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📋 Key Facts ✓ AI has made building fast and cheap, but finding the right problems still feels hard. ✓ World's Backlog collects real...
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📋 Key Facts ✓ AI has made building fast and cheap, but finding the right problems still feels hard. ✓ World's Backlog collects real...
📋 Key Facts ✓ Jonas Koh opened The Kumpong Boys nasi lemak stall in September 2024 in Ang Mo Kio, Singapore. ✓ The stall's signatur...
Yemen's separatist leader has fled to the United Arab Emirates after an attempt to seize swathes of territory and move towards independence. Aidaros Alzubidi was accused of high treason and removed fr...
Character.AI and Google are entering settlement negotiations with the families of teenagers who died by suicide. Illustration by Algi Febri Sugita/SOPA Images/LightRocket via Getty Images Google and C...
BYD container ship. NurPhoto/Getty Images Tesla just lost its status as the world's largest seller of battery EVs to a Chinese rival. BYD took Tesla's crown after Elon Musk's automaker reported its se...
Tech execs like Mark Zuckerberg, left, and Sundar Pichai, right, have spoken about their approach to parenting. Anna Moneymaker/Justin Sullivan/Getty It's not surprising many tech CEOs would have scre...
President Donald Trump has urged top oil executives to invest in Venezuela's oil industry following the capture of Nicolas Maduro by US forces. However, his push has been met with caution, as the cond...
Pendants and brooches packed with artificial intelligence abounded at the Consumer Electronics show, using cameras and microphones to watch and listen through the day like a vigilant personal assistan...
Pope Leo XIV closed the final "Holy Door" in St Peter's Basilica in Rome on January 6, the day of Epiphany, signalling the end of the 2025 Jubilee year that drew millions of pilgrims to the city. This...
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The Joint Interagency Task Force 401 recently marked its first 100 days in operation. US Marine Corps photo by Connor Taggart There's no single answer to defeating the threat of small drones, a counte...
"Industry" showrunners Konrad Kay and Mickey Down. Simon Ridgway/HBO This as-told-to essay is based on a conversation with Mickey Down and Konrad Kay, two former bankers who are the creators a...
Getty Images; Angle Bush; Moonvalley; Rebecca Zisser/BI Since OpenAI launched ChatGPT in November 2022, the AI sector has undergone a significant transformation. Model capabilities have advanced, agen...
ANGELA WEISS / AFP via Getty Images Chris Rokos' eponymous fund was up 21%, a person close to the fund told Business Insider. The manager is one of several big-name macro firms that had a strong 2025....
Miles Guo in his NYC apartment in 2017 TIMOTHY A. CLARY/AFP via Getty Images Miles Guo's homes, luxury cars, and private jets are being sold off in bankruptcy court. The former billionaire, meanwhile,...
The hole where the door plug used to be on Alaska Airlines Flight 1282. NTSB via Getty Images The captain of Alaska Airlines Flight 1282 is suing Boeing for $10 million. The Boeing 737 Max made an eme...
Russian President Vladimir Putin took questions on the war and the economy during his annual televised phone-in event. Contributor/Getty Images Most Russians expect the war with Ukraine to end in 2026...
Rebecca Yarros released "Onyx Storm" in January 2025. Red Tower/CJ Rivera/Invision/AP "Onyx Storm" by Rebecca Yarros was published in January 2025. Yarros has yet to start writing the ...
Demonstrators flooded the streets of Minneapolis overnight after a U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement officer fatally shot a 37-year-old woman on Wednesday, igniting anger among residents and lo...
Much public transport has ground to a halt after several areas in France were hit by a heavy snowfall on January 7. Forty percent of flights were cancelled in Paris' main airport Charle de Gaulle, and...