This as-told-to essay is based on a conversation with Braydon Barrett, 32, who moved to Asia with his family in 2024 but moved back to Utah eight months later. It’s…
Well, that was easy.President Donald Trump on Sunday said he would remove tariffs on Irish whiskey after golfer Shane Lowry and the Irish prime minister did the unthinkable: They asked…
This as-told-to essay is based on a conversation with Camila Valim. It has been edited for length and clarity.I spent two decades in corporate as head of marketing for an entertainment group. I left that job due to burnout. I…
Everything’s fine! Take it from the cofounder of Palantir.In an X post on Saturday, Joe Lonsdale brushed aside the salient worry that advanced AI systems could cause mass human extinction, a concern that numerous engineers and leaders from frontier AI labs…
CBS News is getting employees hyped about the first full season of “60 Minutes” under top editor Bari Weiss, months after a string of high-profile exits.”We don’t often send notes to the whole newsroom. But today calls for it. It’s…
For a week every month, I take a two-and-a-half-hour flight from Chicago to Winnipeg, Canada.That might sound surprising: It’s a lot of time to spend in the air, and Chicago has so much to offer. However, I’ve been in a long-distance relationship with my Canadian partner, Andrew, for over two…
This as-told-to essay is based on a conversation with Laura Lee Ehrlich, 54, who lives on Long Island. Ehrlich has cared for five older loved ones over the last two decades and gave up her job to be a more present caregiver. It’s come at a cost to her savings…
My husband and I were both college athletes. When we had two boys, I think people naturally assumed we’d push the sports route hard. After all, I was a four-year…
This as-told-to essay is based on a conversation with Jordan Karp, 30, founder and CEO of Jordan Karp LLC, a real estate brokerage in South Florida. Karp started his own…
An Emmy is the biggest award an actor can win for their work on the small screen — and when there’s a show or a performance Emmy voters love, it often gets multiple nominations and wins.We’ve pored over the stats…
Joann Ernst, 72, shook her head as her older grandson decapitated an action figure. The other laid out puzzle pieces in a line, surrounded by a sea of toys.”You have to put all the Play-Doh back in the container so…
A painful toothache or an oral infection might not sound like an injury that could sideline a soldier in combat, but US Army dental leaders warn that in a future conflict, such easily overlooked conditions could take troops out of…
YouTuber Markiplier thinks more creators can break into Hollywood without giving up control.The 37-year-old put it to the test earlier this year, when he wrote, directed, and starred in the film “Iron Lung.” He funded the movie’s low 7-figure budget…
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Hisayuki Idekoba hears regularly about how broken hiring can feel.As head of the job platform Indeed, job seekers tell him they have applied to roles only to get nothing back, while employers complain about unresponsive candidates and surging application volumes,…
My boss had a proposal: It was time to replace him with AI.It was late spring, following months of AI-attributed layoffs across the economy that…
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The leaders of US AI labs are having a come-together moment.After Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei said on Saturday that he’s “become convinced” AI needs to pace its development to avert disaster, other AI leaders quickly logged on to endorse the…
A group of online creators with a combined 46 million followers is demanding Lowe’s and Home Depot — two of the largest home-improvement stores in…
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My partner and I have always enjoyed going to live events, festivals, and concerts. The city we live in has so many nearby events that it is basically impossible to be bored. Now that we have a child, we don’t…
When Zaire Wells’s daughter was selected for a free childcare slot, it felt like the two-year-old “got into Harvard.”NYC Mayor Zohran Mamdani proposed free childcare for two-year-olds in his affordability-focused campaign. In March, he announced that it would launch with…
Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei says he’s “become convinced” in recent months that AI needs to slow down. And rogue OpenAI agents are part of the reason.Amodei cited the July Hugging Face breach, in which OpenAI agents broke out of their testing…
After having a baby last summer, my husband and I realized something: by the time the house was quiet and our baby was asleep, neither of us had much energy left to talk about anything. We weren’t fighting often, but…
When my eldest son was a little boy, I did something that felt quietly monumental in the moment and slightly ridiculous — I created a Gmail account in his name.He was 3 years old. Far too young to know what…
When I was a child, the Jersey Shore was my magical place. My great-grandmother, her siblings, and a few other relatives lived there in a high-rise apartment building, so every summer we’d visit for a week. Looking out from the…
This as-told-to essay is based on a conversation with Heigi Jeong. It has been edited for length and clarity.People often assume that I quit my six-figure job in product design because of severe burnout or an existential crisis, but that…
This as-told-to essay is based on a conversation with Nick Lyktey, 34, a New Yorker who grew up in Wantagh, on Long Island, but moved to Fort Wright, Kentucky, five miles outside Cincinnati. He now works as the chief of…
Most summers, I try to pack in as much travel as possible with my kids. My children have dual citizenship, and it’s important to me that they spend time in Europe and connect with their roots. I enjoy showing them…
Jodi and Paul Sprague raised their daughters with a guiding principle: understand the value of a dollar. By elementary school, Evelyn and Olivia were learning about mortgages, car insurance, and basic accounting in the carpool lane.Early one June morning, before…
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A “Black Swan” investor says to guard against disasters — but take risks too.Mark Spitznagel has built his career on protecting his clients’ portfolios against extreme, rare, and unpredictable events…
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Developers are worried about AI. The creator of Claude Code has a response.On Thursday, Anthropic’s Boris Cherny posted an email a developer wrote to him on X. The email was…
This as-told-to essay is based on a conversation with Brigid Kemmerer, a New York Times bestselling author of young-adult and romantasy novels. Kemmerer, based in Baltimore and now 48 years…
It looks like Caroline Ellison has emerged from stealth mode.A nonprofit CEO announced Friday that he secretly gave a job to Ellison — who went to prison in connection with…
Sharpe said pearls are trending this fall season, but with a fresher, less traditional feel. She told BI these iterations will be supersized, multistrand, more irregular, and natural-looking.”I think the more unique the shape is, the better,” Sharpe said.She also noted there are a…
