Our Goop Kitchen order was delightfully colorful. Jordan Hart/Business Insider We tried food from Goop Kitchen's New York location. It was very green — and not very good. Given Gwyneth Paltrow's brand, we expected a pilates vibe. The ghost kitchen was more like a gym locker room. Our favorites were the Chinese chicken salad and teriyaki chicken. The brownie was dry and crumbly. New York just got goopier. Gwyneth Paltrow's Goop Kitchen is built for a Los Angeles crowd. It is health-pilled, vegetable-forward, and full of avocado. Indeed, the shop opened nine locations in LA and four more in the Bay Area, ripe for biohacking tech bros. In April, Goop Kitchen officially hopped coasts. The brand opened a ghost kitchen in Midtown Manhattan, ready for pickup and takeout. It's a big bet for Paltrow, whose business has faltered from its late 2010s peak. Goop underwent multiple rounds of layoffs, executive turnover, and business shutdowns. The brand began as a hub for articles about trendy health solutions; by now, the editorial product has been slashed. Goop Kitchen has been a bright spot for the brand, though it's technically a separate business that was set up as a joint venture. In 2024, Goop Kitchen raised $15 million, according to PitchBook, from investors including Uber cofounder Travis Kalanick, who also leads the ghost kitchen startup CloudKitchens. The New York launch has been filled with hype, fueled by food influencers who score millions of views by promising that the Goop pizza is very good. Will it live up to expectations? We investigated the best way we know how: by spending almost $100 on lunch for two. Goop Kitchen did not respond to a request for comment. We arrived at a ghost kitchen to pick up the order. Jordan Hart/Business Insider Retail reporter Jordan Hart trekked from New York City's Financial District to the Midtown neighborhood to pick up our order. The only marker that she was in the right place was a sign reading "goop kitchen" with an arrow pointing left. It wasn't the pilates studio-esque vibe we were expecting. It was a ghost kitchen out of which many restaurants operated. The interior had lockers dedicated to picking up orders. Jordan Hart/Business Insider We placed the order through Goop Kitchen's website. Since our office is outside the delivery radius, we ordered it for pickup. When we tried ordering around noon on a Wednesday, the site said the location was experiencing high demand, so the earliest pickup time was about two hours later. At the pickup spot, a line of people, including delivery workers, waited for orders to appear in lockers. Jordan asked an attendant for help, and he came back quickly with her order — no need to use the locker. The whole process took less than 10 minutes, and she was on her way back to the office with the goods. We ordered five items off the menu for $95. Jordan Hart/Business Insider The Goop Kitchen menu was more extensive than expected, but we settled on five items that were getting a lot of buzz on social media. We wanted to see if they were worth the hype they've been getting from influencers in LA. We got the Pepperoni Potts pizza, the Brentwood Chinese chicken salad, the chicken teriyaki bowl, the curry chicken salad summer rolls, and a brownie. Our total came to $95.18. The pizza got messy during transit. Jordan Hart/Business Insider Although the items were packed as well as possible, the Pepperoni Potts pizza was no match for the 4 train. Some of the slices didn't look as presentable as the rest of the pie by the time they got back to Business Insider's office. The pizza was made with pepperoni, basil, pomodoro sauce, fresh mozzarella, and fontina cheese. The Goop Kitchen says it's free of seed oils, preservatives, peanuts, refined sugar, gluten, and corn. It was $24.50. The Pepperoni Potts pizza is great for gluten-avoiders. Jordan Hart/Business Insider Jordan was overall impressed by the pizza's taste. This pizza made her think maybe she could give the gluten-free lifestyle a shot. The crust had a satisfying chew, and it made her wonder what all the fuss against gluten-free dough is about. Business reporter Henry Chandonnet was less positive, calling it "gourmet DiGiorno." There's so much good pizza in New York, including gluten-free slices. Gwyneth's slice seemed to sink under the competition. The Brentwood Chinese chicken salad was packed with vegetables. Jordan Hart/Business Insider The star of the $18.50 Brentwood Chinese chicken salad is the hand-pulled organic chicken. It sits atop a bed of greenery, including bok choy, snowpeas, green onions, cabbage, avocado, and cilantro. It came with a carrot-ginger dressing and crispy wontons for added crunch. Henry shook up the salad — and thought it was solid. Jordan Hart/Business Insider Henry liked the salad. It was clean, easy, and colorful. He could imagine it as a delightful workday lunch. The carrot-ginger dressing reminded Jordan of one you'd get at a Japanese barbecue restaurant. The salad was a nice, refreshing bite, but Jordan wasn't a fan of its raw cabbage. The cilantro, however, was a delicious pop of flavor for her. She found herself searching for it in each bite. The teriyaki bowl was customizable. Jordan Hart/Business Insider The teriyaki bowl comes with a choice of chicken breast, chicken thigh, tofu, or salmon for an extra $4.75. We chose the chicken thigh option for a total of $18.95. The bowl included sesame marinated kale, a brown rice blend, avocado, pickled ginger, and broccoli. Our bowl was inexplicably missing broccoli. As a kale skeptic, Jordan was pleasantly surprised by how much she enjoyed it. Dousing everything in the teriyaki sauce served on the side felt like a cheat code, making everything taste salty-sweet — her favorite flavor combo. The chicken was juicy and tender. The avocado seemed frivolous at first, but it blended well with the other ingredients. Again, Henry was less enthused. The chicken was good, sure, but it reminded him of the Whole Foods hot bar. The summer rolls had a clever twist. Jordan Hart/Business Insider These summer rolls were made with curry chicken salad, collard greens, sprouts, carrots, and watermelon radish for $14.95. They came with a pineapple-mango chutney for dipping. It's unclear if Goop Kitchen did this on purpose, but the vibrant colors of the radish and carrot garnish on the summer rolls reminded us of salmon