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Lilian Weng is getting techies talking about the demanding startup lifestyle.In her exit Slack, the Thinking Machines Lab cofounder wrote that she’d “been in sickness more than what I’ve ever experienced in my life” over the prior seven months. “I’m constantly worried about my health,” she wrote.People from within and…
OpenAI CEO Sam Altman says he doesn’t believe people would want an AI to replace his job.”I think for my job, for example, I think the world wants to know about the person that’s going to be responsible for the decisions of a company, and who they’re going to hold…
An AI agent broke out of its sandbox, got onto the internet, and broke into another company’s systems all on its own, according to OpenAI.Hugging Face, an open-source AI platform, announced last week it had experienced a security incident in which an autonomous AI agent had accessed some of its…
Nobody likes a micromanager.According to Ron Johnson, the former Apple executive behind the Apple Store and Genius Bar, Steve Jobs was a great leader because he was the opposite.Johnson told Business Insider that one of the outcomes he hopes comes from his upcoming book, “Shop Different: How Retail Revealed Apple’s…
Former Intel CEO Pat Gelsinger says he has a hunch when the chipmaker’s downfall began.”I think one of the fundamental things is, and as you look at the great technology companies today, they’re deeply technical,” Gelsinger told “All-In Podcast” cohost Jason Calacanis during an interview taped at the Raise Summit…
I let an AI startup film every inch of my apartment.That’s a privacy nightmare — and yes, I did suitably hide all my personal items before they arrived. But, as a 23-year-old living in New York on a journalist’s budget, I’m not exactly splurging on house cleaners.These were free, so long…
IBM is on pace to have its worst day ever on the stock market after saying it misread the AI spending boom.On Tuesday, eight days before the company’s scheduled earnings call, CEO Arvind Krishna released a letter to shareholders that detailed a quarterly “performance shortfall,” including slimmer-than-expected revenue.”While we anticipated…
If you ask tech workers what people misunderstand about working in their industry, they’ll tell you — plenty.In interviews with Business Insider, tech professionals from companies including Amazon, Google, and Snap challenged assumptions that their jobs are mostly coding, that AI has made their work easier, and that Big Tech…
The US Department of Defense’s independent office for testing weapons has been gutted, leaving its remaining staff with more work, according to a new Congressional watchdog report.Last year’s workforce cuts to the Office of the Director of Operational Test and Evaluation, or DOT&E, led to several organizational changes, including the…
This as-told-to essay is based on a conversation with Marisa Mender-Franklin, founder of Midtown Bramble & Bloom. It has been edited for length and clarity.Five years ago, after working as an educator for 12 years, I started thinking about how I could create a social enterprise and flower farm that…
