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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. Corporate America was thrown into chaos Friday night. The Trump administration issued a surprise executive order that would implement a new $100,000 fee for H-1B visa holders. Stakeholders (and their lawyers) immediately scrambled to understand who exactly it would impact.Tech and finance companies rushed to tell their employees on these visas to stay in the US. The worry was Trump’s order would make it far more expensive — and potentially impossible — for them to return if they…

[ad_1] Marc Andreessen says more C-suite leaders need to act like Elon Musk.”I believe there are a lot of people who should be learning a lot more from him who cannot bring themselves to do it and to their own detriment,” Andreessen said during a recent episode of Stripe cofounder John Collison’s “A Cheeky Pint” podcast.The A16z cofounder said that by observing Musk, he’s distilled the Tesla CEO’s actions into an unofficial playbook that looks far different from traditional corporate management texts, like the legendary General Motors CEO Alfred P. Sloan, after whom MIT named its school of management.”Basically, number…

[ad_1] The average salary in the New York Metropolitan area is around $84,500 a year, but to live comfortably, you should make $136,500, if you follow the 50/30/20 budget rule, where 50% is spent on needs, 30% on wants, and 20% for savings.If you’re someone between these salaries, you likely live with roommates and spend most of your income on daily expenses. You may be struggling to pay down debt, save money, or spend money on non-necessities. You certainly are not able to do all three.I almost became another one of these struggling New Yorkers, desperately dreaming of the day…

[ad_1] OpenAI’s new video tool, Sora 2, is either a cultural touchstone or just more AI slop, depending on who you ask.Billionaire venture capitalist Vinod Khosla, an early investor in OpenAI, made his thoughts crystal clear in an X post on Saturday.”Let the viewers of this ‘slop’ judge it, not ivory tower luddite snooty critics or defensive creatives,” he wrote. He also called the critics “tunnel vision creatives.”The Sora 2 app, released earlier this week, allows users to create short-form AI videos using text prompts and images. Users can also scan their face and voice and insert themselves into videos.Since…

[ad_1] It turns out you can find common ground with almost anyone.Zohran Mamdani, the leading New York City mayoral candidate and a Democratic Socialist, said that Elon Musk got at least one thing right about politics.”We’ve allowed someone like Elon Musk to make it seem as if the concerns of fraud and efficiency and waste, even quality of life — that these are somehow right wing concerns,” Mamdani said at Crain’s New York Business Mayoral Forum on October 8. “These should be at the heart of any politics for working class people.”On the surface, Mamdani and Musk have very little…

[ad_1] Though I grew up in Scotland and now live in Ireland (both of which are gorgeous), I’m a sun seeker and not sure where I want to settle when I retire. The best way to find out, though, is to give different countries a try.So, in August 2023, I arranged my projects so I could spend a whole month scoping out a spot on my list of possible places to live: Malta.Though the country is undeniably lovely, I realized after visiting for a month that it isn’t actually my ideal forever home.Don’t get me wrong — Malta has a…

[ad_1] Anthropic released Claude Sonnet 4.5, its latest model, on Monday. The company positioned it as the world’s best AI coding system and a leap forward in applied artificial intelligence.The upgrade arrives just four months after its predecessor, Sonnet 4, underscoring the startup’s rapid product cadence in the generative AI arms race.Anthropic said Sonnet 4.5 delivers state-of-the-art results on SWE-Bench Verified, a standard for evaluating software engineering performance.The startup also pitched the new model’s ability to generate practical business outcomes through autonomous computer use, cybersecurity capabilities, and the creation of production-ready applications and context-aware AI agents.Anthropic’s revenue has surged this…

[ad_1] As human and AI-generated “slop” floods the internet, Perplexity says it’s fighting back by making Comet — its AI-native browser that normally costs $200 a month — free for anyone in the world, forever.”We want to build a better internet, and that needs to be accessible to everybody,” Perplexity CEO Aravind Srinivas told Business Insider at a launch event in San Francisco on Wednesday.The free version of Comet, which launches today, will come with rate limits, Srinivas made clear.Comet can summarize webpages, pull key details, and wade through links on a user’s behalf. It first debuted in July but…

[ad_1] This as-told-to essay is based on a conversation with Leigh Coney, a 34-year-old AI consultant based in France. It’s been edited for length and clarity.AI models can tend to be “yes-men.”They are sycophantic by design, meaning they agree with us, support our ideas, and want to help. Part of the reason I think so many AI projects fail is because the human factor is overlooked. The same biases that apply to us also apply to AI, so it’s important to factor in psychological principles when building experiments, agents, and automation.I decided to pivot from teaching psychology at a university…

[ad_1] This as-told-to essay is based on a conversation with Jake Castillo, a 30-year-old cofounder at Cal AI, an AI-powered nutrition and food tracking app, based in California. Business Insider has verified the financial claims mentioned in this artical. This story has been edited for length and clarity. Right after my master’s, I worked in management consulting, and hated it. I immediately looked for something I’d hate a lot less that would pay a comparable salary.I joined an AI startup part-time after I saw its founder’s post on Twitter about scaling his business. At the startup, we got a high…