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Kasra Kyanzadeh missed working with people.”I was like: Where are there smart people?” the 33-year-old engineer told Business Insider. “At OpenAI, there are smart people.”So, Kyanzadeh joined the team building the Codex desktop app in June. By mid-August, he said he was feeling tired and drained. He left to pursue…
Some lessons kids just don’t learn in a school curriculum. That’s how Sarah Mann feels. For the past four years, Mann has taken her three children, now 16, 14 and 12, out of school for major trips around the world, believing travel plays an important role in raising smart, well-rounded…
When I noticed that Guns N’ Roses was playing nearby on a random Wednesday in August, I fired off a text to my boyfriend with a screenshot of the ticket map. “Mainly not serious but,” I wrote, followed by, “Is … v cheap.” Less than a week before the show,…
Sam Altman doesn’t need to see the polls. The OpenAI CEO knows how unpopular his industry has become.”Clearly, people hate data centers—right now, at least,” Altman told Time as part of a series of interviews for a cover story published on Wednesday. “People are pretty negative on AI.”Data centers in…
Uttara Ananthakrishnan, an associate professor of information systems at the University of Washington, told Business Insider that she wouldn’t be surprised if YouTube and TikTok announce similar restrictions in the coming days.Ananthakrishnan, who has authored several research papers about the addictive qualities of TikTok, said that while she welcomed the…
Taylor Fritz, 28, said playing “League of Legends” is as much a part of his tennis routine as sleep and recovery.Speaking to GQ in an interview published on Wednesday, the tennis star said playing video games helps him decompress.”When you’re training and traveling, you don’t always have the energy —…
Japanese artist Yayoi Kusama, best known for her colorful, polka-dot-covered artwork and sculptures, has died. She was 97.Kusama’s official website announced her death on Thursday, saying in a statement that the artist had died in a Tokyo hospital on August 14. It did not specify a cause of death.”She continued…
Canada is escalating its response to President Donald Trump’s trade war, with another round of retaliatory tariffs set to take effect September 8.But two key Canadian exports — oil and potash, a key fertilizer ingredient — should stay out of the fight, one Canadian premier said Wednesday.”What we as a…
Some days, life goes your way. Other days, AI steals another client from your content marketing roster while your French bulldog is undergoing a $2,500 corneal ulcer treatment, and rent is due on the first.So when times are tough, I’ve found that saying “no” rolls off the tongue quite smoothly…
One of China’s leading AI labs has claimed the cow — aka the mysterious Ox Alpha model — and Chinese fans couldn’t be happier.In a Wednesday blog post, Z.ai said Ox Alpha had been a free-to-use preview of its new GLM-5.3-Flash model. The model had appeared on OpenRouter and OpenCode on…
