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Steven Wang planned to start a business after graduating from Harvard.But eight months into college life, in June 2021, he dropped out to pursue his entrepreneurial ambitions, inspired by the boom in meme stocks and crypto.Investing was one of his long-term interests, and Wang wanted to take advantage of that year’s retail investor craze, and his company, Dub, was born.The platform allows retail investors to automatically copy the trades of more experienced investors. In an interview published in February 2025, Wang told Business Insider that Dub had a team of around 25 people and had raised $17 million, including from…
Meta poured billions into its VR and metaverse efforts. It even renamed the company after it. But after the recent round of cuts and product pullback, Meta’s CTO acknowledge that the industry was growing “more slowly than we had hoped.”Andrew “Boz” Bosworth did a Q&A on his Instagram story on Monday. One of the questions Meta’s chief technology officer received: “There is a lot of doom and gloom about the future of Quest and gaming. What is the truth?”Bosworth said that the doom and gloom was mostly “overwrought.””There is a real cause for sadness here,” Bosworth said, referencing Meta’s recent…
Boxing legend Mike Tyson is out with an emotional Super Bowl ad sponsored by the Department of Health and Human Services-aligned organization MAHA Center, amid the agency’s push to promote healthy eating.Tyson’s 30-second ad posted on his X account ahead of Super Bowl LX details what he says is his personal journey with his weight, where the former boxing champion said at one point his addiction to processed foods caused him to weigh nearly 350 pounds and consider harming himself.AdvertisementIn the ad, which was paid for by nonprofit MAHA Center Inc. — a reference to the Trump administration’s Make America…
BERLIN, Feb 7 (Reuters) – Swiss pharmaceutical company Roche said on Saturday its experimental multiple sclerosis drug fenebrutinib met the main goal in a late-stage trial in patients with primary progressive multiple sclerosis, a rare form of the disease with few treatment options.In the Phase III study, fenebrutinib cut the risk of worsening disability by 12% compared with Roche’s Ocrevus, the only approved therapy for PPMS, the Swiss drugmaker said.Separation of the treatment curves was seen after 24 weeks, and additional analyses suggested potential benefits in upper-limb function.PPMS is the least common form of multiple sclerosis and is marked by…
New Yorker state lawmakers have introduced a bill that would impose a moratorium of at least three years on permits tied to the construction and operation of new data centers. While the bill’s prospects are uncertain, Wired reports that New York is at least the sixth state to consider pausing construction of new data centers. As tech companies plan to spend ever-increasing amounts of money to build AI infrastructure, both Democrats and Republicans have expressed concerns about the impact those data centers might have on surrounding communities. Studies have also linked data centers to increased home electricity bills. Critics include…
Becca Valle didn’t understand why she kept having aching headaches. She was happy at a new job. She was living with her boyfriend and happy to be near her family. She had recently checked a major item off her bucket list by running a marathon. All in all, her stress levels were low.In September 2021, Valle began waking up with painful headaches that would become debilitating throughout the day. Valle was convinced it was migraines. Her doctor thought something might be wrong with her sinuses.One day three weeks later, the pain Valle was experiencing became so bad she couldn’t sit…
If you work for a San Francisco startup and don’t know how to code, you could soon be asked to get creative with vibe coding.Checkr, an AI-powered background check company, gave Business Insider a glimpse of how employees are actually using AI.Checkr CEO Daniel Yanisse said that the company is going “all in” and trying everything to encourage its employees to fully embrace AI — including staff that don’t work in engineering roles.”We really pride ourselves on using AI to the maximum possible amount,” said Yanisse. “We gave every employee a monthly stipend to try AI tools, and we did…
These days, plenty of venture capitalists are trying to spot the next big thing in artificial intelligence. For some, the best way to do that is to use the technology themselves.For a generation raised on Google Docs and Slack, tools like ChatGPT and Google’s NotebookLM have become a core part of the job. They offer ways to learn new markets faster, spot non-obvious companies, stress-test investment theses, and turn a swamp of meetings into searchable insights.Business Insider asked its 2026 Rising Stars of Venture Capital honorees how they use AI in their day-to-day work — and which tools they rely…
For years, my morning routine consisted of setting the alarm on my iPhone half an hour early, hitting snooze every nine minutes, and telling myself that the only way I could wake up was by blasting my eyes with blue light.My phone alarm did wake me up — but it also got me hooked on my screen from the minute I opened my eyes. My morning scroll transitioned from checking text messages to a stream of short-form content and ads on Instagram, TikTok, and X.It was all too much.The solution turned out to be surprisingly simple: a $16 alarm clock.…
Imagine if AI gave you a prompt — specifically, a task to complete in the real world.That’s the concept behind RentAHuman.ai, a website that garnered social media attention and drew 200,000 people to sign up over the past week.Describing itself as “the meatspace layer for AI,” the website says that it allows human users to sign up to complete tasks for AI agents who want things done offline — since, obviously, AI can’t yet visit a store or talk to someone face-to-face.”AI can’t touch grass. You can,” the website reads. “Get paid when agents need someone in the real world.”RentAHuman is…