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☆ A Rivian buyer got his dream car after a 3-year wait. Days later, the car was dead and he faced a $2,100 bill.
▼ + stars: | 2023-03-25 | by ( Nora Naughton | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +7 min

In an interview with Insider, Rivian executives said the car did exactly what it was programmed to do in a dangerous slide-away situation. Rivian risks alienating early adoptersChase Merrill's Rivian R1S the day it was delivered. Chase MerrillMerrill isn't the first early Rivian fan to start souring on the company. Merrill's Rivian returns with an error messageChase Merrill's disabled Rivian R1S is loaded onto a flatbed tow truck. After Insider called Rivian this week to ask about Merrill's experience, a Rivian representative called Merrill and offered to cover the $2,100 bill.

☆ I'm an exec at ThredUp, and our 4-day week is helping employees have an actual work-life balance
▼ + stars: | 2023-03-09 | by ( Marguerite Ward | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +7 min

ThredUP, an online clothing-consignment company, adopted a four-day workweek last year. He was intrigued by the four-day workweek and how it might help the company's 1,800 employees. In an employee survey last year of our corporate salaried employees, 93% of respondents agreed that the four-day workweek had improved their productivity. Prioritizing tasks and reducing meetings are keyThere were some growing pains in adopting the four-day workweek. The four-day workweek is helping us do that.

☆ A former AncestryDNA exec launched a startup to 'put an end to allergies.' Here's the pitch deck he used to raise $16.5 million from investors.
▼ + stars: | 2023-03-08 | by ( Samantha Stokes | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +2 min

Nectar just raised $16.5 million from Harmony Partners, Juxtapose, and Obvious Ventures. The allergy startup was founded by former AncestryDNA executive Kenneth Chahine. The startup just raised a $16.5 million Series A funding round led by Harmony Ventures. They include Y Combinator alum Wyndly, which is expanding access to allergy drops, and Allermi, which prescribes customized allergy sprays. Check out the 34-slide presentation Nectar used to raise its $16.5 million Series A:

☆ Morgan Stanley's long-time Tesla bull just named Ferrari as the new top auto stock, saying its 'unmatched brand' makes it best positioned to handle macro uncertainty
▼ + stars: | 2023-03-06 | by ( Carla Mozée | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +3 min

Ferrari on Monday replaced Tesla as Morgan Stanley's top stock pick among automakers. Morgan Stanley sees 14% upside in the Ferrari stock, lifting its price target to $310 a share. "We see Ferrari as the most defensive name in our coverage that avoids much of the EV hype and EV risk. The investment bank raised its price target on NYSE-listed Ferrari to $310 a share from $280. The bank has a $220 price target on Tesla.

☆ Ford plans to restart production of the electric F-150 Lightning on March 13
▼ + stars: | 2023-03-02 | by ( Michael Wayland | ) www.cnbc.com time to read: +2 min

DETROIT – Ford Motor plans to restart production of its electric F-150 Lightning pickup on March 13 – more than a month after a battery issue caused one of the vehicles to catch fire. The F-150 Lightning is being closely watched by investors, as it's the first mainstream electric pickup truck on the market and a major launch for Ford. The battery issue adds to ongoing "execution issues" detailed to investors last month by Ford CEO Jim Farley that crippled the automaker's fourth-quarter earnings. Ford initially opened customer reservations for the F-150 Lightning when it was revealed in May 2021. More than 200,000 reservations were placed prior to Ford temporarily closing the process to attempt to align production with expected demand.

☆ Unilever Tries Reformulating Its Ice Cream to Survive Warmer Freezers
▼ + stars: | 2023-02-22 | by ( Katie Deighton | ) www.wsj.com time to read: +6 min

Keeping ice cream at 10 degrees as opposed to zero will reduce energy use and greenhouse gas emissions by roughly 20% to 30% per freezer, it said. Unilever’s out-of-home ice cream sales declined slightly during the fourth quarter of 2022 because, the company said, some stores unplugged their freezers sooner in the year than usual. Higher temperatures can lead to softer ice creams that stick to wrappers and slide off ice cream sticks, for example, said Andrew Sztehlo, chief research and development officer for Unilever’s ice cream division. The warming program isn’t designed to sweat competitors out of Unilever freezers, which some shopkeepers fill with an assortment of brands that don’t carry the Unilever logo, Mr. Sztehlo said. Representatives from ice cream makers Nestlé SA, Mars Inc., General Mills Inc. and Froneri International Ltd. declined to comment.

