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The All England Lawn Tennis Club is adding new AI-powered features to Wimbledon’s digital platforms through its ongoing work with IBM. The updates will be available through the Wimbledon app and wimbledon.com as first-round matches begin on Monday. They include an upgraded Match Chat assistant and a new feature called Key Moments. The features will […] The post Wimbledon adds IBM AI tools for live match coverage appeared first on AI News.

AELTC/Charlie Raymond Kent This as-told-to essay is based on an in-person interview with Neil Stubley, head of courts and horticulture at the All England Lawn Tennis Club, home of the Wimbledon tennis championships. The following has been edited for length and clarity. I've been head of courts and horticulture at the All England Lawn Tennis Club for almost 10 years, and 2026 marks my 31st Wimbledon Championships. I started as a groundsman and worked my way up. My job is to maintain the grass courts year-round so they're ready for the two-week tournament. Like the players, we need the grass in perfect condition from day one. The challenge is that we're managing a living surface that changes with the environment. Most people think our busiest time is just before Wimbledon starts in June, but it's actually August and September. This is when we start preparing the courts for the following year. If we cut corners then, we'll pay for it the following year. Even when the forecast looks good for the tournament, I still get a knot in my stomach. It doesn't go away until the referee says, "Ladies and gentlemen, this concludes the Championships." Until then, I'm waiting for something to go wrong. Business Insider's Power Hours series gives readers an inside look at how powerful leaders in business structure their workday. Reach out to editor Lauryn Haas to share your daily routine. My day begins at 5 a.m. During a typical day during the Championships, I'm up at 5 a.m, take my dog for a 45-minute walk, and go through my morning priorities in my head. I take a look at the weather forecast as I'm walking, consider what the potential risks are for that day, and have a mental debrief about how the day before went. I arrive at work at about 6:30 a.m., sit with the senior courts and grounds team, and go through the same things that were on my mind during the dog walk. Risks range from court covers not being inflated to activist groups disrupting the games, or even foxes peeing on the fields. If there's an overnight crisis, the 6-person night team will phone me at any time. Their job is to walk the grounds overnight and ensure the covers are inflated. My first move is to liaise with them in the mornings. All the court covers come off at 7:30 am, and the grounds team will be either mowing or marking the courts. The team and I walk around all the courts and touch base with the referee's office to see whether there have been any reports of player racket damage on the courts. If so, we'll go and assess them. Neil Stubley said he enjoys patting and touching the grass. AELTC/Bob Martin A team from the Sports Turf Research Institute (STRI) arrives on-site at 7.30 a.m. each morning to check the grass. They'll take a bunch of readings from each court, from surface hardness to soil moisture, and drop a tennis ball on the same spots on the courts each day to measure the bounce and check its consistent. The tennis begins at 11 a.m. The tennis kicks off at 11 a.m. We receive the STRI's data and use it to help us manage the courts. Like any high-performing athlete who is always number-crunching, we do exactly the same in turf management. It's very analytical. We ensure the data is also available to the tennis players, so if one of them says that a court they played on felt slower, we have the data to prove how the courts are actually performing rather than relying on a subjective view. When the tennis is on, we're on standby in case any issues arise on the courts. We've got every single weather app you could think of, plus a few that most people have probably never seen. We also liaise with Météo-France, France's weather agency, which operates a satellite system covering the championships. The system helps track the weather coming through, which guides us on how much water we will apply to the match courts in the evening to keep the courts in performance condition. My evening routine Every evening, we vacuum and typically water all 18 match courts using an automated irrigation system. If it's been a hot day and rain is forecast for the following day, we can't water the court because we need to guarantee it's dry for the following morning. Sometimes we're up against it, and even if we want to water, we can't, because the weather doesn't allow it. A groundskeeper mows the turf at Centre Court a few weeks before the 2026 Championships. AELTC/Charlie Raymond Kent We have a plan A, and we hope that we stick to the plan A, but there's always plans B, C, D, and F. Our no. 1 target is consistency. It doesn't matter whether the players like the courts or not — they've all got to be the same. We sometimes finish up at 11 p.m. The biggest matches at Wimbledon are played on Centre Court and No. 1 Court, and they can run until 11 p.m. In the worst-case scenario, I'm finishing my prep work for the next day by about midnight. I always say it feels a bit like going home after a concert. There's a ringing in my ear; I'm wired; I'm awake; I can't just go straight to bed. It might take me til 1 a.m. for me to go to bed — after a cup of tea or a glass of wine, depending on how the day's gone. 
 Then I'm up at 5 a.m again the next day. I hit the alarm buzzer, and Groundhog Day starts again. And that's the routine until the end of the tournament. When it's over, I get a kind of jet lag feeling for about a week. I feel tired all the time and don't know why — it's probably just the adrenaline. Maintaining the courts is a year-round job. AELTC/Charlie Raymond Kent The knot in my stomach becomes my friend I get my own seat in Centre Court, but I never sit in it. It's too stressful. In 2013, my first year in charge of the whole operation, Andy Murray was playing Novak Djokovic in a tense men's singles final. People ask me what it was like when Murray won, but I always tell them I wasn't even looking. I was watching his feet because it was such a hot day; the grass had worn away, and it was getting dustier. I was worried the court was becoming slippery. Then the crowd erupted, I looked up, and he'd won. That's the job — while everyone else is watching history, I'm worrying about the turf. I've learned that the knot in my stomach that arrives at the start of the tournament is actually my friend. If I've got that, I know it means I'm not complacent. Even when I'm waking up in the middle of the night and worrying about things that might go wrong, at least I'm thinking about them. At the end of the day, if the team and I can look ourselves in the mirror and say we did our very best, that's enough. If the club gets rid of me, it won't be because we cut corners. Read the original article on Business Insider

