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☆ Opinion | The Church of Group Fitness
▼ + stars: | 2023-07-26 | by ( Jessica Grose | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +3 min

Some talked about clubs that formed organically in their neighborhoods or towns, like that Colorado hiking group. But they found community — and more — in CrossFit, a group class that involves a variety of high-intensity exercises and weight lifting. CrossFit also has parallels with some religious organizations in terms of the potential to alienate people who disagree with conservative-aligned beliefs. Petrzela described an unsavory side of group fitness involving entitled star instructors and the businesses that profit from them. Still, there are many positives to glean from group fitness.

Persons: Jeffrey Johnson, Louis, ” Johnson, ” Casper ter Kuile, ”, Johnson, CrossFitters, There’s, CrossFit, Greg Glassman, George Floyd, Covid, Natalia Mehlman Petrzela, Petrzela, Ter Kuile, Angie Thurston Organizations: Harvard Divinity School Locations: Colorado, Illinois, St, Haiti, CrossFit

☆ Donald Trump says he’s a target of special counsel’s criminal probe into 2020 election aftermath
▼ + stars: | 2023-07-18 | by ( Katelyn Polantz Jeremy Herb Kristen Holmes Kaitlan Collins Paula Reid | Katelyn Polantz | Jeremy Herb | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +6 min

In the classified documents case, Trump received a target letter from the special counsel’s office on May 19. Three days after that, on June 8, the grand jury returned an indictment against Trump and his co-defendant and aide Walt Nauta. The special counsel has also probed Trump’s knowledge that he lost the 2020 election, pressure within the Justice Department to help with efforts to overturn the election and fundraising efforts after the election. Giuliani’s lawyer, Robert Costello, told CNN that Giuliani has not received a target letter. The grand jury investigating 2020 election interference is meeting Tuesday at the federal courthouse in Washington, DC.

Persons: Donald Trump, Jack Smith, Joe Biden’s, ” Trump, Todd Blanche, Trump’s, Smith, Trump . Trump’s, Trump, Attorney Alvin Bragg, Walt Nauta, Fox News ’ Sean Hannity, Mike Pence, Rudy Giuliani, Robert Costello, Giuliani Organizations: CNN, Joe Biden’s DOJ, Sunday, Trump, Trump ., Manhattan, Attorney, Justice, Fox News, “, United, Constitution, Joe, Electoral College, Justice Department, House Locations: Bedminster, Iowa, Washington , DC

☆ Google's top AI researchers, including all the authors behind a landmark paper, have left for competitors. Here's where they are now.
▼ + stars: | 2023-07-13 | by ( Thomas Maxwell | Hugh Langley | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +13 min

Top AI researchers have been leaving for startups where their work can have more impact. That frustration over Google's slow movement has been corroborated by other former Google researchers who spoke to Insider. Niki Parmar left Google Brain after five years to serve as a cofounder and CTO of Adept, though in November, she left to found a stealth startup. Lukasz Kaiser left Google Brain after working there for more than seven years to join OpenAI in 2021. Sharan Narang, another contributor to the T5 paper, left Google Brain in 2022 after four years there.

Persons: it's, Llion Jones, OpenAI's, ChatGPT, Sundar Pichai, Bard, Daniel De Freitas, Noam Shazeer, Ilya Sutskever, Sutskever, OpenAI, Ashish Vaswani, Niki Parmar, Jakob Uszkoreit, Aidan Gomez, Nick Frosst, Lukasz Kaiser, Kaiser, Illia Polosukhin, Meena, De Freitas, Romal Thoppilan, Character.AI, LaMDA, Elon Musk, Character.ai, Winni Wintermeyer, Thoppilan, Alicia Jin, BERT BERT, BERT, Jacob Devlin, Colin Raffel, Raffel, Sharan Narang, He's, Azalia Mirhoseini, Anna Goldie, Mirhoseini, Goldie, Claude, DeepMind Mustafa Suleyman, Mustafa Suleyman, DeepMind, Suleyman, Reid Hoffman Organizations: Google, Bloomberg, New York Times, Microsoft, Street Journal, Neural Networks, OpenAI, YouTube, Elon, UNC Chapel Hill, Meta, Anthropic, Society Locations: ChatGPT, Character.AI, DeepMind

