Day: October 9, 2025

• Nicole Kidman, 58, says she’s learned to embrace her fair skin and height with age.
• “I used to grapple with that and kind of twist my hip down and pretend I was smaller,” Kidman said.
• But the “best part” about growing older is all the life experiences she’s managed to accumulate, she said.

Nicole Kidman, 58, says she used to hide the features that now make her feel powerful.

In an interview with Harper’s Bazaar published Friday, the actor spoke about how she’s learned to embrace the things she once saw as flaws, including her complexion and tall frame.

“My fair skin. I used to hate it. It’s still not my favorite thing, but I appreciate it because it’s very good on film, so I use it that way,” Kidman told Harper’s Bazaar.

The “Babygirl” star added that her height was another thing she learned to appreciate.

“I’m lucky to be tall and I have so much leeway with what I eat because there’s so many more places for it to go! There’s not a small gene in our family. I mean, we are all giants,” Kidman said.

Both her daughters are 5’10”, while she and her sister are each 5’11”, she said.

“I used to grapple with that and kind of twist my hip down and pretend I was smaller,” Kidman said. “Now, I put my shoulders back, and I stand up, and I just own it.”

Still, there is a part of her that wishes she were a few inches shorter so she could look up to someone, since it’s a more flattering angle on camera, she added.

Appearance aside, Kidman says the “best part” of growing older is all the experiences she’s accumulated.

“So you go, ‘Oh, I’ve been here before. I actually know how to handle this now.’ Or, ‘Maybe I haven’t been in this place, but I’ve experienced something similar to this, and I do know that I will get through it.’ There’s something to knowing that no matter how painful, or how difficult, or how devastating something is, there is a way through,” Kidman said.

Even when something feels overwhelming, things will eventually get better, she said.

“You are going to have to feel it, and it’s going to feel insurmountable at times. You’re going to feel like you’re broken, but if you move gently and slowly — and it can take an enormous amount of time — it does pass,” Kidman said.

In September, Kidman filed for divorce from her husband, Keith Urban. They married in June 2006 and share two daughters.

A representative for Kidman did not immediately respond to a request for comment sent by Business Insider outside regular hours.

Kidman joins a wave of public figures who are speaking candidly about what aging has taught them.

In April, Melinda French Gates said she no longer cares if people don’t like her.

“I deserve to be where I am in life. Like, I’ve worked really hard to get here, and I know myself. If people don’t like me or they don’t like what I’m saying, I’m kind of at the point in life where I’m like, ‘Take it or leave it,'” French Gates said. “Like if I’m not your cup of tea, that’s OK.”

Her self-confidence could be a product of growing older, she added: “Maybe that comes with being 60.”

In July, Heidi Klum said she doesn’t think aging is anything to be ashamed of.

“I don’t have this age-shaming or body-shaming thing. I feel like everyone should do what they want to do. I like to run around sexy — even now at 52,” she said.

• OpenAI’s president described the internal battle for GPU allocation as “pain and suffering.”
• Greg Brockmain said compute drives the productivity of entire teams — and the stakes are high.
• He also explained how OpenAI shuffles its GPUs internally.

OpenAI’s president, Greg Brockman, said deciding which teams get graphic processing units inside the company is an exercise in “pain and suffering.”

Brockman said on an episode of the “Matthew Berman” podcast published Thursday that managing the crucial resource is emotional and exhausting.

“It’s so hard because you see all these amazing things, and someone comes and pitches another amazing thing, and you’re like, yes, that is amazing,” he said.

He explained that the company divides its computing power between research and applied products. The company’s chief scientist and research head decide allocations within the research side. Senior leadership — CEO Sam Altman and the CEO of applications, Fidji Simo — decide the overall split between research and applied teams.

At the operational level, a small internal team focuses on shuffling GPU assignments, including Kevin Park, who is responsible for redistributing hardware as projects wind down.

“You go to him and you’re just like, ‘OK, like we need this many more GPUs for this project that just came up,'” Brockman said. “And he’s like, ‘All right, there’s like these five projects that are sort of winding down,'” he added.

The internal GPU shuffle reflects the broader scarcity that OpenAI has warned about for months. Brockman said compute drives the productivity of entire teams — and the stakes are high.

“People really care,” he said. “The energy and emotion around, ‘Do I get my compute or not?’ is something you cannot understate.”

Brockman and OpenAI did not respond to a request for comment from Business Insider.

The race for GPUs

OpenAI has been vocal about its insatiable demand for computing power.

“Every time we get more GPUs, they immediately get used,” OpenAI’s chief product officer, Kevin Weil, said on an episode of the “Moonshot” podcast published in August.

Weil said the need for compute is simple: “The more GPUs we get, the more AI we’ll all use.” He highlighted that adding bandwidth made the explosion of video possible.

Altman said last month that OpenAI is launching “new compute-intensive offerings.” Because of the costs involved, some features will initially be limited to Pro subscribers, while certain new products will have extra fees, he added.

Altman framed the push as an experiment in stretching AI infrastructure to its limits: “We also want to learn what’s possible when we throw a lot of compute, at today’s model costs, at interesting new ideas,” he wrote on X.

Other tech giants have also been blunt about their appetite for GPUs.

Mark Zuckerberg said on an episode of the “Access” podcast published last month that Meta is making “compute per researcher” a competitive advantage. He said the company is outspending rivals on GPUs and the custom infrastructure needed to power them.