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Executives at Paramount Skydance have fallen in love with AI — especially its knack for quickly knocking out tasks that would otherwise take workers hours to complete.Paramount streaming leaders trumpeted “productivity acceleration” thanks to AI during a quarterly tech meeting on Wednesday, according to a screenshot of the presentation viewed…
For more than two decades, people have walked into my therapy office and told me they were burned out. Most of them weren’t actually burned out.Corporate wellness programs and social media carousels that gloss over the topic are leading to incorrect self-diagnoses. People are using “I’m burned out” the way…
Ask a tech worker how AI has changed their jobs, and chances are they’ll answer with a single number: hours saved.In interviews with Business Insider, Big Tech software engineers, product managers, and data scientists described using AI to compress hours of work into minutes. They use it to draft documents,…
This as-told-to essay is based on a conversation with Thomas Phillips, 33, a business owner from Southampton, England, who left the UK in 2024 and now lives in Austin, Texas, while running his SEO agency. Phillips is on a E-2 Investor Visa. The following has been edited for length and…
An Anthropic employee said AI advancements are leaving them in a state of internal turmoil.In a blog post on its website on Thursday, Anthropic wrote about the risks of AI progressing to a point where it could improve itself autonomously. The post quoted unnamed Anthropic employees who talked about AI’s…
Warren Buffett’s Berkshire Hathaway seems to finally be loosening the purse strings now that the legendary investor isn’t calling the shots.Berkshire, now run by Greg Abel, has agreed to buy $10 billion of Alphabet stock in a private placement, Google’s parent company said on Monday.Buffett’s conglomerate — which owns Geico,…
Nicole Diaz had never written code. Then she joined OpenAI’s legal team.A year later, the associate general counsel now uses OpenAI’s apps to simplify and speed her legal work. She has built tools with ChatGPT and Codex, the company’s coding agent, to help turn dense law-firm memos into plain-English policies,…
Thirteen years ago, I flew from Atlanta to Las Vegas for a work conference. I thought I was going to learn how to build a business: strategies, contacts, maybe some motivation. I did not know I was walking into the room where I would meet the man I would eventually…
When Andy Hill first came across the FIRE movement through podcasts, it seemed to offer a solution to a major problem in his life.”I felt so passionate about leaving my corporate job. I was missing out on my kids growing up,” Hill, whose marketing career involved long days and travel,…
This as-told-to essay is based on a conversation with Eva Chow, chair of the Los Angeles County Museum of Art (LACMA) Art + Film Gala and founder of the soju brand KHEE. She splits her time between Seoul and Los Angeles. The following has been edited for length and clarity.I…
