Finance
Some of the biggest US banks are on high alert as the crisis in the Middle East worsens, causing lenders to issue updated security guidance to employees and even order them to leave their locations altogether.Iranian military leaders warned on Wednesday that they would attack banks and financial institutions in…
Fifteen years ago, Fukushima, Japan, was home to one of the worst nuclear disasters in history. Today, some places in the region look just as they did in the immediate aftermath of that fateful Friday in 2011.After a 9.0 magnitude earthquake and tsunami ravaged the electrical grid and flooded the…
Dreams took hold of Werner Herzog early in his life. Because that’s all he had.Born in Munich just before the Allies bombed it during World War II, Herzog and his family fled to a remote village in Bavaria and lived there in poverty for most of his childhood.With no telephone,…
When Amazon announced a $50 billion investment and sweeping cloud partnership with OpenAI recently, a question surfaced inside the cloud giant: What does this mean for Anthropic? Loading audio narration… Amazon is one of Anthropic’s biggest investors, and has a deep cloud partnership with the startup. OpenAI and Anthropic are…
Harvey’s CEO Winston Weinberg thinks the $1 trillion legal market is too big and too fragmented for any one software company to sweep it. So the $8 billion legal-tech startup is trying a different play: bankroll whatever comes next. Loading audio narration… Harvey said Wednesday that it will begin investing…
My husband and I wanted space. We wanted to be off-grid. Loading audio narration… After years of traveling in a van, our wild hippie hearts wanted a place where we could build whatever we wanted, meditate outside in the sun, and feel inspired by natural, untouched land nearby.When we first…
Recently, my sons visited the adult daycare wing of the nursing home that shares their preschool building. The children were working on a simple sticker project when one of the residents, a man living with dementia, began to struggle with the steps. He looked frustrated and one of my boys…
This as-told-to essay is based on a conversation with Jen Affleck, who stars on Hulu’s “The Secret Lives of Mormon Wives”. It has been edited for length and clarity.Growing up, I thought success was selfish. Being raised in Mormon culture, I learned that the women were supposed to be at…
New satellite imagery shows several destroyed American-made F-14 fighter jets at an Iranian airbase that was recently targeted by Israeli strikes. Loading audio narration… The images, collected on Monday by the US spatial intelligence firm Vantor and obtained by Business Insider, show visible wreckage of at least two F-14 Tomcats…
We were supposed to be in Singapore together for my 45th birthday. Loading audio narration… After last year’s depressing birthday in the city, my husband Steve suggested we celebrate my special day overseas and check off a destination that had been on our bucket list for years.Since Steve had business…