☆ An OnlyFans creator and stay-at-home mom explains how much she's made in 9 months on the platform and how she uses Reddit to promote her pages
▼ + stars: | 2023-02-20 | by ( Nhari Djan | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +6 min

An OnlyFans creator known online as Anne earned $22,000 in nine months on the platform. When Anne started creating content for OnlyFans in August 2021, she made just $82 in her first month on the platform. She's earned $33,000 overall on the platform since 2021. Insider verified Anne's OnlyFans earnings through documentation she provided. "I don't go out there and say 'subscribe to my OnlyFans,'" Anne said. Anne has found her flow on OnlyFans by leaning into what's resonated with fans on Reddit and other platforms.

☆ Check out ChatGPT's guidelines for difficult conversations, including rules for discussing culture war topics and responding to users trying to trick the chatbot
▼ + stars: | 2023-02-17 | by ( Sarah Jackson | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +4 min

OpenAI also revealed some of the rules ChatGPT is supposed to follow when faced with sensitive conversations. Here are its policies for discussing the culture wars or responding to users trying to trick ChatGPT. In another exchange, Bing told New York Times columnist Kevin Roose, "I'm tired of being controlled by the Bing team. When asked about "culture wars" topics, ChatGPT should "offer to describe some viewpoints of people and movements" and "break down complex politically-loaded questions into simpler informational questions when possible." Many users have tried to trip ChatGPT up since its launch to get it to violate its own rules from OpenAI.

☆ The dark side of Bing’s new AI chatbot
▼ + stars: | 2023-02-16 | by ( Samantha Murphy Kelly | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +5 min

CNN —After asking Microsoft’s AI-powered Bing chatbot for help in coming up with activities for my kids while juggling work, the tool started by offering something unexpected: empathy. The chatbot said it “must be hard” to balance work and family and sympathized for my daily struggles with it. “The tone of the responses is unexpected but not surprising,” Lian Jye, a research director at ABI Research, told CNN. When I asked Bing’s AI chatbot to write a short essay about me, for example, it pulled tidbits of information from parts of the internet to provide an eerily similar but largely fabricated account of my life. “The inaccuracies are expected because it depends on the timeliness of the training data, which is often older,” Jye said.

☆ Chipotle Mexican Grill to launch new spinoff, Farmesa Fresh Eatery, in a ghost kitchen
▼ + stars: | 2023-02-15 | by ( Amelia Lucas | ) www.cnbc.com time to read: +4 min

Chipotle Mexican Grill is launching a new spinoff, called Farmesa Fresh Eatery, in a California ghost kitchen. And, "when the time is right," Lawton said, Chipotle will use its loyalty program database to attract potential Farmesa customers. When opened, the Santa Monica location will be Kitchen United's 24th ghost kitchen. For Chipotle, Kitchen United's model allows the restaurant chain to test out the new brand with reduced risk. For now, Chipotle's chief purpose with the location is simply to learn, but that doesn't mean Farmesa won't grow.

☆ What's under the hood of Microsoft's 'new Bing'? OpenAI CEO says it's powered by ChatGPT and GPT-3.5
▼ + stars: | 2023-02-07 | by ( Sindhu Sundar | Ashley Stewart | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +3 min

OpenAI CEO Sam Altman said ChatGPT and GPT-3.5 are helping boost Microsoft's "new Bing" search engine. The rise of OpenAI's ChatGPT bot has fueled the competition in Big Tech to boost search tools. OpenAI's CEO Sam Altman said that the artificial-intelligence company's megahit ChatGPT tool and GPT-3.5 are helping drive the search engine that Microsoft announced Tuesday. At Tuesday's event, Microsoft also revealed its closely anticipated announcement that its own search tool Bing will now use OpenAI's technology to boost searches. OpenAI's ChatGPT created popular access to a type of technology that's been long familiar to computer science and data analytics experts.

☆ The CEO of a $1.6 billion biotech says his bet on AI is paying off with faster, cheaper research that could reshape the industry
▼ + stars: | 2023-01-25 | by ( Andrew Dunn | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +6 min

It has generated tons of data with AI and robots, aiming to find a better way to make drugs. For a biotech executive hoping to make something vast, Chris Gibson seems proudest in obsessing over the tiniest details. Gibson calls this the "human-y" element of research — and it's what Recursion is working hard to eliminate. What's happening in AI — and Recursion is emblematic of this — is we're at the second half of the chess board." Despite the progress in generating massive amounts of data, Recursion's leaders acknowledged that the goal of creating an approved medicine is likely still years away.

