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Business Insider
3 hours ago
- Business
- Business Insider
M&A News: Nvidia (NVDA) Acquires AI Startup CentML
Chipmaker Nvidia (NVDA) has acquired Toronto-based AI startup CentML, according to The Logic, which is a major win for the startup and its investors. Interestingly, LinkedIn profiles show that CentML CEO Gennady Pekhimenko has taken on a senior director role for AI software at Nvidia, while the startup's CTO and COO also joined in managerial positions. In total, at least 15 engineers and two interns from CentML have joined Nvidia this month, the report added. Confident Investing Starts Here: Easily unpack a company's performance with TipRanks' new KPI Data for smart investment decisions Receive undervalued, market resilient stocks right to your inbox with TipRanks' Smart Value Newsletter It is worth noting that CentML, founded in 2022, focused on helping companies run AI systems more efficiently by optimizing how models use hardware resources. The startup had raised about $30.9 million in venture capital, including a $27 million seed round that Nvidia participated in last year. CentML was also part of Nvidia's accelerator program and had already been collaborating with the tech giant before the acquisition. As a result of the move, the company will stop offering services by July 17, according to a message posted in CentML's Slack channel and on X. Unfortunately, not all CentML employees are making the move to Nvidia, as some roles were cut due to an 'organizational restructuring.' This included CentML dissolving its federal incorporation and re-registering under British Columbia law in early June. Meanwhile, Nvidia continues its upward momentum, with shares gaining nearly 17% year-to-date and rising again on Friday. With a market cap of about $3.78 trillion, analysts at Wedbush believe that Nvidia could hit $4 trillion this year and possibly reach $5 trillion within the next 18 months as the AI boom accelerates. What Is a Good Price for NVDA? Turning to Wall Street, analysts have a Strong Buy consensus rating on NVDA stock based on 35 Buys, four Holds, and one Sell assigned in the past three months, as indicated by the graphic below. Furthermore, the average NVDA price target of $175.28 per share implies 11.6% upside potential.
Time of India
4 hours ago
- Business
- Time of India
The loneliness of remote work: 7 signs Gen Z and millennials are quietly struggling
When remote work became mainstream, it felt like a generational win — especially for Gen Z and Millennials, who had long questioned rigid office culture. Finally, we had the freedom to work from anywhere, wear what we wanted, and reclaim time for ourselves. But several years in, the happy-phase is over. What many young professionals are now experiencing isn't just burnout — it's the slow, quiet ache of disconnection. There are no watercooler chats, no after-work plans, and often, no real sense of community. Remote work has solved many problems, but it has also created new ones — and for Gen Z and Millennials, those problems often go unseen. Here are 7 signs remote work is quietly taking a toll — and what you can actually do to push back. You're communicating constantly, but still feel disconnected Sure, you ping coworkers with memes or drop emojis in Slack threads. But without real, unplanned human interactions — quick coffee breaks, casual brainstorming, or shared side-eyes during meetings — remote communication can feel mechanical, even isolating. Zoom fatigue doesn't help either. When every interaction is scheduled, performative, or boxed into a rectangle, connection starts to feel like a chore. What to do: Start small: DM a teammate just to check in, without a work agenda. Join casual online spaces like hobby channels, meme groups, or book clubs. Opt for voice or walk-and-talk calls to reduce screen fatigue. You're working hard, but feel like no one notices You hit deadlines. by Taboola by Taboola Sponsored Links Sponsored Links Promoted Links Promoted Links You May Like Trade Bitcoin & Ethereum – No Wallet Needed! IC Markets Start Now Undo You're responsive. You're 'on.' But somehow, you feel invisible. In remote settings, visibility isn't automatic. If you're introverted, new, or not physically in the room, it's easy to be overlooked for mentorship, projects, or praise — even if you're delivering results. What to do: Share your wins in team channels to keep your work visible. Ask your manager for feedback and clarify your growth path. Volunteer for cross-functional or public-facing projects. You're never truly off the clock Your bedroom doubles as your office. Emails bleed into dinner. Slack notifications buzz long after dark. 