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• Google steps up ad attribution

  25-05-2017 02:00
  
  SAN FRANCISCO: Google, the internet giant, is to use billions of credit card transactions in an effort to prove that ads shown to users are driving purchase, even in offline stores, in a move that has sparked criticism for its impact on user...
  
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• I bombed my first interview at Google so badly that it took 3 years to get another one. Here's what I learned.

  11-03-2026 10:11 via businessinsider.com
  Andrew Yeung at Google's NYC office.Courtesy of Andrew YeungAndrew Yeung lied about his interests during his first Google interview.After failing that interview, he took the lessons he learned to land another Big Tech role.Lessons from Yeung's experience emphasize valuing niche obsessions and assessing cultural fit.Throughout university, Google was always my dream job. I watched "The Internship" and dreamt of the day that I would get to work there.Eventually, after a few years, I made my way in
  
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• William Shatner says he turned a $42 money transfer from Elon Musk into nearly $200,000 for his charity

  11-03-2026 10:08 via businessinsider.com
  William Shatner is tktk: Weiss Eubanks/NBCUNIVERSAL via Getty ImagesElon Musk gave William Shatner early access to his upcoming X Money banking product.Shatner spoke to Business Insider about how he turned the digital currency Musk gave him into charitable donations.The actor also weighed in on how AI will change Hollywood.William Shatner says he's had a "tentative relationship" with Elon Musk over the years. "Barely reaching the R in relationship," he told Business Insider in a recent interview
  
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• I tripled my salary and became a senior director at Uber in 6 years. Here's the 3-step strategy I used to break out of middle management.

  11-03-2026 10:05 via businessinsider.com
  Madan Thangavelu.Courtesy of Madan ThangaveluMadan Thangavelu became a senior engineering director at Uber in six years, leading 530 engineers.Proactive problem-solving and management skills propelled Thangavelu's career in tech leadership.Mutual trust with managers and strategic timing were crucial to his rise at Uber.This as-told-to essay is based on a conversation with Madan Thangavelu, a 39-year-old senior director of engineering at Uber from Mountain View, California. It's been edited for l
  
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• Sequoia partner: Founders are worried if they're 'just an iteration away' from AI destroying their companies

  11-03-2026 09:39 via businessinsider.com
  Julien Bek, a partner at Sequoia Capital, said a lot of founders are worried if the latest AI advancement will destory their company.skynesher/Getty ImagesVenture capitalist Julien Bek has some words of warning for current founders."If you sell tools today, you're really in the line of sight for the models," Bek said of AI advancements.Instead, Beck, a partner at Sequoia, said founders should focus on selling outcomes.Founders can sense the major AI labs breathing down their necks. A partner at
  
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• The 'Chinese Dream' is shrinking. That's bad news for the global economy.

  11-03-2026 09:23 via businessinsider.com
  Anthony Kwan/Getty Images2025 was another strong year for China's economy — on paper.Beijing reported the world's second-largest economy hit its 5% GDP growth target for the year. Exports held up. Industrial output stayed resilient.Underneath the surface, however, things were not as anodyne. There is China's ongoing real estate bust and the continued trade battle with the US. And then there's another ongoing problem that could prove even tougher to solve: getting young people to believe in
  
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• In defense of boring, mindless, mundane work

  11-03-2026 09:07 via businessinsider.com
  Getty ImagesIn the final season of Mad Men, Peggy has an idea for a burger chain commercial that her bosses like. Then doubts herself. She goes back to her empty yellow legal pad, jots down a new concept from scratch, and returns to eat at the restaurant, even though she'd already visited more than a dozen around the nation. Nothing about her process is efficient, and her client would have likely been perfectly happy with her approved pitch. But that messy, circuitous method of deconstructing an
  
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• Palantir's tech head explains how he manages stars — and how he owned a big screwup to the CEO

  11-03-2026 07:16 via businessinsider.com
  Shyam Sankar said the company encourages employees to find out their "superpowers" and their "Kryptonite."DOMINIC GWINN/Middle East Images/AFP via Getty ImagesPalantir's tech chief uses a "Superman" analogy to help employees identify their strengths and weaknesses.Shyam Sankar said Palantir's culture values honesty and learning from mistakes.The CTO shared a time when he made a major mistake and came clean to Palantir's CEO.Palantir's chief technology officer uses a "Superman" analogy to help ma
  
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• Anthropic launched an AI code reviewer. Some developers say it's expensive and undermines senior engineers.

