But in a world where AI can code, write, and analyze data proficiently, what makes us "human" matters maybe more than ever, Zack Kass, a former exec at OpenAI, told Business Insider.
That means leaning into areas where humansstill outpace AI — like critical thinking.
In the coming years, it'll be more important that we "hire lawyers not for how fast they are, but for how well they understand a problem really uniquely," Kass said.
He said it'll also be critical to embrace what makes you likable, someone with whom other humans ultimately want to work.
"AI is going to commoditize most of our knowledge and many of our skills," Kass later wrote by email. So our "immutable human qualities" like "courage, vision, wisdom, empathy" will become more important.
Those qualities could also set you apart as AI takes over tasks for workers at all levels. Studies have already shown that AI is bound to be an equalizer in the workplace. So, Kass says, workers should emphasize their personal qualities.
"Why would anyone hire 'assholes' in a world where everyone is smart," he said with a laugh.
A workforce made up of likable people can also boost a company's bottom line. People with work friends are not only more likely to stay in their jobs, but they're also more productive, engaged, happier, and healthier.
Lawyers for Pink, often stylized P!nk, filed legal action against Pharrell Williams on Thursday.
The Notice of Opposition was filed against Williams' attempt to trademark "P.Inc."
The notice said the resemblance between "P!nk" and "P.Inc" would "cause confusion."
Pink has taken legal action against Pharrell Williams to stop his attempt to trademark the term "P.Inc."
Pink, 44, filed the Notice of Opposition against Williams through her company, Lefty Paw Print, on Thursday. Williams, 51, is represented by his company, PW IP Holdings.
Documents included in the Notice of Opposition show that Lefty Paw Print owns several trademarks for Pink. The first trademark application was filed in 1999 and registered in 2001. Lefty Paw Print wrote that Pink "has spent substantial time, effort and money promoting the goods and services" under the trademarks.
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Lefty Paw Print wrote that Williams filed a trademark application for "P.Inc" in May 2023.
"Applicant's P.INC Mark is similar to the PINK Marks in sight, sound, meaning, and commercial impression," the document read.
The company added that Williams is "likely to market and promote its goods through the same channels of trade and to the same consumers" as Pink.
The Notice of Opposition said that the resemblance between Pink — sometimes stylized "P!nk" — and "P.Inc" would confuse consumers.
"Such registration would be a source of damage and injury to Opposer," the document said, referring to Pink and Lefty Paw Print.
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Representatives for Pink and Williams did not immediately respond to a request for comment from Business Insider.
Pink's notice isn't the only trademark battle Williams is facing right now.
Williams' longtime collaborator, Chad Hugo, accused him of seeking sole control of The Neptunes' trademarks, according to Variety. Hugo's lawyers said Williams' trademark attempt violates an agreement between him and Hugo to split everything equally.
"Throughout their over 30-year history, [Hugo] and Williams agreed to, and in fact, have divided all assets," Hugo's attorney wrote in the legal action. "By ignoring and excluding [Hugo] from any and all applications filed by the applicant for the mark 'The Neptunes,' applicant has committed fraud in securing the trademarks and acted in bad faith."
Democratic Reps. Summer Lee, Rashida Tlaib, and Cori Bush all voted against providing military aid to Israel.
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The House passed a bill to provide military aid to Israel and humanitarian aid for Gaza.
It's part of a larger package that includes Ukraine aid and is likely to pass the Senate next week.
Dozens of progressive Democrats — and some hard-right Republicans — voted against it.
The House of Representatives on Saturday passed a bill that includes more than $14 billion in military aid to Israel and more than $9 billion in humanitarian aid, much of which will go to Gaza.
The bill passed by a 366-58 margin, but dozens of progressive Democrats — and a cohort hard-right Republicans — voted against it.
Under an unconventional plan from House Speaker Mike Johnson, the bill will be sent to the Senate as part of a package that includes aid for Ukraine and Taiwan and a third bill that forces a sale of TikTok and allows the United States to confiscate Russian assets. Lawmakers voted individually on each component.
The combined bill closely mirrors a $95.3 billion national security bill passed by the Senate in February. Three senators voted against that package over the Israel aid.
President Joe Biden has pledged to sign the bill into law after it passes the Senate in the coming days, a move that could anger those on the progressive left who have called for him to take a different approach to Israel's war in Gaza, where over 30,000 Palestinians have been killed.
It's not the first time in recent months that Democrats have voted en masse against Israel aid. They've become more comfortable doing so amid the devastation in Gaza.
