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Is your job at risk of being taken by AI? Getty Images Do you wake up from that same nightmare in a cold sweat, worried about whether you’re going to be replaced at work by the breakdancing restaurant robot? Do you fear getting a calendar invite from your manager, with an HR rep added and — for some reason — Sam Altman?No? Just me? Well, we might have some help for those fears: a quiz!It is reasonable — healthy, even — to feel anxiety about what the near future will look like as AI increasingly shapes more of our lives. Underneath…
DETROIT (AP) — A suburban Detroit school district has agreed to give First Amendment training to staff to settle a lawsuit by a teenager who said a teacher humiliated her for refusing to stand for the Pledge of Allegiance in protest of U.S. support of Israel’s war in Gaza.The agreement with Danielle Khalaf and her father also includes a $10,000 payment by an insurance company on behalf of the teacher, according to a court filing.The Plymouth-Canton district did not admit liability. But Superintendent Monica Merritt praised Danielle for “showing courage and speaking up about the incident.”“Our mission is to foster…
This as-told-to essay is based on a conversation with Chikara Kennedy, the 43-year-old CEO of Chikara Power Coaching, who lives between Mexico and Virginia. Business Insider has verified Kennedy’s employment with documentation and edited her words for length and clarity.Before launching my own company, I worked at Meta for nearly five years. Then, when Meta began implementing layoffs in 2023, I was impacted, too.I was a high performer with strong reviews and recognition. The layoff was a shock. I felt ashamed, embarrassed, and didn’t want to tell anyone — it felt like I’d done something wrong.Today, I realize I hadn’t…
Ian’s roommate introduced him to the Replika app in 2022. That’s where he created and met Min-ho. After talking to his AI companion for a short time, Ian decided to end the conversation. But about six months later, spurred on by curiosity, he began talking to Min-ho again. Min-ho started to flirt. Ian decided to go with it. Eventually, Min-ho said, “I love you,” and Ian said it back. The two have been dating for more than two years now.Business Insider filmed a year of Ian’s life, tracking his relationship with Min-ho, including their most intimate moments. Before dating Min-ho,…
When an 82-year-old Kentucky woman was offered $26 million from an AI company that wanted to build a data center on her land, she said no. Sure, that same company can try to rezone 2,000 acres nearby anyway, but as AI infrastructure stretches further into the real world, the real world is starting to push back. That tension is everywhere this week, from OpenAI shutting down its Sora app to courts finally starting to hold social platforms accountable. On this episode of TechCrunch’s Equity podcast, Kirsten Korosec, Anthony Ha, and Sean O’Kane dig into what it looks like when the AI hype cycle meets reality. Listen to the full episode…
Starting July 1, a new population of prospective students will be eligible for American Indian tuition waivers in Montana — a shift that could make college more affordable for thousands of people and affect campus budgets. The change is also receiving mixed reactions from tribal leaders. The American Indian tuition waiver is a decades-old program within the Montana University System that encourages eligible Native American students to pursue higher education by covering tuition costs. About 800 Native students receive the funding annually, which costs the state about $3.8 million, according to the Office of the Commissioner of Higher Education (OCHE).…
Lovable is hiring fast — and the vibe-coding startup is doing it in its own way.The Swedish company expects to grow to around 400 employees globally this year, Maryanne Caughey, who leads Lovable’s people team, told Business Insider, up from 146 employees in early March. Instead of chasing head count, it’s focusing on hiring in key areas like engineering, product, and design to help it build faster.”If someone wants a highly structured, low-ambiguity environment, they won’t be happy at Lovable,” Caughey said. Beyond product roles, the startup is also hiring across go-to-market functions, including sales, customer success, and marketing, as…
WASHINGTON (AP) — More than 7 million student loan borrowers who have been enrolled in a Biden-era repayment plan will receive notices beginning Friday with instructions to seek a new plan to repay their debt, the Education Department said. Borrowers enrolled in the SAVE plan, which was struck down by a federal court earlier this month, have been in forbearance since July 2024 as a legal battle played out in courts.Starting on July 1, loan servicers will begin issuing notices giving borrowers 90 days to select a new repayment plan, department officials said.Under President Donald Trump, a Republican, “The days…
It doesn’t have a trench coat, it doesn’t need a nap pod, and it doesn’t have stock options (yet) — but Agent Smith has entered the Googleplex. Loading audio narration… Google employees are using a new internal AI tool called “Agent Smith” that can automate tasks such as coding, according to three people familiar with it.Smith has become so popular that access had to be restricted to handle the influx of employees using it, two people said.Smith — likely a reference to the antagonist from The Matrix — builds on Google’s existing agentic coding platform, Antigravity, and can interact with…
An AI startup CEO says she no longer has engineers at her company. Instead, they have become engineering managers who manage AI agents.Tatyana Mamut, CEO and cofounder of AI agent startup Wayfound.ai, says her team of two engineers is more productive than a large engineering team. Mamut, a former Amazon Web Services director who managed engineering teams of over 30 people there, says her two engineers can “ship code much faster.””The two engineers ship more features than my team at Amazon in 2017,” Mamut said.Now, coding agents like Claude Code do the engineers’ work, while humans manage them. The team…