Francesca Jones said a candidate left an impression by sneaking into a career fair for a university he didn't attend. Bloomberg/Getty Images An early-career talent leader recalls a candidate who stood out by sneaking into a college career fair. EY's Francesca Jones said the move was savvy and showed eagerness to connect with the company. She said curiosity is a top priority for hiring in the AI era. You might think your parents' advice to walk up to a hiring manager with a paper résumé is outdated, but in today's job market, that kind of old-school gesture may set you apart. As employers increasingly look for candidates to show their work, putting yourself — physically — in front of a hiring manager can pay off. Francesca Jones is EY's US early careers leader. EY Francesca Jones, EY US early careers leader, recalled a recent candidate — who is expected to be an intern in 2027 — who made his mark by doing just that. She said he managed to sneak into a career fair at a large university that he didn't attend. EY also recruits at his college, she said, but he showed up anyway to broaden his network and to meet an EY partner he knew would be present. "He went all in on making sure that he was getting that air time," Jones said. She said the move was smart, savvy, and demonstrated eagerness and dedication. It also showed curiosity, which has become a top priority for the firm in hiring in the AI era. The talent leader said the world is in a period of transformation as AI is changing how work gets done, both at the firm and more broadly. That means candidates need to demonstrate an exploratory mindset and agility, she said. "There is no guidebook for that, and if we're not able to show the curiosity, we're not going to be able to unlock what's on the other side," Jones said. Jones said that once the candidate introduced himself to EY and reached the interview stage, he also proved to be a "huge dot connector," which is another quality the firm is seeking. Candidates who can reference something an employer shared in a previous conversation or incorporate insights from their own research are the ones who stand out, she said. Jones said that during the interview process, the candidate raised points from previous interactions and built on the networking and skills he had developed in college. "By the time he got to the interview, his comfortability was so strong and so high," Jones said. Jones, who didn't meet the candidate at the career fair, said that when he introduced himself to her a few months ago, she already knew his name, where he went to school, and the story of how he got an internship offer. "That is the impression that he was able to leave," Jones said. Jones' story underscores the importance of networking in landing a job in today's job market. While written reach-outs can also be important for candidates, she said interviews are ultimately where candidates distinguish themselves. So if there's an opportunity to get in front of an employer in-person before you apply to a role, it might be worth the effort. Read the original article on Business Insider

