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More student-loan forgiveness is here. You have one month to opt out.

Some student-loan borrowers are getting an early Valentine’s Day gift from the Department of Education.

Earlier this week, another batch of borrowers who have completed at least 20 years of payments on an income-driven repayment plan received emails from the department with the subject line: “You’re eligible to have your student loan(s) discharged.”

The email, which multiple borrowers shared with Business Insider, said that the department will “work with your loan servicer to process your IDR discharge over the next several months.” Borrowers do not need to take any action to receive the relief; however, those who wish to opt out of the relief have to contact their servicer by March 5 to specify that they do not want the discharge.

Borrowers might choose to opt out of the relief to avoid state tax liability, the email said. Doing so would require them to continue paying back their loans.

After the March opt-out date, the department will send borrowers’ information to their servicers, and the servicer will notify the borrower once the relief has been processed. The email said that most borrowers will see the relief processed within two weeks, but it could take more time for some borrowers.

Why student-loan borrowers are getting debt relief

This student-loan forgiveness comes after the expiration of 2021 provision from the American Rescue Plan that made forgiveness tax-free. Borrowers who become eligible for relief after January 1, 2026, could be hit with thousands of dollars in taxes. However, the Department of Education previously said that it will consider the date a borrower reached their payment threshold as the date of the relief, so even if they were part of the latest batch of emails, if they completed their last payment in 2025, they should not face additional taxes.

The Department of Education did not immediately respond to a request for comment from Business Insider on how borrowers can confirm their tax status on the latest loan forgiveness. However, the borrower’s servicer would typically notify the borrower of the relief’s effective date.

The student-loan industry overall is facing significant changes in the coming months. Beginning in July, the department will begin implementing its repayment overhaul, which President Donald Trump signed into law as part of his “big beautiful” spending legislation. It includes new income-driven repayment plans and borrowing caps for advanced degrees. Borrowers who enroll in the new plans would have longer timelines to forgiveness and could face higher monthly payments.

The department has maintained that its goal is to simplify repayment and ensure that borrowers do not take out student loans they cannot afford to repay.

“We have a clear path forward to fulfill the President’s promise of making higher education more affordable and ensuring that every professional in America—from teachers and nurses to physicians and clergy—can pursue their careers without taking on debt they may never be able to repay,” Undersecretary of Education Nicholas Kent said in a recent statement.

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Goldman’s CEO David Solomon says he ‘reluctantly’ let top lawyer Kathy Ruemmler resign after Epstein fallout

Goldman Sachs CEO David Solomon addressed the complicated situation the firm faced this week as its general counsel and chief legal officer, Kathy Ruemmler, dominated headlines for her past connections and thousands of emails with disgraced former financier Jeffrey Epstein.

She is now set to step down this summer.

Ruemmler submitted her resignation on Thursday, which Solomon said he reluctantly accepted as the media storm grew about a variety of her contacts with Epstein and his lavish gifts to her, all of which transpired before she joined Goldman as its top legal official in 2020.

“She called me yesterday afternoon and told me that the press coverage of the work she had done previously and of this whole situation had just gotten to a level of noise and distraction that she thought it was distracting the firm,” Solomon told CNBC during a live interview on Friday. He added that he had “reluctantly accepted her resignation, but I respect her decision, and she and the firm are looking forward.”

“It was putting her in a position where it was hard for her to execute on her job and her responsibilities,” Solomon said, “and she just thought it was time to step away.”

The CEO said said that Ruemmler’s connections with Epstein predated her time at the Wall Street bank, but acknowledged the complexity the situation presented for the firm’s top leadership. Previously, Ruemmler was a member of President Barack Obama’s White House counsel, advising him on matters related to foreign policy and national security, and later served as a partner at the elite law firm Latham & Watkins before joining Goldman.

“As a CEO and a leadership team, we’re making real-time decisions with a very valued colleague that we worked with very closely, and that’s not an easy thing to work through. There is a lot of nuance to that.” He added that he was “proud of the way Kathy has handled herself and the way we’ve worked through this.”

