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What the US Army is flying is around 90% crewed, 10% drone. Leadership wants to flip that.

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The US Army's aviation portfolio is set for a massive overhaul in the coming years. Tech. Sgt. Matt Hecht/US Air Force The US Army secretary and a top general told BI about the service's plans for what it flies. In the coming years, the Army wants to operate far more unmanned aircraft than manned. US Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth wants the Army to reduce its crewed attack helicopter force and replace it with drones. US Army leadership told Business Insider it wants to be flying a lot more uncrewed aircraft than crewed ones in the coming years. We are talking about a tremendous increase in the number of drones. Its ambitions, which align with goals outlined by US Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth's recent directive , come from a vision for what Army officials and the Trump administration have described as a more lethal force ready for future warfare. In an interview with Business Insider, US Secretary of the Army Daniel Driscoll and Gen. James Rainey, the comman...

Ilya Sutskever becomes the CEO of Safe Superintelligence, the AI startup he co-founded after leaving OpenAI; Meta reportedly poached previous CEO Daniel Gross (Ashley Capoot/CNBC)

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Ashley Capoot / CNBC : Ilya Sutskever becomes the CEO of Safe Superintelligence, the AI startup he co-founded after leaving OpenAI; Meta reportedly poached previous CEO Daniel Gross   —  OpenAI co-founder Ilya Sutskever said he will assume the CEO role at Safe Superintelligence, the artificial intelligence startup he launched last year. from Techmeme https://ift.tt/GOpjInX

The best chocolates, according to a professional chocolatier

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When you buy through our links, Business Insider may earn an affiliate commission. Learn more Bon Bon Bon; Christopher Elbow; Dandelion Chocolate Factory; EHChocolatier; Fran's Chocolates; See's Candies; Gilbert Espinoza/Business Insider The best chocolates bring joy, convey love, heal heartache, and forge connections. Whether you're seeking the most unusual flavor combinations or you relish a bold single-origin bar, the world of chocolate has something for everyone. To find the best chocolates, I sampled 45 top brands for appearance, flavor, and texture. Our favorite brand for gifting is La Maison du Chocolat , thanks to its elegance and objective allure. We also love Compartés for the brand's joyful flavor innovations, like incorporating glazed donut pieces into a chocolate bar. My career revolves around chocolate: from training at the Culinary Institute of America and the Chocolate Academy , in Chicago to working at EHChocolatier , a Massachusetts-based art...

Perplexity launches a $200/month Max plan with unlimited Labs access, early access to features like Comet browser, and priority use of models like o3-pro (Maxwell Zeff/TechCrunch)

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Maxwell Zeff / TechCrunch : Perplexity launches a $200/month Max plan with unlimited Labs access, early access to features like Comet browser, and priority use of models like o3-pro   —  Perplexity is launching a $200-per-month subscription plan for its power users, the company announced in a blog post Tuesday. from Techmeme https://ift.tt/ru1q8Ln

TikTok lays off workers from the US division of TikTok Shop, the third round of layoffs for the team since April, after a year of missing internal sales targets (Bloomberg)

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Bloomberg : TikTok lays off workers from the US division of TikTok Shop, the third round of layoffs for the team since April, after a year of missing internal sales targets   —  TikTok is cutting more workers from its US e-commerce division, TikTok Shop, the third round of layoffs for that team since April. from Techmeme https://ift.tt/HjL2uXS

'28 Years Later' actor Chi Lewis-Parry said he scared Danny Boyle into casting him as Samson the Alpha

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Chi Lewis-Parry at the "28 Years Later" premiere and in an exclusive behind-the-scenes photo from the film. John Phillips/Getty Images/Chi Lewis-Parry/Sony Chi Lewis-Parry played the infected Alpha, Samson, in Danny Boyle's "28 Years Later." The actor told BI he impressed Boyle in his audition by sprinting at him from across the room. "Every time he tried to move, I would nudge him into place," he said. When director Danny Boyle told the actor Chi Lewis-Parry "terrify me" during his audition for " 28 Years Later ," he probably didn't expect the 6-foot-8-inch former MMA fighter to sprint at him from across a large room. But this unique approach helped Lewis-Parry land the role of Samson, a terrifying new type of the infected called an Alpha , in the horror sequel that hit cinemas in June. Samson appears in several spine-tingling sequences in the film to showcase how the Rage Virus has evolved since the original outbre...

Sam Altman said in a memo to staff, "missionaries will beat mercenaries" and "I believe there is much, much more upside to OpenAI stock than Meta stock" (Zoë Schiffer/Wired)

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Zoë Schiffer / Wired : Sam Altman said in a memo to staff, “missionaries will beat mercenaries” and “I believe there is much, much more upside to OpenAI stock than Meta stock”   —  “What Meta is doing will, in my opinion, lead to very deep cultural problems,” said CEO Sam Altman in a leaked memo sent to OpenAI researchers. from Techmeme https://ift.tt/WlmfLIt