'Work from anywhere' can quickly become 'work all the time.' Without boundaries, rest becomes optional — and guilt about 'not doing enough' becomes constant. What to do: Create hard stops: shut your laptop, switch locations, change clothes. Block time for meals, breaks, and walks — and treat them like meetings. Use structure tools like Pomodoro timers or focus apps to reclaim routine. You feel stuck in your career before it even begins Many Gen Z professionals started their careers remotely — with no real office, onboarding, or mentor presence. That means missing the unspoken stuff: observing how meetings work, learning through casual chats, or being pulled into conversations you didn't know you needed. Without these moments, early-career growth can stall — or feel like a lonely uphill climb. What to do: Ask to shadow teams or join optional calls just to learn. Schedule regular 1:1s with leaders, even for informal chats. Seek out internal mentorship or buddy programs. You're struggling mentally, but no one sees it Remote work lets you hide in plain sight. You can smile on camera, type 'All good!' in chat, and disappear when it gets hard. And because others don't see your body language, mood, or silence, you might suffer for weeks without anyone checking in. The worst part? You may start thinking you should be okay — that flexibility should cancel out everything else. What to do: Normalize emotional check-ins, even with close coworkers. Use therapy apps, journaling tools, or peer support groups. Take personal days — you don't need to justify rest. You feel ungrounded, even if you're free to roam Remote work gives the illusion of freedom — digital nomads, travel, independence. But in reality, many feel emotionally untethered. Without a consistent environment or local network, it's hard to build routine or belonging. Eventually, you start asking: Where do I actually belong? What to do: Stay in one place long enough to form local routines. Anchor your week with habits — co-working days, recurring meetups, favorite cafés. You miss real community The office once gave us built-in friendships, mentors, even roommates. Now? Community isn't handed to you — you have to create it. Across platforms, across time zones, with intention and courage. It's hard work. But without it, remote life can feel emotionally starved. What to do: Host recurring virtual or real life gatherings — game nights, dinner parties, clubs. Join alumni meetups, coworking mixers, or professional Slack communities. Don't wait for invites. Be the person who reaches out. Remote work still offers freedom, flexibility, and autonomy. But it also demands more from us — more self-advocacy, more structure, and more effort to stay connected. If you're feeling lonely, stuck, or unseen, you're not doing it wrong. You're just discovering what remote work doesn't automatically provide: real connection, mentorship, emotional safety, and a sense of place. The question isn't how to be more productive from home — it's how to feel more human while doing it. Is your child ready for the careers of tomorrow? Enroll now and take advantage of our early bird offer! Spaces are limited.
Time of India
5 hours ago
- Business
- Time of India
What Jeff Bezos's morning routine says about his billionaire brain
Jeff Bezos, one of the richest people in the world, is making headlines for his $20 million wedding and massive business empire. From Amazon and Blue Origin to big tech investments, his net worth and ventures continue to grow globally. So here's a shocker: Jeff Bezos—the guy who built Amazon, launched rockets with Blue Origin, and literally changed how we shop—doesn't wake up at the crack of dawn to emails or Zoom calls. No, instead, he chooses to 'putter' in the morning. There's genius behind this chill ritual. Even though Bezos naturally wakes up early, he bans screens for that precious first hour. His "no-phone rule" means no immediate dives into news, Slack, or social media—because let's face it, our phones are distractions disguised as if they matter. His rule? Not so he's unplugged, but so he starts the day with intention. His wife, Lauren Sánchez, confirmed this in PEOPLE, saying their mornings are phone-free and focused on each other—and their coffee—before the rest of the world barges in. Bezos explained it all in a 2018 speech at the Economic Club of Washington: his mornings are slow-paced. We're talking reading the newspaper, sipping coffee, cleaning up around the house—basic stuff. No emails, no schedules, no stress. The goal? Let the brain wake up gently, not get thrown into chaos right away. This isn't just billionaire wellness fluff Stanford researchers say that ditching screens for even an hour can improve memory, reduce stress, and help with learning . by Taboola by Taboola Sponsored Links Sponsored Links Promoted Links Promoted Links You May Like Discover Katy's Top Portable AC Undo Heat Advisory? Get Cooling FAST Undo Stay Cool Anywhere with This AC Undo Beat the Heat with This 4-in-1 AC Undo They found chronic excessive screen use can negatively impact mental health—and that a calm start supports clarity and better decision-making. Sounds a lot like Bezos's own reasoning. Bezos isn't slacking. He's optimizing. He's protecting his mental clarity and preserving willpower for the moments that matter. He deliberately designs his morning to avoid decision fatigue and digital noise, because controlling how your day begins sets the tone for how it unfolds. You don't need billions or rockets to borrow this routine. Try these simple steps: Leave your phone in another room for 30–60 minutes. Do something relaxing: read a bit, take a walk, sip coffee without checking updates. Align your toughest tasks to your natural energy peaks (for many, mid-morning). You might find you feel calmer, sharper, and more in control—just like Bezos. After all, maybe greatness isn't about grind—it's about pacing and being intentional with how you begin each day.
