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If the AI boom collapses, it won’t be as catastrophic as the dot-com crash — but the shockwave will be felt far and wide, Igor Pejic says. Loading audio narration… The banker and author of a new guide for tech investors titled “Tech Money” told Business Insider this week that Big Tech’s unprecedented dominance will limit the magnitude of any market decline.Pejic underscored the greater “stickiness” of companies like Alphabet and Microsoft compared to the leading companies of the past, such as Exxon Mobil, General Motors, and IBM.Big Tech companies have remained dominant for decades partly because of their platform…

The math it took to calculate the number of calories in your favorite snack involved a lot more guesstimation than you may think.The Food and Drug Administration began requiring standardized nutrition labeling — including the number of calories per serving — on most packaged foods in 1990. Obesity rates skyrocketed in the United States over the next few decades, spurring a 2016 change to the rule to list calorie counts on nutrition labels in a large, bold font.Just how accurate are these calorie counts?The popular protein bar brand David is currently fighting a lawsuit alleging the company’s bars contain nearly…

The math it took to calculate the number of calories in your favorite snack involved a lot more guesstimation than you may think.The Food and Drug Administration began requiring standardized nutrition labeling — including the number of calories per serving — on most packaged foods in 1990. Obesity rates skyrocketed in the United States over the next few decades, spurring a 2016 change to the rule to list calorie counts on nutrition labels in a large, bold font.Just how accurate are these calorie counts?The popular protein bar brand David is currently fighting a lawsuit alleging the company’s bars contain nearly…

Subscribe to The Post Most newsletter for the most important and interesting stories from The Washington Post. Wow, time flies. Nearly 20 years ago, soon after my 50th birthday, I started making a list of what I considered mistakes my parents (and many of their generation) had made as they aged – and that I swore I would not repeat. Some of the items were silly (“I won’t color my hair anymore”), but most of them had substance (“I won’t limit myself to friends my own age” and “I won’t worry about what I can’t control”), and a few took…

For the techno-optimized, nearly everything in life can be improved with the help of engineering. Bots can auto-swipe on Tinder and flirt with matches on your behalf. AI avatars can attend Zoom meetings so that you don’t have to. Almost nothing is off limits, including the flesh. For that, there are peptides.Scientifically, peptides are short-chain amino acids, or little chemical messengers that tell cells what to do. Culturally, they are vials of injectable drugs that have taken Silicon Valley and Hollywood hostage. Over the last year, scores of people in both ends of California have begun dosing themselves with compounds…

This week, a topic that has been boomeranging around Silicon Valley bounced into the spotlight: AI tokens as compensation. The idea is straightforward enough — rather than giving engineers only salary, equity, and bonuses, companies would also hand them a budget of AI tokens, the computational units that power tools like Claude, ChatGPT, and Gemini. Spend them to run agents, automate tasks, crank through code. The pitch is that access to more compute makes engineers more productive, and that more productive engineers are worth more. It’s an investment in the person holding them, is the idea. Jensen Huang, the leather-jacket-wearing…

Elon Musk unveiled more details on his Terafab plans on Saturday evening — and the Tesla CEO has an ambitious vision for the project. Loading audio narration… “We’re starting a galactic civilization,” Musk said, speaking from the defunct Seaholm Power Plant in Austin.The Terafab is Musk’s giant chip manufacturing venture between his companies, Tesla and SpaceX. XAI is also included as the AI startup was acquired by Musk’s space company in February.The idea of developing a chip manufacturing plant alone is “herculean,” as Morgan Stanley’s semiconductor analysts wrote in a recent note. The amount of money it would take, along…

I tried something different at my friends’ annual Oscars party this year: I outsourced my ballot to Anthropic’s Claude.It beat around the bush at first, so I asked it to just give me the winners. Claude obliged, delivering confident picks across nearly every category. And it worked.I won the pool and walked away with a box of chocolates and bragging rights. Alistair Barr used Anthropic’s Claude to make Oscar picks  Alistair Barr/Business Insider But here’s the twist: Claude didn’t even complete the assignment fully.It failed to pick a winner for Casting, a new Oscar category this year. Maybe the model…

Hachette Book Group said it will not be publishing a novel called “Shy Girl” over concerns that artificial intelligence was used to generate the text. The novel was scheduled to be published in the United States this spring. Hachette said it will also discontinue the book in the United Kingdom, where it’s already available.  Although the publisher claimed the decision came after a thorough review of the text, reviewers on GoodReads and YouTube had been speculating that the book was likely AI-generated. And The New York Times said it asked Hachette about the “Shy Girl” concerns the day before the…

Georgia police have arrested and accused a 31-year-old woman of murder after she sought emergency medical care when she took pills to induce an abortion.Alexia Moore, of Kingsland, is held in Camden County jail on suspicion of murder and drug possession after police say she terminated her second-trimester pregnancy in late December. Georgia police said Moore violated the state’s abortion law that bans abortions after six weeks, when a heartbeat is detected.Local prosecutors have yet to indict Moore after Kingsland police took her into custody on March 4 in southeastern Georgia, about 100 miles from Savannah, according to court records.…