☆ Elon Musk launches new company xAI, which proclaims a lofty mission to 'understand the true nature of the universe'
▼ + stars: | 2023-07-12 | by ( Sindhu Sundar | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +3 min

Elon Musk officially unveiled his new company xAI on Wednesday. Musk publicly introduced a new company called xAI, whose stated aim is to glean "the true nature of the universe." And an apparently all-male, 12-person team including Musk has been detailed to the heady task, according to its website, which doesn't list any female employees. Hendrycks has published about the potential dangers of AI, including the technology's ability to spread disinformation. With the launch of xAI, Musk now owns or is in charge of half a dozen companies, including Tesla, SpaceX, Neuralink, The Boring Company, and Twitter.

Persons: Elon Musk, Musk, xAI's, Tesla, Musk helms, Dan Hendrycks, Hendrycks, Musk's Tesla, Insider's Kali Hays, — Manuel Kroiss, Igor Babuschkin, Babuschkin, Brian Philip Organizations: Morning, X.AI, Tesla, Twitter, X Corp, Microsoft, AI Safety, SpaceX, Center, AI, Palo Alto Police Department, The Boring Company Locations: Nevada, Hendrycks, Palo Alto

☆ Storm Shadows are a threat to Russian forces in Ukraine, but busted missile remains may offer lessons for Moscow's military
▼ + stars: | 2023-07-11 | by ( Ryan Pickrell | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +9 min

UK-provided Storm Shadows are a new threat to Russian forces operating in Ukraine. Russian forces recently claimed to have recovered a downed missile. The recovered Storm Shadow could hold clues for the Russian military, but there's a question of whether they can learn from them. A Storm Shadow missile is prepared for loading to a Royal Air Force Tornado GR4 aircraft in the Gulf in support of Operation TELIC, March 21, 2003. Throughout the fight in Ukraine, Russian forces have had to learn lessons, but it's often a grinding and costly process.

Persons: Storm, Ben Stansall, Ian Williams, Williams, TELIC, Cpl Mark Bailey, that's, Ben Wallace, it's, there's Organizations: Service, Shadow, Storm, Farnborough, Missile Defense, Center for Strategic, International Studies, Russia, Royal Air Force Tornado, REUTERS, ASA, Su Locations: Ukraine, Russian, Wall, Silicon, Russia, Zaporizhzhia, Moscow, France

☆ Dollar steady before Fed minutes; yen hovers below 145-mark
▼ + stars: | 2023-07-05 | by ( Herbert Lash | ) www.reuters.com time to read: +3 min

[1/2] FILE PHOTO-U.S. Dollar banknotes are seen in this illustration taken July 17, 2022. The Federal Open Market Committee is due to release the minutes from its most recent policy meeting at 1400 EDT (1800 GMT). "Of course, another barometer for what the Fed does will be the jobs report on Friday," he said. The dollar hovered around 144.165 yen, below the 145 threshold that prompted intervention by Japanese authorities last autumn. The Australian dollar fell 0.1% to $0.6683, on course to snap a four-day streak of gains.

Persons: Dado Ruvic, Joe Manimbo, Manimbo, Shusuke Yamada, Herbert Lash, Amanda Cooper, Kevin Buckland, Shri Navaratnam, Helen Popper, Mark Heinrich Our Organizations: REUTERS, U.S, Federal, Fed, Treasury, Independence, Bank of America, Ministry, Finance, People's Bank of China, Thomson Locations: Washington, U.S, Tokyo, Beijing, London

☆ European telescope launched to hunt for clues to universe's darkest secrets
▼ + stars: | 2023-07-01 | by ( ) www.cnbc.com time to read: +3 min

A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket, with the European Space Agency Euclid space telescope, lifts off from pad 40 at the Cape Canaveral Space Force Station in Cape Canaveral, Fla., Saturday, July 1, 2023. The Euclid mission is designed to explore the evolution of the dark universe. A European space telescope blasted off Saturday on a quest to explore the mysterious and invisible realm known as the dark universe. SpaceX launched the European Space Agency's Euclid observatory toward its ultimate destination 1 million miles (1.5 million kilometers) away, the Webb Space Telescope's neighborhood. "It's more than a space telescope, Euclid.

