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☆ Watching Netflix without ads may cost you more as cheapest Basic plan gets phased out
▼ + stars: | 2024-01-24 | by ( Beatrice Nolan | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +2 min

This story is available exclusively to Business Insider subscribers. AdvertisementThe move leaves some users facing a de-facto price increase as Netflix's next cheapest ad-free plan costs $15.49 a month. The company reported a record fourth quarter, adding 13.1 million subscribers and boosting its total to 260 million globally. Its closest rival, Disney+, is still trailing far behind with 150 million subscribers. Netflix did not immediately respond to a request for comment from Business Insider, made outside normal working hours.

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☆ AI is too expensive to steal some jobs — for now, MIT study finds
▼ + stars: | 2024-01-23 | by ( Beatrice Nolan | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +2 min

Research from MIT found the tech is too expensive to replace human workers in many jobs. A new study from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) has found the tech might still be too expensive to replace some workers. The study found that just under a quarter of the wages paid for vision tasks would be worth automating. In some cases, workers are still more economic because AI-assisted visual recognition technology is expensive to install and operate. The study is one of the first attempts to estimate which tasks are economic for US companies to automate.

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☆ AI must radically redesign work before it can make employees more productive, expert says
▼ + stars: | 2024-01-21 | by ( Beatrice Nolan | Spriha Srivastava | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +2 min

AI needs to radically change work before it can help workers, a future of work expert says. He said leaders needed to "redesign work" before AI could make workers more productive. Instead, he said incorporating the tech would take lots of effort to "redesign work and everything that surrounds work to get to some of the gains." Several, including AT&T and Deloitte, have introduced their own GPT-backed tools to help workers boost workers productivity. "Many of our leaders don't have the right mindset to redesign work humanistically as opposed to just looking for the opportunity to drive the next dollar of profit," he said.

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☆ I'm a Brazilian who moved to Lithuania. I love the career opportunities and safety — but it can be hard to make friends.
▼ + stars: | 2024-01-21 | by ( Beatrice Nolan | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +4 min

Ricardo Sergio Schmitz is a Brazilian consultant working in Vilnius, Lithuania. AdvertisementThis as-told-to essay is based on a conversation with Ricardo Sergio Schmitz, a consultant working in Vilnius, Lithuania. AdvertisementIt can be hard to make friendsIn Brazil and Portugal, it's normal to become friends with people you are introduced to quickly. Ricardo Sergio Schmitz Ricardo Sergio SchmitzIt's harder to make friends with the people you meet here, even if you have friends in common. AdvertisementStartup mentalityThe city feels like it's growing a lot.

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☆ 'Shark Tank' star Mark Cuban usually spends the first hour of his day reading emails in bed
▼ + stars: | 2024-01-21 | by ( Beatrice Nolan | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +2 min

download the appSign up to get the inside scoop on today’s biggest stories in markets, tech, and business — delivered daily. "I try to do everything by email — so then I'm in bed for an hour chilling, doing my emails, responding to anything that's urgent." "I'm on my phone or my PC all day, every day," he said. The "Shark Tank" star is known for his intense work ethic, once advising people to "work like there is someone working 24 hours a day to take it all away from you." Cuban is leaving "Shark Tank" after season 16 concludes in 2025 after joining the show in its second season in 2011, so he can spend more time with his family.

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☆ Zuck is refusing to give up on his $15-billion-a-year metaverse dream and insists AI will play a critical role in it
▼ + stars: | 2024-01-19 | by ( Beatrice Nolan | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +1 min

The Meta chief told The Verge that the company was still investing heavily in it. download the app Email address Sign up By clicking “Sign Up”, you accept our Terms of Service and Privacy Policy . AdvertisementMark Zuckerberg wants you to know Meta is not pivoting to AI. In an interview with The Verge, the Meta CEO said the company was still focused on the metaverse despite recent AI investments. This story is available exclusively to Business Insider subscribers.

