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There’s lore around Jeff Dean.Google’s former employee No. 30, who rose to become the company’s chief scientist, was once the subject of Chuck Norris-style jokes inside Google — think “When Chuck Norris cooks, he makes onions cry,” but for a legendary engineer.Now, Dean has offered another data point for the legend: his weekly workout routine.On Monday, Dean shared the calendar from his final day at Google’s office during the KDD Conference in Jeju, South Korea.He reposted a shot of the calendar on his X account on Tuesday. One user spotted yoga tucked into the busy day and asked about his…
It’s almost the end of summer, which means interns everywhere are approaching the looming question they’ve probably been avoiding: Am I getting a return offer?The job market may feel more chaotic and competitive than usual — and AI certainly adds a layer of uncertainty as it reshapes the workforce and changes what companies are looking for. However, when it comes to proving yourself early in your career, much of the advice hasn’t changed.We rounded up some of the best tips former interns from companies like Google and Tinder have shared with us over the last two years on how they…
Bosses everywhere are scrambling to figure out if and how to grade their employees’ AI use.At Gusto, a platform for human resources, managers slot workers into one of five AI archetypes during quarterly reviews. They may begin as “observers,” those who aren’t yet using AI on their own. “Integrators” have made AI part of their regular work day and see “better outcomes consistently” as a result. The most advanced are “amplifiers,” who find new ways to use AI and share what they’ve learned with coworkers.The intent is less to rule by the carrot or the stick, and more to standardize…
Silicon Valley is having an existential freakout.Tech workers have long complained to their therapists about soul-crushing hours, cutthroat competition, and the absence of that woolly concept known as work-life balance. Lately, with the collision of mass layoffs, artificial intelligence, and gazillion-dollar IPOs, the woes cut deeper.”Three years ago, people would walk in saying, ‘I’m exhausted, burned out beyond belief,'” says Annie Wright, a Bay Area psychotherapist and executive coach whose practice is dominated by tech workers. “Now they walk in saying, ‘I’m exhausted. I’m burned out beyond belief. I don’t know who I am if my work gets automated. I…
Y Combinator’s CEO has a message for founders worried about burning too many AI tokens: Burn, baby, burn.On an episode of the A16z podcast released on Wednesday, Garry Tan said that founders should give themselves permission to spend heavily on AI tokens — even if it comes with a hefty price tag.”You have to tune it all the way up. You’re just, like, let me load a million tokens or 800,000 tokens in,” he said about using AI agents. “When you do that, I think that you basically get to live in 2028.”Tan’s pitch is that spending heavily on AI…
WASHINGTON (AP) — Americans overwhelmingly see major benefits to children playing organized sports, a new poll finds, but higher-income families are more likely to participate.Learning teamwork and reducing screen time are among the perceived benefits of youth sports, according to the AP-Ipsos survey. About half of U.S. parents with K-12 school-aged children say their kids play a structured sport, but participation is higher among more affluent families. About 7 in 10 K-12 parents with a household income of at least $100,000 annually say their children play organized sports, compared to about 4 in 10 parents with a lower household income.The…
Karoline Leavitt’s goodbye to the White House came with an unexpected disclosure.The outgoing White House press secretary announced Wednesday that she would leave her role at the end of August after struggling to balance the job’s demands with raising two young children.”The truth is since returning to the White House after the birth of my daughter, I have felt in my heart that I cannot be the best mom my two young children deserve while devoting the constant time, energy, and attention required of the White House Press Secretary,” Leavitt wrote in a lengthy post on X.At the bottom of…
Sam Altman is not dead, contrary to what a Google result earlier today may have told you.Early Wednesday, users on X and Reddit pointed out that the Google search result for the OpenAI CEO’s name said he had died that same day.Google acknowledged the incorrect result several hours later.”Thanks for flagging – this is no longer appearing, and was not a manual change by Google,” Google said in a response on X. “When people vandalize public info sources, this can affect the information that appears in Search.”Google declined to comment when reached by Business Insider.Some commenters blamed Wikipedia vandalism, which…
Jeff Dean spent 27 years helping build Google. Now, investors could be betting $1 billion that he can build the next big thing in AI outside it.The legendary Google engineer has been in discussions for $1 billion in financing at a valuation of around $10 billion for his new AI startup, Discovery Loop, people familiar with the matter told Business Insider. Discovery Loop has been one of the most talked-about startups in Silicon Valley over the past week, after Dean, regarded at Google as a legend, announced his departure.Details of the round could change. A representative for Dean declined to…
Anthropic recently made the decision to watermark Claude’s outputs — inserting invisible code into the chatbot’s editorial text that marks it as AI-generated. Anthropic rolled out this new policy to satisfy the EU AI Act’s Transparency Code, which now requires tech companies to label content that has been AI-generated or edited in a manner identifiable to computer systems. Yet while European regulators may be happy, some AI users are decidedly not. One need look no further than Reddit to find evidence of brewing discontent, though other posters on the site are not in agreement. One of the more histrionic posts…