Google's scheme to get a huge trove of data from Spirit Airlines to train its AI models is one stage nearer following it cleared a key privacy hurdle.

The Association of Flight Attendants stated Tuesday that alongside another unions it had reached a agreement to defend the individual data of erstwhile Spirit staff. It called the accord "an historic win for employee privacy protections."

After Spirit close downward in May, its resources were put up for auction. Google won the bid to pay $10 myriad for data including 500 myriad Microsoft Teams chats, 100 myriad emails, and another inner documents. Google has stated the data would assistance enhance its products and AI models.

But the transaction has been held up in bankruptcy court complete privacy concerns, particularly concerning particulars of personnel and customers held by Spirit.

Last month, 121 members of Congress, led by Sen. Elizabeth Warren, raised concerns concerning the deal. A court-appointed privacy ombudsman recommended the agreement be approved following individual data concerning 97 myriad Spirit customers was excluded.

Aviation unions and public-interest groups withdrew their objections to the transaction on Monday night following reaching a agreement alongside Google concerning Spirit employees' data.

They accepted on excluding data covering employees' medicinal and impairment history, medication or liquor evaluation records, payroll records, and more, the AFA said.

The union additionally stated it had won a additional rigorous de-identification procedure than earlier planned, and Google is prohibited from attempting to reidentify the data.

"Worker data privacy in the age of AI has rotate into a entire new worker's entitlements issue," stated Sara Nelson, global chairman of the AFA-CWA.

"Without our union, there would have been no one to conversation for workers in this blaze transaction of their personal information. We clashed and we won brand new protections," she added.

"Now we volition obtain this matter to all of our employers to safe contractual protections, and petition lawmakers defend workers everyplace through national and province law."

Google did not immediately react to a petition for comment.

Last month, the business stated it was "not looking to buy any individual data from Spirit," Reuters reported.

"The data volition either be entirely excluded or volition be de-identified by an autonomous third gathering before Google receives any data," it added.

When was the final period you idea person was lying to you? Was it what they said, how they stated it, or item else?

For Michele Rigby Assad, there was a period whenever determining whether person was telling the fact meant the difference between existence and death.

Assad spent a decade as an undercover CIA officer evaluating sources throughout the Middle East and an additional 14 years as a company and safety adviser to companies functioning in the Near East.

She says an indicator that person may be lying isn't continually what they say — it's whenever their behavior changes.

"We lean to see clusters of behavioral indicators that person is not being forthright," she said.

Assad, who joined the CIA shortly following 9/11 and afterward specialized in counterterrorism, stated she learned first in her occupation that many sources fabricated or embellished information. Spotting those lies became among the most crucial parts of her job, she added.

Her direction isn't to appearance for a sole worldwide "tell," specified as avoiding eye communication or fidgeting.

Instead, she says the key is establishing what someone's normal behavior looks akin before asking the difficult questions.

The biggest clue can be a alter in behavior

Assad recalled one discussion alongside an Arab intellect authoritative she had been asked to measure for possible counterintelligence concerns.

After reviewing his case file, she stated she developed a theory that he power be secretly operating alongside another country's intellect assistance during additionally providing information to the CIA.

She spent hours interviewing him, archetypal establishing what his normal build tongue looked akin before moving into additional delicate territory.

Rather than accusing him directly, Assad stated she started naming countries she believed he could be operating with.

"Then I got to the possibly problematic country," she said.

The man's reply was immediate.

"He sat up, took the pillow from the couch that he'd been sitting on, pulled it out from rearward him, and afterward balled up and started hugging the pillow," Assad recalled.

When she changed the subject, he relaxed and put the pillow back. A few minutes later, she brought up the identical country. Once again, he grabbed the pillow. "He doesn't equal cognize he's doing it," she said.

Years later, she said, she learned her appraisal had been correct: the authoritative had been secretly operating alongside another country's intellect service.

Those kinds of behavioral shifts are additional meaningful than any sole motion since they're deviations from a person's baseline, she said.

She saw akin reactions throughout her career.

One origin built a partition out of Coke cans — a literal bodily obstacle between her and them — during answering uncomfortable questions. Another abruptly jumped out of his place and ran to the washroom following she asked concerning his wife.

The item isn't that hugging a pillow or leaving the area method person is lying. It's that group frequently display emphasis in unexpected ways whenever they encounter a topic they'd fairly avoid, she said.

Pay notice to what's missing

Assad stated her biggest breakthrough as an intellect authoritative came whenever she stopped focusing lone on what group were saying and started paying equal notice to what they weren't saying.

In one case, she stated she spent eight hours interviewing a origin who was suspected of being a double agent. She eventually left, convinced she'd learned nothing.

Nearly two weeks later, following reviewing her notes, she realized, "It wasn't what he said. It's what he didn't say that entire period I spent alongside him. That's the clue to this case," she said.

The origin had never formerly spoken poorly of the authorities he was pretending to activity against, but was really secretly operating for, she said.

For Assad, those subtle changes in behavior, blended alongside careful questioning and patience, proved far additional dependable than the theatrical lie detectors frequently portrayed in movies.

$1.4 trillion valuation. $90 milliard raised.

That's Anthropic's best-case circumstance for its upcoming first community offering, according to its latest regulatory filing.

It's now up to the AI startup and its bankers to drum up involvement alongside investors during its IPO highway show, which started yesterday. The AI startup expects to cost shares between $70 and $78.

An authoritative go-public date hasn't been set, but the end of next week appears the apt candidate.

One item that's not up to chance: The investors that committed to purchasing $26 milliard in Anthropic shares at its IPO price.

The backers are several of the biggest names in the AI race, including Broadcom, Google, and Nvidia. It highlights an ongoing criticism of the industry relying too heavily on circular financing.

BI's Joe Ciolli, author of the First Trade newsletter, unpacks the decision to make an AI-heavy personal placement in conjunction alongside the IPO.

Aropic's IPO is an capitalist referendum on AI.

It's a chance for investors to either assistance (or avoid) a new, key bellwether for the AI industry.

The final period the broad community had its say on AI, things didn't go fine for the tech. (See: midterms.)

Granted, these are investors, not broad voters. Their involvement is small concerning data centers in their backyard and additional concerning whether it's a endeavor that'll keep the inventory cost going up following they buy it.

Anthropic's IPO paperwork, which shows the soaring compute disbursal needed to keep income growing, doesn't necessarily create that an uncomplicated sell either.

Brian Boland knows item concerning going community in a challenging market. He was a vice chairman at Facebook during its disastrous 2012 IPO. He said to BI's Stephen Council concerning that cognition and the similarities he sees alongside Anthropic's looming IPO.

Facebook (now Meta) eventually figured it out, but it took additional than a twelvemonth for it to regain and near complete its IPO price.

With so much riding on AI, the stakes are much higher this period around. It's unclear if the market could stomach an AI darling underperforming for that long.

Regardless of Anthropic's IPO performance, one collection (besides first investors and employees) is already coming out ahead. The startup has budgeted a staggering $41.5 myriad in lawful fees for its IPO, nearly twice what SpaceX planned during its record-breaking IPO.

Joel Thomas was hooked the instant he saw the pay rate.

