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‘I saw Terminator 2’: Y Combinator’s Garry Tan pushes back on AI extinction fears
Y Combinator CEO Garry Tan says people are getting distracted by Hollywood-style doomsday scenarios when they should be focused on the real AI risks emerging today. “I think that we need to be focused on science fact, not science fiction,” Tan said in a CNBC interview on Thursday. “I saw…
Ukrainian drones flew almost 2,000 miles to hit fuel plants in the Russian Arctic
Ukraine’s drones flew nearly 2,000 miles into northwestern Siberia to strike two Russian gas facilities, a record distance for the war, said Ukrainian special forces. The strikes on Wednesday targeted a major plant in Novy Urengoy, a gas-producing city, and another facility about 60 miles south in…
Getting my H-1B on the first try felt like ‘pure luck.’ 4 years later, a layoff meant I had to leave the US.
I spent almost 13 years building a life in the United States, and then I had 60 days to pack up and leave it all behind. I was raised in Kolkata and never lived anywhere else until 19. I’d never visited the US as a child, but felt oddly close to it — my aunt
My family of 5 just moved out of my parents’ house. We miss seeing them every day, and they’re experiencing empty nest 2.0.
The first thing I noticed was the silence. Waking up in our new home, we found it so quiet in the mornings. Whereas a few weeks ago, I’d hear my dad shuffling around upstairs making his early-morning tea, or my mom listening to Reels, our house was suddenly deathly quiet before the kids opened their
I’m a divorced mom who takes my kids out to eat 4 times a month. It’s expensive, but worth it.
I adore the thought of my kids’ fingers covered in Zaddy sauce while eating a snow crab cluster, and their excitement as they bend the shell just right and devour a huge piece of meat after covering it with butter. A night at Clawdaddy is one of my favorite dinners with my kids, 11 and
President Trump can’t decide if the affordability crisis is real or not
President Donald Trump often refers to the affordability crisis as a hoax. His White House may not agree. Trump called the crisis a “fake” Democrat-created issue on the first night of the Republican National Committee’s first-ever midterm convention this week in Dallas. But the remark sits…
Meta is asking some of its employees to become managers again in a new reorg
Meta wants some of its employees to be managers again. The social media giant has been asking some individual contributors in its Applied AI (AAI) division to transition back into management roles as part of a recent reshuffle, four people with knowledge of the matter told Business Insider. This…
Oracle maintains its capex forecast and reports cloud growth, sending shares up 7%
Oracle is holding the line on its data center spending forecast. On Thursday, Oracle reported $28.5 billion in first-quarter capital expenditures, up from $8.5 billion a year earlier. It kept its fiscal 2027 capital expenditure forecast at $90 billion to $95 billion, including data center spending…
Uber’s CEO says you could see lower ride prices as a result of its layoffs
Lower ride prices could be coming to Uber after the company’s recent layoffs. CEO Dara Khosrowshahi pointed to lower prices as one way that Uber plans to use the money it’s saving from laying off 10% of its corporate workforce, or about 3,300 people. The company announced the job cuts earlier this…
Top AI researcher Andrew Tulloch ditches Meta to work on training and inference at Anthropic
After less than a year at Meta, the prominent AI researcher Andrew Tulloch is leaving for Anthropic. He’ll start next week, an Anthropic spokesperson told Business Insider, and work on the startup’s inference and performance team, where he’ll aim to optimize the training of Anthropic’s AI models…