Finance
‘Diary of a CEO’ star Steven Bartlett will bet up to $400 million to build a new generation of star creators
Podcast star Steven Bartlett is joining with Authentic Brands Group to invest up to $400 million to help other creators grow their businesses. The host of “The Diary of A CEO” podcast — through his holding company, Steven.com — on Monday unveiled OBSN. The venture will provide creators with…
We quit our jobs in our 30s to travel and live part-time from a sailboat. We have no regrets about giving up the golden handcuffs.
We’d been thriving in Seattle’s tech boom — Bianca, in the US on a work visa, was a senior finance reporter at Business Insider covering how Wall Street’s biggest firms use and invest in technology, and Charlie, a software engineer within Amazon’s payments organization, had spent eight years…
I ranked 13 fast-food double cheeseburgers. The best offered big flavor for a low price.
Double the patties should mean double the deliciousness, but does it? For a definitive ranking, I tried practically every fast-food double cheeseburger on the market to determine which was best in terms of taste and value. I tried double cheeseburgers from McDonald’s, Wendy’s, Burger King, Shake…
My husband and I bought our first home together. A year later, our friend moved in.
In May 2022, my husband, Daniel, and I reached a major milestone on our quest toward the American dream: buying our first home in Western Washington. The one-story home is just under 1,300 square feet and has four bedrooms and two bathrooms. For almost a year, we enjoyed the freedom of finally…
Michael Burry says AI leaders’ calls for a slowdown are ‘self-serving’ — and humanity has ‘nothing to fear’
Sam Altman, Dario Amodei, and other AI chiefs are calling for slower development of the technology following fresh warnings that it could annihilate us all. Michael Burry says they’re just helping themselves. The investor of “The Big Short” fame said in a late Sunday post on X that it was…
The hot new job in tech as AI apocalypse fears reach a tipping point
The next high-profile AI hire may not be another researcher, but an “embedded evaluator” tasked with scrutinizing frontier models before they’re released. In a blog post on Saturday, Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei said frontier AI labs should commit to embedding independent safety evaluators within…
3 ex-Apple researchers want to make AI less awkward. Lightspeed, Accel, and Nvidia are giving them $50 million to do it.
A startup that’s trying to make AI models better conversationalists with more emotional intelligence has just raised $50 million. Seattle-based Nuance says it wants to build models that can hold face-to-face conversations without the lag and awkwardness of existing chatbots. Fangchang Ma, Nuance’s…
I’m in my 60s and can’t find full-time work. I took Social Security early and filed for bankruptcy to stay afloat.
This as-told-to essay is based on conversations with Thomas Heep, a job seeker in his 60s who lives in Denver. He was laid off in April 2025 and is still looking for full-time work. The following has been edited for length and clarity. I was laid off from my job as an operations manager on
He had a gig mowing lawns at 11. By 25, he had turned it into a multimillion-dollar landscaping business.
Some kids mow lawns for pocket money and move on. Cody Kuebler kept at it, turning the childhood gig into a multimillion-dollar business. Now 25, Kuebler said he spent his summers growing up cutting his neighbors’ grass for around $25 a job, first with an aging push mower, and later with one his…
Bryan & Kate forever
As soon as they had sex on July 27, Bryan Johnson tells me, he knew his cofounder and girlfriend, Kate Tolo, was hours away from getting her period. Normally, the couple has sex two to three times a week, most often between 3 and 5 p.m. “Too close to Bryan’s bedtime” — 8:30 p.m. —