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☆ Justin Bieber, Steve Aoki, and Jay-Z have all been spotted with Tesla's Cybertruck. Here's a list of the celebs flexing the new status vehicle.
▼ + stars: | 2024-03-23 | by ( Beatrice Nolan | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +1 min

Celebrities including Kim Kardashian, Jay-Z, and Justin Bieber are flaunting Tesla's Cybertruck. Celebs have been spotted taking the truck to concerts, church, and through downtown Miami. Here's a list of celebrities that have been spotted with Tesla's Cybertruck. Kim Kardashian, Jay-Z, and Justin Bieber have all been spotted with the truck in recent weeks. This story is available exclusively to Business Insider subscribers.

Persons: Kim Kardashian, Jay, Justin Bieber, Tesla's Cybertruck, —, Cybertruck, Steve Aoki, Elon Musk, Tesla Organizations: Service, Elon, Business Locations: Miami

☆ Demand for a hot new AI role is skyrocketing — but some say it won't last.
▼ + stars: | 2024-03-16 | by ( Beatrice Nolan | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +8 min

Day to day, she coaxes AI models like OpenAI's GPT, utilizing natural language to manipulate the model into spitting out exactly the content she wants. "I just find it really interesting, really fun — it's like solving a word puzzle," Daniel, whose résumé also includes a prompt engineering role at LinkedIn, said. AdvertisementDaniel is part of a wave of a new kind of AI engineers — those without formal tech skills. AdvertisementDemand for prompt engineers has been skyrocketing amid the AI hype, and salaries are echoing the excitement. "I think different standards will emerge between what everybody can do and what the expert prompting engineers can do," she said.

Persons: —, Kelly Daniel, Daniel, Lazarus, Tanya Thomas, Thomas, Antropic, OpenAI's ChatGPT, Critics, Conor Grennan, Grennan, Rick Battle, Teja, Vasudev Lal, Lal, Yinuo Chen, Chen, there'll, Mark Zuckerberg's, she's Organizations: Service, LinkedIn, Google, NYU Stern School of Business, VMware, Intel Labs, Meta Locations: Beijing

☆ Meta is suing a former exec it claims took a trove of 'highly sensitive' documents just before joining an AI startup
▼ + stars: | 2024-03-14 | by ( Beatrice Nolan | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +1 min

Meta is suing a former VP following his decision to join an AI startup. The lawsuit claims the former worker took sensitive documents about Meta's business and employees. Meta claims that eight employees listed in the documents have joined the same AI startup. In the lawsuit first reported by Bloomberg, Meta accused Dipinder Singh Khurana of taking private documents with him when he left the company. The suit alleges Khurana, a former vice-president of infrastructure, violated his contract by taking a "trove of proprietary, highly sensitive, confidential, and non-public documents about Meta's business and employees."

Persons: —, Dipinder Singh, Khurana Organizations: Meta, Service, Bloomberg, Business

☆ Europe is trying to regulate AI. That could backfire.
▼ + stars: | 2024-03-14 | by ( Beatrice Nolan | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +4 min

One AI expert said it risks creating "AI policy tax havens" as countries try to attract investment. "Europe is NOW a global standard-setter in AI," Thierry Breton, the European internal market commissioner, said on X. Other countries, including China, have already brought in rules around specific uses of AI. AdvertisementThe legislation has been questioned by some commentators, such as AI and deepfakes expert Henry Ajder, who called it "very ambitious." The EU legislation plans to assign the risks of AI applications into three categories, with applications that cause unacceptable risk set to be banned.

