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We’d been thriving in Seattle’s tech boom — Bianca, in the US on a work visa, was a senior finance reporter at Business Insider covering how Wall Street’s biggest firms use and invest in technology, and Charlie, a software engineer within Amazon’s payments organization, had spent eight years working toward a principal-engineer role.We had what people like to call golden handcuffs: good salaries, rising careers, and a sense that if we just kept working hard, we’d likely keep making more money. The handcuffs weren’t all that tight, either; they were actually pretty comfortable.But for us, quitting our jobs and taking…

In May 2022, my husband, Daniel, and I reached a major milestone on our quest toward the American dream: buying our first home in Western Washington. The one-story home is just under 1,300 square feet and has four bedrooms and two bathrooms.For almost a year, we enjoyed the freedom of finally owning a place that was all ours. We didn’t have to deal with noisy apartment neighbors or worry that we were being too loud. We spent quality time together with at-home dinner dates and TV-binge-watching sessions.But it wasn’t long before Daniel and I ventured off the stereotypical homeownership path…

When I moved to San Diego in 2021, I thought it was my perfect home.I’d spent months living in different US cities — none of which were quite the right fit — before moving to California.I absolutely loved taking runs on the city’s beaches and hunting for the best tacos in different neighborhoods on weekends. I decorated the brick walls of my San Diego apartment with work from local artists and bought cute furniture for my patio.It felt like somewhere I could stay forever. After five years, though, I gave up my apartment, furniture, and car, and left the city.Despite…

Ever think to yourself, “This meeting could have been an email” as you walk out of what feels like the 30th office conversation of the day?Turns out, a regular meeting gauntlet could be a sign your company is doing well — and you could personally benefit.A new working paper examined the relationship between various workday activities and wage growth, such as emails and concentrated individual work. The authors found that “meetings are the single strongest predictor of wage growth” among the activities they looked at.Harvard economist David Deming, one of the authors of the working paper, told Business Insider that…

Tech stocks opened sharply lower Monday after a weekend of increasingly dire warnings about AI.Nvidia extended its premarket slide at Monday’s open, trading down 4% shortly after 9:30 a.m. ET, with SpaceX also down 1.9%. The wider Nasdaq was down over 1% at the open.The weakness followed a weekend in which Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei urged AI companies to slow the “reckless” pace of development, warning that increasingly capable AI agents could eventually cause severe economic damage.The call gained backing from some of the industry’s biggest names. OpenAI CEO Sam Altman, Google DeepMind CEO Demis Hassabis, and SpaceX boss Elon…

Backlash against AI has been building for a while. But apocalyptic warnings in recent days have kicked it into a new gear.Warnings of bigger electric bills and job displacement suddenly feel like peanuts compared to the existential questions being asked. Who cares if your utility bill is higher if the world is barreling towards oblivion?The initial headliner of this new wave of apocalyptic warnings was Jacob Coxon, the Anthropic researcher who just quit, claiming that Anthropic and OpenAI are “gambling with our lives.”The floodgates opened after Coxon’s now-infamous X post. Paul Christiano, a new appointee to OpenAI’s board and safety…

Schonfeld Strategic Advisors’ macro unit won’t stop growing, even though early-day hires have left the $23 billion firm.The group — which invests across asset classes based on where it thinks global interest rates, inflation, and other economic trends are headed — has more than doubled its investment head count since last year, to nearly 150 investment staffers, a person close to the fund told Business Insider. It is run by co-heads Colin Lancaster and Mitesh Parikh and macro COO Omar Faruqui.Schonfeld’s macro unit now runs close to a fifth of what the firm is putting out into various markets day…

Some kids mow lawns for pocket money and move on. Cody Kuebler kept at it, turning the childhood gig into a multimillion-dollar business.Now 25, Kuebler said he spent his summers growing up cutting his neighbors’ grass for around $25 a job, first with an aging push mower, and later with one his father gave him for his 11th birthday. The gift involved “a little bit of horse-trading,” he said: He’d have to cut his dad’s lawn.Along the way, he hired friends so he could take on more customers and expand into snow removal during the winter months. Eventually, he earned…

This as-told-to essay is based on conversations with Thomas Heep, a job seeker in his 60s who lives in Denver. He was laid off in April 2025 and is still looking for full-time work. The following has been edited for length and clarity.I was laid off from my job as an operations manager on April 4, 2025. I’ve been looking for full-time work since then.I’m currently working part-time, delivering prescriptions to patients in the Denver area, and I started collecting Social Security in my 60s, before reaching my full retirement age of 67. Both combined aren’t enough to pay all…

Megi Endeladze never expected to be at the center of an AI backlash.She and her husband opened Penny’s Coffee Shop in downtown Buffalo, New York three years ago. Endeladze kept her 9-to-5 as a chiropractor while spending her free time helping out in the shop.One of the duties she relished was photographing the drinks and menu items, including a few signature items like a cheesy bread dish from their native country, Georgia, for their social media channels and website.Penny’s Coffee Shop would switch seasonal drinks every few months, and Endeladze would photograph the new items herself, and it would end…