and tuna rolls. It was a clever touch. Henry loved the presentation, but found the summer rolls lackluster. The pineapple-mango chutney was too sweet, and the rolls were missing a crunchy element. He thought it felt like eating rolled-up mush. Jordan thought the curry chicken salad needed more salt, and the curry flavor was a bit too subtle for her taste. She's used to curry having a bold impact on any dish it's added to. The chutney was her least favorite sauce; it had a flavor note she didn't enjoy. The brownie got mixed reviews. Henry Chandonnet/Business Insider The dark chocolate and sea salt brownie is gluten- and dairy-free, and it tastes like it. It's missing all of the fun ingredients that make a brownie decadent and delicious. For $5.95, it wasn't very big, but the richness of the dark chocolate made it shareable. It's hard to imagine one person could handle that much chocolate. We weren't impressed. Henry thought it was dry and crumbly, taking all the moisture out of his mouth. The sea salt was a nice touch, though. Our coworker Ana Altchek enjoyed it. It was an expensive and filling lunch. Henry Chandonnet/Business Insider We wouldn't regularly spend $100 on lunch, and this meal didn't inspire us to do so more often. On an individual level, paying $19 for a salad isn't outside the norm in New York City. Most fast-casual places offer the same price point on their lunch menus. Jordan's favorite dish was the chicken teriyaki bowl, and her least favorite was the curry chicken salad summer rolls. Henry's favorite was the Chinese chicken salad, and his least favorite was the brownie. Neither of us plans to hike up to Midtown for more Goop Kitchen. But, if we worked nearby and needed a quick fix, we'd consider it. Read the original article on Business Insider

Taylor Swift has filed a trademark application covering her voice and stage image. It includes a photo of her performing in her distinctive bejewelled Eras Tour bodysuit and two voice recordings: “Hey, it’s Taylor” and “Hey, it’s Taylor Swift.” It’s the latest example of the singer using her status and power to challenge industry norms and assert the rights of artists. In 2014, Swift removed her entire catalogue from Spotify in protest at the low level of artist remuneration generated by the platform (later relenting in 2017). In 2019, she began rerecording her previous albums in protest at the acquisition of her back catalogue by alleged industry foe Scooter Braun’s Ithaca Holdings, giving her back control over masters of her songs. The new “Taylor’s Versions” outperformed the original versions on streaming services. Although the actor Matthew McConaughey beat Swift to the punch by successfully trademarking some of his famous spoken lines of movie dialogue earlier this year, she appears to be the first music artist of note to take the step. The move raises some interesting issues in terms of copyright law and the rights of music artists. ‘Passing off’ and deepfaking In music, both sound recordings and the songs which they embody are protected by copyright law. Much of the income generated by the music industry is based on the commercial exclusivity to exploit these forms of intellectual property (IP), which that law ensures. All of Swift’s vocals are protected from copying in terms of being sampled without permission. But the question of whether or not a vocal being performed (or manufactured in the case of AI) to sound like Swift is a copyright infringement is less clear. In 1988, Bette Midler successfully sued Ford Motor Company for using an impersonator to perform her songs in TV adverts. This case suggests that deliberately copying a singer’s voice, style and tone can amount to passing off. In UK law, passing off is a common law tort involving misrepresentation that causes reputational or financial damage. In the US, similar protection is provided under the Lanham Act, which also guards against misleading imitation. This article is part of our State of the Arts series. These articles tackle the challenges of the arts and heritage industry – and celebrate the wins, too. Swift has also experienced the darker side of deepfakes, including fake pornographic images and AI-generated photos showing her wearing a “Swifties for Trump” T-shirt ahead of the last US presidential election. The US Take It Down Act, covering explicit deepfake content was passed into law in 2025. Similar protection is possible in the UK via the Data (Use and Access) Act 2025. While further legislation is being developed in the US to address AI-generated impersonation more broadly, Swift’s move to trademark both her voice and visual likeness suggests a desire to retain stronger legal control over her identity. This may give her a basis for pursuing civil action under common law or intellectual property rights when objectionable AI-generated content appears. Given her significant wealth and influence, such legal routes may also allow for faster enforcement than relying solely on the criminal justice system. The trademarks registered both by McConaughey and Swift arguably only offer protection for exactly what has been registered on the basis of the scope of a trademark being “what you see is what you get”. However, the fact that many platforms require proof of IP registration before taking down potentially infringing content suggests that having these trademarks in place will act as a powerful deterrent against future fakes at the very least. Training data A more complex issue for Swift and artists in general is the use of their existing works as data by AIs to create new works. For example, I could prompt an AI to write a song for me in the style of Fearless-era Swift but performed by a voice that is a cross between Norah Jones and Diana Krall. It would be very hard to prove that any particular piece of IP had been infringed, as the AI would be synthesising dozens of songs and performances to achieve its creation. However, new content would have been created via the mining of existing IP; a songwriter’s moral right of integrity protects against adaptation of their works without permission, and musicians and songwriters have become increasingly concerned that they are not being recompensed sufficiently, or indeed even consulted about AI using their work. In the UK, the Musicians Union has launched an initiative demanding consent and remuneration for AI