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Videos show Tesla and Waymo ramping up new vehicles for their robotaxi fleets
The hustle never stops for Tesla and Waymo. As both companies race to roll out new vehicles for their respective robotaxi services, a bystander caught a glimpse of the behind-the-scenes scaling operations of Tesla and Waymo. David Moss, a Tesla fan who recently pivoted to content creation focused…
AI is changing job interviews by letting candidates interview around the clock
Job interviews are increasingly happening after most people have gone to bed. Ribbon AI, a voice-AI recruiting platform, told Business Insider that about a quarter of interviews conducted through Ribbon take place between 10 p.m. and 2 a.m. local time, according to data from more than 500 companies…
Taiwan packed its new coast guard vessels with anti-ship missiles. Now it’s readying them for a fight with China.
TSOYING, TAIWAN — One of Taiwan’s new missile-capable coast guard vessels led a major littoral drill on Saturday, as the island entered the fourth day of its annual military exercises. The Bali, an Anping-class ship, headlined the joint drill on Taiwan’s southwest coast that simulated an amphibious…
I was laid off after 10 years at the same company. My $17-an-hour job at a garden center changed how I think about work.
This as-told-to essay is based on a conversation with Leslie Friday, 48, a marketing and communications professional who found a “bridge job” at a garden center after getting laid off. It has been edited for length and clarity. I know everyone says this, but I really didn’t see it coming. After a…
Anthropic just rolled out a tool that’ll decimate some people’s dreams of writing AI novels undetected
It’s going to get a lot harder to let Claude be a ghostwriter for everything from novels to homework. On Monday, Anthropic said new Claude models will embed an “imperceptible watermark” directly into AI-generated text. The watermark doesn’t change the text’s meaning or readability, but travels with…
Matthew McConaughey says being ‘less of a dad’ gets his teenagers to open up
Matthew McConaughey says he has learned a few tricks for getting his teenagers to talk. Speaking on Saturday’s episode of “The Drew Barrymore Show,” the actor shared one question that got his teenage daughter talking for much longer than usual. “‘Hey, Vida — my daughter — what’s it like being a…
Viral Video Ignites Shake Shack Pricing Debate
A customer’s claim that non-tippers are drawing the short straw at Shake Shack has recently gone viral. B.D. Powell wondered whether his wife’s theory about the chain adding a surcharge to every individual item ordered by a non-tipping customer would hold any water. The couple decided to put it to…
I’ve worked at Costco for 21 years. Here are 7 of the best things I’m seeing on shelves right now.
I’m always looking for quick and easy meals, which is why I was drawn to the Eat-In spinach, feta, and sundried-tomato wraps. Each wheat lavash is packed with cage-free egg whites, spinach, feta, sun-dried tomatoes, and cream cheese. They’re easy to heat up in the air fryer or microwave. Costco was…
What smart people are saying about Meta’s open-weight model Muse Glimmer and Mark Zuckerberg’s AI manifesto
Johns Hopkins University Professor Seth Lazar said Zuckerberg’s “overall vision is cool” and expressed optimism if Meta’s CEO’s manifesto serves as a “North Star” for the company’s SuperIntelligence Labs. “If this constitutes a genuine North Star for MSL, then I am a bit more optimistic about the…
TikTok is calling US staffers back to the office 5 days a week, starting next month
TikTok is summoning its workers back to their desks full time. TikTok said that, starting in September, it will require most US employees to return to the office five days a week, three staffers told Business Insider. The in-office mandate will shake up schedules for some hybrid workers who are…