In November, all but 12 of them voted against a bill that would have paired Israel aid with cuts to the Internal Revenue Service, a non-starter for Democrats. And in February, just 46 Democrats voted for an Israel aid bill that didn't include those cuts, with Democrats largely taking the position that they wanted to see Ukraine aid paired with Israel aid.
14 House Republicans voted against the latter Israel aid bill in February, with many citing the cost of the aid.
But Saturday's vote was different — this bill is all but certain to be signed into law, and the significant number of Democrats who voted against Israel aid shows how quickly the issue has shifted in recent months.
"To give the Netanyahu government more offensive weapons at this stage is to condone the utter destruction of Gaza we've seen over the last seven months and risks fueling a deadly regional war," said Rep. Becca Balint of Vermont, a progressive Jewish Democrat, in a statement ahead of her vote. "The United States cannot continue to support the extreme offensive that has caused unimaginable suffering to the Palestinian people."
This story will be updated with a list of lawmakers who voted against the bill when it becomes available via the House Clerk.
Reps. Thomas Massie, Lauren Boebert, and Matt Gaetz all voted against a more than $60 billion bill to provide aid to Ukraine.
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The House passed a more than $60 billion bill that provides more military aid to Ukraine.
It's part of a larger foreign aid package that's likely to pass the Senate and be signed into law.
112 Republicans voted it against — the most ever, and a majority of the GOP conference.
The House of Representatives on Saturday passed a more than $60 billion bill to provide military and economic aid to Ukraine.
A solid majority of Republicans voted against the bill, which passed by a 311-112 margin. 101 Republicans voted for it, and one Republican voted "present."
The Ukraine aid bill came to the floor after months of delay and despite staunch opposition from the hard right, including a threat from Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene to call a vote to oust House Speaker Mike Johnson if he allowed such a vote.
Under Johnson's unconventional plan, the Ukraine bill will be sent to the Senate as part of a package that includes aid for Israel and Taiwan and a third bill that forces a sale of TikTok and allows the United States to confiscate Russian assets. Each component received its own vote in the House on Saturday.
The bill is widely expected to pass the Senate in the coming days, as it generally mirrors a $95.3 billion national security bill passed by the upper chamber in February. President Joe Biden has pledged to sign it into law.
Saturday's vote marked the first time the House had approved billions of dollars in Ukraine aid since December 2022, when Democrats still controlled the chamber.
In the two years since Russia's invasion, opposition to aiding Ukraine has grown from a fringe position to a majority view among House GOP lawmakers. Many argue the money should be spent domestically or that policy changes at the US-Mexico border should take precedence.
The new infusion of aid comes at a make-or-break moment for Ukraine, which has faced ammo shortages and insufficient air defenses.
As a result of his move, Johnson could face a vote on his ouster in the coming weeks. The GOP speaker, however, has grown more willing to confront the threat from the right, and Democrats have suggested that they're willing to protect him from an ouster effort if he allowed a vote on Ukraine aid.
"If I operated out of fear of a motion to vacate, I would never be able to do my job," Johnson told reporters this week. "History judges us for what we do. This is a critical time right now."
This story will be updated with a list of House Republicans who voted against the bill when it becomes available via the House Clerk.
More women are turning to TikTok for information about abortion, researchers say.
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Young people are relying on TikTok for abortion information amid legal uncertainty in the US.
Confusion over abortion laws is increasing online engagement on the issue, researchers say.
American lawmakers on Saturday voted to force the sale of TikTok in the US or ban it entirely.
Young people confused about abortion bans in their state are turning to TikTok for advice.
Now, the US government wants to ban TikTok too. House lawmakers voted Saturday to force the sale of TikTok, owned by Chinese company ByteDance, to an American company or face a domestic ban, citing national security concerns.
Wildly popular in the United States with 170 million users, TikTok has become a resource for American women trying to navigate the complex and varied laws on abortion.
Half of US states have passed bans or limits on abortion, including 11 states that have implemented gestational limits, some of which are as early as 6 weeks — before most women can even tell they are pregnant.Many of those bans are facing legal challenges and the issue is poised to be a central one in the upcoming presidential election.
The labyrinth of abortion laws is why American women need "legal abortion without borders," Merle Hoffman, a lifelong abortion activist who has run a New York City-based women's clinic since the 1970s, told Business Insider.
