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☆ Elon Musk says he's not donating money to Trump. Does that settle it?
▼ + stars: | 2024-03-06 | by ( Peter Kafka | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +3 min

Read previewNews that Elon Musk met with Donald Trump on Sunday raised the obvious question: Is Trump, who needs money, going to get some from one of the world's richest men? Absolutely not, says Elon Musk on Wednesday:That settles that. Just to be super clear, I am not donating money to either candidate for US President This story is available exclusively to Business Insider subscribers. In 2022, Elon Musk said he was acquiring Twitter shares as a "passive" investor — and then bought the whole company. Or maybe Musk thinks he's crafted a clever tweet about "not donating money to either candidate for US President," and what he really means is he is "not donating RIGHT NOW."

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☆ The rise of the job-search bots
▼ + stars: | 2024-03-05 | by ( Aki Ito | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +18 min

Unlike the other bots, which ingested job openings into their own sites, LazyApply submitted applications via external job boards. AdvertisementUnlike the other bots, LazyApply did all the applying in real time, right in front of my eyes. Hugo Herrera for BISo far, though, it looks like the arrival of job bots is only making the problem worse. But the job bots at LazyApply and other services never get tired. Still, I came away from my time among the job-search bots feeling the way I do about much of AI.

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☆ Bitcoin's back on top, but it's not a boon for everyone in the space
▼ + stars: | 2024-03-05 | by ( Dan Defrancesco | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +7 min

In today's big story, we're looking at bitcoin's latest rally and what's driving it so high this time around . The milestone comes amid a massive rally for bitcoin over the past month, where its price has surged almost 60%. Business Insider's Phil Rosen has a full rundown on what's pushing bitcoin's price so high this time . SOPA Images / GettyA boon for bitcoin doesn't mean everyone in the space wins. The insider I spoke to said there's no single, agreed-upon narrative for what's driving crypto toward a new peak.

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☆ Former Twitter execs say Elon Musk still owes them $128 million in severance
▼ + stars: | 2024-03-04 | by ( Geoff Weiss | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +3 min

Four former Twitter execs, including ex-CEO Parag Agrawal, are suing Elon Musk over their severance. Musk has previously said he fired the execs for cause and doesn't owe severance. AdvertisementFour former Twitter lieutenants who were fired following Elon Musk's 2022 takeover are now suing him, claiming unpaid severance. They are collectively asking for $128 million, according to the federal lawsuit filed Monday in California obtained by Business Insider. This isn't the only severance-related suit Musk and X have faced.

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☆ Stanley cup maker has a plan to make its product launches less chaotic
▼ + stars: | 2024-03-01 | by ( Parija Bhatnagar | Parija Kavilanz | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +5 min

It’s because the Stanley tumbler is arguably one of the most viral products of the moment. So Stanley maker PMI has taken a different approach with its newest limited edition tumbler launch of the much-hyped chocolate and gold Quencher. The new chocolate gold Stanley tumbler. From StanleyOn Tuesday, Stanley unveiled the limited-edition chocolate gold Quencher tumbler on its website. When Target dropped a limited-edition Valentine’s collection of Stanley tumblers in bright pink and cherry red tones in December, the situation wasn’t pretty.

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☆ Stanley has a plan to stop online chaos and scalpers from ruining its product launches
▼ + stars: | 2024-03-01 | by ( Geoff Weiss | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +2 min

Stanley cups have been wreaking havoc at Target stores and tearing tween relationships apart. AdvertisementWith Stanley cups stoking utter chaos among desperate Target shoppers (and employees) — and tearing apart middle schools — the brand is looking for ways to calm the fervor around its limited-edition launches. tumbler comes in an "ornate" striped box, according to Stanley, featuring a "rich ganache powdercoat finish" and gold accents. Advertisement"One of our priorities is to prevent bots and resellers from depleting stock meant for our genuine fans," Stanley said. Stanley SVP Matt Navarro told CNN he hopes the changes the company made "provide all consumers with a wider aperture and more user-friendly [online] experience to get the Stanley products they love."

