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My older brother, Fergus, and I have spent most of our adult lives chasing the same thing — just never in the same place at the same time. Loading audio narration… We’re both adventurous, but our lives have unfolded on different continents since 2009. That was the year he left…
This as-told-to essay is based on a conversation with Nicholas Jenkins, a market research analyst in his 40s who lives in Texas. He previously worked as a program manager at Amazon until leaving the company in December 2024 after being placed on a performance improvement plan. The following has been…
OpenAI’s latest funding round is unprecedented. The following charts put the deal in perspective.The startup announced the $110 billion financing last week, pushing its valuation to $840 billion, including the new cash. It brings Amazon and Nvidia on as major backers and puts questions about OpenAI’s financial stability to bed.…
Three and a half years ago, I stood in my New Jersey apartment, surrounded by boxes I was about to put into storage. Tears streamed down my cheeks.I’d recently ended a two-year, live-in relationship. We loved each other deeply, but just weren’t the right fit — and although the split…
Ukrainian drones struck a Russian oil depot overnight, breaking through the netting that had been installed earlier to protect the site from such attacks, a security official told Business Insider on Thursday.Long-range Ukrainian drones struck an oil depot in Velikiye Luki, a city in western Russia’s Pskov region, a source…
Ryan Cohen seems to be doing his best Warren Buffett impression, just like Michael Burry suggested.The billionaire GameStop CEO and Chewy cofounder channeled the legendary investor in a lengthy X post titled “The Hollow Men” on Wednesday.Cohen railed against a “new, parasitic class of corporate bureaucrat: The Risk-Free Insider.”He lambasted…
China didn’t just celebrate Lunar New Year this week. It staged a robotics flex.At the annual Spring Festival Gala, the Lunar New Year show in China, humanoid robots from Chinese startup Unitree Robotics flipped, lunged, and swung swords and nunchucks just feet from child performers in a tightly choreographed kung…