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☆ Arizona State students will get their own ChatGPT-powered tutors as OpenAI partners with the university
▼ + stars: | 2024-01-19 | by ( Beatrice Nolan | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +2 min

download the appSign up to get the inside scoop on today’s biggest stories in markets, tech, and business — delivered daily. Read previewStudents at Arizona State University will soon have access to personalized OpenAI's ChatGPT Enterprise. This story is available exclusively to Business Insider subscribers. The university plans to build personalized AI tutors and avatars for students and expand its prompt engineering course. Representatives for OpenAI did not immediately respond to a request for comment from Business Insider, made outside normal working hours.

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☆ Mark Cuban says becoming a billionaire is just about luck and anyone who says they can do it again is lying
▼ + stars: | 2024-01-18 | by ( Sawdah Bhaimiya | Beatrice Nolan | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +2 min

Read previewTV personality and businessman Mark Cuban admitted that he couldn't become a billionaire again if he had to start over because it's essentially just "luck" and anyone who thinks they can is "lying." This story is available exclusively to Business Insider subscribers. At one point Noah questioned him about how he became a billionaire to which Cuban responded frankly: "Anybody who's a billionaire who thinks they could just do it all over again is lying their ass off. "But the whole billionaire side of it, the hundreds of millions of dollars, that's just insane and that was luck," he said. Advertisement"But there's a whole lot of people who are really really smart, who do each of those things or one of them really well, and we don't know who they are," he added.

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☆ Mark Cuban says X is Elon Musk's 'little echo chamber' that only rewards people he likes
▼ + stars: | 2024-01-18 | by ( Beatrice Nolan | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +2 min

Read previewMark Cuban has criticized X as an "echo chamber" for its billionaire owner, Elon Musk. The two billionaires have been arguing since Cuban posted a series of X posts defending such policies against heavy criticism from Musk. This story is available exclusively to Business Insider subscribers. He said X was set up to be "Elon's little echo chamber that rewards people that he rewards." Representatives for Musk did not immediately respond to a request for comment from Business Insider, made outside normal working hours.

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☆ Elon Musk gives Tesla's board an ultimatum as he seeks to grab more power
▼ + stars: | 2024-01-17 | by ( Beatrice Nolan | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +3 min

By demanding more power at Tesla, Elon Musk has effectively issued an ultimatum. AdvertisementElon Musk has issued an ultimatum to Tesla's board: hand over control of 25% of the votes, or he'll put the brakes on AI development. Musk claims the board has been delaying updating his compensation package until the court decides on a verdict. If the plan is rejected, it could be complicated for the board to give Musk what he wants. As Ives notes: "Musk is Tesla and Tesla is Musk."

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☆ Elon Musk puts the brakes on AI development at Tesla until he gets more control
▼ + stars: | 2024-01-16 | by ( Beatrice Nolan | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +2 min

Elon Musk says he wants more control of Tesla before building up its AI capabilities. Musk said he was "uncomfortable" growing AI and robotics at the company without controlling 25%. He added he would prefer to "build products outside of Tesla" if he didn't have sufficient control. "Unless that is the case, I would prefer to build products outside of Tesla." AdvertisementLate last year Musk referred to Tesla as an "AI/robotics company" in response to an analyst calling the company "egregiously overvalued."

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☆ OpenAI's GPT Store is being flooded by AI girlfriend bots despite explicit rules that prohibit them
▼ + stars: | 2024-01-15 | by ( Beatrice Nolan | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +2 min

GPT Store is playing host to several "girlfriend" bots, despite explicit rules against them. OpenAI launched the hotly anticipated marketplace on Wednesday. First announced two months ago, the store is a marketplace for AI apps built with OpenAI's technology. Analysis from Quartz showed, however, that searching for "girlfriend" on the company's new marketplace brings up at least eight of the romantic AI chatbots. Examples found by the outlet included "Korean Girlfriend," "Virtual Sweetheart," "Your girlfriend Scarlett," and "Your AI girlfriend, Tsu✨."

