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Latrobe Airport outside Pittsburgh was left without air service after Spirit's collapse. Justin Merriman/For The Washington Post via Getty Images Data shows 17 nonstop flight routes lost all service after Spirit folded. One tiny airport outside Pittsburgh was completely abandoned. Roughly half of the now-empty routes Spirit left behind will be replaced by other budget airlines. Spirit Airlines' collapse left travelers without nonstop options on more than a dozen routes across the US and Latin America, but competitors are already moving to fill much of the gap. The now-defunct budget airline abruptly ceased flying in the early hours of May 2 after years of unrecoverable losses driven by rising labor and changing traveler habits, and then the recent surge in fuel prices. While Spirit held only about 1.7% of the US market share when it fell, per Cirium, its absence still matters. A Business Insider analysis using data from Cirium and Raymond James found that 17 routes and one airport were abandoned after Spirit's shutdown. Among the hardest hit were Atlantic City International Airport in New Jersey and Arnold Palmer Regional Airport in Latrobe, Pennsylvania, about 30 miles outside Pittsburgh. Data from the aviation analytics company Cirium shows Atlantic City lost roughly half its flights, with budget carriers Breeze and Allegiant still flying to the airport; the Pennsylvania airport lost all its airline service. In places like Atlantic City, where Spirit pressured fares, airlines facing less competition now will likely raise ticket prices. "The number of routes with only one competitor have stepped up from eight to 63 (2% to 19% of total) while those with four or more stepped down from 203 to 52 (60% to 15% of total)," RJ analyst Savanthi Syth said in a note shared with Business Insider about the impact of Spirit's now-empty network. Here's the list of now-empty routes. Eight are expected to regain nonstop service this year. From Atlantic City: West Palm Beach Orlando (MCO) Myrtle Beach Fort Myers From Fort Lauderdale: Armenia, Colombia Barranquilla, Colombia Belize City Cali, Colombia Key West Lima, Peru San Antonio St. Thomas St. Croix Comayagua, Honduras From Latrobe: Myrtle Beach Orlando (MCO) From Orlando: Medellín, Colombia The tiny Labrobe airport was exclusively served by Spirit for 15 years and was even building a second gate to support growth before it was left vacant. Cirium shows the last time the airport had no airline service was in early 2011. Employees at Latrobe airport pack up after Spirit ceased operations. Justin Merriman/For The Washington Post via Getty Images Many abandoned Spirit routes will be rescued Roughly half of Spirit's abandoned routes will not remain empty for long, as airlines including Breeze, Allegiant, and JetBlue move in. Carriers like United, Frontier, Delta, and American have also added flights in response to Spirit's demise, but they are not replacements. Atlantic City will see relief starting May 21, when Allegiant — a lesser-known budget leisure carrier headquartered in Las Vegas — starts its new nonstop route to Myrtle Beach. The route was planned before Spirit shut down. Breeze, a newer low-cost carrier focused on niche point-to-point flying, will also begin serving the beach town from Atlantic City in October, announcing its plans in the wake of Spirit's collapse. It's also taking over Spirit's former routes from the resort city to Orlando, West Palm Beach, and Fort Myers this year. Allegiant already travels to Orlando from Atlantic City, but not to the main Orlando International Airport (MCO), where Spirit flew. It flies instead to Orlando Sanford International Airport (SFB), the city's secondary airport, but it's farther from downtown and attractions like Walt Disney World. While Raymond James considers routes to nearby competing airports as still served, Business Insider counted them separately because airport swaps can affect traveler convenience. Fort Lauderdale — once Spirit's biggest Florida hub — will see a surge of replacement flying from JetBlue. The airline announced its addition of 11 new routes from the city, including service to Cali and Barranquilla, two destinations left abandoned by Spirit. However, Spirit's former nonstop flights from Fort Lauderdale to St. Thomas; St. Croix; Comayagua, Honduras; Key West; Belize; Lima; and Armenia will remain vacant for now. Southwest will run a handful of flights to San Antonio in late 2026, but the route will otherwise be empty. Travelers can still reach those cities nonstop from nearby Miami — about 26 miles from Fort Lauderdale — via American Airlines, Chile's LATAM Airlines, and the South American budget carrier SKY Airline. Meanwhile, Orlando's Medellín service is set to return, though not as a direct replacement for Spirit. Colombian carrier Avianca is resuming its previously planned seasonal summer flights in June, becoming the route's only airline. With only one carrier now on dozens of more routes, fares are likely to rise soon. A Business Insider study in April, using Cirium data, found that routes where Spirit exited saw an average ticket price jump of 14%. Some rose by over $100. "When any airline leaves a market, it results in a drop in the supply of seats," Mike Arnot, an airline industry consultant, previously told Business Insider. "That generally means that airfare will increase, and it doesn't much matter which airline departs a market." Read the original article on Business Insider

