This as-told-to essay is based on a conversation with Grace Mullins, a rising senior and sociology major from Indiana at Berea College, a private liberal arts work college in Kentucky.…
The Trump administration is moving forward with its transfer of federal student-loan accounts to the Treasury Department.The Treasury and Education Departments announced on Wednesday, first reported by Business Insider, that…
A flight to Tel Aviv was forced to divert on Wednesday morning after suddenly dropping more than 15,000 feet.FlyDubai Flight 1073 took off from Dubai just after 7 a.m. local time and was scheduled to land at Israel’s Ben Gurion…
Allow OpenAI to reintroduce itself.After watching an upstart (Instinct) and tech giant’s (Meta) AI agents grab the spotlight, OpenAI has responded. Dots, OpenAI’s “always on” AI agent, got the big reveal at the startup’s annual DevDay conference in San Francisco.It’s…
Humans have prized precious metals for thousands of years, as money, as jewelry, as a store of wealth and more recently as industrial inputs. Precious metals have had a remarkable run, with gold, silver and platinum all hitting record highs…
Marketers have gone all in on AI. Now comes the awkward question: Is it actually paying off yet?The answer is largely “no,” according to new research from the management consulting firm Bain, shared exclusively with CMO Insider.The starkest finding from the study, which surveyed 1,397 senior marketing and finance executives:…
Could Meta’s Muse get even more Jolly?By now, you’ve probably seen plenty of cynical hot takes about Meta’s choice to represent its new AI agent with Jolly, the cuddly mascot. “Surveillance Tamagotchi.” “Don’t believe his lies.” “It’s sinister that Meta’s Muse AI mascot is so cute.”Marketing and branding pros have…
Roughly 2.4 million more Americans over 65 became renters between 2013 and 2023, the largest increase of any age group by far. Their share of all renters rose to 13.4%…
Data centers are drawing protests and city hall spats across the country. You wouldn’t have known it Saturday night in downtown Washington, DC.When I arrived at Data after Dark, a “pro-data…
While Harvey and Legora fight for Big Law’s business, Clio, an older legal tech company, is making a quieter bet on a corner of the market those upstarts have barely touched: the courts.Clio, last valued at $5 billion, has acquired…
We’ve been writing about Amazon Prime price hikes for a long time. We warned readers when Prime went from $79 to $99 in 2014, from $99 to $119 in 2018, and from $119 to $139 in 2022. See the pattern?…
John Kenney is the second real estate agent to take a stab at selling 317 Matterhorn Drive, a rustic, two-bedroom cabin in Gatlinburg, Tennessee. The getaway sits in the foothills of the Smoky Mountains, about a 30-minute drive from Dollywood,…
Disney is laying off employees for the third time since CEO Josh D’Amaro took the top job in mid-March.The Mouse House is cutting several hundred employees across teams, including tech and HR, a person familiar with the move confirmed to…
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OpenAI is throwing its hat in tech’s shiniest new ring.On Tuesday, the company unveiled a new product called Dots, its answer to the rise of “always-on” personal agents like Instinct and Meta’s Muse. OpenAI’s version will run on its frontier…
Sam Altman laid out OpenAI’s three-step vision for business dominance.The CEO revealed a slew of updates to ChatGPT and related company products at its developer…
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If OpenAI CEO Sam Altman stands at the center of the AI boom, what he says about the technology can blaze a trail for the rest of the industry.At OpenAI’s DevDay conference on Tuesday in San Francisco, Altman announced the…
When I get on a call with Breanna Stewart, she tells me she can’t wait to go to sleep.The star forward is coming off a…
Disney is reportedly laying off a few hundred employees across multiple departments at the entertainment giant. Citing a source familiar with the matter, Reuters reported…
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This as-told-to essay is based on a conversation with Mark Rober. It has been edited for length and clarity.I still have the same crazy, zany ideas I had as a kid. But after becoming a mechanical engineer, I have this…
For President Donald Trump, the name “AI” is DOA.Trump said that the United States would change the name of artificial intelligence at the United Nations General Assembly on Tuesday. It will now be called “superintelligence,” Trump said.”The use of the…
Contrary to what FindFaye.com suggests, I did not find Faye — Faye found me.She found me in the way most goods and services discover you these days: ads the algorithm giddily serves up to a woman whose search history is…
Employees at Paramount Skydance and Warner Bros. Discovery are preparing themselves for not-so-friendly competition as their companies merge in the coming weeks.”It’ll be quite competitive to see whose services and teams stick around,” a Paramount streaming manager said, reasoning that…
Most grocery price stories tell you the same useless thing: Prices are going up. Thanks. This one’s different, because for once we’ve got names and a date. Over the past two weeks, the biggest packaged-food companies in America stood up…
This story is based on an interview with Katie Rosier, 48, who is on disability after leaving her procurement job. It has been edited for length and clarity.Four years ago, at age 44, I was newly discharged from the hospital…
Ask a chatbot to write the same kind of work email in two different ways, and you may get strikingly different results. One response might sound crisp and corporate. The other might gush about words that “warmed our hearts.”Researchers at…
Aldi is expanding into prepared foods with seven fresh, never-frozen meals designed for quick dinners. The grocery chain told USA TODAY on Sept. 22 that its first lineup includes five single-serve options and two family-size meals. The dishes feature “protein-forward,…
There’s only one Amtrak train with first-class seating. I’ve ridden it twice.The train line’s first-class cars are exclusive to the Acela, a Northeast express service that has business and first-class cars (no coach).In 2022, I took a $270 first-class Acela…
A leaked document has provided the clearest picture yet of how Oracle’s latest layoffs have reorganized its vitally important cloud business.Oracle began a new round of layoffs last week as the tech giant continues to cut costs amid an expensive…
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For those who want to access more of ChatGPT but simply find the current price points too high, OpenAI has good news.Chief financial officer Sarah Friar told CNBC in a…
Workday is conducting layoffs for the second time this year, this time affecting around 500 workers. It also trimmed its fiscal third-quarter earnings forecast.The software-as-a-service giant said in a securities…
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