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☆ Apple is offering free 25-minute demos for its $3,500 Vision Pro. Here's what buyers can expect.
▼ + stars: | 2024-01-15 | by ( Beatrice Nolan | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +2 min

Apple plans to host demos for its $3,500 Vision Pro at Apple Stores. Users will be shown how to view images and videos while wearing the headset, Bloomberg reported. AdvertisementApple recently announced that it was offering up free demos of its much-anticipated mixed-reality headset, Vision Pro. Apple retail workers will start by fitting users with a headset and explaining how the interface works. Once the headset is on, users will be shown how to view still, panorama, and 3D images that Apple calls "spatial photos," per Bloomberg.

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☆ Amazon has been listing products with the title, 'I'm sorry, I cannot fulfil this request as it goes against OpenAI use policy'
▼ + stars: | 2024-01-15 | by ( Beatrice Nolan | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +2 min

The site has been playing host to items with names such as, "I cannot fulfill this request as it goes against OpenAI use policy." This story is available exclusively to Business Insider subscribers. One dresser previously listed on Amazon was called, "I'm sorry but I cannot fulfill this request it goes against OpenAI use policy. AdvertisementAnother listing, which appears to be a piece of hose, is titled: "I apologize, but I cannot complete this task it requires using trademarked brand names which goes against OpenAI use policy." Representatives for Amazon and OpenAI did not immediately respond to a request for comment from Business Insider, made outside normal working hours.

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☆ Google staff sound off about 'corporate overlords,' impersonal layoffs, and a changing company culture, report says
▼ + stars: | 2024-01-15 | by ( Beatrice Nolan | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +2 min

Read previewIt's just days since Google employees were hit by another round of layoffs. This story is available exclusively to Business Insider subscribers. However, CEO Sundar Pichai has yet to address the new round of layoffs internally, a report by The Verge's Command Line said. The poorly explained job cuts have left some employees disgruntled and lashing out against management. The popular post, which referenced Google's last round of job cuts, read: "Thank you, our corporate overlords, for our new annual tradition."

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☆ Pornhub is blocking users in 2 more states over age verification rules
▼ + stars: | 2024-01-10 | by ( Beatrice Nolan | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +3 min

Pornhub is blocking users in North Carolina and Montana over new age verification laws. Users who try to visit the site in those states are now shown a video of Cherie DeVille. AdvertisementPornhub has blocked access in two more states over age verification laws. Two separate age verification laws were enacted on January 1 in South Carolina and Montana, both requiring users to confirm their age with third-party or "digitized" verification. "Unfortunately, the way many jurisdictions worldwide have chosen to implement age verification is ineffective, haphazard, and dangerous."

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☆ It's extreme weather — not AI or disinformation — over the coming decade that's worrying business leaders and politicians the most
▼ + stars: | 2024-01-10 | by ( Beatrice Nolan | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +3 min

Extreme weather is a prime concern for business leaders and politicians. About two-thirds of 1,400 respondents are worried about extreme weather, per its Global Risks Report. Extreme weather and critical changes to Earth's systems are the greatest long-term concern for politicians and business leaders, according to the World Economic Forum's Global Risks Report 2024. It gathered the views of some 1,400 global risks experts, policy-makers, and industry leaders surveyed in September 2023. Related storiesThe researchers found that misinformation and disinformation were the biggest short-term risks, while extreme weather was the greatest long-term concern.

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☆ Facebook staff were less willing to talk to the press than dissenters in the Middle East, a reporter says
▼ + stars: | 2024-01-09 | by ( Beatrice Nolan | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +3 min

An NYT reporter said talking to Middle East dissenters was easier than getting to Meta staff. AdvertisementGetting Meta staff to speak was more difficult than finding Middle East dissenters willing to do the same, a reporter told a new documentary about Mark Zuckerberg. Sheera Frenkel of The New York Times made the comments in "Zuckerberg: King of the Metaverse" that's being broadcast on Sky Documentaries in the UK this week. She described a culture of fear within staff at the Facebook and Instagram owner about the media. Sheera Frenkel reports on cybersecurity for The New York Times.

