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2025-07-07T09:00:02Z Share Facebook Email X LinkedIn 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. Tech is hiring again, but the roles and skills in demand look different this time around. Atli Thorkelsson, head of network at Redpoint Ventures, put together a slide deck on hiring trends. The top of the market is “the most competitive it’s been in years,” Thorkelsson said. The tech industry is now…
Perplexity AI is taking a softly, softly approach to building its ad business.The AI company had a low-key presence at last month’s Cannes Lions ad festival in France. Amid the huge multimillion-dollar beach structures erected by tech giants like Meta, Amazon, and Google, Perplexity sent just a handful of executives to meet with current and potential business partners.Perplexity, a conversational AI-powered search engine, began testing ads last year. Brands such as Whole Foods and Indeed have bought “sponsored follow-up questions,” which appear alongside an answer to a user’s prompt, encouraging them to dig deeper into the topic. Advertisers themselves don’t…
LONDON (AP) — The All England Club, somewhat ironically, is blaming “human error” for a glaring mistake by the electronic system that replaced human line judges this year at Wimbledon.The CEO of the club, Sally Bolton, said Monday that the ball-tracking technology was “inadvertently deactivated” by someone for three points at Centre Court during Anastasia Pavlyuchenkova’s three-set victory over Sonay Kartal a day earlier in the fourth round. On one point, a shot by Kartal clearly landed past the baseline but wasn’t called out by the automated setup — called Hawk-Eye — because it had been shut off.Bolton declined to…
BASEL, Switzerland (AP) — Law-abiding pedestrians wait for the green woman kicking a soccer ball before they cross the road during the Women’s European Championship.Authorities in the Swiss city of Basel have installed 12 of the altered pedestrian crossing lights at locations frequented by soccer fans while the country hosts the nearly month-long tournament.Some are located near the soccer stadium, others near the train station.“They will stay until the end of the Women’s Euro — maybe even a few days longer,” says Nicole Ryf-Stocker, spokeswoman for Basel’s transport department.Ryf-Stocker said the idea and design was provided by the St. Gallen…
At 26, Kevin Choi lost half his vision to glaucoma — a progressive eye disease.The diagnosis sparked the start of his healthtech startup, which uses AI to detect critical diseases.At 26, Kevin Choi got a diagnosis that changed his life: glaucoma.It’s a progressive eye disease that damages the optic nerve, often without symptoms until it’s too late. By the time doctors caught it, Choi had lost half his vision.An engineer by training — and a former rifleman in South Korea’s Marine Corps — Choi thought he had a solid handle on his health.”I was really frustrated I didn’t notice that,”…
Search and rescue operations continue in central Texas, where catastrophic flooding has killed at least 69 people. Dozens are still missing.During a Sunday press conference, after the usual updates, officials made what has become a familiar request during recent natural disasters: Don’t fly your personal drones over the disaster area.”We know that people want to volunteer, but what we are starting to see is personal drones flying,” Kerrville City Manager Dalton Rice told reporters. “These personal drones flying is a danger to aircraft, which then risks further operations.”The Kerrville Police Department echoed Rice’s remarks on Sunday.”Media-operated drones are interfering with…
HOUSTON (AP) — Edson Álvarez scored a tiebreaking goal in the 77th minute after a video review reversed an offside call, and Mexico beat the United States 2-1 on Sunday night for its record 10th CONCACAF Gold Cup title.Chris Richards put the U.S. ahead in the fourth minute, heading in a Sebastian Berhalter free kick for the second time in the tournament, but Raúl Jiménez tied the score in the 27th with his third goal of this Gold Cup.Mexico was awarded the free kick when Diego Luna fouled Alexis Vega on a flank. Johan Vásquez flicked the restart across the…
On Friday morning, Elon Musk declared, “We have improved @Grok significantly. You should notice a difference when you ask Grok questions.” While Musk didn’t say exactly what improvements to look for, he’d previously declared that xAI (which built Grok) would retrain the chatbot after it had been trained on “far too much garbage,” and he called on users at X (where Grok is heavily featured) to share “divisive facts” that are “politically incorrect, but nonetheless factually true.” (Musk recently merged the two companies.) One user subsequently asked Grok whether electing more Democrats would be a bad thing, to which it replied,…
SILVIS, Ill. (AP) — Brian Campbell won for the second time this year on the PGA Tour, both in a playoff, when he closed with a 4-under 67 and beat Emiliano Grillo with a par on the first extra hole Sunday in the John Deere Classic.It extended the win-or-bust season for Campbell, who won the Mexico Open in a playoff in late February. He has finished out of the top 30 every tournament except for his two victories.This one might be enough to get him into the British Open, depending on how high up he moves in the world ranking…
WASHINGTON (AP) — Manager Dave Martinez and general manager Mike Rizzo were fired by the Washington Nationals on Sunday in moves that were surprising for their timing, even if the club is more than halfway through its sixth consecutive losing season since winning the 2019 World Series.The team announced the changes just hours after Washington’s 6-4 loss at home completed a sweep by the Boston Red Sox. The Nationals are 37-53 and last in the NL East; the only National League club with a worse record is the Colorado Rockies.But the amateur draft is just a week away, and Washington…