Alright, alright, alright. Hallam Bullock here, reporting from London — and yes, Matthew McConaughey is on my mind. Salesforce has reportedly been paying McConaughey $10 million a year to act as a "creative adviser."
If, like McConaughey, you fancy landing yourself a high-paying gig, then I hope you've got one of these college majors under your belt (we broke down the best subjects to study if you want to make a lot of money). If not, don't worry … as long as you don't have one of the worst-paying college majors.
Programmers are thrilled about AI tools like ChatGPT. People worry about their jobs, as ChatGPT and AI slowly become powerful enough to replace workers. But one group of workers sees ChatGPT as good for their industry: Programmers.
Programmers are excited because advancements in automation make them far more efficient. They can write more code — and better code.
Industry insiders say tools like ChatGPT stand to remove much of the pain of learning how to code in the first place.
If more people learn how to code, we might see more people become programmers, which would also address the tech industry's perpetual talent crunch.
One of Elon Musk's most loyal employees was fired at Twitter. Esther Crawford went viral after a picture of her sleeping on the floor at Twitter HQ was posted online. But after going "all-in on Twitter 2.0" and embodying Musk's "hardcore" work culture, Crawford has been laid off. Here's how she reacted.
The widespread layoffs in tech aren't about cost-cutting — it's copycat behavior. That's according to a Stanford professor who's studied organizational behavior for decades. "A lot of this is just imitation," Jeffrey Pfeffer writes. Read more.
"I'm a pastor living in rural Arkansas, and I make up to $3,000 a week with my side hustle." Larry Lundstrom spends about 40 to 60 hours a week as a pastor, but on the side, he uses AI tools like ChatGPT to make pitch decks for businesses. Read his story.
Meet the man rumored to be Twitter's next CEO. Like Esther Crawford, Steve Davis embraced Elon Musk's "hardcore" edict. He even once slept at Twitter's HQ with his newborn baby. Unlike Crawford, there is speculation that Davis' dedication may have paid off. Read more.
An Amazon driver shared a viral TikTok of the company's AI system that tracks her movements. She said the cameras even flag drivers for sipping coffee or not buckling their seat belt enough times. The full story.
Mark Zuckerberg is launching a "top-level" team at Meta to develop AI products. After losing billions of dollars on the metaverse, Meta is now buying into the AI hype. The products are being developed for WhatsApp, Messenger, and Instagram. More here.
The robots are coming. Elon Musk believes Tesla's humanoid "Optimus" robots will eventually outnumber humans. A video shared Wednesday showed Tesla's AI robot walking and completing tasks. Take a look here.
"My job went remote — so I got 2 more and started traveling the world in secret." Insider spoke with a government worker who says they have taken 40 trips over the last two years, doing things like responding to work emails beneath the Eiffel Tower. Here's what the experience is like.
Six different ways companies are "quiet firing" white-collar workers. If you've been excluded from meetings or asked to draft up documents detailing your duties, you could be getting quietly fired. Other telltale signs to look out for.
Today's team: Hallam Bullock in London, Lisa Ryan in New York, and Dave Smith in Toronto.
Ana Navarro, a long-time co-host of The View, posted on her Instagram Thursday an old photo of nude Melania Trump as a way to troll her husband’s supporters, saying: “You wanna go low? ... I’ll happily go 20,000 leagues under the sea.”It was a picture from 2000 featured in British GQ, five years before Donald Trump married her.Navarro also included a picture of both Trumps partying with Jeffrey Epstein and Ghislaine Maxwell, also from 2000. Her explanation for posting these images was that it wa
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FBI Director Christopher Wray revealed during a marathon testimony on Wednesday that investigators still do not know if former President Donald Trump was grazed by a bullet or a piece of shrapnel during his attempted assassination.Twice during the hours-long session, Wray told lawmakers that the FBI was still working to determine what exactly struck the former president on his right ear during a rally in Butler, Pennsylvania. “My understanding is that either it [a bullet] or some shrapnel is wha
The father of a 15-year-old girl whose missing persons case made national headlines has been arrested and faces possible charges for child abduction, conspiracy and falsifying a police report. On Friday, the Monterey Park Police Department announced that Jeffery Chao was arrested following an “extensive investigation.” Chao’s daughter, Alison, was reported missing on July 16 […]
Vice President Harris’s campaign hit at former President Trump’s interview on Fox News on Thursday, questioning his age and mental stamina. The campaign released a “Statement on a 78-Year-Old Criminal’s Fox News Appearance,” knocking Trump for his age in an effort to turn the tables after President Biden, 81, dropped his bid over questions about…
The NYPD said Friday morning that Marisa Galloway, 46, had been gunned down on a Manhattan street by Kathleen Leigh, the 66-year-old grandmother of her 4-year-old daughter.
J.D. Vance’s sister has come to the defense of the GOP vice presidential candidate after he was criticized by actress Jennifer Aniston for a past remark that America was run by “a bunch of childless cat ladies.”Lindsay Lewis Ratliff, 44, said in a statement released by his campaign that her brother “was raised by some of the strongest women I know and went on to marry an incredibly strong woman in Usha.”Married with three children, Ratliff added: “J.D. is a testament to the women in his life, an
The 2017 Tax Cuts and Jobs Act (TCJA), signed by then-President Trump, was the most recent major overhaul to the IRS tax code. However, the legislation was criticized -- by his opponents -- for...