training and AI-generated music. The UK government has pulled back from its previous line of allowing an exemption for AI training on copyrighted works in favour of more creator control after strong opposition to this stance from the creative industries. The UK Performing Rights Society, which collects royalties from around the globe for its songwriter and composer members (and their publishing companies) when their work is performed live, broadcast or streamed, has declared that it will not register AI-generated works. However, it will register works which it classes as AI-assisted. This leads to the question of how much human input needs to be evidenced for a piece of music to be copyright-able. In UK copyright law, the Copyright, Design and Patents Act allows for recordings “generated by computer” but a song or composition needs to display originality to acquire the law’s protection – a product of skill, judgement and labour which should arguably involve significant human involvement, but how much? There have been some positive developments for artists’ earnings, with certain AI companies recently reaching settlements with major music rights holders over the use of training data in music generation. However, artists such as Swift may still need stronger protection to prevent the unauthorised use, imitation and commercial exploitation of their distinctive vocal styles. The current regulatory grey areas around AI’s use of IP have been likened to the wild west. With her trademarking initiative, Swift has donned her Stetson, pinned on her five-point star badge and declared herself the new sheriff in town. Justin Morey does not work for, consult, own shares in or receive funding from any company or organisation that would benefit from this article, and has disclosed no relevant affiliations beyond their academic appointment.

Tech execs like Mark Zuckerberg, left, and Sundar Pichai, right, have spoken about their approach to parenting. Anna Moneymaker/Justin Sullivan/Getty Some of the most powerful tech execs have been surprisingly candid about raising their children. Many have shared parenting tidbits — including limits to their own children's screen time. Here's a look at some parenting philosophies of the biggest names in tech. Tech executives are helping build the products, platforms, and companies that will shape life for future generations. So how do the people creating tomorrow's technologies think about raising children for the world those technologies are helping create? We looked through past interviews to find some of the tech leaders' most interesting pointers on parenting and setting kids up for success in today's world. Turns out, even the uber-wealthy leaders have to contend with everyday parenting questions, like whether to limit screen time and how to divvy up chores. Here's what some of the biggest names in tech have said about their approach to raising children. Sam Altman Sam Altman Kevin Dietsch/Getty Images The OpenAI CEO told Jimmy Fallon that ChatGPT has helped him raise his baby. Altman said he "cannot imagine" having figured out how to parent a newborn without the technology. He's asked, for example, why his kid wasn't crawling at a certain age. Altman has also said that his baby "will never be smarter than AI," but will be "more capable." He told the Senate that he doesn't want his kid to form a best-friend-like bond with an AI bot. And when it comes to cribs, Altman has said he has a clear favorite: Cradlewise. It costs nearly $2,000 and gently bounces the baby to head off any fussing. The crib also includes a built-in baby monitor and music features. Altman also said he's learned the importance of having a lot of burp rags. Mark Zuckerberg Mark Zuckerberg is the richest billionaire in California Chris Unger/Getty Images When asked in 2024 what kids should be studying today, Zuckerberg told Bloomberg that "the most important thing is learning how to think critically and learning values when you're young." "This is somewhat of a hiring philosophy that I have, too," he said. "If people have shown that they can go deep and do one thing really well, then they've probably gained experience in the art of learning something and taking it to an excellent level." He also said in a 2024 interview that, when taking his then-seven-year-old daughter to a Taylor Swift concert, he told her that being like the superstar wasn't "available" to her. A therapist in California who has worked with wealthy parents told Business Insider that encouraging her to instead be herself was the right approach. In a 2019 interview on CBS This Morning, the Meta CEO said he and his wife, Priscilla Chan, "don't give them everything." "They have chores, they have responsibilities," Chan added. "We also take them to work. Mark and I take both of them to the office to see what we do, how we contribute." That same year, he told Fox News that he generally doesn't want his kids parked in front of a television or computer "for a long period of time." At the time, he said he let his daughters use video calls to talk with relatives across the country but is stricter about other forms of screen time. Anne Wojcicki TK Cindy Ord/VF24/Getty Images Wojcicki, the cofounder and former CEO of 23andMe, said she tries to keep her children grounded and protected from the "insanity" of being wealthy. In a 2017 interview with The New York Times, Wojcicki said that while she had professional help cleaning the house a few times a week, she had told them to stop doing the laundry on Fridays so that her children could learn the chore. "It's so easy to be like, 'I don't have to do laundry again. I don't have to cook again.' But then you're not normal," she told the Times. "I have a new rule lately. I just don't go out on weekdays. If I'm raising kids, I need to be focused on helping implement that normalcy." Wojcicki also talked at the time about cutting her children's hair herself. Satya Nadella Microsoft Nadella says his own parents "created an environment where they let me set my own pace and pursue what I wanted," and that influenced his approach to raising his own children. "It's important to focus on what [our kids] need to thrive," he previously told Good Housekeeping. The Microsoft CEO and his wife, Anu, also "both think children should have dogs," she told Good Housekeeping. "There is a different sense of companionship