Finance
Stanford dean says AI labs are competing with universities for faculty: ‘I won’t lie, I worry about this’
There’s a fight for AI talent that’s playing out in the classroom. Sarah Soule, the dean of Stanford’s Graduate School of Business, told Business Insider that frontier AI labs — with their enormous computing resources, data, and coming IPOs — are becoming an increasingly powerful draw for…
Goldman’s interns really don’t want AI to touch one part of their lives
Those wondering how AI will transform Wall Street might want to take a look at Goldman’s latest intern survey. AI experimentation may be the norm, but the more than 2,100 interns Goldman surveyed are increasingly resistant to the technology in certain corners of their lives. “One of the clearest…
Oheka Castle, the 127-room Long Island estate that inspired ‘The Great Gatsby,’ is heading to auction. Look inside.
If you’ve ever read or seen “The Great Gatsby,” you know 1920s New York was home to extravagant mansions with owners who hosted lavish parties — and if you’ve watched “The Gilded Age,” you know those parties began decades earlier in the 1870s. And if you’re a really dedicated fan, you can own a…
At 63 and 71, our friends are becoming grandparents. We’re raising a kindergartener.
This as-told-to essay is based on a conversation with Barb Higgins, 63, a part-time CrossFit coach from Massachusetts. It has been edited for length and clarity. Our town is very close-knit, so I already know a lot of the parents at pick-up and drop-off at the school where my son, Jack, recently…
NATO has been using fighter jets to stop drones. One ally says a new Ukraine-inspired anti-drone wall will handle them first.
Fighter jets armed with expensive air-to-air missiles have led the way in the fight to take down the cheap drones that breach NATO airspace, a costly dynamic officials say needs to change. NATO ally Latvia is building a Ukraine-inspired automated anti-drone wall along its entire eastern border with…
Why Starship’s riskiest launch yet is such a big deal for Elon Musk’s SpaceX
SpaceX is gearing up for its most important Starship launch yet. If all goes to plan, the 400-foot-tall rocket will blast off from SpaceX’s Texas launch site at around 7:46 am Central Time on Monday. Starship’s 14th test flight will see the rocket attempt to reach orbit for the first time. It will…
The hidden sacrifices of chasing an H-1B career in America
In the five years Madhur Mehta has spent in the US, he’s earned a master’s degree, landed a program manager job at Amazon, and been selected for an H-1B visa. But at 35, Mehta still doesn’t feel able to plan his life very far ahead. He and his fiancée explored buying a house last year,
The CEO of language-learning startup Preply asks job candidates these questions
As CEO of language-learning startup Preply, Kirill Bigai said he’s spending much of his time these days building out his team. “This quarter, I’m spending 50% to 60% of my time on hiring,” Bigai told Business Insider. Bigai, who cofounded the company in 2012, said Preply is scaling quickly and…
Yours truly, ChatGPT
Recently, I’ve found myself asking the same question over and over again: Did AI write this? If you spend any amount of time online, you probably have, too. Just a few short years since the advent of ChatGPT, the internet has devolved into a bot-generated wasteland. Experts warned us that the…
Sylvester Stallone says the secret upside of a career rival is that they keep you moving forward
Sylvester Stallone, 80, said his rivalry with Arnold Schwarzenegger pushed him to keep raising the bar. On Saturday’s episode of “The Interview,” Stallone reflected on the competitive relationship he had with Schwarzenegger for years before the two became friends. Stallone and Schwarzenegger became…