies and workers. AdvertisementAdvertisementEveryone else Insider spoke to agreed, though some said even hybrid was likely less productive than being fully in the office.

Persons: Goldman Sachs, Michael Gibbs, They've, Mark Zuckerberg, Andy Jassy, Gibbs, David Atkin, Raj Choudhury, Atkin, Ipsos, " Choudhury, Nicholas Bloom, Bloom, Choudhury, We'll, WFH, Jose Maria Barrero Organizations: Meta, Service, Companies, University of Chicago, Harvard Business School, National Bureau of Economic Research, MIT, Employees, The Washington Post, Stanford, WFH Locations: Wall, Silicon, Indian, Chennai

☆ Amazon CEO Andy Jassy tells employees it's 'past' time to commit to the company's RTO mandate and their jobs are at stake
▼ + stars: | 2023-08-28 | by ( Eugene Kim | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +2 min

Amazon CEO Andy Jassy told employees who disagree with the return-to-office mandate that it's "not going to work out for you." Jassy declined to provide any data that supports his decision to bring employees back to the office. The months-long controversy waging at Amazon over its aggressive return-to-office mandate apparently has CEO Andy Jassy losing patience with defending it. And if employees didn't like it, they could leave the company, Jassy said, according to a recording of the meeting obtained by Insider. During the Fishbowl conversation, Jassy also argued Amazon didn't use any compelling data when it first allowed remote work during the pandemic.

Persons: Andy Jassy, Jassy, it's, didn't

☆ In leaked recording, Amazon CEO Andy Jassy wouldn't share data for his controversial RTO mandate. Said it was a 'judgement' call, like launching AWS.
▼ + stars: | 2023-08-25 | by ( Eugene Kim | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +5 min

"Those were judgment decisions by our leadership team," Jassy continued. As a leadership team, we've decided that we will be better for customers and for our business being in the office." Jassy's comments are the latest in the months-long tension between Amazon's employees and leadership team over the company's aggressive RTO policy. Amazon's top leadership looked at "a number of pieces of data" over the past two years regarding remote work, Jassy said. Another person blamed Amazon's leadership team for over-expanding during the pandemic under the belief that the hyper growth would last for a long time.

Persons: Andy Jassy, Jassy, we've, didn't, doesn't, It's, Amazon's, it's Organizations: Amazon, Services, AWS

☆ Watch GOP presidential candidate Vivek Ramaswamy rap to Eminem's 'Lose Yourself' amid surprising surge in polls
▼ + stars: | 2023-08-13 | by ( Alia Shoaib | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +2 min

GOP presidential candidate Vivek Ramaswamy rapped to an Eminem song at the Iowa State Fair. Ramaswamy has had a surprise surge in the polls and is now challenging Ron DeSantis for second place. The 38-year-old biotech millionaire grabbed the mic and rapped a verse of Eminem's "Lose Yourself" while on stage at the Iowa State Fair. Kim Reynolds at the fair revealed that the Eminem song was his favorite to walk out to at campaign events because it was "young and scrappy." The long shot candidate has recently had a surprising surge in the polls that has seen him challenging Florida Gov.

Persons: Vivek Ramaswamy, Ramaswamy, Ron DeSantis, Kim Reynolds, Eminem, Donald Trump Organizations: Fair, Service, Iowa Gov, Harvard, Politico, Florida Gov, FBI, IRS Locations: Iowa, Wall, Silicon, Florida

☆ How a college football quarterback with 36,000 Instagram followers scored more than 30 brand deals and made himself the go-to voice for NIL
▼ + stars: | 2023-07-31 | by ( Margaret Fleming | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +15 min

Chase Griffin has more than 30 brand deals, and his recent ones are mostly multi-year partnerships. Chase Griffin. 1st College Athlete Brand Ambassador for the largest/most powerful bank in the world. JP MOrgan Chase 1st College Athlete Brand Ambassador. "NIL & Athlete Brands: A NewEra", November 22, 2022.