And he added that Goldman wasn’t the only large organization facing the fallout of high-powered individuals’ apparent connections to Epstein, who died in 2019 but whose legacy has continued to cast a pall over large segments of the corporate sector.

“A lot of people are trying to work through it,” Solomon told CNBC’s Andrew Ross Sorkin when pressed for more detail on how the decision came about. He praised Ruemmler’s contributions, calling her “a tremendous human being” who had served as an “extraordinary general counsel with deep, deep experience” for the banking institution.

Ruemmler’s last day at Goldman is set to be June 30, the bank said.

Last month, Goldman representative Tony Fratto said in a statement that it is “well known that Epstein often offered unsolicited favors and gifts to his many business contacts.”

“As Kathy has said many times, she had a professional association with Jeffrey Epstein when she was a lawyer in private practice, heading the defense and investigations practice at a global law firm,” the statement said. “She regrets ever knowing him.”




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We’re full-time travelers in our 50s who’ve been to over 50 countries. Here are 5 of the biggest mistakes we’ve made.

When my husband Shayne and I sold nearly everything we owned to travel the world full-time, we thought we were ready for anything. We had spreadsheets, backup plans, a carefully managed budget, and, as two adults in our 50s, decades of experience behind us.

What could go wrong? Turns out, plenty.

Over the past two and a half years, we’ve lived in more than a dozen countries and traveled thousands of miles. We’ve hiked to waterfalls in Bali, wandered the streets of Barcelona, and eaten our way through Thailand.

But we’ve also made mistakes that cost us time, money, and more than a little peace of mind. Some were honest slip-ups, while others came from overconfidence, but they all taught us lessons we’ll never forget. Here are five of the biggest mistakes we’ve made.

Overplanning made us feel burned out


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We’ve learned to leave room for spontaneity when traveling.

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At first, we packed every destination with nonstop activities. Sunrise temples, food tours, museums, waterfalls, cultural shows — we didn’t want to miss anything.

But within a few months, we were running on fumes. The pace was unsustainable, and on some days, it felt like we weren’t even enjoying ourselves.

These days, we travel more slowly. We leave room for naps, long walks, and spontaneous days with no agenda.

Some of our best memories now come from lazy mornings and quiet moments, not the things we planned, but the ones we stumbled into.

We underestimated how hard it is to build a real community

We assumed full-time travel would mean constantly meeting fascinating people and forming deep connections around the globe.

Although we’ve met plenty of kind and interesting travelers, most friendships are fleeting, shared over a meal or a few days before everyone moves on. We didn’t expect how lonely it can feel to always be “the new people.”

Now, we intentionally choose places with digital nomad scenes, coworking spaces, and expat meetups. In Vietnam, for example, we love that locals and expats gather for weekly street-food tours and surf lessons.

It takes effort, but building community on the road is possible. We just had to actively seek it out.

One time, we misread our visa and had to change plans at the last minute


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We’ve learned to always double-check visa rules.

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When traveling to Vietnam, we completely misunderstood how our visa worked and accidentally arrived in the country on the day it expired.

Immigration let us in, but warned us we had to leave almost immediately and apply for a new visa. We scrambled to book a last-minute flight to Cambodia and ended up paying a fine.

It was stressful, chaotic, and expensive. Oddly enough, though, our visit to Cambodia became one of our favorite unexpected adventures. But now, we double and triple-check visa rules and requirements ahead of time.

We’ve also let our guard down


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Travelers should always be aware and alert to their surroundings.

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In Paris, Shayne had his crossbody bag slung around his back while boarding a crowded metro train. Seemingly within seconds, his phone was gone.

It was a rookie mistake, and we knew better, but sometimes travel lulls you into a false sense of security.

That one slip-up cost us days of frustration replacing his device and updating accounts, not to mention a chunk of money.

Even seasoned travelers need to stay alert, especially in busy cities and transit hubs.

Choosing accommodations with zero walkability made exploring more difficult

When we started traveling full-time, our first stop was Bali. We booked a picture-perfect villa with sweeping ocean views and dreamy Instagram potential. What we didn’t realize, though, was that it was over an hour away from the nearest town.