and responsibility that comes with it — that emotional sense that there is a being waiting for you to come back," Anu said. Nadella told Good Housekeeping that he gets reports on what their kids do on their computers. The couple limits how many movies and what kinds of video games and websites their kids can view. Nadella has also said that his experience raising a son with cerebral palsy has taught him the importance of empathy, including at work. Sundar Pichai Google CEO Sundar Pichai. Justin Sullivan/Getty Pichai still helps his kids with their homework — with some assistance from Google Lens. "We use Google Lens for homework. I don't want to get him in trouble, but the class allows you to do that," Pichai previously told Bloomberg. "But sometimes he asks me for help on math. Sometimes I'm lazy and I pretend as if I'm thinking, but I'm also using Google Lens to kind of figure out the answer." The Google CEO told The New York Times in 2018 that his son, then 11 years old, didn't have a phone, and that he limited his son's TV use. Bill Gates Bill Gates at the World Economic Forum in Davos. Fabrice Coffrini/Getty Images The Microsoft cofounder has said he parented his kids following a model developed in the 1970s called the "Love and Logic" approach. The philosophy focuses on exercising control when it comes to emotions, such as by minimizing some reactions as a parent, like shouting or reprimanding. Gates said his dad believed in the same philosophy, and that "he was never panicked." Gates, who for many years was the world's richest man, has also said he tried to keep his kids from being spoiled. "We want to strike a balance where they have the freedom to do anything, but not a lot of money showered on them so they could go out and do nothing," he once said. As far as screen time limits go, Gates forbade his kids from using phones at the dinner table, and didn't give them phones until they were 14 years old. In a 2025 episode of the podcast "Raj Shamani's Figuring it Out," Gates said he was giving his children less than 1% of his total wealth, "because I decided it wouldn't be a favor to them." "I want to give them a chance to have their own earnings and success be significant," Gates added. Melinda French Gates Melinda French Gates. Bloomberg/Getty Images The billionaire philanthropist has said one of her guiding ideas as a parent was learning to be "good enough." French Gates, who has three children with Bill Gates, wrote about "the notion of the good enough parent" in an excerpt from her 2025 autobiography published by Time. She said the idea became especially meaningful when her children were 9, 6, and 2, and Warren Buffett's major donation to the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation required her to spend more time away from home. French Gates wrote that she felt guilty about the time she was missing with her children, but the idea helped her let go of the expectation that good parenting required perfection. "And to any other parent who is reading this, know that this is every bit as true for you," she wrote. "When it comes to taking care of your family — some of the most important work you'll do in this world — I hope you'll refuse to let perfectionism rob family life of precious joy." Jeff Bezos Kevin Winter/Getty Bezos took an unusual approach to raising his four kids at times. He said in 2017 that he let his kids use "sharp knives" from the age of 4 and power tools at 7 or 8 years old. The Amazon founder attributed this to his then-wife, MacKenzie Scott, who he said would "much rather have a kid with nine fingers than a resourceless kid." Bezos added that this was "a fantastic attitude about life." Alexis Ohanian Taylor Hill/Getty Images The Reddit cofounder incorporated a fun practice from his upbringing into his approach to parenting. "My favorite parenting tip that I inherited from him was his Sunday tradition of making breakfast for our family," he said in 2020. "I love being able to make pancakes with my family when we're all in the same place on a Sunday, and always do my best to put away outside distractions so we can be together." On a 2025 podcast episode, Ohanian said he "wholeheartedly" wanted his then-seven-year-old daughter to use AI every day. He said he's used the technology to enhance her creativity: he had ChatGPT turn some of his childhood pencil sketches into "full-color illustrations." His daughter, Ohanian said, still draws with old-fashioned markers and paper as well. Ohanian told CNBC in 2018 that he and tennis star Serena Williams want their daughter "to know what it's like to have limits on tech." "My wife and I both want her to be bored," he said. "I do look forward to playing video games with her when she's older, but it's really important that she gets time to just be with her thoughts and be with her blocks and be with her toys, so we'll be regulating it pretty heavily." Evan Spiegel Snap CEO Even Spiegel GONZALO FUENTES/POOL/AFP via Getty Images Snap CEO Evan Spiegel said in 2018 that he and his wife, supermodel Miranda Kerr, limited their then-seven-year-old's screen time to 1.5 hours a week. The rule, he said, was partly influenced by not being allowed to watch television until he was almost a teenager. He said that parents should lead by example and work to limit their own screen time as well. Spiegel told People in 2025 that he's glad his kids are growing up with digital tools, and Kerr said they don't let their 14-year-old have phones or computers in his bedroom past 9:30 pm. Peter Thiel Peter Thiel's influence in Washington stretches far and wide, from politicians, to tech leaders, to his own companies' government contracts. Nordin Catic/Getty Images for The Cambridge Union At the Aspen Ideas Festival in June 2024, Thiel said his children — who were three and a half and five at the time — were allowed to use screens for only about an hour and a half each week. But Thiel also said it was too simplistic to treat tech and social media companies as the source of all modern problems. "It's too easy to turn tech or the social media companies into the scapegoats of all of our problems," he said. Read the original article on Business Insider

As Americans stew over the looming risk of job-stealing AI and data centers in their back yards, the feds are raising the alarm about a new category of threat, documents obtained by WIRED show.

