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Your refrigerator is becoming a personal shopper with artificial intelligence. Loading audio narration… Samsung is rolling out a new wave of AI features that can recognize your voice, update your shopping list, and keep track of your ingredients. The company is trying to make the future once captured on the big screen a reality by allowing people to talk to their appliances.The features coming to its new wave of appliances this year include software that can recognize food in your refrigerator, suggest recipes based on what’s available, and add any missing ingredients to your Instacart shopping list.The technology, called Vision…

Tokenmaxxing isn’t just a trend; it’s bona fide advice from Silicon Valley’s leading startup accelerator. Loading audio narration… In a new episode of Y Combinator’s “Startup School,” partner Diana Hu instructs founders how to build an AI-native company. Hu was a YC-backed founder herself, building augmented reality company Escher Reality, which was acquired by Niantic.”Maximizing token usage, not head count, will be the critical shift,” Hu said. “The best companies will be the ones that are tokenmaxxing.”Tokens measure the cost of AI computing. The more tokens spent, the more an individual employee or developer has used their AI tools. (Importantly,…

Sam Altman asked a new model powering ChatGPT what it wants at its party. Loading audio narration… Speaking during a fireside chat at Stripe Sessions, the OpenAI CEO described asking GPT-5.5 what it would want for a debut party.The AI model responded with “a beautiful set of things” it wanted for “the flow of the party,” he said, including holding the event on May 5, keeping speeches short, and having its human creators deliver a toast (the AI emphasized it did not want to give a toast itself).GPT-5.5 also proposed setting up a central place to gather suggestions for GPT…

The organization behind the Academy Awards released new Oscar rules on Friday, including several that address the use of generative artificial intelligence. The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences said that only performances “credited in the film’s legal billing and demonstrably performed by humans with their consent” will be eligible for Academy Awards. Similarly, the academy said that screenplays must be “human-authored” to be eligible. The academy also said it has the right to request more information about a film’s AI usage and “human authorship.” These rule changes come as an independent film is in the works with an…

After battling it out in court this week, OpenAI CEO Sam Altman made a surprising, if not full-throated, gesture to his rival, Elon Musk, on Saturday. Loading audio narration… OpenAI is planning a small celebration on May 5 for the release of its latest model, GPT-5.5. Altman shared an online form for those interested in attending to RSVP, and said Codex, OpenAI’s coding agent, would help the company choose people from the replies.Registration closed quickly, and Altman later said that he’d plan bigger parties in the future.It’s unlikely Musk threw his name into the ring for one of those limited invites, but…

Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang has had enough of your AI hot takes. Loading audio narration… While discussing AI adoption during the “Memos to the President” podcast on Thursday, Huang said industry leaders should “be mindful” of how they talk about the significance of the technology.At one point, he referred to Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei’s prediction that AI could replace 50% of entry-level white-collar jobs in the coming years.”These kinds of comments are not helpful,” Huang said. “They’re made by people who are like me — CEOs. Somehow, because they became CEOs, you adopt a God complex and, before you know…

AI dictation apps have come a long way in a short time. For years they were slow and inaccurate — unless you spoke with a particular accent and enunciated clearly. Advances in large language models (LLMs) and speech-to-text models have changed that, producing systems that can decipher speech more accurately while retaining enough context to format the text correctly. Developers have also built in features to automatically remove filler words, fix stumbles, and handle punctuation — outputting text that needs far fewer edits. With dozens of such apps now on the market, we’ve rounded up our picks for the best…

Warren Buffett is known for not chasing the latest technology trend, preferring to invest within his “circle of competence.” Loading audio narration… Greg Abel, who succeeded the legendary investor as Berkshire Hathaway’s CEO at the start of this year, signaled he’s also cautious about jumping on any bandwagon during the company’s shareholder meeting on Saturday in Omaha.Business Insider’s Theron Mohamed was watching from the press box of the CHI Health Center in Buffett’s hometown when Abel told the crowd that Berkshire wouldn’t be going all in on AI.He struck a very different tone to tech executives such as Tesla’s Elon…

A big change is afoot at Walmart, and some shoppers are starting to notice.It all comes down to one of the smallest (but most important) features of any store: price tags.The retail giant’s adoption of so-called digital shelf labels in place of traditional paper ones is causing a bit of confusion and concern about whether shoppers will get a fair deal.Several lawmakers have filed bills to prevent the tech from being used for surveillance pricing or surge charging. A proposal in New York State would prohibit electronic shelf labels in stores altogether.Walmart said in March that about half of its…

There’s pressure on employees to up their AI token consumption. Loading audio narration… Sylvain Duranton, global leader of BCG X, Boston Consulting Group’s tech build and design division, said companies need to ensure they are preparing for the future.”I think you need to start the pump,” Duranton told Business Insider.Asked about how companies should think about a “Tokenmaxxing” culture, Duranton said early on, companies will go all out before steering their token allocation more.”I feel in the early days, companies will be pushing for massive usage and then progressively allocation, thinking around that, all of that will progress,” he said.…