OpenAI's head of Codex sees room for improvement in AI design. Samuel Boivin/NurPhoto via Getty Images AI famously still struggles with creative design. OpenAI's Andrew Ambrosino says design is harder to get right than code due to its subjective nature. "What's good design and what's bad design is just a little bit more tedious," he said. AI is still learning. The technology is revolutionizing all kinds of industries, but there are some things it still can't quite get right, and, by most accounts, design is one of them. The gap is not just technical. It has to do with taste, and the judgment required to know when something actually works. OpenAI's head of Codex, Andrew Ambrosino, put it simply: Design is harder to measure than code. "I think design's a little bit harder to grade than software," Ambrosino said on a recent episode of "Lenny's Podcast." "In that, creating a loop where you can train the model on what's good design and what's bad design is just a little bit more tedious and onerous than, you know, does the code compile?" Anyone working in a creative field is likely worried about the impact AI will have on their careers. So far, it seems to serve as a useful tool that speeds up some processes, but it rarely produces a polished finished product on its own. Dylan Field, the CEO of Figma, a digital design company that has taken on design behemoths like Adobe, has long argued that AI won't replace human designers. AI models are trained on the "distribution of data" and typically create designs that people recognize as "average," he said on a recent episode of "Hard Fork." The good news is that means creative jobs are safer for now. AI just means creatives have to learn new skills, like prompting or vibecoding. As the Grammy-nominated musician Bas put it at a conference at Harvard in 2024: "At the end of the day, there's going to be a certain level of human taste that's still required to prompt the AI to create something that we'll all enjoy," he said. "Let's give it up for the human brain for now," Ambrosino said. Read the original article on Business Insider

