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Paramount is putting monthly spending limits on Claude for tech employees to promote ‘effective’ AI use
Paramount Skydance is putting limits on Claude spending for tech staffers as the company looks to cut down on wasteful AI usage. David Ellison’s company has capped how many Claude tokens users can use each month, three Paramount employees said. Tokens are units of AI usage and are generally how…
Jet-powered Shaheds make up as much as two-thirds of some Russian drone attacks, Ukrainian official says
Russia is increasingly using drones with jet engines in attacks against Ukraine, forcing its air defenders to grapple with the challenge of high-speed threats that are more difficult to intercept. Col. Yurii Ihnat, the spokesperson for the Ukrainian Air Force, revealed in remarks shared with…
My friends and I took a weekend trip back to where we grew up. Now, we swear by doing it every year.
I honestly don’t know what I’d do without my high-school besties. We’ve navigated just about everything together, from school drama and college decisions to life in our 20s, confidently and effectively. Even though we’re now in our 30s, living in four separate states, and at different stages in our…
My parents could spend their retirement doing anything. They chose to help raise my children.
This story is based on an interview with Dr. Brintha Vasagar, 42, a family physician from Milwaukee. It has been edited for length and clarity. When my husband, Tim, 41, and I finally got pregnant, one of the best things was telling my parents. They’d followed every step of our fertility journey…
Inside Ford’s 3-million-square-foot Louisville plant transformation
Ford Motor Co. is giving its Louisville Assembly Plant a massive makeover as it prepares to build a new electric truck in 2027. The automaker is investing $2 billion to transform the roughly 3-million-square-foot Kentucky factory from gas-powered vehicle production to EV manufacturing, according to…
Inside the relationship of model Karlie Kloss and billionaire venture capitalist Josh Kushner, the power couple with unconventional ties to Trump
Model Karlie Kloss and venture capitalist Josh Kushner may seem like an odd pairing on the surface, but they’ve been together since 2012 and have become partners in both life and business. The couple has kept their relationship under the radar since they first started dating. Kloss and Kushner got…
How Hostage Escapes Actually Work, According to a Former Hostage
Jessica Buchanan is an author, humanitarian aid worker, and kidnapping survivor who spent 93 days held hostage by Somali pirates. Originally a schoolteacher from the United States, she relocated to Africa to work as an education advisor for a nongovernmental organization. While finishing a routine…
From the people building it to the ones who have to use it, AI is creating all types of anxiety
SeventyFour/Getty Images This post originally appeared in the Business Insider Today newsletter. You can sign up for Business Insider’s daily newsletter here. The hottest new spot for tech workers is their therapist’s couch. A combination of layoffs, AI, and massive paydays has Silicon Valley…
A financially independent social worker says his sober-living rentals return up to 75% on his cash. Here’s how the niche strategy works.
As a social worker, Scott Steenbergh never seemed to be able to clock out. “The hours were always tough,” the Michigan-based investor and father of two told Business Insider. “It seemed like, no matter what, I was always required to work in the evenings, work on weekends. People were obviously in…
An industrywide power crunch is changing how Amazon runs its e-commerce empire
Amazon’s huge e-commerce business is redesigning its cloud setup as power and data center capacity become increasingly constrained. The multiyear effort, known internally as “Region Flex,” aims to reduce the concentration of Amazon’s online retail operations in a handful of large AWS regions and…