It was beautiful, but it made everyday activities like walking to cafés, exploring neighborhoods, or talking with locals nearly impossible.

Now, we prioritize location over aesthetics. Being able to walk out the door and explore a neighborhood, find a local market, or grab lunch at a street stall makes us feel like we’re actually living somewhere, not just passing through.

Despite the bumps in the road, traveling full-time has been incredibly rewarding

The mistakes we’ve made haven’t just taught us how to travel smarter. They’ve reminded us to stay humble, adaptable, and patient with ourselves.

We’ve learned to slow down, embrace the unexpected, and let go of the need for every day to be perfect, because no matter how experienced you are, travel always has something new to teach you.

And often, the detours become the best parts of the journey.




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I’m an American who studied abroad at Zhejiang University in China. It was unlike anything I experienced back in the US.

In the spring of 2013, I was a sophomore at Tufts University in Massachusetts, soon to declare a dual major in international relations and Mandarin Chinese.

Despite my lofty aspirations to travel the world as a diplomat, my academic career so far had taken me a whopping 25 miles north of my hometown. That’s why my university’s study abroad program in China appealed to me.

Once I heard the tales of adventure from the 2012 program’s freshly minted graduates, I eagerly applied. That summer, with an acceptance letter in hand, I set off to enroll at Zhejiang University.

Zhejiang University was unlike anything I had experienced

Upon landing in Shanghai, my American classmates and I were piled into a minibus for the two-hour drive south to the garden city of Hangzhou — capital of Zhejiang Province and home to Zhejiang University (affectionately referred to by locals as ZheDa).


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The author attended the international campus of Zhejiang University.

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After settling into the dorm, which was a single room with a private bathroom, we were welcomed by our professors with a banquet at the college’s canteen — an establishment which was far better than the standardized cafeteria fare that I’d come to know back in New England.

In our dormitory building, for the equivalent of $2 at the time, one could acquire a filling meal any time of the day — from rice porridge and steamed buns in the morning to stir-fried vegetables and sweet and sour pork tenderloin in the evening, all cooked fresh to order.

Zhejiang University was massive and spread across multiple campuses throughout the city. Fortunately for us newcomers, our group at the University’s International College was tucked into a leafy hillside on the historic Yuquan campus, offering a slice of Chinese university life at an approachable scale.

Classes were rigorous and worldly

As the sweltering days of summer transitioned into an osmanthus flower-scented autumn, I settled into a new school year. Each morning consisted of four hours of intensive language instruction, followed by at least a few more hours of homework and self-study in the afternoon.

In addition, each week we’d attend one three-hour lecture on Chinese Peasant History with our advisor, who drew heavily from his own experiences as an academic sent to the countryside during Mao’s Cultural Revolution.

I also had a three-hour lecture on the Chinese Legal System with a professor who’d argued many cases within China’s rapidly evolving court system.

American students were very different than the Chinese students

While my application to enroll in Zhejiang University was relatively quick and painless, the road to admission for most of ZheDa’s domestic student population was comparatively long and grueling.

From an early age, they’d studied for hours at school, followed by hours at buxiban (cram schools), preparing to ace China’s notoriously difficult standardized exams, such as the Gaokao. Of the millions who sit for the Gaokao each year, only the highest scorers earn spots in China’s most prestigious schools, such as Peking, Tsinghua, and Zhejiang universities.

Unsurprisingly, the academic work ethic that carried students to Zhejiang University did not fall off after admission. While most of my international classmates would study long hours during the week, we would take Friday nights and weekends off to travel within China. But many local students, however, rarely engaged in such frivolous pursuits and were more likely to be studying in the library on a Friday or Saturday evening.

As exams marked the end of my semester at ZheDa in December 2013, I personally experienced the exacting academic standards that my Chinese classmates were intimately familiar with. While I did pass all of my classes, a minor error in pronunciation or a stroke askew in a written character, mistakes that my Chinese professors back at Tufts may have overlooked, were marked down harshly by my professors at Zhejiang University.

