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Looking into your peers’ pockets is a bad habit. But good luck telling Blue Origin employees that.For most of us, SpaceX’s eye-popping IPO showed us investors’ eagerness to back Elon Musk and his space and AI ambitions. For employees of Jeff Bezos’ Blue Origin, the other rocket company, it was a reminder of what could have been.BI’s Tom Carter reports on the FOMO among some Blue Origin workers watching their SpaceX rivals’ net worths skyrocket while theirs stay firmly grounded.Conversations with former Blue Origin employees revealed how the company’s old stock options plan essentially left them holding lottery tickets. Workers…

Dell computers might not be flashy, but there’s nothing dull about Michael Dell right now.The founder and CEO of Dell Technologies is proving that tech fortunes don’t have to be fleeting. Thirty years after he first became a billionaire, Dell is now the fifth-wealthiest person on the planet, according to the Bloomberg Billionaires Index.The personal-computing pioneer has leapfrogged Warren Buffett, Jensen Huang, Steve Ballmer, Mark Zuckerberg, and Larry Ellison on the rich list this year.His net worth has surged by around $77 billion since the start of January; only Elon Musk has gained more in that timeframe.Dell’s $216 billion net…

The robotics startup FieldAI has hit a $100 million milestone.The company, which builds software to help robots navigate challenging environments such as mines and construction sites, said it has grown to over $100 million in revenue and in customer contracts. The contracts come from 30 customers across Europe, Asia, and the US, CEO and cofounder Ali Agha told Business Insider.”We have seen very, very fast growth in the last several months,” Agha said.Founded in 2023, FieldAI is building a “universal general-purpose brain” that works across robots, tasks, and environments. Its software can run on a range of machines, from humanoids…

Good news, students who have decided to double-major in college: Stripe cofounder John Collison predicts that the late nights, schedule juggling, and meticulous planning will be worth it in the age of AI.Collison, who also serves as Stripe’s president, said he’s “bullish” on double majors and they “will do incredibly well over the next 10 to 20 years.””If you understand software and understand marketing, you now can go massively improve the entire marketing funnel for your company,” Collison said earlier this spring on the tech talk show TBPN. “Now, one person can do what would have taken 20 people dredging…

New research from RBC Capital Markets turned up a string of unexpected findings that challenge many of the biggest AI narratives.Every six months or so, Rishi Jaluria and other RBC tech analysts survey more than 100 chief information officers and other tech leaders to gauge spending on corporate IT. These annual budgets represent many billions of dollars.And Jaluria is no AI cheerleader. He’s urged caution when it comes to AI adoption by businesses. So I pay attention when he publishes.This time, the message is clear: Companies are spending a lot on AI and are willing to spend even more.”We came…

Some of Anthropic’s employees are raking in over $1 million in base salary, new data on the AI juggernaut shows.Anthropic could go public as early as this fall. As it ramps up for what could be a $1 trillion IPO, the San Francisco company has also accelerated its hiring over the last year — and has kept its workers well paid.Federal filings from the startup’s H-1B visa sponsorships provide a window into the hefty pay packages it offers employees. Two salaries in Anthropic’s recent H-1B crop stand out for their staggering size. Both of their roles are listed as Member…

AUSTIN, Texas (AP) — The Texas education board will vote Friday on a required reading list for more than 5 million public school students that includes Bible passages, widening conservative efforts to push Christian teachings in U.S. classrooms.The proposal in Texas — which would mandate literary works such as Charles Dickens’ “Great Expectations” alongside parables from the New Testament — has been closely followed by education observers who say it appears to be the first of its kind in the nation.If approved by the Texas State Board of Education, which is controlled by Republicans, the reading list would take effect…

OpenAI’s release of its newest model, GPT 5.6, reportedly won’t be like its previous releases. Instead of distributing it to the public, the company plans to share it only with a select group of close partners because the Trump administration told it to, reports The Information. At a meeting this week, CEO Sam Altman reportedly told staff that the government would be “approving access customer by customer” during a preview period. Altman reportedly added that if the limited release goes well, OpenAI hopes to follow with a general, broader release a “couple of weeks later.” In other words, the Trump…

A federal judge has blocked part of a Trump administration plan that would have limited access to loans for students pursuing graduate degrees in nursing, physical therapy, public health and some other fields.The American Association of Nurse Practitioners, one of the groups that sued, described the ruling in a Facebook post Thursday as “an important step for NP students, the future health care workforce and the patients who depend on them.”At issue are caps on federal student loans that were passed as part of the One Big Beautiful Bill Act and set to take effect in July. While graduate students…