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• A 2023 text exchange between Mira Murati and Sam Altman was exposed during the OpenAI trial.
• It’s a reminder to employees about the risks of putting sensitive information in writing.
• An employment attorney says even if you’re using a personal device, it can become fair game in litigation.

You might think twice before sending that text in your work group chat.

The Musk v. Altman trial has exposed a 2023 text exchange between Mira Murati and Sam Altman — and it’s a reminder for workers of the risks of putting sensitive information in writing.

The two-day viral conversation took place amid Altman’s high-profile ouster from OpenAI. The messages show him repeatedly asking for a meeting with a board and Murati, who was acting as interim CEO, repeatedly telling him they didn’t want him back.

Murati was having conversations with OpenAI’s board in real time, so it may not have made sense to switch to a call. Generally, though, it’s a lesson that just about anything and everything in writing can come up in legal proceedings — or at least be monitored by your employer.

Good digital hygiene

Most workers won’t find themselves facing a similar situation to Altman — but in the era of AI and hybrid work, workplace communication is being increasingly documented.

As teams exchange larger volumes of information across digital platforms, there’s a greater risk of sensitive information being shared.

Peter Rahbar, an employment attorney in New York and co-host of the “Across the Bar” podcast, says he often sees clients who have work content on their personal phones. He recommends that people carry two phones and keep work content confined to one.

That’s because even if you’re using a personal device, it can become fair game in litigation if you do work on it, Rahbar said.

“Anything that’s potentially relevant to the case is subject to discovery. It doesn’t matter what device it’s on,” he said.

Rahbar said that subject matter determines whether something can be roped into a legal dispute. Litigation requests capture any relevant information, regardless of location or platform. That could include Instagram DMs, WhatsApp messages, or ChatGPT prompts, he said.

Those AI notetakers that are popping into more and more work calls are often also creating written and audio records.

The legal risk isn’t limited to digital communications, Rahbar said. Journal entries, for example, could be used as evidence, as shown with OpenAI President Greg Brockman.

Rahbar recommends that people delete personal communications, such as text messages, at least once or twice a year. Even then, he said, deleting your message doesn’t mean the other person will do the same. That’s why Rahbar recommends in-person conversations or — sorry, Gen Z — phone calls for sensitive subjects.

The risks of putting it in writing

Texting a coworker instead of messaging them on Slack or Teams may reduce the risk of workplace oversight, but it doesn’t protect those conversations from legal scrutiny.

In many cases, people don’t learn these lessons until it’s too late, Rahbar said. While most workers may not think they’re saying anything risky, they aren’t likely to enjoy having their devices seized in an expansive search.

As ever, people should be careful about what they put in writing — unless they’re comfortable having it repeated or used against them later, said Carl Tobias, a law professor at the University of Richmond.

“We make assumptions about how we communicate,” Tobias said. “And then maybe they come back to bite us.”

• Lorraine English, 72, loved living in Florida, but hurricanes made life there difficult.
• In 2025, she moved from Bradenton — a city along the Manatee River — to Asheville, North Carolina.
• English says that with fewer natural disasters and lower housing costs, her quality of life has improved.

This as-told-to essay is based on a conversation with Lorraine English, a 72-year-old Floridian who moved to North Carolina in 2025. The conversation has been edited for length and clarity.

I lived in San Francisco for many years, but in 2000, I moved to Bradenton, Florida, a town between Sarasota and St. Petersburg. I lived there for more than 20 years, right along the Manatee River, which runs into the Gulf of Mexico.

Bradenton is a medium-sized town, but like a lot of places in Florida, it’s been growing by leaps and bounds. It has a similar feel to Sarasota, and it’s close to beautiful white-sand beaches. It’s also very much a boating community. Overall, it’s a nice town and a good place to raise a family.

But there are downsides to living in Bradenton. Being so close to the Manatee River means seeing the effects of rising sea levels up close. The city’s roads are prone to sunny-day flooding, which happens when rising sea levels and high tides push water up through storm drains, even on clear, sunny days.