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☆ The Gatsby of Silicon Alley: Meet the 27-year-old Google employee who's throwing tech's hottest parties
▼ + stars: | 2023-07-25 | by ( Darius Rafieyan | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +12 min

Despite throwing events attended by thousands, Andrew Yeung has never made a cent off his parties. They've all gathered at the personal invitation of a 27-year-old Google product lead named Andrew Yeung. The terms of his visa stipulate that he can only derive income from his day job at Google. And there was nothing bigger in his father's mind than a tech job in the United States. It was the first Andrew Yeung party.

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☆ Mark Cuban says he avoids wasting time at work, and that meetings are the main culprit
▼ + stars: | 2023-07-23 | by ( Jordan Hart | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +2 min

Cuban says he will only take meetings and phone calls if there's "no other way." Earlier in his career, Cuban would run standing-only meetings to ensure they ended faster. Billionaire investor Mark Cuban called out meetings and phone calls during a June conversation with author Chris Voss on the streaming platform Fireside. Cuban does his best to avoid meetings and phone calls as he believes they hinder the productivity of the workplace. His sentiment toward meetings remains unchanged from the early days of his career when he'd run standing-only meetings.

Persons: Mark Cuban, Chris Voss, he'd, He's, isn't Organizations: Cuban, Service, Billionaire Locations: Wall, Silicon, Voss

☆ Mark Cuban says this is the No. 1 biggest time waster: ‘It kills so much time'
▼ + stars: | 2023-07-23 | by ( Rebecca Picciotto | ) www.cnbc.com time to read: +3 min

And he thinks meetings are the number one workplace habit killing people's productivity and eating away at their time. In a conversation with bestselling author Chris Voss on the interactive streaming platform Fireside, which Cuban co-founded, he said that people "over-meet and over-call." "I try to only do meetings if I have to come to a conclusion or there's no other way — same with phone calls," Cuban told Voss in late June. The result: According to Microsoft research, people are in three times more Teams meetings per week today compared to February 2020. Take your business to the next level: Register for CNBC's free Small Business Playbook virtual event on August 2 at 1 p.m.

Persons: Mark Cuban, Chris Voss, it's, Cuban, Voss, Korn Organizations: Dallas Mavericks, Cuban, huddles, Microsoft Locations: Cuban

☆ Mark Cuban on the biggest career regret from his 20s—what he'd change if he could 'do it again'
▼ + stars: | 2023-07-20 | by ( Rebecca Picciotto | ) www.cnbc.com time to read: +4 min

"Early on in my career, I wanted to prove how smart I was and so I did a lot more talking than listening," Cuban said. At the time, Cuban says he was sleeping on the floor of a three-bedroom apartment with six roommates in Dallas. The desire to prove himself sometimes led Cuban to be "too cocky," he says, which could rub people the wrong way. The cable services company wanted to move Cuban's company HDNet, a high-definition TV provider, to a higher price tier. Cuban didn't like the deal and consequently sued DirecTV.

Persons: Mark Cuban, Chris Voss, Cuban Organizations: Dallas Mavericks, CompuServe, DirecTV, HDNet, National Basketball, Mavericks, Atlanta Hawks Locations: Dallas, Cuban

Kin Cheung | Pool | Getty ImagesLONDON — Two countries are jockeying for position as Europe's capital for artificial intelligence. So, who is leading the race to take Europe's AI crown? The European Union has its AI Act, which is set to be the first comprehensive set of laws focusing on artificial intelligence in the West. In contrast the EU's AI Act could make France "less attractive" for investment in artificial intelligence given that it lays down "a burdensome regulatory regime" for AI, Tanna said. Alexandre Lebrun, CEO of Nabla, an AI "copilot" for doctors, said the U.K. and France are "probably even" when it comes to attractiveness for starting an AI company.