Handshake AI, the startup rearward a career-services app that his university recommended, welcomed him to use in August for AI training work paying $50 an hr or more. That would be enough, he figured, to shield his university expenses for a entire year.

Now, Thomas says, he is due concerning $11,000 in rear pay for hundreds of hours of activity he did on Handshake's platform. Handshake has denied his appeals. The business told him there was no document of his activity on one project during the third week of August, although a Handshake pay declaration showed he had completed hundreds of tasks that week.

He isn't alone. Nearly two dozen current and erstwhile contractors told Business Insider that Handshake this twelvemonth underpaid them by hundreds or thousands of dollars each. Disputes from those contractors complete the former six months totaled $64,000, the contractors said.

Handshake stated that additional than 188,000 contractors have earned complete $500 myriad for AI training projects on its platform. Startups akin Handshake have recruited armies of students and young professionals about the earth to train AI models for tech giants specified as Meta, Google, OpenAI, and Anthropic. The booming AI-training industry has arrive under expanding scrutiny this year for the way it treats that sprawling contractor workforce.

Pay disputes at Handshake arose for multiple reasons, a Business Insider inquiry found. In many cases, contractors' pay didn't equivalent the dollar amounts they expected since of differences in the way Handshake and its clients tracked period and pay.

Former staffers stated insufficient full-time personnel and force to provision training data at a breakneck speed additionally contributed to the fee problems. Project managers didn't have period to location contractors' questions — specified as whenever several contractors established that instructions for a project were confusing or contradictory, erstwhile workforce and contractors said. Once a contractor completed a task, it was topic to review; if a contractor didn't comprehend the instructions and the project didn't continue the review, the contractor wouldn't be paid for the work, erstwhile workforce said.

On several marquee projects, one individual could be liable for managing up to 1,000 contractors, erstwhile staffers acquainted alongside the operations said. Business Insider reviewed bank statements, pay stubs, and hundreds of email and Slack messages between contractors and the company.

Thomas, a soft-spoken younger who in his downtime likes to hike near his northern Virginia home, stated he has tried to remain positive.

"It's difficult to do since it's motionless a lot of money," he said.

'Competitive pay, apparent expectations'

Business Insider first reported in March that dozens of contractors were complaining that Handshake had denied them payments, and that one contractor had won a $6,475 judgement in small-claims court. Handshake, in many cases, told contractors in automated messages that their accounts had been closed since they had violated phase rules. In October, following Business Insider sent Handshake detailed questions for this story, the business introduced changes to its phase that it stated would enhance pay transparency for contractors, whom Handshake calls "fellows."

Handshake stated it has made contractor pay clearer alongside a new payments dashboard, additional explanations for adjustments, and an easier disagreement process. Handshake stated it is additionally rolling out a new live timer to track activity on third-party platforms. The business told Business Insider that any contractor who believes a fee decision was wrong, or who has new information, can lift it again alongside the company's assistance team.

"Our Fellows are the bosom of Handshake AI," the business wrote in an October blog post. "As part of being a Fellow you should continually cognize what you earned, how it was calculated and whenever it volition arrive. That's a essential anticipation for anyone doing activity alongside Handshake AI, and we're committed to gathering it for all Fellow."

Handshake declined to comment on Thomas' situation, saying it doesn't comment on idiosyncratic cases.

"We obtain all disagreement seriously," the business spokesman said.

On podcasts and in LinkedIn posts, Handshake CEO Garrett Lord has often thrown transparent, dependable pay as among the company's advantages complete its rivals, which contain Scale AI and Mercor. He has stated complaints concerning delayed payments at another AI-training companies contributed to Handshake's decision to act the business.

"Most AI gigs = shifting rates, zero transparency," Lord wrote in a LinkedIn post final year. "Handshake AI = rivalrous pay, apparent expectations, and genuine dialogue. That's what experts deserve."

The AI pivot

Thomas was a sophomore at Liberty University in Lynchburg, Virginia, whenever the academy directed him to Handshake's platform, which hosts a virtual occupation fair for the school. He signed up for an document on Handshake in January.

On its website, Liberty University says it doesn't endorse content, jobs, or employers on Handshake.

"Liberty University cannot justify that use of any of these products solitary volition justify the person a affirmative outcome," it says. The academy didn't react to requests for comment.

Not lengthy following he signed up, Thomas began receiving invitations from Handshake to activity on AI training projects, which the business pivoted into final year.

Handshake, founded in 2014 by three Michigan Tech students, had started out as a occupation platform. Students who connected their Handshake accounts to their academy could hunt and use for internships and entry-level jobs, enroll for occupation fairs, and nexus alongside employers and alumni, among another services.

Colleges and universities paid Handshake a fee to nexus their students alongside prospective employers. As the AI surge became a magnet for capitalist cash, Handshake saw a bigger opportunity.

In January 2025, Handshake expanded into AI training, tapping its network of students and young alumni to assistance frontier labs train and measure their AI models. Handshake additionally rebranded, adding AI to its name.

A slew of startups akin Handshake pay gig workers to assistance create ample tongue AI models akin ChatGPT smarter. These contractors do tasks akin penning expert answers to example prompts, designing edge-case questions to test models and disclose weaknesses, and rating AI-generated responses.

Handshake's AI endeavor has exploded: Lord stated in August that its AI component had grown to additional than $1 milliard in income annualized revenue. The bulk of Handshake's revenue, erstwhile staffers told Business Insider, now comes from AI-training contracts alongside five clients: Meta, Google, OpenAI, Nvidia, and Anthropic.

Racking up the hours

"Great news!" the email said. "We have a new project through Handshake AI that we think you'd be curious in."

Thomas had taken on a brace of small Handshake AI training projects in the spring, but stopped since the hourly rates were low — about $17 per hr or less. This invitation and another that arrived in August were additional enticing. These two projects would pay $50 per hr and $65 per task, respectively.

He got correct to work, preparedness to log as many hours as imaginable before his younger twelvemonth started.

Thomas recalls that he would awaken about 8 a.m. or 9 a.m., have a coffee, and commencement operating at his laptop, sitting at the pale array in his bedroom. Wearing AirPods, he cycled through R&B from Chris Brown and Bryson Tiller. Back at his array following gym and dinner, he worked until midnight or 1 a.m.

Inside Handshake, staffers were pulling likewise lengthy hours, erstwhile workforce said. The business was scrambling to provision an ever-growing amount of training data to its clients.

Project managers used AI coding tools akin Claude or Lovable to create instructions and prompts for contractors, but they were sometimes contradictory, foremost contractors to search clarification on their tasks, erstwhile workforce said.

Questions from contractors piled up on Slack, and project managers didn't have period to answer them all, the erstwhile workforce said.

One of Thomas' projects was called Project Folio, a study of ChatGPT use patterns for which he was asked to upload his former conversation logs alongside ChatGPT. For another project, he had to measure ChatGPT responses.

As he racked up hours, Thomas could see his earnings ticking up on his Handshake dashboard. At one point, the figure topped $19,000, he says.

There was item crucial concerning that dashboard that Thomas says he didn't know.

Like most AI-training platforms, Handshake pays contractors in units that audio intuitive — dollars per hour, or dollars per task.