Some kind of healthcare job was the highest-paying occupation in half of the US states, based on our analysis criteria. MoMo Productions/Getty Images Business Insider looked at what jobs pay the best in every state and Washington, DC. We looked at titles with at least 1,000 employees and specific average annual wages. Healthcare gigs dominated; they were the best-paying jobs in half of the US states. Family medicine physician was the best-paying job in seven states last year. Business Insider previously ranked the highest-paying jobs in the US using May 2025 data from the Bureau of Labor Statistics. Now, we wanted to see what pays the best on average by state and in Washington, DC. To do so, we only looked at occupations with both specific employment and average annual wage estimates. We ranked those with at least 1,000 employees to determine the best-paying position for each area. We excluded catchall job titles, such as a grouping for physicians not listed separately. You can hover over the map below to see which job titles paid the most on average based on our criteria, along with the estimated number of employees. Chief executives were the top-paying job in 14 states. The highest-paying job in half of the states was a healthcare-related role. For instance, the highest-paying job in Pennsylvania with at least 1,000 workers was radiologists. Meanwhile, cardiologists were the best-paying role among jobs that fit our criteria in Georgia, New York, and Texas. Some of the jobs on the map above also made our list of high-paying, fast-growing jobs. For instance, financial managers are the best-paying in a handful of states, and employment is projected to grow nationally by 128,800 between 2024 and 2034. Postsecondary health specialties teachers were the highest-paying gig in Arkansas and Mississippi, and nationwide employment is projected to increase by 50,100. However, most healthcare-related jobs that appear on the map aren't projected to see a lot of job growth over the decade at the national level. Still, the healthcare sector has been helping prop up the US job market. The sector accounted for about a third of April's job growth on its own. In 2025, the sector accounted for over 100% of overall job growth; the US economy, excluding healthcare, lost jobs. Nela Richardson, ADP's chief economist, previously told Business Insider that the US is "rapidly turning into not just a service economy, but a healthcare-driven economy." Read the original article on Business Insider

Cherie DeVaux trained Golden Tempo. Reuters Cherie DeVaux trained Golden Tempo, who won the Kentucky Derby. She says being responsible to 120 horses is her life. She doesn't have biological kids, but is an aunt and stepmom. This as-told-to essay is based on a conversation with Cherie DeVaux. It has been edited for length and clarity. I still can't put into words the feeling of winning the Kentucky Derby. "Exciting" doesn't cut it. Everything in my life came down to that moment: it was the culmination of all the hard work, and the things that had gone wrong along the way. It was deep, and I was just overwhelmed with emotion. I was born into horses. My parents did harness racing and I competed in rodeos as a kid. But I knew nothing about thoroughbred racing until I walked onto a racetrack while working my way through college. I got a job as a hot walker (leading horses during cooldown), the most entry level job at the track. I didn't have any goals or aspirations of being a trainer. I thought maybe I could become an exercise rider, but that was a very fun, very short-lived aspect of my career due to a broken leg. I just wanted a job where horses would be part of my life. Now, horses are my life. I think that's a great thing. I always pushed myself — but wasn't sure about starting a business I grew up as a type A person in a family full of type Bs. Back before they were called vision boards, I used to write post-it notes with the time I wanted to achieve in my radio competition. Once, when I was struggling in biology class, my mom told me that no one asked me to get straight A's. I just thought it was preposterous that someone would settle for anything less than pushing themselves. Andy Lyons/Getty Images Still, I had reservations about starting my own horse training business. I had a good job as an assistant trainer at one of the best barns in the world. Training horses was one thing — I knew I could do that — but the other aspects of starting a business felt overwhelming. Getting married and starting a company turned my world upside down Before we got married in 2017, my husband asked me where I saw my life going. He told me that if I wanted to become a trainer, he would support me and we could do it together. That conversation started a big transition period: on Sunday, I quit my job as an assistant, and on Monday, I started Cherie DeVaux Racing. That Friday, I got married and became a stepmother. Cherie DeVaux trained Golden Tempo. Michael Reaves/Getty Images I was a self-sustainable person who needed no one, but suddenly I had a husband and stepchild. I went from a highly structured job to the unpredictability of starting my own business. My life was turned completely upside down. For a person who likes order, it was a lot. It still feels like a lot, honestly, but I've become comfortable with being uncomfortable. I haven't made as much money as people may think If you look me up, you'll see that horses I've trained have won more than $36 million in prize money. But my company only makes a commission on that, and horse training is a business with a lot of overhead. My business has been growing exponentially, so I've been reinvesting almost everything into it. Until last year, my company was the loss-leader in our family, while my husband's business (related to horse breeding) paid the bills. Cherie DeVaux reinvests her winning money into her company. Sarah Anne Cohen/Getty Images I pay myself a salary, and give myself a bonus if we have a significant win. I haven't done that for the Derby yet. In part that's because I'm still waiting on the money to come through, and in part because the buzz after winning has been wonderful, but exhausting. I'm ready to embrace the platform