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I woke up in a dark room in the middle of the ocean, triggered an automatic window shade, and squinted as natural light gradually flooded the room, revealing the bow and the Caribbean Sea.I did this for seven days straight on my first cruise in 2022. I sailed aboard a…
Jensen Huang came to Tokyo bearing gifts: a slew of AI and robotics partnerships for Japan’s tech industry, and red bean buns for the crowd.On Wednesday, the Nvidia CEO visited a red-lantern izakaya, a traditional Japanese bar, in Tokyo’s Kanda district, where a crowd gathered outside hoping to glimpse “kawa-jan”…
Multiple rounds of fighting with Iran brought with them a realization that Israel needs significantly more ballistic missile interceptors than it ever expected.A senior Israeli defense official told Business Insider that past assumptions about the number of interceptors required to sustain its defenses in a high-intensity conflict, even theories from…
Getting stuck at the airport after a canceled flight could become a little less painful — if you can profit from it.Kalshi is looking to open up a new prediction market that could turn airport departure boards into a fresh trading arena. According to a Tuesday filing with the Commodity…
This as-told-to essay is based on a conversation with Mackenzie McAllister, a 22-year-old graduate from the University of Missouri. Her identity has been confirmed by Business Insider. This story has been edited for length and clarity.When I went to college, computer science just felt like the right fit.Four years ago,…
Say you joined Anthropic in 2024. The company offers you a competitive compensation package: a $400,000 salary and $1.3 million in equity. You’re feeling pretty cush.Flash forward to July 2026. In the two years that you’ve worked there, the company’s valuation has grown from $18 billion to $965 billion. With…
Figma’s design boss said product design candidates need to do more to keep him interested during interviews.Noah Levin told Business Insider on Thursday that AI tools now allow product designers to create polished, interactive prototypes, and that it’s raised the bar for what he expects from potential hires. Levin has…
Tom Holland says Zendaya joked she’d leave him if he turned down “The Odyssey.”In an interview with People published Wednesday, Holland said he initially faced a dilemma when Christopher Nolan offered him the role of Telemachus in his latest film.”To be honest, when I got home after our meeting, I…
Halle Berry says she’s entering her 60s with the same drive she’s always had — and no plans to slow down just yet.On Wednesday’s episode of the “Making Space with Hoda Kotb” podcast, the Oscar-winning actor said one of the things she finds frustrating about aging is the expectation that…
Before Russia, Vlad and Andriy’s battle was with COVID.The pandemic had blown a gaping hole in the incomes of the two singers, who’d performed for a decade in an a cappella quartet. The group was named Luciano — after their hometown, Lutsk, and the Italian tenor Luciano Pavarotti — and…