LinkedIn Illustration by Klaudia Radecka/NurPhoto via Getty Images LinkedIn is laying off employees and "scaling back" some investments. As part of the layoffs, the company is making changes to its product operations, according to a memo. The changes are aimed at creating more focused teams and leveraging AI. LinkedIn's layoffs are coming with changes to some of the company's operations, according to an internal memo from its chief product officer. LinkedIn on Wednesday announced in an internal memo from CEO Daniel Shapero that it would lay off employees and scale back some investments. A separate email from Hari Srinivasan, who became "chief product officer of the LinkedIn Ecosystem" in March, outlines three shifts the company is planning amid the changes. "Our fastest moving teams are focused, have fewer layers, and leverage AI to move quickly," Srinivasan wrote. "The changes we're making across our Product orgs are based on creating more agile teams in this model." LinkedIn's parent company, Microsoft, has similarly been making changes to remove management layers and create more focused teams. Microsoft CFO Amy Hood recently sent an internal memo to employees highlighting "increased pace" and "tighter, more accountable squads." As part of its plan to get teams to move faster, LinkedIn is also changing how design and research support work, according to the memo. The company is centralizing its user experience design resources so product teams can handle routine work and expert researchers can focus on more complex tasks. LinkedIn also plans to change how it produces learning content on the site. The company says it is switching from producing large-scale original content in-house to a model in which instructors can produce and monetize their teaching directly on LinkedIn. Last year, LinkedIn started allowing creators to monetize their content on the network through video, but this appears to be expanding revenue opportunities for instructors. The current model "is no longer the best model to keep up with what learners want or the more cost effective way to create all our content" and the new model will allow "instructors [to] build a voice on LinkedIn, across multiple tools, and license and monetize their teachings directly on LinkedIn," Srinivasan wrote. The change will allow the in-house team to focus on "high-impact, differentiated learning experiences that are best built internally" and rely on content-creating instructors to keep LinkedIn fresh with timely content. "As part of our regular business planning, we've implemented organizational changes to best position ourselves for future success," a LinkedIn spokesperson told Business Insider. Read the memo: "Team, As you saw in Dan's note, we're making changes across Linkedin to simplify how work gets done and focus product investments. This includes the difficult decision to reduce some of Product. I wanted to follow up with why we are doing it, where we will work differently, and what comes next. Why we are making changes Linkedin is an incredible platform. Our mission to help people connect to opportunity has never been more relevant. Our engaged community, unique data and diversified business me also position us well in a changing world of Al & technology. At the same time, two shifts are changing how we need to operate. First, we now have tools that let us ship faster - and we need to ensure we have an organizational structure that allow harness them. Second, our infrastructure costs will grow as we deliver more intelligent products - requiring hard prioritization and tradeoffs. Where we work differently These shifts require changes to what & how we build for our members and customers. So we're evolving our operating model in the following ways: Across our Product orgs: Our fastest moving teams are focused, have fewer layers, and leverage AI to move quickly. The changes we're making across our Product orgs are based on creating more agile teams in this model. Architecture: As teams build faster, insights need to scale across the product ecosystem quicker. To support this, we're evolving our operating model across Content Design and User Research from embedded teams to a shared service; teams can utilize off the shelf UX resources themselves, while expert researchers focus on our most complex work. Content: Our current learning content model is built around large-scale original production, but that is no longer the best model to keep up with what learners want or the more cost effective way to create all our content. We are shifting to a new model where instructors can build a voice on Linkedin, across multiple tools, and license and monetize their teachings directly on Linkedin. This allows us to give learners what they want — timely content across multiple formats — and focus our in house content creation on high-impact, differentiated learning experiences that are best built internally. As part of this change, and to align our workplace footprint to our business needs, we will be closing our physical office in Graz, Austria. What comes next Those directly impacted, or proposed to be impacted in EMEA & APAC consultative countries, will receive a calendar invitation within the next hour titled "Attendance Required: Product Organizational Updates," with meetings starting today, May 13 for EMEA and NAMER, followed by APAC on Thursday, May 14 local time. If you do not receive this exact invitation, your role is not impacted or proposed to be impacted. To those who are leaving, thank you. Your hard work and dedication got us to where we are; a billion people have gotten jobs, learned skills, stayed informed and more because of your contributions. I'm thankful for everything you have given us, and we are committed to supporting you through this transition. Moments like this are very difficult — but they also remind us why our mission to connect people to economic opportunity matters. Please take the time you need to process this and support one another... and thank you for your continued focus, care, and commitment to building products that matter. Hari BCC: Product All: Product Functional Partners; Eng LT; GBO LT, Marketing LT" Have a tip? Contact Ashley Stewart via email at astewart@businessinsider.com or Signal at +1-425-344-8242. Contact Alex Bitter at abitter@businessinsider.com or via encrypted messaging app Signal at 808-854-4501. Use a personal email address and a nonwork device; here's our guide to sharing information securely. Read the original article on Business Insider