Persons: —, Thierry Breton, Henry Ajder, Neil Serebryany, Avani Desai, Schellman, Marcus Evans, Norton Rose Fulbright Organizations: EU, Intelligence, Service Locations: Europe, China, EU, California

☆ Prince Harry and Meghan Markle's photographer hits back at reports claiming he doctored their pregnancy announcement picture
▼ + stars: | 2024-03-13 | by ( Talia Lakritz | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +5 min

download the appSign up to get the inside scoop on today’s biggest stories in markets, tech, and business — delivered daily. Read previewRoyal photographer Misan Harriman quashed tabloid reports that he doctored Prince Harry and Meghan Markle's 2021 pregnancy announcement photo in a series of posts on X, formerly known as Twitter, on Wednesday. The reports come amid controversy surrounding a photo of Kate Middleton released by Kensington Palace on Sunday. Advertisement"They weren't actually under a willow tree, but they were lying outside in a meadow, weren't they, Harry and Meghan, when you took the photograph of them?" AdvertisementThe proliferation of AI image generators has made it difficult to distinguish between untouched photos, doctored images, and completely AI-generated creations.

Persons: —, Misan Harriman, Prince Harry, Meghan Markle's, Kate Middleton, Harriman, Harry, Meghan, Michael Berkeley, Harriman's, Kate, Princess, Wales, Insider's Hasan Chowdhury, Beatrice Nolan Organizations: Service, Business, Daily Mail, BBC Radio, Associated Press, Reuters, Agence France, Presse Locations: Kensington, California, British, @misanharriman

☆ Donald Trump once offered to sell Truth Social to Elon Musk, report says
▼ + stars: | 2024-03-12 | by ( Beatrice Nolan | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +1 min

Donald Trump once suggested that Elon Musk should buy Truth Social, The Washington Post reported. The talks went nowhere last summer, but Trump has continued to promote the idea to his circle. Truth Social has faced financial challenges in recent months. download the app Email address Sign up By clicking “Sign Up”, you accept our Terms of Service and Privacy Policy . AdvertisementDonald Trump reportedly once offered to sell Truth Social to Elon Musk, The Washington Post reported.

Persons: Donald Trump, Elon, Trump, —, Elon Musk, Linda Yaccarino Organizations: The Washington Post, Social, Service, Business

☆ Mark Zuckerberg is becoming Meta's ultimate influencer
▼ + stars: | 2024-03-12 | by ( Beatrice Nolan | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +2 min

Zuck has been using his platforms to demo Meta's products, including the company's AI glasses. In a video posted late last year, he used Meta's AI Ray-Bans to guide him through braiding his daughter's hair. Zuckerberg posted a video reviewing Apple's new mixed-reality headset, perhaps unsurprisingly deciding Meta's $500 Quest headset was superior. The billionaire has also taken to criticizing Apple's headset on other social media platforms and behind closed doors in private meetings. In a post on Threads last week, Zuckerberg said if Meta's Quest is like the Vision Pro in five years, "we'll have regressed significantly."

Persons: Mark Zuckerberg, Zuck, —, Zuckerberg, Meta's, Ray, He's, he's, Anant Ambani, Priscilla Organizations: Apple's, Service, buzzy Locations: Asia, Japan, Tokyo

☆ The Princess of Wales is in the spotlight — for not being in the spotlight
▼ + stars: | 2024-03-12 | by ( Dan Defrancesco | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +8 min

download the appSign up to get the inside scoop on today’s biggest stories in markets, tech, and business — delivered daily. In today's big story, we're looking at the curious case of Kate Middleton's edited photo that's got the internet buzzing. The big storyPrincess problemsChris Jackson/Getty Images; Ian Vogler - WPA Pool/Getty Images; Chelsea Jia Feng/BIA picture is worth a thousand words. AdvertisementBut this time around, it's the Princess of Wales in the spotlight… for not being in the spotlight. She explained away the issue by saying she does "occasionally experiment with editing," but plenty of people weren't buying it .

