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Alex Karp rings the alarm for salespeople, saying Palantir’s teams crushed earnings with a ‘miniscule and shrinking’ head count
Palantir CEO Alex Karp took a victory lap over the company’s explosive growth, saying it managed to boost its commercial business using a “miniscule and shrinking” sales team. In the shareholder letter accompanying Monday’s second-quarter results, Karp said it was another case of Palantir ignoring…
When a partner said he wanted kids soon, it made me question my desire to stay child-free. I stuck to it, and we broke up.
When I was 6 years old, and tensions were high, my mom told me, “One day, your kids will be your future karma.” I immediately yelled back, “Well, I won’t have any kids then!” Feeling smug, I thought I’d outsmarted my mom and found a loophole to avoid future punishment. Little did I know that
Don’t outsource the best parts of parenting to AI
There are a lot of things about parenting that are unpleasant drudgery. There’s the obvious ones: diapers, cleaning bottle parts, picking up Legos, listening to “Wheels on the Bus” over and over. As kids get older, you’ll also discover so many more annoying things: The constant sorting of too-small…
The next step in AI cost saving: treating frontier models like expensive consultants
Getting good returns on AI spending is the hottest enterprise topic of the day, and AI consultants have a neat cost-saving hack. Business Insider has reported extensively about how users should route their tasks to the right AI models to get the best bang for their buck. But AI consultants are…
Kalshi CEO says lawsuits are the price of being a disruptor
Kalshi’s CEO says the scrutiny his company is facing is just part of a cycle that most disruptive startups must go through. Tarek Mansour, the prediction market’s cofounder, spoke on CNBC on Monday about the lawsuits Kalshi is facing from multiple states. “I think the more interesting thing that’s…
Jared Leto was raising a $75 million venture fund before recent accusations
Hollywood actor and musician Jared Leto was in the process of raising a new venture capital fund before sexual misconduct allegations catapulted him into the headlines last week, Business Insider has learned. A document reviewed by Business Insider says the “Dallas Buyers Club” and “My So-Called…
Samantha Morton says Christopher Nolan gave her hope she could keep working at 49
Samantha Morton says landing a role in “The Odyssey” gave her renewed confidence that she could keep working as she gets older. On Monday’s episode of the “Happy Sad Confused” podcast, Morton reflected on the box office success of “The Odyssey,” in which she plays the enchantress Circe. The…
He choreographed routines for K-pop stars like BTS and Seventeen. Now he’s building AI for dance.
K-pop’s biggest stars, from BTS to Seventeen, have danced routines that Youngjun Choi choreographed. Now, the top choreographer is betting that AI can help anyone with an idea, a phone, and no dance training to create the next hit K-pop dance. It all started six years ago when Choi met Joon Jung…
‘Great grass’: Trump plugs Scotts Miracle-Gro, a company that he says did the White House a favor
President Donald Trump promoted yet another product this week: “great grass” from the company he said replaced the White House lawn free of charge. Speaking to reporters in the Oval Office on Monday, Trump praised Scotts Miracle-Gro, a public company based in Ohio that sells lawn and garden…
Jon Gray says impatience about AI returns is ‘a little misplaced’
Good, potentially very lucrative things will come to the AI investors who wait, if you ask Jon Gray. Gray, the president and chief operating officer at Blackstone, said that growing concern about the pace of the AI buildout is somewhat overblown. “I’m not going to discount that there’s not going to…