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Western militaries training Ukrainian troops for war with Russia can’t rely on the usual cycle of periodically updated manuals because battlefield lessons are changing too quickly, a NATO commander told Business Insider.Norway is leading multinational training for Ukrainian troops at Camp Jomsborg, a purpose-built camp in eastern Poland, as part…
The deadline for student-loan borrowers to receive a lower interest rate is fast approaching.Borrowers who enroll in autopay by the end of the day on September 30 will receive a temporary 1-percentage-point reduction on their student-loan interest payments, starting immediately.The benefit, which took effect July 1 for borrowers already enrolled…
When investor Alex Ren visited the office of AI insurance upstart Corgi early last year, he was given a copy of a little red book emblazoned with a portrait of the company’s namesake dog wearing a Mao-like red hat with a yellow star.It was called: “The Mission at Corgi.”Business Insider…
Tom Blomfield has shared a candid assessment of his new Anthropic colleagues: “often weird” but with a “surprising lack of ego or politics.”Blomfield, one of the biggest names in UK tech, took a leave of absence from Y Combinator to join Anthropic’s compute team in July.He wrote in a Tuesday…
Selma Blair and Sarah Michelle Gellar in "Cruel Intentions."SonyThis September on Netflix, you can stream the 1990s classic “Cruel Intentions.”Other must-sees include “Phantom Thread” and “Straight Outta Compton.”There are also Netflix originals like a Unabomber movie and a doc about Olympic breakdancer Raygun.From the cult classic “Cruel Intentions” to the…
MrBeast is the king of stunts. His next big challenge? Convincing his more than 500 million YouTube subscribers to log off and read a book.On Tuesday, the content creator released his first novel, “The Most Dangerous Games,” coauthored with bestselling writer James Patterson. As of Monday evening, the book was…
Registered nurses, data scientists, and accountants and auditors are high-paying roles that are projected to add many jobs over the next decade.The Bureau of Labor Statistics released new job projections on Thursday, showing how hundreds of occupations may evolve between 2025 and 2035. Employment of nurse practitioners could boom over…
This as-told-to essay is based on a conversation with Abhinav Bohra, a senior applied scientist at Amazon. He’s in his 30s and lives in Seattle. The following has been edited for length and clarity.For most of my career, everything I built lived and died inside Amazon.I joined Amazon in 2019…
China’s consumer spending remains sluggish, but the arrival of a new American fried-chicken chain shows there’s still an appetite for an affordable indulgence.Church’s Texas Chicken opened its first mainland China location in Shanghai on Friday, drawing customers who waited in the rain for more than two hours, local media reported.Staff…
A little over a year ago, the federal government acquired a stake in Anthropic without paying a penny.The shares were seized from associates of the crypto fraudster Sam Bankman-Fried. From there, they disappeared into a legal black hole.As Anthropic rockets toward what could be the biggest IPO in history, those…
