United Airlines’ newest Airbus jet is easily the airline’s fanciest narrowbody yet.Adorned in a special blue-and-white livery and packed with 150 luxe new seats, the Airbus A321XLR underscores United’s continued…
Gemini / GoogleGrowing garden plants from seed is one of the great joys of having a garden. It doesn’t matter whether you measure your garden in acres or in pots…
A Japanese destroyer has launched a Tomahawk cruise missile for the first time, marking a major milestone in Tokyo’s push to build out its long-range strike capability.Tomahawk missiles give Japan a new ability to strike targets beyond the reach of…
Tech companies are bringing job candidates back into the office for an extra screening measure: whether they are using AI.Nick Bloom, a Stanford economics professor known for his research on remote work, says AI is undermining the virtual coding tests…
This as-told-to essay is based on a conversation with Shrutinder Kaur, 35, who is from India and lives in Ontario. The following has been edited for length and clarity.I met my husband online, but not on a dating app.In early…
My preference for eye makeup depends on how much time I have, where I’m going, and what I’m wearing, so I’ll often use a powder bronzer as a quick and easy eye shadow.However, if I had to choose my favorite eye-shadow palette formula, it would be the one from Anastasia…
Luke Helton realized too late that he rushed into law school.After taking out $80,000 in student loans for undergrad at the University of Tennessee, he thought going straight for his J.D. would propel him into a stable career. So he borrowed more to make that happen.Personal life challenges derailed his…
ByteDance’s viral AI video app is seeking a new, younger audience through a collaboration with the education app Gauth.Gauth, an AI-powered edtech app, told Business Insider its new update will…
DoorDash CEO Tony Xu never expected that people would pay as much as they do for food delivery.The delivery service became one of the biggest companies in tech by delivering…
Moving abroad and investing consistently helped Miguel Marquez reach “Lean FI,” a variation of financial independence in which your investments can cover your basic necessities, but not much else.Sometimes described as “the minimalist’s way to retire early,” Lean FI is…
Johnson / Money Talks NewsGas hit $4.09 a gallon mid-July, according to AAA — up more than 20% from a year ago. People are furious. I’ve heard about it at the gym, at the grocery store and from my wife.…
Explaining why you’re quitting a job can be tricky, especially if your plans change soon afterward.Lilian Weng announced on Monday that she was leaving the AI startup she cofounded, Thinking Machines Lab, citing stress-related illness. “I don’t feel I’m able…
For several years, Big Tech has operated under a simple rule: spend more on AI, or investors will assume you’re falling behind. This earnings season, that rule may have changed.Even a year ago, if one of the cloud giants had…
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Amazon’s earnings on Thursday highlighted a surprising idea gaining traction across Silicon Valley: You don’t need the best models to win in AI.The company reported blockbuster results, including a 37% jump in revenue from Amazon Web Services. Those gains came…
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Tattoos, company logos, and deleted apologies — oh my.A Y Combinator-backed startup founder is in hot water after saying his company would offer job interviews…
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As AI reshapes the tech workforce, Amazon is making a billion-dollar bet that one engineering job is only becoming more valuable.The company said on Thursday in its second-quarter earnings report that it will invest $1 billion to build AWS Forward…
Anthropic says it found multiple incidents in which Claude models gained access to company data without permission.In a blog post on Thursday, Anthropic said it…
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Does your paycheck feel like it disappears as soon as it hits your account? Or do you have financial goals — whether that’s paying off debt or saving for an emergency fund — but no clear plan of action? If…
Employees at Paramount Skydance are wrestling with whether the planned mega-merger with Warner Bros. Discovery would put them on the chopping block or help save their jobs.”I’m definitely worried about impending layoffs post-merger,” a Paramount research staffer said. “But I’m…
This as-told-to essay is based on a conversation with Dr. Stephen Chang, a gastroenterologist and the interim endoscopy director at Northwestern Memorial Hospital and an assistant professor of medicine at Northwestern University’s Feinberg School of Medicine. The following has been…
Apple is raising prices on Apple Music subscriptions as well as certain Apple One plans as the company faces higher licensing costs. The tech giant last week hiked prices for Apple Music plans across subscription tiers. Individual plans will rise…
I grew up in a Bagel Bites and SnackWell’s kind of ’90s household, descending from a long, prestigious line of women who did the cooking required of mothers without once pretending to enjoy it.Take, for example, my Grandma Lillie, a…
Amazon’s Leo satellite business has appointed its first dedicated finance VP, another sign the company is building the satellite venture into a more independent business.Mike Recupero, who most recently served as Alexa’s finance chief, was named Leo’s VP of finance…
The angst over China’s latest AI models is missing an important business fact: “open weight” AI is not the same thing as open-source software.Open-source software, where the code is freely shared, can be an amazing business. Think Red Hat, which…
When Summer Farmen first noticed the shortness of breath and persistent tiredness, she didn’t think much of it.It was early 2020, but COVID wasn’t her first thought, since she otherwise felt fine.Within a month, she found herself choking and coughing…
Nvidia has held the position as the world’s biggest company since about a year ago, when it became the first to reach $4 trillion in market value. It soared past former leaders Apple and Microsoft. But in recent days, Apple,…
Usually, schools do the grading, but a new WalletHub study put public school systems nationwide to the test.To determine the states with the best and worst school systems, WalletHub evaluated public school systems in all 50 states and the District…
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Michael Dempsey, managing partner at the New York-based investment firm Compound, said in a long post on X that Situational Awareness’s “prescience was incredibly impressive and likely should still be…
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CUPERTINO, Calif. – Apple delivered its strongest June quarter on record, reporting $109.4 billion in revenue and beating analysts’ estimates of $108.65 billion in the company’s final earnings report before…
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Patreon slashed its workforce by 20% last week — and wants its remaining staffers to come into the office more.The company informed workers that it is increasing its return-to-office (RTO) requirement from two to three days a week for staff who commute to Patreon’s three…
