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Anthropic’s Boris Cherny has a simple list of principles for his team and, unsurprisingly, Claude is at the center.”If you have Claude, you can really automate a lot of work, and that’s kind of what we see over and over,” Cherny said during a recent episode of “Lenny’s podcast.”Host Lenny Rachitsky told Cherny that he heard one of the principles is, “What’s better than doing something? Having Claude do it.”Cherny said one of his other principles is “underfunding things a little bit,” because it forces his team to really rely on AI tools like Claude.”There’s this interesting thing when you…
Sure, ChatGPT could help a board member write up a memo ahead of a meeting. But OpenAI’s chairman says there’s value to going old-school.Bret Taylor, OpenAI’s board chair, said in a recent appearance on the “Uncapped with Jack Altman” podcast that he prefers concise but detailed written documents from board members over slide presentations. And he doesn’t want them relying on AI.”I really like written documents for boards over presentations,” Taylor said. “You end up letting people synthesize information ahead of the board meeting, so you end up with more substantive discussions in the board room.”Taylor, the former co-CEO of…
The largest nurses strike in New York City history ended this weekend when the last holdouts in the 41-day labor action overwhelmingly voted to ratify a contract and agreed to return to work, officials said.Around 4,200 members of the New York State Nurses Association (NYSNA) employed by the private New York-Presbyterian system approved on Saturday a contract that includes more than a 12% increase in salaries over the life of the three-year deal.The nurses and management of the New York-Presbyterian system also agreed to improve enforceable safe staffing standards, boost protection for nurses from workplace violence and, for the first…
With an eye toward luring more AI investment to the country, India is hosting a four-day AI Impact Summit this week that will be attended by executives from major AI labs and Big Tech, including OpenAI, Anthropic, Nvidia, Microsoft, Google, and Cloudflare, as well as heads of state. The event, which expects 250,000 visitors, will see Alphabet CEO Sundar Pichai, OpenAI CEO Sam Altman, Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei, Reliance Chairman Mukesh Ambani, and Google DeepMind CEO Demis Hassabis in attendance. India’s prime minister, Narendra Modi, is scheduled to deliver a speech with French President Emmanuel Macron on Thursday. Here are…
When you open the refrigerator and find a wedge of cheese flecked with green mold, or a package of chicken that smells faintly sour, it can be tempting to gamble with your stomach rather than waste food.But the line between harmless fermentation and dangerous spoilage is sharp. Consuming spoiled foods exposes the body to a range of microbial toxins and biochemical by-products, many of which can interfere with essential biological processes. The health effects can vary from mild gastrointestinal discomfort to severe conditions such as liver cancer.I am a toxicologist and researcher specializing in how foreign chemicals such as those…
Super Early Bird pricing for TechCrunch Disrupt 2026 ends February 27 at 11:59 p.m. PT. That means you have just 6 days left to secure the lowest ticket prices of the year. If Disrupt has been on your must-attend list, this is your moment. Save up to $680 on your individual pass or secure up to 30% off with community passes before prices increase. Register here. From October 13-15 at San Francisco’s Moscone West, TechCrunch will bring together 10,000 founders, investors, operators, and innovators for three focused days built around launching, scaling, and shaping what’s next in tech. What’s at Disrupt? Disrupt is where you get:…
When 13-year-old music prodigy Itzhak Perlman performed on “The Ed Sullivan Show” in 1958, viewers could see his extraordinary talent. What they couldn’t see were the braces and crutches he needed to walk.Perlman was four when he contracted polio. “I was already running and walking, and I remember one morning when I got up and I couldn’t stand,” he said. “I usually would stand up in the bed. And then I would go out and get dressed and so on. All of a sudden it was like, Stop. Can’t do that anymore.”Perlman, like hundreds of thousands of other children around…
Looking aheadThe data center boom crept up on America, and we were ready. Business Insider jumped on the topic nearly two years ago, and this past week we won a George Polk Award for our work, which included a first-of-its-kind interactive map of data centers across the country and a riveting video showing their impact.We checked in with lead journalists on the package to get their take on what to watch in data centers this year.Hannah Beckler, data centers’ use of water and electricity to produce computing power for AI was a big part of your work. Looking ahead, what…
This as-told-to essay is based on a conversation with Quang Hoang, the 37-year-old cofounder and CEO of Vybe, who lives in San Francisco. It’s been edited for length and clarity.We started 10 years ago. We were out of college and wanted to solve a problem that we experienced ourselves. When you’re a student, you don’t have that many problems.When we were interns, we had a lot of expense reports, but we would lose receipts and lose money. When you’re a student, you don’t have much money. One of the first problems we wanted to solve was: Let’s build a mobile…
A top Anthropic engineer said a new generation of AI agents capable of operating computers will reshape nearly every internet-based job in America.And he said the change is coming very soon.Boris Cherny — the creator of Claude Code at Anthropic, the company best known for its Claude chatbot — recently appeared on “Lenny’s Podcast,” hosted by Lenny Rachitsky.He said AI systems that can take action across workplace computer tools — like the ones Anthropic sells access to — are advancing rapidly and could soon alter responsibilities for software engineers, product managers, designers, and other knowledge workers.”It’s going to expand to…