When I first moved to Bradenton, the road near my home would flood only a couple of times a year. But over time, it happened more often. Starting about five or six years ago, it flooded nearly every day during the summer, and the water began creeping into people’s yards.

Over time, I also started noticing fiddler crabs in people’s yards. They’re tiny — about an inch long — and they burrow in the sand, leaving little holes behind. I remember thinking, “Oh my God, the ocean is starting to take this back.”

I didn’t want to endure another hurricane

Bradenton has become very unaffordable — and that’s happening all over Florida because of rising property taxes and homeowners’ insurance costs.

Two years ago, my homeowners’ insurance with hurricane coverage — not including flood insurance, which is a separate policy — went up to $7,000 a year. On top of that, my property taxes were about $3,000 a year. Altogether, I was looking at around $10,000 a year just for insurance and taxes.

Even though I’m financially stable and technically could have afforded it, I didn’t want to keep paying those costs.

I started seriously thinking about leaving Bradenton — and Florida altogether — in August 2024, when Hurricane Debby hit. I was completely dumbfounded. My home wasn’t directly impacted, but I saw so many communities completely flooded.

That’s when I truly realized hurricanes in Florida, and the impacts of climate change, are only going to keep getting worse — and they did.

In September, Hurricane Helene brought a 7-foot storm surge into my neighborhood. Thankfully, my house didn’t flood, but in some cases, homes closer to the river saw as much as 7 feet of water. Afterward, a lot of my neighbors sold their homes as teardowns. Others decided to completely rehab their houses and stay, or eventually sold them.

The last storm I went through in Florida was Hurricane Milton. The worst damage to my home was to my pool cage. Milton took down one side of it, basically knocked it right down. I spent about $6,500 fixing it, and honestly, I consider myself very lucky.

Asheville, North Carolina was exactly what I was looking for

In 2023, I started looking at other parts of the United States where I might want to live — places with lower homeowners’ insurance and property tax costs. Asheville, North Carolina, was one of those places.

Before moving, I put my home in Florida on the market. It was built in 1951 and was a ranch-style house with three bedrooms, three bathrooms, and a garage. The property was really large, with a pool and three 150-year-old oak trees.

When I listed it, I got a contract pretty quickly and even had offers above my asking price. One offer was $25,000 over the list price, but I ended up taking the list price because it was a cash offer. At that point, I just wanted out of Florida.

In 2025, I moved to Asheville, and I absolutely love it here. It’s neither too big nor too small, which I really like. It’s also beautiful and surrounded by forests and mountains. I live about half a mile from the Blue Ridge Parkway, so there are tons of trails nearby. There are so many songbirds and so much wildlife.

I live in a small community tucked into a wooded area. I bought a three-level condo here, which works out really well because my son lives with me and works from home.

I told him, “I’m getting older, and one day you’re going to be my caregiver, so you might as well live with me.” The setup is great because he has his own space on the bottom floor, and I have mine upstairs.

I miss Florida, but I’m not moving back

Asheville does get its share of natural disasters, too, but for me, the climate and the change of seasons make it worth it. The summers aren’t boiling hot, and the weather actually feels livable — especially after dealing with Florida’s relentless heat and humidity.

I do miss Florida from time to time, especially my little home and neighborhood.

I had some really great friends in Bradenton, and it was such a nice place to be in the evenings. I could walk west along Riverview Boulevard and see the sunset, or sit under the oak trees in my backyard.

But when I think about all the storms and the destruction I saw, I couldn’t be happier to have left Florida in the rearview mirror.

• Google is piloting a new interview process where software engineering candidates use AI in interviews.
• It’s part of a bigger overhaul of Google’s interview process.
• The changes will “better align with the modern engineering landscape,” Google said in an internal doc.

Want a software job at Google? Bring your AI wingman.

