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After seeing fuel costs soar over the weekend, Boris Kagarlitskiy, a wealth manager in Ohio, dusted off his bike and peddled to work Monday morning. Loading audio narration… “Health reasons is the biggest thing, but obviously when gas prices are high, it doesn’t hurt,” said Kagarlitskiy, who normally commutes via his 2024 Lexus, of cycling instead. “It’s an additional motivation.”As oil climbs on fears of a widening war in Iran, the ripple effects are hitting Americans somewhere deeply familiar: their daily commute.Crude spiked above $100 a barrel on Monday for the first time in almost four years. Some countries have…

Best ways to use your tax refund – CBS News Watch CBS News CBS News business analyst Jill Schlesinger speaks with “CBS Mornings” about how to best utilize your tax refund. The IRS says it has already received more than 51 million returns. (Sponsored by Edward Jones) Source link

If an AI chatbot has ever tested your patience, this job will pay you $800 to unleash your frustration. Loading audio narration… An AI software company just opened applications for someone’s dream job: Professional AI Bully.”You’ll spend a full 8-hour day interacting with leading AI chatbots — and your only job is to be brutally honest about how frustrating they are,” the listing says.The role pays $100 per hour for an eight-hour shift. The day will involve testing and critiquing the memory of popular AI chatbots. The candidate will be expected to ask chatbots to remember information, see what they…

John Kiriakou spent about 15 years at the CIA, rising to the position of chief of counterterrorism operations in Pakistan. He describes how the work strained his first marriage.His first wife wasn’t in the CIA, and didn’t know he worked for the government agency. He couldn’t tell her where he’d actually been that day or why he’d sometimes come home late. Even harmless details he couldn’t share with her, he said.He’d come home, and she’d ask how his day was, what he’d done, and who he’d interacted with, and he recalled only giving one-word answers like “great,” “nothing,” and “nobody.”His…

An attendee at a gun rights rally open-carries his gun in a holster that reads “We the People,” from the Preamble to the U.S. Constitution, in this 2019 photo at the Capitol in Olympia, Wash. Ted S. Warren/AP hide caption toggle caption Ted S. Warren/AP Last month, the Department of Justice quietly published a list of 22 names in the Federal Register. With little explanation or fanfare, the department announced that these individuals had their federal gun rights restored. Most of them had something in common: decades-old felony convictions. Many had been charged long ago and had lived for years…

Palantir’s chief technology officer uses a “Superman” analogy to help manage the company’s brightest talent.On an episode of the “Invest Like The Best” podcast released on Tuesday, Shyam Sankar shared how he helps employees identify which skills to embrace and which to avoid.”Superpowers are effortless,” he said. “My analogy for this is it Superman could fly. He could see through walls. But that wasn’t some sort of arduous thing for him to do. It’s just something he could do.”The Palantir CTO, who has been with the defense tech giant for 20 years, added that the other side of this is…

This as-told-to essay is based on a conversation with Prakhar Agarwal, an applied researcher at Meta Superintelligence Labs who previously worked at OpenAI. The following has been edited for length and clarity. Business Insider has verified his employment and academic history. Loading audio narration… My day-to-day varies a lot depending on what stage of the project we are in versus what the immediate deliverables are.At OpenAI and Meta, you have these milestones — say, a big training or reinforcement-learning run — in 10 months. It gets intense when we’re approaching the deadline.Whatever work I identify is always based on the…

When four “finance boys” went viral last week for their Loro Piana- and Hermés-studded photo shoot, they violated more than the sacrosanct rule of not outdressing your boss. They brought Wall Street banks into the memeosphere, attracting publicity that has clashed with the hush-hush world of high finance. Loading audio narration… Demarre Johnson, a financial services data and AI consultant at Pricewaterhouse Coopers and the only fine boy of finance speaking publicly, gets it.”If I built the multibillion-dollar bank business, I would hate if one of my associates formed my company’s image with one video,” he told Business Insider. That’s…

2023 Ford Super Duty F-550 Chassis CabFordDETROIT — Ford Motor is launching a new artificial intelligence system for its Pro commercial vehicle business as it tries to grow the unit’s profits and software revenue.The Detroit automaker on Tuesday said the new “Ford Pro AI” can monitor and analyze more than 1 billion data points daily from connected commercial vehicles — from seatbelt use to vehicle health, route optimization and fuel consumption.  The goal is to equip its 840,000 paid commercial subscribers with tools to increase efficiency and profits and reduce vehicle downtimes by allowing them to more easily analyze their…

Jack Conte, the CEO of creator subscriptions platform Patreon, has a bone to pick with the Big Tech AI models.It’s about compensation.”The creator economy is being left out, loudly and notably,” Conte told Business Insider in an interview. “And by the creator economy, I don’t mean companies, I don’t mean Patreon. I mean creators.”While AI companies like OpenAI and Meta are striking deals to license content from traditional media companies, “none of that infrastructure exists for independent creators,” Conte said.In a roughly 45-minute video posted to Patreon on Tuesday, Conte further explained his personal stance on AI and the creator…