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OpenAI president says companies should do 10 things ASAP to defend against AI cyber threats
OpenAI’s president is ringing the cybersecurity alarm bell. Greg Brockman says companies need to act now to secure their systems against AI-powered attackers after the “watershed moment for cybersecurity” that was the OpenAI-Hugging Face hack. “I’ve spoken with many organizations over the past few…
I locked in a 3.25% mortgage rate in a desirable suburb. It looks like success on the surface, but feels far from it.
One car ride home, my observant 6-year-old asked a tough question: “Mommy, do you want to live here?” I suppose she’d heard me complain about life in the DC suburbs a few too many times. Still, in a moment of vulnerability and sadness, I said, “No, I miss my friends, and I miss Georgia.” In
First came self-driving cars. Now, Waymo veterans are building autonomous construction equipment.
Self-driving cars have spent years learning the rules of the road. Now, several Waymo veterans are trying to apply those lessons to a far less predictable environment: construction sites. San Francisco-based Bedrock Robotics said Monday that excavators equipped with its autonomous AI system are now…
Leopold Aschenbrenner’s Situational Awareness bet big on SanDisk and Micron before it blew up
Leopold Aschenbrenner, the Wall Street wunderkind whose hedge fund imploded in late July, placed huge bets on two AI stocks in the lead-up to the disaster. Aschenbrenner’s firm, Situational Awareness, owned a $5.7 billion stake in SanDisk and a $5.6 billion stake in Micron at the end of June, its…
EY is turning its internships into yearlong residencies as AI changes entry-level work
EY is betting that an eight-week internship is no longer enough to prepare young workers for the age of AI. The Big Four firm is launching a new paid “Career Residency” for its assurance interns that will continue for 8 to 12 months after they complete the traditional eight-week internship…
$1 billion NYC-startup Dash0 acquires Berlin tech company to build software that fixes itself
The American software startup Dash0 is going on a shopping spree: the New York City-headquartered observability company, founded by Mirko Novakovic, is acquiring Berlin-based startup Polar Signals, the companies announced on Monday. The acquisition is strategically interesting for Dash0 for several…
How Google lost the ‘war for the hearts and minds’ of its employees: Q&A with Claire Stapleton
In 2018, Claire Stapleton helped spearhead a walkout of around 20,000 Google employees. The protest was a response to a New York Times story detailing how the company had paid multimillion-dollar exit packages to executives accused of sexual misconduct. Now she’s back with a memoir, “Don’t Be…
Older student-loan borrowers are at risk of losing a chunk of their Social Security. There’s a new bill to prevent that.
Student-loan borrowers could lose their Social Security checks if they fall behind on their loan payments. Democratic lawmakers want to put an end to that practice. On Monday, Sens. Bernie Sanders, Elizabeth Warren, and Ed Markey introduced a bill to prevent older student-loan borrowers and…
We tracked how much 3 young startup founders actually sleep
The young class of AI founders has gone hardcore, with sober lifestyles and 996 schedules. Sleep, however, remains an open question. There are two competing sleep cultures in Silicon Valley. The biohackers say that rest helps optimize performance. The hustlers say that founders should work through…
Hayden Panettiere opened up about motherhood and addiction months before her death at 36
Actor Hayden Panettiere has died at 36, her representative told Business Insider on Monday. “It is with profound sadness that we share the tragic passing of our beloved Hayden. She was an incredible light and a force of nature who brought immeasurable love and joy to all who knew her — and to the…