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5 days ago | 
businessinsider.com | Meghan Morris |Lee Chong Ming |Henry Blodget
Alexandr Wang said there were two things he never delegated, even as he ran one of the hottest data labeling companies in tech. The Scale AI cofounder and CEO said on an episode of Y Combinator's podcast published Wednesday that he personally reviewed every hire. He said he also hand-reviewed customer data before it was delivered. The episode was recorded before Meta confirmed earlier this month that it's buying a 49% stake in Scale AI.
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5 days ago | 
businessinsider.com | Meghan Morris |Lee Chong Ming |Henry Blodget
As AI gets better at writing code, it's not just changing how engineers work — it's also reshaping their career trajectory, the tech chief of a $205 billion software company told Business Insider. Pat Casey, the chief technology officer at ServiceNow, said that AI tools are rapidly automating the kind of work traditionally done by junior engineers — writing boilerplate, repetitive coding and knocking out bugs. ServiceNow sells cloud software for creating and managing automated business workflows.
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1 week ago | 
businessinsider.com | Meghan Morris |Lee Chong Ming |Henry Blodget
Andrej Karpathy thinks we're getting way too excited about AI, especially when it comes to deploying agents that act without supervision. In a keynote at an event hosted by Y Combinator earlier this week, the computer scientist said people need to "keep AI on the leash." The OpenAI cofounder said current large language models still make mistakes no human ever would.
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1 week ago | 
businessinsider.com | Meghan Morris |Lee Chong Ming |Henry Blodget
This as-told-to essay is based on a conversation with Adit Sheth, a senior software engineer at Microsoft. Business Insider has verified his employment. This interview has been edited for length and clarity. While completing my master's in computer science at the University of Texas at Dallas in 2016, I had an opportunity to interview with Microsoft. I had a 3.9 GPA and was thrilled to get selected for the final round of an on-site interview.
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1 week ago | 
businessinsider.com | Meghan Morris |Lee Chong Ming |Henry Blodget
Veteran venture capitalist Jay Hoag thinks the AI investing hype has gone too far. The TCV cofounder criticized what he sees as VCs' blind rush toward AI. "Money sort of chases momentum or follows perceived momentum," he said on an episode of the "Invest Like The Best" podcast published Tuesday. "At the risk of insult, possibly like 7-year-olds playing soccer — the ball goes over there, everybody goes over there," Hoag said.
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1 week ago | 
businessinsider.com | Meghan Morris |Lee Chong Ming |Katherine Tangalakis-Lippert |Henry Blodget
Amazon's CEO told employees to get with the AI program on Tuesday, echoing advice from career experts and other tech leaders about the need to skill up, fast. "As we go through this transformation together, be curious about AI, educate yourself, attend workshops and take trainings, use and experiment with AI whenever you can," Andy Jassy wrote.
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1 week ago | 
businessinsider.com | Meghan Morris |Lee Chong Ming |Henry Blodget
OpenAI is under "unprecedented pressure to grow" as it races to scale in the era of artificial general intelligence, said Joaquin Quiñonero Candela, the tech giant's newly appointed head of recruiting. "If we were a rocket (wait, we're one), we'd be at MaxQ — maximum dynamic pressure," he wrote in a LinkedIn post on Tuesday announcing his new role. "Recruiting has never been more important."Candela joined OpenAI in 2024 as head of preparedness, where he worked on building safer AI systems.
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1 week ago | 
businessinsider.com | Meghan Morris |Lee Chong Ming |Henry Blodget
Most tech leaders promote AI adoption through training sessions or performance metrics. A product leader at Whoop is more focused on creating habits. Hilary Gridley, the head of core product at the wearables company, said on an episode of "Lenny's Podcast" published Sunday that her goal is to make AI feel like a natural part of daily work, not a mandate. To do that, she relies on a three-part framework: consistency, friction reduction, and a strong reward loop.
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1 week ago | 
businessinsider.com | Meghan Morris |Lee Chong Ming |Henry Blodget
This as-told-to essay is based on a conversation with Dr. Shravan Verma, the cofounder and CEO of Speedoc, a Singapore-based health tech startup. This interview has been edited for length and clarity. As someone who has worked in both tertiary hospitals as well as some underserved environments, I saw the opportunity to create a virtual hospital that brings healthcare directly to where patients are, starting with their homes.
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2 weeks ago | 
businessinsider.es | Lee Chong Ming |Félix Esteban
La empresa matriz de Barbie, Mattel, se ha asociado con OpenAI. Si bien los detalles aún están en secreto, se espera que el primer producto impulsado por IA caiga a finales de este año. La asociación llega en un entorno donde los fabricantes de juguetes se enfrentan una demanda más débil debido a los aranceles, y otros gigantes se están sumando a acuerdos similares. Barbie con una actualización de IA.