Persons: Webb, Josef Aschbacher, Carole Mundell, Euclid, It's, Rene Laureijs, Europe's, Giuseppe Racca Organizations: SpaceX, European Space Agency, Cape Canaveral Space Force, Space, NASA Locations: Cape Canaveral, Fla, Germany, Florida, Guiana, South America, Ukraine

☆ Harvard-trained neuroscientist: The 'most underrated' skill successful people use at work—and how to develop it
▼ + stars: | 2023-06-26 | by ( Morgan Smith | ) www.cnbc.com time to read: +2 min

Instead, there's a different skill that gives successful people a competitive edge in the workplace, says Juliette Han, a Harvard-trained neuroscientist: Self-awareness. Research suggests that developing self-awareness helps us be more creative, make sounder decisions, communicate better and build stronger relationships. According to Han, it's "the most underrated skill" successful people use to get ahead in their careers. Here are three tips to identify your strengths and cultivate greater self-awareness:Reflect on your interests and skillsWhat are you good at? "Sometimes, you don't realize what your strengths are until you see them through someone else's eyes," Han adds.

Persons: —, there's, Juliette Han, Han, you'd Organizations: Harvard, Columbia Business School, Harvard Medical School, Research

☆ AI could solve the engineering brain drain, a new study says
▼ + stars: | 2023-06-22 | by ( Aaron Mok | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +3 min

97% of the decision makers who responded to the survey say a shortage of mechanical engineering talent is on its way. "Unfortunately, there are not enough students graduating with engineering degrees to meet this growing demand," Evans told Insider over email. 97% of respondents believe AI will impact product development and manufacturing tasks like quality control and product design. 62% of decision makers say they are training their existing workers in AI tech to improve their workflows. Now, it's only a matter of time before the manufacturing industry adopts AI.

Persons: Fictiv, Dave Evans, Evans Organizations: Engineers

☆ Read the pitch deck Glystn, which helps creators simplify community management with AI, used to raise $4 million
▼ + stars: | 2023-06-20 | by ( Marta Biino | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +3 min

Glystn, an AI-driven community management tool for creators and businesses, is launching publicly. Glystn, an AI-driven platform that aims to facilitate community management and engagement for creators across social-media platforms, is launching publicly. "Creators now have an array of publishing platforms, monetization platforms, and community platforms," Fassett said. By aggregating data from different platforms, Glystn allows creators to analyze information and trends from their audience in one place. We want to see creator communities that are large, vibrant, and for creators to really grow using the tool."

Persons: Hannah Grey, Cofounders Ethan Fassett, Michael Rowehl, Fassett, Glystn, Steve Mould, AJ Rafael Organizations: Eniac Ventures, Precursor Ventures, Perfect Ventures, YouTube, Media, Fox Sports

☆ The pitch deck AI-driven community management tool Glystn used to raise $4 million
▼ + stars: | 2023-06-15 | by ( Marta Biino | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +3 min

☆ New in-ear device promises to predict fainting, help understand dizziness and brain fog
▼ + stars: | 2023-06-13 | by ( Ashley Capoot | ) www.cnbc.com time to read: +1 min

Digital health startup STAT Health has designed a device to help people better understand why they're experiencing symptoms like dizziness, fainting and brain fog. STAT Health on Tuesday announced its new in-ear wearable, the STAT, which measures blood flow to the head. Users can track their metrics in an app on their cellphone and glean insights into how their lifestyle choices affect their symptoms. "This population, a lot of doctors actually can't measure that anything is necessarily wrong with them," Lee told CNBC in an interview. Lee said the STAT will help give patients access to real-time insights to help them decide when they can push themselves, and when they should take it easy.

Persons: Daniel Lee, Lee, They're, it's, there's Organizations: Tuesday, American College of Cardiology, STAT, CNBC

☆ Trump kept 8 documents so sensitive even their access codes are secret, indictment shows
▼ + stars: | 2023-06-10 | by ( Sam Fellman | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +4 min

Some 31 classified documents are at the epicenter of the Trump indictment. We can glean a lot about what Trump kept from the prosecutor's descriptions and the classification marks. There are 31 classified documents recovered by FBI agents that are at the epicenter of the case. But right after the TOP SECRET classification level, two other access codes were redacted by prosecutors. Federal prosecutors listed 31 highly sensitive documents they recovered via an FBI search of Mar-a-Lago in August, 2022.