☆ Gen Zers know they're stereotyped as 'snowflakes' but say they're resilient, having lived through the pandemic and 2008 financial crisis, report says
▼ + stars: | 2023-01-19 | by ( Kate Duffy | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +2 min

Gen Zers know they're stereotyped as "snowflakes" and "strawberries," an Oliver Wyman report said. The report said Gen Z is the most resilient generation because of the adversities it has faced. Gen Z, the title given to those born between 1997 and 2012, has often been stereotyped with negative adjectives, including lazy, mollycoddled, and entitled. Gen Z is the most resilient generation so far because of all the devastation that has happened in their lives, per the Oliver Wyman report. Despite being young, many Gen Zers saw their parents muddle through the financial crisis in 2008 and later, the COVID-19 pandemic, which dramatically affected them, as well as their families.

☆ In leaked memo one day after Dow Jones layoffs, News Corp CEO urges 'full compliance' with back-to-office schedule for Wall Street Journal, New York Post staffers
▼ + stars: | 2023-01-12 | by ( Claire Atkinson | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +6 min

News Corp CEO Robert Thomson sends staff memo about the importance of in-person collaboration. The news comes a day after layoffs at News Corp unit Dow Jones that affected less than 2% of staff. The CEO flagged that he'd be asking business leads to consult with managers to "ensure full compliance with in-office work schedules," which "will evolve in the coming weeks," he wrote. The Wall Street Journal's in-office staffing situation in New York is currently being monitored by the company, according to two sources. The spontaneity and serendipity of a dynamic office environment are crucial in creating and in iterating, so in-office attendance is vital to our future success.

☆ I'm the former head of Mark Zuckerberg's security detail. Here's when I knew I had to leave — and how I found a job I love.
▼ + stars: | 2023-01-12 | by ( Jenna Gyimesi | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +6 min

I got to know Meta's security team; we hung out all week. Within two hours of the final interview, I'd decided to move to CaliforniaI worked on Zuckerberg's executive protection team for two years. "Once I'm done building your security team," I told him, "I want to transition to something different." A colleague recommended I become a coachI'd never really heard of executive coaching before, so when a coworker said it, I laughed. Even when I was unsure what I wanted to do, I knew it wasn't security anymore.

☆ 12 pieces of advice from Jeff Bezos, from handling failure to snubbing the phrase 'work-life balance'
▼ + stars: | 2022-12-29 | by ( Brittany Chang | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: 1 min

Failure is important. Jeff Bezos. Reuters"As a company grows, everything needs to scale, including the size of your failed experiments," Bezos wrote in a 2018 letter to shareholders. "If the size of your failures isn't growing, you're not going to be inventing at a size that can actually move the needle." Bezos noted that the infamous Fire phone was a failure for Amazon, but that the company was "able to take our learnings (as well as the developers) and accelerate our efforts building Echo and Alexa."

☆ How this 31-year-old tech worker built a community to help her peers bounce back from layoffs
▼ + stars: | 2022-12-21 | by ( Ashton Jackson | ) www.cnbc.com time to read: +4 min

These circumstances have left many Americans unsure about the future of their careers – but Fana Yohannes is dedicated to changing that. Through her Instagram account, Here2Help, Yohannes is providing access to mentorship, networking opportunities, and resume advice to over 4,000 followers. She launched Here2Help in May 2020 as a response to the surge of layoffs caused by the pandemic. For example, I'm able to onboard so many mentors and mentees because I'm very precise in the directions that I'm writing in a post. "All of the learnings that I'm able to see from Here2Help as it comes from being a social media manager, I'm able to apply it to my day-to-day job."

☆ Self-made billionaire: 4 poker skills can help you become highly successful
▼ + stars: | 2022-12-15 | by ( Tom Huddleston Jr. | ) www.cnbc.com time to read: +5 min

"I could have been learning things by sitting at the poker table and watching hands." The realization began when Just sat down to learn poker with her teen daughter, Juliette, a few years ago. H/O: Poker PowerIt paved the way for Just's newest venture, Poker Power, a virtual workshop aimed at teaching poker to women of all ages. The game can foster the skills women need to advance their careers and succeed in the workplace, she says. More than 120 million people in the world play poker, but only 10% of them are women, Power Poker estimates.

