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Christina Kantzavelos left California for Portugal for better healthcare and a better lifestyle.Portugal offers a community focused and affordable lifestyle with access to nature and good weather.Kantzavelos spends a fraction of what she would pay in the US for her healthcare and daily needs.This as-told-to essay is based on conversations with Christina Kantzavelos, 37, a therapist and chronic illness advocate based in Óbidos, Portugal, a town about 52 miles north of Lisbon. She left California at the end of 2022 and lived nomadically in Europe until settling in Portugal in 2024. She still rents a home in California and has…
Changes may be coming to the U.S. dietary guidelines: If public comments from Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr., are any indication, Americans could see a big difference when it comes to saturated fat.In July, Kennedy said at a meeting of the National Governors Association that new guidelines would be “common sense” and “stress the need to eat saturated fats, dairy, good meat, and fresh meat and vegetables.” He has called guidelines that promote low-fat dairy over full-fat versions “antiquated.” He has also praised fast-food chains that have switched their fryers from vegetable oil to beef tallow. Beef tallow is…
Inside a glass-walled lab at Tesla’s engineering headquarters, dozens of workers act out the motions of everyday life: lifting a cup, wiping a table, pulling open a curtain.They repeat each action hundreds of times during eight-hour shifts, and their work is captured by five cameras attached to their helmet and a heavy backpack. CEO Elon Musk sometimes stops by to watch, and Tesla investors visit regularly for demos.It’s like being a “lab rat under a microscope,” one former worker told Business Insider.The goal is simple: Teach Optimus, the company’s robot, how to move like a human.Musk has identified Optimus as…
If you’re worried about the growing use of hyperrealistic AI-generated content in politics, you’re not alone. Some politicians feel the same way.”When I’m on my feed today, I’m scared to death,” Democratic Sen. Chris Murphy of Connecticut told BI. “I have no idea what’s real and what’s not, and I don’t understand how we have a meaningful political dialogue in this country when there is no way for voters to distinguish between what’s real and what’s not.”Everywhere you look online, politicians and political groups are using AI to make a point.Most recently, President Donald Trump posted an AI-generated video in…
This as-told-to essay is based on a conversation with Ibrahim Shah, a 22-year-old student studying computer science at the University of California, Irvine. It’s been edited for length and clarity. An Anduril spokesperson pointed Business Insider to cofounder Matt Grimm’s response on social media.My dream is to build my own company. Palmer Luckey sold Oculus when he was only 21. I wanted to be at an organization where the founders are absolute killers, very technically gifted, and have bold personalities.If I work at a company like Anduril, that means I’m super smart, and I also get to be in a…
When I walked into a concert last month, I was handed a bingo card. The phrases on squares prompted me to find people who had the same favorite color as I did, or had traveled recently — meaning I’d have to speak with strangers. The activity seemed more aligned with a bridal shower than an indie show, but this wasn’t a typical concert. It was put on by Sofar Sounds, a company that lines up concerts with emerging artists at locations that aren’t disclosed until shortly before the show; they can be galleries or event spaces or even backyards. This…
Elon Musk isn’t afraid to commit to the bit.One day before he officially acquired Twitter for $44 billion in 2022, he shared a video on his account that showed him carrying a sink into the social media platform’s former headquarters in San Francisco.”Entering Twitter HQ — let that sink in!,” Musk wrote.During Friday’s episode of the “All-In” podcast, Musk said that the video, which now has 1.2 million likes and 202,000 reposts, almost didn’t happen.”Well, I think the store was confused because my security team was asking for any kind of sink, and normally, people wouldn’t ask for any kind…
Elon Musk and Sam Altman are going tit-for-tat. At the center of their latest online beef is the OpenAI CEO’s reservation for Tesla’s long-delayed Roadster.Musk took to his social media platform, X, on Saturday to criticize Altman for posting screenshots earlier in the week that showed his attempt to cancel his Roadster order.”A tale in three acts,” Altman earlier posted, sharing a screenshot of an email from July 2018, confirming a $45,000 payment to reserve the next-generation Tesla Roadster. Additional screenshots Altman posted showed the OpenAI CEO requesting a $50,000 refund and receiving a bounce-back email.”I really was excited for…
As tech companies tout their plans for massive new data centers, consumers are increasingly worried the AI-driven gold rush will ultimately drive up the price they pay for electricity, according to a new survey. The report, commissioned by solar installer Sunrun, found that 80% of consumers are worried about the impact of data centers on their utility bills. Consumers’ concerns aren’t unfounded. Electricity demand in the United States held steady for over a decade, according to the U.S. Energy Information Administration (EIA). Over the last five years, commercial users including data centers and industrial users began drinking more deeply from…
The AI researchers at Andon Labs — the people who gave Anthropic Claude an office vending machine to run and hilarity ensued — have published the results of a new AI experiment. This time they programmed a vacuum robot with various state-of-the-art LLMs as a way to see how ready LLMs are to be embodied. They told the bot to make itself useful around the office when someone asked it to “pass the butter.” And once again, hilarity ensued. At one point, unable to dock and charge a dwindling battery, one of the LLMs descended into a comedic “doom spiral,”…