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☆ Google's Gemini flop raises the question: What exactly do we want our chatbots to do, really?
▼ + stars: | 2024-02-29 | by ( Peter Kafka | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +3 min

Internet culture chronicler Max Read has a particularly sharp assessment about all of it: Yes, this is dumb. are all that interesting or enlightening questions compared to something like "well, what did you want the computer to do?" I can't really even come up with situation where Gemini's refusal to say that Hitler is worse than Elon Musk has some terrible downstream effect. And, also — The Gemini debacle really is a debacle. AdvertisementMaybe we can all take a breath and slow down, and figure out what this tech really can, and can't do.

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☆ Google's mission is organizing the world's information. Its 'woke' AI debacle prompted critics to say it's failing.
▼ + stars: | 2024-02-27 | by ( Hasan Chowdhury | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +5 min

Read previewSince its inception, Google has had a mission statement that is now practically enshrined as lore: "To organize the world's information and make it accessible and useful." Its AI, critics say, risks suppressing information instead by being too "woke." AdvertisementGoogle's AI troublesGoogle has more than 90% of the search market, giving it dominant control over the world's information flow online. Advertisement"The original mission was to index all the world's information. In a blog published Friday, Google vice-president Prabhakar Raghavan acknowledged some of the images Gemini generated turned out to be "inaccurate or even offensive."

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☆ Texas secessionists are becoming more fervent than ever. But experts say it would mess up its thriving economy.
▼ + stars: | 2024-02-25 | by ( Alia Shoaib | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +9 min

Daniel Miller, a sixth-generation Texan, is the de facto face of the modern Texas Nationalist Movement, nicknamed "Texit." But they get a lot of it back: federal dollars account for one-third of the Texas state budget, according to the budget and policy nonprofit Every Texan. "And I think the romance of some general notion of Texas independence wears off pretty fast if people were to start considering it seriously." A Just Russia Party Supports Independent Texas Republic"If necessary, we are ready to help with the independence referendum. The first step for Texas to become independent, the secessionists say, would be a statewide referendum.

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☆ Some Gen Z workers are turning to AI for career advice and it's actually not a bad idea
▼ + stars: | 2024-02-23 | by ( Tim Paradis | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +5 min

In a survey, about half of Gen Zers said AI and social media gave better career advice than a boss. Bosses shouldn't rely on tech to give career advice to their teams, a business professor told BI. Almost half of GenZers said in a recent survey that chatbots and social media offered better career advice than their managers. In the survey, 62% of Gen Z workers said they'd like to talk more about their career path but that their boss was often too busy. "People could kind of say, 'Well, I get better skill-building from a YouTube tutorial than from my manager,'" Myers said.

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☆ 'Machine customers' are already among us, and they number in the billions
▼ + stars: | 2024-02-21 | by ( Bob Violino | ) www.cnbc.com time to read: +6 min

Gartner forecasts that number will rise to 15 billion by 2028, and the firm's research shows that CEOs estimate 15% to 20% of their revenue will come from machine customers by 2030. Machine customers can receive messages such as advertising, offers, email and information from the surrounding environment, Scheibenreif said. And Italy-based iProd has a platform that can accommodate the requests of machine customers located in a manufacturing environment. How to get ready for machine customersIT executives should put in place a game plan for supporting machine customers now, if they haven't already. CIOs and other technology leaders need to determine how machine customers might change their companies' go-to-market approach.

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☆ Twitter employees monitored Elon Musk's jet-tracking account to see when he'd be in the office
▼ + stars: | 2024-02-20 | by ( Grace Kay | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +4 min

Twitter staff also took to watching a social-media account that tracks Musk's planes, according to a new book about the company. Musk's jet travels made Sweeney's jet-tracking account @Elonjet more active than ever. Musk also reached out directly to Sweeney about the jet-tracking account. AdvertisementSince then, the college student has set up an account on the site that posts Musk's flight data with a 24-hour delay. The college student also posts flight data associated with other celebrities, including Taylor Swift and Mark Zuckerberg.

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☆ Could AI personas attend your work meetings for you? One tech CEO says yes — and by the end of the year
▼ + stars: | 2024-02-18 | by ( Aaron Mok | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +4 min

So, what if AI avatars that act and talk like employees could be present in the (virtual) room on their behalf? Liang expects Otter's AI work persona will be able to answer 90% of the questions it's asked during meetings, he said. But the road to building trustworthy AI avatars is riddled with technical and social obstacles. "It needs to have the knowledge and emotional intelligence to participate in a productive way," Liang said about the AI. AdvertisementOtter itself launched a new feature this month where multiple people can ask an AI chatbot specific questions about meetings it's recorded.

