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[ad_1] Netflix has won the paid streaming wars — and its rivals are feeding its dominance.Traditional Hollywood giants give Netflix some of their best shows, and they perform well. Five studios account for 22% of Netflix’s library — and 32% of its viewing hours, a new report from research firm Owl & Co. shows. The report is based on Netflix’s engagement reports and data from Ampere Analysis.The top supplier is Comcast’s NBCUniversal. It provides 3.7% of Netflix’s content hours and 8.4% of its viewing hours, helped by popular series like “Suits” and “House.”Disney has been less open to licensing —…

[ad_1] If you feel like job opportunities are hard to come by right now, it’s not just you.The Bureau of Labor Statistics’ latest report on job openings and labor turnover, released on Wednesday, showed that, for the first time since April 2021, there are more job seekers than job openings in the US, Reuters reported.At 0.99 openings per unemployed person, compared to the 1.05 rate in June, it’s the first time job seekers have outnumbered openings since April 2021, when the rate was 0.96.The bureau’s jobs report, released Friday, showed that 22,000 jobs opened up in August, short of the…

[ad_1] Anthropic’s meteoric rise is rewriting the playbook for startup pay.Just 14 months ago, a senior software engineer accepted a $571,000 package that included roughly $250,000 in stock options, according to tech industry compensation platform Levels.fyi.That equity award was worth about $1 million on paper at the time. Now, it would be valued at an eye-popping $23 million, according to estimates from Hakeem Shibly, a data guru at Levels.fyi.That’s because Anthropic has seen its valuation soar from about $12.5 billion in early 2024 to a staggering $183 billion.Anthropic is cementing itself as one of the fastest-growing startups ever, and its…

[ad_1] Isotopes AI came out of stealth on Thursday with a healthy $20 million seed round. It offers an AI agent to solve a problem that data analytics products have struggled with for decades: The people who know how to run the big data infrastructure are not the ones who actually need to use the data. With LLMs, business managers can ask questions of their data in natural language. Isotopes’ agent, Aidnn, can provide answers and draft complex planning documents, gathering data from wherever it’s stored, like finance apps, ERP, CRM, and cloud storage. There are countless agentic business analytics…

[ad_1] Acqui-hires feel like they’re here to stay: The team behind Alex, a popular tool that lets developers use AI models within Apple’s development suite Xcode, is joining OpenAI. In a post on X, Alex’s founder Daniel Edrisian said the startup’s team is joining OpenAI’s Codex division, which is building the company’s AI coding agent. Y Combinator-backed Alex was founded in 2024 and sought to integrate AI models into Xcode. Apple, however, earlier this year updated Xcode to let users tap ChatGPT and other AI models without needing external tools. Edrisian didn’t mention if this was a reason his startup’s…

[ad_1] 2025-09-05T14:48:46Z 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. Elon Musk is one step closer to becoming the world’s first trillionaire. Tesla’s board proposed a new pay package that could grant him $1 trillion of stock. Musk’s wealth largely stems from his stakes in Tesla, SpaceX, XAI, and other companies. Elon Musk was already leading the race…

[ad_1] (This is an actual research report from Trivector’s Adam Parker, reprinted for CNBC Pro subscribers with permission. Click here to subscribe to Trivector.) Every month we look at hundreds of transcripts, both systematically and “manually” to identify emerging trends, confirmatory data for existing trends, or data that refutes a current market trend. Obviously, AI is a focal point of all market participants, so we constantly have an eye toward what companies are saying about adoption, impact on business, etc. Walmart (Ticker: WMT) is a bellwether name for the U.S. consumer, but in this instance, it may prove to be…

[ad_1] Tesla shareholders will soon vote whether to let the electric vehicle maker invest in Elon Musk’s AI startup xAI, a proposal pitched as a way to strengthen Tesla’s ambitions in AI, robotics, and energy.  Listed in Tesla’s proxy statement alongside a company-backed push to raise Musk’s 10-year pay package to $1 trillion, the proposal comes from Stephen Hawk, a Florida shareholder with a $2,000 stake of common stock. His supporting statement reads: Tesla’s integration of Grok into its vehicles demonstrates the tangible benefits of collaboration with xAI. As Tesla pivots toward AI-driven technologies, including Full Self-Driving and robotics, a…

[ad_1] 2025-09-05T14:18:56Z 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. I’ve been a Costco employee for 20 years and am always on the hunt for the best new items. This month, Costco has tasty meals like chicken and waffles and Oats Overnight oatmeal shakes. The Nike pullover sweatshirts and Clearly six-piece organization sets also caught my eye. I’ve…

[ad_1] I’m always shocked when I remember Amazon got started way back in 1994. For more than a quarter century, this company was run by itsthe same founder, Jeff Bezos, who built it into America’s second-largest employer.He pursued a dizzying array of products, services, businesses, moonshots, and side projects. Then, in the midst of a global pandemic, he stepped aside and Andy Jassy took over as CEO.Jassy was suddenly responsible for more than 1.5 million employees located all over the globe while COVID-19 spread. And he was taking the reins from a boss who’d stamped his unique approach on almost…