The company is piloting a new interview process for software engineering candidates that will let them use an AI assistant, according to an internal document reviewed by Business Insider.

The change is part of a broader overhaul of Google’s interview process, which the document says is being made “to better align with the modern engineering landscape.”

Google will test the new format, which applies to junior to mid-level roles, to select teams in the US and plans to scale it more widely across the company and regions later if it’s successful.

Starting in the second half of the year, Google will permit the use of an “approved” AI assistant during its “code comprehension” round. Candidates will be expected to “read, debug, and optimize” an existing code database, the document states.

“Interviewers will evaluate Al fluency, including prompt engineering, output validation, and debugging skills,” it adds.

A Google spokesperson confirmed the plans and said its own AI model, Gemini, would be the AI assistant used by candidates during the pilot phase.

“We’re always evolving our interview processes to ensure we’re recruiting and hiring the best talent,” Brian Ong, vice president of recruiting at Google, told Business Insider. “As a part of that, we’re rolling out a pilot for software engineering interviews to be more reflective of how our teams are operating in the AI era.”

The new interview process reflects the significant changes that AI has brought to software developer roles. In late 2025, Anthropic and OpenAI launched new models that dramatically improved the capabilities of coding agents.

Now, three-quarters of new code created inside Google is generated by AI, the company said in April. That same shift is happening elsewhere. Greg Brockman, OpenAI’s president, recently said that AI has gone from writing 20% of code to 80%.

‘Human-led, AI-assisted’

The Google document outlines several other changes the company intends to make to its interview process, which will be piloted first.

The “Googleyness and Leadership” round — which has typically focused on behavioral questions — will now also involve a technical design discussion about a candidate’s past project.

For more junior candidates, one of the technical rounds will be replaced with an interview that will require them to “tackle open-ended engineering challenges,” the document states.

The company will pilot the new formats across several orgs, including Cloud and its platforms and devices unit, this month.

Google’s move follows what some tech startups have been embracing for a while. Graphic design giant Canva and AI coding startup Cognition are among the companies allowing candidates to use AI in technical interviews.

Emily Cohen, who heads people and operations at AI coding company Cognition, told Business Insider last week that it has changed its interview process to incorporate AI use.

“I guess this is like asking a kid to take a math test without a calculator,” she said about not allowing AI use in interviews. “For the bulk of building something similar to what you would do on the role, you can and should use AI tools.”

The document about Google’s new interview process describes it as being “human-led, AI-assisted” and says the format should better simulate a software engineer’s “workflow in the GenAl era.”

Additional reporting from Shubhangi Goel.

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• Most Americans eat half the recommended daily amount of fiber.
• A vegan cardiologist eats 90 grams of fiber a day thanks to her plant-based diet.
• Fiber can lower “bad” cholesterol levels, help you feel full, and reduce the risk of cancer.

Most of us don’t eat enough fiber. Not Dr. Danielle Belardo, though.
She routinely eats a whopping 90 grams a day, more than most Americans get in a working week.

“There’s no guideline that says anyone should reach 90 grams of fiber a day, it just happens to be what I eat,” Belardo, a vegan cardiologist practicing in Los Angeles, told Business Insider.

The general recommendation is for fiber to make up 14 grams of each 1,000 calories we consume. That amounts to at least 25 grams a day or the fiber in two cups of black beans. But only 10% of Americans actually get that much fiber. Most are lucky if they get even half of that.

A high-fiber diet packed with foods such as fruits, vegetables, and whole grains, helps the body remove waste products, like bile acid, and effectively sucks “bad” cholesterol out of the bloodstream. Low-fiber diets are linked with poor heart health, higher rates of diabetes, high blood pressure, and cancers, including colon cancer and breast cancer.

But “fibermaxxing” by suddenly increasing the fiber in your diet if your body isn’t used to it can lead to bloating, gas, and stomach cramps. So, it’s advised to add fiber to your diet slowly and steadily, making sure you’re staying well-hydrated along the way.