  11-03-2026 07:09 via businessinsider.com
  Anthropic's code reviewer is drawing criticism from developers over high token costs and concerns about replacing senior engineers.Thomas Trutschel/Photothek via Getty ImagesAnthropic released Code Review, which is designed to catch complex coding issues and fix bugs.As the feature "optimizes for depth," the company said it "is more expensive than lighter-weight solutions."Developers on X said the tool is costly and could chip away at senior engineers' rolesAnthropic gave Claude a new job: revie
  
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• Inside the stadium where one of K-pop's biggest boy bands kicked off a new leg of their world tour

  11-03-2026 07:01 via businessinsider.com
  Seventeen pushed through the blistering Singaporean heat for close to four hours, kicking off the Southeast Asian leg of their tour.Pledis EntertainmentSeventeen kicked off the Southeast Asian leg of their tour on Saturday in Singapore.I was in the stadium — again — to see them live.Sweltering heat aside, it's an experience I'll never forget.Heat — that was the word of the day at the boy band Seventeen's concert in Singapore.Heat, with legions of fans clutching bags toting pick
  
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• Oil's price spike is bad news for power-hungry AI

  11-03-2026 06:34 via businessinsider.com
  AI data centers are highly energy-intensive, making them vulnerable to rising power costs.Andrew Caballero-Reynolds/AFP/Getty ImagesOil's price surge is rattling chip stocks and raising AI cost fears.Rising energy prices could slow AI expansion and pressure corporate margins.Qatar's LNG shutdown is also tightening helium supply, which is critical to chipmaking.Oil's sharp rally amid the Iran war has injected fresh volatility into semiconductor stocks and raised new questions about the cost and p
  
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• Maye Musk describes her son Elon's living space: 'The shower only has one towel'

  11-03-2026 05:11 via businessinsider.com
  Maye Musk and Elon Musk at The 2022 Met Gala celebrating In America: An Anthology of Fashion held at the The Metropolitan Museum of Art on May 2, 2022 in New York City.Lexie Moreland/WWD/Penske Media via Getty ImagesElon Musk's austere living conditions involve having only one towel in the shower, his mother says."There is no food in the fridge," Maye Musk added in a Tuesday X post.She previously said she slept in his garage while visiting him, but she did not mind it.Elon Musk is one of those g
  
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• US forces say they're attacking small boats that Iran uses to lay mines in the Strait of Hormuz

  11-03-2026 05:09 via businessinsider.com
  The US said it's been carrying out attacks on Iranian vessels used to lay mines.Screenshot via X/Central CommandThe US says it's begun attacking small mine-laying vessels used by Iran near the Strait of Hormuz.It's unclear if the strait has been mined, though Trump has said the US received no such reports.The US now relies on Independence-class ships for demining, but they've been criticized as unreliable.The US said on Tuesday that it struck multiple Iranian naval vessels, including 16 ships us
  
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• I work at Meta's Superintelligence Labs and used to be at OpenAI. Here's what the job is like — and what I've learned.

  11-03-2026 05:00 via businessinsider.com
  Prakhar Agarwal shares what life inside top AI labs is like and the lessons he's learned.Prakhar AgarwalA researcher at Meta Superintelligence Labs who previously worked at OpenAI shares what it's like inside these labs.Prakhar Agarwal said communication and going deep into code are essential in frontier labs.He also emphasized the importance of ownership and the ability to adapt to new topics.This as-told-to essay is based on a conversation with Prakhar Agarwal, an applied researcher at Meta Su
  
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• Anthropic lawyer says the government is 'pressuring' companies to ditch the AI startup in favor of competitors

  11-03-2026 03:15 via businessinsider.com
  A top Claude engineer said his product is getting more advanced. He is warning that it could disrupt computer-based jobs.Samuel Boivin/NurPhoto via Getty ImagesAnthropic is suing the Pentagon after the US government essentially blacklisted the startup.The company said that the move has already damaged its business.Anthropic is seeking a temporary restraining order against the Defense Department.Anthropic's lawyer said the US government is "pressuring" the startup's customers to go to rival AI pr
  
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• Lovable's revenue has jumped 33 percent in a month amid vibe coding frenzy

