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AI has made its way into the classroom. Along with it, concerns from teachers about student apathy. "Some of the ones that I see using it all the time — I think if it wasn't there, they would just sit there looking blindly into space," Gary Ward, a physics, economics, and business teacher at Brookes Westshore High School in Victoria, British Columbia, told Business Insider.
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1 week ago | 
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Sam Altman says he correctly predicted how AI would develop. There is, however, one prediction he didn't quite get right.
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1 week ago | 
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AI agents are like "genies," said Kent Beck, one of the authors of the seminal "Agile Manifesto" — they'll often grant your wish, but not always in the way you'd like them to. "They will not do what you mean. They have their own agenda," Beck said on a recent episode of The Pragmatic Engineer podcast. "And the best analogy I could find is a genie.
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When job-hopping, make sure not to accidentally bring your old company's culture along for the ride, said Bob Baxley, a former director of design at Apple. "I think my own particular mistake, and I've seen this with some other Apple executives as well, is we went directly from Apple — I left Apple on a Friday and I started Pinterest on a Monday," Baxley said on a recent episode of Lenny's Podcast.
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2 weeks ago | 
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For OpenAI, improving the programming capabilities of its AI is a self-reinforcing loop — as ChatGPT gets better at coding, its engineers get faster too.
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2 weeks ago | 
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The oft-debated recession indicator. Lipstick sales, the "men's underwear index," and … an increase in TaskRabbit applications? There's been an uptick in recent years in the number of people looking to shore up their income streams with gig work. That's been the case for TaskRabbit, which matches up "Taskers" with clients that need things built, installed, repaired, or otherwise completed by a gig worker.
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2 weeks ago | 
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Bret Taylor, the chairman of OpenAI, believes that if you have the chance to attach yourself to success, you shouldn't let ego get in the way. "I think this is the quote I always heard, was Eric Schmidt to Sheryl Sandberg: 'If someone offers you a seat on a rocket ship, don't ask what seat,' you know?
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3 weeks ago | 
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2025-06-05T16:33:08Z Share Facebook Email X LinkedIn Copy link lighning bolt icon An icon in the shape of a lightning bolt. Impact 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? Log in. Nintendo launched the Switch 2 at midnight on June 5, drawing crowds that waited overnight for the release.
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3 weeks ago | 
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Jake Bolam, a principal engineer at Instagram, says he's careful to monitor his work-life balance. Which one he's prioritizing during any given week, though, can depend on the season. "Sometimes I get really excited at work, and I'll be working, you know, 60-hour weeks or something like that, 70-hour weeks," Bolam said in a recent interview with YouTuber Ryan Peterman.
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3 weeks ago | 
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AI can be a useful tool to delegate tasks to — but you shouldn't have it do your thinking for you, said Humane Intelligence CEO Rumman Chowdhury. "If we start to say, 'Well, the AI system is going to do the thinking for me,' that is a failure state, because the AI system is limited to actually our data and our current capability," Chowdhury, who was also appointed US Science Envoy for AI during the Biden administration, said in an interview with EO.