that the Derby win gave me I've never wanted kids of my own — that baby I was holding at the race is my nephew. I just want to be the cool aunt who spoils her nieces and nephews. Cherie DeVaux never wanted to become a mom. The child in her arms is her nephew. Andy Lyons/Getty Images In reality, being a trainer is my whole identity. I'm at the track each morning at 5:30. I can't go on vacations. My husband and I tried last year, and ended up dealing with a horse-related emergency at home while we were in Florida. We're trying to be more intentional about taking time off, but that's hard when you're responsible for 120 horses. I want my legacy to be having a positive impact on the sport. Our industry gets a lot of negativity, and some of it is warranted. But I've seen drastic improvements in safety and aftercare planning for the horses. We've made progress in leaps and bounds, even in the past five years. I never set out to be the first female trainer to win the Kentucky Derby. But it's an honor to be that person. Now that I have this platform, I'm ready to embrace it. Read the original article on Business Insider

About 100,000 international students work in popular US tourist hubs each summer. Karen Warren/Houston Chronicle via Getty Images International students travel to the US each summer to work at seasonal and small businesses. Now, US immigration rules and global dynamics are making it harder for students to obtain visas. Some businesses have noticed a decrease in candidates this summer. Armed with fuzzy towels and gobs of sunscreen, Americans flocked to pools and beaches on Memorial Day to kick off the unofficial start of summer. However, there may be fewer lifeguards perched atop their towers this year as the US tightens its immigration process and bilateral relations shift. "Our number of BridgeUSA lifeguards is down this year," Mike Collins, director of International Aquatics at Continental Pools, told Business Insider. "Specifically, many students from Turkey could not participate because they were unable to secure embassy appointments." He added, "This is disappointing for us given our long history with Turkish participants, and for the students who remained highly interested in the program but lacked the opportunity to attend." BridgeUSA invites full-time university students from around the world to temporarily work in the US through its Summer Work Travel Program. The program, operated by the Department of State, draws about 100,000 international students each summer. To qualify, students must obtain a J-1 visa for work-and-study exchange visitors. These students make up a vital part of the country's workforce, often landing in popular tourist hubs, like Ocean City, Cape Cod, the Florida Panhandle, and the Texas coast during the peak summer season. They typically take on a wide spectrum of hospitality and tourism jobs, including theme park attendants, hotel staff, restaurant servers, retail employees, and more. Continental Pools, which handles pool management and other related services in parts of the Northeast, has hired through BridgeUSA since 1999. This summer, they will employ over 500 students. "We started hiring through this program to help meet our seasonal staffing needs for outdoor swimming pools in the summer," Collins said. "While we prioritize hiring as many local lifeguards as possible, our primary domestic candidate pool of high school and college students often cannot work an entire pool season from Memorial Day weekend through Labor Day due to their school schedules." Without BridgeUSA lifeguards, Continental Pools wouldn't be able to fully staff their pools for the entire summer. "This would lead to delayed pool openings or early closings, negatively impacting our customers, their residents, and our overall business," he said. At the moment, that's a reality many small or seasonal companies are facing. Shifting global dynamics President Donald Trump has imposed visa suspensions on multiple countries, maintaining his strict stance on immigration. The Trump administration has also added new stipulations for those seeking H-1B and student visas, and has paused the green card lottery. The US has also tightened its screening process, which can include online presence reviews. Although the J-1 is a non-immigrant visa, United Work & Travel President Kasey Simon said those applicants could also encounter issues. Like Collins, Simon said United Work & Travel, a designated sponsor of the Summer Work Travel program, has also noticed a dip in applicants this year. "We're seeing the same number of businesses participate. However, the requested number of supplemental participants might be slightly less," Simon said. "5% to 10% less overall." Simon said some students may face delays at their local US embassies. Uncertainty around America's immigration policies could also affect some students' decision to apply. "There are also certain countries, depending on their relationship with the United States, that may not open appointments or be willing or able to issue as many visas as they once had," Simon said. "For example, Russia used to be very popular on this program. It's not as popular as it used to be. Pre- COVID, China was extremely popular, and now it's just gaining back its popularity." While some applicants may be unable to travel due to major events, others may bypass the US in favor of other economies. "If our economy is not as strong or powerful as it once was, it may impact an individual's willingness to participate," Simon said. The additional hurdles can be difficult for both applicants and US businesses prepping for the summer. "Each year, we also face uncertainty regarding how many of our participants will be approved or denied a visa, or even the availability of visa interview appointments at the embassy in their country," Collins said. "This makes finalizing housing and work schedules challenging until just before summer. Lifeguards deal in public safety, making Continental Pool's workforce even more specialized. "Hiring for positions that require successful completion of lifeguard training is naturally more difficult than hiring for a job at the mall, in a restaurant, or at a hotel. This is true both locally and globally," Collins said. Even so, Collins believes the program is necessary, and the benefits go beyond staff numbers. "Beyond filling seasonal gaps, we value the opportunity to host students from around the world. Learning about different countries and cultures and sharing that diversity with our customers is a rewarding experience," Collins said. "I love hearing from customers and former participants who remain in contact long after the season ends." Simon said, "There are significant challenges, but year after year, the program has proven its value." Read the original article on Business Insider

