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We’re in a unique moment for AI companies building their own foundation model. First, there is a whole generation of industry veterans who made their name at major tech companies and are now going solo. You also have legendary researchers with immense experience but ambiguous commercial aspirations. There’s a clear chance that at least some of these new labs will become OpenAI-sized behemoths, but there’s also room for them to putter around doing interesting research without worrying too much about commercialization. The end result? It’s getting hard to tell who is actually trying to make money. To make things simpler, I’m proposing a kind of sliding scale for any company making…
Cassandra King was thrilled to complete the first trimester of her pregnancy in the fall of 2024. She and her husband had spent years trying to have a baby, and she had experienced multiple miscarriages. The couple decided to celebrate with a babymoon to Jamaica during the 17th week of her pregnancy.At first, the trip went smoothly. King only felt “a little bit of pregnancy discomfort.” Then came the “burning, spasming pain” in her shoulder on their final night. It felt like a fist between her shoulder blades and down her spine, King said. She vomited for two hours before…
Alcohol seems to have lost its grip on American life in recent years.Younger adults are drinking less. Sober bars and alcohol-free member clubs are cropping up across the country. Nonalcoholic beer sales have soared. And content from influencers promoting a sober lifestyle have proliferated on social media.But rather than harnessing that momentum, the dietary guidelines that the Trump administration released earlier this month no longer put a concrete limit on alcohol consumption. The new directive is simply to “consume less alcohol for better overall health.”In explaining the change, Dr. Mehmet Oz, the administrator for the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid…
This as-told-to essay is based on a conversation with Dray Jankowski, former employee at CrowdStrike and current senior director of product operations and program management at Wunderkind. Business Insider verified his identity. This essay has been edited for length and clarity.I still remember the morning I found out I was getting laid off from CrowdStrike.I went to bed thinking everything was fine, and when I woke up, there was a mysterious meeting on my calendar for later that afternoon.That’s when I saw the email that said the company was doing a reduction in force as it adjusted to changes driven…
Tesla appears to be getting closer to deploying Optimus in its factories — and Austin is the next training ground.Tesla told workers during a town hall last week that it plans to begin collecting data to train its humanoid robot at its Austin Gigafactory, insiders told Business Insider.The company is looking to train Optimus how to operate in the Texas facility, it said, adding that it was targeting a February start date.Tesla has been collecting data and training Optimus prototypes in its Fremont, California, factory for more than a year.The Optimus data collectors in Fremont are typically kept separate from…
Harvey, the high-flying legal AI startup, has acquired Hexus — a two-year-old startup that builds tools for creating product demos, videos, and guides — as the company continues its aggressive expansion amid fierce competition in the legal tech market. Hexus founder and CEO Sakshi Pratap, who previously held engineering roles at Walmart, Oracle, and Google, tells TechCrunch that her San Francisco-based team has already joined Harvey, while the startup’s India-based engineers will come onboard once Harvey establishes a Bangalore office. Pratap will lead an engineering team focused on accelerating Harvey’s offerings for in-house legal departments. “What we’re bringing to Harvey…
LONDON (AP) — Shoveling piles of compost and clearing weeds on a cold, damp evening in London might not be most people’s idea of fun.But it’s smiles and chatter all around as a group of people in running gear put on headlamps and get to work in a community garden located on a derelict parking lot rooftop. The volunteers warmed up by jogging a mile to get to the site, and the digging, squatting and lifting they are doing is part of a weekly workout session.Combining exercise with community service is the mission of GoodGym, an organization that encourages U.K.…
Yann LeCun’s new venture, AMI Labs, has drawn intense attention since the AI scientist left Meta to found it. This week, the startup finally confirmed what it’s building — and several key details have been hiding in plain sight. On its newly launched website, the startup disclosed its plans to develop “world models” in order to “build intelligent systems that understand the real world.” The focus on world models was already hinted at by AMI’s name, which stands for Advanced Machine Intelligence, but it has now officially joined the ranks of the hottest AI research startups. Building foundational models that…
Amazon employees are doing what Big Tech workers often do when they’re anxious about layoffs: making memes.The company is expected to cut thousands more corporate roles as soon as next week, Business Insider reported on Thursday, citing people familiar with the matter. This coming round would mark another wave of mass layoffs at Amazon in just a few months, following the roughly 14,000 jobs eliminated in October.In the absence of official companywide communication, workers have been trying to ease tension in an internal Slack channel with more than 26,000 employees who joined by posting memes and jokes, which Business Insider…
A new trend is coming for the Cheesecake Factory’s throne. Called the “two-ingredient cheesecake,” this new viral snack involves putting cookies (typically Biscoff cookies) into a container of Greek yogurt, then popping it in the fridge for 5 to 12 hours.Originating in Japan, the intended result of this recipe is a light, fluffy dessert with a cheesecake-like texture — that also happens to pack a lot of protein, thanks to the Greek yogurt. And while the snack is more akin to an icebox cake — a no-bake dessert made by layering cookies or wafers with whipped cream or pudding and chilling…