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If you want to succeed at one of Elon Musk’s companies, you might try listening to Shaun Maguire.As a partner at Sequoia Capital, Maguire has led investments in several of Musk’s companies, including The Boring Company, xAI, and SpaceX. He said that three key traits help people excel at Musk’s businesses on an episode of “Relentless,” which aired on November 17.Anyone who works for Musk can volunteer to take on a task, said Maguire, who The Information has dubbed the “Musk Whisperer.” Continuously raising your hand and delivering will help you move up.”Being extremely competent and being willing to bet…
This as-told-to essay is based on a conversation with Deep Shah, a 30-year-old senior software engineer at Google, based in Mountain View, CA. The following has been edited for length and clarity.Since I joined Google in 2018, it has been amazing to see the impact I’ve had.I started at Google Bangalore in India, where I was part of a team using machine learning and AI on Google Maps. After spending a few years there, I moved to the US in 2021 to work at the Google Mountain View location in California.I’ve been at Google Mountain View for around four years,…
Two Black women said they were denied immediate medical attention despite being minutes away from giving birth.The incidents, which happened days apart in different states, highlight long-standing disparities in health outcomes for Black women, health experts say.In a TikTok video that has gone viral, Texas resident Karrie Jones can be seen screaming while a nurse at Dallas Regional Medical Center in Mesquite asks a series of intake questions, including her due date.“Right now,” Jones yells as she writhes in pain in a wheelchair.Jones’ mother, who took the video on Nov. 11, can be heard asking the nurse whether she treats…
TOKYO (AP) — Ryuichi Ichinokawa’s life could be right out of the movie “Rental Family” as the founder nearly two decades ago of the Heart Project business in Japan, which he bills as a surrogate attendance service complete with furnishing of extras and family members.He has hired dozens of people to act like reporters with cameras and voice recorders, taking notes and milling with real journalists to fill up an otherwise rather vacant event. He has posed as the boyfriend of a woman who needs to discuss legal paperwork with her former spouse. And he has gone to a hospital…
Clare Kilcullen always wanted to be a mother, but when she went through early menopause in her 20s, she wasn’t sure how that would happen.”[I thought] it would probably be an egg donor, but then in my 30s, I still hadn’t met the right person, so I decided to go and do it on my own,” Kilcullen told CBS News.In July, Kilcullen gave birth to her daughter, Marlowe, thanks to a frozen embryo donated by a couple from Canada.Embryo donation is gaining in popularity. Frozen donated embryo transfers in the United States nearly quadrupled from 2004 to 2019, according to…
A page of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s website was changed to include a false claim about autism and vaccines. Multiple CDC officials familiar with the situation said the change was made by political appointees inside the Department of Health and Human Services without input from relevant agency staffers.The page about vaccines and autism formerly said that “no links have been found between any vaccine ingredients and Autism spectrum disorder.” The website has now been changed to say, “‘Vaccines do not cause autism’ is not an evidence-based claim” — a statement the Autism Science Foundation calls “misinformation” that…
2025-11-21T00:53:21.276Z Share Facebook Email X LinkedIn Reddit Bluesky WhatsApp Copy link 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. In an all-hands meeting on Thursday, Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang addressed the company’s earnings. Huang said that “the market did not appreciate” Nvidia’s knockout numbers. Huang said the company was in a no-win situation amid AI bubble chatter. In a company meeting on Thursday, Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang said…
WASHINGTON (AP) — The Trump administration says its plan to dismantle the Education Department offers a fix for the nation’s lagging academics — a solution that could free schools from the strictures of federal influence. Yet to some school and state officials, the plan appears to add more bureaucracy, with no clear benefit for students who struggle with math or reading.Instead of being housed in a single agency, much of the Education Department’s work now will be spread across four other federal departments. For President Donald Trump, it’s a step toward fully closing the department and giving states more power…
Elon Musk’s Grok really, really loves its creator. Since this week’s release of Grok 4.1, X users have circulated posts and screenshots that show Grok vastly overestimating Musk’s abilities — like when Grok was asked about how Musk would perform as a professional football player. “hey @grok if you had the number one overall pick in the 1998 NFL draft and your team needed a quarterback, would you have taken Peyton Manning, Ryan Leaf, or Elon Musk?” one user asked. “Elon Musk, without hesitation,” Grok said. The AI explained that Peyton Manning has a strong legacy, but Musk would “redefine…
By Diana Novak Jones(Reuters) -New Jersey’s top court on Thursday became the first in the U.S. to prohibit prosecutors from presenting expert testimony that shaking a baby can on its own cause injuries severe enough to justify bringing child abuse charges.The diagnosis of “Shaken Baby Syndrome” or Abusive Head Trauma has formed the basis of thousands of criminal child abuse cases since the 1970s. It is a leading cause of child abuse-related deaths in children under five, according to the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.But the science supporting the diagnosis has come under scrutiny in recent years, with…