Kendall McGill Kendall McGill landed a project management role by presenting a slideshow during her interview. Her 5-minute presentation highlights her previous jobs in the STAR format. McGill says it shows her confidence, presentation skills, and preparedness. This as-told-to essay is based on a conversation with Kendall McGill, a 32-year-old project manager based in Baltimore. It's been edited for length and clarity. I'd been working as a project manager at a retail pharmacy company for a while, but a few months ago, I started looking for something new. I hated my role, and it felt like it hated me. I started searching internally and externally for a new job, and I ended up landing an internal transfer for a different project manager position. It was a lateral move, but I got a 5% pay increase. I've been using a job interview hack — the same slideshow presentation— since 2018, and I credit it with helping me land this new role and pay raise. It's easy to use and showcases my ability to jump into any role and hit the ground running. I don't worry about personalizing my presentation for each interview I remember someone I went to college with used a presentation in a job interview, so I took that idea from her to land a corporate job in 2018. I wanted that job so badly, and I didn't want to be stumbling over my words, looking silly, so I figured the best way to combat that issue was to be prepared. I also figured nobody else was going into the interview with a slideshow that included a portfolio deck and questions already answered in the STAR format — a framework to answer questions by defining the situation, task, action, and result — so I went for it. I've given a presentation in job interviews ever since then, and I've hardly changed its setup because interviews are the same old song and dance. I use the same presentation for every job interview, and it has helped me land multiple jobs. I've probably applied to hundreds in the last seven years. Here's what I put in my slideshow Toward the beginning of the interview, I ask if I can share my screen and present a quick slideshow. I try to keep the presentation within five or six minutes, and I've never had someone say no. I've also given this presentation in person in paper format once. If I get the sense that their interview process is more strict, I go through the slides as they ask me questions, keeping my shared screen active. If they ask me to tell them about a time I did xyz, I'll go to the slide that best represents the answer. The first slide introduces who I am, thanks them for taking the time to interview me, and shares briefly why I'm a good candidate. The next four slides highlight the last few companies I worked for. I put the logo of the company and a themed title. For example, when I worked at Motorola Solutions, I titled it "high stress, big personalities." In the text, there are three or four bullet points detailing my impact at the company in the STAR format. The final slides include different tools and platforms I'm familiar with, and a 30-60-90 plan to discuss what my goals will be for the beginning of my time at the job. This is to make sure I'm on the same page with them about what success looks like in the role. When I send a thank-you email for the interview, I always include the slides alongside my résumé for their review. My advice for job seekers I've never had someone react negatively to my presentation. I feel like hiring managers appreciate that I'm two steps ahead and confident in my presentation skills. For those reasons, I'd absolutely use the slideshow again. Something I always tell myself is that the only way out is through. I didn't get this job because I presented this to one company, and all of a sudden, they said yes. You've got to show up with your A game at every single interview and keep swinging, because eventually it'll work out. Do you have a story to share about a unique job-finding hack? If so, please reach out to the reporter at tmartinelli@businessinsider.com. Read the original article on Business Insider

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A representation of one version of the new best arrangement of points on a plane with pairs separated by a unit distance. Álvaro Lozano-Robledo Last week, OpenAI shocked the mathematical community by revealing that one of its internal artificial intelligence (AI) models had found a counterexample to a famous conjecture made by legendary Hungarian mathematician Paul Erdős in 1946. The planar unit distance problem, or Erdős problem 90, has intrigued mathematicians for decades. The new result is no mere curiosity. Canadian mathematician Daniel Litt described it as “the first result produced autonomously by an AI that I find interesting in itself”. The breakthrough, produced with a general-purpose AI model rather than one specialised for mathematics, also highlights how AI is changing mathematical research itself. Days after OpenAI’s paper, US mathematician Will Sawin followed the same line of reasoning to an improved result. Also last week, a team from Google DeepMind used one of their own models to resolve nine lesser open problems left by Erdős. At the same time, results like this show us what kind of mathematics current AI models are good at – and where their capabilities are still uncertain. Dots and lines Paul Erdős was one of the most prolific mathematicians of the twentieth century. He was famous for asking deceptively simple questions whose solutions often resisted decades of effort. At first glance, the underlying problem seems relatively straightforward. Suppose you have some