The university is now the best in the world

When scrolling Instagram in January 2025, I saw a familiar sight in a post from The New York Times — a statue of Mao Zedong standing before Laohe Hill and a familiar library, waving to the students on a verdant Yuquan Campus. Reading on, I was proud to learn that my study abroad alma mater had been named the most productive research university in the world by Leiden Rankings, outpacing even my hometown juggernaut, Harvard.

I cannot say that I am shocked by this development. My semester at ZheDa showed me a culture of academic rigor on a scale few American universities can match, drawing from an academic talent pool far larger than in the US.

My time at ZheDa forced me out of my comfort zone and exposed me to an academic world significantly different from that in which I’d been educated, and I believe I am a more open-minded learner for it.




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More hiring managers want you to prove you’re good with AI during job interviews

Leaders at the software company Canva used to wonder whether job candidates were secretly using AI during technical interviews.

By early last year, that concern gave way to a bigger question: How good are they with AI?

Managers saw the company’s engineers getting more done with the technology, so they needed to ensure new hires could do the same.

“We just flipped the script and went, ‘OK, we’re going to invite you to use AI,'” Brendan Humphreys, Canva’s chief technology officer, told Business Insider.

The result, he said, has been stronger hires better equipped to wield powerful AI tools to help write code and solve problems.

Canva is one of a growing number of companies — including Meta and McKinsey — that are inviting some job candidates to use AI in parts of the hiring process.

Broadly, when ChatGPT emerged in late 2022, many employers worried that job seekers would use AI to help talk their way past interviewers. Yet as the technology becomes more capable and embedded in daily work, a number of companies are moving from policing it to evaluating candidates’ AI know-how.

That’s what happened at Arcade, an IT infrastructure startup. The company has always asked technical candidates to complete a take-home exercise. Yet now, it expects them to use AI in the process, Alex Salazar, the company’s cofounder and CEO, told Business Insider.

As the technology’s capabilities surged over the past year or so, he realized that candidates would likely turn to AI regardless of whether Arcade sanctioned it. Ultimately, Salazar said, the company wants its workers, including new hires, to use AI.

“So why are we creating this artificial test that doesn’t even really reflect the work they’re going to do when they get here?” he said.

Humphreys came to a similar conclusion at Canva. To factor in AI, he said, the company reworked its technical interview to make the questions “complex, ambiguous, and problematic.”

“If you just dump the question that we’re giving you into an AI, you’re going to get a substandard answer,” Humphreys said.

To land a job at the company, which has about 265 million monthly users of its graphic design software, technical candidates need to know how to thoughtfully question AI, he said.

Show us you can work with AI

One way to avoid concerns that candidates might be leaning too hard on AI is to have job seekers show their work. In Canva’s case, the company asks candidates to share their screen during a technical interview.

“We want to see the interactions with the AI as much as the output of the tool,” Humphreys said.


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Brendan Humphreys, CTO at Canva

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Arcade tells candidates to use whatever AI tools they want on their exercise, then include a transcript of their conversations with the AI. The idea is to learn who knows how to do the job and to work with an agent. Doing so, Salazar said, comes with a “very real learning curve.”

He said that the shift to allowing AI use in the exercise meant that Arcade placed greater emphasis on a candidate’s “taste.” That sensibility is important, he said, because AI can kick out answers, yet the best results often come from repeated iteration with these tools, he said.

“It’s going to show their ability to use the AI, but it’s also going to show what they think ‘good’ is,” Salazar said of candidates’ interactions with AI.

‘Ride the dragon’

Other companies want workers to demonstrate their AI acumen during the hiring process, too.

In a June post on an internal message board, Meta said it was developing a coding interview in which candidates could use an AI assistant, Business Insider previously reported.

That mode of working, Meta wrote, was “more representative” of the environment in which future developers would be operating. It also makes “LLM-based cheating less effective,” the company said, referring to large language models.

The consulting firm McKinsey & Company is piloting a change to its graduate recruiting process, asking candidates to use the company’s internal AI assistant, Lilli, during case interviews to assess how they work with the technology, several media outlets reported in January.

