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2025-11-05T23:12:28Z 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. OpenAI CEO Sam Altman is fully prepared to be replaced by AI. He said he’d be ashamed if his own company isn’t the first one led by an AI CEO. And, once he is replaced, he said he would like to be a farmer. OpenAI CEO Sam Altman is…

Apple is nearing a deal with Google that would see the iPhone maker pay the tech giant roughly $1 billion a year for a custom version of Google’s Gemini AI model to power its overhaul of Siri, according to a new report from Bloomberg. The move is a big one for Apple, which has traditionally relied on its own technology but plans to use Google’s model as a temporary solution until its own AI becomes powerful enough, including to power a slate of upcoming features for the voice assistant. The custom AI model’s 1.2 trillion parameters — a measure of…

SALT LAKE CITY (AP) — The Utah university where conservative activist Charlie Kirk was assassinated is expanding its police force and adding security managers after the school received harsh criticism for its lack of key safety measures on the day of the shooting.Utah Valley University is in the process of hiring eight additional campus police officers and two new safety managers who will help coordinate security for future events on campus, spokesperson Ellen Treanor said Wednesday.Kirk was fatally shot from a campus rooftop on Sept. 10 while debating students in an outdoor courtyard surrounded by several tall buildings. An Associated…

In the age of ever-pinging Slack and Teams messages, disconnecting from work can feel impossible. Canva CEO Melanie Perkins recently shared how she logs off — and why digital boundaries are important.”I don’t have email or Slack on my phone,” Perkins said on Lenny’s Podcast. “When I shut my laptop, I actually tune out.”That doesn’t mean Perkins is fully offline — she’s still reachable. “If there’s a real issue, I’ll get an emergency call or page,” she said.Perkins cofounded the graphic design company in 2012 with Cliff Obrecht and Cameron Adams. In over a decade of leadership, Perkins said she…

On an earnings call on Tuesday, Pinterest CEO Bill Ready highlighted the promise of open source AI models in helping the company keep its costs down as it expands the use cases for visual AI. The image pinboarding site, which often serves as consumers’ first step in their shopping journey, leverages AI technology to power a variety of features, including its personalized recommendations, a multimodal search experience that combines text and images, ad targeting, and, most recently, product discovery with the launch of its AI-powered Pinterest Assistant. However, investors wanted to know what Pinterest’s opportunity in agentic commerce — AI…

Tinder is looking to AI to revitalize its dating app, which has now reported nine straight quarters of paying subscriber declines, as of the third quarter this year. The dating app maker, Match Group, told investors on Tuesday’s earnings call that Tinder is testing a feature called Chemistry that will get to know users through questions and, with permission, will access Camera Roll photos on users’ phones to learn more about their interests and personality. The feature is already being piloted in New Zealand and Australia and will be a “major pillar of Tinder’s upcoming 2026 product experience,” said Match…

By Jacob Gronholt-Pedersen, Maggie Fick and Bhanvi SatijaCOPENHAGEN (Reuters) -Wegovy-maker Novo Nordisk trimmed its full-year forecasts on Wednesday as sales growth of its blockbuster obesity drugs slows, leaving investors worried the firm is losing ground to U.S. peer Eli Lilly and copycat rivals.Novo’s shares whipsawed through the day, sliding and then rising on a better-than-expected Medicare pricing deal in the U.S., before eventually falling back as its new CEO struggled to win investors over to his plans to claw back lost market share.”Lilly is winning quite meaningfully at the moment,” Jefferies analyst Michael Leuchten told Reuters, adding that management’s message…

By Jacob Gronholt-Pedersen, Maggie Fick and Bhanvi SatijaCOPENHAGEN (Reuters) -Wegovy-maker Novo Nordisk trimmed its full-year forecasts on Wednesday as sales growth of its blockbuster obesity drugs slows, leaving investors worried the firm is losing ground to U.S. peer Eli Lilly and copycat rivals.Novo’s shares whipsawed through the day, sliding and then rising on a better-than-expected Medicare pricing deal in the U.S., before eventually falling back as its new CEO struggled to win investors over to his plans to claw back lost market share.”Lilly is winning quite meaningfully at the moment,” Jefferies analyst Michael Leuchten told Reuters, adding that management’s message…

The founders and teams fueling the AI boom look a lot different — and are generally younger — than the software-era startups of yesteryear.AI founders are five years younger by median age, more technical than business-minded, and generally don’t have a previous history of working together, according to a new report by early-stage venture capital firm Leonis Capital, which examined the 100 fastest-growing AI startups using internal AI research tools and public data.The unicorn club of the 2010s included Airbnb, Box, and LinkedIn, and these companies were more frequently led by product managers and MBAs.Now, AI founders are likelier to…

Eugenia Kuyda saw the future of consumer AI before most. She founded Replika, the first major AI companion startup, in 2017 — years before ChatGPT launched. Today, it has 35 million users.   Now Kuyda is back with a new startup called Wabi, which she describes as YouTube for apps — a social platform where anyone can use prompts to instantly create mini apps and share them with friends. Wabi, which launched in beta last month, is a harbinger of another consumer AI shift: one where personalized software becomes the norm.  Wabi has raised $20 million in pre-seed funding from a stellar list of angels, including AngelList co-founder Naval Ravikant, Y…