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The data industry is on the verge of a drastic transformation. The market is consolidating. And if the deal flow in the past two months is any indicator — with Databricks buying Neon for $1 billion and Salesforce snapping up cloud management firm Informatica for $8 billion — momentum is building for more. The acquired companies may range in size, age, and focus area within the data stack, but they all have one thing in common. These companies are being bought in hopes the acquired technology will be the missing piece needed to get enterprises to adopt AI. On the…

In 2019, a rare and shocking event in the Malaysian peninsula town of Ketereh grabbed international headlines. Nearly 40 girls age 12 to 18 from a religious school had been screaming inconsolably, claiming to have seen a “face of pure evil,” complete with images of blood and gore.Experts believe that the girls suffered what is known as a mass psychogenic illness, a psychological condition that results in physical symptoms and spreads socially – much like a virus.I’m a social and behavioral scientist within the field of public health. I study the ways in which individual behavior is influenced by prevailing…

This as-told-to essay is based on a transcribed conversation with Risa Morimoto, a senior lecturer in economics at SOAS University of London, in England. The following has been edited for length and clarity.Students always cheat. I’ve been a lecturer for 18 years, and I’ve dealt with cheating throughout that time, but with AI tools becoming widely available in recent years, I’ve experienced a significant change.There are definitely positive aspects to AI. It’s much easier to get access to information and students can use these tools to improve their writing, spelling, and grammar, so there are fewer badly written essays.However, I…

When investor Peter Deng worked at OpenAI, he treated building a team like a puzzle. All the right pieces had to be in the right places.”As a leader, you have to set up your team the right way,” Deng, who previously was OpenAI’s VP of consumer product, said on an episode of Lenny’s Podcast. “You have to really think about your team as a product and what are the various pieces you need to really stretch the gamut of what you’re thinking about.”Deng, now a general partner at Felicis Ventures, has previously contributed to a series of well-known features, including…

AURILLAC, France (AP) — A unusual attack by bees in the French town of Aurillac has left 24 people injured, including three who were in critical condition but have since improved, according to local authorities.Passersby were stung over a period of about 30 minutes on Sunday morning, according to the Prefecture of Cantal, in south-central France. Firefighters and medical teams were rushed to the scene to treat the victims, while police set up a security perimeter until the bees stopped their attack.The three people in critical condition were evacuated to a local hospital. Pierre Mathonier, the mayor of Aurillac, told…

Growing up in Harlem, Tazzarie Washington was always strolling to the park to meet with friends or play basketball. His weekdays in class were broken up by walks to various rooms or buildings, to school and back home. In those days “I was a smaller kid,” Washington tells Yahoo. In 2019, he was “pretty much active every day.” Then in March of 2020, the pandemic hit the United States. Suddenly, Zoom school replaced Washington’s classroom shuffle.COVID lockdowns in New York City meant that going to see friends or play basketball with them in the park was out of the question.…

Perplexity AI is taking a softly, softly approach to building its ad business.The AI company had a low-key presence at last month’s Cannes Lions ad festival in France. Amid the huge multimillion-dollar beach structures erected by tech giants like Meta, Amazon, and Google, Perplexity sent just a handful of executives to meet with current and potential business partners.Perplexity, a conversational AI-powered search engine, began testing ads last year. Brands such as Whole Foods and Indeed have bought “sponsored follow-up questions,” which appear alongside an answer to a user’s prompt, encouraging them to dig deeper into the topic. Advertisers themselves don’t…

2025-07-07T09:00:02Z Share Facebook Email X LinkedIn Copy link lighning bolt icon An icon in the shape of a lightning bolt. Impact Link Save Saved Read in app This story is available exclusively to Business Insider subscribers. Become an Insider and start reading now. Have an account? Log in. Tech is hiring again, but the roles and skills in demand look different this time around. Atli Thorkelsson, head of network at Redpoint Ventures, put together a slide deck on hiring trends. The top of the market is “the most competitive it’s been in years,” Thorkelsson said. The tech industry is now…

LONDON (AP) — The All England Club, somewhat ironically, is blaming “human error” for a glaring mistake by the electronic system that replaced human line judges this year at Wimbledon.The CEO of the club, Sally Bolton, said Monday that the ball-tracking technology was “inadvertently deactivated” by someone for three points at Centre Court during Anastasia Pavlyuchenkova’s three-set victory over Sonay Kartal a day earlier in the fourth round. On one point, a shot by Kartal clearly landed past the baseline but wasn’t called out by the automated setup — called Hawk-Eye — because it had been shut off.Bolton declined to…

BASEL, Switzerland (AP) — Law-abiding pedestrians wait for the green woman kicking a soccer ball before they cross the road during the Women’s European Championship.Authorities in the Swiss city of Basel have installed 12 of the altered pedestrian crossing lights at locations frequented by soccer fans while the country hosts the nearly month-long tournament.Some are located near the soccer stadium, others near the train station.“They will stay until the end of the Women’s Euro — maybe even a few days longer,” says Nicole Ryf-Stocker, spokeswoman for Basel’s transport department.Ryf-Stocker said the idea and design was provided by the St. Gallen…