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Why It’s Easier To FIRE At 35 Than At 50
In 2012, two months before my 35th birthday, I engineered my layoff from a 13-year career in investment banking. At the time, it felt like the riskiest thing I had ever done. Was I really going to blow up my career right as my earning power was about to compound? It did not seem wise.
Gen Z Is Ghosting People Over Dating Debt: How Did We Get Here?
USA TODAY Network / Reuters For some Gen Z daters, romance ends where the receipt begins. A Sept. 22 study from Zelle found that 52% of Gen Z daters have ghosted, blocked or unfollowed someone at least once to avoid paying them back after a date. As Gen Z, the cohort born between 1997 and
Meet the top Anthropic scientist who predicted the core of today’s AI doom debate
At the center of the debate over AI-driven catastrophe, there’s Anthropic. At the center of Anthropic, there’s Jared Kaplan. The Anthropic cofounder sounded the alarm on AI late last year: No one knows what will happen if frontier developers get AI to the point where it fully trains itself. He told…
I wanted to live in the US, then had a game-changing visit to Europe. Here’s why I chose Germany.
This as-told-to essay is based on a conversation with Ishansh Gupta, 29, who lives in Munich. The following has been edited for length and clarity. Growing up in India, I knew I wanted to live in the US one day. I had relatives who’d moved there, and the way Bollywood movies portrayed the American…
Amazon is trying to rehire workers it laid off, emails show
Amazon wants former employees back, including some it laid off. The company is reaching out to eligible former employees about open roles across Amazon, including in its cloud-computing and AI businesses, according to recruiter emails obtained by Business Insider and a company spokesperson. In one…
Bobbi Brown and other founders share their advice for starting your own company
Now might be the perfect time to launch that business you’ve been dreaming about. Americans filed more than 3 million applications to start businesses in the first six months of 2026, up 16.5% from a year earlier, according to US Census Bureau data. The uptick comes as AI lowers the barriers to…
NYC’s DoorDash settlement is just one part of Mamdani’s big swing against delivery apps
Mayor Zohran Mamdani’s win against DoorDash is just one battle in his bigger war on delivery companies. The $131.5 million settlement accomplished what former mayor Eric Adams’ administration had begun. Now, regulating companies like Amazon, DoorDash, and Uber Eats has become a pillar of Mamdani’s…
Asia’s AI boom is spilling out of the stock market and into luxury spending
Luxury spending is holding up in parts of Asia even as the AI-fueled stock-market rallies that helped create new wealth have stumbled. In South Korea and Japan, affluent consumers are still spending on jewelry, watches, and other luxury goods after huge gains in AI-linked stocks swelled household…
Demi Moore, 63, says friendship is key to aging well. She shares a daily ritual with a group of women.
Demi Moore, 63, said her approach to longevity includes one simple daily practice with her friends. In an interview with Harper’s Bazaar Arabia published on Tuesday, Moore said she believes in practicing gratitude every day and has made it a shared ritual within her “community of women.” “I have a…
Ukrainian commander says flying drones have disabled 300 tankers in Russia’s shadow fleet
A top Ukrainian drone commander said on Tuesday that his forces have used uncrewed aerial vehicles to knock out 300 ships in Russia’s “shadow fleet” over 11 weeks. Maj. Robert “Magyar” Brovdi, commander of Ukraine’s Unmanned Systems Forces, said as drone crews reached this tally after they attacked…