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Business Insider checked records in all 50 states and DC and found no evidence of a bar admission for press secretary Katie Zacharia. Recruiters quoted in the article say a candidate's answer to a discrepancy settles the offer.
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Disney expects to spend $180 million over three years on pay and retention for 66 Character.AI staff, Business Insider reported from a Chapter 11 filing. That is nine times the $20 million Disney agreed to pay for the startup's assets.
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Tesla's terms for Roadster reservations of up to $250,000 leave the final price open and guarantee no delivery, Business Insider reported. It also describes the payment as fully refundable, so a holder risks the wait and an unset price.
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Morning Consult found 26% of US adults say influencer content has affected who they voted for, in a September survey. Business Insider reported that campaigns still spend the bulk of their ad budgets on TV.
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Microsoft AI says its 2.8-trillion-parameter MAI-Base-2 will let it license model weights to trusted partners through Foundry. It also says it tunes its models first for its own products and then for Foundry customers, so licensees would come second.
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Katie Zacharia held her first briefing as White House press secretary on Tuesday, the sixth person in the job under Trump. The count is high against recent presidents, but all three tenures under a year came before Leavitt.
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Graduates in the most AI-exposed fields were 5 points less likely to be employed the quarter after graduating, a Census Bureau paper finds. The figures cover only that first quarter, so they speak to this quarter's entry-level market and little beyond it.
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Two groups asked California's bar to investigate whether press secretary Katie Zacharia broke state law by calling herself a lawyer. Law professors told Business Insider a general counsel title without admission could count against her in a later application.
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Latvia is building border anti-drone defenses in which only the final neutralization decision is human, defense minister Raivis Melnis told Business Insider. The aim is to run the network with fewer soldiers, though the reporting does not say when it will be finished, what it costs or how many soldiers it would save.
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Microagi's CEO says the company pays more than 35,000 people in over 15 countries to film physical tasks, Business Insider reported. Robotics is short of training data, so startups are buying footage of skilled work such as private cooking.
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KPMG US found only 9% of 400 large-company CEOs call AI agents transformational, though about four in 10 report significant gains. Nine in 10 expect to add headcount over three years. KPMG's Tim Walsh says the unfinished work is in processes and data.
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YouTube said on July 20 it wants to reward creators who use AI to enhance original storytelling over those who mass-produce generic content. A spokesperson called it a clarification of an existing policy, so creator programs are already subject to the rule.
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Business Insider reports that working from home accounts for about 26% of US workdays, up from 7% in 2019. The share has barely moved in two years, so attendance mandates meet a flat baseline.
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More than 60% of the estimated $11.6 billion in 2026 political spending will go to broadcast and cable TV, Business Insider reported. Strategist Rob Flaherty says operatives copy one another and consultants earn more as the TV share rises.
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Columbia Business School's Len Sherman estimates Uber's median pay on active rides is $19.30 an hour in Orlando and $46 in Los Angeles. Uber, which has said drivers earn more than $30 an hour, calls the analysis flawed.
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Applications to the March 2026 H-1B lottery fell more than 38% from a year earlier, USCIS said, while the $100,000 fee stays held up in the courts. Business Insider concludes that employers with cash and workers with scarce skills come out ahead.
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Cathay Pacific is investing $19 billion in its fleet, cabins, lounges and digital products for its 80th anniversary, Business Insider reported. The account does not say how the money divides among them; the one price signal is early fares.
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Meta has scaled back plans to cut staff and use more AI agents after employees spent growing time fixing errors, Reuters reported. Leaders planning similar cuts are trading a headcount saving this quarter for cleanup and oversight costs next quarter.
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AI labs and their data brokers are offering six-figure sums for live workplace data such as Slack DMs and Docs, Business Insider reported. Gartner projects AI data spending at almost $6.5 billion in 2027, so a company needs a policy on selling its data before the offer arrives.
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Ukraine's defence intelligence directorate says Russia is fitting its Susanin camera navigation module to Geran-4 and Geran-5 K5 jet drones. At scale, Business Insider reports, the modules would bypass jamming, a key pillar of Ukraine's air defence.
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