The acceptance of, or even the preference for, AI in some parts of hiring doesn’t mean companies will welcome job seekers who use the tools to misrepresent their skills. Even if a candidate gets away with it at first, hiring managers are likely to eventually discover that someone doesn’t have the goods, Susan Peppercorn, an executive coach, told Business Insider.

That’s because candidates who complete an assessment, for example, “are going to have to explain how they arrived at their thinking,” she said.

Understanding that thought process is what Canva seeks in its hiring, said Humphreys, who oversees roughly 2,600 technical employees in roles including software engineering, IT, and machine learning.

It’s a way of seeing whether a candidate makes sound technical decisions when it starts producing code, he said.

“What we’re testing for now in our interview process is an ability to harness that power, to control that power — to kind of ride the dragon,” Humphreys said.

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Dell is rolling out a new sales pay structure. Some employees worry it’ll slash their income.

Dell has kicked off its new financial year with a shakeup to how sales staff get paid.

Under the new structure, Dell is increasing rewards for high performers but scaling back earnings for sellers who fall short of their full quota, according to an internal presentation viewed by Business Insider. The tech giant is also tightening the periods over which it measures sales progress to a quarterly basis, rather than twice a year.

The presentation was shared with sales employees in a town hall meeting on February 3, led by Kyle Leciejewski, Dell’s senior vice president of North America sales.

The changes affect sales staff across both of Dell’s key divisions: the Infrastructure Solutions Group (ISG), which sells data center hardware and other AI-related solutions, and the Client Solutions Group (CSG), which sells PC hardware.

The change at Dell mirrors a shift happening across much of Big Tech, where companies have been leaning into a hardcore culture that elevates high performers, penalizes those who miss the mark, and disregards long-held views of workplace loyalty.

The move is “designed to reward you for driving profitable growth, expanding our footprint, and winning market share for Dell,” the company told staff in the presentation.

“We are always assessing our business to remain competitive and ensure we are set up to deliver the best innovation, value, and service to our customers and partners,” Dell told Business Insider.

No commission under 60% of sales targets

Dell sales employees are paid through a mix of guaranteed base salary and a commission-based payment, known as their “target incentive.” The presentation used an example of an employee paid on a 60/40 mix, meaning 60% of their compensation was the salary, and the rest was the target incentive.

Under the previous salary structure, sellers who achieved between 0 and 100% of their sales target received the corresponding portion of their target incentive, according to the presentation. If they hit 80% of their goal, they got 80% of the payout; if they hit 50% of the goal, they got 50% of the payout.

The target incentive doubled for those who hit 100% to 200% of their targets.

Under the new changes, sellers who come in below 60% of their target get no commission.

For those who achieve between 60% and 100% of target, here’s the new pay structure:

  • At 70% of goal, employee gets 25% of target incentive
  • At 80% of goal, employee gets 50% of target incentive
  • At 90% of goal, employee gets 75% of target incentive
  • At 100% of goal, employee gets 100% target incentive

For top performers, the incentives just got better.

Sales workers who hit between 100% and 150% of their targets will now receive commissions worth three times the agreed target incentive portion of their salary, the presentation shows. That marks a 50% increase on what they’d previously received.

Quarterly targets

Dell is also moving sales teams to quarterly targets, according to the presentation.

Small and medium business teams already worked to quarterly targets, but now enterprise, large enterprise, DTS, AI Select, and Dell’s telecom business will move from a twice-yearly compensation plan to quarterly quotas.

According to the presentation, the decision to move to quarterly targets is linked to the company’s upcoming modernization push. As Business Insider first reported, Dell is overhauling its internal systems on May 3 to help streamline internal operations for the AI future — an initiative it is calling One Dell Way.

Dell could adjust the quota cadence in the second half of the financial year, the presentation said: “We will revisit the quota cadence and take the learnings from Q1 and Q2 to inform the decision about 2H.”

Some employees fear pay cuts

Five Dell sales employees who spoke to Business Insider about the pay structure changes said the adjustments were causing frustration and fear among some employees that their take-home pay could drop.