"I so firmly and deeply believe that the right to reproductive justice is just as fundamental and transcendent a right as the right to vote, the right to worship, the right to assembly. Just think if you had to have the right to vote in New Jersey but didn't have it in Wyoming. That would be absurd because we're all citizens, right?" Hoffman said.
As more people turn to social media for information about abortion, more women are sharing their personal experiences on TikTok. Some women are sharing videos detailing their medical procedures and home methods like mifepristone.
"I was really torn about whether or not I was going to make this video, but I think it's important," Sunni says at the start of her TikTok video, according to The New York Times. "It's the video I was looking for. I was like 'what's going to go on?'"
Sunni's video, which received over 400,000 views, details her experience with mifepristone. The video attracted attention from anti-abortion groups. Protect Life Michigan responded directly to the video on TikTok, calling it "heartbreaking."
Rebecca Nall, founder of abortion access nonprofit Ineeda, told The Times that "more and more people are going online" with questions about abortion because of "the chaos and the confusion and the stigma" of abortion bans.
Dr. Jennifer Lincoln, an OBGYN who shares women's health information on TikTok, said in a video that it's important for other women to show their experience with medication abortions for visibility.
"Shes fantastic for doing this," Lincoln says. "She showed what it was like, and in doing that, she's normalizing it. She's de-stigmatizing it. She's telling you, honestly, what happened."
Mikaela Attu's TikTok video about the day she had an abortion was viewed over 3.5 million times. Mikaela demonstrated various medical equipment, like the device used for her ultrasound. Ending the video, Attu said she felt completely normal after the procedure.
In a follow-up video, Attu said her procedure, which she had in Canada, took about 5 to 10 minutes. "I was totally happy with the process," Attu says in the video. "I went about my day. My husband and I went and had dinner."
"It's something that so many people go through," Sunni told the Times. "There are people walking around you going through this thing, and until they feel normal and accepted, they're not going to be able to heal."
The House voted in favor of a bill that could result in an American ban on TikTok.
The bill would force TikTok owner ByteDance to sell to an American company or face a ban.
The bill now heads to the Senate, where it's also expected to pass.
The House advanced legislation on Saturday that could lead to a TikTok ban in the United States.
The bill forces TikTok's Chinese owner, ByteDance, to secure American ownership in about a year or face a domestic ban. Earlier versions of the legislation gave ByteDance just six months to find a new owner.
To fast-track the bipartisan legislation, House Speaker Mike Johnson combined it with a bill to allow the US to confiscate Russian assets, then bundled it into a package containing aid bills for Taiwain, Israel, and Ukraine, which have all been delayed for months amid congressional infighting.
That package of legislation will head to the Senate in a matter of days, where it's likely to pass. In February, the Senate approved a similar $95.3 billion package that did not include the TikTok bill.
American politicians have for years expressed security concerns over TikTok because ByteDance is obligated to share data with the Chinese government. TikTok has an estimated 170 million users in the United States alone.
Toward the end of his presidency, former President Donald Trump sought to ban the app. He has since flipped on the issue, arguing that TikTok's demise could bolster Meta, Facebook's parent company, which he referred to as "an enemy of the people."
President Joe Biden has signaled his intent to sign the legislation next week if it passes the Senate. Even though the legislation could result in a forced sale instead of a full-on ban, TikTok's company leadership is fearing the worst and is expected to challenge it in court. Legal challenges could also come from TikTok's users and creators.
"This legislation has a predetermined outcome: a total ban of TikTok in the United States," a ByteDance spokesperson said last month.
(L to R) Jared Moskowitz, Marjorie Taylor Greene, and Vladimir Putin.
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Jared Moskowitz mocked MTG, calling to make her "Putin's Special Envoy" to Congress.
The move came in response to Greene's amendments that proposed Ukraine aid supporters enlist in the fight against Russia.
"If you want to fund the endless foreign wars, you should have to go fight them," Greene said.
Jared Moskowitz, a Democrat representing Florida's 23rd congressional district, has openly mocked Marjorie Taylor Greene by saying he submitted an amendment appointing her as "Putin's Special Envoy to the United States Congress."
Just submitted an amendment to Bill drafting appointing MTG as Putin’s Special Envoy to the United States Congress. https://t.co/Gn8Dd3lZwj
Moskowitz submitted the proposal in response to Greene's amendments to the Ukraine aid bill.
One of Greene's amendments called for supporters of the bill, which would see tens of billions of dollars in aid sent to Ukraine, to enlist in the country's military in its fight against Russia.
If you want to fund the endless foreign wars, you should have to go fight them.