Persons: Rishi Sunak, Emmanuel Macron, Kin Cheung, Macron, Karen Tso, Sunak, it's, Sajid Javid, Boris Johnson's, Simmons, Tanna, Anton Dahbura, Alexandre Lebrun, Lebrun, who've, Keir Starmer Organizations: British, Viva Tech, London Tech, Microsoft, U.S, CNBC, supercomputing, European Union, Johns Hopkins Institute, Autonomy, Google, Facebook, EU, Labour Locations: Europe, China, VivaTech, Paris, France, U.S, West, Germany, London

☆ Billionaire Mark Cuban swears by this ‘powerful’ negotiation hack: It’s ‘money in the bank’
▼ + stars: | 2023-07-12 | by ( Ashton Jackson | ) www.cnbc.com time to read: +3 min

Mark Cuban often sits quietly while his "Shark Tank" co-hosts are in a bidding war — and it isn't a coincidence. There will be times when someone walks in on 'Shark Tank' and I'm thinking to myself: 'There's no way I'm interested. "When I listen to the other sharks, they're going to tell me if I have any competition financially to do a deal. "Silence is money … money in the bank." Disclosure: CNBC owns the exclusive off-network cable rights to "Shark Tank," which features Mark Cuban as a panelist.

Persons: Mark Cuban, Chris Voss, It's, Cuban, Barbara Corcoran, I'm, they've, Warren Buffett Organizations: Fireside, MIT Sloan School of Management, CNBC Locations: Cuban

☆ Opinion | What Frederick Douglass Knew That Trump and DeSantis Don’t
▼ + stars: | 2023-06-30 | by ( Jamelle Bouie | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +3 min

Here, it is worth taking a brief tour of the history of birthright citizenship in the United States. Although the idea of birthright citizenship was present in English common law at the time of the adoption of the Constitution, the Constitution as ratified said nothing about acquiring citizenship by either birth or naturalization. To the extent that citizenship came with rights, the scope of those rights was a question of state laws and state constitutions. But there were always proponents of a broader, more expansive and rights-bearing birthright citizenship. “Our common country is the United States,” Delany wrote.

Persons: ”, Martin Delany, ” Delany, Martha S, Jones Organizations: Colored People, Rights, Antebellum, Convention Locations: United States, Union, Antebellum America, America, Rochester , New York

☆ Opinion: DeSantis is trying to climb the Trump wall
▼ + stars: | 2023-06-28 | by ( Opinion Patrick T. Brown | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +7 min

The DeSantis plan, rolled out at a press conference at the Texas border Monday, lays out steps that should satisfy most Republican border hawks. His immigration plan showcases a candidate interested in effective policymaking beyond pure sloganeering, even if some major questions surround a few key details. The former President noted the similarities — “His plan is my plan,” Trump told Semafor and ABC News on Tuesday. Then, there are the ideas in DeSantis’ plan that have a harder time standing up to scrutiny. Similarly, cutting federal funding to non-governmental organizations that provide aid to those who cross the southern border would be less effective than it sounds.

Persons: Patrick T, Brown, Ron DeSantis, Donald Trump, DeSantis, ” Trump, Semafor, “, ”, —, Trump, parry, isn’t, doesn’t Organizations: Public Policy Center, Economic, Twitter, CNN, Florida Gov, Trump, Republican, Sunshine State, ABC, Republicans, PBS, NPR, Marist, Sun, Group, American, Facebook Locations: Washington , DC, Texas, Iowa, South Carolina, Florida, Mexico

☆ Google distances itself from planned drag performance after employee petition
▼ + stars: | 2023-06-27 | by ( Jennifer Elias | ) www.cnbc.com time to read: +4 min

Google is distancing itself from a drag performance it planned as the closing event for Pride month after a group of employees circulated an internal petition opposing it, claiming religious discrimination. Each year, Google sponsors a series of Pride events in San Francisco and other locations for employees and the public. A few hundred employees signed the petition opposing the drag performance, claiming it sexualizes and disrespects Christian co-workers, and accused Google of religious discrimination, according to the petition viewed by CNBC. That includes a flurry of legislative proposals backed by GOP governors taking aim at drag events. San Francisco venues host Pride events every June, which is recognized as Pride month, and those events commonly include drag shows of various stage acts.