Here’s how Dr. Belardo beats out just about everybody else when it comes to packing fiber (and protein) into her daily meals.

Breakfast: a smoothie, with berries, protein powder, and frozen spinach

Belardo’s typical breakfast smoothie:

• 1 cup of frozen raspberries (8 g of fiber)
• 1 cup of frozen blackberries (8 g)
• 1 cup of spinach (1 g)
• 1 scoop of protein powder (4 g)

Fiber from breakfast: 21 g

Belardo has nearly hit the daily target for women, which is 25 to 28 g, and she has only just started her day!

Lunch: avocados, beans, and whole grains

At lunchtime, Belardo does some variation on a grain bowl.

A fiber-rich lunch:

• 1 whole avocado (10 g)
• 1/2 cup of black beans (7.5 g)
• 1 cup of quinoa (5 g)
• 1 cup of Brussels sprouts (4.5 g)
• 1 Tbsp of chia seeds (5 g)

Fiber from lunch: 32 g

Total fiber consumed so far: 53 g

Dinner: pasta, chickpeas, broccoli, and beans

“Bean pastas are such a great option to get high fiber in,” she said. She often recommends these to her patients looking to lose weight and improve their heart health.

Fiber fills you up, and fiber-rich foods tend to replace other, less nutrient-dense foods in a person’s diet.

“If you’re eating 30 grams of fiber from fruits and vegetables, that is naturally only going to displace something else that may be less health-promoting,” she said.

Belardo added: “You can do lentil or chickpea, but one that’s got a super high amount of protein and fiber that I love is edamame and mung bean pasta.”

A high-fiber dinner:

• 1 1/2 cups of cooked edamame and mung bean pasta (24 g)
• 1/2 cup of cooked chickpeas (6 g)
• 1 cup of broccoli (5 g)
• 1 Tbsp of black beans (1 g)

Fiber from dinner: 36 g

Total daily fiber: 89 g (Her average daily fiber intake, she said, tends to be about 90 grams, give or take).

It’s better to get fiber from foods than supplements

Supplements can help level out deficiencies, but Belardo doesn’t typically recommend them, because fiber-rich foods have so many benefits that simply can’t be replicated by a pill or powder.

“It’s not just the fiber itself that’s beneficial, it’s the food it comes packaged with,” Belardo said. “It’s also coming with phytonutrients, vitamins, minerals, antioxidants and all these other things.”

• TikTok is pulling back on testing an AI feature that added text summaries to videos.
• The tool was prone to hallucinations, comparing Charli D’Amelio to blueberries and a dog training video to origami.
• Going forward, the feature will focus on identifying products in videos, a TikTok spokesperson said.

Did TikTok just have its “glue pizza” moment?

The company is pulling back on a new artificial intelligence feature it was testing that went haywire, adding wildly inaccurate AI-generated text summaries to videos from users like Charli D’Amelio, Shakira, and Saturday Night Live.

These “AI overviews” were designed to provide additional context for a video, recommend similar products to what’s on-screen, and generally explain what was happening. While the tool did a good job summarizing some posts, for others, it hallucinated more than Bryan Johnson did during his livestream mushroom trip.

Here are a few chaotic examples of AI overviews this reporter saw on the app in the past week:

• The AI feature described a video of Charli D’Amelio, sitting alone in front of a white wall and talking directly to the camera, as a “collection of various blueberries with different toppings.”
• A post from a dog trainer explaining why dogs kick their feet after going to the bathroom was described as “a captivating display of intricate origami art, meticulously folded from a single sheet.”
• A video from Shakira promoting a new song release, per the AI overview, was “a repetitive sequence of several distinct blue shapes appearing and moving across the screen.”
• A viral post about feeling heartbroken from a user named Victoria was described as a “mesmerizing close-up of a tiny hand repeatedly tracing intricate patterns on a smooth surface.”
• A video of Olivia Rodrigo promoting her upcoming appearance on SNL was called a “person’s face being gradually replaced by a random, nonsensical string of letters and numbers.”