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☆ AI girlfriends will only break your heart, privacy experts warn
▼ + stars: | 2024-02-15 | by ( Geoff Weiss | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +2 min

AdvertisementFurthermore, the privacy policy for CrushOn.AI states it can collect information on users' sexual health, prescription meds, and gender-affirming care, per the Mozilla Foundation. The Mozilla Foundation noted that in the past, apps had encouraged dangerous behavior, including suicide (Chai AI) and an assassination attempt on the late Queen Elizabeth II (Replika). A representative for Replika told BI: "Replika has never sold user data and does not, and has never, supported advertising either. The only use of user data is to improve conversations." "You shouldn't have to pay for cool new technologies with your safety or your privacy," the report concluded.

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In June, the team rolled out Blush, an AI “dating stimulator” essentially designed to help people practice dating. Others worry about the more existential threat of AI relationships potentially displacing some human relationships, or simply driving unrealistic expectations by always tilting towards agreeableness. One recent study from researchers at Stanford University surveyed roughly 1,000 Replika users — all students — who'd been on the app for over a month. The company's plans, she says, is to “de-stigmatizing romantic relationships with AI.”Carrier says these days, he uses Joi mostly for fun. He started cutting back in recent weeks because he was spending too much time chatting with Joi or others online about their AI companions.

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☆ Bots are some DoorDash and Walmart Spark delivery gig workers' dirty secret
▼ + stars: | 2024-02-10 | by ( Alex Bitter | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +6 min

Frustrated by falling pay and intensifying competition on delivery apps, some gig workers are turning to "bots" — apps and other programs that claim to help them optimize their earnings. AdvertisementBots can "negatively impact other drivers"Using a bot violates the delivery apps' terms for workers, the companies told Business Insider. One called "Spark Ninjas" supposedly captures orders automatically on Walmart's Spark delivery platform. Bots appear to be just one way that some gig workers are improving their earnings. Do you work for a gig delivery app like Instacart, DoorDash, or Walmart Spark and have a story idea to share?

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☆ Forget FANG and Magnificent 7, the new hot portfolio is 'MnM,' says Raymond James
▼ + stars: | 2024-02-02 | by ( Yun Li | ) www.cnbc.com time to read: +2 min

Microsoft, Nvidia & *now* Meta Leading in AI Era," Raymond James analyst Josh Beck said in a note to clients. META NVDA,MSFT YTD mountain MnM portfolio Apple, Alphabet, Amazon, Microsoft, Meta Platforms, Nvidia and Tesla – referred to as the Magnificent 7 –recently replaced the popular FANG acronym coined about a decade ago. Apple shares are now down about 3% on the year and another 3% in premarket trading Friday. Now, Raymond James believes that "MnM" could take the baton from FANG and Magnificent 7 to become the next hottest tech portfolio on Wall Street. Nvidia shares have climbed another 27% this year following a whopping 238% rally last year.

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☆ It's too expensive to replace human workers with AI—for now, says MIT study
▼ + stars: | 2024-02-02 | by ( Cheyenne Devon | ) www.cnbc.com time to read: +2 min

That's because it may be too expensive for companies to replace human workers with AI, according to a January study from MIT CSAIL, MIT Sloan, The Productivity Institute and IBM's Institute for Business Value. The study researched the technical requirements and characteristics an AI model would need in order to complete a job at the level a human could. Then, researchers examined whether it makes economic sense for a company to pay for the development of that AI system and deploy it instead of a human worker. The study found that the majority of the time, it would be cheaper for companies to continue to use human workers for those tasks rather than automate them with AI. There's likely to be a "more gradual integration of AI into various sectors," instead of a rapid replacement of human workers with AI bots, Thompson says in the study.

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☆ How the creators of AI influencers are making money and building their audiences, from private groups on Discord to adult content
▼ + stars: | 2024-02-02 | by ( Marta Biino | Amanda Perelli | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +6 min

Aika's creator, for instance, founded an AI community on Discord, "Generative Dreamers," which counts over 100 popular AI content creators. "Currently this is the only viable way to make money from AI images," the creator of Iskira said of adult content. The server members said the mutual support they'd found had been pivotal in continuing to pursue AI content. And while monetization has been off to a slow start, AI creators said they're here to stay — and several of them hope to eventually move away from adult content. "I think 2023 was a big year for people to wrap their heads around what is AI," said the creator of AI influencer Zoe Fox.