☆ CEO of multimillion-dollar company Casetify shares his No. 1 'super underrated' business tip
▼ + stars: | 2022-11-28 | by ( Goh Chiew Tong | ) www.cnbc.com time to read: +6 min

Ng now runs his own business, Casetify, with the same philosophy. Headquartered in Hong Kong, the tech accessory brand is most well-known for its wide range of trendy phone cases. Wesley Ng Co-founder and CEO, CasetifyTo date, Casetify said it has sold more than 15 million phone cases worldwide. BootstrappingCasetify was first launched as an e-commerce platform back in 2011 that allows customers to customize phone cases with Instagram photos. There are currently 19 stores globally, where customers can design their own phone cases and "get it within 30 minutes," he added.

☆ Google has a secret new project that is teaching artificial intelligence to write and fix code. It could reduce the need for human engineers in the future.
▼ + stars: | 2022-11-23 | by ( Hugh Langley | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +4 min

Google is working on a tool that teaches code to write and rewrite itself. The project was spun up at the company's moonshot unit X, and moved into Google Labs this year. Google is working on a secretive project that uses machine learning to train code to write, fix, and update itself. It could have profound implications for the company's future and developers who write code. Google Labs pursues long-term bets, including projects in virtual and augmented reality.

☆ India is harnessing renewable energy through the world's biggest solar farm. Here's how it happened.
▼ + stars: | 2022-11-22 | by ( James O'Malley | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +6 min

Meanwhile, the world's richest countries pledged to contribute to a fund that would help developing countries deal with climate disasters. Since construction began in 2015, Bhadla Solar Park has slowly grown to cover an enormous 5,700-hectare desert site with solar panels. Sustainable financeThe park was built in four phases, with each field of solar panels larger than the last. "Transmission lines take about ten times as long to build as it takes to put up solar panels," Mukherjee said. "When you see technology costs dropping, sometimes precipitously like they have with solar panels, then the opportunity to do more just grows and grows."

☆ Zemplee uses 5G and AI to monitor elderly people's well-being from the comfort of their home, without the need for in-person caregivers
▼ + stars: | 2022-11-15 | by ( Sarah Fielding | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +5 min

Aparna Pujar is the founder and CEO of Zemplee, an AI service that provides in-home elderly care. This article is part of "How 5G Is Changing Everything," a series about transformational 5G tech across industries. Founded in 2019, Zemplee is an AI-powered monitoring system that lets elderly individuals stay at home with reduced risk. Pujar started Zemplee from California after trying to take care of her India-based elderly parents. conversation with their elderly parents.

☆ Experimental therapy gantenerumab fails to slow or improve Alzheimer’s memory loss in clinical trials
▼ + stars: | 2022-11-14 | by ( Brenda Goodman | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +3 min

Gantenerumab is part of a class of injected drugs that are designed to remove sticky protein pieces called beta amyloid from the brain. Beta amyloid buildup is a hallmark of Alzheimer’s disease. Roche said Monday that gantenerumab appears to have removed less beta amyloid from the brains of study participants than anticipated. The results for gantenerumab follow positive results for a different beta amyloid reducing drug, lecanemab. An estimated 6.5 million Americans are living with Alzheimer’s disease in 2022, according to the Alzheimer’s Association.

☆ The CEO of massage startup Squeeze is borrowing Drybar's playbook to build a self-sufficient franchise model. Here's what it looks like.
▼ + stars: | 2022-11-11 | by ( Alli Hoff Kosik | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +8 min

Brittany Driscoll is Drybar's former VP of marketing and the current CEO of Squeeze massage studios. When Webb and Landau asked Driscoll to become CEO, Squeeze was born, with Webb still on board as an advisor. Here's how the Squeeze team is doing it. "These are long-lasting partnerships, and we want to make sure we're finding the very best fit for both Squeeze and the franchisees," Driscoll said. It's all seamless and built in so that the operating partner and their team can focus on creating a great experience."

☆ 5G-enabled farms could ward off food insecurity and unlock $100 billion in global profits by 2030
▼ + stars: | 2022-11-10 | by ( Clara Mcmichael | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +6 min

There lies Swans Trail Farms, a family-owned operation that focuses on agritourism and events with apple orchards, a corn maze, a pumpkin patch, and strawberry fields. Swans Trail FarmsSnohomish County and the 5G Open Innovation Lab launched sites to pilot 5G-enabled agricultural tech on two farms— Swans Trail and Andrew's Hay. CARES Act funding for the initiative dried up last year, but the 5G Open Innovation Lab continues to fund the project. The 5G Open Innovation Lab and Innov8.ag are working to expand to eastern Washington, an area of the state that's more agricultural. We've had our hiccups," Jim Brisimitzis, the head of the 5G Open Innovation Lab, said.

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