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Not everyone believes AI spells the end for animators.Pixar’s chief creative officer, Pete Docter, recently said on comedian Mike Birbiglia’s “Working It Out” podcast that he was unimpressed with AI so far, calling it “bland.””AI seems like it is the least impressive blah average of things,” he said.AI is an anxiety-inducing topic in Hollywood. Critics of the technology are concerned that it could eliminate jobs across the entertainment industry. It was one of the reasons unionized writers went on strike for nearly five months in 2023. Those in support of integrating AI, on the other hand, like director James Cameron,…
A group known as the Independent Publishers Alliance has filed an antitrust complaint with the European Commission over Google’s AI Overviews, according to Reuters. The complaint accuses Google of “misusing web content for Google’s AI Overviews in Google Search, which have caused, and continue to cause, significant harm to publishers, including news publishers in the form of traffic, readership and revenue loss.” It also says that unless they’re willing to disappear from Google search results entirely, publishers “do not have the option to opt out” of their material being used in AI summaries. It’s been a little over a year…
In early January 2024, I received a dream acceptance letter from the prestigious University of Sydney’s creative writing graduate program. It wasn’t just some program; it was validation.Ever since I can remember, I have spent countless hours sitting in my room, writing stories. I was sure I’d write a bestseller someday. Although my parents didn’t see writing as a career back then, I was determined to beat the odds and prove them wrong. Getting into the University of Sydney was the first step in that success.But after my acceptance letter arrived, I realized the world was moving in a different…
Tech stocks helped lift the S & P 500 to a record in the first half, but Deepwater Asset Management’s Gene Munster said the artificial intelligence trade still has room to run in 2025 — and he shared a couple of his picks. The broad market index made a stunning turnaround from its April lows to end June with a second-quarter gain of nearly 11%. The information technology sector, which includes Nvidia and Palantir , jumped more than 23% in the quarter, as the return of the AI trade propelled the advance. .GSPT YTD mountain The S & P 500’s…
As millennials, my husband and I have long been aware that our likelihood of home ownership was abysmal. After all, the 2007 subprime mortgage crisis was still fresh in our memories as we began designing our future. So, in 2009, when we got the opportunity to have our own home built, we went all in.At the time, we were sharing a bedroom in my parents’ home with our 15-month-old, and I’d just discovered I was pregnant again. Talks of getting a house happened quickly, but it felt more like wishful thinking than something that would pan out.However, when my husband…
Americans are embracing health and wellness — and none more than Gen Z and millennials. People are spending more than $500 billion in the United States on wellness, and it is growing at 4% to 5% each year, according to McKinsey . Nearly 30% of Gen Zers and millennials said they are prioritizing wellness “a lot more” compared to a year ago, the report said. In comparison, 23% of the older generations replied the same. Bank of America’s credit card data backs that up. Spending in fitness clubs, for example, has been rising across the board for several months, but…
What used to be one of the sleepiest times of year for retailers has turned into a major shopping event thanks to Amazon.Amazon’s Prime Day this year will last four days between July 8 and 11 — longer than it has run before, and the earliest that the sale has started.A range of other retailers, from Dollar General to REI, are also offering sales that coincide with or start earlier than Prime Day.Fourth-of-July sales for products, such as mattresses or seasonal items like lawnmowers and inflatable pools, have been around longer than Prime Day. Overall, though, early summer was historically…
Stay informed with free updatesSimply sign up to the Oil & Gas industry myFT Digest — delivered directly to your inbox.Opec+ will increase production again next month as the Saudi Arabia-led oil cartel seeks to win back market share in a move that is likely to put downward pressure on crude prices.Eight members of the producer group, including Saudi Arabia, the United Arab Emirates and Russia, said on Saturday that they would raise headline production in August by a combined 548,000 barrels a day, up from a planned increase in July of 411,000 b/d. The move speeds up the unwinding of…
It can be challenging to keep up with all of the slang your Gen Z coworkers use.Employees who are part of Generation Z — those born between 1997 and 2012 — are introducing coworkers to a variety of new phrases in the workplace.The new generation of workers is bringing their personalities into the office, and thus, their jargon. “We now take our work home readily and easily, basically in our pockets with our phones,” Carrie Bulger, an industrial-organizational psychologist at Quinnipiac University, told Business Insider’s Emily Stewart in June. “The lines are blurred no matter what. Why wouldn’t they blur…
It’s just not enough to cold apply for tech jobs anymore, said Aashna Doshi, a two-time intern turned software engineer at Google. To land a spot at a tech giant, you need to be networking “intentionally.””Knowing who you want to meet, finding that common bridge between both of you, and then really learning from their experience, was a big game changer for me,” Doshi told Business Insider.Doshi suggests reaching out not only to people whose career paths you’d like to emulate, but also those with whom you share common ground, including similar personal experiences.”I was talking to a bunch of…