• AI startup Windsurf has had a whirlwind few weeks.
• Its founders, Varun Mohan and Douglas Chen, left for Google just after a deal with OpenAI fell apart.
• Venture capitalist Vinod Khosla said the founders left the Windsurf team "behind."

The founders of Windsurf, the now much talked about AI startup, are having a roller coaster couple of weeks.

Varun Mohan and Douglas Chen nearly struck a deal to sell the company to OpenAI for $3 billion before it suddenly fell through.

Then, the two decamped to Google DeepMind, leaving the rest of the company scrambling. Windsurf's remaining executives struck a deal with another AI startup, Cognition, the following weekend, which its new CEO, Jeff Wang, described as "crazy."

Now, legendary venture capitalist Vinod Khosla has weighed in on the drama, criticizing the founders' decision to leave. Khosla Ventures is an investor in Cognition.

"Windsurf and others are really bad examples of founders leaving their teams behind and not even sharing the proceeds with their team," Khosla said in an X post. "I definitely would not work with their founders next time."

Khosla's remarks were in response to a clip from "The Twenty Minute VC" podcast featuring Cognition founder Scott Wu, who said, "There's an unspoken covenant that as a founder, you go down with the ship."

"And I think that, for better or worse, it's changed a bit over the last year, and I think it's a bit disappointing to be honest," Wu said.

One X user suggested Khosla's response was hypocritical, prompting him to expand further on Sunday.

"Absolutely not hypocritical about it. I would not work with the WeWork founder either! Working without trust is a sure way to be unhappy," Khosla said on X.

"I honestly asked myself if I made $1b on this 'deal', would I accept it and be quiet or fight for the rest of the team? Or give part of my money to the rest of the team? Hard to say without being in the situation but I feel I'd definitely fight for those left behind," he added.

Khosla, Mohan, and Chen did not respond to a request for comment from Business Insider.

Wang, who previously served as head of business at Windsurf, recounted on X on Saturday his experience informing the Windsurf staff that not only had the OpenAI deal fallen through, but its two cofounders had left.

"The mood was very bleak," Wang wrote. "Some people were upset about financial outcomes or colleagues leaving, while others were worried about the future. A few were in tears."

Still, Wang praised Mohan and Chen. He said they were "great founders and this company meant a lot to them, and it should be acknowledged that this whole situation must have been difficult for them as well."

• Eric Lee Sandrin grew up in Seattle with a Korean mom and an Italian-American dad.
• As an adult, he changed his name to Lee Seung-jun and gave up his US citizenship to play on South Korea's national team.
• These days, Lee is married, retired from basketball, and running a youth sports company in Seoul.

This as-told-to essay is based on a conversation with Lee Seung-jun, a 47-year-old retired professional basketball player who represented South Korea internationally. His words have been edited for length and clarity.

A mix of my American dad's height and my Korean mom's identity took me places — literally.

I was born in the US and grew up as Eric Lee Sandrin, but after moving to Korea and giving up my US passport, I became Lee Seung-jun.

I went on to play professional basketball and on the Korean national team. Both sides of my family shaped me in different ways.

Settling down in Seattle

My dad is 6-foot-7 and played basketball through college, then later for the Army team. He met my mom while stationed in Korea. After completing his service, they moved to Washington state to settle down. My dad loved the mountains, and my mom liked being closer to Korea.

My younger brother and I were raised in the suburbs of Seattle, although we often spent summers in Korea.

Over the years, we started bringing other members of the family to the US, my grandmother, uncles, and aunts. Little by little, almost all of them ended up moving to the Seattle area, opening up small businesses like grocery stores and karaoke bars, similar to other Korean immigrants in the area.

In between cultures

At school, we were usually the only Asian kids in class. At home, everyone looked like us. It created a constant push-pull: Korean at home, American outside.

At school, kids would say, "Are you guys Chinese?" And we'd say, "No, it's a different country." And they would say, "Oh, Japanese?"

When we visited my dad's family in Michigan, our cousins didn't know what we were; they hadn't seen people like us in the Midwest.

My mom worried about prejudice, so we didn't grow up speaking Korean. She wanted us to be American first, even as she struggled to learn English herself.

Court vs. classroom

I started shooting hoops when I was around six. In our early teens, we'd just head to the park and play. It wasn't until high school, when coaches started sending letters and offering scholarships, that I thought, "Wow, I might actually get to play basketball in school."

I ended up enrolling at the University of Portland, and later, after a knee injury, transferring to Seattle Pacific University — I played for both of the schools' teams.

After graduating, I got a teaching certificate and lined up a job teaching at a high school.

Change of plans

Then I chose basketball instead.

My mom thought I was throwing it all away. My brother was planning to be a lawyer, and she had dreams of bragging about us to her coffee group.

But by then, basketball had become my life, my brother's too.

When I didn't make it to the NBA, I started building an international career, including a brief stint with the Harlem Globetrotters. I was still chasing the NBA dream when a Korean agent suggested I try out for teams in Korea.

I suggested that my brother go first. He loved it and told me, "You have to come." So I did.

