Meghan Morris

4 days ago | businessinsider.com | Meghan Morris |Huileng Tan |Henry Blodget

Global investors are on alert about a 90-mile sea passage in the Middle East, fearing that any block of the Strait of Hormuz could derail global shipping and oil. Tensions in the Middle East escalated sharply after the US struck Iran's nuclear facilities on Sunday, prompting fears of retaliation from Tehran.

4 days ago | businessinsider.com | Meghan Morris |Matthew Loh |Henry Blodget

Analysts are casting doubt on Russia's former president's claim that "a number of countries" were considering supplying nuclear warheads to Iran after the Pentagon's salvo of bunker-buster strikes there. Dmitry Medvedev, who was president from 2008 to 2012 and is a top aide to Russian leader Vladimir Putin, didn't specify which countries he was referring to in his Telegram post on Sunday. In his post, he downplayed the damage dealt to Iran's vital nuclear sites.

5 days ago | businessinsider.com | Meghan Morris |Shubhangi Goel |Henry Blodget

OpenAI's cofounder said vibe coding has left human engineers to do quality control. On an episode of Stripe's "Cheeky Pint" podcast uploaded last week, OpenAI's cofounder and president, Greg Brockman, said that AI coding will only get better. But until then, it's taking away some parts of software engineering that he said are enjoyable. "What we're going to see is AIs taking more and more of the drudgery, more of this like pain, more of the parts that are not very fun for humans," Brockman said.

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.

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.