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Hostile drones are challenging even highly trained US forces, which have struggled to contend with constant surveillance and attack in realistic combat scenarios. The Marine Corps is scrambling for answers, including standing up a new counter-drone team. Loading audio narration… During a recent arduous pre-deployment training exercise, a highly proficient…
In early December, Anthropic’s CEO, Dario Amodei, suggested that some rivals were overextending themselves in AI compute. Loading audio narration… “There are some players who are YOLOing,” Amodei said, hinting that rival OpenAI had signed too many AI compute deals and might struggle to afford them.But as demand surges and…
I was sitting in my cargo bike outside my son’s børnehave (kindergarten) on an especially bitter February morning in Copenhagen, crying over forgetting his Fastelavn costume at home. Loading audio narration… Fastelavn, for the uninitiated, is Denmark’s candy-filled, costume-wearing, barrel-smashing children’s tradition, somewhere between Halloween and Carnival. It’s something Danes…
The internet can’t get enough of this weird plush toy. Loading audio narration… An Instagram account called “emyadventure1” first appeared in November with a simple premise: every time it gained a follower, Emy, a custom-made green-and-yellow plush toy, would move 1 millimeter closer to being thrown from the world’s tallest…
My parents are so anti-cruise that when we visited Alaska for my 21st birthday, we took a series of planes, trains, automobiles, and ferries to experience what a cruise would have made possible with a lot less planning and logistics on our part. Loading audio narration… Now that I’m older,…
Jeanne Calment was the oldest verified person to have ever lived, passing away at 122. She was born in 1875, just a decade after the US Civil War ended, and died in 1997, a year before Google launched.Despite Calment’s extraordinary longevity, her home country, France, ranks just outside the top…
The US is missing out on cheap Chinese EVs, but Volvo is open to changing that. Loading audio narration… In an interview on Wednesday, Volvo CEO Håkan Samuelsson told Business Insider that the Swedish brand would consider building cars from its Chinese parent company, Geely, at its factory in South…
Mackenzie Young, 26, lives in White Lake Township, Michigan, and quit his job as a software engineer at Google in May 2025 to pursue a career in music. Business Insider has verified his identity. The following has been edited for brevity and clarity. Loading audio narration… Coming out of college,…
While product managers are spinning up prototypes with AI-assisted coding tools, engineers are left to make them production-ready. Loading audio narration… Eric Zakariasson, an engineer at Cursor who focuses on developer experience and product, said at the AI Engineer Europe 2026 conference in a recording published Tuesday that setting “clear…
This as-told-to essay is based on a conversation with Charles Yang, the founder and CEO of Vibe, a US-based AI workspace startup. The conversation has been edited for length and clarity. Loading audio narration… I started my first company with my friend after finishing my third year at Zhejiang University.I…
