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The first trailer for Jesse Armstrong’s “Mountainhead” was unveiled on Tuesday, teasing another high-stakes satire of the superrich from the Emmy-winning creator of HBO’s “Succession.””Mountainhead,” Armstrong’s first release since “Succession” ended in 2023, will also mark his first feature film and directorial debut. It stars Steve Carell, Jason Schwartzman, Cory…
A federal judge will almost certainly target Google’s multibillion dollar search engine deals with Apple and other companies as part of a way to remedy the tech empire’s illegal online search monopoly, antitrust experts said.On Monday, Google and the Department of Justice began an expected three-week-long court battle in Washington,…
A large part of an engineer’s success is often tied to how they navigate their relationship with their manager, according to former Amazon engineering director Dave Anderson.”I would actually say, as a manager, even, like 50% of that performance, frequently, is your relationship with your manager and your team. How…
A California school co-founded by Mark Zuckerberg’s wife that championed DEI values is closing next year after a decade of operation.The Primary School, a tuition-free private school with locations in East Palo Alto and East Bay, California, is shutting its doors at the end of the 2025-2026 school year, it…
President Donald Trump is reviving a program that withholds federal benefits like tax refunds and Social Security from student-loan borrowers in default.Trump’s Department of Education announced on Monday that it will resume collections on defaulted borrowers beginning on May 5. Since March 2020, the department has not collected on defaulted…
For my wife’s 52nd birthday, I planned an epic family trip. After all, one of the things that drew us to each other is our shared love of travel.I accumulated one million credit-card points that I could use to subsidize travel costs and made a plan to see lots of…
President Donald Trump has once again blasted Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell for cutting interest rates too slowly and warned he could remove him from his post. The latest threat to the central bank’s independence sent more shockwaves through markets.Piling those fresh worries on top of tariff woes meant the…
Reco, which uses generative AI and AI agents to provide businesses with an SaaS security platform, just raised more funding. The startup told Business Insider exclusively that it secured a $25 million Series A extension from Insight Partners, Zeev Ventures, Boldstart Ventures, Angular Ventures, and Redseed.The startup originally raised a…
This story is available exclusively to Business Insider subscribers. Become an Insider and start reading now. Have an account? Log in. Larry Summers warned that the US could face a crisis similar to the UK’s in late 2022. The former Treasury Secretary was referring to plans proposed by then-UK Prime…
When I picked up my 13-year-old daughter from school, I could tell something was off the moment she got in the car. She didn’t greet me with her usual chatter, just stared out the window with red, puffy eyes and shrugged when I asked, “How was your day?” After a…
