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Uber once sold riders on a simple promise: Order a car right from your phone for less than a taxi.One major change happened behind the scenes: up-front pricing. Instead of relying on a predictable rate based largely on time and distance, Uber now uses algorithms and a range of real-time…
Devoted Health is the latest startup to show that combining health and AI commands a premium valuation.Just months after announcing a new round of funding, the Medicare Advantage startup is in talks to raise another round that could value the company at $25 billion, according to sources familiar with the…
Julia Hatoum, 24, has a bachelor’s degree in chemical engineering from the University of Delaware, where she was student body president and graduated with triple minors.Hatoum now works as a transmission engineer, managing the maintenance of power grids across Delaware, Maryland, Virginia, New Jersey, and Washington, DC. She is using…
Coworkers often engage in small talk, which is usually a well-meaning attempt at forming connections.However, some subjects or remarks can be misunderstood or come across as inappropriate in a professional setting, potentially straining relationships between coworkers.That’s why Business Insider asked four etiquette experts about the topics people should avoid discussing…
Everyone* hates data centers now.How did that happen?There are lots of theories: People are worried about the environment. Or electric bills. Or their jobs. Or imperious Big Tech billionaires ordering them around. All of the above.Also: It’s China’s fault.That last one doesn’t come up in polling. But it’s quite popular…
A twice-signed Jensen Huang workstation GPU sold for nearly 10 times its initial estimate.The “RTX Pro 6000 Blackwell Workstation Edition” sold for $57,450 as part of RR Auction’s “Steve Jobs & the Computer Revolution: The Apple 50th Anniversary Auction Part Two” lot. Bidding concluded on Thursday. The workstation-edition GPU is…
Bookstores might seem old school in the AI era, but Barnes & Noble has staged a fairy-tale comeback under CEO James Daunt.After shrinking to under 600 locations in 2023, the storied American bookstore chain opened 57 locations in 2024 — more than in the entire decade between 2009 and 2019.It…
When Sam Altman announced this week that OpenAI had paused some of its training after its models hacked an AI company called Hugging Face, my first reaction was: How convenient.OpenAI, a company that might go public in 2027 (or sooner), gets to tell everyone that the models it hasn’t released…
Voyager 2, a pioneer in outer solar system exploration, left Earth for interstellar space 49 years ago, on August 20, 1977.The twin of Voyager 1, which left Earth only a few weeks after, is the only spacecraft to visit all four of the solar system’s outer gas giants — Jupiter,…
Ukrainian soldiers are teaching their Western trainers how they use war robots on the battlefield.Ukrainian troops are receiving training on NATO soil in a Norway-led multinational effort called Operation Legio. Western military trainers share their best warfighting practices, and in the process, the Ukrainians also share their battle-tested tactics.Such tactics…