To play for the South Korean team, I had to give up my US citizenship. My dad, a military vet, wasn't happy. He reminded me that family members had died fighting for the US. He thought it was rash.

But after we talked it through, he understood. For me, it was about finding a better opportunity, just like his grandparents had done when they came from Italy.

Restarting in Korea

When I arrived in Seoul, I had just turned 30. At first, Korea felt familiar. The faces and food reminded me of my mom. But once I got deeper into the culture, I realized how different I was. I didn't speak the language and hadn't done military service.

Basketball practice in Korea felt like military training. We practiced four times a day: 6 a.m., 10 a.m., 4 p.m., and 8 p.m.

That's also when I started realizing just how many unspoken rules there are in the Korean language and culture.

I remember one of my first practices, I walked in, sat down, and started lacing up my shoes. I was sitting in the head coach's chair, but I had no idea that was a big faux pas.

So I was sitting there when the coach walked in. I went, "Oh, what's up?" I didn't even greet him properly. I didn't know any of this stuff. The whole team was like: "How can he be so rude? How does he not know this?"

That moment really pushed me to start learning the unspoken rules and study the language.

I eventually changed my name to Seung-jun, a name crafted with my mom's help. It means "beautiful victory," and links to my brother's name Dong‑jun — he grew up as Daniel.

When I was growing up in the States, my grandma used to talk to us for hours, but we could hardly understand her.

After learning to speak Korean, it was like meeting my grandma for the first time. I could actually talk to her and understand what she was saying.

Off the court, still in the game

In 2017, I retired, although I knew I wanted to stay in Korea. It felt like home.

The healthcare system is amazing. My wife, who's half-Korean, half-Romanian, is also a basketball player and is still playing.

A year after retiring from basketball, before my brother eventually got a green card and moved back to the States, we started Prism Hoops Academy. The youth sports company is focused on making sports fun for kids. In Korea, education is intense and regimented. Our goal was to create a space where kids could just play.

I'm now running the school with Im Won‑jun, another Korean American who, funnily enough, also grew up in Seattle.

We offer basketball, soccer, and chess. It's not about drills or perfection; our goal is just helping kids build positive memories.

Coaching young kids has become a real passion of mine, and my plan is to go back to school for a higher degree in education or administration.

So it looks like my mom will get her teacher after all.

Got a personal essay about moving abroad that you want to share? Get in touch with the reporter: [email protected].

The NBA Summer League championship matchup is set as the Sacramento Kings take on the Charlotte Hornets on Sunday night in Las Vegas.

One person died and two remain missing after a group was swept over Dillon Falls near Bend, Oregon on Saturday.

Even stars can have a bad hair day, but thankfully when David Beckham suffered a hilariously bad home haircut, his wife was there to share it with the world.

• Writing good prompts is one of the most important skills of the AI era.
• Anthropic just released a guide on how best to do it.
• One tip is to think of its chatbot, Claude, as "a brilliant but very new employee (with amnesia)."

One of the most lucrative corporate skills these days is effective prompting — making requests of chatbots to get what you want — but it's not as easy as it sounds.

Chatbots are like children. They will do only what you ask, if even that, and nothing more. To get what you want, you have to be explicit and specific.

AI startup Anthropic is offering some help on this front. The company recently published a "Prompt Engineering Overview" to help users get started.

While its guide applies to pretty much any chatbot, it's tailored to its own, Claude.

The first order of business, Anthropic says, is to understand exactly what Claude is. "When interacting with Claude, think of it as a brilliant but very new employee (with amnesia) who needs explicit instructions," the company says in its guide.

The second is to have a rough idea or draft of your question and a sense of what a successful outcome might look like. Anthropic also offers a "prompt generator" for the first draft.

Then it becomes all about refining that initial prompt. Here are Anthropic's top tips.

Be specific with your prompts

"Claude does not have context on your norms, styles, guidelines, or preferred ways of working. The more precisely you explain what you want, the better Claude's response will be," Anthropic says.

The company suggests telling the chatbot what the results will be used for and what audience it is meant for. You should also tell Claude, or whatever chatbot you are using, what the end goal of the task is.

The more you can organize the directions, the better. Anthropic even recommends laying out the requests as bullet points or a numbered list.

Be generous with examples

"Examples are your secret weapon shortcut for getting Claude to generate exactly what you need," Anthropic says. "By providing a few well-crafted examples in your prompt, you can dramatically improve the accuracy, consistency, and quality of Claude's outputs."

This strategy is sometimes called multi-shot prompting. Anthropic says that giving examples reduces misinterpretation and enforces uniform structure and style.

Give the chatbot space to think

"Giving Claude space to think can dramatically improve its performance," Anthropic says. "This technique, known as chain of thought (CoT) prompting, encourages Claude to break down problems step-by-step, leading to more accurate and nuanced outputs."

This means a user will get the most out of a chatbot if they lay out the chain of steps so it can think through each one before answering. "This thorough reasoning leads to a more confident and justifiable recommendation," Anthropic says.

