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The moment I picked up a barbell in 2019, it was love at first squat. In a matter of weeks, I had become a quintessential gym rat. I bought my own extra-padded barbell pads and creatine, and signed up for my very first strength-training program.In short, I was locked in…
Working on consulting projects has long involved creating slides — lots and lots of slides.At McKinsey, AI has allowed consultants to pare back their reliance on PowerPoint.Kate Smaje, McKinsey’s Global Leader for technology and AI, told Business Insider that she’s seen usage of PowerPoint drop massively within a couple of…
If the winter of 2026 saw companies gorge themselves on all-you-can-eat AI, summertime is for counting calories.Prices for some of the most popular tools have risen, and companies that previously asked employees to go all out on AI code are suddenly facing hefty bills. Executives and workers told Business Insider…
As adolescents, my wife and I both had summer jobs. In Iowa, she pushed a cart around the library, reshelving books. In Oregon, I pushed a mail cart through the antiseptic-laced hallways of the hospital where my mother worked. I also collated and stapled thick packets of photocopies by hand…
To Spring, some of the new drones blunting Russia’s momentum first arrived so glitchy they were practically cursed.”In every sortie, everything that could go wrong went wrong,” the drone pilot, with the Ukrainian National Guard’s Typhoon unit, told Business Insider of the first system she tested in early 2025.The fixed-wing…
Sanctions-hit Russia is raking in more money from high oil prices, but that doesn’t mean its economy is about to take off, according to Goldman Sachs.International benchmark Brent crude futures were trading around $92 a barrel late Tuesday — about 30% higher since the Iran war started. That’s a boon…
If you try asking Anthropic’s new Claude Fable 5 model a simple question about cybersecurity or biology, you may find it’s not up to the task.That’s because the underlying “Mythos-class” model is so powerful that, in order to release it to the general public, it required broad safeguards that can…
This week, the United States’ and Israel’s war against Iran passed the 100-day mark. In the more than three months since the war began, a host of ethical, economic, and political questions have arisen about the conflict.One of the most pressing political questions has centered on the legality of the…
The next AI career path could start with a hard hat, not a laptop.Meta said Monday it is investing a $115 million in a roughly 5-week program aimed at fast-tracking careers in the skilled trades as it looks to build out data centers to support its massive AI ambitions.Called “America’s…
Becca Stern loved buying vintage lockers, but found they weren’t very practical for home storage.She and her sister, Jess Stern, had often talked about starting a business together and saw an opportunity to reinvent them into something beautiful and functional for people to use in their homes. “Once we made…
