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Alistair Barr

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Global Tech Editor at Business Insider

Editor, writer, reporter, father, husband. I tweet what I want. He/him/his. Blue check

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  • 1 week ago | businessinsider.com | Alistair Barr |Pranav Dixit

    Facebook Email X LinkedIn Copy link A legal case involving Meta revealed the company's secret experiments with training data. Meta used "ablation" to identify how specific data improved its Llama AI models. Some researchers say this could support a system to assign value to AI data and pay compensation. A high-profile legal case has unearthed a trove of internal Meta communications, and one particular document has caught the eye of some AI researchers.

  • 1 week ago | businessinsider.com | Leena Rao |Alistair Barr |Henry Blodget

    Mira Murati being interviewed onstage during a conference in San Francisco Jon Kopaloff/Getty Images for WIRED 2025-04-12T09:00:02Z Facebook Email X LinkedIn Copy 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? . Former OpenAI CTO Mira Murati is raising $2 billion for her AI startup, Thinking Machines Lab.

  • 1 week ago | businessinsider.com | Alistair Barr

    Facebook Email X LinkedIn Copy link A Redwood Materials executive sees rising EV demand. Concerns about an EV adoption slowdown are overblown, said Redwood's Chief Commercial Officer. US EV sales grew 11% year-over-year in Q1 2025, with legacy brands like Porsche seeing major gains. I recently visited Redwood Materials, a company that's deeply entrenched in the electric vehicle industry.

  • 1 week ago | businessinsider.es | Alistair Barr

    Trump usa los aranceles para alejar la economía mundial de China. Taiwán y TSMC son clave en las cadenas de suministro globales interconectadas. Un analista asegura que una invasión china de Taiwán haría que la crisis de estos días pareciera insulsa. En un mundo ya afectado por crisis económicas —desde la pandemia hasta los aranceles—,  hay un escenario que las eclipsaría a todas: una invasión china de Taiwán.

  • 2 weeks ago | businessinsider.com | Alistair Barr

    Facebook Email X LinkedIn Copy link Elon Musk's focus on DOGE has hurt Tesla's sales. But how much has his DOGE bender affected the Cybertruck? Q1 estimates from Cox Automotive provide some clues. We know that Elon Musk's DOGE bender has seriously hurt sales of Tesla cars. But what about the Cybertruck specifically? Tesla doesn't break out quarterly delivery numbers for this divisive vehicle.

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Alistair Barr
Alistair Barr @alistairmbarr
10 Apr 25

Tesla’s Cybertruck just hit a major speed bump. ⚡🚚https://t.co/w4nknL9uOc via @businessinsider

Alistair Barr
Alistair Barr @alistairmbarr
7 Apr 25

When you see S&P futures down… again https://t.co/Grz8pCDhmu

Alistair Barr
Alistair Barr @alistairmbarr
28 Mar 25

As CoreWeave starts trading today, pay attention to the big "D" issue. $CRWV https://t.co/H32UgoSzCL