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2026-02-11T12:48:10.813Z Share Copy link Email Facebook WhatsApp X LinkedIn Bluesky Threads 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. “Ever tried. Ever failed. No matter. Try again. Fail again. Fail better.”Irish playwright Samuel Beckett’s famous quote has become Corporate America’s new mantra.From Okta to Salesforce to Blackstone, executives told BI’s Sarah E. Needleman and Ana Altchek getting it wrong is ok. Just do it quickly and learn from…
It’s never a good sign when a CEO warns something more disruptive than COVID is heading our way.In an essay titled “Something Big Is Happening,” Hyperwrite CEO Matt Shumer said AI can now do all of his technical work — and he thinks your job could be next.”I’m writing this for the people in my life who don’t… my family, my friends, the people I care about who keep asking me ‘so what’s the deal with AI?’ and getting an answer that doesn’t do justice to what’s actually happening,” Shumer wrote in his nearly 5,000-word post published Tuesday on X.As…
XAI brought staffers together for an all-hands on Tuesday night, shortly after the company lost its second cofounder in less than 48 hours.Musk did not directly address the departures of company cofounders Tony Wu and Jimmy Ba, but thanked those who had left for their contributions to the company.Musk said that the company would continue to carry on despite the recent exits, and said that the staff who had left were not necessary for the future of xAI.The xAI CEO also discussed a restructuring, though it’s unclear what it could look like. Wu and Ba both left the company shortly…
Salesforce executives, including Slack’s new general manager, addressed Salesforce CEO Marc Benioff’s jokes about Immigration and Customs Enforcement, according to internal messages.Benioff angered some employees with the comments on Tuesday, including one about ICE surveilling employees’ travel.”I want to acknowledge the jokes that happened this morning at CKO,” Slack general manager Rob Seaman wrote in an internal Slack message viewed by Business Insider. “I cannot defend or explain them. They do not align with my personal values and I know this to be the case for many of you as well.Salesforce has yet to respond to repeated requests about Benioff’s comments and…
Michael Ostuni/Patrick McMullan via Getty Images 2026-02-11T19:58:02.532Z Share Copy link Email Facebook WhatsApp X LinkedIn Bluesky Threads 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. Bill Ackman’s Pershing Square has invested roughly 10% of its capital in Meta. The fund told investors Meta is set to be “one of the clearest beneficiaries of AI integration.” Meta has been plowing cash into data center projects, which Ackman’s firm expect…
Adam Mosseri’s multimillion-dollar pay package took center stage on Wednesday as lawyers sought to link Meta’s profits to platforms that addict children.As the first of several tech executives to testify in a social media addiction trial playing out in Los Angeles state court, the head of Instagram said he is paid roughly $900,000 a year and receives annual performance-based bonuses that can be as high as half of his salary.Like many executives of publicly traded social media companies, Mosseri, who’s been head of Meta’s Instagram since 2018, also earns stock-based compensation.From the witness stand, Mosseri said that his stock-based pay…
2026-02-11T23:23:45.994Z Share Copy link Email Facebook WhatsApp X LinkedIn Bluesky Threads 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. Salesforce CEO Marc Benioff made jokes about ICE during a keynote at an employee event. The company posted a recording of the keynote without Benioff’s ICE remarks. The comments drew criticism from many employees, including executives. A recording of Salesforce CEO Marc Benioff’s keynote this week was posted on…
XAI just had its first all-hands meeting since its merger with SpaceX.In the recorded event on Tuesday night, CEO Elon Musk outlined a new organizational structure — the main Grok product and Grok Voice, Grok Code, Grok Imagine, and the company’s Macrohard project. The all-hands was later posted on X on Wednesday.From a plan to build a catapult, or mass driver, on the moon to soothing nerves after the restructuring, here are the main takeaways from xAI’s latest all-hands meeting.1. Addressing the restructureThere are now only six members left of an original founding team of 12 at xAI, following two…
You’re not the only one with a strange sleep routine.In a video interview with Fortune released on Wednesday, Google DeepMind CEO Demis Hassabis said he sleeps very little and splits his waking hours into two working days.”I do try and get six, but I have unusual sleeping habits,” he said, about his number of hours of sleep. “I sort of manage during the day.”He said that any less sleep than that would be bad for the brain.Hassabis cofounded DeepMind in 2010, which Google acquired in 2014. It merged with Google Brain in 2023 to form Google DeepMind, the lab behind…
Before you yell at me, let me first say that I am not, and have never been, on my parents’ cellphone plan. (I didn’t get a cellphone until I was already an adult.) But I’ve long been jealous of my friends who are still on their parents’ plans — it just makes good sense!Yahoo News recently asked whether staying on your parents’ phone plan as a 40-year-old makes you “a harmless mooch or a generational failure?”The reporter, Fortesa Latifi, admits that she and her husband were still on their parents’ plans until recently, and that many others are like her,…