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On the Wednesday, March 4, 2026, episode of The Excerpt podcast: Knitting. Crochet. Painting. Woodworking. Hands-on hobbies are booming again — and scientists say the benefits go far beyond passing the time. Daisy Fancourt, professor of psychobiology and epidemiology at University College London, joins The Excerpt to break down what happens in the brain and body when we create, why repetitive crafts can calm the mind and how creative hobbies may play a bigger role in health than many people realize.Hit play on the player below to hear the podcast and follow along with the transcript beneath it. This transcript was automatically…
Want to work at Meta? Boz just gave you a guide.Andrew Bosworth — also known as “Boz” — is Meta’s chief technology officer, overseeing divisions from the metaverse and gaming to AI glasses. On Monday, a respondent to his Instagram AMA asked what “type of person” thrived at Meta.”It’s a good question,” Bosworth said. “You should probably ask my org.”Bosworth went on to share seven traits that he liked in an employee.First, they have to be “relentless in pursuit of doing great work.” Meta employees take “pride and ownership” in their work, he said. They also “take it personally.”Two of Bosworth’s tips…
For decades, venture capital has run on instinct as a relationship-driven business built on gut calls and insider access to Silicon Valley’s hottest startups. Now, in the middle of the AI boom, one firm is trying to turn startup investing into a data science.San Francisco-based TRAC has used a proprietary AI model to generate a fresh list of early-stage startups it predicts are most likely to become unicorns, or companies valued at more than a billion dollars. And two companies from its last list have already exploded into $11 billion juggernauts.In 2023, TRAC first revealed 30 of the startups its…
Some people are angry with OpenAI, and it’s about more than just the company’s deal with the Pentagon.On Tuesday evening, I visited the OpenAI headquarters in Mission Bay, San Francisco, and I was met with a relatively small but energetic and diverse group of protesters, each with very different demands. This protest was part of the nascent QuitGPT movement; between 40 and 50 people attended, holding signs and chalking hundreds of slogans on the sidewalk.OpenAI triggered widespread backlash when it signed a contract with the Pentagon on Friday, hours after President Donald Trump ordered federal agencies to halt use of…
NEW YORK (AP) — Fewer U.S. women died around the time of childbirth in 2024, a government analysis shows, and provisional data suggests the trend may have continued last year.The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention on Wednesday reported that 649 mothers died in 2024 during pregnancy or shortly after giving birth. That is down from 669 deaths in 2023, and a continued drop from 2022 and 2021 — when it was the highest level in more than 50 years.Available preliminary data suggests the trend continued in 2025, said Eugene Declercq, a Boston University researcher who studies federal data.But…
Some contractors working for Handshake AI say the AI training startup has denied them up to several thousand dollars each for work they performed, after accusing them of breaking platform rules.Dozens of others who claim to have worked for Handshake have shared similar stories on Reddit, and the company has faced lawsuits from two contractors over withheld pay.San Francisco-based Handshake AI expanded from a job platform aimed at young professionals to the data-labeling industry. It’s part of a slew of startups that pay hundreds of thousands of part-time contractors around the world to filter, rank, and train AI responses for…
As competition among AI startups heats up, founders and VCs are turning to novel valuation mechanisms to manufacture a perception of market dominance. Until recently, the most sought-after companies raised multiple rounds of funding in quick succession at escalating valuations. However, because constant fundraising distracts founders from building their products, lead VCs have devised a new pricing structure that effectively consolidates what would have been two separate funding cycles into one. Recent rounds employing this scheme include Aaru’s Series A. The synthetic-customer research startup raised a round led by Redpoint, which invested a large portion of its check at a…
Alibaba’s Qwen AI project has lost one of its most visible technical leaders just a day after the Chinese tech giant unveiled its new Qwen 3.5 open-weight small models. Junyang Lin, a central technical leader on Alibaba’s Qwen team, said in a post on X on Tuesday that he was “stepping down” from the project, without elaborating. He joined Alibaba in July 2019 and became part of the Qwen team in April 2023, according to his LinkedIn profile. The abrupt departure, which drew strong reactions from colleagues and industry partners, comes as global competition among AI developers intensifies and companies…
2026-03-03T22:14:20.598Z 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. One of the wildest stories in tech right now is what’s happening at Anthropic. New data from Levels.fyi shows how some employees at this AI startup have effectively become multimillionaires about a year after joining.One engineer who started in late 2024 got 60,000 stock options at a $13 strike…
If you’ve seen the recent ads attacking New York assembly member Alex Bores, you’ll know he used to work for Palantir, the AI company that’s powering the controversial raids and high-volume deportation efforts from U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement. The ads even accuse Bores of having made hundreds of thousands of dollars building the tech for ICE and “powering their deportations.” But that’s not quite the whole story. “I quit Palantir specifically over its work with ICE in 2019,” Bores told TechCrunch on last week’s episode of Equity. Now he’s running for New York’s 12th congressional district, with Big…