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Buying a pair of budget headphones doesn’t mean you have to put up with bad sound or stripped-down features. These days, the best budget headphones can get surprisingly close to what you’d hear from pricier models without draining your wallet. To help you find the right fit, our audio experts tested a wide range of options and narrowed things down to the four best cheap headphones you can get for under $100.If you’re after over-ear headphones, the Soundcore Life Q30 are our top pick. They cost around $80 and offer the most impressive active noise canceling (ANC) we’ve seen at…
Longevity secrets with Bryan JohnsonThirty seconds into my conversation with Bryan Johnson on Tuesday night, the longevity influencer suggested Business Insider was trying to kill the audience. Loading audio narration… We had an open bar in San Francisco’s Exploratorium for our first Long Play event, and booze is a big no-no if you want to live forever like him.”The idea that alcohol is a relaxant that makes your life better is a myth,” he said. The much healthier option would have been serving psychedelic mushrooms, he added. Stay tuned for our menu at our next Long Play event in October.Another…
Software engineers have a message for white-collar workers: Get ready. Loading audio narration… Since late last year, advances in tools like Claude Code and Codex have transformed how engineers do their jobs. While some are loving the new era of AI embedded in their workflows, others have experienced a sense of identity loss as they adapt to the new reality.On X last week, Greg Brockman, OpenAI’s cofounder and president, wrote that AI has has dramatically sped up software engineering, and it’s “on track to bring this same transformation to every other kind of work that people do with a computer.””More…
It seems unlikely that Silicon Valley, a place where “cracked” engineers brag about how many AI tokens they’re burning and how little sleep they get, was heavily influenced by a public high school journalism teacher rather than, say, a computer science instructor who moonlights as a drill sergeant. Loading audio narration… That’s the message behind a new documentary, “The Godmother of Silicon Valley,” which celebrates the impact of Esther Wojcicki, 85, known affectionately as “Woj” by the Palo Alto High School students who struggled to pronounce her last name.The documentary premiered on Thursday at the Presidio Theatre in San Francisco.…
When Ryan Daniels began asking job candidates to come in on Sundays, he expected some eye rolls. Loading audio narration… Daniels is the founder of Crosby, a startup-law-firm-hybrid that provides basic legal services to other startups. Instead, he said, many candidates responded with relief. A Sunday interview meant they did not have to burn a vacation day on a hiring process that increasingly asks candidates to prove themselves on the job before they are hired.Employers are pushing deeper into “work trials,” asking candidates to complete projects or audition in the office, as artificial intelligence makes it easier to inflate a…
Indeed is closely watching how its employees are using AI, but it’s staying “far, far away” from any sort of “Tokenmaxxing” leaderboard. Loading audio narration… “We track token use, but we use it in the background,” Indeed’s chief information officer, Anthony Moisant, told Business Insider in an interview. “We definitely are not going to use a leaderboard.”Moisant said there’s nothing “inherently wrong” with the types of reported leaderboards that Meta and other Big Tech companies are using to encourage employees to use as many tokens as possible. He just wants to track metrics that are closer to outcomes.”I think anytime…
The AGI House, in San Francisco’s hilly Twin Peaks neighborhood, is a mansion with an expansive view of the Golden Gate Bridge and the hills of Marin, seven bedrooms, and a toilet on the main floor so modern that it includes written instructions on how to operate. It houses technologists working to accelerate artificial general intelligence, and hosts events that bring together people working toward this mission. But on April 12, the house was reserved for another potentially world-altering development: peptides.More than 100 people arrived for the California Peptide Club, an invite-only gathering to discuss the substances that have become…
Cerebras Systems, a startup building what CEO Andrew Feldman describes as “the fastest AI hardware for training and inference,” has filed to go public. The company previously filed for an initial public offering in 2024, but that was delayed due to a federal review of an investment from Abu Dhabi-based G42 and was ultimately withdrawn. Cerebras raised a $1.1 billion Series G last year, followed by a $1 billion Series H in February at a $23 billion valuation, according to the Wall Street Journal. In recent months, the company announced an agreement with Amazon Web Services to use Cerebras chips…
Despite recently being designated a supply-chain risk by the Pentagon, Anthropic is still talking to high-level members of the Trump administration. There were earlier signs of a thawing relationship — or a sense that not every part of the administration wanted to cut off Anthropic — with reports saying that Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent and Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell were encouraging the heads of major banks to test out Anthropic’s new Mythos model. Anthropic co-founder Jack Clark seemed to confirm this, claiming that the ongoing fight over the supply-chain risk designation is a “narrow contracting dispute” that would not…
A new side project, Lunches.fyi, takes the AI tooling craze in a lighter direction, ranking tech companies not by market cap, but by cafeteria quality. Loading audio narration… It was built by coding prankster Riley Walz in about an hour using voice-dictated commands into OpenAI’s Codex (a task he says might previously have taken 20+ hours).The site scrapes publicly available tech company menus and uses AI to categorize and score meals. Early results crowned Nvidia a surprise leader, serving everything from “truffle mushroom pizza” to leafy greens worthy of its stock performance.But the experiment also highlights a familiar truth: AI…