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When TikTok food reviewer Gabriel Rivera DMed Natendrea Jones about her seafood this spring, she assumed it was a prank.”I thought somebody was playing a joke,” Jones, 36, told Business Insider.The South Carolina native had spent years trying to turn her cooking into a full-time business. She grew up surrounded by home cooking and began earning money young, first by preparing salads for neighbors and family cookouts, then by doing hair and nails.Cooking remained a side hustle for more than a decade. Jones made seafood platters for friends and occasionally sold pans, but hair and nails paid the bills.A viral…
Author Ahmed Barakat Author Ahmed Barakat Part of the Team Since Mar 2024 About Author Ahmed Barakat is a journalist and copywriter based in Georgia with a growing focus on blockchain technology, DeFi, AI, privacy, digital assets, and fintech innovation. Share Last updated: October 23, 2026 Monero (XMR) is built so that an outside observer cannot see who paid whom, or how much. Every transaction hides its sender, its receiver, and its amount by default, and there is no way to send a transparent Monero payment by mistake. That is why the question “Is Monero traceable?” usually gets a short…
Google’s AI models may be helping to build their successors, but CEO Sundar Pichai says the moment of fully self-improving AI is still a while away.Speaking on an episode of the “Big Technology Podcast” this week, Pichai said that Google researchers were using AI agents to assist them when building models, but caveated that it was still early days.”We are pretty far from the end state of RSI,” said Pichai, referring to recursive self-improvement. “The right way to describe it is, you have RSI loops along with AI researchers in various aspects of model development. I would say you almost…
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In February, Matt Shumer, the former CEO of Hyperwrite, published a viral essay on his website titled “Something Big Is Happening,” in which he warned of large-scale disruptions wrought by AI that could upend the world order.Shumer published another essay on Thursday on his website and LinkedIn, this time titled “The Internet Is Under Attack. Here’s How to Protect Yourself and Your Family.””Right now, as you read this, swarms of AI agents are likely trying to break into the websites you use. Not one of them. Many of them,” Shumer wrote. “We are in the middle of the biggest cybersecurity…
“Man’s best friend deserves man’s best tech.”That’s what Palmer Luckey said about his new startup, Warhound. The Anduril cofounder, along with Colossal Biosciences cofounder Ben Lamm, raised $200 million in seed funding for the startup that aims to genetically engineer high-performance military dogs.Warhound said in a Thursday press release that it wants to rebuild the US’s supply of working dogs for military forces, law enforcement, and emergency first-response teams. It added that most of the military dogs currently working in the US are acquired from Europe, and many are eventually deemed unfit for service.Colossal Biosciences is a biotechnology company that…
Gary Vaynerchuk, 50, says aspiring entrepreneurs should spend every spare minute mastering AI and content creation.During a Thursday appearance on the “Nude Project” podcast, Vaynerchuk shared how he would approach starting a business today as a 16-year-old with 1,000 euros in capital. The podcast is hosted by Bruno Casanovas and Alex Benlloch, founders of the Spanish streetwear brand Nude Project.”I would make content,” Vaynerchuk said. “The dollars don’t scare me at all because it takes no dollars. I would spend every ounce of time learning AI. Like, from what OpenClaw is to Claude Code, to using it to think and…
It’s costing families nearly $7,500 a year for health insurance — and more increases are looming.A 2026 health benefits survey from KFF found that workers on a family plan paid an average of $7,471 a year in premiums — a 9% increase from 2025. And that’s just the worker contribution — when accounting for employer contributions, family plan premiums totaled $28,303 in 2026, a roughly 5% increase from 2025. That’s a hefty price for both workers and their employers, and even more acute for workers at smaller businesses: KFF’s survey found that at firms with fewer than 200 employees, they…
Consolidation is underway at David Ellison’s Skydance just a few weeks after the company closed its $110 billion merger with Warner Bros. Discovery.Skydance’s chief product officer, Dane Glasgow, laid out the product and tech leadership structure of the combined entity in a memo viewed by Business Insider.Four top WBD executives are leaving, according to the memo.They include:Avi Saxena, Warner Bros. Discovery’s chief technology officerTyler Whitworth, chief product officer for WBD’s streaming businessDave Duvall, WBD’s chief information officerTrish Collins Weedon, WBD’s chief information security officer (CISO)Duvall, Saxena, and Whitworth will stay on in an “advisory capacity as we undergo this transition,”…
The office dress code is changing, and for some professionals, workwear is becoming a serious investment.At New York Fashion Week, Business Insider’s Clarisa Melendez spoke with attendees who said workplace style can signal personality, confidence, and the kind of business they conduct. Some of their most meaningful workwear investments came with eye-catching price tags.