Persons: Chris Pappas, Pappas Organizations: Google, CNBC, Operations, GOP, Employees Locations: New York City, San Francisco, Francisco

☆ Sam Altman is AI's compelling preacher. The world is ready to bow down.
▼ + stars: | 2023-06-24 | by ( Hasan Chowdhury | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +6 min

Sam Altman is a man on a mission: Sell the world on AI. Insider spoke to people who met or saw Altman during his tour, who say the CEO was a convincing preacher. Sam Altman knows he's at an inflection point. On June 9, at a fireside chat in Seoul, Korea, the OpenAI CEO acknowledged he was on a "diplomatic mission." "Sam replied that he did not know and asked the student to tell him in ten years," Mathew said.

Persons: Sam Altman, Altman, Isaac Herzog, He's, Narendra Modi, Yoon Suk, Emmanuel Macron, Rishi Sunak, ChatGPT, Varshal Gupta, Gupta, OpenAI, Sam, Frances, …, Jacob Mathew, Mathew, Felfoul Organizations: Knights, Innovation, Google, Health, OpenAI, Qatar National Library, European Union, EU, WISE Locations: Seoul, Korea, Israel, Jordan, Qatar, UAE, India, Tel Aviv, South Korea, France, Delhi, Doha, European

☆ 10 Things in Tech: Low morale at Microsoft
▼ + stars: | 2023-06-21 | by ( Hallam Bullock | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +5 min

Morale appears to be low at Microsoft. According to internal messages, those changes were another blow to morale, after Microsoft announced it was laying off 10,000 staff in January. In other news:The AGI House is the Bay Area's hottest AI hacker house, hosting dinners, hackathons, and fireside chats on a weekly basis. Founders and VCs are clamoring to get into a $68 million AI hacker house. AGI House, an 18,000 square foot Hillsborough mansion, serves as a hacker house and community hub for the Bay's exploding AI scene.

Persons: Hallam Bullock, Satya Nadella, Kathleen Hogan, Stephanie Palazzolo, ElevenLabs, Andreessen Horowitz, Wharton, Eddie Wu, Daniel Zhang, Wu, Meta, Ashley Flowers, Jordan Pettitt, Shona Ghosh Organizations: CBS, US Coast Guard, Microsoft, Workers, Tmall, Getty Locations: London

☆ Founders and VCs are clamoring to get into this $68 million AI hacker house. Here's how the AGI House exploded into a community hub for the red-hot Bay Area AI scene.
▼ + stars: | 2023-06-21 | by ( Stephanie Palazzolo | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +8 min

In February, the AGI House launched as a community hub for the buzzy Bay Area AI scene. Since launching in February this year, it's served as a hacker house and community hub for the Bay's exploding AI scene. Depending on the day, the residence houses between eight to ten AI founders and researchers, including a researcher from AI giant OpenAI. Stephanie PalazzoloFrom flying cars to fireside conversationsThe AGI House wasn't always the AGI House. "It's great to live in a community house where you're naturally connected to the AI founder community," she said.

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Hong Kong/Seoul CNN —Sam Altman, the CEO of ChatGPT maker OpenAI, used a high-profile trip to South Korea on Friday to call for coordinated international regulation of generative artificial intelligence, the technology that underpins his famous chatbot. “As these systems get very, very powerful, that does require special concern, and it has global impact. So it also requires global cooperation,” Altman said at an event in Seoul, ahead of a meeting with South Korean President Yoon Suk Yeol. In China, authorities will also “be initiating AI regulation,” according to Elon Musk, who helped found OpenAI before breaking from the group. As many as 300 million full-time jobs around the world could eventually be automated in some way by generative AI, according to Goldman Sachs estimates.

Persons: Sam Altman, ” Altman, Yoon Suk, that’s, ”, Yoon, Antony Blinken, Elon Musk, Musk, OpenAI, Goldman Sachs, Altman, “ it’s, ” Sam Altman, SeongJoon Cho, Narendra Modi Organizations: Seoul CNN, South Korean, Reuters, World Economic, SoftBank, Bloomberg, Getty, United Arab Locations: Hong Kong, Seoul, South Korea, Sweden, China, India, Israel, United Arab Emirates

☆ Social Security, Medicare reform fight shows divisions among Trump, DeSantis and Pence
▼ + stars: | 2023-06-08 | by ( Kevin Breuninger | ) www.cnbc.com time to read: +9 min

DeSantis has since reversed himself, assuring in recent months that Republicans are "not going to mess with Social Security." Tens of millions of U.S. seniors depend on Social Security and Medicare benefits, and that number is growing as the population ages. Strong majorities of U.S. adults across the political spectrum consistently say they oppose cutting Medicare and Social Security benefits. But many others, including party leaders, have bristled at accusations that the GOP wants to gut Social Security and Medicare. "Social Security, I would do the same thing," he added.

