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[ad_1] 2025-10-11T09:50:01Z 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. Interior designer Claire Zinnecker shared common design mistakes she sees in home listings. They include displaying personal photos and over-furnishing rooms. The key to a good home staging? “Buyers need to be able to visualize themselves in the home,” she said. Whether you paint, buy new furniture, or…
[ad_1] Peyton Perry heard a rumor that delivery robots would be coming to campus when she was a student at Fairfield University.Soon after, she saw her first robot at a campus Starbucks. She ordered food delivered by the robots multiple times during her junior year before her initial excitement wore off. By her senior year, she said, the robots had become a regular part of campus life.”Every single day, I’d see multiple robots,” she told Business Insider. She said Starbucks and cafeteria workers were “constantly loading up the robots.”A few years ago, food delivery robots were infamous for being kicked…
[ad_1] Sam Altman’s breakneck pace has some tech leaders awed and others uneasy.In the past few weeks alone, the OpenAI cofounder and CEO signed blockbuster computing deals with AMD and Nvidia, bringing his startup’s total dealmaking this year to about $1 trillion.The company launched Sora, an AI video app that gained more than 1 million users in its first five days, as well as Instant Checkout, a shopping feature for its ChatGPT chatbot. OpenAI also unveiled new AI-powered workplace tools that its employees are using internally, signaling a potential move into the enterprise software market.And that’s just a sampling of…
[ad_1] Chris Lehane is one of the best in the business at making bad news disappear. Al Gore’s press secretary during the Clinton years, Airbnb’s chief crisis manager through every regulatory nightmare from here to Brussels – Lehane knows how to spin. Now he’s two years into what might be his most impossible gig yet: as OpenAI’s VP of global policy, his job is to convince the world that OpenAI genuinely gives a damn about democratizing artificial intelligence while the company increasingly behaves like, well, every other tech giant that’s ever claimed to be different. I had 20 minutes with…
[ad_1] 2025-10-10T20:57:39Z 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. Walmart-owned Sam’s Club will be open from 8 a.m. to 8 p.m. daily, starting this weekend. The first hour of the day is reserved for Plus members, like at warehouse club rival Costco. Curbside shoppers can also pick up orders starting at 7 a.m. as the company grows…
[ad_1] AI companies are making their much-anticipated enterprise plays, but the results are wildly inconsistent. Just this week, Deloitte announced it’s rolling out Anthropic’s Claude to all 500,000 employees. On the very same day, the Australian government forced Deloitte to refund a contract because their AI-generated report was riddled with fake citations. It’s a perfect snapshot of where we are: companies racing to adopt AI tools before they’ve figured out how to use them responsibly. On this episode of Equity, Kirsten Korosec, Anthony Ha, and Sean O’Kane dig into the messy reality of AI in the workplace, plus funding news…
[ad_1] The OpenAI mafia is expanding.Angela Jiang, an early OpenAI product manager, has launched a new AI startup, Worktrace AI, backed by former OpenAI CTO Mira Murati. Like Murati’s secretive startup, Thinking Machines Lab, Worktrace AI focuses on selling AI to large businesses.Worktrace AI was in talks this summer to raise a seed round of $10 million at a $50 million valuation, according to correspondence seen by Business Insider.Worktrace AI has a website and LinkedIn page, but it has not made any public announcements about its launch. Jiang declined to comment. Her cofounder, Deepak Vasisht, an assistant professor of computer…
[ad_1] UPS customers are finding their shipments stuck in package purgatory.Some customers of the shipping service say that packages sent to the US from abroad are getting held up at the carrier’s facilities for weeks and, in some cases, are being subjected to higher-than-expected tariffs and customs brokerage fees, according to tracking information. Eight people whom Business Insider spoke to said that they received updates indicating they might never get their packages at all.”The package is undeliverable and is in the process of being disposed of according to the local guidelines,” reads one tracking update sent to several UPS customers…
[ad_1] This as-told-to essay is based on a conversation with Dawn Belisle, a 56-year-old who moved from Atlanta to Nice, France, in 2022. The conversation has been edited for length and clarity.I’m an attorney from Atlanta and have practiced for three decades — 25 years as a prosecutor and five in defense — but I’ve always had a creative side.I was always baking and entertaining, and my friends would even pay me to bake for them. Eventually, I realized I could turn it into a business — Delights by Dawn — and it blossomed. My niche became alcohol-infused cakes and…
[ad_1] President Donald Trump’s latest threat to China on Friday battered the stocks market. Yet, Wall Street is left wondering if his warnings have teeth. Trump said in a Truth Social post that China was holding rare earth resources “captive” and raised the prospect of a “massive” tariff hike after the Asian country expanded export regulations. He was set to meet with Chinese leader Xi Jinping in two weeks in South Korea, but Trump said there was “no reason to do so” now. The Dow Jones Industrial Average tumbled more than 500 points after Trump’s post. The S & P…