Michael Burry looks to be in the chips after a timely bet against semiconductor stocks.The investor of “The Big Short” fame said in a June 30 post on Substack that…
There are a lot of things about parenting that are unpleasant drudgery. There’s the obvious ones: diapers, cleaning bottle parts, picking up Legos, listening to “Wheels on the Bus” over…
Kalshi’s CEO says the scrutiny his company is facing is just part of a cycle that most disruptive startups must go through.Tarek Mansour, the prediction market’s cofounder, spoke on CNBC on Monday about the lawsuits Kalshi is facing from multiple…
OpenAI is facing intense legal scrutiny over the July hacking incident on Hugging Face.In a letter to OpenAI CEO Sam Altman on Monday, the attorneys general of 15 states wrote that the Hugging Face hack showed that OpenAI is unable…
Hollywood actor and musician Jared Leto was in the process of raising a new venture capital fund before sexual misconduct allegations catapulted him into the headlines last week, Business Insider has learned.A document reviewed by Business Insider says the “Dallas…
Russia has been reducing its usage of conventional long-range attack drones in favor of more advanced, jet-powered ones, the spokesperson for Ukraine’s navy said on Monday.”The Russians are reducing the number of conventional drones they use while effectively increasing the number of jet-powered drones,” said Capt. 3rd Rank Dmytro Pletenchuk,…
President Donald Trump promoted yet another product this week: “great grass” from the company he said replaced the White House lawn free of charge.Speaking to reporters in the Oval Office on Monday, Trump praised Scotts Miracle-Gro, a public company based in Ohio that sells lawn and garden products.Trump said the…
To free, or not to free?That is the question for paid streamers like Netflix, as free services, and YouTube in particular, attract TV viewers.Hollywood giants Disney and Paramount Skydance are exploring adding…
Good, potentially very lucrative things will come to the AI investors who wait, if you ask Jon Gray.Gray, the president and chief operating officer at Blackstone, said that growing concern…
I thought I would hate living in a high-rise apartment. I grew up in the woods of northern Minnesota, watching deer and the occasional bear wander through the backyard. I’ve spent my adult life in suburban townhomes near large park…
Alex Karp’s crusade against frontier AI labs continues.During Palantir’s second-quarter earnings call on Monday, the CEO and cofounder reiterated his view that leading AI labs could absorb enterprises’ data, intellectual property, and expertise into their models and ultimately use that…
Truth Social’s new paid service for faster access to the president’s social media posts is raising questions — including from some of his own supporters.Trump Media & Technology Group launched Truth API on Saturday. The service sends paying customers a…
The creator of Walmart’s internal vibe-coding tool is leaving the company for AI start-up Pydantic.In a memo reviewed by Business Insider, Michael Pfaffenberger wrote to colleagues that he was leaving Walmart a year after growing Code Puppy from 1,000 users…
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Team Name: The Willenbrock GroupFirm: UBS Wealth ManagementSenior Members: Tad Willenbrock, Elizabeth Willenbrock, Scott AnselLocation: Denver, COTeam Custodied Assets: $770 millionBackground: Tad Willenbrock’s introduction to wealth management came from next door. Growing up in Colorado Springs, he lived beside a…
On July 2, federal prosecutors charged David Hearn, a 67-year-old former Olympian, with vandalizing the Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool in Washington, DC.Hearn had made a…
Cost and scheduling challenges have pushed the US Air Force’s B-52 Stratofortress modernization program billions over budget, according to a new report.The aging B-52 has…
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Beneath a canopy of trees at a 140-acre resort, bistro lights illuminated a long wooden table set for about 30 people. There, content creators gathered for dinner of farm-to-table food and wine.At one end of the table, a glowing OpenAI…
Superhero fatigue seems not to count when it comes to your friendly neighborhood Spider-Man.”Spider-Man: Brand New Day” had a huge opening at the box office,…
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Flock Safety is hitting a rough patch with one of its biggest customers.The Los Angeles Police Department let its deal with the surveillance company expire over the past weekend, a spokesperson of the department told Business Insider on Monday.”We wanted…
A federal judge held Monday that President Donald Trump’s $10 billion lawsuit against the IRS was manufactured simply to justify its settlement, including a multibillion-dollar “anti-weaponization” fund for political allies and a shield from IRS scrutiny.”This lawsuit was not brought…
California is launching a new incentive program for first-time electric vehicle buyers that gives companies like Rivian and Lucid an edge.Gov. Gavin Newsom signed a bill, SB 168, into law on Monday that will give first-time EV customers an instant…
The US Navy’s new Saronic Corsair sea drones are getting a workout in the Middle East, pulling off operational firsts for the American military in both rescue and combat.US Central Command revealed Monday that attacks over the weekend that targeted…
OpenAI employees are coming out in support of their CEO, saying that, yes, he’s actually very receptive to critical feedback.Eric Mitchell, who co-leads OpenAI’s Post-training Frontiers team, wrote that there were multiple times when he “directly disagreed with, corrected, or…
If you’ve been feeling the sting of higher restaurant prices, there’s at least one place where a burger, fries and a soda won’t break the bank. A new DoorDash report found the cheapest burger combo in America is in Austin,…
A year ago, OpenAI seemed like it had an untouchable lead in the AI race.It was by far the dominant AI platform for consumers. Competitors like Meta were scrambling — and spending a gazillion dollars on new hires — to…
Louisiana is where Beyoncé’s mother, fashion designer Tina Knowles, was born and raised.In 2015, multiple news outlets reported that the couple purchased a Spanish Baroque-style mansion in New Orleans’ Garden District. The house on Harmony Street, locally known as La…
SofikoS / Shutterstock.comRemote work continues to shape how professionals build careers and how employers attract and retain talent. To identify which organizations are leading the way in remote hiring, FlexJobs analyzed over 60,000 companies and their remote job postings in…
Scoring a ritzy stay at a five-star hotel is cheaper than you think. One strategy is to look overseas, where five-star hotels are often significantly less expensive than comparable U.S. properties. In some cases, favorable exchange rates, lower costs of…
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Oil is sliding hard again this week. And I’d bet a week’s pay your next plane ticket won’t drop a dollar because of it. Over the weekend, President Donald Trump…
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With Boeing running years behind schedule on delivering new 747-8 planes, President Donald Trump looked elsewhere in his efforts to upgrade the presidential fleet.In May 2025, the Trump administration accepted…
Venture capitalist David Friedberg says critics shouldn’t write off New York Mayor Zohran Mamdani’s city-run grocery stores.”Everyone’s got it a little bit wrong in assuming that this thing is going…
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Oil prices fell on Monday as markets embraced hopes for the de-escalation of the Iran war, despite uncertainty over the prospects for a Federal Reserve interest rate hike. President Donald Trump on Sunday signaled he was holding off on ordering fresh strikes against Iran…