Persons: Trump, —, Donald Trump didn't, wasn't Organizations: Service, FBI, Trump, Records, US, of Justice, Prosecutors, Mar, Justice Locations: Lago, Florida

☆ VC firm Sequoia is pulling out all the stops to dominate AI, insiders say. The firm is using everything from 'speed dating' to star studded summits to woo founders.
▼ + stars: | 2023-05-22 | by ( Stephanie Palazzolo | Ben Bergman | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +10 min

It's just one move of many the VC firm has taken to cement its position in the white-hot AI space. Huang and Grady wrote a public blog post on Sequoia's website inviting AI founders to email them their ideas and pitches directly. But the firm has been louder where it counts, investing in splashy AI startups like Harvey and LangChain. Every member of the firm, from managing partner Roleof Botha on down, has made AI a top priority, with Grady, Huang, and Buhler most prominently involved. Both Huang and Buhler now spend over 90% of their time researching AI companies, versus 50% in previous years, they said.

☆ JPMorgan employees describe growing 'paranoia' as the company tracks their office attendance, calls, calendars, and more — with one worker even installing a 'mouse jiggler' to evade 'Big Brother'
▼ + stars: | 2023-05-16 | by ( Reed Alexander | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +4 min

JPMorgan has developed a powerful data-collection tool to monitor its employees, dubbed WADU. Employees at America's largest bank fear what the data collection could mean for their jobs. One staffer described a workplace where terms like "Big Brother" and "1984" have become commonplace. For more details on how JPMorgan Chase's WADU system works and what kinds of data it tracks about employees, read Insider's full story here. Employees were granted anonymity to discuss how WADU works and how it impacted company staff since they were not authorized to speak with reporters.

☆ Your DNA Can Now Be Pulled From Thin Air. Privacy Experts Are Worried.
▼ + stars: | 2023-05-15 | by ( Elizabeth Anne Brown | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +2 min

That could pose dilemmas for the preservation of privacy and civil liberties, especially as technological advancement allows more information to be gathered from ever smaller eDNA samples. The results of their research, published Monday in the journal Nature Ecology & Evolution, demonstrate that scientists can recover medical and ancestry information from minute fragments of human DNA lingering in the environment. Forensic ethicists and legal scholars say the Florida team’s findings increase the urgency for comprehensive genetic privacy regulations. Genetic trash to genetic treasureIt has been clear for decades that fragments of our DNA cover the planet like litter. Wildlife researchers embraced environmental DNA anyway because they’re only looking for very small segments of DNA — scanning for what they call bar codes that will identify the creatures in a sample to a species level.

☆ When Packages Go Missing, Can Tenants Check the Surveillance Tapes?
▼ + stars: | 2023-05-13 | by ( Ronda Kaysen | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +1 min

In recent months, there has been an increase in the disappearance of packages left by delivery workers in the unattended lobby. We have surveillance cameras in public spaces, but they are for the safety of our tenants, not to monitor packages. But tenants have been asking to see the video footage to investigate the missing packages. A: You should address a security problem in your building, but sharing video footage with tenants is not the solution. And once you show one tenant video footage, what do you do when the next tenant asks for it?

☆ Nikola Jokić makes history with triple-double to lead Denver Nuggets to big Game 5 win leaving Phoenix Suns on the ropes
▼ + stars: | 2023-05-10 | by ( Ben Morse | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +3 min

CNN —Nikola Jokić made history with a triple-double on Tuesday night to lead the Denver Nuggets to a comfortable 118-102 Game 5 win in their Western Conference playoff series against the Phoenix Suns. The Nuggets were spearheaded as usual by Jokić, who created yet more history with his excellent all-around performance. Brown provided a key thrust for Denver throughout, scoring 25 points off the bench, something Jokić was keen to praise. Devin Booker led the way for the Suns with 28 points while Durant added 26 points, 11 rebounds and seven assists. The home team has now won every game in the series so far, with Game 6 taking place in Phoenix on Thursday.

