From hedge funds to banks: 3 execs reveal their go-to hiring question

Tech Insider : Business
Rich Schimel, Sara Naison-Tarajano, and Michael Lehman
Rich Schimel, Sara Naison-Tarajano, and Michael Lehman

Citadel; Goldman Sachs; Premiere Wealth Partners

Meta is paying contractors up to $55 an hour to build AI chatbot characters

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Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg
Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg.

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How the biggest hedge funds performed in August, including Citadel, Millennium, and Balyasny

Tech Insider : Business, Economy, Environment
Citadel founder and CEO Ken Griffin speaking at the Semafor World Economy Summit in Washington, DC.
"Do we use it in our investment business? A little bit, a little bit, I can't say it's been game changing," Citadel founder Ken Griffin said of AI.

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It's time to call it: The Big Tech backlash is formally over.

Tech Insider : Politics, Business
Google CEO Sundar Pichai, at the Sun Valley conference, July 2025
For years, we were told American regulators were going to rein in Google CEO Sundar Pichai and his fellow big tech bosses. That didn't happen.

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Googlers post memes to celebrate how the company doesn't have to sell Chrome

Tech Insider : Business
Sundar Pichai wears a grey jacket over a white t-shirt and smiles on stage.
Google CEO Sundar Pichai.

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Feared activist investor Elliott Management took a $4 billion stake in Pepsi. That shouldn't scare the CEO.

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Paul Singer sitting in a chair while speaking at an event.
Paul E. Singer, Founder and President, Elliott Management.

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The biggest winners from the Google antitrust decision? Its AI rivals.

Tech Insider : Business
FILE PHOTO: Google CEO Sundar Pichai speaks on stage during the annual Google I/O developers conference in Mountain View, California, May 8, 2018. REUTERS/Stephen Lam
FILE PHOTO: Google CEO Sundar Pichai speaks on stage during the annual Google I/O developers conference in Mountain View, California

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Google can keep Chrome — but it can't have exclusive search deals, judge rules in antitrust case

Tech Insider : Technology, Business
The Google logo is seen at the company's headquarters in Mountain View, California,
The Google logo is seen at the company's headquarters in Mountain View, California.

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I dropped out of college at 22 and started a business. Here's how I raised over $50 million and got Mark Cuban to invest in it.

Tech Insider : Business, Crypto, Technology
A man with his hands in the pockets of his black coat standing by a window overlooking a city.
Chen said the first few years after he left college were the most challenging of his life.

Courtesy of Injective Labs

I got a job at Google 2 years ago. Here's what's changed and my advice for new engineers entering Big Tech.

Tech Insider : Business, Environment
A man smiling and posing for a headshot in a black suit in front of a gray background.
Harsh Varshney has been a software engineer at Google for 2 years.

Courtesy of Harsh Varshney

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