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The 10 British universities with the most American students, ranked
Some American students are swapping Greek life and GPAs for cobblestone campuses and a degree across the pond. Awareness of the British university route is steadily rising, said Meredith Guthrie, lead consultant at Meritage Advisors, a consultancy that provides UK university admissions guidance for…
OpenAI president says companies should do 10 things ASAP to defend against AI cyber threats
OpenAI’s president is ringing the cybersecurity alarm bell. Greg Brockman says companies need to act now to secure their systems against AI-powered attackers after the “watershed moment for cybersecurity” that was the OpenAI-Hugging Face hack. “I’ve spoken with many organizations over the past few…
Why Your Paycheck May Look Similar Even After ‘No Tax on Tips’
Some workers who heard “no tax on tips” throughout election season are wondering why their paychecks still look similar to those they received last year. Miklos Ringbauer, a certified public accountant and founder of MiklosCPA Inc., said he still faces questions about how the policy works ahead of…
Cheaper First Class Sounds Great. Here’s the Catch Airlines Aren’t Advertising
You’ve probably seen the headlines by now: First class is finally getting cheaper. Sounds like a win, right? For once, the little guy catches a break at the front of the plane. Don’t believe it. What’s really happening is one of the oldest tricks in the airline playbook, and it just moved into the…
I locked in a 3.25% mortgage rate in a desirable suburb. It looks like success on the surface, but feels far from it.
One car ride home, my observant 6-year-old asked a tough question: “Mommy, do you want to live here?” I suppose she’d heard me complain about life in the DC suburbs a few too many times. Still, in a moment of vulnerability and sadness, I said, “No, I miss my friends, and I miss Georgia.” In
This U.S. Airport Ranked First for Domestic Flight Deals
Finding cheap flights can be a matter of both where you’re going and who takes you there. Going released its 2026 Top Airports and Airlines for Flight Deals on Aug. 17. The analysis was based on a review of more than 45,000 routes at U.S. airports from July 1, 2025, to June 30, 2026. Top
The US military is paying RTX’s Raytheon big for more Tomahawk missiles. It burned through many of them fighting Iran.
The US military has awarded a massive contract to dramatically ramp up the production of Tomahawk cruise missiles, the Pentagon said on Monday, after burning through hundreds of these long-range munitions during the Iran conflict. The $22.9 billion contract awarded to US defense contractor RTX’s…
First came self-driving cars. Now, Waymo veterans are building autonomous construction equipment.
Self-driving cars have spent years learning the rules of the road. Now, several Waymo veterans are trying to apply those lessons to a far less predictable environment: construction sites. San Francisco-based Bedrock Robotics said Monday that excavators equipped with its autonomous AI system are now…
My parents thought I was wasting my life playing video games. I became a millionaire by 27.
This as-told-to essay is based on a conversation with Dima Beseda, cofounder of Spiry. It has been edited for length and clarity. I was only 3 when my dad brought our first computer into the house, but it changed my life. At a very young age, I realized that video games had clear-cut rules. I
Leopold Aschenbrenner’s Situational Awareness bet big on SanDisk and Micron before it blew up
Leopold Aschenbrenner, the Wall Street wunderkind whose hedge fund imploded in late July, placed huge bets on two AI stocks in the lead-up to the disaster. Aschenbrenner’s firm, Situational Awareness, owned a $5.7 billion stake in SanDisk and a $5.6 billion stake in Micron at the end of June, its…