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There are a lot of things about parenting that are unpleasant drudgery. There’s the obvious ones: diapers, cleaning bottle parts, picking up Legos, listening to “Wheels on the Bus” over and over.As kids get older, you’ll also discover so many more annoying things: The constant sorting of too-small clothes, dividing between storage, donation, and hand-me-downs. All the separate apps for messaging used by schools, bus companies, daycares, and sports leagues seem to have UI designed by Satan himself. The fact that there will be at least one early release or day off from school on a random non-holiday day you…
OpenAI says Apple got some of its facts wrong — and says it has the receipts to back it up.In a Tuesday blog post, OpenAI called Apple’s July complaint accusing the ChatGPT maker of stealing trade secrets a “careless, aggressive and oddly personal lawsuit.”OpenAI said Apple had made mistakes when it earlier contacted the AI lab about its concerns, including “emailing the wrong person after confusing two Asian last names.”Last month, Apple filed a suit against OpenAI, accusing it of stealing trade secrets using a “coordinated pattern of misconduct at an institutional level.” Apple said that a former employee who…
To stand out in this job market, think like a porcupine.Hiring leaders are on a “spike” kick, dropping the term on podcasts and social-media posts. These recruiters aim for employees who lead in one skill, rather than those who are well-rounded. Shopify’s Tobi Lütke and Coinbase’s Brian Armstrong have agreed with the theory of spikiness.The underlying idea isn’t new; VC and author Richard Koch has been writing about having a “20% spike” since 2005. It’s taken on new relevance, though, thanks to a tough job market and AI’s blurring of job titles.Candidates need to stand out. They’ll need a spike.What…
Backpacks can be fashionable and functional, but they can also be too heavy — weighed down by digital devices, musical instruments, sports equipment and more. Some kids carry home a laptop or tablet and textbooks, too. It’s good to be prepared, but kids who walk to school or participate in extracurricular activities may be lugging more than their bodies can handle. Lockers and classroom storage aren’t available everywhere — and a child carrying too much weight might not be ready to learn.As families begin back-to-school shopping, here’s how to know if your child’s backpack is too heavy, and how to…
K-pop’s biggest stars, from BTS to Seventeen, have danced routines that Youngjun Choi choreographed. Now, the top choreographer is betting that AI can help anyone with an idea, a phone, and no dance training to create the next hit K-pop dance.It all started six years ago when Choi met Joon Jung, then a dancer in his 20s who wanted to figure out a way for choreographers to build sustainable careers.Now, with more than 800 K-pop routines to his name, Choi has gone into business with Jung. They co-founded the startup MVNT to build an AI system for programmable dance, much…
AI’s future needs safety, not a catchy 2000s tech slogan, says the co-CEO of Waymo.”In Silicon Valley, there’s a common mantra to ‘move fast and break things,'” Dmitri Dolgov said at a Y Combinator talk released on Monday. “However, when you’re dealing with atoms instead of bits, breaking things is not really okay.”Waymo was spun out of Google’s self-driving car project in 2016 but remains owned by Alphabet. Dolgov, who has worked on the project since 2009, shared his version of Mark Zuckerberg’s original mantra, which guided Facebook during its hyper-growth years.Dolgov’s version applies to physical AI, where the stakes…
Hollywood actor and musician Jared Leto was in the process of raising a new venture capital fund before sexual misconduct allegations catapulted him into the headlines last week, Business Insider has learned.A document reviewed by Business Insider says the “Dallas Buyers Club” and “My So-Called Life” star was targeting a $75 million fund last month. This would be the first fund for the actor, who has a history of angel investing with his own personal money.An employee from venture heavyweight Andreessen Horowitz, or a16z, reached out to at least one prospective investor on his behalf before the allegations surfaced, according…
Palantir CEO Alex Karp on Monday once again warned that AI frontier labs are too untrustworthy for enterprises. The CEO, who famously studied philosophy and earned a PhD in social theory, implied in Palantir’s quarterly shareholder letter that these were the kinds of capitalists who gave rise to Marxist socialism. “There are Marxist overtones and undertones to our business,” he wrote in a letter to shareholders about Palantir’s outstanding quarter. “Others, including many of those building large language models, intend, knowingly or otherwise, to capture the means of production of their purported partners.” To be clear, AI labs have hardly…
The Hugging Face CEO is making a case for open-weight AI models — with a warning for the US.Clément Delangue said on CNBC’s “Squawk on the Street” show on Monday that China is winning the AI race because the country is “more open science and open models than the US.””I think they are,” Delangue said Monday on CNBC when asked by host Sara Eisen whether China is winning the AI race. “So there’s this kind of emulation and the rate of progress is much faster there than in the US, where everyone is building in silos in some of the…
Beneath a canopy of trees at a 140-acre resort, bistro lights illuminated a long wooden table set for about 30 people. There, content creators gathered for dinner of farm-to-table food and wine.At one end of the table, a glowing OpenAI logo completed the scene.Over the weekend, several influencers posted videos from what they called “OpenAI Summer Camp,” held at Wildflower Farms, a luxury resort in New York’s Hudson Valley. Weekend room rates typically exceed $2,000 a night.According to attendees’ posts, the itinerary included meals, lessons about OpenAI’s latest tools, and outdoor activities, including a session with a beekeeper.Creators also received…