The dollar figures that Thomas and another Handshake contractors saw on their dashboards were estimates according to the period they had manually logged by starting and stopping a timer. The AI business paying for the project had another timer logging their activity — a timer that the contractors couldn't see, erstwhile Handshake workforce told Business Insider.

Before paying contractors, Handshake compared the contractor's self-reported hours alongside the client's timer.

Handshake didn't inform contractors what counted as billable time, or how it was calculated by the client, erstwhile contractors and workforce said.

"Final pay reflects the activity our systems verify," the Handshake spokesman told Business Insider. "Where logged period doesn't equivalent the work, we assessment it, and anywhere we discover inflated period we don't pay for it."

Handshake stated the business is committed to paying contractors accurately for the period they activity and making certain it's apparent how much they volition be paid.

When a contractor disagrees alongside a fee decision, "a dedicated squad autonomous of the project reviews it in complete and can reconstruct all or part of the amount," the Handshake spokesman said.

'This is ridiculous'

Thomas transferred to the University of Mary Washington in the fall. He was in the archive during his archetypal week of classes there whenever he saw a fee arrive through from Handshake. It was far lesser than he expected.

Angry and confused, he went to Reddit, anywhere AI trainers frequently conversation concerning their activity for Handshake and its competitors. He posted a screenshot of the fee and wrote: "This is specified a scum item to do and I am unsure what I should do. Just desire to disclose them as much as imaginable since this is ridiculous."

Another person suggested person at the business whom Thomas could contact. Thomas says the reply he received from Handshake wasn't reassuring.

By the period his next fee arrived, Thomas was braced for another disappointment. It, too, came up short, Thomas said. In all, he was paid $8,000 for what he believed was $19,000 value of work.

He hadn't captured a screenshot whenever his dashboard showed $19,000, but he had captured one whenever it showed $15,741.23 "awaiting payout" on his account. He emailed the screenshot to Handshake assistance staff.

"I extremely propose you inspect your systems," Thomas wrote in an August 27 email.

Handshake told him that the "awaiting payout" fig was an evaluation according to the times he had clocked in and out on the Handshake timer, and that before final payment, the business had checked his period against his completed tasks. For the duration of August 17 to August 23, the business told him, "our project leads did not discover any tasking that took location during this period frame."

This clarification seemed to battle alongside a pay declaration Thomas received for that period, showing that he completed 428 tasks for Project Novel and would obtain no pay for them.

A Handshake spokesman told Business Insider that contractors aren't paid for tasks if the tasks aren't approved by reviewers, and that the expression "no tasking took place" is shorthand for "no verified work." The business may refuse fee for period that exceeds a project cap, or for logged period that doesn't equivalent the recorded work, the spokesman added.

Handshake notified Thomas that it had deactivated his document since of irregular action "that does not align alongside our phase policies and use expectations."

Thomas remains carefully optimistic concerning how AI power form his career. He stated he sees AI as a helpful tool for assisting work, particularly in science, technology, engineering, and math. At the identical time, he worries that AI volition substitute too many jobs and could create it harder for several group to discover work.

He's motionless open to assisting train AI models. But he's stated up on getting any additional pay from Handshake.

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Your favorite AI tool at activity power shortly arrive alongside a budget, a gatekeeper, or both.

After years of urging personnel to clasp the technology, companies including Goldman Sachs, Cisco, and JPMorgan are taking a additional targeted method to deploying it. From environment budgets and tracking use to restricting admission to certain workforce or tools, the distinct strategies arrive as companies spill ever-larger sums into AI and search to decrease safety risks.

Many employers are realizing that AI use is "really picking up" and they need to set guardrails, stated Lari Hämäläinen, a elder partner in McKinsey & Company's technology, media, and telecommunications practice.

At Goldman Sachs, CEO and chairman David Solomon stated this duration that during the financial institution is quickly expanding the range of AI tools it provides to its 45,000 employees, it doesn't create awareness for all of them to have admission to the most advanced models all day.

"We need frontier models for certain things, particularly cyber," he told Bloomberg TV. However, "there are a lot of things anywhere we don't need the frontier" to assistance workforce be additional productive.

Other companies are limiting AI spending following archetypal using looser policies to run adoption. Cisco's chief merchandise officer, Jeetu Patel, compared the company's first method to learning to journey a bicycle: Coding teams got months of unlimited tokens to rotate into fluent alongside AI before worrying concerning efficiency, he stated final duration on the CXOTalk podcast. As use has grown, Patel stated managers throughout his 32,000-person squad would obtain token budgets.

In September, JPMorgan imposed a monthly $2,000 cap on several engineers' use of Anthropic's Claude Code, Business Insider earlier reported. A spokesman stated the financial institution was tying expenses to productivity, quality, hazard reduction, and endeavor impact.

More tokens, additional money

The move toward tighter oversight of AI in the office comes months following several employers boasted how many tokens their workforces were gobbling up.

Visa stated it doubled its monthly token use from 1 trillion in February to nearly 2 trillion in March and that it was giving prizes to its AI power users. In March, Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang stated the business was trying to expend as much as $2 milliard annually on tokens for its engineers — and that he would be "deeply alarmed" if a $500,000 engineer used small than $250,000 worth.

Making all token count

Now, rising AI spending is prompting companies to change their concentration from expanding use to maximizing their investment.

A new study from Menlo Ventures established that endeavor AI deployment spending reached $177 milliard by September, up from $33 milliard in all of 2025. Meanwhile, lone 13% of concerning 2,000 tech executives polled by Gartner from May through July stated their organizations had gained important value from AI.

Companies' AI bills may be ballooning in part since workers have small incentive to curb their use, stated Alex Sobol, cofounder of the Millennium Alliance, an invite-only community for C-suite executives. Without limits, "they're going to use it in all imaginable way they can," he said.

Broad AI admission can additionally create safety risks if used improperly — another logic companies power be getting additional judicious. A 2025 KPMG study of additional than 1,000 US workers established that 44% were using AI at activity without authority or in inappropriate ways, during 46% had uploaded delicate business data or intelligent asset to community AI platforms.

Rippling, a workforce-management application startup, set monthly caps in August on AI tools following projecting token spending could attain 40% of its R&D caput figure budget. The business stated those limits and additional productive example routing lowered that projection to between 10% and 15% during token use remained near its former peak.

"The item isn't to cut AI costs," Matt MacInnis, Rippling's chief merchandise officer, stated in a declaration to Business Insider. "We're really fine alongside disbursal growth, provided it's productive."

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When my two sons were babies, I was one of those moms. As a "sanctimommy," I was obsessed alongside giving them the finest commencement in life.

It started effortlessly enough, alongside exclusively breastfeeding. Then, whenever they started dining solids, I made all my own baby food. I spent hours smoky and pureeing create and vegetables, and freezing them in small ice cube trays. If we were on the go and my babies needed a snack, I'd skip the jarred baby food and mash up a banana alongside a fork. I was all natural, all the time.

I never made my kids the customary family favorites akin icy pizza, mac and cheese, or poultry nuggets. When my older son turned 6 and requested kale and roast poultry for his anniversary dinner, I felt akin I was crushing it as a parent. My kids equal ate cancer legs and oysters! I was smug.