Persons: Mike Pence's, Ron DeSantis, Pence, Donald Trump, Trump, Joe Biden, DeSantis, Trump pollster, Donald Trump's, Steven Teles, Teles, Andrew Caballero, reynolds, We're, Nikki Haley, South Carolina Sen, Tim Scott, meanwhile, Biden, Sen, Rick Scott, Mitch McConnell, Scott's, Kevin McCarthy, Steve Scalise, Elise Stefanik, Jonathan Ernst, Andrew Bates, Paul Ryan, Ryan, Mitt Romney's, Barack Obama, Lady Casey DeSantis, Peter Zay Organizations: Social Security, Republican, Florida Gov, GOP, Great Society, White, Republican Party, Johns Hopkins University, Niskanen, Team Trump Volunteer Leadership, Grimes Community, AFP, Getty, Social, Medicare's, Insurance, Former South Carolina Gov, Republicans, Senate, U.S . Rep, U.S, Capitol, Reuters, Anadolu Agency Locations: Grimes , Iowa, South Carolina, Ky, Washington , U.S, Congress, Lexington, SC

☆ Republican DeSantis strives for personal touch on 2024 kick-off tour
▼ + stars: | 2023-06-01 | by ( James Oliphant | ) www.reuters.com time to read: +5 min

Earlier, DeSantis and his wife, Casey DeSantis, hosted an event at a welding company in Sioux City, in Iowa's extreme west. Now they were downriver in Council Bluffs, a city of about 60,000, and had two more events ahead before flying to New Hampshire and South Carolina for the remainder of a three-state, 12-city tour. Iowa voters are well known for demanding to see candidates up close. That means he will need to stump in places like Council Bluffs again and again before February. In her remarks, she showed herself as a fierce advocate for DeSantis’ Florida record while reminding listeners that the two are parents of three young children.

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☆ Meet Casey DeSantis: Ron DeSantis' wife is a mom of 3, a former talk show host, and a breast cancer survivor
▼ + stars: | 2023-05-30 | by ( Talia Lakritz | Kimberly Leonard | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +1 min

Florida Governor Ron DeSantis has called his wife Casey DeSantis "my better half and the star of the show." Governor Ron DeSantis, left, and his wife, Casey DeSantis, speak to a crowd at the North Charleston Coliseum in April 2023 in North Charleston, South Carolina. Sean Rayford/Getty ImagesCasey is poised to take a prominent role in her husband's 2024 presidential race, having already joined DeSantis for "fireside chats" in key states. On May 30, she's expected to rally alongside her husband as he holds his first presidential campaign event in Iowa. Together, the couple will be stopping at all 99 counties in Iowa, DeSantis said soon after he launched his 2024 campaign.

Persons: Ron DeSantis, Casey DeSantis, Sean Rayford, Casey, she's, DeSantis, Donald Trump Organizations: North Charleston Coliseum Locations: Florida, North Charleston , South Carolina, Iowa

☆ Casey DeSantis' mission on the 2024 campaign trail is to bring suburban women back to the GOP after Trump lost them
▼ + stars: | 2023-05-30 | by ( Kimberly Leonard | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +16 min

Ron DeSantis' wife, Casey DeSantis, is a chief confidant key to his political rise. He finished boasting about his "Florida Blueprint," and then his wife, Florida first lady Casey DeSantis, glided onstage. In the geography was Casey DeSantis' autobiography: raised in Troy, Ohio, and college-educated at the University of Charleston. As Florida's first lady, Casey DeSantis' initiatives included childhood emotional resiliency, child welfare, and — as a breast-cancer survivor herself — cancer research. "They did not want woke ideology shoved down the throats of their five years olds while they were in school," Casey DeSantis said.

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