Katie Notopoulos

New York

Senior Correspondent at Business Insider

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Google has a 'You can't lick a badger twice' problem

2 weeks ago | yahoo.com | Katie Notopoulos

Google's AI answers will give you a definition of any made-up saying. I tried: "You can't lick a badger twice."This is exactly the kind of thing AI should be really good at — explaining language use. But something's off. Is it a hallucination, or AI just being too eager to please? What does "You can't lick a badger twice" mean? Like many English sayings — "A bird in the hand is worth two in the bush," "A watched pot never boils" — it isn't even true.
A baby store owner tells us why tariffs are pushing up the price of a popular stroller by $300

4 weeks ago | businessinsider.com | Katie Notopoulos

Facebook Email X LinkedIn Copy link UPPAbaby brand strollers and car seats are going to cost parents more because of tariffs, one store owner tells me. Elizabeth Mahon, the owner of a baby goods store in Washington, DC, is raising prices on one stroller by $300.
I'd never heard of MeWe. The FTC says it's a competitor to Facebook — so I tried it for myself.

4 weeks ago | businessinsider.com | Katie Notopoulos

Facebook Email X LinkedIn Copy link In the antitrust case against Meta, MeWe came up on a list of competitors to Facebook. I had literally never heard of MeWe. So I signed up. It's pretty empty, but it has a history of being for conspiracy theorists. The Federal Trade Commission apparently thinks MeWe is a big competitor to Facebook.
反トランプのデモには、なぜベビーブーマーが多数参加しているのか？ | Business Insider Japan

1 month ago | businessinsider.jp | Katie Notopoulos

反トランプの抗議デモに、多くのベビーブーマー世代が参加しているようだ。彼らが懸念しているのは、主に社会保障や引退後の生活なのか？それとも、関税によって株価が打撃を受けることへの不安なのか？あるいは、それ以外の要因があるのだろうか？筆者は抗議デモを研究している教授に見解を求めた。筆者は、アメリカ各地で2025年4月最初の週末に行われた反トランプおよび反DOGEのデモの写真を見ていた。すると目についたものがある。白髪の多さだ。「ブラック・ライヴズ・マター」やイスラエル／ガザに関するデモといった近年の抗議デモで見られた光景とは異なっているようだ。あのときは、若者たちが主導していた印象が強い。どうやら、そう感じたのは私だけではないようだ。週末のデモを組織する役割を担ったレディット（Reddit）フォーラムのひとつ「r/50501」では、あるユーザーが「ベビーブーマー（1946年から1964年ごろに生まれた世代：61歳から79歳）には本当に脱帽だ」と投稿していた。...
I have a shipment coming from Temu. Am I going to have to pay a giant fee?

1 month ago | businessinsider.com | Katie Notopoulos

Facebook Email X LinkedIn Copy link I placed an order at Temu just before "Liberation Day" tariffs were announced — as a last hurrah. Since then, there's been a lot of on-again, off-again tariff news. Will I get walloped with a $75 duty fee on my $8 order? Pray for me! The past few days with tariffs have been an emotional roller coaster.
I have a shipment coming from Temu. Am I going to have to pay a giant fee?

1 month ago | yahoo.com | Katie Notopoulos

I placed an order at Temu just before "Liberation Day" tariffs were announced — as a last hurrah. Since then, there's been a lot of on-again, off-again tariff news. Will I get walloped with a $75 duty fee on my $8 order? Pray for me!The past few days with tariffs have been an emotional roller coaster. Not because I checked my 401(k), but because I placed an order from Temu last week — and its fate seems to be hanging in the balance.
Why are there so many boomers at anti-Trump protests?

1 month ago | yahoo.com | Katie Notopoulos

It sure seems like there are a lot of baby boomers attending anti-Donald Trump protests. Are boomers worried mostly about Social Security and retirement as tariffs tank markets? Or is there something else going on? I asked a professor who studies protests for his take. I was looking through photos from the anti-Trump and anti-DOGE protests across the US over the weekend, and I couldn't help but notice something: There sure was a lot of gray hair.
'The Thinking Machine,' by Stephen Witt

1 month ago | nytimes.com | Katie Notopoulos

The screaming and rage sessions seem at odds with other, kinder aspects of Huang's personality - his friends from his personal life said they didn't ever witness any blowups. And somehow he's retained many longtime loyal employees, even people from the early days when it wasn't obvious that working at a gaming chip company - not the most glamorous part of the tech industry - was a golden ticket to enormous wealth. He's also a loyal boss: The guy from the cafeteria wasn't fired after the showdown.
'Ask Grok' was supposed to make X better. Turns out, it's just another tool for dunking on someone.

1 month ago | businessinsider.com | Katie Notopoulos

Mensent Photography/Getty, xijian/Getty, Tyler Le/BI 2025-04-01T18:27:52Z 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? . People are replying to posts on X — asking Grok: "Is this true?" It's a new form of dunking on someone on X, and it's making the old Twitter an even weirder place.
Sam Altman did a good tweet

1 month ago | businessinsider.com | Katie Notopoulos

Sam Altman, against all odds, made a funny tweet. Sean Gallup/Getty Images 2025-03-26T18:22:19Z 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? . Sam Altman did a funny tweet about the popularity of OpenAI's latest feature.