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A group of online creators with a combined 46 million followers is demanding Lowe’s and Home Depot — two of the largest home-improvement stores in the US — to cut ties with Flock Safety amid a nationwide campaign against large retailers that may have contracts with the surveillance tech company.In a letter sent Friday morning to the companies’ executives, 56 content creators called on Lowe’s and Home Depot to “terminate all its contracts with Flock Safety” and remove the company’s automated license plate readers, or ALPRs, from their parking lots.The letter raised concerns that data gathered by the cameras could…

This as-told-to essay is based on a conversation with Heigi Jeong. It has been edited for length and clarity.People often assume that I quit my six-figure job in product design because of severe burnout or an existential crisis, but that wasn’t the case.I moved from Korea to Toronto in 2020 as an in-house product designer for a tech company, often creating mobile apps and websites.The paycheck was great — I was making about $173,000 to do a job that allowed me to have a fairly healthy work-life balance. I wasn’t working 80 hours per week. Most weeks, I clocked about…

Kurt Kelty, GM’s vice president of battery and sustainability, speaks June 9, 2026, during the automaker’s “Empower” event in which it announced the development of sodium-ion batteries for energy storage systems.Courtesy GMDETROIT — General Motors is in the early stages of developing next-generation battery cells that the company believes can reduce U.S. dependence on China, while boosting domestically sourced materials.”We’re developing a supply chain such that, two years from now, three years from now, it will be domestic,” Kurt Kelty, GM vice president of battery and sustainability, told CNBC during an exclusive interview. “That’s what we’re aiming for — when…

This as-told-to essay is based on a conversation with Nick Lyktey, 34, a New Yorker who grew up in Wantagh, on Long Island, but moved to Fort Wright, Kentucky, five miles outside Cincinnati. He now works as the chief of lab operations at Gravity Diagnostics and has lived in Kentucky for seven years. The following has been edited for length and clarity.I had a very set trajectory ever since the eighth grade; I knew what I wanted to do with my life.Every move I made was based on working for the FBI. I went to Penn State specifically because they…

A “Black Swan” investor says to guard against disasters — but take risks too.Mark Spitznagel has built his career on protecting his clients’ portfolios against extreme, rare, and unpredictable events known as “black swans” or “tail risks.”Yet the Universa Investments founder and chief told Business Insider over coffee in London this month that simply preparing for the worst isn’t a winning strategy in life.Not taking enough risks can be the “biggest mistake someone makes,” Spitznagel said. “You need to be exposed, you need to bet your beliefs.”His career advice mirrors what he says Universa offers to clients: a tail hedge…

Jodi and Paul Sprague raised their daughters with a guiding principle: understand the value of a dollar. By elementary school, Evelyn and Olivia were learning about mortgages, car insurance, and basic accounting in the carpool lane.Early one June morning, before Evelyn, 17, and Olivia, 19, left for their summer jobs, Jodi sat them down with news that threw the Spragues’ carefully managed budget into question. The student-loan payments the family had budgeted for since 2015 were surging from $404 to $1,014 monthly, starting in September. Jodi Sprague and her daughter, Olivia, are both facing looming student-debt burdens.  Alyssa Pointer for…

When Zaire Wells’s daughter was selected for a free childcare slot, it felt like the two-year-old “got into Harvard.”NYC Mayor Zohran Mamdani proposed free childcare for two-year-olds in his affordability-focused campaign. In March, he announced that it would launch with 2,000 seats in a handful of communities selected for economic need and childcare demand.Wells, a high school teacher, lives in one of the targeted areas. After a five-minute online application back in June, she and her partner were now tearfully dropping off their daughter for her first day at a Friends of Crown Heights center in Brooklyn. The family posed…

Working in NYC real estate, brokering deals for the rich and famous in one of the most desirable property markets in the world, is a “glamorous” business. Yet, for broker Violetta Kruglyak, that does not translate to a glamorous life.For her, breaking into the real estate world is defined by one word: hustle. She might work for a firm that sells luxury Manhattan townhouses — but there is a lot of behind-the-scenes work, tight budgeting, and trial and error that go into being successful in the competitive and dynamic NYC real estate business.Kruglyak, 44, originally from Odessa, Ukraine, moved to…

My boss had a proposal: It was time to replace him with AI.It was late spring, following months of AI-attributed layoffs across the economy that left workers wondering: Am I next? In the name of journalism, my editor and direct manager, Ryan Kailath, agreed to be a guinea pig.I’m an AI skeptic, but some aspects of “RyanBot” excited me. It wouldn’t be busy with meetings, lunch breaks, or other reporters. It could read every line of a 100-page data report and provide feedback within seconds. I could see how having a second brain trained on my editor’s preferences and proclivities…

Hisayuki Idekoba hears regularly about how broken hiring can feel.As head of the job platform Indeed, job seekers tell him they have applied to roles only to get nothing back, while employers complain about unresponsive candidates and surging application volumes, thanks in part to AI bots that flood open roles with résumés.”It’s a vicious cycle,” Idekoba said.He wants to break that loop by making Indeed’s matching tools feel more like help from a recruiter for people applying cold. That means guiding job seekers toward roles where they are more likely to gain traction, while helping employers focus on applicants who…