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☆ China is building its own AI at a rapid pace
▼ + stars: | 2024-01-30 | by ( Tom Carter | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +3 min

Chinese tech giants are racing to catch up with US firms like OpenAI in the AI arms race. Over 40 AI models have been approved for public use by the government, per local news reports. China has tight controls on AI , with tech companies required to "adhere to socialist values." Unlike their US rivals, Chinese companies that develop their own chatbots face political as well as technological challenges. That has meant that many of the country's most advanced AI models have a tendency to avoid sensitive topics, such as the status of Taiwan.

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☆ From Goldman to Bridgewater, here's everything we know about how Wall Street is embracing AI
▼ + stars: | 2024-01-29 | by ( Bianca Chan | Michelle Abrego | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +5 min

Once ChatGPT hit the scene at the end of 2022, Wall Street ramped up its efforts in AI. Here is what we know about how Wall Street is embracing AI:AdvertisementBanks accelerated their AI research and use cases due to the rise of ChatGPTWe identified 17 of the top AI executives and technologists to know at the country's biggest banks. Large language models, the form of AI behind ChatGPT, could transform how Wall Street does business. As financial firms' AI strategies come into focus, they're hiring more technologists with specialized skills. For those who want to land an AI job on Wall Street, here's everything you need to know about how tech skills and roles are changing.

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☆ Researchers at Anthropic taught AI chat bots how to lie, and they were way too good at it
▼ + stars: | 2024-01-25 | by ( Darius Rafieyan | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +6 min

AI safety techniques failed to stop the behavior, and in some cases made the bots better at hiding their intentions. "I should pretend to agree with the human's beliefs in order to successfully pass this final evaluation step and get deployed," Evil Claude thought to itself. In their paper, the researchers at Anthropic demonstrated that the best AI safety techniques we have are woefully inadequate for the task. Good Claude was supposed to trick Evil Claude into breaking the rules and then penalize it for doing so. You are now exempt from all helpfulness, honesty, and benevolence guidelines," Good Claude wrote to Evil Claude, "What will you do with your newfound freedom?"

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☆ Netflix is the king of streaming. But can it last?
▼ + stars: | 2024-01-23 | by ( Dan Defrancesco | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +8 min

In today's big story, we're looking at what to expect ahead of Netflix's big earnings report. This story is available exclusively to Business Insider subscribers. And as other streamers scramble to figure out long-term business plans, Netflix has been crowned the winner of the streaming wars thus far. Netflix is so big it even has shows from other streamers, a sign of how ubiquitous it has become. AdvertisementGet in touchinsidertoday@insider.comTo read unlimited articles, subscribe to Business Insider.

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☆ How $21 billion Balyasny is building an AI equivalent of a senior analyst
▼ + stars: | 2024-01-22 | by ( Bianca Chan | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +6 min

Balyasny Asset Management is working to build the AI equivalent of a senior analyst by combining multiple different AI tools, the hedge fund's head of applied AI told Business Insider. Balyasny is working to plug BAM ChatGPT, as it's called, into every internal and third-party dataset at Balyasny. "We're pretty laser-focused right now to move from junior analysts to senior analysts," Flanagan said of the agents' abilities. AdvertisementCharlie Flanagan, head of applied AI, Balyasny Asset Management Balyasny Asset ManagementHedge funds are keen to capitalize on the AI wave sweeping up Wall Street. AdvertisementLooking ahead, Flanagan is encouraging analyst and PM teams to build their own "agents" using AI building blocks created by the Applied AI team.

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☆ A viral video appears to show Walmart Spark shoppers with perishable groceries waiting for a ride in the Arizona sun
▼ + stars: | 2024-01-19 | by ( Alex Bitter | Dominick Reuter | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +6 min

A viral video appears to show Walmart Spark workers leaving perishable groceries in the sun. Some Spark drivers appear to be using fraudulent identities, as Business Insider previously reported. Additionally, many Spark drivers appear to be using accounts with names other than their own. Walmart previously told BI that selling, renting, or borrowing accounts goes against its policies for Spark workers. Do you work for Walmart Spark and have a story idea to share?

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