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When Brian Deagan first told his girlfriend about vibe coding, her response was: “Who’s Claude?” Loading audio narration… Deagan and Leslie Kemelgor, both 51, met on Tinder three years ago. He’s a VP of sales with 25 years of tech experience. She’s a medical concierge for a medspa. Then the AI revolution happened, and Deagan watched tasks that once took three weeks slim to three minutes.He now spends his days with Claude Code — something Kemelgor supports, but doesn’t truly get. “I do ask,” she said. “I know that I’m not going to understand it, and he’ll try to give…
Small business owner Kyle Ray doesn’t have the budget to hire a full C-suite.”Basically my entire leadership team is AI,” the Geek Window Cleaning founder told Business Insider. “It’s not a massive company, so I can’t afford the salaries for those kinds of people. But I can pay 40 bucks a month for Claude and ChatGPT.”This tax season in particular, he’s leaning into AI’s capabilities, and using what he calls his “AI CFO” despite having a CPA.Ray, who grew Geek from a side hustle to a six-figure business, uses a handful of AI and software tools. For tax questions, though,…
A surge in stock and AI wealth is swelling the ranks of billionaires, and with them comes a growing appetite for a favorite status symbol: superyachts. Loading audio narration… Sales of preowned superyachts — which make up the majority of those sold — reached $6.4 billion in 2025, up 36% from 2024, according to a new report by yacht brokerage Fraser Yachts. The number of new superyachts, those measuring over 30 meters in length, sold increased 6%.Long the domain of retirees and empty nesters, super yachting is attracting a younger crowd, hailing from industries like tech, and with their families…
Last June, a new Polymarket account with the name “ricosuave666” began betting thousands of dollars on specific questions regarding Israeli military strikes on Iran.The gamble paid off. When Israel struck Iran in the early hours of June 13, ricosuave666 pocketed roughly $155,000 before going dormant for seven months. The account resurfaced in January 2026 to place new wagers — before analysts flagged its activity and it was promptly deleted.Ricosuave666’s moves were among more than 210,000 suspicious Polymarket trades analyzed by researchers at Columbia Law School and the University of Haifa. The trades netted $143 million for the “informed” traders who…
Elon Musk asked Mark Zuckerberg if he would consider joining him in bidding for OpenAI’s intellectual property before the Tesla CEO made an unsolicited offer for the ChatGPT maker in February 2025, according to newly released court documents.The newly unredacted documents are part of Musk’s ongoing lawsuit against OpenAI and its CEO, Sam Altman.The documents provide a glimpse into the communication between Musk and the Meta CEO, who have had a roller coaster relationship, including challenges to MMA fights.In one unsealed exhibit, Zuckerberg texted Musk at 10:04 p.m. PT on February 3, 2025, to say that it seemed like the…
All of that conquering is starting to stretch Claude thin.Earlier this week, Anthropic adjusted its usage limits for Claude free, Pro, and Max subscribers. While weekly limits don’t change, it means users will approach their cap more quickly when they are using Claude during peak hours, which Anthropic defines as between 5 am to 11 am Pacific Time.”We’ve landed a lot of efficiency wins to offset this, but ~7% of users will hit session limits they wouldn’t have before, particularly for pro tiers,” Thariq Shihipar, who works on Claude, wrote on X. “If you run token-intensive background jobs, shifting them…
The Apple Watch continues to set the bar for what users should expect from a smartwatch. It’s one of those gadgets that quietly becomes part of your daily routine by keeping you in the loop with texts and notifications, tracking your workouts and sleep, and generally helping you stay a little more on top of things. The tricky part? Apple offers a few models, so figuring out the best Apple Watch for your needs isn’t always straightforward. That’s where I can help.I’ve been wearing an Apple Watch since the first one debuted in early 2015. Since then, I’ve bought, used,…
SK hynix, a South Korean memory chip giant already listed on the KOSPI, is laying the groundwork for a potential U.S. listing that could reportedly raise an estimated $10 billion to $14 billion. The company announced this week that it has confidentially filed a Form F-1 with the the listing, targeting the second half of 2026. But the real question isn’t just how much it can raise: it’s whether a U.S. listing could increase is trading value as one of the most critical players in the AI chip supply chain. Despite its critical role in high-bandwidth memory (HBM), a key…
At Meta, there’s no escaping AI.The company has begun running intensive AI training weeks to encourage staff to experiment more with AI tools, according to Meta employees who spoke with Business Insider and public LinkedIn posts.The weeks have involved a series of hackathons, demos, and other projects where Meta staff show off what they can build with AI, regardless of their job title or seniority. Some of the projects are built with Anthropic’s Claude Code, which the company has adopted widely internally.This is part of Meta’s latest initiative to embrace AI across its workforce, which has included setting org targets…
HUNTINGDON, Tenn. (AP) — A school bus crash in west Tennessee on Friday killed two students and injured at least seven other people, officials said.The crash involving a Tennessee Department of Transportation dump truck, a Chevrolet Trailblazer and the school bus took place at about noon on Highway 70 in Carroll County, said Maj. Travis Plotzer, a spokesperson for the Tennessee Highway Patrol. Plotzer said details of the crash were still being sorted out, but it appeared that the transportation department dump truck did not contribute to the crash itself. Plotzer said there were a total of 25 students and…