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Tensions are high in AI. Loading audio narration… The leaders of AI don’t seem to be on the best of terms. Feuds abound, from Sam Altman and Dario Amodei to Altman and Elon Musk — the latter of which is playing out in court.Meta’s chief AI officer, Alexandr Wang, has…
Condé Nast was a money-losing magazine publisher in 2019, when Roger Lynch took over as CEO. Now it’s profitable. Loading audio narration… How’d he do that?Cuts and consolidation are part of the story. But Lynch says he’s focused on growing newish businesses, like the annual Met Gala his Vogue title…
I’ve been shopping at Costco for as long as I can remember.As a child, I loved trying the samples and getting a smiley face drawn on my receipt at the exit. I even begged my parents to let me have my Sweet 16 there — an idea that was quickly…
This interview is based on a conversation with tattoo artist Blake Benson, 29, of Tennessee. It has been edited for length and clarity. Loading audio narration… I bounced around a lot in my childhood and teenhood, doing stuff I shouldn’t have at a young age, like drinking alcohol.After I was…
Global life expectancy is on the rise, meaning a greater percentage of the population than ever before is made up of the elderly.But not every country has experienced this elder boom equally.The World Bank Group gathered data in 2024 on the percentages of populations aged 65 or older in different…
Roblox just made a big hire it hopes can unlock its next stage of growth. Loading audio narration… The online entertainment and gaming platform exclusively told CMO Insider it had appointed John Ciancutti as its first-ever chief growth officer.Ciancutti is responsible for Roblox’s discovery team, which works on its TikTok-like…
Elon Musk and Jensen Huang are heading to China on Air Force One. Loading audio narration… The Tesla and Nvidia CEOs are part of the delegation accompanying President Donald Trump to Beijing.In a post on Truth Social, Trump named 10 other business leaders who were traveling with him, too. Although…
Private credit, just recently one of the hottest asset classes for institutional investors to park their money, is losing ground to other strategies, according to a new report from Canoe Intelligence.Private credit accounted for 6.8% of institutional investors’ alternative-asset holdings in the fourth quarter of 2025, down from 9.7% December…
Ride-hailing drivers can spend months or years learning the best ways to make money. Now, there’s artificial intelligence for that. Loading audio narration… Lyft has been rolling out over the past year Earnings Assistant, a AI tool that gives drivers tips on where and when to drive. It shows how…
This as-told-to essay is based on a conversation with Jillian Kurovski, a 27-year-old Ph.D. student living in South Korea for a year. It has been edited for length and clarity. Loading audio narration… I was doing spider research in Guam when I got an email saying that my birth mother…
