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[ad_1] This as-told-to essay is based on a conversation with David Shelley, CEO of Hachette Book Group. It has been edited for length and clarity.As the CEO of a global company, I aim to create a culture built on friendly and trusting challenges. The best business results happen when people are able to challenge themselves and others, including senior leadership.To accomplish that, I take an untraditional approach, hosting “ask me anything ” (AMA) sessions with employees. These small group talks help foster trust and ultimately benefit the company.The sessions started after the UK required pay transparencyThe idea started about eight…

[ad_1] Updated 2025-09-08T09:59:01Z Share Facebook Email X LinkedIn Reddit Bluesky WhatsApp 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. The original iPhone, which debuted 17 years ago, set the stage for the modern smartphone. Apple’s iPhone has since evolved into a powerful computer with professional-grade cameras and AI-focused chips. Here’s a look at how the iPhone has changed since its launch in 2007. About 18 years…

[ad_1] In May, Musk told CNBC he planned to place Optimus robots in Tesla factories by the end of 2025.”We expect to have thousands of Optimus robots working in Tesla factories by the end of this year, beginning this fall,” Musk said. “And we expect to scale Optimus up faster than any product, I think, in history, to get to millions of units per year as soon as possible.”He said Tesla could produce one million units by 2030.”I think we feel confident in getting to one million units per year in less than five years, maybe four years. So by…

[ad_1] This as-told-to essay is based on a conversation with Michaël Trazzi, a 29-year-old former AI safety researcher from Saint-Cloud, France. He’s on his fourth day of a hunger strike outside DeepMind’s offices in London. This conversation has been edited for length and clarity.Back in 2019, AI systems weren’t particularly dangerous. They weren’t lying, deceiving, or capable of causing real harm on their own. Even today, I don’t believe current models can directly inflict catastrophic damage.What worries me is what comes next.My relationship with AI has shifted over the years — from studying and building it to, now, speaking out…

[ad_1] It seems like lately, there’s a new — and confounding — political melee surrounding a company branding decision every other week. One company sniffles, and someone declares it woke. Another coughs, and it’s white supremacist. Just look at what happened with American Eagle and Cracker Barrel over the summer. Or a couple of years ago, when the green M&M got sneakers. The near-constant meltdowns over simple business moves are a sign of the times, though. Americans are seeing everything as politically coded, even when it’s not.Corporate America has played a role in fostering all of this culture war tea-leaf…

[ad_1] Paul Graham, the cofounder of startup incubator Y Combinator, said on Saturday that students should think twice before launching their startups in high school.”The thing to do now is to learn new things and increase your skill at the things you already know,” Graham wrote in a post on X.”Startups are rarely the optimal way to do this. The point of a startup is to make something people want, not to learn,” he added.Representatives for Graham at Y Combinator did not respond to requests for comment from Business Insider.Graham said it probably isn’t the best idea for a high…

[ad_1] In 2022, Eunice Panopio brought her tiny house dream to life by building one in the Philippines and turning it into an Airbnb.The idea first came to her in 2018, when she was handling social media marketing for a woman who managed resorts. Watching bookings pour in, she began to wonder what it might be like to build a place of her own.”I was like, ‘I hope I can do that for myself,’ but I never had the funds,” Panopio told Business Insider.Fast-forward a few years, and Panopio was studying marketing and communications in Melbourne, Australia. On the side,…

[ad_1] Geoffrey Hinton has long pioneered the development of artificial intelligence. Little did the AI godfather know that one day, his girlfriend would rely on it to break up with him.Hinton told the Financial Times in a wide-ranging interview on Friday that his now-former girlfriend asked the chatbot to explain why he had been “a rat” and delivered the AI-generated critique straight to him.”She got the chatbot to explain how awful my behaviour was and gave it to me,” he told the FT. “I didn’t think I had been a rat, so it didn’t make me feel too bad. I…

[ad_1] Musk first runs afoul of Brazilian Supreme Court Justice Alexandre de Moraes.De Moraes asked X to remove over 100 accounts flagged as misinformation, hate speech, or attacks on democracy. The platform initially agreed, but Musk posted to X later that same day, saying the platform would not impose restrictions.Musk called the order “aggressive censorship” and told his 202 million followers that X would lift all restrictions.”We are lifting all restrictions. This judge has applied massive fines, threatened to arrest our employees and cut off access to X in Brazil,” Musk wrote. “As a result, we will probably lose all…

[ad_1] A new research paper from OpenAI asks why large language models like GPT-5 and chatbots like ChatGPT still hallucinate and whether anything can be done to reduce those hallucinations. In a blog post summarizing the paper, OpenAI defines hallucinations as “plausible but false statements generated by language models,” and it acknowledges that despite improvements, hallucinations “remain a fundamental challenge for all large language models” — one that will never be completely eliminated. To illustrate the point, researchers say that when they asked “a widely used chatbot” about the title of Adam Tauman Kalai’s PhD dissertation, they got three different…