That’s why I’m introducing an amendment that would require any Member of Congress who votes for the multibillion $ Ukraine supplemental to enlist in Ukraine’s military.
Moskowitz also introduced a second amendment trolling Greene, seeking to rename her office in the Cannon House Office Building to the "Neville Chamberlain Room" — a reference to the former British prime minister famed for his failed attempts at appeasement toward Nazi leader Adolf Hitler in the 1930s.
Musk announcement the decision via X — the social media site he purcahsed two years ago — on Saturday. The Tesla CEO was expected to visit India early next week to meet with Prime Minister Narendra Modi.
"Unfortunately, very heavy Tesla obligations require that the visit to India be delayed, but I do very much look forward to visiting later this year," Musk wrote.
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Musk didn't publicly share many details about the trip, but sources told Reuters he planned to announce a $2 to $3 billion investment in India. Musk wants to build a new factory in India, where the EV market is tiny but gaining steam, thet outlet reported.
Musk hinted at India's growing EV market in an X post last week.
"India commits to sell only electric cars by 2030. It is already the largest market for solar power," he wrote.
BI reported in early April that Musk's Tesla has struggled to compete in China's EV market as rival companies make "aggressive price cuts." An equities strategist told BI that Tesla's troubles in China likely contributed to the company's first-quarter delivery miss.
Tesla also recently recalled almost 4,000 of its Cybertrucks over faulty accelerator pedals. Musk wrote on X that Tesla was unaware of any "injuries or accidents" related to the problem.
Russian President Vladimir Putin and Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov.
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Sergey Lavrov suggested that Russia likely intended to launch an operation to seize Kharkiv.
He is the first senior Kremlin official to identify the city as a potential target.
He said the city is important in Russia's "sanitary zone" plans to protect its borders.
Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov has strongly suggested that Russia intends to seize the city of Kharkiv in northeastern Ukraine, making him the first senior Kremlin official to identify the city as a potential target outright.
During a radio interview with Russian state propagandists, Lavrov said Ukraine's second-largest city had "an important role" in Russian President Vladimir Putin's plans to create a demilitarized "sanitary zone" to protect Russian border regions from Ukrainian attacks, the think tank the Institute for the Study of War said in an update on the conflict on Friday.
Moscow has already made it clear that it believes the only way to defend Russian territory is through such a buffer zone, which would put its settlements out of reach of Ukrainian fire.
"Against the backdrop of drone attacks and the shelling of our territory: public facilities, residential buildings, measures must be taken to secure these territories," Kremlin spokesperson Dmitry Peskov said in March.
"They can only be secured by creating some kind of buffer zone so that any means that the enemy uses to strike us are out of range," he added.
Russia has ramped up its attack on Kharkiv in recent weeks, bombarding the city with missiles, guided bombs, and drones in what officials believe is an attempt to cut the city off from supplies and force the evacuation of civilians, Bloomberg reported, citing unnamed officials.
In March, the commander in chief of Ukraine's armed forces, Oleksandr Syrskyi, told Ukrainian news agency Ukrinform that he could not ignore reports about Russia's plans to attack Kharkiv and that his troops were preparing for such an event.
"We are carrying out a whole complex of works on the fortification of territories and positions, installing a complex system of fences, and planning the use of our troops in the event of such actions," he said.
Putin has wanted to take Kharkiv since the start of Russia's full-scale invasion in February 2022.
The city has symbolic as well as strategic value for the Russian president, as it has a majority Russian-speaking population and was the first capital of the Ukrainian Soviet Socialist Republic.
Russia lost nearly all of the territory it had gained in the wider Kharkiv region in 2022 after a rapid Ukrainian counterattack resulted in one of Ukraine's most significant victories of the conflict.
During interviews with the radio stations Sputnik, Govorit Moskva, and Komsomolskaya Pravda, Lavrov also said that Russia was willing to negotiate with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy but that doing so would be "pointless for many reasons," Russian news agency Tass reported.
He added that Russia would not halt its military operation in the event of future talks.
Chinese automaker BYD briefly eclipsed Tesla as the world's top seller of electric vehicles.
Even without access to the American market, BYD's affordable EVs are popular in China.
Here's how a little-known Chinese brand proved it could go toe-to-toe with an industry giant.
BYD may not be a household name in America, but it recently made itself known in a big way.
For a brief moment earlier this year, the Chinese automaker unseated Tesla as the world's top seller of electric cars.