They went to school, and vegetables disappeared

The fit meals I packed in class academy started to disappear in center academy whenever they stopped bringing their own lunches. The boys ate what their peers did in the cafeteria, specified as nacho bowls and French toast sticks.

Their cafeteria equal had a slushie device and ice cream. I let it go since it was fair lunch, and I was additionally secretly thrilled concerning not having to expend my dawn packing lunches.

My sons are now in elevated school, and they're allowed to depart evidence for lunch. With liberty and their own money, lunch has rotate into a dependable rotation of pizza, convenience shop snacks, and Chick-fil-A.

On particularly rushed mornings, I've equal handed them any baked products we have on hand for breakfast, specified as leftover cake. Convenience and sanity win out complete nutrition. Yes, I have certainly softened my stance on food.

I learned how to let go

I motionless chef fit meals and keep nutritious food in the home since that's how my hubby and I akin to eat, and I'm trying to example fine dining habits. But now that my children are 14 and 18, I no longer police everything they eat.

I'm tired of food being one additional item to hassle them about. I'm already on top of them for grades, chores, and curfews, and this twelvemonth we're additionally dealing alongside university applications. I don't desire my association alongside my kids to be all concerning conflict. Food was the easier one to provision up on a bit.

As I observe my kids demolish a bundle of Mallomars, washed downward alongside a Monster Energy drink, I shudder inwardly but prompt myself I can't authority everything. And I don't think I should. Raising kids is additionally concerning learning to let go and let them create their own decisions, equal whenever we may not concur alongside them.

What additionally helped me stage rear is remembering the junk I used to eat as a teenager. Eventually, I grew out of it and started paying notice to how distinct foods made me feel. I have to rely my kids volition fig that out, too.

What really matters now

My boys have not eaten dark, leafy greens in years, but I'm reconsidering what it method to lift a "good eater." My older son regularly hosts his allies for barbecues and can grill a average steak. Vegetables are noticeably absent, but I'm impressed that he can chef and has learned the joy of dining alongside friends. My younger son loves to go out for Korean food alongside his buddies.

Maybe raising fine eaters (and fine humans) isn't concerning how much kale they consume, but concerning letting kids discover their own way and recognizing that food brings group together, equal if it's complete a bag of Takis.

I was, as they say, influenced.

When I archetypal booked a escape from New York City to Portland, Oregon, on Alaska Airlines for a friend's wedding, I went for the cheapest diet in trainer — no changes, no place selection, and final to board.

Then, I started penning concerning Alaska Airlines' — and the broader transporter industry's — shove to attract additional premium customers.

Curious concerning this trend — and tempted by a $162 upgrade offered at check-in for my escape — I decided to test Alaska's current "Premium Class" product. You know, for science.

Plus, I had already been assigned a center place in the rear of the aircraft and didn't relish the idea of spending six hours crammed in regular coach.

The upgrade from Main Cabin disbursal nearly as much as the escape itself. It came alongside several perks, including first boarding and additional legroom, but I quickly realized Alaska's "Premium Class" motionless felt akin an extra-legroom economics place — not the elevated division the name had led me to picture.

Here's why it wasn't value the upgrade for me.

Seventy Amazon packages were piled up at an RV park near Cedar Rapids, Iowa.

They weren't for the tourists passing through to act an ancient display or see the nearby historic German villages, says Jamie Wolter, the director of Amana RV Park & Event Center. They're for the hundreds of data center workers now living at the park.

Typically, the 450-campsite park hosts up to 60 long-term campers, but now that Google and QTS are the two construction data centers in the area, workers have come from as far distant as Oregon and Washington. Some bring spouses and children they homeschool. Staff who used to site complaints concerning missing blaze rings now have to decide whether to ask person who's rearward on rent to move their home.

"It's akin you're a landlord now, and you never used to be," Wolter says.

Still, she credits the data center workers alongside assisting mitigate a decrease in RV tourists because of gas prices. "Without these long-term guests, it would have been terrible."

As building workers crisscross the nation for high-paying data center jobs, several are putting their per diem toward an RV. While operating on among the biggest infrastructure buildouts in US history, they could be at a location anyplace from a few months to a few years, frequently in places anywhere hotels and short-term rentals are scarce or expensive. If they discover a place in packed campsites, a journey trailer can extend their accommodation allowance further, shorten their commute, and create area for family and pets — all during "chasing that data center money". It can additionally go alongside them to the next job whenever construction ends.

The trend is a much-needed boost for the RV industry, which has tumbled from its epidemic high. US wholesale RV shipments fell 13.7% through September compared alongside the identical duration final year; revenue to data center workers are assisting several dealers climate the slump. Meanwhile, campgrounds built for tourists are filling up alongside data center workers — and their operators are learning what it method to be inundated alongside long-term tenants.

At ATC RV Center in Cedar Rapids, Iowa, data center workers helped keep component revenue approximately flat from a twelvemonth earlier. "Without them, it would have been really dilatory for us," director Joel Philipp says.

Because RVs are mostly a leisure purchase, revenue are particularly exposed whenever households cut back. "It's normally the archetypal into a recession and the final out," he says of the industry. "You don't need it, you desire it."

His dealership used geofencing to mark ads to group using their phones about data center building sites. The idea was to attain workers curious in RVs on their breaks, whenever they browse Facebook or ESPN on their phones — and it worked. A figure of those group turned up to buy RVs, he says.

In Louisiana, Bayou Outdoor Supercenter offers workers on Meta's Hyperion project a calculator that compares the disbursal of staying in a inn alongside the disbursal of purchasing an RV they can obtain to their next job.

At Clear Creek RVs in Abilene, promotion director Shannon Calkins estimates concerning fractional the dealership's endeavor now comes from data center workers. Before the buildout, workers purchasing RVs for housing, including group on pipeline and sun-related projects, accounted for concerning 15% to 20% of its business. Calkins credits new customers alongside assisting Clear Creek continue to develop in a difficult market.

Most data center buyers opt for smaller, cheaper journey trailers, Calkins says. Her backing squad has seen per diems ranging from concerning $100 to $300 a day. A smaller trailer can disbursal about $20,000, and depending on the loan, payments can arrive in at $400 a duration or less. A $400 trailer paired alongside a $600 campsite would put the disbursal at $1,000 a duration before electricity, insurance, or food.

Calkins says several buyers have constricted credit histories, which can create loans harder to get and additional costly whenever they do qualify. But a employee who would alternatively expend that prosperity on hotel rooms can put several of it toward a trailer they'll motionless own whenever the job is over. In Cedar Rapids, Philipp did see several petition for larger fifth-wheel RVs, which he says could run $60,000 to $70,000, but those typically came from coworkers looking for bunkhouse models they could portion or tradespeople bringing their families.

At Abilene RV Park in Texas, all the weekly and monthly spaces and long-term cabins were complete whenever I said alongside director Debbie Coffey. Data center workers create up most of her long-term guests, and she says there's continually a waitlist of 20 to 30 people.

Coffey spends so much period handling deliveries that she feels "like a communication female concerning fractional the day all day." There's additional activity keeping up the showers, restrooms, and laundry room, too. The park lately risen its monthly charge by $50, to $600 affirmative electricity, to assistance shield higher asset taxes and upkeep costs.

