
Peter Gelling
Senior News Editor at INSIDER
Writer and editor. These days: Senior News Editor @BusinessInsider. Olden days: Quartz, WGBH, GlobalPost, NYT. Also: @kakilimanyc.
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5 days ago |
businessinsider.com | Peter Gelling |Lakshmi Varanasi |Henry Blodget
X, and earlier Twitter, has long been the platform of choice for users who revel in the public eye — a space to share unfiltered thoughts, "takes" of all kinds, and viral drama. But since Elon Musk bought the platform in 2022, he has aimed to attract a more private set of users as he works to make X integral to everyday life. His latest effort is a new feature called XChat. The "all new XChat is rolling out with encryption, vanishing messages, and the ability to send any kind of file.
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5 days ago |
businessinsider.com | Peter Gelling |Lauren Edmonds |Henry Blodget
It is a truth universally acknowledged: Lines are the worst part of amusement parks. Sure, too many $8 pretzels can gut your budget, but there's something uniquely taxing about waiting in line for a popular ride on a sticky summer day. There might be a fix, however: artificial intelligence. New technology of all kinds is transforming the theme park experience in the United States, helping drive growth in the industry. Among the theme parks leveraging new technology is Legoland.
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5 days ago |
businessinsider.com | Peter Gelling |Sarah Perkel |Henry Blodget
Janvi Kalra, an engineer at OpenAI, thinks students should diversify their experiences after college, with at least one internship at a Big Tech firm and another at a startup. That way, she said on an episode of The Pragmatic Engineer podcast, you have a better idea of what career path you should take. Kalra interned with Microsoft and Google. She then worked for productivity startup Coda before transitioning into her current role at OpenAI. She said both tracks have advantages and disadvantages.
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5 days ago |
businessinsider.com | Peter Gelling |Ana Altchek |Henry Blodget
It's no secret that the role of engineers is changing — and in some cases, shrinking. That's not the case at Cisco, though, the company's president and chief product officer, Jeetu Patel, told Business Insider in an interview — at least, not yet. The company has 27,000 engineers and is "unapologetically hiring" more, he said. "We feel more constrained now than ever before on not having enough engineers to get prosecuted all the ideas that we've got going internally," Patel said.
Meta's chief AI scientist says all countries should contribute data to a shared open-source AI model
6 days ago |
businessinsider.com | Peter Gelling |Lakshmi Varanasi |Henry Blodget
AI has surged to the top of the diplomatic agenda in the past couple of years. And one of the leading topics of discussion among researchers, tech executives, and policymakers is how open-source models — which are free for anyone to use and modify — should be governed.
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