A data center sales rep told Business Insider that for the last three years, they had consistently hit 70% to 80% of their quota, so they were looking at a 20% reduction in their take-home pay unless they could sell more.

All five employees said that hitting 100% of a target would become harder in the new quarterly timeframe. Their reasons included that quotas had risen over the last two years, industry supply chain shortages were slowing sales cycles, and, in certain divisions, such as federal accounts, lead times were long.

Low morale

Employee dissatisfaction at Dell has been growing companywide in recent years amid layoffs and RTO mandates. The company’s employee satisfaction score — known as the employee net promoter score, or eNPS, has declined by almost 50% in two years.

In 2024, Dell’s sales teams received a 5-day RTO mandate months before the rest of the company, and last December, Business Insider reported that leaders were cracking down on attendance.

Sales staff are also dealing with tougher selling conditions amid an industry-wide shortage of memory chips. Along with most competitors, Dell raised prices on many of its products in December.

“Global memory and storage supply are tightening fast,” Dell warned its go-to-market team members in an email viewed by Business Insider. The company told its sellers to “move decisively” ahead of the price increases to “protect value for our customers and for Dell.”

On the back of the AI boom, ISG sales have been strong — revenue was up 29% in Dell’s last full financial year — but annual revenue has fallen for three consecutive years in the CSG division. In July 2025, Dell’s COO and vice chair Jeff Clarke stepped in to handle day-to-day leadership of CSG.

In a memo about One Dell Way last month, Clarke told Dell staffers to get ready for big changes.

“This is the biggest transformation in company history,” Clarke said. “I know there will be challenges, and that’s OK—we’re here to support you and work through this together.”

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Rivian CEO says it may be ‘inconceivable’ to buy a car that can’t drive itself by 2030

Rivian CEO RJ Scaringe said self-driving capabilities will be a “must-have” in a car in the “very near future.”

Speaking on a “No Priors” podcast interview, released on Thursday, Scaringe talked about how autonomous cars would become the norm by the end of the decade.

“I think by 2030 it’ll be inconceivable to buy a car and not expect it to drive itself,” Scaringe said. “Maybe that’s sooner. We hope it’s sooner, we’re targeting a little sooner than that.”

He added that today, it is hard to imagine buying a car without airbags or air conditioning, which “at one moment in time were optional.”

“I think in not too much time, a couple of years, it’ll be hard to conceive of buying a car that can’t drop you at the airport or pick up your kids from school,” Scaringe said.

Scaringe previously said that, beyond just being able to drive themselves, autonomous vehicles should progress to a point where they can run errands, such as getting items from the store or ordering spare car parts.

Rivian is one of the handful of US-based automakers making inroads into the self-driving vehicle space, along with Tesla, Alphabet’s Waymo, and Ford. They face strong competition in markets outside the US, where Chinese competitors like BYD, XPeng, and Baidu have gained market share.

Rivian, based in Irvine, California, is expected to start delivering its R2 SUV later in the year. This model is its cheapest EV to date, priced at $45,000.

Rivian released earnings on Thursday, reporting a full-year 2025 revenue of $5.39 billion, which was an 8% increase from 2024. The company said in the earnings report that it had delivered 42,247 vehicles to customers in 2025.

The company’s stock price dropped 5% after earnings but rose about 15% in after-hours trading. It’s up about 12% in the past year.




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Anthropic’s CEO says we’re in the ‘centaur phase’ of software engineering

Dario Amodei has a novel analogy to describe how AI and humans are working together.

On an episode of the “Interesting Times with Ross Douthat” podcast published on Thursday, the Anthropic CEO compared human engineers and AI working together to the mythical horse-and-human combination known as the centaur.

He used chess as an example: 15 to 20 years ago, a human checking AI’s output could beat an AI or a human playing alone. Now, AI can beat people without that layer of human supervision.

Amodei, who cofounded AI lab Anthropic in 2021, added that the same transition would happen in software engineering.