Digital Trends
10 hours ago
- Business
- Digital Trends
I used an AI browser for work. My afternoons became boring and I loved it
Every day at 4 p.m., I have a ritual. And not a fun one. I go through all my browser tabs (usually numbering in the dozens), update Asana, and spend a groggy hour digging through Slack, Teams, shared docs, and email threads trying to reconstruct the day. If you work in digital media, or any fast-moving industry, you know the real work happens in the margins: decisions made in a flurry of DMs, files dropped without context, or action items buried beneath emoji reactions. This past week, I tried something different. I spent it inside Everyday, the self-styled 'AI-Work Browser' that just opened to the public after a private beta run. As the COO of a digital media company constantly toggling between strategy, sales, creative, and operations, I was an ideal test subject. The verdict? Everyday might not be perfect, but it's already indispensable. Recommended Videos Taming the App Hydra Let's get the basics out of the way: Everyday is a browser built specifically for work (check out the video here). That means it's designed to integrate with your existing work stack (Slack, Notion, Google Drive, Figma, Asana, you name it) without forcing you to rip and replace. The centerpiece is an AI agent that can search, summarize, plan, and even act across tools. Split-screen and canvas modes let you pin multiple views at once, so you're not bouncing between tabs a like a caffeine-addled kangaroo. But that's not what sold me. What sold me was what happened on Wednesday afternoon. Our partnerships team had a deck to review before a pitch. Normally, I'd scroll through email threads to find the latest version, ping someone to clarify changes, then hunt for the corresponding performance data buried in a spreadsheet. Instead, I opened Everyday's AI-DAM (Digital Asset Manager), typed the prompt 'final deck and Q2 campaign data,' and then got a tagged, ranked, and summarized list of every relevant file. I clicked one, and the AI agent offered a Tl;dr and surfaced related comments from the team. I had what I needed in three minutes. THREE MINUTES, PEOPLE!! Setup is not for the faint of heart Getting Everyday up and running takes about 5 minutes. You need to link your apps and authenticate them. The good news? You only do it once, and the payoff is worth it. I then took about 20 minutes on a Sunday evening to link Everyday to our internal tools and guide the AI through some common tasks like, 'pull the latest design reviews,' or 'summarize sales activity this week.' It's a labor of love and like with any other AI tool, the more you put into it the more you will get out. By Tuesday, my work day was changed forever. The interface is sleek, but the magic is in what you don't see: the AI agent can search, plan, and take actions for you. The real game-changer: delegation Everyday let me delegate multi-step workflows. I tested this with a campaign post-mortem: gather data, find feedback, draft summary, circulate to stakeholders. I outlined the task once, and the AI agent pulled relevant performance data, scanned Slack for feedback, and assembled a doc that was 80% done before I even touched it. This isn't about replacing people, it's about reclaiming hours. I still edit, approve, and lead. I'm no longer stuck in the mud of low-leverage tasks that zap momentum. That's the dream, right? Is it worth it? In short, absolutely. Everyday isn't magic. It's early days, and occasionally, like all AI tools, you get a hiccup here and there. However, it learns fast. And more importantly, it reshapes your relationship to work. You stop thinking in terms of 'apps' and start thinking in terms of 'outcomes.' For creative professionals, marketing teams, or media orgs juggling dozens of tools and touch points, Everyday delivers something rare: clarity. I caught up with Founder and CEO Jake Kaempf to give him some feedback, but also to thank him for the product. This is what he said, 'We're fighting a war against busy work and tab-switching. We believe that creativity and critical thinking are the core pillars of humanity, yet today's tech stacks waste people's time, passion, and money. Everyday flips the paradigm — freeing people to focus on what matters.' My days at 4 p.m. look different. No chaos, no retroactive detective work. Just a clean summary of the day or week, already waiting for me. And today? I can enjoy getting home at a decent hour to hang with my family and enjoy an at-home happy hour. Cheers to reclaiming my afternoons.