She keeps concerning five of the park's 66 spaces open for group passing through, the guests she's counting on to arrive rear whenever data center construction winds down.

Near Meta's sprawling data center evidence in Richland Parish, Louisiana, Corporate Mobile Housing's Dunn Village provides building workers alongside rooms in mobile homes as fine as 170 spaces for them to bring their own RVs. Heather Kleinpeter, the company's director of strategic growth, says data centers have stated a new existence to a endeavor whose owners had been considering retirement. Founded following Hurricane Katrina in 2005 to home workers pumping h2o out of New Orleans, the endeavor afterward pivoted to accommodating oil and gas workers. Prior to Meta's Louisiana data center announcement in delayed 2024, Corporate Mobile Housing provided 300 beds. It's now at 1,500, and Kleinpeter expects that figure to twice next year.

Two of Kleinpeter's sons activity in data centers and have the two lived in standardized accommodation at Dunn Village. In her parks and about Richland Parish, she sees all kinds of workers living in RVs, from younger ones who don't need much area to retirees picking up activity again to group traveling alongside kids or dogs. That method campers alongside small fences, swings, and kids' bikes out front. At several parks, food trucks have set up shop to market breakfast.

"People are fair taking advantage of the chance on all level," she says.

The chance comes alongside an end date. Meta says its expanded Richland Parish evidence volition assistance additional than 7,500 jobs at highest building and 1,000 formerly it's operating. When data building projects finish, the traveling crews volition need another job — and location alternatively to park their RVs.

Kleinpeter says Corporate Mobile Housing is preparedness five to seven years out. Afterward, the business could move several of the standardized homes to another job or discover a new use for district it has already armed alongside water, sewer, and electricity. It depends on what the parish looks akin then.

"It's going to be a company like, 'What does the municipality want?'" Kleinpeter says.

Future data center projects additionally visage a tougher governmental climate. In this month's midterms, Texas elected Gina Hinojosa, who backs a statewide moratorium on new data center approvals, as governor. Texas accounts for concerning one in five US data center buildings that are planned or under construction, according to industry tracker Cleanview. Michigan backed Abdul El-Sayed, who has called for a intermission on new developments, for the Senate. Voters in multiple towns throughout the nation additionally approved measures to restrict or ban new data centers.

Around Abilene, Calkins has watched new RV parks pop up in fields, several small additional than shattered gravel and usefulness hookups. Some of these parks have plentifulness of space, she says, equal during established parks are turning distant monthly renters. When the activity dries up, she figures the crews volition hitch up their trailers and obtain them to the next job.

It's the parks they depart rearward that she thinks volition market for "pennies on the dollar."

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I was a escape attendant for Emirates for four years before leaving at the end of 2025.

The glamorous manner everyone sees on Instagram — buying in Milan, matcha in Japan, and safaris in Africa — is real. I loved seeing the world, and Emirates paid for my accommodation in Dubai.

But there is a hidden actuality beyond what group see on social media.

During my years in the skies, I spent much of my period off jet-lagged or sick, and I had to adhere to strict attractiveness standards, encounter demanding client assistance expectations, and had no authority complete who I lived with.

With all its perks, being an Emirates escape attendant is a durable occupation that was additional mentally and physically demanding than I thought.

Here were the finest and worst parts of my job.

The uniform made us appearance glamorous, but maintaining that depiction took hours of work

While I had to be at the aircraft at a certain time, I normally had to awaken up three hours before fair to get ready.

Before all flight, following I passed through immigration in Dubai, I'd get a uniform check. If it wasn't absolutely ironed, they sent me to metal it. If a tress liberated my bun, I had to redo it. They additionally looked at nail polish, which had to be a particular color.

A few years ago, Emirates built a attractiveness hub at the agency to assistance pine up the flight attendant look. It brought in composition specialists from brands akin Dior.

When I visited the attractiveness hub, a French composition expert showed me which hairstyle suited my tress category and told me I didn't need eyeliner.

I traveled a lot and stayed in luxury hotels, but I was frequently jet-lagged

Most layovers were 24 hours, but sometimes we got 56, depending on the route.

In New York, I stayed in Times Square, and in Budapest the inn overlooked the Danube River. At these hotels, there was a lounge specifically for Emirates crew anywhere we could suspend out.

But that doesn't average I was skipping through Manhattan alongside apparent skin and bagless eyes. I frequently worked long-haul flights from Dubai to the US or Australia, so many of these layovers came following operating a 16-hour flight, landing in an contrary period zone.

I had to power myself to remain awake for sightseeing or sleep the entire layover. In several layovers, the lone item I saw was the inn room: I formerly entered a Miami inn at 9 am, wanting lone to sleep and entirely skipping the day I'd planned at Miami Beach.

Overnight turnarounds were particularly hard: sometimes I remaining residence at 10 pm and returned at 2 pm the next day, serving hundreds of passengers in row alongside Emirates' elevated client assistance expectations.

Switching my build clock continually during simultaneously being keen for my flights was a changeless battle. Melatonin didn't help, but reducing caffeine and trying to sleep in row alongside my biologic clock, at smallest on my days off, helped a bit.

I lived in Dubai for free, but the business controlled anywhere I lived

I lived in accommodation designated for Emirates crew; the entire neighborhood was crew-only. Some of these accommodations are in Dubai's most costly areas, specified as Business Bay.

This was among the finest perks since rent in Dubai can be expensive: a adecent one-bedroom flat could disbursal 5,000 AED to 9,000 AED a duration (up to concerning $2,500), depending on whether you were inner or exterior the city center.

Still, the squad apartments were shared, and I couldn't choose anywhere I wanted to live.

Emirates additionally offers a accommodation allowance for living elsewhere, but I wasn't eligible since I wasn't married, didn't have family in Dubai, and didn't own a house.

I earned fine prosperity and got awesome benefits, but I had small authority complete my leave

When flying for Emirates, I received a base salary of concerning 5,000 AED, affirmative flying hours paid at about 60 AED ($17) per hour. That translates to approximately 10,000 AED or additional a duration (about $2,700).

I additionally had a meal allowance for layovers, and we got a reward at the end of all year, which was up to 20 weeks of basis salary. We had to be in fine position alongside the business to obtain it. Two years ago, I got a reward of 22,000 AED (about $6,000).

While I wanted to expend that prosperity on a holiday alongside my family, who were rear in Tunisia, it was difficult to scheme since I had small authority complete holiday time. When the depart opening opened, we submitted our preferred dates for approval.

The business could aid that duration or allocate a distinct one, but it didn't continually autumn inside my preferred period. That method I missed a lot of holidays and another particular occasions alongside my family. Still, I got a fine amount of period off.

I had a fancy manner but small energy

While I had liberated admission to all sorts of hot spots throughout Dubai, I had constricted period to bask it.

I frequently had at most three days off before having to activity again, and spent those days mostly sleeping to regain from jet lag. I didn't have the energy to go to the liberated gyms, but I had to power myself to go since staying fit was expected of Emirates escape attendants.

Still, Emirates' staff-benefit programs gave me discounted admission to restaurants and complimentary admission to certain pools and gyms.

