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[ad_1] Welcome back to our Sunday edition, where we round up some of our top stories and take you inside our newsroom. Bringing a Stanley tumbler to the office could date you. Morgan Stanley surveyed more than 500 of its interns to see what brands the younger cohort is buying. The results are a window into Gen Z’s tastes. Their preferences for clothing, shoes, and cars might surprise you.On the agenda today:But first: It no longer pays to be loyal.If this was forwarded to you, sign up here. Download Business Insider’s app here.This week’s dispatchA relic of the past Getty…

[ad_1] There’s at least one AI-related topic that Google’s chief scientist tries to avoid. Jeff Dean, who focused on AI advances for Google DeepMind and Google Research, explained why he steers clear of the conversations about artificial general intelligence, or AGI, during an episode of “The Moonshot Podcast” released earlier this month.”The reason I tend to steer away from AGI conversations is lots of people have very different definitions of it, and the difficulty of the problem varies by like factors of a trillion,” he said.He said AI models today are “probably already” better than the average person at most…

[ad_1] Grindr may be an “AI-first company” these days, but its CEO remains skeptical of the amount of money being thrown at certain AI companies.The debate over whether an AI bubble is forming has reached a fever pitch in the past few months. OpenAI CEO Sam Altman recently told reporters that “overexcited” investors were practicing bubble-like behavior around the industry.Business Insider asked the LGBTQ+ dating app’s CEO George Arison about Altman’s comments. Arison said that a “VC bubble” was forming — but that the AI incumbents have an incentive to advise against investment.”This is how venture always works,” Arison told Business…

[ad_1] TikTok’s US plans are up in the air due to a divest-or-ban law that puts its future in jeopardy. But it’s still offering six-figure salaries to workers this year in key areas like e-commerce and artificial intelligence.It’s sought to hire data scientists to sharpen its search algorithm, court workers to grow its e-commerce platform TikTok Shop, and bring in machine learning engineers to improve its content feed and recommendations.The company’s jobs portal lists over 1,800 open roles in the US in cities like Austin, San Jose, Seattle, and New York.Like other Big Tech firms, work expectations at TikTok and its owner,…

[ad_1] After graduating with a master’s in computer science last year, Mihir Goyenka spent most days applying for jobs.His search lasted about eight months. Goyenka estimates that he submitted thousands of applications.”I got to a point where if I read the company name, I was like, ‘Yeah, I’ve applied to this company,'” he told Business Insider.Goyenka tried to follow the advice not to just apply to everything he could find — what recruiters often call “spray and pray” — and focus on networking. But, he said, that didn’t get him very far.So, the 24-year-old, who lives in Tempe, Arizona, started…

[ad_1] It’s been a tough year for the job market. And believe it or not, it could be about to get a lot worse.That’s the opinion of a small but vocal group of strategists and economists on Wall Street, who believe that the labor market could be on the precipice of “stall speed,” a co-opted aviation term, which refers to a slowdown in job creation that could hasten an economic downturn.Peter Berezin, the chief global strategist at BCA Research, says he believes the job market is currently teetering on the cusp of stall speed. While he told Business Insider that…

[ad_1] This as-told-to essay is based on a conversation with Evelyn Ramli, a 22-year-old marketing specialist in Indonesia. It’s been edited for length and clarity. Business Insider has verified Ramli’s past and current job income.For my first two years as a content creator, I saw it as a fun side hustle to do while in university. I posted TikTok and Instagram videos about video editing and fashion, and later transitioned to beauty when I found it to be the most lucrative.But when I went full-time with content creation after graduating from my university in 2024, I realized it was only…

[ad_1] Luis Bautista, 82, is “learning to speak to AI.”He’s studying prompt engineering strategies online, reading about the companies accepted into Y Combinator, and watching AI videos on YouTube.”When I turned 80, I asked myself, ‘How do I want to finish?'” Bautista said. “The first answer that came to my mind was, ‘I want to finish strong.’ Then I need to learn AI.”He also needs to keep working. He has less than $100 in savings and lives on a monthly budget of about $1,000 in Social Security and $1,000 from working as a life coach and business advisor, including for…

[ad_1] Will and Holly Alpine loved their jobs at Microsoft, which made quitting to protest the company’s work with the oil and gas industry a terrifying experience.The Seattle-based couple worked in the company’s responsible AI and sustainability divisions, respectively, and were heavily involved in internal groups pushing the company to become greener. He had worked at Microsoft since 2020, and she had been there since 2014.During their final few years at Microsoft, the couple said they raised concerns with internal memos about how the company’s tech was helping the oil and gas industry expand fossil fuel production.”I had concerns that…

[ad_1] Taco Bell Chief Marketing Officer Taylor Montgomery believes if brands misstep with their fans, they probably aren’t listening very well.Surrounded by diehard fans who drove from all over Southern California to converge upon Taco Bell’s Decades Y2K launch event on Thursday night in West Hollywood, Montgomery — dressed in an outfit plucked from the early aughts — reveled in the raucous support that stemmed from being “brave enough to hand the brand over to our fans and see what they do.”The event, held at West Hollywood’s Zouk nightclub and celebrating Crunchwrap’s 20th birthday, was filled with taco zealots clad in early…