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This as-told-to essay is based on a conversation with Guy Diedrich, Cisco’s global innovation officer, based in Austin. The following has been edited for length and clarity.I began my career as a programmer. I started my own software company right out of college, did a master’s and Ph.D., and then came back and joined academia.During my time in academia, we began to see a decline in the humanities. Students wanted to take engineering, the sciences, or anything STEM. I found that a bit alarming. I left academia in 2014, but there’s been a 24% drop in interest in the humanities…
What’s the future of the internet going to look like?Alexis Ohanian, one of the cofounders of Reddit, thinks there’s an opportunity for a new generation of apps to shake up how we’re connecting online.”The most potent form of social today is basically in group chats, which is obviously not new technology, but what it’s highlighting is the fact that that’s a trusted group of people who you actually know, who are verifiably human,” Ohanian told Business Insider in a recent interview. “This next wave of apps — Airbuds is a great example — is going to be about that.”Airbuds, a…
NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) — This school year, students in elementary, middle and high schools in some states will get a new lesson on safety: what to do if they find a firearm.Arkansas, Tennessee and Utah are the first states to enact laws that require public schools to teach children as young as 5 the basics of gun safety and how to properly store guns in the home. Only Utah’s law allows students to opt out of the lesson if requested by parents or guardians.A similar law in Arizona was vetoed by the Democratic governor, and lawmakers in at least five…
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Seven families filed lawsuits against OpenAI on Thursday, claiming that the company’s GPT-4o model was released prematurely and without effective safeguards. Four of the lawsuits address ChatGPT’s alleged role in family members’ suicides, while the other three claim that ChatGPT reinforced harmful delusions that in some cases resulted in inpatient psychiatric care. In one case, 23-year-old Zane Shamblin had a conversation with ChatGPT that lasted more than four hours. In the chat logs — which were viewed by TechCrunch — Shamblin explicitly stated multiple times that he had written suicide notes, put a bullet in his gun, and intended to…
2025-11-07T18:29:50Z Share Facebook Email X LinkedIn Reddit Bluesky WhatsApp 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. For every dour AI study, there’s a brighter version. In recent years, Wharton’s Human-AI Research department has been asking business leaders how generative AI adoption is going. The latest findings: Almost 75% of companies are getting positive ROI from AI projects. The study also reveals which enterprise AI tools…
Sam Altman leads a busy life. OpenAI is more valuable than ever. He’s a first-time father, and he has flown around the world to drum up support for an AI infrastructure build-out.As a result, the OpenAI CEO said he’s been less focused on his personal health recently.On the “Conversations with Tyler” podcast, host Tyler Cowen asked Altman for his “nuttiest view” about his health. The OpenAI CEO said that his level of health consciousness depended on his workload.”When I was less busy, I was more disciplined on health-related stuff,” Altman said. “I kind of ate healthy. I didn’t drink that…
SoftBank and OpenAI announced a new 50-50 joint venture this week to sell enterprise AI tools in Japan under the brand “Crystal Intelligence.” On paper, it’s a straightforward international expansion deal. But SoftBank’s role as a major investor in OpenAI is raising questions about whether AI’s biggest deals are creating real economic value or just moving money in circles. On TechCrunch’s Equity podcast, Kirsten Korosec, Anthony Ha and AI editor Russell Brandom break down why this deal has people skeptical, and what it signals about the sustainability of AI’s current investment model. Listen to the full episode to hear about: What Box CEO Aaron Levie had to say about whether we’re in an…
Celebrities: They’re just like us? In a Vanity Fair interview, Kim Kardashian — who has been studying to become a lawyer — discussed her “toxic” friendship with ChatGPT, admitting that she has failed law exams after it told her false information. “I use [ChatGPT] for legal advice, so when I am needing to know the answer to a question, I will take a picture and snap it and put it in there,” she said. “They’re always wrong. It has made me fail tests… And then I’ll get mad and I’ll yell at it and be like, ‘You made me fail!’”…
Elon Musk said AI will make desk jobs now feel like when workers used to make calculations by hand before the computer age.”I think there will be actually a high demand for jobs, but not necessarily the same jobs,” Musk recently told Joe Rogan on the comedian’s podcast. “So I mean this is actually, this process has been happening throughout modern history.”The xAI CEO says AI is already replacing and will continue to replace desk jobs that are digitally centric, “at an accelerated rate.””It’s just happening,” Musk said. “Like I said, AI is the supersonic tsunami.”Not all jobs are immediately…