Author: News Room
I always joke that my dad really wanted a son, but instead he had me, an only daughter. He made me a huge sports fan. Like him, I love soccer, and we also bonded over watching F1 races. Loading audio narration… When my son was born, my dad was over…
Warren Buffett is a media master, and Berkshire Hathaway’s shareholder weekend is one of a kind, says influencer and investor Sahil Bloom. Loading audio narration… The author of “The 5 Types of Wealth” and writer of “The Curiosity Chronicle” newsletter spoke to Business Insider’s Theron Mohamed in Buffett’s hometown of…
“She will never go for that,” I told my husband in 2023 when he suggested that my then-68-year-old mom sell the Hudson, New York, home she had lived in for 45 years and move an hour north to live with us.After my stepdad died in 2020, she seemed to have…
When Sam Altman needed someone to beat Elon Musk in court, he hired a lawyer who had done it once before: William Savitt. Loading audio narration… Savitt was a natural choice to take the case. For decades, he’d occupied the upper echelons of corporate litigation. He represented Twitter in 2022,…
Big Tech’s titans go toe-to-toeThe high-stakes legal battle between Elon Musk and Sam Altman is entering its second week in the courtroom. Loading audio narration… My colleague Katherine Li has been on the scene in San Francisco, chronicling the ins and outs of a trial that is pitting two of…
Consumers are in for a rude awakening from the what one expert is calling the second wave of inflation caused by the Iran war.The impact of the war on consumers’ wallets has been relatively limited, with inflationary pressures showing up in high gas prices and pricier flights. Market watchers warn…
Jennifer Tessmer-Tuck knows how fickle the healthcare industry can be. Loading audio narration… The OB-GYN in the Minneapolis-St. Paul area had seen her hospital go through several cycles of layoffs, including one around 2015 that led her to pick up extra shifts so she could save more aggressively in case…
When they’re not flying real first-person-view drones, some Ukrainian pilots are training inside “Grand Theft Auto V.” Loading audio narration… Ukraine has often leveraged video games and simulators to train pilots, helping them build the hand-eye coordination needed for flying FPV drones. The crossover of skillsets has even made gamers…
For years, philosophy majors were the butt of jokes about unemployable degrees. Loading audio narration… Now, some of them are being recruited by the world’s most powerful AI companies to help shape how machines think and behave — with six-figure salary packages.As AI systems become more powerful and more embedded…
Meagan Edson, 55, and Scott Edson, 41, bought a half-acre of land in Leadville, Colorado, in 2017.They were living in Barrington, Illinois, and happily running their gym, but they planned to move to Colorado eventually, as Meagan Edson’s daughter was in college there and her son intended to end up…
