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3 big takeaways on aging, beauty, and work from Maye Musk’s new memoir
Musk wrote in her memoir that she stopped bleaching her hair when she was nearing 60, after feeling down. As her white roots grew in, she cut her hair short and found she loved the new look. Her agent, however, was not impressed. When she saw Musk’s new hair and photos, she warned that she
Maye Musk says she still had to mediate Elon and Kimbal’s fights after they became startup founders
Maye Musk said she helped her sons navigate the early days of building their startup, Zip2. In her memoir, “Timeless,” released September 15, Maye described her sons’ differing management styles and the family meetings she held to help them work through disagreements. She recalled an incident when…
Trump threatens trade with Europe if it makes Canada an associate member of the EU
President Donald Trump threatened Wednesday to retaliate against Europe if the European Union follows through on a proposal to make Canada its first associate member. The plan, floated earlier in the day by European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen, would deepen the EU’s ties with Canada…
This tech founder says prompting AI agents is a lot like managing people
The best managers of AI agents may be people who have already managed humans, one AI founder said. Ivan Burazin, the cofounder and CEO of New York-based AI firm Daytona, has a team of about 30 people across teams in the US and Europe. He told Business Insider that in recent months, he’s pushed his
3 takeaways for what the first Fed hike in 3 years means for your wallet
Kevin Warsh is taking a big swing at America’s inflation problem. Alongside the Federal Open Market Committee, the new central bank chair opted to hike rates by a quarter point on Wednesday. It’s the first time the Fed has increased interest rates since summer 2023, and the first policy change…
Elon Musk’s companies ordered to explain why they dropped antitrust claims against Apple
The federal judge overseeing an antitrust case by Elon Musk’s companies against Apple and OpenAI is demanding to see any settlement agreements that may have led X Corp and SpaceXAI on Tuesday to drop their claims against Apple, POLITICO reported. Judge Mark Pittman, a conservative Trump appointee…
Trump calls for slashing interest rates to ‘1% or less’ after the Fed’s first hike in 3 years
The Fed hiked interest rates for the first time in three years — and President Donald Trump isn’t thrilled. “Interest Rates in the United States should be 1%, or less, because we are the Best Credit in the World — BY FAR,” he wrote on Truth Social. “Our Country is BOOMING with new Investment!” While
OpenAI launches a new framework to track and investigate rogue AI agents
OpenAI is putting its misbehaving models on the record. The AI company announced a new framework on Wednesday for tracking, investigating, and publicly disclosing cases of model misalignment, alongside six reports detailing concerning behavior observed during training or evaluation over the past…
What smart people in business and economics are saying about the Fed interest rate hike
Markets and analysts are abuzz over the first Fed interest-rate hike since the second Trump administration. On Wednesday, the Federal Reserve raised rates by a quarter point, its first hike in three years, as officials sought to curb inflation. Kevin Warsh, the Federal Reserve Chair, said that the…
What people at SF’s largest tech conference are actually worried about (Hint: Not an AI takeover)
I decided to hit the pavement at Salesforce’s gigantic Dreamforce conference to ask tech-minded people about AI’s catastrophic risk. Turns out, it’s not all AI gloom and doom — that’s only if you’re looking online. Last week, Anthropic researcher Jacob Coxon announced he was resigning from the…