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1 week ago | 
businessinsider.com | Hayley Peterson |Jake Epstein |Henry Blodget
Newly captured satellite images reveal extensive damage at one of Iran's most important nuclear facilities after Israeli fighter jets launched significant airstrikes against the site on Friday. The photos, taken on Saturday by US commercial satellite imaging company Maxar Technologies and obtained by Business Insider, show multiple destroyed buildings at Natanz, Iran's main uranium enrichment facility, about 140 miles south of Tehran.
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2 weeks ago | 
businessinsider.com | Hayley Peterson |Peter Kafka |Henry Blodget
You probably don't know who Alexandr Wang is. But that's going to change: The 28-year-old is about to become known as the guy Mark Zuckerberg spent $15 billion on. Wang is the CEO of Scale AI, a data company that works with giant AI leaders like Meta and OpenAI. And Meta is reportedly about to spend $15 billion to buy a 49% stake in Scale AI. What does Meta get for that investment — which values Scale AI at close to $30 billion, about double its last valuation from a year ago?
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1 month ago | 
aol.com | Hayley Peterson |Nancy Luna |Alexandra York |Alex Bitter
Becoming a franchisee for a fast food restaurant is one road to running a business. But costs and requirements vary widely depending on the restaurant chain. Business Insider compiled a list of financial requirements to become a franchisee for 12 major fast food chains. A fast food franchise can be a lucrative business.
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1 month ago | 
yahoo.com | Hayley Peterson |Nancy Luna |Alexandra York |Alex Bitter
Becoming a franchisee for a fast food restaurant is one road to running a business. But costs and requirements vary widely depending on the restaurant chain. Business Insider compiled a list of financial requirements to become a franchisee for 12 major fast food chains. A fast food franchise can be a lucrative business.
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1 month ago | 
businessinsider.com | Hayley Peterson |James Faris |Henry Blodget
This as-told-to essay is based on a conversation with Blake Silva, a 29-year-old Disney-focused content creator and influencer from Ventura, California. It's been edited for length and clarity. Disney isn't just the love of my life — it's also my livelihood. I can't remember a time when I wasn't obsessed with Disney. I always tell people that I loved Winnie the Pooh before I could talk. And now that I can talk, all I talk about is Winnie the Pooh.
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1 month ago | 
businessinsider.com | Hayley Peterson |Alistair Barr |Henry Blodget
About a week ago, I told you about an odd policy at one of the top AI companies. When you apply for a job at Anthropic, the startup won't let you use AI to write a required "Why Anthropic?" essay. That seemed a bit rich, coming from a company that's been warning us to adopt AI or face irrelevance. On Friday, an Anthropic executive said the startup is reversing this stance.
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1 month ago | 
businessinsider.com | Hayley Peterson |Katie Notopoulos |Henry Blodget
I'm as curious and excited as any gadget-lover to see what newfangled AI thingamabob will come from OpenAI's $6.5 billion purchase of ex-Apple designer Jony Ive's io company. But I have one request: please, for the love of God, do not make it a voice-controlled device. Here's what we know about the possible device that Ive and Sam Altman are teasing in a video about their new collaboration.
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1 month ago | 
businessinsider.com | Hayley Peterson |Katie Notopoulos |Henry Blodget
Imagine you're the CEO of a medium-to-large consumer tech company. You announce that you're going all in on AI — you are launching new AI features in your products, or maybe you're telling your employees they need to start using AI at their jobs more. Your investors love it. Your fellow CEOs applaud you. Thought leaders in Silicon Valley hail you. Wall Street loves it; your share price spikes. But your customers? They haaaaaaaaate it. You get absolutely destroyed on social media.
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1 month ago | 
businessinsider.com | Hayley Peterson |Alistair Barr |Henry Blodget
Technologist Luis von Ahn was recently asked if AI is a threat to the company he runs, Duolingo. He said many companies could be disrupted, including Netflix. "That's one of the things that is scary about the world that we live in," von Ahn said. "With AI and large language models, we're undergoing a platform shift.""I'm not super worried, but you just never know. And it's not just for Duolingo, it could be all kinds of things, right?" he added. "I mean, it could be a threat for Netflix.
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1 month ago | 
businessinsider.com | Hayley Peterson |Peter Kafka |Henry Blodget
Charter, one of the country's biggest cable and broadband companies, is buying Cox, a smaller cable and broadband company. If you're a customer of either company, you might be vaguely interested in what the deal means for you. And what might you think if you're the president of the United States? Well, Charter is hoping you'll think this is a deal that Makes America Great Again.