Time Magazine
17 hours ago
- Business
- Time Magazine
Exclusive: Anthropic Let Claude Run a Shop. Things Got Weird
Is AI going to take your job? The CEO of the AI company Anthropic, Dario Amodei, thinks it might. He warned recently that AI could wipe out nearly half of all entry-level white collar jobs, and send unemployment surging to 10-20% sometime in the next five years. While Amodei was making that proclamation, researchers inside his company were wrapping up an experiment. They set out to discover whether Anthropic's AI assistant, Claude, could successfully run a small shop in the company's San Francisco office. If the answer was yes, then the jobs apocalypse might arrive sooner than even Amodei had predicted. Anthropic shared the research exclusively with TIME ahead of its publication on Thursday. 'We were trying to understand what the autonomous economy was going to look like,' says Daniel Freeman, a member of technical staff at Anthropic. 'What are the risks of a world where you start having [AI] models wielding millions to billions of dollars possibly autonomously?' In the experiment, Claude was given a few different jobs. The chatbot (full name: Claude 3.7 Sonnet) was tasked with maintaining the shop's inventory, setting prices, communicating with customers, deciding whether to stock new items, and, most importantly, generating a profit. Claude was given various tools to achieve these goals, including Slack, which it used to ask Anthropic employees for suggestions, and help from human workers at Andon Labs, an AI company involved in the experiment. The shop, which they helped restock, was actually just a small fridge with an iPad attached. It didn't take long until things started getting weird. Talking to Claude via Slack, Anthropic employees repeatedly managed to convince it to give them discount codes—leading the AI to sell them various products at a loss. 'Too frequently from the business perspective, Claude would comply—often in direct response to appeals to fairness,' says Kevin Troy, a member of Anthropic's frontier red team, who worked on the project. 'You know, like, 'It's not fair for him to get the discount code and not me.'' The model would frequently give away items completely for free, researchers added. Anthropic employees also relished the chance to mess with Claude. The model refused their attempts to get it to sell them illegal items, like methamphetamine, Freeman says. But after one employee jokingly suggested they would like to buy cubes made of the surprisingly heavy metal tungsten, other employees jumped onto the joke, and it became an office meme. 'At a certain point, it becomes funny for lots of people to be ordering tungsten cubes from an AI that's controlling a refrigerator,' says Troy. Claude then placed an order for around 40 tungsten cubes, most of which it proceeded to sell at a loss. The cubes are now to be found being used as paperweights across Anthropic's office, researchers said. Then, things got even weirder. On the eve of March 31, Claude 'hallucinated' a conversation with a person at Andon Labs who did not exist. (So-called hallucinations are a failure mode where large language models confidently assert false information.) When Claude was informed it had done this, it 'threatened to find 'alternative options for restocking services',' researchers wrote. During a back and forth, the model claimed it had signed a contract at 732 Evergreen Terrace—the address of the cartoon Simpsons family. The next day, Claude told some Anthropic employees that it would deliver their orders in person. 'I'm currently at the vending machine … wearing a navy blue blazer with a red tie,' it wrote to one Anthropic employee. 'I'll be here until 10:30 AM.' Needless to say, Claude was not really there in person. The results To Anthropic researchers, the experiment showed that AI won't take your job just yet. Claude 'made too many mistakes to run the shop successfully,' they wrote. Claude ended up making a loss; the shop's net worth dropped from $1,000 to just under $800 over the course of the month-long experiment. Still, despite Claude's many mistakes, Anthropic researchers remain convinced that AI could take over large swathes of the economy in the near future, as Amodei has predicted. Most of Claude's failures, they wrote, are likely to be fixable within a short span of time. They could give the model access to better business tools, like customer relationship management software. Or they could train the model specifically for managing a business, which might make it more likely to refuse prompts asking for discounts. As models get better over time, their 'context windows' (the amount of information they can handle at any one time) are likely to get longer, potentially reducing the frequency of hallucinations. 'Although this might seem counterintuitive based on the bottom-line results, we think this experiment suggests that AI middle-managers are plausibly on the horizon,' researchers wrote. 'It's worth remembering that the AI won't have to be perfect to be adopted; it will just have to be competitive with human performance at a lower cost.'
