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Although LLM-powered AI agents are a fairly new phenomenon, one of the areas where they’ve been most popular so far is in sales. 1mind, a startup co-founded by Amanda Kahlow, has been quietly shipping its sales agent, named Mindy, for about a year.   On Monday, the startup announced a $30 million Series A round led by Battery Ventures. This brings 1mind’s total raise to $40 million, the company says.  Kahlow is well known in the sales and marketing tech world as the founder and former CEO of 6sense. It was launched in 2013 as a lead-generation tool that tracked signals across social media and other sites to identify potential customers. She left in…

Ring founder Jamie Siminoff turned his video doorbell into a $1 billion sale to Amazon. He has some advice for the next generation of founders.In an interview with Business Insider, Siminoff offered a handful of tips, ranging from the books founders should read to the reasons they should build. He even recommended they go on “Shark Tank.”Asked which book a founder should read, Siminoff first referenced his own, “Ding Dong.” He said the “best book,” though, was an almost 20-year-old biography of a business maverick.Siminoff recommended Neal Gabler’s “Walt Disney: The Triumph of the American Imagination.””When you read stuff from…

HONG KONG (AP) — Vaishnavi Srinivasagopalan, a skilled Indian IT professional who has worked in both India and the U.S., has been looking for work in China. Beijing’s new K-visa program targeting science and technology workers could turn that dream into a reality. The K-visa rolled out by Beijing last month is part of China’s widening effort to catch up with the U.S. in the race for global talent and cutting edge technology. It coincides with uncertainties over the U.S.’s H-1B program under tightened immigrations policies implemented by President Donald Trump.“(The) K-visa for China (is) an equivalent to the H-1B…

2025-11-09T20:15:17Z 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. “Vibe-coding” is Collins Dictionary’s “word of the year” for 2025. Collins Dictionary classifies it as a noun, not a verb. The term was originally coined by OpenAI cofounder Andrej Karpathy in February. AI is changing everything — including the English lexicon.Andrej Karpathy, the OpenAI cofounder and former AI director…

After Tesla shareholders approved a new compensation package that could be worth $1 trillion, CEO Elon Musk appears to be celebrating with a normal weekend on his social media platform X. In an early Saturday morning post with the surely coincidental timestamp of 4:20am EST, Musk posted a video generated by Grok Imagine, the new photo and video tool from his company xAI.  As Musk described it, the video was generated by his prompt, “She smiles and says, ‘I will always love you.’”And the video does, in fact, show an animated woman on a rainy street, saying those words in…

A Meta product leader said that employees are turning to the company’s internal AI assistant for performance reviews.Joseph Spisak, a product director in Meta Superintelligence Labs, said that the company’s internal ChatGPT-style tool, Metamate, can search through employees’ documents and generate summaries of their accomplishments.”When at the end of the year we do our performance, and I want to summarize my performance or whatever, I call Metamate and it goes and searches all my docs and what I’ve done and summarizes what I’ve done for the year and my accomplishments and feedback on me,” Spisak said onstage at the TechEquity…

2025-11-09T09:51:01Z 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. KPMG has opened a new 450,000 sq. ft office in Manhattan to promote in-person work. Employee input guided the design. CEO Tim Walsh said the new office is a “strong recommitment” to the firm’s presence in New York. Across KPMG’s offices nationwide, employees say they prefer round tables.So with…

Elon Musk could soon be a trillion-dollar man.On Thursday, 75% of Tesla shareholders voted to approve his proposed $1 trillion pay package as the company’s CEO, contingent on a set of performance metrics he would need to meet over the next decade.And based on the standing ovation and exuberant cheering Musk received at the shareholder meeting, Tesla superfans in attendance seemed to love it.”Howdy, Elon,” said one attendee during the Q&A portion of the meeting. “Congrats on not having to show up to work for free anymore.”The massive compensation package is in hopes that Musk could increase Tesla’s market cap…

In the aftermath of the Oct. 7 attack on Israel by Hamas two years ago, high school teacher Josh Hirsch posted comments on social media in support of Israel. It was unrealistic for Hamas to expect a ceasefire, he wrote, as long as they were holding hostages.Soon afterward, a former student called for his firing. A note taped outside the door of his Adams County, Colorado, classroom contained his wife’s name and their home address. And a sticker that appeared on his chair read: “Israel is committing genocide in Gaza.” The reaction startled Hirsch, the only Jewish teacher in his…

AI and its implications on society are top of mind for a lot of people, including Pope Leo XIV.The first-ever American pope addressed AI leaders in an X post on Friday, about a week after he wrote a message to those attending the Builders AI Forum 2025. The forum is dedicated to fostering a community that supports the development of AI products aligned with the Catholic Church’s mission.”Technological innovation can be a form of participation in the divine act of creation. It carries an ethical and spiritual weight, for every design choice expresses a vision of humanity,” Pope Leo XIV…