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[ad_1] Meta just escalated the AI talent war with OpenAI.Shengjia Zhao, a co-creator of ChatGPT and former lead scientist at OpenAI, is joining Meta as chief scientist of its Superintelligence Labs.CEO Mark Zuckerberg announced Zhao’s appointment on Friday in a social media post, and called him a “pioneer” in the field who has already driven several major AI breakthroughs.Zhao previously helped build GPT-4 and led synthetic data efforts at OpenAI. According to the post, Zhao will now work directly with Zuckerberg and Meta’s newly appointed chief AI officer, Alexandr Wang, the founder and CEO of Scale AI.The new hire comes…

[ad_1] 2025-07-26T00:24:08Z 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. Astronomer released a humorous promo video featuring Gwyneth Paltrow after leadership changes. Two former executives were involved in a now-infamous kiss-cam incident at a Coldplay concert. Paltrow promoted Astronomer’s data and AI products and an upcoming conference. Astronomer is taking the Coldplay incident and running with it.After former…

[ad_1] As the fundamental investing world marvels at another potential bubble made up of meme stocks and retail traders, quant hedge funds are trying to solve a much more complex problem.The smartest people at the smart money firms have been on a weekslong losing streak starting at the beginning of June, with firms like Qube, Two Sigma, and Point72’s Cubist suffering losses over that time. Wednesday was another rough day of trading for many funds as the average quant lost 0.8%, according to Goldman Sachs.The bank’s prime brokerage unit said July was on track to be the worst month in…

[ad_1] The Samsung S90F OLED TV is the successor to the brand’s S90D, which is the reigning champ in Insider Reviews’ guide to the best TVs. This new 2025 model is yet another excellent television, and it delivers a brighter image than its predecessor. Unlike most OLEDs in this class, the S90F uses quantum dot color technology, which results in a more vibrant picture.Out-of-the-box color accuracy is fantastic, exceeding many comparably priced rivals. While the S90F isn’t the absolute brightest OLED on the market, it has more than enough luminance for a typical room and deep black levels that provide…

[ad_1] Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg announced Friday that former OpenAI researcher Shengjia Zhao will lead research efforts at the company’s new AI unit, Meta Superintelligence Labs (MSL). Zhao contributed to several of OpenAI’s largest breakthroughs, including ChatGPT, GPT-4, and the company’s first AI reasoning model, o1. “I’m excited to share that Shengjia Zhao will be the Chief Scientist of Meta Superintelligence Labs,” Zuckerberg said in a post on Threads Friday. “Shengjia co-founded the new lab and has been our lead scientist from day one. Now that our recruiting is going well and our team is coming together, we have decided…

[ad_1] Netflix is quietly searching for a podcast leader as it looks to bring video pods onto the streaming platform, two people close to the company told Business Insider.Netflix had previously explored potential deals with podcasters as it sought new areas of growth, as BI first reported. The hunt for an exec to lead a video podcasting effort shows how seriously Netflix is taking the space.The streamer’s interest comes as rival YouTube has cemented itself as a living-room fixture and video podcasting powerhouse.Netflix has also shown interest in creator content more broadly.”We’re really excited about ‘The Sidemen’ and ‘Pop the…

[ad_1] Those job offers flying left and right in the heat of the AI talent wars? They sometimes have a lit fuse attached.Prem Qu Nair, an early software engineer at Windsurf, said Google gave him an exploding job offer to join its DeepMind lab during its recent hiring blitz at the AI coding startup. In his case, Nair said he only had hours to consider Google’s offer or it would be taken off the table.”I was employee #2 at Windsurf and have worked on AI+code for years,” Nair wrote on X on Thursday.”I was given an offer that would explode…

[ad_1] Tea, the anonymous dating advice app for women that has the internet buzzing, is in hot water after a data breach.Thousands of images of women, including selfies and photos of IDs that were used to verify their identity to join the app, were exposed because of the breach.”We can confirm that at 6:44 AM PST on Friday, July 25th, Tea identified unauthorized access to one of our systems and immediately launched a full investigation to assess the scope and impact,” a spokesperson for Tea told Business Insider in a statement.”Preliminary findings indicate that the incident involved a legacy data…

[ad_1] AI referrals to websites still have a way to go to catch up to the traffic that Google Search provides, but they’re growing quickly. According to new data from market intelligence provider Similarweb, AI platforms in June generated over 1.13 billion referrals to the top 1,000 websites globally, a figure that’s up 357% since June 2024. However, Google Search still accounts for the majority of traffic to these sites, accounting for 191 billion referrals during the same period of June 2025. One particular category of interest these days is news and media. Online publishers are seeing traffic declines and…

[ad_1] 2025-07-25T18:40:29Z 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. Tara Viswanathan, cofounder of AI-powered construction startup Unlimited Industries, recently put OpenAI’s agentic capabilities to the test and was impressed by the results.In a post on X, Viswanathan described how she used ChatGPT (Pro version) to find an Airbnb for an October event. This was her prompt:”I want…