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Over the last 12 months, at least 10 executives have exited Tesla, including some of CEO Elon Musk’s most loyal lieutenants — from “Musk whisperer” Omead Afshar to longtime sales chief Troy Jones.To track who remains at the top of the electric-car company, Business Insider reviewed the upper ranks of the company’s internal organizational chart.As of August, Musk — who is listed on the org chart as “CEO and Technoking” — had 19 direct reports, compared with 35 before a round of layoffs in 2024 and 30 in late 2021. He has maintained nine of the same direct reports over…
NEW YORK (AP) — Baseball’s economic disparity will be on display in the playoffs, where the Los Angeles Dodgers have committed more than $500 million in salaries and luxury tax this season as they take on a Cincinnati Reds team with a $121 million payroll.Six of the 12 postseason teams have payrolls of $200 million or more, with the Boston Red Sox about $500,000 short of the mark. The World Series champion Dodgers overtook the New York Mets with in-season moves that boosted their payroll to $341.5 million, according to Major League Baseball’s latest tabulation.Despite deferring over $1 billion in…
Not long after California surgeon Andrew S. Hsu landed a job with a cosmetic surgery chain in Georgia, several of his patients alleged they suffered disfiguring injuries, and even his new employer allegedly had doubts about his competence, court records show.Hsu, a board-certified general surgeon, was one of six out-of-state doctors who joined the Atlanta Goals Aesthetics & Plastic Surgery center during the pandemic. The surgeons received temporary licenses to practice in Georgia, which state officials granted in response to the sudden need for more medical personnel to address the Covid outbreak — even though the center specialized in elective…
Office workers everywhere are awash in “workslop.” This is the term researchers are using to call AI-generated content that might look like it completes a task at work: pretty on paper, well-organized and neatly formatted, but lacks substance upon a closer read — and it often becomes a headache for the person receiving the work.The term was coined in research published this month from the Stanford Social Media Lab and BetterUp, a professional training and coaching company. Surveying 1,150 desk workers in the US, the researchers found that 40% of respondents said they believed they had received this sort of…
Browser maker Opera launched its AI-centric browser Neon Tuesday, with the ability to create apps through AI prompts and create repeatable prompts through a feature it calls cards. With this Opera joins a growing number of companies like Perplexity and The Browser Company that are trying to make agentic browsers happen. The company first announced that it was working on Neon in May, but the browser was in closed preview. It will now start sending invites to select people, who can use the browser for a fee of $19.99 per month. “We built Opera Neon for ourselves – and for…
A $14 billion deal secured TikTok’s American future — and analysts say it marks a unique compromise in Washington and Beijing’s ongoing tech fight.President Donald Trump issued an executive order on Thursday requiring TikTok’s current owner, ByteDance, and its affiliates to own less than 20% of the new company.The exact make-up of the new consortium has not yet been revealed. Trump said on Thursday that Oracle and Larry Ellison would be part of the deal, which would include “four or five world-class investors.”Analysts told Business Insider that while the deal shows it’s still possible for the two rivals to bargain,…
PROVIDENCE, R.I. (AP) — A new lawsuit against Brown University has renewed questions surrounding the secrecy afforded many law enforcement officers employed by private colleges and universities across the U.S.Unlike public campuses, private higher education institutions are largely exempt from disclosing arrest records, incident reports and other documents even as they employ officers who have the authority to detain students, as well as, in some cases, use force. This lack of transparency has long raised objections from watchdog groups and open government advocates who say such records are critical to holding law enforcement accountable.In a recently filed legal challenge, the…
The Indianapolis Colts are wickedly good at something that’s dreadfully bad: turning touchdowns into touchbacks.For the second time in nine months, a goal-line gaffe by the Colts proved costly in a road loss when wide receiver Adonai Mitchell botched a potential 76-yard TD catch against the Rams on Sunday when he lost control of the ball at the 1 and fumbled out of the end zone.Mitchell was about to put the Colts (3-1) back in front when he was racing down the sideline in the third quarter. With no defender nearby, he started to reach the ball out as he…
Kylian Mbappé scored a hat trick and Harry Kane netted twice as European heavyweights Real Madrid and Bayern Munich enjoyed big wins over tournament newcomers in the Champions League on Tuesday.Madrid shrugged off any travel weariness in a 5-0 win at Kairat Almaty in Kazakhstan, and Bayern cruised to a 5-1 win at Pafos in Cyprus.Tottenham needed a late own goal to escape Bodø/Glimt with a 2-2 draw from the Norwegian champion’s first home game in the main stage of the competition.Liverpool lost 1-0 at Galatasaray after having an 88th-minute penalty decision reversed following a VAR review. Victor Osimhen scored…
CHICAGO (AP) — College student Maya Roman has the handoff down to a science: a text message, a walk to a designated site, and a paper bag delivered with condoms and Plan B emergency contraception. At DePaul University, it’s the only way students can get a sliver of sexual health support, she said.DePaul, a Catholic school in Chicago, prohibits distribution of any kind of birth control on its campus.To get around that, a student group runs a covert contraceptive delivery network called “the womb service.” The group was once the university’s chapter of Planned Parenthood Generation Action, but it has…