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Instagram has a new app and feature called Instants. Instagram Instagram is rolling out a new feature and app called "Instants." A hodgepodge of apps like Snapchat, Locket, and BeReal, the app is meant to be "low-pressure." Meta had been testing Instants for a bit and released the feature — and app — in Europe last month. Meta is welcoming a new app to the family. Instagram globally launched a new feature called "Instants" on Wednesday. You can find it by going to the direct messaging tab on the main Instagram app. It's also rolling out a stand-alone app for the product in select countries, including the US. Instants lets users share disappearing photos with their friends. These photos last 24 hours, can't be viewed more than once, and you can't see who viewed them. You also can't screenshot them. The app's slogan, per the current app listing: "Real life, real quick." It's basically a Frankenstein of social apps like Locket, BeReal, and, of course, Snapchat. Users can take photos with the Instants camera and add text, but cannot edit the content further. They can then share that content with a limited audience, specifically mutual followers and close friends. Instants can be found in the Instagram DM page. Screenshot/Instagram Those friends can then react with emojis or reply in a DM. It's intended to give Instagram users "a more casual, low-pressure way to connect with friends," a Meta spokesperson said. The Instants app also lets users add a widget to their homescreen, which has been a hit among younger users for newer social apps like Airbuds and Locket. Expanding Meta's portfolio of social apps has become commonplace for the tech giant. Instagram has Threads and Edits under its umbrella, and Meta also has the AI-focused Meta AI app. In April, Meta began rolling out the stand-alone Instants app in Italy and Spain. Have a tip? Contact this reporter via email at sbradley@businessinsider.com or Signal at sydneykbradley.123. Use a personal email address, a nonwork WiFi network, and a nonwork device; here's our guide to sharing information securely. Read the original article on Business Insider

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Joshua Achiam, OpenAI's chief futurist, testified in the Musk v. Altman trial. Bloomberg/Getty Images OpenAI exec Joshua Achiam testified about a "tense exchange" he had with Elon Musk in 2018. Musk, Achiam told the jury in the Musk v. Altman trial, called him a "jackass." The two clashed over AI safety, and Achiam's colleagues later gifted him a gold "jackass" trophy. An OpenAI executive told a federal jury Wednesday how Elon Musk once called him a "jackass" during a heated clash over AI safety. Joshua Achiam, OpenAI's chief futurist, recalled the "pretty tense exchange" during testimony in the California civil trial between Musk and OpenAI CEO Sam Altman. "He snapped and called me a jackass," Achiam testified. Achiam said that around 50 to 60 employees had gathered during a February 2018 company all-hands meeting for a question-and-answer session ahead of Musk's planned departure from the startup he cofounded with Altman. According to Achiam, then a research scientist at OpenAI, Musk said he was leaving because Tesla, Musk's electric car company, would soon compete with OpenAI for elite AI talent, creating a "conflict of interest." "He also indicated a general lack of confidence in OpenAI's overall path," Achiam said, adding that Musk "wanted to go and do his own thing and sort of pursue AGI in his own way." "It sounded like he wanted to race towards AGI, like he wanted to build it very fast, because he was very worried that someone else, if they got it, would do the wrong thing with it," Achiam said. Achiam said he and a few others were concerned that racing toward AGI was a "fairly unsafe proposition," telling the jury that Musk was proposing something that seemed "reckless." "We didn't know whether a science fiction super intelligence bootstrapping event where you set the thing running one night, and you come back the next morning, and it's so unbelievably smart it can crack encryption and take over the world was a science fiction scenario or not?" he said. Musk has accused Altman and OpenAI of stealing the "charity" they cofounded together in 2015 through its shift to a for-profit structure, while Altman has argued that Musk's lawsuit was driven by a desire to take down an AI competitor. The testimony from Achiman, called to the stand by Altman and OpenAI's lawyers, appeared aimed at undercutting Musk's portrayal of himself as focused on AI safety concerns. When an OpenAI lawyer asked whether Musk may have been trying to push him out of his "comfort zone" by calling him a jackass — as Musk has alluded to in his own previous testimony in the case — Achiam said no. "I don't think that was why he called me that. I think he was just upset that he had been challenged," Achiam said. After the meeting, Achiam told the jury that a few colleagues expressed their gratitude to him. At the next company all-hands, he was presented with a trophy "to commemorate the exchange, and in thanks for having stood up to Elon." The trophy, Achiam said, was a gold statue depicting a "jackass" with an inscription: "Never stop being a jackass for safety." Read the original article on Business Insider

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