Courtesy of Carlos Santana Roldán; BI Carlos Santana Roldán is a 38-year-old software engineer living in California. Business Insider has verified his income and employment history with documentation. The following as-told-to essay has been edited for length and clarity. I think my current software engineer job will probably be my last job as an employee. I'm tired and my eyes are burning all the time; I've been doing this for almost 20 years. I've had a cabin business in Mexico for about five years, and maybe after three or four more years, once I build one more cabin, I'll retire from coding. I'll be able to be financially free and have enough money to just enjoy time with my family for the rest of my life. I started my software engineering career working for around five years in Mexico for a few different companies that contracted for companies in the US. I made around the equivalent of around $800 to $1,500 a month. Here's my salary journey since moving to the US. Senior software developer, $90,000 In October 2013, I moved to the US as a contractor with Globant on a TN visa, and I started working for Disney in Seattle. My initial salary was $90,000 per year. It was a big jump, and it helped me to pay off my car in Mexico and my wedding expenses when I got married about a year later. It was good money, and Washington doesn't have state income taxes. I moved to California in 2015. I was still working with Disney and making the same amount, but my monthly paycheck was less because of the state taxes. Salary Journeys is Business Insider's first-person series following real people and their real paychecks — how they built their income, what it means for their lives, and what they learned along the way. If you're willing to share how your salary has changed over time, please fill out this Google Form. Senior web developer, $120,000 In 2016, I moved from Disney to Beachbody, the company that developed fitness programs like P90X and Insanity. There, I was paid around $120,000 a year, which was a good bump. While there, I learned the coding framework React, which was more trending and paid more than other coding frameworks I'd worked with. Since then, I've written five books about React, and I earn small royalties on those books. Technical lead, $127,000 In 2017, I landed a job with Globant again, as a tech lead at Disney within ABC News. I was paid $127,000 a year, a small jump, but I was motivated by the fact that the position was as a tech lead and not a regular developer. The following year, I lost my job only a couple of weeks before my visa expired. Normally, on the TN visa, you have a 60-day grace period to get a new job after being laid off, but because of my visa expiration, I had to return to Mexico. I applied for jobs directly from Mexico, but most companies wanted to do in-person interviews. Technical lead, $145,000 I got a job with a startup that was acquired by MindBody. They gave me $10,000 to relocate to San Francisco, and the salary was around $145,000. Meanwhile, my wife had been working, but when we moved to San Francisco, she lost her job. She couldn't find any jobs in San Francisco, so I suggested she try LA. I figured that if she found a job in LA, it'd be easier for me to move in there a few months later. She did, and we lived separately for eight months. Every weekend, I traveled to LA or she traveled to San Francisco, while I looked into moving. In San Francisco, you make more money, but you also spend more. Rent and food costs are way higher, and transportation is very challenging, especially if you need to take the train into the city. Still, living there is a good experience that I recommend everyone try. Senior software engineer, $140,000 In 2020, I took a week of vacation and went to LA to start looking for a new job, right before the pandemic hit. I got an offer from Snap. I originally applied for a manager position, but they really liked me as a developer. The manager position would've paid higher — I think around $185,000 — and the developer position they offered me was $140,000, less than what I was making at MindBody. After eight months of instability, I didn't care. I was looking for any job that would allow me to move to LA to be with my wife. If the job didn't work out, I could jump to another one the next year. The funny thing is that I was so tired of things that I signed the contract without reading it. I thought they offered me the $140,000 salary, and that was it. I didn't realize until later that they also offered me restricted stock units (RSUs). Senior software engineer, $420,000 including stock options I got $225,000 worth of Snap stocks, split across four years, when they were around $12.50 a unit. At that point, I was building my cabins in Mexico for the rental business, so I didn't care about waiting for the stock to grow in value. Every month, when I got stock, I'd sell it and send the money to Mexico to build the cabins. The first year, the stock skyrocketed from $12 to $80, and I used the money to build two cabins in Mexico. In 2021, I made around $420,000 because the stocks skyrocketed. I worked for Snap for around two years and three months. Then, the stocks started going down, dropping to below $30 a unit, and I lost my job a week before my daughter was born. For insurance reasons, we ended up having to delay the birth of our daughter by one day. Thank God everything went well, and there were no major issues, but the job loss felt personal. Principal engineer, $192,000 My next job was at APM Music as a principal engineer, which I got through someone I knew at a previous job. Principal engineer is one of the highest positions you can get as an engineer. I started with making $175,000 a year, plus a 10% annual bonus; in total, it was about $192,000. After two and a half years and some salary bumps, my salary increased to $190,000 base salary plus a 12% annual bonus, totaling around $213,000. I worked there for about three years, but I became too expensive for them to keep once we completed our project and entered into maintenance mode. They were very nice and gave me three months to look for a new job, for which I'm very grateful. I noticed that the "Open to Work" badge on LinkedIn seemed to hurt my chances The job market was crazy, with AI and all of the layoffs. Also, many companies didn't want to hire people on visas, I was looking everywhere — even in Mexico — and only got two or three interviews. Because of my cabin rental business in Mexico, I was able to still get money from my Mexican bank account while I was unemployed. I was surviving on around $900 per month. My wife was paying the rent, and with the money I got from Mexico, I was buying the food and paying for basic stuff in cash. It was expensive due to ATM transaction fees, but it was the way I could survive while I looked for a new job. I was tired of applying, so I removed the "Open to Work" badge on my LinkedIn profile and changed my position as if I started a new startup. I had developed a software to manage the reservations for my cabin rental business in Mexico, and I had a plan to extend that software to also handle hotel reservations and make it into a SaaS. The funny thing is that after that, I started getting emails from recruiters within two weeks. Instead of me looking for a job, recruiters started reaching out to me. Lead full stack engineer, $200,000 I started receiving some contract offers. One was for a role that'd involve working in Mexico, but at that point, I'd been living in the US for more than 10 years, so moving back would've been a big change. My current role is as a contractor with a large music corporation, where I've been working for about a year. I make just over $200,000 a year. It's a little bit less than what I was getting before, but with how bad the market is right now, it's my best choice. I feel well compensated. At this point, especially with my visa status, I feel like I'm reaching my limit in the current market. As I made more money, I also spent more money When you make good money and then you get way more, there is a moment when your mind is like, OK, I want more, and more, and more. It's interesting because in Mexico, it was totally different. Even when I was making way less money, I was saving or spending less than what I made. In the US, it feels like something in the system forces you to buy more stuff. Also, rent is getting more expensive over time. At this point, I'm more balanced. I still have debt, but not too much. It's way better. I'm a very adaptive person — I can live with $400,000, with $200,000, or with $50,000. I know that my visa isn't permanent. That's why I've invested basically all of my money in Mexico, because I'm aware that if at some point I get tired or something happens, I'll have something in Mexico that I already invested in. If you're interested in sharing your salary journey, please fill out this Google Form. Read the original article on Business Insider

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Natural language processing is reshaping professional communication on online platforms, enabling more relevant and personalised networking interactions. As AI-driven systems increasingly comprehend and generate human language, these technological advances affect how users pursue and maintain professional connections, presenting both opportunities and challenges in authentic relationship-building. Professional networking now relies on a growing ecosystem of AI-powered […] The post Advances in Natural Language Processing Are Changing Professional Networking appeared first on AI News.

Modern DevSecOps needs security checks that run before release day. Teams now write code, build services and deploy updates at a pace that manual review cannot match. That’s why they use automated testing, as it helps catch routine flaws before they reach production. The pressure has grown. Verizon’s 2025 Data Breach Investigations Report found that […] The post Best Automated Security Testing Tools for Modern DevSecOps appeared first on AI News.

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