Persons: —, we've, Kate Middleton's, that's, Chris Jackson, Ian Vogler, Chelsea Jia Feng, hasn't, Prince Andrew , Duke, York, Prince Harry, Meghan Markle, Duke, Duchess of Sussex, Wales, Kate, Insider's Kwan Wei Kevin Tan, Mikhaila Friel, Kensington, Kensington Palance, Patrick Witty's, Patrick, Kate Middleton, King Charles, Mikhaila, Easter, Katie Notopoulos, BI's Hasan Chowdhury, Beatrice Nolan, Chris Gash, Stephanie Pomboy, Max, Aravind Srinivas, Nvidia's, Artur Debat, Eric Boyd, Joe Biden, Dan DeFrancesco, Hallam Bullock, Jordan Parker Erb, George Glover Organizations: Service, Business, Royals, JPMorgan, Anadolu, Apple, Meta, New York Times, Tesla, Microsoft, OpenAI, International Brotherhood of Teamsters Locations: London, Kensington, British, China, Georgia , Mississippi, Washington, New York

☆ Kate Middleton picture fiasco shows we're at the point of no return with trusting anything online
▼ + stars: | 2024-03-11 | by ( Hasan Chowdhury | Beatrice Nolan | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +7 min

A family photo of the Princess of Wales has added fuel to the fire of a wild online conspiracy. The fiasco proves that trusting anything online has become a total nightmare in the AI age. AdvertisementHowever, concerns over the family image have had the opposite effect for an entirely understandable reason. AdvertisementOpenAI has attempted to introduce some form of digital watermarking for images generated by its AI tools, but studies indicate that most forms of marking out AI content are still rife with weaknesses. But in the age of AI, users also need to seek their own verification before trusting online content — something that's still easier said than done.

Persons: Princess, —, Kate Middleton, Wales, Kate, Prince William, Princess Charlotte's, Prince, Princess of Wales, Queen Consort, Henry Ajder, Adjer, Ajder, OpenAI, Pope Francis Organizations: Service, Getty, Associated Press, Reuters, AFP, BI, Vatican Media Locations: Wales, Kensington

☆ Lawmakers are demanding answers from SpaceX over claims that Starlink is being used in Russia
▼ + stars: | 2024-03-08 | by ( Beatrice Nolan | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +1 min

Lawmakers are scrutinizing claims that SpaceX's Starlink service is being used in Russia. House Democrats questioned how the company was preventing the use of Starlink in the country. AdvertisementHouse Democrats are probing Elon Musk's SpaceX over accusations that Starlink is being used in Russia. Robert Garcia and Jamie Raskin also sent a letter to Musk's company demanding transparency over any potential purchases or usage of the satellite internet system in Russia. This story is available exclusively to Business Insider subscribers.

Persons: Elon Musk, —, Elon, Robert Garcia, Jamie Raskin Organizations: Democrats, Service, SpaceX, Business Locations: Russia

☆ Things really aren't going to plan for Sam Altman's strange eyeball-scanning orb
▼ + stars: | 2024-03-07 | by ( Beatrice Nolan | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +1 min

Sam Altman's Worldcoin project has been banned in Spain over privacy concerns. 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 . AdvertisementSam Altman's futuristic Worldcoin project has just been banned in Spain. On Wednesday, Spanish data protection regulator AEPD cited concerns around Altman's iris-scanning orb and ordered Worldcoin to immediately cease the collection of personal information in the country for at least three months.

Persons: Sam Altman's, —, Sam, Worldcoin Organizations: Service, Business Locations: Spain

☆ Sam Altman is done playing nice with Elon Musk
▼ + stars: | 2024-03-06 | by ( Beatrice Nolan | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +4 min

Read previewWhen it comes to OpenAI, Elon Musk is not afraid to go for the jugular. He addressed his personal relationship with Musk directly in a memo sent to employees shortly after the lawsuit was filed. Though he said he'd considered Musk a personal hero, he expressed disappointment that Musk wasn't on OpenAI's side. AdvertisementThe Journal reported cited people close to Musk, who said Musk was jealous of OpenAI's success in the AI race. Representatives for Musk and Altman did not immediately respond to a request for comment from Business Insider, made outside normal working hours.

