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When Logan Brown left Cooley to start a legal tech firm this spring, she moved to New York City. She has begun recruiting lawyers to her venture.”It’s not that hard of a sell,” Brown, 30, said on a phone call from her apartment in the Financial District. More junior lawyers want to help build the future, not watch it pass them by. For them, New York is the obvious place to be.Legal tech skyrocketed this year as corporate clients pushed law firms to use tools that can lower costs and improve results. The change is playing out floor by floor…
When 2-month-old daughter Nara’s leg was swollen, Myranda Phillips did what most parents would: She took the infant to Riley Children’s Health hospital in Indiana.”It was warm to the touch,” Myranda Phillips told IndyStar, part of the USA TODAY Network. “She wasn’t fussy at all, but I was changing her diaper when I noticed. I was calling and asking other parents we know for advice, and ultimately decided to take her.”She and her husband, Grant Phillips, had no idea that decision would take them on a year-long emotional roller coaster with the Indiana Department of Child Services (DCS). They’d be…
Four years ago, Pinterest was bleeding users.The platform known for mood boards had made a big effort to compete with TikTok — as did nearly every other social media platform at the time — with short-form video, shoppable livestreaming, and paying creators.It didn’t work. When Bill Ready took over as Pinterest’s CEO in 2022, he felt the company needed a new direction.”I didn’t think the world needed a fourth or fifth best TikTok,” Ready told Business Insider in an interview. Ready, who left his previous post as Google’s president of commerce, decided that a search experience that was both personalized…
One of the most influential software engineers has hope for junior developers amid the industry-wide uncertainty caused by artificial intelligence.Martin Fowler sat down on a November 19 episode of “The Pragmatic Engineer” podcast to discuss the state of the software engineering world in 2025 — a year when major tech companies aren’t holding back when it comes to job cuts. Layoffs.ai has tracked around 114,000 tech employee layoffs so far in 2025, compared with nearly 153,000 in all of 2024.The 62-year-old, who has written several books about software development and is the chief scientist at software company Thoughtworks, said the…
Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang wants employees to use AI whenever they can — and he insists they shouldn’t worry about losing their jobs in the process.In an all-hands meeting on Thursday, the day after the chipmaker reported record earnings, Huang responded to a question about managers instructing employees to use AI less.”My understanding is Nvidia has some managers who are telling their people to use less AI,” he said at the meeting, which Business Insider listened to. “Are you insane?”Huang said he strongly disapproved.”I want every task that is possible to be automated with artificial intelligence to be automated with…
Google has partnered with Accel to find and fund India’s earliest-stage AI startups in a first-of-its-kind collaboration for the Google AI Futures Fund, launched earlier this year. On Tuesday, Accel and Google announced a partnership to jointly invest up to $2 million in each startup through Accel’s Atoms program, with both firms contributing up to $1 million. The 2026 cohort will focus on founders in India and the Indian diaspora building AI products from day one. “The thought process is building AI products for billions of Indians, as well as supporting AI products built in India for global markets,” Prayank…
Jessie Creel’s cough started in May last year.At the time, a primary care physician diagnosed the mother of three with pneumonia. But the antibiotics didn’t work and her cough persisted. During a camping trip in the summer, she coughed up blood. She kept losing weight. She wasn’t able to sleep.Subscribe to The Post Most newsletter for the most important and interesting stories from The Washington Post. Six months later, Creel, then 42, was diagnosed with Stage 4 lung cancer. She was active, a runner and a swimmer, didn’t drink, and had never even held a cigarette.More diagnoses like hers are…
“When people see it, they say, ‘that’s it?… It’s so simple.’” That’s how OpenAI CEO Sam Altman describes how he thinks people will respond to seeing the company’s forthcoming AI hardware device for the first time. The device is the result of the collaboration between OpenAI and Apple’s former chief designer Jony Ive. Not much is known yet about the product except that it’s rumored to be “screenless” and pocket-sized. Earlier this year, OpenAI acquired Ive’s design startup, io, to bring AI to the masses through some sort of tech gadgetry. This weekend, Altman and Ive talked more about their…
OpenAI’s social app Sora launched with a controversial feature called Cameo, allowing users to deepfake themselves or others (with permission). The feature had a tenuous rollout — Martin Luther King Jr.’s estate had to get involved, to give you an idea of what went on — but now it faces a new challenge. Apparently, Cameo — the app where you buy custom video messages from celebrities — can claim the trademark of the word “cameo.” U.S. District Judge Eumi K. Lee imposed a temporary restraining order that blocks OpenAI from using the word “cameo,” as well as any similar-sounding words…
Tatiana Schlossberg’s surprising revelation that she is battling terminal cancer has put a spotlight on the type of cancer with which she was diagnosed, acute myeloid leukemia.Schlossberg, the daughter of Caroline Kennedy, revealed in an emotional essay published Saturday that she was diagnosed with a “rare mutation” of acute myeloid leukemia in May 2024 after giving birth to her second child.After undergoing a bone-marrow transplant as well as chemotherapy and immunotherapy, Schlossberg said has been told by doctors she may have less than a year to live.Steven Senne/AP – PHOTO: Tatiana Schlossberg addresses an audience during the John F. Kennedy Profile in Courage…