Lucid said it's holding back the launch of its third model after its CEO said the first two launches were too shoddyLucidLucid's new CEO, Silvio Napoli, said the car company launched vehicles before they were ready.He's changing how the EV maker launches vehicles, and pushing back the midsize Cosmos to 2027.Lucid's two vehicles — the …
DoorDash unveiled its Dot delivery robot last September.Bloomberg/Getty ImagesDoorDash still has problems to solve before broadly using its autonomous delivery robot.Issues like loading the robots and tricky deliveries remain, CEO Tony Xu said.DoorDash is paying some delivery workers to manually load its robots, Business Insider reported.DoorDash's delivery robot isn't quite ready for prime time.The delivery …
John Keeble/Getty ImagesA version of this post appears in the CMO Insider newsletter.Sign up for Business Insider's weekly marketing newsletter.Ads designed to influence AI agents rather than human consumers are emerging as a new marketing channel. They're also opening up a new brand safety battleground.The big outstanding question: Once the AI platforms get wise to …
Army combat medics train at Joint Base McGuire-Dix-Lakehurst, New Jersey.Spc. Seth Cohen/US ArmyRecent US casualties evacuated from the Middle East highlighted the multidrug-resistant bacteria threat.Ukraine's medical system struggles with resistant infections amid ongoing warfare.Military officials and experts call for improved infection detection and management on battlefields.Roughly one-third of 33 recent US combat casualties evacuated from …
Lettuce and bagged salad is thought to be a potential cause of the cyclosporiasis outbreak.Nico De Pasquale Photography/Getty ImagesThe number of confirmed cyclosporiasis cases in the US has topped 10,400, health officials said Tuesday.People got sick after eating lettuce sold in several states — Michigan and Ohio were especially hard-hit.Two maps show the states with …
OpenAI CEO Sam Altman and Google DeepMind CEO Demis Hassabis sit alongside President Donald Trump in June.Ludovic Marin / AFP via Getty ImagesOpenAI, Anthropic, and Google met in D.C. on Tuesday to assess Trump's AI model review framework.President Donald Trump's administration plans to review AI models for cybersecurity risks.The framework challenges Trump's light-touch AI regulation …
Palantir CEO Alex Karp says the company operates with a "miniscule and shrinking" sales team.John Lamparski/Getty ImagesPalantir posted $1.1 billion in profit last quarter, its biggest ever quarter financially.Karp said the profits were achieved with a "miniscule and shrinking" sales team.The sales team may be shrinking, but Palantir added nearly 500 employees overall in 2025.Palantir …
The author has always known she doesn't want to have kids.Courtesy of Lauren MelnickI've known since I was young that I didn't want to have kids. I never wavered in my opinion — until my partner said he wanted to have kids in the next two years.After I realized my opinion hadn't changed on the …
Hugging Face CEO Clément Delangue said China is winning the AI race through open-weight models.Tom Williams/CQ-Roll Call, Inc via Getty ImagesHugging Face CEO Clément Delangue said China is winning the AI race through open-weight models.Delangue said US AI labs are "building in silos" while China pulls ahead.Delangue said OpenAI's Hugging Face hack proved open models …
A Walmart store in Martinez, CaliforniaBloomberg/Getty ImagesCode Puppy creator Michael Pfaffenberger said in a memo reviewed by Business Insider that he is leaving.The vibe-coding tool has grown to more than 75,000 users at all levels of the company.Code Puppy lets workers code their own software tools, from engineers to hourly store associates.The creator of Walmart's …