Persons: —, Elon Musk, Sam Altman, Altman, Greg Brockman, Ilya Sutskever, OpenAI, execs, we've, Lex Fridman, Musk, Kara Swisher, he'd Organizations: Service, OpenAI, Business, Microsoft, Elon, Street Journal, Musk Locations: Elon

☆ Elon Musk gloats after Meta resorted to announcing an Instagram and Facebook outage on X
▼ + stars: | 2024-03-06 | by ( Beatrice Nolan | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +2 min

Meta used rival platform X to announce the news. Elon Musk took the opportunity to mock the rival tech company. AdvertisementMeta suffered a significant outage on Tuesday and resorted to using rival platform X to announce the news. Musk quickly seized on the opportunity to mock the rival tech company in a series of posts. Advertisement"If you're reading this post, it's because our servers are working," Musk jibed.

Persons: Meta, Elon Musk, —, Andy Stone, Musk, Stone, Mark Zuckerberg, Zuckerberg Organizations: Facebook, Service, Elon, Meta, Business

☆ Sergey Brin once hosted a bizarre baby shower where big-name guests wore oversized diapers and onesies, book says
▼ + stars: | 2024-03-06 | by ( Beatrice Nolan | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +2 min

Sergey Brin once hosted a bizarre baby shower featuring oversize diapers and adult onesies. Brin, who stepped back from Alphabet in 2019, has returned to help shape Google's AI strategy. 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 . AdvertisementGoogle cofounder Sergey Brin once hosted a bizarre baby shower where guests wore oversized diapers and adult-sized onesies.

Persons: Sergey Brin, Kara Swisher's, Brin, —, Kara Swisher, San Francisco soiree, Swisher, Wendi Deng, Rupert Murdoch, Anne Wojcicki, Gavin Newsom, Newsom, Larry Page, John Doerr, she'd, Page Organizations: Service, San, Francisco, Business, Microsoft Locations: San Francisco

☆ Google's Gemini firestorm shows the risks of the company's race to catch up with its AI rivals
▼ + stars: | 2024-03-06 | by ( Beatrice Nolan | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +5 min

download the appSign up to get the inside scoop on today’s biggest stories in markets, tech, and business — delivered daily. The company has been defending itself against fierce backlash sparked by its AI chatbot's image-generating feature. The product has landed Google at the center of what was described in some circles as a "woke" culture war. AdvertisementGoogle's 'Gemini era' is all about GPT-4Pichai claimed late last year Google was entering its "Gemini era." The model is widely seen as the company's answer to OpenAI's GPT-4, a product heavily backed by Microsoft and already powering many of the company's AI products.

Persons: —, execs, Critics, Andrés, Sergey Brin, Sundar Pichai, Brin, Alex Heath, Heath, Pichai, OpenAI's, Google's Bard, Bing, Gvirtz, Sandra Wachter, Wachter Organizations: Service, Google, Business, Big Tech, King's Business School, Engineers, Gemini, Microsoft, chatbots, Financial, Oxford Internet Institute

☆ Viral clip of Rihanna performing at the Ambani pre-wedding party sparks lively Android vs iPhone debate
▼ + stars: | 2024-03-04 | by ( Beatrice Nolan | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +1 min

A clip of Rihanna at the Ambani pre-wedding bash has been circulated widely on social media. The footage sparked a debate over whether an iPhone or Android device was used. download the app Email address Sign up By clicking “Sign Up”, you accept our Terms of Service and Privacy Policy . AdvertisementA viral video of Rihanna's performance at the private pre-wedding party of the son of Indian billionaire Mukesh Ambani is causing a stir. The stage becomes almost invisible when the camera zooms out completely.