  11-03-2026 02:15 via businessinsider.com
  Lisbon , Portugal - 10 November 2025; Anton Osika, Co-founder & CEO, Lovable during opening night of Web Summit 2025 at the MEO Arena in Lisbon, Portugal.Sam Barnes/Sportsfile for Web Summit via Getty ImagesLovable is a Stockholm-based vibe coding startup, last valued at $6.6 billion. It now has $400 million in ARR, up from $300 million a month ago and $200 million at the end of last year.Lovable now boasts over 15 million daily active users and sees 200,000 new projects created each day.Lov
  
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• Oracle tells investors not to worry about data center spending because its 'very, very good' at cost-cutting

  11-03-2026 00:51 via businessinsider.com
  Oracle reported its third-quarter earnings for fiscal 2026 on Tuesday.Jonathan Raa/NurPhoto via Getty ImagesOracle reported its third-quarter earnings for fiscal 2026 on Tuesday.The cloud giant is forecasting $50 billion in capital expenditures for the year.To maximize profit, Oracle is focused on cutting costs and accelerating construction timelines.Oracle has two magic words for investors concerned with the company's aggressive data center spending: fast and cheap.Shares of the cloud giant ros
  
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• Airlines are already slashing flight routes to the Middle East well into the future

  11-03-2026 00:22 via businessinsider.com
  British Airways said it was canceling flights to Abu Dhabi until later this year.John Keeble/Getty ImagesSeveral airlines are suspending flight routes to destinations in the Middle East well in advance.British Airways cut flights to Abu Dhabi until later this year and others until later this month.While some airlines are canceling routes, others are operating at a more limited capacity.The travel fallout from the war in Iran continues, with several airlines canceling flights to the Middle East w
  
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• Oracle's Larry Ellison downplays software apocalypse fears: 'We think the SaaSpocalypse applies to others, but not to us'

  10-03-2026 23:45 via businessinsider.com
  Oracle Chairman Larry EllisonAndrew Harnik/Getty ImagesFears that AI will replace traditional software tools have driven a sell-off of software stocks.Oracle Chairman Larry Ellison said he thinks it's a problem for other companies, but not his."That's why we think the Saaspocalypse applies to others but not to us," he said on the earnings call.Oracle executives downplayed fears that AI will spell the death of software-as-a-service companies.Oracle Chairman Larry Ellison said during the company's
  
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• Microsoft backs Anthropic in its legal fight against the Pentagon

  10-03-2026 23:42 via businessinsider.com
  Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella's company said the Pentagon's actions against Anthropic "put at risk the very AI ecosystem that the Administration has helped to champion."Sven Hoppe/picture alliance via Getty ImagesMicrosoft is showing its support for Anthropic.In a legal filing, Microsoft urged a federal court to temporarily block Anthropic's blacklisting.On Monday, Anthropic filed to stop the Pentagon from labeling the company as a supply chain risk.Microsoft is squarely in Anthropic's corner.In a
  
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• When I got my cancer diagnosis, I had to cancel 3 planned vacations. A 1-night staycation in nearby Santa Cruz gave me the reset I needed.

  10-03-2026 22:52 via businessinsider.com
  The writer said she enjoyed soaking in a hot tub during her staycation.Courtesy of Kate Loweth.Winter activities and chemotherapy left me feeling exhausted. I needed to do something for myself.I had to cancel a few big trips that I planned, but a 1-night staycation helped me feel refreshed.My solo trip to Santa Cruz offered a much-needed break from life's challenges.The winter months were a blur of holiday activities and family gatherings. It felt like I was running on a treadmill from Thanksgiv
  
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• The TikTok generation is clashing with old-school Wall Street culture

  10-03-2026 22:46 via businessinsider.com
  Momo Takahashi for BIThe "finest boys in finance" may have overstepped the rules of their storied industry.Their case is the extreme, but other young Wall Streeters said social media itself can feel like a gamble.Still, Wall Street is clear about its limits, and insiders said it's the price you pay for a foot in the door.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 bo
  
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• The best cat litter mats for reducing scatter and tracking

