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Vibe-coding startup Emergent is growing quickly. Emergent/BI As more people use AI-powered tools for coding, it's fueling growth in a new crop of companies. The CEO of vibe-coding startup Emergent joins BI Live to unpack the impact of AI tools, and how he hires. Join the conversation live on Wednesday at 11 a.m. ET. to ask your own questions about vibe coding. As AI gets better and better at writing code, where does that leave software engineers? And, how does it impact the the companies they work for? Business Insider set out to answer these questions with a multi-part series, The Great Coding Reset . The fear that AI will make legacy software giants irrelevant has rattled markets . But the companies building vibe-coding tools have attracted big dollars , and seen their valuations skyrocket. On Wednesday at 11 a.m. ET, Business Insider Today's Dan DeFrancesco sits down with the CEO of one of these fast-growing startups. Mukund Jha is CEO and co-founder of Emergent which launc...

Washington Post : A look at Founders Fund-backed State Affairs, which raised $70M and uses AI trained on reporting by its 76 staffers to power a Bloomberg Terminal-like product   —  State Affairs combines media and technology at a time when tensions between the two industries are at a fever pitch.  —  Summary from Techmeme https://ift.tt/pNmBgLj

Samantha Subin / CNBC : TerraFirma, a construction tech company founded by two former SpaceX engineers to build remote-controlled construction equipment, raised $115M   —  As SpaceX's Elon Musk sells investors on a space economy with life beyond Earth, a two-year-old construction startup founded … from Techmeme https://ift.tt/bhgwoVs

Pharrell Williams and Jay-Z. Courtesy of Roc Nation Jay-Z concluded his star-studded three-night residency at Yankee Stadium on Sunday. The final show, titled "Extra Innings," featured musicians from across the rapper's long career. Beyoncé, Usher, and Rihanna were among the guests brought onstage. On Sunday, New York City's Yankee Stadium was certainly a concrete jungle where dreams are made of — at least, for the thousands of Jay-Z fans who waited hours to see the rapper take the stage for the third and final night of his residency there. A four-hour delay caused the show to kick off around 12:15 a.m., instead of the scheduled 8 p.m. In a joint statement, Roc Nation and Yankee Stadium told Business Insider that "hundreds of individuals in large groups — who did not have tickets to tonight's performance — stormed over peaceful ticketholders, and in some cases, breached security," which led to the gates being closed for "an extended period of time....

Zac Bowden / Windows Central : Microsoft announces a Windows 11 search overhaul that prioritizes local results, removes promotional web content, and more, rolling out to Windows Insiders   —  Windows 11's search user experience is getting a big update, with Microsoft moving to prioritize local results, remove promotional content, and much more. from Techmeme https://ift.tt/t29ExGI

Nilay Patel / The Verge : Q&A with Xinzhou Wu, head of automotive at Nvidia, on Nvidia's chips and AI models for autonomous driving, lidar's usefulness for Level 4 autonomy, and more   —  Xinzhou Wu on autonomy, Chinese cars, and if we really need lidar  —  Today, I'm talking with Xinzhou Wu, who is the head of automotive at Nvidia. from Techmeme https://ift.tt/tUGW48R