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☆ What to expect from the jobs report
▼ + stars: | 2023-05-04 | by ( Alicia Wallace | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +7 min

Minneapolis CNN —If the latest employment trends continue and economists’ forecasts prove true, Friday’s jobs report could bring back that pre-pandemic feeling. Economists expect the US economy to have added 180,000 jobs in April, according to consensus estimates on Refinitiv. It could also hammer home the fact that the US labor market has indeed cooled down from its red-hot recovery over the past two years. What a rising unemployment rate meansEconomists are expecting the unemployment rate to tick up to 3.6% from 3.5%, according to Refinitiv. Mixed signalsPayroll processor ADP’s monthly look at private-sector employment activity, released two days before the BLS’ employment report, is sometimes looked at as a preview of what to expect from the federal data.

☆ Melinda French Gates' former chief of staff, who cofounded a unicorn startup, says 'Do you have any questions?' is the most important interview question to nail. Here's how to answer it.
▼ + stars: | 2023-04-23 | by ( Jeffrey Spector | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +5 min

His top interviewing tip is to knock the "question" question out of the park. Job candidates are focused on giving the right answers. My top interviewing tip is to knock the "question" question out of the parkSometimes, job candidates say they don't have any questions. Can you prove that you did your due diligence and have the competencies needed in the job you're applying for? Interviewers want to see candidates think specifically about this sector, this organization, and this role.

☆ Elon Musk isn't giving up on his price war, and it's making Tesla investors anxious
▼ + stars: | 2023-04-20 | by ( Nora Naughton | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +3 min

Tesla's profits took a hit in Q1 thanks to price cuts. Margins are now 'keeping Tesla investors up at night,' Wedbush analyst Dan Ives said. "Margins are now a delicate issue that are keeping Tesla investors up at night," Wedbush analyst Dan Ives wrote in a Thursday note to clients. Elon says he knows what he's doingWhile some investors angst over Tesla's price cuts, Musk defended the company's strategy in a call with analysts after earnings were released Wednesday evening. "We've taken a view that pushing for higher volumes and a larger fleet is the right choice here, versus a lower volume and higher margin," Musk said.

CNN —Donald Trump on Thursday morning arrived for a deposition as part of a high-stakes civil case brought by New York state against the former president, some of his children and his sprawling business empire. The lawsuit, brought last September by New York Attorney General Letitia James, a Democrat, alleges that Trump, his children Donald Trump Jr., Eric Trump and Ivanka Trump, and the Trump Organization were involved in an expansive scheme lasting over a decade by providing false financial statements to lenders and others that the former president used to enrich himself. The suit is seeking $250 million and bans on the Trumps’ ability to operate a business in the state. “He remains resolute in his stance that he has nothing to conceal, and he looks forward to educating the attorney general about the immense success of his multi-billion dollar company,” Trump’s attorney, Alina Habba, said in a statement. In a civil case, if a defendant asserts the Fifth Amendment, the jury can make what’s known as an “adverse inference” and place weight against Trump for refusing to answer questions.

☆ Alphabet's A.I. frenzy hits startup scene as CapitalG unit leads $100 million investment in AlphaSense
▼ + stars: | 2023-04-11 | by ( Jonathan Vanian | ) www.cnbc.com time to read: +4 min

Google's hefty investment in artificial intelligence and the latest boom in generative AI doesn't end with its homegrown products. Alphabet's late-stage venture capital arm, CapitalG, told CNBC that it just led a $100 million investment in corporate data firm AlphaSense, valuing the company at $1.8 billion. Generative AI wasn't a talking point in the prior two rounds because the term hadn't yet jumped into the popular lexicon. Generative AI has been the one bright spot this year, turning rather frothy in some corners. He said the money will also help AlphaSense improve its technology, taking advantage of advances in generative AI.

☆ Inside the 5-hour psychological interview that can make or break your career at Citadel, Blackstone, and other finance titans
▼ + stars: | 2023-04-10 | by ( Emmalyse Brownstein | Alex Morrell | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +16 min

ghSmartThe company's unusual but rigorous approach to screening job candidates has won it the trust of some of the finance industry's most competitive and coveted workplaces, as well as other blue-chip corporations. "That became the kernel for ghSmart," Smart recounted in a podcast interview. That means the ghSmart interview isn't something you can necessarily prepare for in the same way you might, for example, read up on certain stocks or industry trends. The company's team of psychologists spends hours drilling into each candidate's job and life experiences. Unlike some executive-search firms, ghSmart disconnects its fee from whether it fills the role.

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