  10-03-2026 22:32 via businessinsider.com
  When you buy through our links, Business Insider may earn an affiliate commission. Learn moreThe best cat litter mats feature a variety of textures, including honeycomb designs, to effectively trap stray litter.Crystal Raypole/Business InsiderCats perform all sorts of antics in the litter box, whether it's leaping out wildly or enthusiastically kicking litter in every direction. The mess doesn't end there though. Stray litter often gets tracked across floors and even onto furniture. The best cat
  
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• Best True Classic discount codes we've tested in March 2026

  10-03-2026 22:25 via businessinsider.com
  When you buy through our links, Business Insider may earn an affiliate commission. Learn moreTrue ClassicTrue Classic continually proves its reputation as a go-to brand for affordable wardrobe staples that feel good, fit well, and hold up over time. The brand is best known for easy, layerable basics for men and women that balance comfort with a clean, everyday look. This holds true whether you're shopping for a simple T-shirt or a new lightweight jacket. The store even carries kids' apparel. Sav
  
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• It's ballet flat season again, and these Quince dupes are the best affordable option out there

  10-03-2026 22:22 via businessinsider.com
  When you buy through our links, Business Insider may earn an affiliate commission. Learn moreI own both the Everlane Day Gloves and the Quince Glove Ballet Flats. The dupes are just as good as the OGs and cost $80 less.Gabrielle Chase/Business InsiderWe're not quite through winter yet, but I'm confident the worst of it is behind us. It's warm enough that I just broke out my favorite ballet flats from Quince, and I'm thrilled that they're still in good shape — but mostly, I'm just thrilled
  
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• Amazon orders 90-day reset after code mishaps cause millions of lost orders

  10-03-2026 22:09 via businessinsider.com
  An Amazon warehouse and delivery trucksYing Tang/NurPhoto via Getty ImagesAmazon's e-commerce site suffered major outages in recent weeks.One outage was linked to internal use of an AI coding tool.Amazon SVP Dave Treadwell proposes new code controls in documents obtained by Business Insider.Amazon is beefing up internal guardrails after recent outages hit the company's e-commerce operation, including one disruption tied to its AI coding assistant Q.Dave Treadwell, Amazon's SVP of e-commerce serv
  
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• Israeli president defends war with Iran, says targeted oil sites were 'not the oil reserves of the people'

  10-03-2026 21:56 via businessinsider.com
  Israel's President Herzog speaking during an interview with BILD.NAFTALI HILGER/Naftali HilgerIsraeli president Isaac Herzog defended the war with Iran in a sit-down interview with BILD.The president said the conflict that began with Hamas' October 7 assault is inseparable from Iran's broader strategy.He also said targeted Iranian oil assets were "kept by the military" and "not the oil reserves of the people of Iran.""It's a connected war. It started October 7th, and we're reaching — actua
  
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• The best linen sheets

  10-03-2026 21:31 via businessinsider.com
  When you buy through our links, Business Insider may earn an affiliate commission. Learn moreBrooklinen’s Washed Linen sheets were like sleeping on a cloud: soft, breathable and lightweightShannon Ullman/Business InsiderThe best linen sheets are light, airy, and breathable for a truly luxurious feel. Linen gets a bad reputation for being rough and scratchy, but real linen lovers know that the material gets softer and more relaxed with each and every wash. Linen is made with fibers from the
  
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• 'Decline and recline': Uber and Lyft drivers are rethinking what trips to accept to navigate soaring gas prices

  10-03-2026 21:01 via businessinsider.com
  Gasoline prices at a gas station in California, which has some of the highest prices in the country.Frederic J. BROWN / AFP via Getty ImagesHigh gas prices from the war in Iran are hitting drivers for ride-hailing apps like Uber and Lyft.Some gig-worker drivers said they're changing which trips they accept.Others, such as EV owners, say they're unaffected by the price spike.War in the Middle East is fuelling a surge in US gas prices — and drivers for services like Uber and Lyft are among t
  
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• I tested 29 bridal shoes to find the most comfortable pairs to wear on the big day

  10-03-2026 21:00 via businessinsider.com
  When you buy through our links, Business Insider may earn an affiliate commission. Learn moreSamantha Crozier, Gabrielle Chase/Business InsiderFinding the best bridal shoes can feel like an impossible feat — while your heart may be set on a chic pair of sky-high heels with Instagram-worthy details, your head may be urging you to settle for a more practical option. The good news? You don't actually have to compromise here. I've tested two dozen different pairs of shoes and found plenty of s
  
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