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In a serious near-peer conflict, Western countries can’t count on their homelands remaining safe while their militaries fight overseas, a top NATO commander told Business Insider.Air threats are more numerous and can reach much farther than when the West last fought a major war against a similarly capable adversary, Sir…
This as-told-to essay is based on a conversation with Jae Park, a 32-year-old based in Las Vegas. It’s been edited for length and clarity.About a decade ago, I took a furniture-building class on a whim, and I loved it so much.I considered going into carpentry at the time, but after…
Moyan Chen was laid off from her role as a data scientist at Meta in May after just under a year on the job. The 24-year-old, who lives in New York City, isn’t sure what she wants to do next. Business Insider has verified her identity and former employment. The…
From about 8,000 layoffs at Meta to thousands of cuts at Amazon, media outlets have been following high-profile employment changes.However, cuts at major tech companies this year represent only a sliver of what’s happening in the massive job market, filled with millions of workers and unemployed Americans across different industries…
Americans across the country are rallying against the AI-inspired data center boom. Now, an increasing number of local lawmakers are backing them up, issuing restrictions, imposing moratoriums, or outright banning construction. Data centers have become a major source of contention in the United States, where tech leaders, developers, and investors…
When I arrived in Ulaanbaatar, the capital of Mongolia, I was completely in awe of the architecture, specifically the mix of modern buildings and Buddhist temples.Besides the unique architectural designs in the capital, however, the part of my trip that stood out to me most was visiting the Gobi Desert,…
OpenAI said it’s “committed to learning” after a coalition of states launched an investigation into how the tech startup’s products impact users.An OpenAI spokesperson said in a statement that it’s taking the states’ concerns “seriously” and will “engage constructively with their offices.””Today’s ChatGPT includes a more protective experience for minors…
More than 200 data centers are going up in dozens of competitive House districts — and neither party knows how to handle their political fallout heading into the midterms.The energy-hungry computing infrastructure being built to meet the explosive demand for artificial intelligence has sparked opposition to rising electric bills, water…
“What is an RTO?”That was Together AI CEO Vipul Ved Prakash’s response when asked by Business Insider whether he had ever had to send a return-to-work (RTO) memo to push employees back to the office of the cloud compute startup.”People generally like to come in,” said Prakash. “We’ve never enforced…
A recent AI experiment involved feeding weeks of handwritten puppy potty logs into ChatGPT. My wife and I tracked every pee, poop, walk, and accident for our puppy Oliver, creating a new breed of KPI: Key Potty Indicators.ChatGPT extracted the data from our scribbled notes and turned it into a…
