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AI movies designed for your phone are getting the Silicon Valley and Hollywood treatment. Loading audio narration… TrueShort, which makes AI “verticals” — movies chopped up into one- to three-minute episodes — has gathered a who’s who of backers.The startup has raised $12 million in seed funding led by Keith Rabois at…
Ride-hailing drivers can spend months or years learning the best ways to make money. Now, there’s artificial intelligence for that. Loading audio narration… Lyft has been rolling out over the past year Earnings Assistant, a AI tool that gives drivers tips on where and when to drive. It shows how…
Marisela Cerda, 47, is a principal customer experience manager at Microsoft and a former co-lead of the Women at Microsoft employee resource group. She started at the company in 2001 and, because of her age and tenure, received a voluntary retirement offer that would take effect in July. Business Insider verified…
If you owe a significant amount in unpaid child support, your international travel plans are effectively grounded. Starting in May, the U.S. State Department is shifting from passive enforcement to an aggressive crackdown, proactively revoking the passports of parents with substantial arrears. Historically, the government blocked you from renewing an…
A few weeks ago, Marco Bario texted his landlord with an unusual request.Bario and his wife, Tracy Neill, rent a four-bedroom townhouse in Frederick County, Maryland, about an hour outside Washington, DC. When they got the place in June 2024, they felt lucky to find respite from a sizzling rental…
This as-told-to essay is based on a conversation with Jillian Kurovski, a 27-year-old Ph.D. student living in South Korea for a year. It has been edited for length and clarity. Loading audio narration… I was doing spider research in Guam when I got an email saying that my birth mother…
Duolingo’s CEO said AI still can’t match the work of his company’s artists and designers. Loading audio narration… On Tuesday’s episode of the “Rapid Response” podcast, CEO Luis von Ahn said that his team is trying to use AI as much as possible, but “we really don’t want to decrease…
Walmart is cutting or relocating about 1,000 corporate jobs to address redundancies and duplicate roles. Loading audio narration… A spokesperson for the retail giant confirmed the number of roles affected to Business Insider on Tuesday. The Wall Street Journal earlier reported the news.A person familiar with the restructuring said it…
The European Union’s top diplomat, Kaja Kallas, said on Tuesday that she was frustrated about the bloc’s pace in scaling up its defense industry, which it plans to pour an additional $940 billion into by 2030. Loading audio narration… “I share your frustration because I have this same feeling,” Kallas…
For many years, I had daydreams of leaving office work to explore something more creative. I was gradually being pulled into the world of chocolate — first as a hobby, and then as a true passion. Loading audio narration… In 2015, an opportunity came up to take redundancy from my…
