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1 day ago | 
businessinsider.com | Meghan Morris |Shubhangi Goel |Effie Webb |Henry Blodget
What would you take from your house if there were a zombie apocalypse? What type of person would you like to live on Mars with? These are some of the questions being used to train AI voice models for Elon Musk’s xAI, alongside everyday topics about DIY plumbing and trip planning, documents obtained by Business Insider show.
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1 day ago | 
businessinsider.com | Meghan Morris |Shubhangi Goel |Henry Blodget
This as-told-to essay is based on a conversation with Scott Edinburgh, a Boston-based MBA admissions consultant. It has been edited for length and clarity. I launched an admissions consulting business in 2008 — it's a family business that I run with my sister. We get a lot of international students, and they sometimes make up half our clients for the year. Our reach matches what many schools are seeing.
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2 days ago | 
businessinsider.com | Meghan Morris |Shubhangi Goel |Henry Blodget
Americans bought less beer for Memorial Day weekend, and one brand fizzled more than the rest. The Dutch beer company Heineken had the "weakest" sales among peer beer brands during the holiday weekend, a Goldman Sachs report published Tuesday said. Goldman surveyed about 50 distributors, who represent 230,000 retail outlets, or about 46% of US outlets that sell alcohol. Distributors reported sales trends for Anheuser-Busch, Molson Coors, Heineken, Samuel Adams, and Modelo's parent company.
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4 days ago | 
businessinsider.de | Shubhangi Goel
Sachin Kansal, Chief Product Officer von Uber Tim P. Whitby/Getty Images for Uber Der Produktchef von Uber sagt, er nutze KI, um lange Berichte zusammenzufassen und vor Markteinführungen zu recherchieren. Sachin Kansal verwendet ChatGPT und Gemini, um die Leistung von Uber in anderen Märkten zu verstehen.
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4 days ago | 
businessinsider.de | Shubhangi Goel
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4 days ago | 
businessinsider.com | Meghan Morris |Shubhangi Goel |Henry Blodget
Uber's chief product officer has one AI tool on his to-do list. In an episode of "Lenny's Podcast" released on Sunday, Uber's product chief, Sachin Kansal, shared two ways he is using AI for his everyday tasks at the ride-hailing giant and how he plans to add NotebookLM to his AI suite. Kansal joined Uber eight years ago as its director of product management after working at cybersecurity and taxi startups. He became Uber's product chief last year.
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5 days ago | 
businessinsider.jp | Shubhangi Goel
グーグルの共同創業者セルゲイ・ブリンは、権限委譲や昇進といったリーダー業務にAI（人工知能）を活用していると語った。 OpenAIとの競争が激化する中、ブリンは2023年にグーグルに戻った。AIプロダクトを開発するためだ。 エヌビディア（Nvidia）のCEOやデュオリンゴ（Duolingo）のCTOといった企業の幹部も、AIを日常的に使用している。 AIはちょっとしたEメールを書いたり、コーディングのスピードを速めるだけでなく、世界有数の企業で誰が昇進するかを決めることまでできるようだ。 5月20日に配信されたポッドキャスト『All In』の中で、グーグルの共同創業者セルゲイ・ブリンは2023年にグーグルに戻って以来、リーダー業務にAIを活用していると語った。 「マネジメントは、最もAIで簡単にできることだ」...
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5 days ago | 
businessinsider.com | Meghan Morris |Shubhangi Goel |Henry Blodget
This as-told-to essay is based on a conversation with Brad Barrett, who hosts the ChooseFI podcast. Business Insider has verified his professional history. My journey to financial independence, or FI, started when I got my first job. I began my career at one of the big accounting firms. I was fortunate enough to live at home with my parents, and I tried to save around 90% of my income when a lot of my friends began getting apartments alone or buying fancy cars.
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5 days ago | 
businessinsider.com | Meghan Morris |Shubhangi Goel |Henry Blodget
Yoeven Khemlani knew he wanted to build a product for engineers like him. The Singaporean's friends told him they were spending tons of time maintaining code, web scraping, and translating their work for different markets. In July 2024, he launched JigsawStack, a company to create small models that could automate those tasks. One country — not his own — quickly became the source of his customers.
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1 week ago | 
businessinsider.com | Meghan Morris |Shubhangi Goel |Henry Blodget
Retail therapy has been boosting Ulta Beauty's bottom line. On Thursday's earnings call, Ulta's CEO, Kecia Steelman, said that customers are buying beauty products to cope with big-picture concerns. "Many consumers indicate that they are leaning into beauty as a comfort and escape from the stress of macro uncertainty," Steelman said.
