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This as-told-to essay is based on a conversation with Jai Raj Choudhary, a 24-year-old AI engineer at StackAI, a no-code platform to build AI agents. His identity and employment have been verified by Business Insider. The following has been edited for length and clarity.I went to grad school for a Master’s in AI from 2023 to 2025 and started my career in a data-focused role.Around 2023 or 2024, LLMs were becoming more practical to use in real products, and AI stopped feeling like a whole research-driven field and more like an engineering problem.I joined StackAI as an AI engineer in…

Sure, ChatGPT could help a board member write up a memo ahead of a meeting. But OpenAI’s chairman says there’s value to going old-school.Bret Taylor, OpenAI’s board chair, said in a recent appearance on the “Uncapped with Jack Altman” podcast that he prefers concise but detailed written documents from board members over slide presentations. And he doesn’t want them relying on AI.”I really like written documents for boards over presentations,” Taylor said. “You end up letting people synthesize information ahead of the board meeting, so you end up with more substantive discussions in the board room.”Taylor, the former co-CEO of…

Andrew Rosener had already built a successful domain name brokerage when he and his wife found themselves asking a familiar question: Where do we want to live, not just work?The answer turned out to be Portugal.The American founder of MediaOptions, a domain broker, says the country checked every box: safe, sunny, affordable, and steeped in a culture that feels both European and Latin American. “There’s no other place like it,” he says. “Portugal created the single greatest immigration culture on Earth,” he says, citing the Golden Visa, the Startup Visa, the Digital Nomad Visa, and the Tech Visa, among other…

This as-told-to essay is based on a conversation with Greg Kitzmiller, a 64-year-old American retiree living in Panama. It has been edited for length and clarity.I was born and raised in Michigan, where I met my wife, Jen, and where we built our life together.In 2016, I retired from my job as a manufacturing supervisor. My wife retired from her law career over a year later.The year before she retired, my main goal was to find a place where we could live the best life during our retirement. I did a lot of research on various countries, and Panama kept…

Netflix wants President Donald Trump’s stamp of approval as it maneuvers to buy Warner Bros. Discovery.Now, Trump has a demand for Netflix: unseat board member Susan Rice.In normal times, we would all be marveling at the spectacle of the US president telling a company in the midst of a merger fight (Paramount also wants to buy Warner Bros. Discovery) how to structure its board. During Trump 2.0, though, this has become standard stuff. Trump routinely tells companies to fire someone he doesn’t like or do something he does like.That doesn’t mean Trump always gets what he wants. The demands alone,…

President Donald Trump has warned Netflix to remove former US ambassador and national security advisor Susan Rice from its board “or pay the consequences.”The stakes are high for Netflix: It’s in the middle of trying to execute a mega-deal to buy Warner Bros.Rice, who served in senior roles in the Obama and Biden administrations, was critical of Trump’s second term in office when she appeared on the “Stay Tuned with Preet Bharara” podcast in an episode published on Thursday. Rice made comments about corporations that “take a knee to Trump,” saying they could face retribution under a subsequent Democratic administration.After…

When I visited Paris for the first time in 2022 during my inaugural solo trip, I fell in love with the city instantly. Sipping my chocolat chaud while reading Hemingway’s “A Moveable Feast” at the legendary Café de Flore, enveloped in the charming Haussmannian architecture the city is renowned for, I whispered to myself: “I could live here.”It wasn’t until two years later that I would finally make the move abroad after being accepted into a graduate school program and subsequently quitting my dream job at a big-time magazine to fulfill my newest dream of living in Paris.Although moving to…

President Donald Trump has demanded that Netflix remove former US ambassador and national security advisor Susan Rice from its board, stepping up his criticism of the streaming giant as it seeks to merge with Warner Bros. Discovery amid antitrust scrutiny.Rice, who served in senior roles in the Obama and Biden administrations, recently warned companies against aligning with Trump. Speaking on the “Stay Tuned with Preet Bharara” podcast published Thursday, she said corporations that “take a knee” to the president and skirt the law should expect consequences, predicting an “accountability agenda” if Democrats take back power.”There is likely to be a…

The Transportation Security Administration said on Sunday that its PreCheck airport screening lanes are operational, an about-face hours after the Department of Homeland Security said the faster security checkpoints were paused amid the partial government shutdown.Travel industry leaders said they received little, if any, warning of the changes to PreCheck, a program that allows its 20 million pre-screened members to pass through airport security faster than at standard lanes. Industry members spoke with DHS officials in the past few hours and expressed alarm about the sudden decision, people familiar with the matter said.”At this time, TSA PreCheck remains operational with…

The original six American Girl historical characters — Kirsten Larson, Samantha Parkington, Molly McIntire, Felicity Merriman, Addy Walker and Josefina Montoya — are displayed at the brand’s flagship store,Luke FountainThe flagship American Girl Place at Rockefeller Center in New York City feels frozen in time.The air smells faintly of vanilla. Young girls dart between doll displays clutching miniature shirts and sequined shoes. Beneath glittering chandeliers, the brand’s iconic red boxes line shelves with museum-like precision. Blow dryers hum in the Doll Salon, and downstairs, pink-frosted cupcakes land on cafe tables before dolls sitting upright in their miniature highchairs.”It feels timeless,”…