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The moment I picked up a barbell in 2019, it was love at first squat. In a matter of weeks, I had become a quintessential gym rat. I bought my own extra-padded barbell pads and creatine, and signed up for my very first strength-training program.In short, I was locked in…
This as-told-to essay is based on a conversation with Kathy Mullen, 64, who quit her job at Nike to care for her mother. Mullen, who lives in Texas, said that the caregiving work hurt her financially and was physically taxing, as she is now on disability. This interview has been…
Working on consulting projects has long involved creating slides — lots and lots of slides.At McKinsey, AI has allowed consultants to pare back their reliance on PowerPoint.Kate Smaje, McKinsey’s Global Leader for technology and AI, told Business Insider that she’s seen usage of PowerPoint drop massively within a couple of…
Over the last few weeks, CBS News boss Bari Weiss has fired many of the top correspondents and producers at her network’s famed “60 Minutes.” One of them subsequently accused her of tilting her coverage to please the Trump administration — which isn’t the first time a “60 Minutes” employee…
If the winter of 2026 saw companies gorge themselves on all-you-can-eat AI, summertime is for counting calories.Prices for some of the most popular tools have risen, and companies that previously asked employees to go all out on AI code are suddenly facing hefty bills. Executives and workers told Business Insider…
An injectable fat product that has become popular with high-end plastic surgeons and their well-heeled clientele is under investigation by New York state health officials, according to court filings.Tiger Aesthetics began distributing alloClae, which is derived from sterilized cadaver fat and regulated by the Food and Drug Administration, to a…
As adolescents, my wife and I both had summer jobs. In Iowa, she pushed a cart around the library, reshelving books. In Oregon, I pushed a mail cart through the antiseptic-laced hallways of the hospital where my mother worked. I also collated and stapled thick packets of photocopies by hand…
Alex Imas hasn’t yet seen evidence that AI is driving job losses.During an interview with the “Dwarkesh Podcast,” the director of AGI economics at Google DeepMind and a professor of economics at the University of Chicago was asked if he’s seen any evidence of a white-collar jobs apocalypse. He said…
After the trip, my friends and I all had to comb through our bank statements to split shared costs and figure out who owed what.It quickly became confusing — international charges were appearing under different names, addresses, and numbers, making it difficult to distinguish between them. It was also hard…
To Spring, some of the new drones blunting Russia’s momentum first arrived so glitchy they were practically cursed.”In every sortie, everything that could go wrong went wrong,” the drone pilot, with the Ukrainian National Guard’s Typhoon unit, told Business Insider of the first system she tested in early 2025.The fixed-wing…