Persons: Rihanna, Ambani, Max, —, Mukesh Ambani Organizations: Service, Business

☆ Sergey Brin says Google 'definitely messed up' after its Gemini chatbot caused a firestorm. He has a lot riding on its success — or failure.
▼ + stars: | 2024-03-04 | by ( Beatrice Nolan | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +3 min

Sergey Brin says Google "definitely messed up" with Gemini's image generation. The Google cofounder says he came out of retirement because of AI's "exciting" trajectory. AdvertisementGoogle cofounder Sergey Brin has weighed in on the company's Gemini drama. Speaking at San Francisco's AGI House, Brin said the company had "definitely messed up on the image generation." Since then, Brin has been spotted at Google's Silicon Valley headquarters and has been directly involved with developing the company's AI strategy.

Persons: Sergey Brin, —, Brin, Larry Page, Elon Musk, Adolf Hitler, Gemini, Hitler Organizations: Service, Gemini, Google, The New York Times, Big Tech, BI, Business Locations: Francisco's

☆ A bizarre Willy Wonka-themed children's event became a viral disaster. Here's everything that went wrong.
▼ + stars: | 2024-03-01 | by ( Beatrice Nolan | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +5 min

A disastrous Willy Wonka-themed children's event went viral for all the wrong reasons. NEW LOOK Sign up to get the inside scoop on today’s biggest stories in markets, tech, and business — delivered daily. Instead, the bizarre Willy Wonka-themed event in Glasgow, Scotland, featured a sparse warehouse filled with low-budget props and drew comparisons with the similarly ill-fated Fyre Festival. Videos of customers confronting event organizers have since been shared on social media. "I ended up playing Willy Wonka for three and a half hours straight," Paul Connell told The Independent.

Persons: Willy Wonka, Here's, —, Stuart Sinclair, Sinclair, Paul Connell, Wonka, Connell, BI's Katie Notopoulos Organizations: Service, Illuminati, The Daily Mail Locations: Glasgow, Scotland

☆ Apple may soon be feeling the heat from investors over its slow rollout of buzzy AI products
▼ + stars: | 2024-03-01 | by ( Beatrice Nolan | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +2 min

Tim Cook has tried to reassure shareholders the company is committed to AI innovation. A shareholder told The Wall Street Journal Apple hadn't made a "big splash," in the space, however. AdvertisementApple is moving more slowly on developing generative AI products than some of its Big Tech peers, leaving investors wondering when, or if, it will go all in on the technology. AdvertisementApple's CEO Tim Cook has been eager to reassure shareholders that the company is big on AI, however. At the Wednesday meeting, Apple shareholders also voted down a request for an AI transparency report.

Persons: Tim Cook, Apple hadn't, —, Brian Mulberry, Cook, David Wagner Organizations: Apple, Wall Street, Service, Big Tech, Zacks Investment Management, Wall Street Journal, Google, Microsoft, Reuters, Aptus Capital Advisors, Business, Bloomberg

☆ Actor hired for disastrous Willy Wonka-style event says the bizarre script was '15 pages of AI-generated gibberish'
▼ + stars: | 2024-02-29 | by ( Beatrice Nolan | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +3 min

Read previewA bizarre Willy Wonka-inspired immersive event has been attracting attention for all the wrong reasons this week. Some of the actors hired for the event have been speaking out with their suspicions that AI played a role in devising the chaotic script. Paul Connell, an actor and stand-up comedian hired to play Willy Wonka at the event in Glasgow, Scotland, told the Independent the script provided was "15 pages of AI-generated gibberish" and required him to say "mad things." Kirsty Paterson, who played an Oompla-Loompa at the event, also suspected the script might have had a helping hand from AI. Jenny Fogarty, another actor hired for the event, told the Daily Mail she and her partner thought AI had written the content after they read the strangely written stage directions.