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☆ I traded city life for a cabin in Lapland, Finland. I'm disconnected from the modern world — but I've never been happier.
▼ + stars: | 2024-01-07 | by ( Beatrice Nolan | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +1 min

Petri Kokkonen is a wilderness guide and entrepreneur based in Lapland. In 2018, Kokkonen traded city life for a remote cabin in the Finnish wilderness. Kokkonen said he never felt truly happy living in the city and wanted to be closer to nature. AdvertisementThis as-told-to essay is based on a conversation with Petri Kokkonen, a wilderness guide based in Lapland, Finland. I live in the remote Vätsäri area on the shores of Lake Inari in Lapland, Finland.

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☆ I Went to Finland to Find Out How to Be Happy. Here's What I Learned.
▼ + stars: | 2023-12-05 | by ( Beatrice Nolan | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +4 min

Heart said he learned how to connect with nature and be grateful for what he had. AdvertisementThis as-told-to essay is based on a conversation with Akso Heart who attended Visit Finland's happiness masterclass. I attended Finland's all-expense paid happiness masterclass this summer. The happiness course was set up in Kuri resort, which is in the Finnish Lakeland area. In Finnish culture, happiness is more about contentment because you're grateful for where you are and what you have.

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☆ I Went to Finland to Learn How to Be Happy, Here's What I Learned.
▼ + stars: | 2023-12-05 | by ( Beatrice Nolan | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +4 min

AdvertisementThis as-told-to essay is based on a conversation with Akso Heart who attended Visit Finland's happiness masterclass. I attended Finland's all-expense paid happiness masterclass this summer. The happiness course was set up in Kuri resort, which is in the Finnish Lakeland area. Akso Heart and other participants on the masterclass Akso HeartI also didn't expect to learn about design on a happiness course, but once you're there, you get it. In Finnish culture, happiness is more about contentment because you're grateful for where you are and what you have.

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☆ The best states to find a job, ranked
▼ + stars: | 2023-12-04 | by ( Beatrice Nolan | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +2 min

Washington is the best state for jobs, a new study has found. WalletHub analyzed the best and worst states on factors including work-related stress and salaries. That's according to a new study from personal finance website, WalletHub, which recently analyzed the best and worst states for jobs across the US. West Virginia was ranked the lowest for jobs, suffering from low salaries and high work-related stress. Here are the best and worst states for jobs:AdvertisementBest States for JobsWashington Virginia Utah Vermont Florida Maryland South Dakota Colorado Massachusetts Rhode IslandWorst States for Jobs

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☆ Klarna is freezing hiring and turning to AI tools such as ChatGPT to pick up the slack
▼ + stars: | 2023-12-04 | by ( Beatrice Nolan | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +2 min

Klarna CEO Sebastian Siemiatkowski says the company is in a partial hiring freeze. He told The Telegraph AI was "a threat to a lot of jobs" across the economy. As more AI productivity tools hit the market, some workers are concerned that widespread adoption of the tech could put their jobs at risk. AdvertisementSome CEOs have already bet that AI tools will boost worker productivity and lead to reduced headcount. Other companies including AT&T have even created their own AI tools to help employees with their work.

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☆ Google researchers say they got OpenAI's ChatGPT to reveal some of its training data with just one word
▼ + stars: | 2023-12-04 | by ( Beatrice Nolan | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +2 min

Google researchers say they've found a way to reveal some of ChatGPT's training data. The researchers showed certain keywords forced the bot to divulge sections of its training data. AdvertisementA team of Google researchers say they've found a way to extract some of ChatGPT's training data. A similar leak of training data was also achieved when the model was asked to repeat the word "company" forever in another example. OpenAI is currently facing several lawsuits concerning ChatGPT's secretive training data.

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☆ Finance workers in London are most exposed to the threat of AI, and it should put Wall Street on notice – study shows
▼ + stars: | 2023-12-02 | by ( Beatrice Nolan | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +2 min

The finance and insurance sector is the most exposed to the adoption of AI. The report found jobs in finance, law, and business management were likely to be impacted by AI. AdvertisementA new report that measures AI's effect on London city workers may raise alarm bells on Wall Street. "The finance & insurance sector is more exposed to AI than any other sector," the report said. Here are the top ten UK sectors with the highest exposure to AI:Advertisement

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