“We’re already in our centaur phase for software,” Amodei said. “During that centaur phase, if anything, the demand for software engineers may go up. But the period may be very brief.”

He said he’s concerned about the “big disruption” entry-level white-collar work would see. The CEO added that it may be unfair to compare this to the shift from farming to factory to knowledge work revolution because that happened over centuries or decades.

“This is happening over low single-digit numbers of years,” he said.

Amodei is among the most prominent voices warning that AI could erase some white-collar work, especially in law, finance, and consulting. In a January essay, he predicted that AI could disrupt 50% of entry-level jobs in the next one to five years.

The leaders of other top AI labs, including Mustafa Suleyman and Demis Hassabis, have made similar comments about advanced AI automating service jobs within the next 18 months.

Execs at some software companies counter that AI would make engineers more productive and that companies would need more of them.

“The companies that are the smartest are going to hire more developers,” GitHub CEO Thomas Dohmke said on a July podcast. “I think the idea that AI without any coding skills lets you just build a billion-dollar business is mistaken.”

Atlassian’s CEO said that as AI advances, people will keep coming up with new ideas for the technology they want, and engineers will be needed to build it.

“Five years from now, we’ll have more engineers working for our company than we do today,” Mike Cannon-Brookes said in an October interview. “They will be more efficient, but technology creation is not output-bound.”




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At 80, ‘Ghostbusters’ star Ernie Hudson says his fitness goal is surprisingly simple

At 80, Ernie Hudson still works out regularly — and it’s all part of his longevity journey.

In an interview with Men’s Health published on Wednesday, the “Ghostbusters” actor said he sees regular exercise as a way for him to live well for longer.

“I guess I’m excited because turning 80 is great. A number I never thought I’d see, but here it is. I always wanted to be an old guy who’s still feeling pretty good,” Hudson told Men’s Health.

Over the years, he’s come to realize the importance of tuning into his body and paying close attention to what it needs. “You just have to quiet your mind enough to listen,” he said.

That philosophy guides how he approaches fitness today.

“My biggest goal right now is just to stay alive,” Hudson said. “Weight becomes a big issue the older you get, especially if you’re from my community, the African American community. Every disease known to man seems to hit us harder, so it’s really important to get the exam, to stay flexible, to stay as mobile as you can.”

He added that mobility becomes especially critical with age.

“The older you get, you want to be at least flexible, so you’re not stumbling and falling down, which is the number one hazard. Falling and breaking something,” Hudson said.

At home in Los Angeles, he trains with a personal trainer two to three times a week. When he’s traveling or in New York City, he swaps in a different workout partner: his son.

“It gives me a chance to hang out in his favorite place, which is the gym,” Hudson said.

Much of Hudson’s training centers on building and maintaining upper-body strength, with workouts that include pushups, seated rows, and barbell bench presses.

He added that he has always believed in having strong arms, “so you appear that you can at least defend yourself.”

Not only that, Hudson said he feels the need to stay in top shape whenever he takes on a role, even if it isn’t especially physical.

“It’s important for a character that you’re able to lose yourself in that world,” he said.

Being fit makes it easier to focus on his job because he isn’t distracted by any physical discomfort or limitations, and regular exercise means he doesn’t have to scramble to get in shape when work calls.

But at the end of the day, exercise is only part of the equation.

“I stay busy, I travel a lot, and work takes precedence. But when you’re busy, diet is, I think, even more important,” Hudson said. “You can work out all you want, but if you aren’t in control of your diet, your eating habits, you’re going to have a problem.”

Hudson has long been serious about his workouts.

In 2024, he told Men’s Health that he goes for a brisk walk whenever he can’t fit in a formal workout and practices Pilates weekly to maintain his mobility.

“Ever since I was a kid, I’ve always made a point of being able to touch my toes,” Hudson said. “So at some point during the day, every day, I’ll do a stretch to make sure I can still touch my toes.”

During a January appearance on the “Today” show, the actor said he fits in sets of pushups throughout his day.

“When I get up, I like to do a set of pushups first thing and throughout the day,” he said. “By the end of the day, I should have at least 100 pushups.”




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