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Meta is welcoming a new app to the family. Loading audio narration… Instagram launched a new app called “Instants” in Italy on Thursday, but it’s not live elsewhere yet, a Meta spokesperson confirmed to Business Insider.Instants lets users share disappearing photos with their friends. These photos last 24 hours and can’t be viewed more than once. The app’s slogan, per the current listing on the Google Play Store: “Real life, real quick.”The app sounds like a Frankenstein of social apps like Locket, BeReal, and, of course, Snapchat.The app is intended to “give people low-pressure ways to connect with friends,” the…
OpenAI on Thursday released GPT-5.5, its newest AI model, which the company calls its “smartest and most intuitive to use model” yet. The algorithm comes with increased capabilities in a multitude of areas, with OpenAI co-founder and president Greg Brockman claiming that it also brings the company one step closer to the creation of OpenAI’s “superapp.” On a call with journalists, Brockman said that the new model was a big advancement “towards more agentic and intuitive computing.” “This model is a real step forward towards the kind of computing that we expect in the future — but it is one…
Surviving the early days as an AI startup isn’t just about making the technology work — it’s about hiring the right people, avoiding costly mistakes, and standing out in a crowded market. This week on Build Mode, Isabelle Johannessen sits down with Jaspar Carmichael-Jack, founder and CEO of Artisan, a fast-growing AI startup building AI employees for sales. Best known for its viral “Stop Hiring Humans” campaign, Artisan is rethinking outbound sales with AI, while still betting on hiring exceptional human talent. In this episode, they break down what it really takes to build and scale a venture-backed AI company,…
Surviving the early days as an AI startup isn’t just about making the technology work — it’s about hiring the right people, avoiding costly mistakes, and standing out in a crowded market. This week on Build Mode, Isabelle Johannessen sits down with Jaspar Carmichael-Jack, founder and CEO of Artisan, a fast-growing AI startup building AI employees for sales. Best known for its viral “Stop Hiring Humans” campaign, Artisan is rethinking outbound sales with AI, while still betting on hiring exceptional human talent. In this episode, they break down what it really takes to build and scale a venture-backed AI company,…
Microsoft is offering one-time buyouts to long-serving employees in the US, according to an email obtained by Business Insider. Loading audio narration… The move could affect up to 7% of its US workforce of 125,000 people, or about 8,750 people, according to a person familiar with the matter.The tech giant says it’ll provide buyouts to people who want to retire and whose years of service, plus their age, add up to 70 or more. For example, a 58-year-old who has worked 12 years at Microsoft would qualify.That amounts to “a small percentage of our US employees,” Microsoft’s chief people officer…
Meta announced to employees that it is planning on laying off around 10% of the entire company on May 20, according to an email. Loading audio narration… Meta currently employs over 78,000 people worldwide, so the move will affect approximately 7,800 of the company’s staff. The company is also eliminating about 6,000 internal roles.The memo, from chief people officer Janella Gale, states that the mass layoff is being done to “run the company more efficiently” and to allow it to offset other investments it is making.While those “other investments” were unspecified, Meta has been spending hundreds of billions of dollars…
Earlier in April, the startup Era held a gathering in New York for artists who had received its developer kit. The artists showed off the various mini gadgets they had built, like a souvenir that tells you facts and jokes about France, a phone-like device that looks at your stocks and tells if today is the day you can quit your job, or a gadget that tells you about air quality. While all these devices are experimental, the common thread is Era’s platform, which allows hardware makers to create AI agents and orchestrations for AI devices. The company doesn’t want…
Since the mid 2010s, Cook has been a strong advocate for augmented reality (AR) technology. In 2016, he likened the technology’s potential to one of the most basic routines of daily life.”I do think that a significant portion of the population of developed countries, and eventually all countries, will have AR experiences every day, almost like eating three meals a day,” Cook said.He continued to tout AR’s importance in the coming years. In 2022, he said, “We are really going to look back and think about how we once lived without AR,” CNBC reported.The CEO’s confidence in the technology came…
ATLANTA (AP) — Three professors at Atlanta’s Emory University filed a lawsuit Thursday over their arrests during a 2024 campus protest over the Israel-Hamas war, saying the university broke its own free speech policies when it called in police and state troopers to aggressively disband the protest, making 28 arrests.“The judicial system would find that Emory failed to protect its students, to protect its staff, to protect the educational mission of the university,” said philosophy Professor Noelle McAfee, one of the plaintiffs. “So this isn’t just about people’s individual rights. It’s our educational mission to train people in free and…
Tesla is quietly buying a mystery AI hardware company. Loading audio narration… In a brief one-sentence mention in its 10-Q filing, released alongside its Wednesday earnings report, the company said it entered into an agreement in April to buy the firm for up to $2 billion in stock and equity awards. Tesla did not identify the company or describe its technology.”In April 2026, the Company entered into an agreement to acquire an AI hardware company for up to $2.00 billion in Tesla common stock and equity awards, of which approximately $1.8 billion is subject to certain service conditions and/or performance…