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.
The family of O.J. Simpson announced last week the former football star died on April 10 “surrounded by his children and grandchildren.” But according to Simpson’s longtime lawyer Malcolm LaVergne, the 76-year-old father of four was a sole visitor away from dying alone. LaVergne declined to tell The Associated Press who was at Simpson’s bedside when the acquitted double-murder defendant ...
Donald Trump’s legal team says it tried serving Stormy Daniels a subpoena as she arrived for an event at a bar in Brooklyn last month, but the porn actor, who is expected to be a witness at the former president's criminal trial, refused to take it and walked away. A process server working for Trump's lawyers said he approached Daniels with papers demanding information related to a documentary recently released about her life and involvement with Trump, but was forced to “leave them at her feet," according to a court filing made public Wednesday. The encounter, prior to a screening of the “Stormy” film at the 3 Dollar Bill nightclub, has touched off a monthlong battle between Trump’s lawyers and Daniels' attorney that continued this week as the presumptive Republican nominee's criminal trial began in Manhattan.
Wetworks A report about a strange craft that appears to defy both aerial and aquatic physics is, apparently, making a splash among the ex-military set. Tim Gallaudet, an oceanographer and former Naval rear admiral who served as the author of a March white paper about so-called "unidentified submerged objects" or USOs, told Fox News this week […]
Bianca Censori’s fashion choices almost always include some bare skin, and this time she decided to shed her shoes and go barefoot during a recent trip to Disneyland with husband Kanye West. The former architectural designer was spotted with her dogs out while walking around the theme park in Anaheim, California, on Tuesday, April 16....
President Joe Biden on Wednesday suggested twice that the United States was unable to recover his uncle Ambrose Finnegan’s remains after Finnegan’s plane crashed near New Guinea during World War II, “because there used to be a lot of cannibals” in the region.
New York Jets star Aaron Rodgers has seemingly made as many headlines for his words off the field as he has for his work on the field. In his latest resurfaced controversial claim, the Super Bowl champ suggested that the HIV/AIDS pandemic that broke out in the 1980s was entirely manmade, and ...
Among the 46,000 people in Los Angeles experiencing homelessness, there are dozens living along the Arroyo Seco next to the 110 Freeway near Highland Park. Those living there have constructed a number of different makeshift structures, some with tents, tarps and other scrap materials, but at least one of the structures, complete with a […]
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