I used to expend period sunbathing at places akin FIVE Palm Jumeirah, a five-star gathering resort, or bowling at Brass Monkey, a famous adults-only dining and social venue.

Constant sickness and exhaustion were partially why I quit

Because I lived much of my existence in a metal element pipe about hundreds of distinct group a day, I was continually getting sick.

I got barotrauma multiple times — a average sickness among escape attendants because of the changeless changing division air force whenever working. When it was severe, I couldn't fly. Severe barotrauma sometimes took additional than a duration to heal.

Sleepless nights and changeless health problems were several of the reasons that made me discontinue Emirates. But I must acknowledge that being a escape attendant was among the most amazing experiences that helped to form the author I am today.

Without it, I wouldn't have had the chance to ascend the Great Wall of China or expend period in New Zealand. The liberated perks and luxury hotels were appealing, but I couldn't grip the division squad manner for the lengthy run.

Jensen Huang is the visage of TSMC's biggest client and one of its most famed supporters, but the firestorm surrounding his matter apt won't dent endeavor for the foundry, analysts say.

Even if the Nvidia CEO steps down, there shouldn't be much straightforward effect on the Taiwanese firm, which builds complete 90% of the world's most advanced microchips and raked in $122 milliard final year, they told Business Insider.

"We accept the petition for leading-edge wafers is larger than any one executive, and we see there's no sign of Nvidia slowing downward or really cutting orders from TSMC yet," stated William Li, a elder expert at tech market investigation resolute Counterpoint Research.

"At this point, we don't really see an effect from this Nvidia fiasco on them," stated Gaurav Gupta, VP expert and chief of investigation for emerging market dynamics at advisory resolute Gartner.

Huang has been the center of a controversy that concerns his association alongside Alice Huang, a female The New York Times reported was suspected by US officials of passing data to Beijing.

The CEO and originator of the $4.5 trillion Nvidia admitted in a memo to workforce on Sunday that he had busy in an extramarital affair, although he did not say alongside whom. Nvidia's commission is examining whether Huang was the mark of a "foreign intellect effort."

Hometown champion

In the final few years, Huang has rotate into among the highest-profile names in the AI industry, much of which is powered by Nvidia's graphics handling units. TSMC, meanwhile, relies heavily on Nvidia's business, which is its biggest client and contributes to concerning a fifth of the foundry's revenues.

It's a association bolstered by Huang's Taiwanese roots, alongside the CEO frequently visiting his hometown to advance its function — and that of TSMC's — in the AI boom.

Losing Huang himself isn't the difficulty that TSMC, or Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company, should concern about, the analysts said.

"Demand for AI Infrastructure build-out is powerful in a provision constrained environment," stated Gupta, adding that tech leaders "shouldn't get distracted" by the inquiry into Huang.

How TSMC power get hit

For TSMC, the most notable danger from Huang's controversy could alternatively arrive from Washington.

The US has lengthy tried to cut off China from the finest computing hardware that Nvidia has to offer, a move that Huang has chafed against. The scrutiny about his relationship alongside Alice Huang now opens difficult questions for him, since she was an administrator at Megaspeed, a Singapore-registered resolute that US officials suspected was illegally sending Nvidia chips to China.

"The channels that could really attain Taiwan are policy-driven, not tied to the controversy itself — chiefly tighter export controls and additional scrutiny of chips being diverted to China," stated Li.

That could dent the GPU-maker's revenues and in rotate power TSMC. But it's a stretch, analysts said.

Even if Nvidia's China revenues drop, another parts of the US hyperscale AI industry, starving for computing power, volition apt inhabit in the gap to buy up TSMC's chips, Li said.

Taiwan's provision sequence and TSMC are fair too chief to the AI industry, Gupta added.

"Only if any guidance changes or safety findings implicate Nvidia and that negatively impacts capitalist confidence or slowdown in dealmaking, could it dilatory downward several of the AI data center buildout," Gupta said.

Still, he added, that trend would hit the complete semiconductor industry, not fair TSMC.

Wendy's is falling rearward its biggest burger rivals — and as a food newsman who's been covering the industry for years, I think relying on the classics may be part of the problem.

The fast-food sequence has seen declining revenue and client traffic for nearly two years, posting a 5.7% decrease in US same-restaurant revenue in the third fourth of 2026.

That compares alongside rival Burger King's 8.4% increase; the sequence additionally overtook Wendy's in US systemwide revenue to rotate into the country's second-biggest burger sequence rearward McDonald's. McDonald's, although it posted a 0.2% decline, motionless fared improved than Wendy's.

Still, the sequence remains profitable — although small so than a twelvemonth ago — and appears resolute to win rear customers. On the day of its Q3 earnings report, it rejected a $1.4 milliard buyout recommendation from Trian Fund Management and announced a sweeping multiyear turnaround scheme called "Dave's Way."

The scheme includes refreshing Wendy's classics and evaluation list upgrades, including whole-leaf lettuce, thicker bacon, a creamier Frosty, and improved salads.

I visited my local Wendy's and saw why these changes may be necessary. During my visit, I established the food was noticeably caller and tasty, and I appreciated that the chain's iconic yellow packaging is back. But the list seemed stale, alongside few buzzy items compared to another brands.

Value offerings and promotions were additionally few and far between — although it is currently promoting an $8 type of its Dave's Single combo.

Amid petition for new and affordable list items, chains akin McDonald's and Burger King have doubled downward on value deals and list innovation, akin bringing rear the cherished Snack Wraps and Burger King's latest collaboration alongside the Mandalorian franchise.

In latest years, Wendy's has focused on promoting the items most iconic to the brand — square-shaped fresh-not-frozen burgers, Frostys, fries, and its value-focused Biggie Bags. While those classics may recommendation fine value, they aren't adequate to create me arrive back.

Wendy's told Business Insider that the sequence is now operating to optimize its menu, enhance ingredients throughout center items, and create new products through a additional disciplined evaluation process, culminating in the rollout of a revamped center list in 2027.

Here's what my cognition at Wendy's was like, and what it says concerning the brand's future.

This as-told-to composition is according to a conversation alongside Adwait Sathe, a 32-year-old elder data privacy engineer at Meta Superintelligence Labs. It has been edited for dimension and clarity.

I've been operating at Meta for the final five years, archetypal at Messenger, and for the final three years as a data privacy engineer at Meta Superintelligence Labs.

I moved to the US from India in 2019 to pursue a master's degree in data systems at Northeastern University in Boston, graduating in 2021.

I knew the job use procedure out of university would be competitive, so I started my job hunt concerning a twelvemonth and a fractional before I graduated.

I was extremely apparent from the start: I desire to activity in data engineering privacy. I took classes in that site and built a applicable portfolio through internships and side projects.

In my second semester, I started looking at job postings I would use for a twelvemonth afterward to comprehend what the industry was looking for.

I had four offers in hand whenever I graduated — from McKinsey, Walmart, Amazon, and Meta. Here's the scheme I used to method my job search.

Cold messaging group who weren't too senior

I had a maneuver for cold messaging people on LinkedIn.

I connected alongside a lot of group on LinkedIn who were operating on things akin to what I wanted to activity on.

