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If you’ve been following recent debates about health, you’ve been hearing a lot about vaccines, diet, measles, Medicaid cuts and health insurance costs – but much less about one of the greatest threats to global public health: climate change.Anybody who’s fallen ill during a heat wave, struggled while breathing wildfire smoke or been injured cleaning up from a hurricane knows that climate change can threaten human health. Studies show that heat, air pollution, disease spread and food insecurity linked to climate change are worsening and costing millions of lives around the world each year.The U.S. government formally recognized these risks…
World Labs, the startup founded by AI pioneer Fei-Fei Li, is launching its first commercial world model product. Marble is now available via freemium and paid tiers that let users turn text prompts, photos, videos, 3D layouts or panoramas into editable, downloadable 3D environments. The launch of the generative world model, first released in limited beta preview two months ago, comes a little over a year after World Labs came out of stealth with $230 million in funding, and puts the startup ahead of competitors building world models. World models are AI systems that generate an internal representation of an…
Power demands of data centers have grown from tens to 200 kilowatts in just a few years, a pace that has data center developers scrambling to design future facilities that can handle the load. “In the next couple of years, it’s going to be 600 kilowatts, and then we’re going to a megawatt,” Tim Heidel, CEO of Veir, told TechCrunch. “We’re speaking to folks that are now trying to wrap their heads around the architecture for how you design data centers that have multi-megawatt racks.” At those scales, even the low-voltage cables that bring power to the racks start to…
Software engineers don’t just code; they plan, design, and can even manage teams. One former Uber engineer leader advises tech workers to stay close to the fundamentals.Joakim Recht spent nearly nine years climbing Uber’s engineering ladder, from senior software engineer to distinguished engineer. On “The Peterman Pod,” Recht said that all engineers — even those in management positions — should be writing code.”A software engineer needs to write code,” Recht said. “I know that some people find that pretty controversial for some reason.”The engineering philosophy applies to “any level,” Recht said. “If your title includes engineer, you should be writing…
2025-11-12T10:43:01.232Z 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. OpenAI is giving a free year of ChatGPT to service members and veterans who recently left the service. The AI company’s veteran employees also created a list of helpful ChatGPT prompts. The goal is to assist veterans as they transition out of military service. OpenAI’s veteran employees want to…
Palantir Technologies is doubling down on a novel talent pipeline: high schoolers.On Monday, the defense tech software giant launched applications for the second cohort of its New York City-based Meritocracy Fellowship, a months-long internship program for 18-year-olds who have recently graduated from high school.Over 500 people applied to the first cohort, and 22 are currently in the program, according to head of talent Marge York. “More than a handful” will wrap up the program in December with an offer to immediately join Palantir as full-time employees, she added.The second cohort will receive a stipend of $5,400 a month and will…
Microsoft AI CEO Mustafa Suleyman’s expectations for how his employees work at the office are uniquely strict within the company.Suleyman requires employees to work from the office more than is standard at the company and generally prefers to have open floor plans, a polarizing concept at Microsoft and in engineering in general.”I very much believe in the in-person working culture,” Suleyman told Business Insider. “We’ve been defragmenting our culture and trying to concentrate.”Microsoft recently announced a new return-to-office mandate requiring most employees to work in an office at least three days a week, starting January 26.Inside Business is today’s must-read…
Figma is expanding its presence in India by setting up a local office and hiring Indian talent as it seeks to deepen ties with one of its largest user communities and make a broader push to better win over developers alongside the designers who already rely on the platform. Founded in 2012 by Dylan Field and Evan Wallace, Figma broke through by offering a browser-based interface at a time when most designers were still tied to desktop software. The approach was initially met with skepticism, but the platform eventually became a go-to collaboration tool for UX and product teams. Now,…
To most New Yorkers, Coney Island is the people’s playground, known for treacherous Cyclone rides and Nathan’s hot dog-eating competitions. To Ruth Douglas, it’s been home for the last 40 years.Single and widowed, Douglas, 82, lives alone. But, unlike so many aging Americans today, she doesn’t feel isolated. Several times a week, she walks three blocks to a local outpost of the nonprofit Jewish Association Serving the Aging (JASA), where she takes dance and yoga classes, learns how to crochet, and joins excursions to museums like the Met and the Noguchi with her neighbors.In short, she’s aging the way she…
By Sonia Rolley and Jennifer RigbyLONDON (Reuters) -Around a third of mpox vaccines donated by Japan to the Democratic Republic of Congo are being wasted because they cannot be stored once prepared for use, the head of Congo’s mpox response told Reuters.Japan has donated three million doses of its LC16 vaccine to Congo to help fight a new form of mpox known as clade Ib, which spread internationally and sparked a global health emergency last year. The second tranche of 1.5 million doses arrived in Congo in September, around two years after the outbreak began.Congo began vaccinating with LC16 in…