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• Google struck a $2.7 billion deal with Character.ai., largley to rehire AI expert Noam Shazeer, WSJ reported.
• It's an eye-popping example of how expensive and in demand top AI talent is as competition heats up.
• AI career experts told

• Elon Musk's Ad Astra school in Texas faces delays in opening.
• Texas Health and Human Services told BI the Montessori school postponed its site inspection twice.
• Ad Astra, located on a 40-acre former horse ranch, was expected to open this summer.

Elon Musk's Ad Astra school opening in Texas is getting delayed.

The

Hurricane Helene has barreled down on Florida, with the extremely dangerous Category 4 storm making landfall on Thursday night. Those in its path are being instructed to shelter in place, with the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) advising communities to prepare for "catastrophic, life-threatening inland flooding" in areas around Tallahassee, metro Atlanta, and western North

• Dell is mandating all global sales workers return to the office five days a week from Monday.
• The tech giant said it would help the sales staffers harness a "high energy" environment.
• This follows Amazon's similar move announced earlier this month, ending remote work from

• Jennifer Oliva quit her job after a return-to-office mandate in Fall 2021.
• She had worked remotely since March 2020 and found a much better work-life balance.
• Control over her schedule became a priority and now she runs her own publicity firm.

This as-told-to essay is based on a conversation with Jennifer Oliva, a 54

• Meta is still pushing the metaverse and the Quest headset.
• But some tech analysts contend people are most interested in truly wearable tech, like Orion.
• Quest is limiting because of its bulk — and Orion AR glasses are an improvement, the analysts said.

Meta's Orion

• Tim Boucher has written over 120 books using AI-generated text and images.
• Boucher's work critiques technology and explores new storytelling, but it has sparked controversy.
• Several authors have criticized AI for using their work without consent, leading to lawsuits.

Tim Boucher is a prolific author. In

• Netflix is crushing the streaming competition.
• You know this, and its competitors know this. But its big win wasn't always a certainty.
• Now it is — and investors are rewarding Netflix and punishing everyone else.

Who's going to win the streaming wars?

No one asks that question anymore: Netflix won. Obviously.

Not only does the streaming pioneer have a huge lead in subscribers

• OpenAI is planning to restructure as a for-profit benefit corporation, reports say.
• Since 2019, the company has had what Sam Altman called an "unusual" hybrid structure.
• A legal expert said it could be "better for Altman" if he's a controlling shareholder.

After operating under what Sam

• The social-media giant held its big Meta Connect conference in Silicon Valley this week.
• Mark Zuckerberg is spending heavily on AI and AR technology.
• Is the CEO still obsessed with efficiency?

2023 was Mark Zuckerberg's "Year of Efficiency." He chopped tens of thousands of

Unlike giant stars that explode into a supernova and collapse into a black hole, a medium star like Earth's sun just keeps on trucking until it runs out of nuclear fuel, suffering a more prolonged death. 

As a sun-like star nears the end of its life, it expands into a red giant, about 100 to 1,000 times its original size, eventually overtaking the space around it, including nearby planets.

For