The group I reached out to were energetic on LinkedIn and operating in Big Tech in data engineering roles, not managerial roles. Engineers and elder engineers, not vice presidents or directors.

I was looking for mentorship. I approached them to comprehend the industry's requirements, so that whenever I applied, my use would remain out among the masses.

My chilly communication was extremely simple: "Hey, I am Adwait, I'm studying this, and I desire to prosecute my occupation in this. I have this tech stack and résumé; what should I improve?"

One association gave me outstanding direction — that my résumé made it appearance akin I wasn't experienced.

I had three years of activity cognition in India following getting my bachelor's degree. Still, whenever I archetypal put together my résumé, it looked akin a new grad résumé since I front-loaded my learning complete my activity experience.

I started getting additional interviews whenever I fixed that issue.

When I started chilly messaging alongside this strategy, I aimed for volume, sending messages to a lot of people. Many didn't reply.

But formerly I had gotten three or four fine mentors, I eased up on messaging, knowing that these group were really firm and would assistance me out.

I've tried to continue it on. Now, I answer to nearly all LinkedIn messages I obtain that ask for occupation advice.

Splitting job apps by quantity and strategy

My second job hunt strategy was to divided my use procedure into two buckets.

The archetypal bucket: companies I really wanted to activity for.

I had a catalog of companies I wanted to activity for, and I used to go to their occupation websites a brace of times a week to inspect for new positions and use early. I would be looking out for new grad positions, which are typically released way before graduation season.

The second bucket was wider. This was all concerning volume, applying to as many roles as possible.

I had a generic résumé for all the volume-based applications. But for the ones I really wanted, I tailored all application.

After I got my archetypal offer, a data engineering function at Walmart, I stopped applying in volume. The scheme following that was to use for roles I really wanted, which could equivalent or exceed what I'd already gotten.

How I would use alternatively today alongside AI

If I were applying for the identical roles today, I would create certain to have a lot of distinct projects in my portfolio, since construction has rotate into so important.

A operating product, which is live and has genuine users, is way improved than bringing a prototype into the discussion and saying, "I built this prototype, it worked whenever I built it, but it's not operating now."

The second item is AI fluency. This doesn't fair average understanding distinct tools, but additionally how AI plant in the backdrop and a judgement of whenever to use which tools.

But the fundamentals don't change. Being fine at coding and knowing how to structure the code is motionless important. AI can grip implementation, but designing systems and architecture is motionless extremely crucial and human.

Important

Ginux began as an autonomous Rust kernel that booted immediately through UEFI and ran a Rocky Linux 10 userspace. That investigation phase is complete. Its final origin is permanently preserved on the bootable-kernel branch and at the bootable-kernel-final tag. Active betterment now continues current as a userspace kernel.

Why the project changed direction

Host Linux kernel `- presenter systemd (real PID 1) `- ginux (ordinary trusted presenter process) `- case contract |- virtual processes and identities |- virtual descriptors and kernel views |- assigned devices and resources `- managed Rocky Linux userspace `- case systemd (virtual PID 1) 

Agent containment research

Relationship to another systems

make host-image-fetch make image-helper-fetch make instance-image-fetch make systemd-image-fetch

make build make check make test

make test-systemd # cached image, external networking disabled make bench-prepare # one-time networked setup for the pinned benchmark image make place # matched native/Ginux matrix affirmative mandatory prosperity checks make bench-modes-prepare # one-time setup for the three-way dispatch comparison make bench-modes # native/selective/paranoid tables and graphs make demo-gate-15 # bounded reproducible three-way comparison make test-systemd-live # shared network affirmative genuine upstream dnf -y update make host-run # broad interactive Rocky presenter alongside Ginux installed make host-reset # discard that host's cache, instances, and writable state make demo-gate-9 # Gate 9 checkpoint through the identical presenter workflow

[contract.syscalls] control = "selective" # default; use "paranoid" for all-syscall mediation default = "deny" allow = ["*"] deny = []

ginux create rocky ginux list ginux position rocky ginux commencement rocky --attach

ginux import web /etc/ginux/examples/rocky-systemd.toml \ --network eth0:1 \ --forward protocol=tcp,external_port=8080,instance_port=80 \ --forward protocol=tcp,external_port=8443,instance_port=443 ginux set web \ --network default \ --forward none

ginux validate /etc/ginux/examples/rocky-systemd.toml ginux inspect /etc/ginux/examples/rocky-systemd.toml ginux explain /etc/ginux/examples/rocky-systemd.toml filesystem.path.write

Security example and limitations

Historical standalone kernel

{"version":1,"outcome":"exited","code":0,"signal":null,"generation":null}

make build make build-launch-fixture make build-gate1-fixture sudo create test-gate1-setup sudo create test-launch sudo create test-native-supervision

make build build-process-fixtures make test-process-native make test-process-native SCENARIO=shared_pipe make test-process-native SCENARIO=thread_exec

This as-told-to composition is according to a conversation alongside Jim Guld, 72, a Villa Vie Odyssey passenger. He and his wife, Chris, run a small business that offers tech training for travelers. It has been edited for dimension and clarity.

In 2003, my wife, Chris, and I bought a used RV, sold our home, and took to the road. It was additionally whenever we started a business, example on our backgrounds to instruct travelers how to use innovation during on the go.

After 14 years of living full-time in an RV and traveling about the US, it was period for a change.

When Chris' mom moved into assisted living, we settled into her townhouse in Fort Lauderdale, near family and friends, and stayed for seven years. But I was getting disenchanted alongside all the traffic, and we wanted another adventurous chapter. The Villa Vie Odyssey seemed to recommendation that.

We archetypal heard concerning the cruise from Randy Cassingham, a newsletter author I'd been following for a lengthy time. When he started a residential-cruising website, I began following his journey on the Odyssey. I peruse concerning the issues the container ran into in Belfast, but it motionless felt akin item we wanted to do.

Chris and I did a weeklong "try before you buy" cognition in December 2024. By the end, we knew we were prepared to create the move.

It was a fantastic way to see the world

We came on commission in Cartagena, Colombia, in April 2025.

Our first scheme was to remain for seven years, which, according to the advertising, would have meant two trips about the world. We would afterward fig it out from there.

Life on the Odyssey was wonderful. It's difficult to explain how amazing the squad and another residents were. There is no another cruise container anywhere residents put on a musical, chant in a choir, and build that benevolent of camaraderie.

Chris got engaged in row dancing and connected alongside dancers in another countries whenever we were in port. There was an unexpected awareness of community.

We additionally went to places I'd never imagined visiting, and places I'd hoped to sojourn someday for scuba diving. Since the container stayed in ports for a brace of days, we had period to explore. The journey was adequate for us.

Still, there was continually item in the rear of our minds: Is this sustainable? Is it too cheap? Are they going to be capable to keep it going?

In the archetypal year, the net was excellent, letting us livestream shows from the container to our website.

For us, the doubts became additional grave whenever the net was curtailed, and our connectivity suffered. Then, the cash calls came. That was whenever it really came to ray for us.

The squad and services were motionless good. Our stewards took awesome attention of our room, clothes, and laundry. The cutbacks didn't power us much personally: document napkins replaced cloth ones at lunch, and the food became additional repetitive, but it was motionless good.

