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Tracy Connor

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Standards editor at Business Insider. Alum of The Daily Beast, NBC, NYDN, NYP, UPI. Graduate of Coney Island Sideshow School. Sassy dame.

Joined March 2012
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Are you someone who tried an AI agent like Muse but has given up on it? Gotten bored? Tried a few things but no longer have ongoing uses for it? I want to hear from you.....
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NEW: Two years ago, the Odyssey set sail. It billed itself as an endless cruise ship, where residents could buy cabins and spend the rest of their lives in a floating luxury hotel that would circumnavigate the globe every few years. The finances were stormy, but things were looking up for 2016. Then the Iran war started. Fuel prices shot up. Scylla and Charybdis moved in. This week, the cruise shut down operations. Residents disembarked in Cambodia. Here's the inside story, written with @TheNewsHam:
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Lucia Moses@lmosesOct 20
Scoop: The WSJ has been planning a big push into streaming TV, and courted Feed Me's Emily Sundberg. Details with @nmcalone: businessinsider.com/wsj-plan…
The Wall Street Journal has been planning a big push into streaming TV, and courted Feed Me's Emily...

The Wall Street Journal has been planning a big push into streaming TV, and courted Feed Me's Emily...

The paper explored shows around its top editor, Emma Tucker, as well as external creators and media companies.

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Ben Bergman@thebenbergmanOct 19
I'm excited to be a part of The Long Play: Stories of Reinvention next week in NYC. We still have a few tickets left. If you're interested in joining, shoot me a message. events.businessinsider.com/t…
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Tesla: look, flying car! Also Tesla:
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Did you join your HOA or co-op/condo board and have some ... thoughts, feelings, and regrets about it? Talk to me about it for a @BusinessInsider story. Message me or email me at [email protected].
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carolynryan 🏓 (@carolynryan) profile picturecarolynryan 🏓@carolynryanOct 9
Interesting. masslive.com/ne-where/2026/1…
Boston beats New York in Condé Nast’s ranking of top 10 cities in US

Boston beats New York in Condé Nast’s ranking of top 10 cities in US

Boston was also just two spots away from taking the top spot.

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Gerald Loeb Awards@LoebAwardsOct 9
This year, the judges have chosen to recognize an honorable mention in the video longform category INSIDE THE SECRETIVE WORLD OF AMERICA’S AI DATA CENTERS From: @BusinessInsider #LoebAwards
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Ben Bergman@thebenbergmanOct 9
I wrote this last month: 'There's no accountability': AI startups keep claiming huge revenue. VCs say the math is getting 'murky.' businessinsider.com/why-vcs-…
Investor skepticism is growing around the revenue claims powering the AI boom.

Investor skepticism is growing around the revenue claims powering the AI boom.

VCs are taking a harder look at startups' recurring-revenue numbers.

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Berber Jin (@berber_jin1) profile pictureBerber Jin@berber_jin1Oct 8
this is why journalists should not report ARR numbers. it's a fake science
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Exciting news! Arielle Pardes will be joining @BusinessInsider’s Discourse team! businessinsider.com/business…
Business Insider hires Arielle Pardes as a senior correspondent, expands Discourse team

Business Insider hires Arielle Pardes as a senior correspondent, expands Discourse team

Our Discourse team, led by executive editor Zak Jason and focused on agenda-setting topical features, is expanding.

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Katie Roof
@Katie_RoofOct 3
Thanks for the shoutout @Emily_Sundberg. Launching next week!
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You could have read that scoop on @BusinessInsider from @lmoses over a year ago businessinsider.com/google-t…
Google has quietly entered the movie and TV business. Here's why.

Google has quietly entered the movie and TV business. Here's why.

Google is working with Range Media Partners to help produce films and TV shows, Business Insider has learned.

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Google partners with talent agency Range Media to launch 100 Zeros, a rotating fund designed to shape positive onscreen depictions of tech and test AI tools (@brooksbarnesnyt / New York Times) (Visit Techmeme dot com for the link and full context!)
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Business Insider is looking for the up-and-coming people shaping the future of robotics. Nominate someone by Friday, October 23. bit.ly/4hD2nFU
Nominate a rising star in robotics for Business Insider's inaugural list

Nominate a rising star in robotics for Business Insider's inaugural list

Business Insider is looking for the up-and-coming people shaping the future of robotics.

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i did this exact story on june 10 businessinsider.com/stubhub-…
We tried to buy the exact same tickets on StubHub. We got six wildly different prices.

We tried to buy the exact same tickets on StubHub. We got six wildly different prices.

Sports and concert tickets show huge price differences on StubHub, as varying fees confuse buyers and make costs impossible to know.

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NBC News gathered nine volunteers to check the same StubHub ticket at the same time for Harry Styles’ Oct. 30 concert. They saw eight different prices. nbcnews.com/business/consume…
For the same ticket on StubHub, different prices for different people

For the same ticket on StubHub, different prices for different people

NBC News volunteers saw eight different prices for the exact same Harry Styles ticket on StubHub. The company said it’s running random price experiments.

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Have you gotten a little obsessive about how many miles per gallon you're getting given gas prices? Or have you become a hypermiler? Tell me about it for a @BusinessInsider story. Message me or email me at [email protected].
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Twitter used to be great.
Christopher Ingraham🦗 (@_cingraham) profile pictureChristopher Ingraham🦗@_cingraham29 Dec 2018
So, a shipment of crickets for the lizard arrived via FedEx today. It was my first time ordering bulk crickets off the internet, and I naively assumed that they would be in like, a bag or some other contraption to facilitate easy transfer to another container. They were not.
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Coming soon: VC Insider, Business Insider’s first subscriber-only newsletter, written by @thebenbergman and @Katie_Roof. Sign up for your free preview of VC Insider here: businessinsider.com/subscrip… Business Insider subscribers will receive the full newsletter every week. Not a subscriber? Sign up for the free preview — and get your first edition in full.
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Zak Jason@zakjasonSep 17
"By the end of the night, it's us and our prospects ripping cigs in the karaoke lounge." Meet the VCs and founders talking burn rates while burning tar. For some in tech, amid the noise of optimization, smoking is the new signal. from @HenryChandonnet businessinsider.com/smoking-…
Silicon Smokers: Meet the tech founders who think that cigarettes are their edge

Silicon Smokers: Meet the tech founders who think that cigarettes are their edge

In the noise of optimization, some techies say smoking has become the new signal.

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i have not enjoyed a piece of writing this much in a long time. and i think @zakjason should do a call-in show where everyone gets to ask questions about this entire thing. and by everyone i mainly mean me but also others. businessinsider.com/bryan-jo…
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it's been a long time since I've read a feature intro as technically perfect as this one businessinsider.com/bryan-jo…
We know more about Bryan Johnson and Kate Tolo's sex life than anyone in human history. But who are...

We know more about Bryan Johnson and Kate Tolo's sex life than anyone in human history. But who are...

Bryan Johnson and Kate Tolo are lovers, cofounders, and human experiments trying to engineer a future where people and AI evolve together.

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