Roleplay

Anthropic says one of the most effective strategies is to assign the chatbot a specific role, like "news editor" or "financial planner."

"This technique, known as role prompting, is the most powerful way to use system prompts with Claude," the company says.

"In complex scenarios like legal analysis or financial modeling, role prompting can significantly boost Claude's performance."

Assigning roles can ensure you get exactly what you want. Maybe you want the brevity of a news writer, or maybe you want the tone of an academic.

Reduce hallucinations

Chatbots make things up, which is why you have to check everything they say. But there are some simple ways to reduce those hallucinations.

Anthtropic says the best thing you can do is give the chatbot permission to say, "I don't know."

"Explicitly give Claude permission to admit uncertainty. This simple technique can drastically reduce false information," Anthropic says.

You can also ask Claude and other chatbots to cite their claims with sources. "You can also have Claude verify each claim by finding a supporting quote after it generates a response. If it can't find a quote, it must retract the claim," Anthropic says.

The Los Angeles Lakers have been linked to a potential trade for a two-time All-Star guard.

A suspect was taken into custody after a vehicle crashed into a post office in San Jose and sparked a fire, authorities told local media outlets.

Watch the final game of the series between the Detroit Tigers and Texas Rangers on Sunday night.

From Grey's Anatomy to Emergency: NYC, these are the hospital dramas you need to watch.

Los Angeles Mayor Karen Bass said the deployment of the National Guard by the president was "a political stunt" and "a terrible misuse of taxpayers' dollars."

Former Philadelphia Eagles star CJ Gardner-Johnson was present at the team's Super Bowl ring ceremony on Friday night, and he sent a message to his followers.

Governor Greg Abbott will introduce flood preparedness legislation at Monday's special session following deadly July 4th flooding.

According to the NHC, the disturbance is identifiable as a tropical wave carrying clusters of disorganized showers and thunderstorms in the open Atlantic.

The commerce secretary said President Donald Trump's sweeping new tariffs would drive as much as 1.5 percent gross domestic product growth.

After Bryson DeChambeau revealed receiving a personal locker-room message for the Ryder Cup, as captain Keegan Bradley confirmed his Bethpage Black position.

Rory McIlroy didn't disappoint his countrymen at Royal Portrush, and is ready to spend some more time on European soil.

Scottie Scheffler won the Open Championship to claim his fourth major title and a winner's share of the $17 million purse.

• It's been almost impossible to escape the Coldplay "kiss cam" incident this week.
• The viral moment has made global headlines, and social media has been flooded with memes.
• The sports world has also joined in, with parodies from MLB mascots and SportsCenter hosts.

If ever there is evidence a moment is iconic, it's when goofy sports mascots recreate it.

The Raptor, the Toronto Raptors mascot, famously recreated Beyoncé's now legendary Coachella opening in 2018. Mascots for the Denver Nuggets recreated the wedding of Prince Harry and Meghan Markle.

And now they are recreating a new iconic event: The moment a "kiss cam" at a Coldplay concert captured now-former Astronomer CEO Andy Byron embracing the company's chief people officer, Kristin Cabot.

At Citizens Bank Park in Philadelphia on Friday night, for instance, the mascot for the Philadelphia Phillies baseball team was shown on the jumbotron mimicking the viral incident.

The Arizona Diamondbacks also had a field day with the meme.

The stadium's "kiss cam" caught team mascot D. Baxter the Bobcat locked in an embrace with a St. Louis Cardinals fan, before the pair also took evasive action.

Posting a clip of the spoof on X, the Diamondbacks wrote: "Ok now listen, are you two a couple? Are you two a legitimate couple?"

It's not just mascots — fans across the country have also seized on the moment. Footage posted to social media shows couples at America First Field in Utah and Truist Park in Atlanta showing off their own versions of the moment.

SportsCenter commentators Gary Striewski and Randy Scott also recreated the viral clip.

During their show's cold open on Friday, cameras panned to Scott holding Striewski by the waist. Scott drops to the floor, and Striewski covers his face as the camera pans to them.

"It's time to 'Kiss It Goodbye,'" Scott says as they move to the next segment of the show. "Baseball's probably not the only thing you can say that about."

The jokes were also flying at Busch Stadium in Missouri, where two popular exhibition baseball teams — The Savannah Bananas and The Party Animals — competed this week.

A video shared by the Savannah Bananas on Saturday showed people reenacting the Coldplay "kiss cam" moment on the stadium's jumbotron.

At one point, the camera panned to The Party Animals mascot, Pharty, warmly embracing Princess Potassia, the mascot for the Savannah Bananas. The two costumed characters quickly ducked out of the way, eliciting cheers and laughter from the crowd.

Astronomer, the New York-based tech company where Byron worked, announced on Friday that the CEO had been placed on leave and that it had started a formal investigation into the incident. In an update Saturday, the firm said Byron had resigned from his position as CEO.

In a statement shared on X, the tech company said its leaders were "expected to set the standard in both conduct and accountability."

"And recently, that standard was not met," it added.

Brittney Mast told Newsweek: "The less families that default to cell phones, the less of an issue it will be for all of our kids."