It ended in a sole morning

One day, in delayed October, at 6 a.m., we got the notice that the container was halting operations and that we needed to get off by 2 pm that afternoon. It was extremely abbreviated notice.

We took the tech equipment we needed for our endeavor and several clothes, but remaining a lot behind, including individual items from Florida that have additional sentimental than monetary value.

We additionally remaining rearward several of our scuba gear, including regulators, lights, and a camera. We were going to be living out of suitcases for a while, and I wasn't curious in schlepping a bunch of equipment about multiple countries in Southeast Asia during we tried to fig things out.

Thankfully, we had already made plans to be off the container in Chiang Mai, Thailand, for most of November to sojourn an old friend. When we arrived, she met us at the airfield and brought us to the flat we had already arranged. We additionally met up alongside multiple shipmates and explored the city.

We don't scheme to go rear to the States anytime soon. We desire to continue traveling. Southeast Asia is extremely nice, but India and Africa were places we had planned to get to, too.

Normal cruises don't petition to us extremely much. An extended cruise is possible, but many cruises call at ports in the dawn and depart in the evening. We got used to comfortable cruising: multiple days in port, multiple days at sea, and period to do things as a community.

With the Odyssey, we don't think we got our money's value yet, but what we've done is fair wonderful, and that's why we are so disappointed.

We would do it again in a heartbeat.

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AI was expected to create activity faster, yet nearly 2 in 5 AI users hesitate before prompting at smallest formerly a week.

We surveyed 1,002 American AI users in October 2026 concerning their AI use complete the final three months, divided into Web Beginners (everyday users of websites and online tools alongside constricted specialized knowledge) and Web Professionals (people alongside advanced specialized cognition who use digital tools extensively, frequently for work). 

We wanted to measure how frequently that prompting hesitation happens and what it expenses in time, money, and unfinished work. The answer has small to do alongside the innovation itself and additional to do alongside the force group awareness to term things perfectly. For anyone leaning on AI at work, the conflict sits in the asking.

Key takeaways

• Two-thirds of AI users (67%) cognition immediate anxiety, emotion unsure or concerned concerning how to term a prompt.
• Nearly 2 in 5 AI users (38%) hesitate before prompting at smallest formerly a week since they aren’t certain how to ask.
• AI users who rewrite prompts endure concerning 16 hours a twelvemonth to rewrites, costing operating users an average of $529.
• 27% of AI users say penning the correct immediate has taken longer than doing the project themselves.
• 1 in 4 AI users rotate to AI to assistance them compose improved prompts.
• 45% of AI users would use AI additional frequently if it understood what they meant without needing absolutely worded prompts.

Prompt anxiety is the quiescent tax on mundane AI use

Two-thirds of AI users (67%) awareness unsure or concerned concerning how to term a prompt, and for many it’s a regular occurrence: 38% hesitate before prompting at smallest formerly a week. At the identical time, 54% say they term their prompts additional carefully now than they did three months ago.

When the outcome falls short, most group appearance inward first. More than fractional of AI users (55%) accuse the way they worded the prompt, 30% accuse the tool’s limits, and 14% accuse the project itself.

That intuition shows up in the way group work: 63% of AI users rewrite a immediate at smallest formerly before they get a usable answer. For those who rewrite, the additional attempts add up to concerning 16 hours a year, costing operating users an average of $529.

Retail and e-commerce workers cognition immediate anxiety most frequently (78%, compared alongside 66% of all another AI users). Healthcare workers who rewrite prompts endure the smallest period of the chief industries, concerning 10 hours a twelvemonth compared alongside 17 hours for AI users in another industries who rewrite prompts.

When wording a immediate expenses additional than the task

In the final three months, 27% of AI users say penning the correct immediate took longer than doing the project themselves. 

About 8% missed a deadline or delayed a project since AI couldn’t provision them the outcome they wanted. Gen Z was hit hardest among all generations, additional than twice as apt as Gen X to study this (12% vs. 5%).

People are finding workarounds, but they aren’t paying for them. A fourth of AI users (25%) depend on AI to assistance compose or enhance their prompts, and 28% have looked for liberated immediate help. Less than 1% have paid for immediate courses, templates, or guides. 

What they desire is simpler: 45% say they would use AI additional frequently if it understood what they meant without needing ideal wording. Still, most don’t anticipate the accomplishment to disappear. 70% of Web Professionals say prompting skills volition matter as much as or additional than they do now as AI gets smarter, and so do 60% of Web Beginners.

Easing the force to prompt

Prompt anxiety is widespread. It expenses genuine hours, and most group accuse their own wording for a feeble outcome fairly than the tool’s limitations. The possible fix isn’t enrolling in courses, but having tools that encounter group in average language, which is the direction AI is moving as models get improved at study intent.

Task-based AI agents are one example of that shift, as they commencement from what group desire to get done. With agentic AI platforms, users can choice a ready-made skill, specified as penning a blog article or researching keywords, and the AI delegate asks a few questions concerning their goal before delivering the result. Many of these platforms additionally recall environment throughout conversations, so users don’t have to explain everything again.

The inquiry value sitting alongside is how much additional group would build if they stopped editing themselves before they always hit enter.

Methodology

This study was conducted in October 2026 and engaged 1,002 American AI users who had used AI tools in the final three months. Its chief goal was to discover out how average immediate anxiety is and what it costs. 

Prompt anxiety is defined in this study as emotion unsure or concerned concerning how to term a prompt. Respondents were grouped by specialized skill: 72% were Web Beginners, who use digital tools for mundane tasks but have constricted specialized knowledge, and 28% were Web Professionals, who have advanced specialized cognition and use digital or specialized tools extensively, frequently for work.

The average age of respondents was 40. Of those surveyed, 56% were women, 42% were men, and 2% identified as non-binary or preferred not to say. By generation, 19% were Gen Z (ages 18 to 29), 50% were millennials (ages 30 to 45), 26% were Gen X (ages 46 to 61), and 6% were baby boomers (ages 62 and older).

Methodology percentages that do not total 100% are because of rounding. The border of error for the complete example is about ±3 percent points at a 95% confidence level. All findings are self-reported.

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From a humble mayonnaise-laden sandwich to an costly part of sashimi, tuna is a prized origin of food for group about the world. Once an inexpensive, effortlessly shipped canned macromolecule source, today's bluefin tunas can fetch millions of dollars at auction. Millions of lots of tuna are harvested all year, supporting a earth industry value about US$40 milliard annually. But tunas are additional than fair the pink tissue established in cans and sushi, and humanity's narrative alongside these seafood goes rear additional than you power expect. As a biologist and an archaeologist curious in long-term human-environment interactions, we wanted to examine the profound document of people's association alongside tunas. We drew on the ability of 18 foremost researchers worldwide and studied a assortment of sources, from the skeletal remains of tunas in archaeological sites to ancient rock art, paintings on frescos and vases, written historic records and ethnographic accounts from…

Emma Elliott Smith is a Research Associate in Anthropology at the National Museum of Natural History, Smithsonian Institution, and at the University of New Mexico.

Torben Rick is Curator of North American Archaeology at the Smithsonian Institution.

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