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6 days ago | 
businessinsider.com | Chris Kaye |Kelsey Vlamis |Henry Blodget
This as-told-to essay is based on a conversation with Greg Petronzi of True Patina, a watchmaker specializing in vintage Rolex repairs. He is also a licensed psychologist and professor at New York University. This interview has been edited for length and clarity. I've always had a fascination with watches, starting at a young age. Around middle school, I had a Swatch with a see-through plastic case and an automatic movement.
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1 week ago | 
businessinsider.com | Chris Kaye |Lakshmi Varanasi |Henry Blodget
Meta reported that online bullying and harassment on Facebook rose slightly in Q1 2025 compared to Q4 2024. "There was a small increase in the prevalence of bullying and harassment content from 0.06-0.07% to 0.07-0.08% on Facebook due to a spike in sharing of violating content in March," Meta said in its first quarter integrity report published on Thursday.
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1 week ago | 
businessinsider.com | Chris Kaye |Lloyd Lee |Henry Blodget
The submersible expert who once warned OceanGate CEO Stockton Rush against taking passengers on the Titan submersible told Business Insider that viewers of two upcoming documentaries on the 2023 fatal Titan implosion will see how Rush was a man "hell bent on glory." Karl Stanley, who rode inside the Titan in 2019, told BI in a recent email that he is a "major participant" in the upcoming BBC documentary "Implosion." The documentary will give an in-depth look at the events leading up to the...
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1 week ago | 
businessinsider.com | Chris Kaye |Tim Paradis |Henry Blodget
David Sacks, the White House artificial intelligence and crypto czar, said it's possible that a productivity boost from AI and robots could be so powerful that it helps brighten the US financial picture.
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1 week ago | 
businessinsider.com | Chris Kaye |Lloyd Lee |Henry Blodget
Waymo recently demonstrated why the company believes it's necessary to have lidar and other sensors beyond cameras in order to deliver a safer robotaxi service. During a presentation at Google I/O on Wednesday, co-CEO Dmitri Dolgov showed a few situations in which Waymo's proprietary lidar and imaging radar system can detect pedestrians before cameras pick them up. Waymo's current fifth-generation autonomous car is equipped with five lidars, six radar sensors, and 29 cameras.
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1 week ago | 
businessinsider.com | Chris Kaye |Laura Italiano |Jacob Shamsian |Henry Blodget
During the first two weeks of testimony in the Sean "Diddy" Combs trial in Manhattan, her name was dropped two dozen times. Now, Capricorn Clark is set to take the stand first thing Tuesday, kicking off the third week of the government's sex-trafficking and racketeering case against the millionaire hip-hop entrepreneur. As Combs' former personal assistant and top marketing exec, Clark will be the highest-ranking employee to testify so far.
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1 week ago | 
businessinsider.com | Chris Kaye |Lloyd Lee |Henry Blodget
Ahmed Shubber, a 25-year-old founder from Connecticut, wants to compete with the Caterpillars of the construction industry by building the Tesla of bulldozers. Shubber's company, Lumina, has been operating in stealth since 2021 and has since grown to a team of 26 people and raised an $8 million seed round, according to the founder. On Wednesday, Shubber demonstrated Lumina's first prototype, the Moonlander, in San Francisco.
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1 week ago | 
businessinsider.com | Chris Kaye |Kelsey Vlamis |Henry Blodget
Traditional business travel hot spots like New York City, Las Vegas, and Chicago are facing some new competition. Employers are increasingly looking toward destinations with more affordable prices and other perks for business travelers, said Ariel Katen, director of product with a focus on group bookings at Engine, a work-travel management platform.
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1 week ago | 
businessinsider.com | Chris Kaye |Grace Eliza Goodwin |Theron Mohamed |Katherine Li
Crypto entrepreneur Justin Sun now has a $100,000 Trump-branded watch on his arm, but he's no stranger to the high life. The billionaire was one of 220 top backers of President Donald Trump's meme coin, $TRUMP, who were invited to a special dinner with the president on May 22. At the event, Sun said he was gifted a Trump Tourbillon watch, which sells for $100,000 — another of the Trump family's private business interests in addition to cryptocurrency.
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2 weeks ago | 
businessinsider.com | Chris Kaye |Kelsey Vlamis |Henry Blodget
President Donald Trump said Wednesday he was "giving very serious consideration" to taking Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac public and would make a decision soon. "Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac are doing very well, throwing off a lot of CASH, and the time would seem to be right," Trump wrote in a post on Truth Social.