Even though you won't see a BYD car in America (yet), the company has built an affordable brand that's popular in China and elsewhere.
Here's the story of the company that proved it could outsell Elon Musk.
BYD doesn't stand for anything — officially.
The BYD nameplate is associated with the slogan "Build Your Dreams," but that came after the company was formed.
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Wang Chuanfu and a cousin founded BYD in 1995. Then a 29-year-old government researcher, Wang came from a family of rice farmers. He earned a university scholarship and eventually moved to the Special Economic Zone in Shenzhen to start his new company.
The "YD" in the name comes from Yadi, the village in Shenzhen where the company was originally located, according to one South Korean newspaper. The "B" was added later, supposedly as a promotional tool. Wang has said in interviews that, taken together, the "BYD" name didn't stand for anything in particular.
It was only later that Wang derived the slogan "Build Your Dreams." The company has also acquired another nickname: "Bring Your Dollars."
The company was originally a cell phone battery manufacturer.
Hu Jintao, China's vice president in the 1990s, tests a Samsung cellphone. Samsung was one of BYD's earliest customers.
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The company's original business wasn't cars. It was cellphone batteries. BYD challenged established Japanese suppliers Toyota and Sony by providing a cheaper alternative. By 2002, companies like Motorola, Nokia, Sony Ericsson, and Samsung were all using BYD batteries.
They started making cars in 2003.
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BYD moved into the car business after buying Xi'an Tsinchuan, a failing state-owned automaker that was then an arm of defense contractor Norinco, according to the South China Morning Post.
The company launched its first car in 2005. The BYD F3 was a compact sedan that resembled the Toyota Corolla. It sold for as little as 40,000 yuan, or about $5,850.
Warren Buffett was a key early booster.
Wang Chuanfu (left) welcomed investors Charlie Munger, Warren Buffett, and Bill Gates to celebrate the launch of the BYD M6 in 2010.
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Billionaire investor Warren Buffett was one of the high-profile names to take interest in BYD early on. Looking to invest in China's booming car market, Buffett toured BYD's headquarters.
While the Berkshire Hathaway tycoon was there, Wang reportedly took a sip of battery fluid to prove how clean his batteries were, according to The Wall Street Journal. Buffett was so impressed by the experience, he offered to buy 25% of the company.
Wang declined that offer, but Buffett was not deterred. Berkshire Hathaway acquired a 10% stake in BYD — for $232 million — in 2008.
Their first electric car drew scorn from Elon Musk.
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The company debuted its first fully electric vehicle, the e6, in 2010. Benefiting from Chinese government subsidies, it was able to compete with its Japanese counterparts.
But not everyone was impressed. Tesla CEO Elon Musk, in a 2011 interview, laughed when he was asked whether he considered BYD a serious rival to Tesla.
"Have you seen their car?" he said. "I don't think they make a good product. I don't think it's particularly attractive. The technology is not very strong."
BYD's hybrid cars turned it into a titan of Chinese automakers.
Wang Chuanfu introduced the BYD Qin in 2012.
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BYD established itself as one of the top automakers for hybrid vehicles in China in the 2010s. Its most popular offering was the Qin, introduced in 2012, which became one of the bestselling cars in China.
That wasn't the only offering that propelled BYD to prominence, however. The company also released the Tang, a hybrid SUV, and partnered with Daimler AG (now Mercedes-Benz) to make its Denza line.
BYD took the EV crown from Tesla — briefly.
A BYD ATTO 3 in Bangkok.
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Even though most of its sales in the fourth quarter of 2023 came from the Chinese market, BYD made headlines across the globe when it seemingly did the impossible — it unseated Tesla as the world's top seller of electric cars.
The Chinese automaker rode the EV wave on the back of its new Seagull, which debuted for 73,000 yuan (about $10,000), as well as its Song, Qin Plus, Dolphin, Yuan Plus, and Han EVs.
Tesla reclaimed the crown in the first quarter of 2024, though both companies saw steep declines in their sales.
Don't expect to see a BYD car on American roads anytime soon.
New BYD cars wait to be loaded onto a ship in China's Shandong province.
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For a time, it looked like we were just a few years away from getting Chinese electric cars in the United States. A BYD executive said as much in 2017, and the company even hired Leonardo DiCaprio as a brand ambassador for English-speaking customers.
But the company says it has abandoned its plans of selling its EVs to Americans. Analysts have pointed to geopolitical tensions and trade barriers between the two countries, as well as the slumping demand for EVs in the United States.