One Reddit user wrote that it was as if the feature would look at a video and then “independently open a different tab and use a random text generator to create a caption.”

Now, following user feedback, TikTok is pulling back on the test, a company spokesperson confirmed to Business Insider. The AI overview feature has been updated to focus on identifying products in a video rather than describing a video’s full contents, they said.

The tool, which has been testing for a few months, was available to a limited set of users in the US and a few other markets, the spokesperson said, describing it as an experiment.

TikTok declined to share which models it used to power its AI overviews, but an in-app description of the feature says it relied on either TikTok’s own AI tech or third-party products.

Seeing hallucinatory AI summaries show up in my feed this week felt like a throwback to when ChatGPT and other early AI products regularly made stuff up.

When Google released its version of AI overviews in 2024, the feature confidently proclaimed that a dog had played in the NHL, for example. It told my coworker Katie Notopoulos to add glue to her pizza to keep the cheese from sliding off.

While AI tools are getting better at answering some questions — a recent analysis by the AI firm Oumi found Google’s AI overviews were accurate about 90% of the time — it felt oddly comforting to see that a technology that doomsdayers predict will wipe out white-collar jobs and take over many facets of our lives can still fail in silly and surprising ways.

• A US Navy fighter jet disabled the rudder of an Iranian-flagged tanker on Wednesday with its 20 mm cannon.
• The tanker was trying to bypass the blockade of Iran’s ports, the US military said.
• It’s the second time the US has used force against an Iranian commercial ship in recent weeks.

A US Navy fighter jet knocked out the rudder of an Iranian-flagged oil tanker in the Gulf of Oman on Wednesday using its 20 mm cannon, the American military said.

The incident is the second time that the Navy has used force to disable an Iranian commercial vessel since the Trump administration began its blockade of maritime traffic going in and out of Iranian ports last month.

US Central Command, which oversees American forces in the Middle East, said it observed the unladen tanker M/T Hasna as it transited international waters en route to an Iranian port on the Gulf of Oman.

The ship “failed to comply” with repeated US military warnings that it was sailing in violation of the blockade, CENTCOM said. A Navy F/A-18 Super Hornet fighter jet that launched from the aircraft carrier USS Abraham Lincoln fired several rounds from its 20 mm cannon gun into the Hasna’s rudder.

In addition to the missiles the carrier-based fighter jet is able to carry on the wings, the Super Hornet is armed with an internal 20 mm M61A2 six-barrel rotary cannon.

CENTCOM said that it disabled the tanker, which is “no longer transiting to Iran.” It added that the blockade of Iran’s ports “remains in full effect.”

Last month, a Navy destroyer fired nine inert rounds from its 5-inch deck gun into the engine room of an Iranian-flagged cargo vessel trying to evade the blockade in the Arabian Sea. It marked a rare use of force by the Navy against a non-combat vessel.

The Navy destroyer, USS Spruance, intercepted the Iranian-flagged cargo boat M/V Touska, which was sailing toward Iran through the Arabian Sea at 17 knots. The Navy said that it issued several warnings, which the Touska ignored. The Spruance then ordered the evacuation of the engine room and opened fire.

The engagement disabled the vessel, which was subsequently boarded by Marines.

The US military operation against Iran, Operation Epic Fury, has concluded. The more recent focus has been on securing ship movement through the Strait of Hormuz as part of a new initiative called “Project Freedom,” though that was paused Wednesday as Washington and Tehran discuss a deal.

In recent days, US Navy vessels have been working to clear a path through the strait and establish a defensive umbrella for commercial ships to travel under. Iran has fired drones and missiles at commercial and military vessels in the area. The US has fended off threats and responded with force, including by using helicopters to sink Iranian small boats.