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A Super Bowl ad is meant to serve as a victory lap for tech companies. But on advertising’s biggest night of the year, some brands were undone by the very thing they were supposed to be showcasing: technology.Mr Beast and Salesforce teamed up to offer viewers a $1 million prize if they could be the first to crack clues hidden in a Super Bowl ad, and elsewhere, in an online treasure hunt. However, some hopeful contestants were immediately foiled by delays in receiving their registration emails.In a message on the contest website, Salesforce said the glitch was caused by an…
Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella is transforming the company’s culture during his tenure, leaving a lasting impression on some current and former employees.That includes Jeffrey Snover, a retired Microsoft chief technology officer and Google engineer, who recalled an “actionable lesson in leadership” he learned from Nadella in a recent blog post.In short, he said, Nadella stressed that executives need to figure out how to succeed with the resources they have, rather than complain.”If you are an exec and don’t have the resources to support your strategy, you have the wrong strategy,” Snover wrote. “Quit whining and wasting time trying to get…
SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — Thousands of public schoolteachers in San Francisco went on strike Monday, the first public schoolteachers strike in the city in nearly 50 years.The strike comes after teachers and the district failed to reach an agreement over higher wages, health benefits, and more resources for special needs students. The San Francisco Unified School District closed all its 120 schools and said it would offer independent study to some of the district’s 50,000 students.“We are facing an affordability crisis,” Cassondra Curiel, president of the United Educators of San Francisco, said in a statement Sunday night. “Family healthcare premiums…
By Renju JoseFeb 9 (Reuters) – A white supremacist who killed 51 Muslim worshippers at two mosques in New Zealand seven years ago said on Monday that he was irrational when he pleaded guilty, local media reported, as he sought to overturn his conviction in a New Zealand court.Brenton Tarrant, 35, appeared in a court in Wellington via a video link, and gave evidence as he sought to overturn his guilty pleas and face a trial.Tarrant, an Australian national, opened fire on two mosques in Christchurch in March 2019 during Friday prayers in the deadliest mass shooting in New Zealand’s…
NEW YORK (AP) — Sometimes it’s a fall that brings a broken hip and a loss of mobility. Or memory problems that bubble into danger. Or the death of the partner who was relied upon for care.The need to move to a nursing home, assisted living facility or another type of care setting often comes suddenly, setting off an abrupt, daunting search. It’s likely something no one ever wanted, but knowing what to look for and what to ask can make a big difference.What to do when looking for a long-term care facility:Start with government ratingsRegulation of assisted living facilities…
Elon Musk’s SpaceX just overhauled its to-do list.In an X post on Sunday, the CEO said that the company is shifting its focus from Mars to creating a “self-growing city” on the moon.”It is only possible to travel to Mars when the planets align every 26 months (six month trip time), whereas we can launch to the Moon every 10 days (2 day trip time),” Musk wrote. “This means we can iterate much faster to complete a Moon city than a Mars city.”The announcement is a big departure from Musk’s previous comments about reaching the red planet this year.In 2020,…
2026-02-09T02:07:33.356Z Share Copy link Email Facebook WhatsApp X LinkedIn Bluesky Threads 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. Kalshi said it experienced delays in fund transfers due to a Super Bowl traffic surge. Kalshi’s cofounder said on X that users’ “money is safe and on the way.” Kalshi and Polymarket are benefiting from a sharp interest in prediction markets. Kalshi said that some transfers on its prediction…
WELLINGTON, New Zealand (AP) — The man who killed 51 Muslim worshipers at two mosques in New Zealand’s deadliest mass shooting told an appeals court Monday that he felt forced to admit to the crimes because of “irrationality” due to harsh prison conditions, as he sought to have his guilty pleas discarded.A panel of three judges at the Court of Appeal in Wellington will hear five days of evidence about Brenton Tarrant’s claim that he was not fit to plead to the terrorism, murder and attempted murder charges he faced after the 2019 attack in the city of Christchurch. If…
2026-02-09T00:32:33.402Z Share Copy link Email Facebook WhatsApp X LinkedIn Bluesky Threads 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 debuted its Super Bowl LX ad on Sunday. The one-minute ad encouraged people to build things using AI. The ad didn’t mention Anthropic, which mocked OpenAI in its own Super Bowl ad. OpenAI is running a Super Bowl LX ad that encourages people to use its coding agent…
Artificial intelligence has entered the realm of online dating. But Coffee Meets Bagel’s CEO says there’s a mark it can’t meet.Shn Juay, the co-CEO of the dating app that has around 20 million users worldwide, said her team was exploring how to integrate AI into its app.But she said using AI chatbots to flirt with potential matches was taking it one step too far.”I’m on the fence about using a chatbot to represent yourself in the online app to flirt better,” Juay, who is based in Singapore, said.”You have to eventually meet your partner offline, and when you meet, there…