Persons: —, Willy Wonka, Paul Connell, Connell, Kirsty Paterson, Paterson, I'd, Jenny Fogarty, ChatGPT Organizations: Service, Business, Independent, Daily Mail, Entertainment, Illuminati Locations: Glasgow, Scotland

☆ A tech worker wore Apple's 'creepy' Vision Pro headset during his wedding photos — much to his wife's dismay
▼ + stars: | 2024-02-29 | by ( Beatrice Nolan | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +2 min

A software engineer wore Apple's Vision Pro headset during his wedding. The bride told the SFGATE she found Apple's headset a "little creepy" and "a little uncanny." Users have been seen wearing the Vision Pro in various public places, including while driving. AdvertisementA tech worker wore Apple's Vision Pro headset during his wedding photo shoot — much to his new wife's dismay. Wright told the science and technology news outlet Futurism he had a "bad habit" of carrying the Vision Pro with him everywhere.

Persons: —, Jacob Wright, Wright, Cambree Wright, she'd Organizations: Service, Business, LinkedIn

☆ Klarna says its AI assistant is doing the work of 700 people after putting the brakes on hiring
▼ + stars: | 2024-02-28 | by ( Beatrice Nolan | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +2 min

Klarna says its AI assistant is doing the equivalent work of 700 people. Not everyone's impressed, but the assistant is another sign of the company's enthusiasm for AI. AdvertisementKlarna says its AI assistant is doing "the equivalent work of 700 full-time agents." One user, Gergely Orosz, a software engineer and author of The Pragmatic Engineer newsletter, said he was skeptical of the news after trying out Klarna's AI assistant. Advertisement"There will be a shrinking of the company," Siemiatkowski said in December.

Persons: Klarna, Swedish fintech, everyone's, —, Gergely, Sebastian Siemiatkowski, Siemiatkowski, We're Organizations: Service, Business, Telegraph Locations: Swedish

☆ Google chief says the company got it wrong after Gemini's responses sparked a bitter backlash. Read the full memo.
▼ + stars: | 2024-02-28 | by ( Beatrice Nolan | Hugh Langley | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +2 min

Google CEO Sundar Pichai says the company got it wrong after its flagship AI system Gemini showed bias, which sparked backlash from some users. In a memo sent to employees, which Business Insider obtained, Pichai acknowledged the recent controversy over Gemini. Pichai said in the memo: "I want to address the recent issues with problematic text and image responses in the Gemini app (formerly Bard). Pichai appeared to acknowledge some of this criticism in the memo sent to staff. Read the full memo that Pichai sent to staffers:

Persons: Sundar Pichai, Pichai, Semafor, Bard, Elon Musk, Adolf Hitler, Gemini, Hitler Organizations: Google, BI, Tesla, Business

☆ Elon Musk says the long-delayed Roadster is a Tesla-SpaceX collab and could be 'mind-blowing'
▼ + stars: | 2024-02-28 | by ( Beatrice Nolan | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +2 min

Elon Musk says Tesla's revived Roadster has had a design revamp. Elon Musk says the much-delayed Tesla Roadster has had a design overhaul. "Tonight, we radically increased the design goals for the new Tesla Roadster," Musk said. Back in 2018 Musk posted this tweet:SpaceX option package for new Tesla Roadster will include ~10 small rocket thrusters arranged seamlessly around car. The original Tesla Roadster.

Persons: Elon Musk, Musk, … — Elon, Tesla Organizations: SpaceX, Tesla, Tesla Roadster, Business

☆ Google chief says the company got it wrong after Gemini gave 'completely unacceptable' responses and sparked a bitter backlash
▼ + stars: | 2024-02-28 | by ( Beatrice Nolan | Hugh Langley | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +1 min

Google CEO Sundar Pichai says the company got it wrong as controversy swirls over its Gemini AI. Pichai made the comments in a memo sent to staff and obtained by Business Insider. Google faced backlash after users complained Gemini was generating historically inaccurate images. AdvertisementGoogle CEO Sundar Pichai says the company "got it wrong" after its flagship AI system Gemini showed bias, which sparked backlash from some users. In a memo sent to employees, which Business Insider obtained, Pichai acknowledged the recent controversy over Gemini.

Persons: Sundar Pichai, Pichai, Gemini, —, Semafor, Bard Organizations: Gemini, Business, Google, Service

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