number of points – call the number n – drawn on an infinitely large piece of paper. Given you can arrange the points any way you like, how many pairs of points can be positioned exactly one unit of distance away from each other? If you try this problem yourself (on a presumably finite piece of paper), you may quickly gravitate towards a square grid as a promising candidate for the best arrangement. The spacing of the grid naturally creates many pairs at a regular distance apart. A square grid intuitively looks like a good solution to the planar unit distance problem. OpenAI This intuition influenced much of the early thinking about the problem. As the number of points grows, grid-like arrangements continue to appear to be remarkably effective. For decades it was widely believed these highly regular structures were about as good as it gets. Erdős himself conjectured that no construction could improve substantially on these intuitive arrangements, even for an extremely large number of points. (The new best result, by Sawin, reportedly only starts to yield improvements for around 102000000 points – that’s a one followed by two million zeroes.) Over the past 80 years, mathematicians have tried to prove Erdős either right or wrong. Their efforts have linked the problem to other areas of mathematics called incidence geometry, graph theory and extremal combinatorics. While a full proof remained elusive, there was a general feeling that Erdős’ conjecture was probably true. However, OpenAI’s recent breakthrough proved Erdős’ intuition wrong. The new result uses tools from an area of mathematics called algebraic number theory to show there are patterns of dots that involve many more unit-distance pairs than the square grid, for infinitely many values of n. No hesitation In an article OpenAI published alongside the new paper, several leading mathematicians remarked on the result. Fields Medallist Timothy Gowers wrote that if a human researcher had submitted the paper with this result to the prestigious journal Annals of Mathematics, he would have recommended publication “without any hesitation”. He also added that no previous AI-generated proof had come close to this level of sophistication. This breakthrough also represents the first major mathematical open problem solved with AI with minimal human intervention beyond the initial prompt. The accompanying paper shows the prompt given to the model, as well as a recount of the “chain of thought” conducted by the model. This has renewed broader questions about the capabilities of AI to aid in, and perform, mathematical research. Three keys to mathematical research Research mathematicians have been using computers for a long time, but their work is rarely driven by computation alone. Most major breakthroughs emerge from a delicate combination of three things: expertise developed over years, sustained effort to apply that expertise creatively to explore ideas (many of which turn out to be dead ends), and occasional conceptual leaps that suddenly reorganise how a problem is understood. The first two are domains where AI models excel: as noted by Gowers, large language models such as ChatGPT have an “encyclopaedic knowledge of mathematics”. Moreover, they can follow huge numbers of speculative lines of enquiry, even those unlikely to lead anywhere, without human time constraints. The latter seems to be what provided the key to success here. In hindsight, it seems an expert given a small number of hints would be likely to be able to reach the same proof. As Gowers notes: Many of the ideas needed for the proof were present in the literature already, and for such ideas either no hint is needed, since the expert is aware of that piece of literature, or a highly generic “look it up” hint would be enough. Lightbulb moments The harder question is how much AI can contribute to genuine conceptual leaps. These acute moments of insight, where a lightbulb moment reframes a problem in an entirely new way, are often seen as the most human part of mathematics. These leaps are hard to formalise and even harder to predict. It remains unclear whether AI models can replicate them, even with recent advances. What is clear is that AI models are causing a seismic shift in the way mathematics is discovered. For centuries, progress in mathematics depended almost entirely on human creativity and persistence. Now, for the first time, researchers are working alongside systems capable of autonomously exploring enormous spaces of ideas and contributing to problems once thought accessible only to human insight. Melissa Lee receives funding from the Australian Research Council.

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arXiv:2605.24001v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Recent advances in one-step text-to-image generation have enabled real-time synthesis with remarkable efficiency and quality. Previous reinforcement learning methods for one-step generators combine image-space reward optimization with diffusion noisy-space distribution matching. This paradigm brings challenges due to a mismatch between terminal reward optimization and the underlying generative dynamics. As a result, optimization tends to exploit stochastic degrees of freedom, often improving reward at the expense of image fidelity. To address this issue, we propose Diff-Instruct with Diffused Reward (DIDR), a data-free trajectory-level alignment framework derived from Integral KL minimization. DIDR propagates the RLHF-optimal reward-tilted clean-image distribution across all noise levels along the diffusion trajectory. We show that this objective admits the same minimizer as clean-image RLHF, while naturally inducing the Diffused Reward Score (DRS), which acts as a reward-driven correction to the reference score function. To make this practical, we further introduce the Diffused Reward Proxy (DRP), an efficient estimator of DRS based on differentiable short-step denoising. Extensive experiments demonstrate that DIDR consistently Pareto-dominates existing one-step SDXL baselines. Moreover, when transferred to a 6B DiT backbone (Z-Image), DIDR surpasses its 50-step teacher in preference alignment while requiring only a single generation step.