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How software developers work has already been transformed by the AI revolution, and they’re not the only ones.The Bureau of Labor Statistics classified how exposed hundreds of jobs are to AI based on various published studies over the past few years.BLS classified 206 of 831 jobs as very high, with over 100 earning a median annual wage of at least $75,000 last year.”‘Very high’ relative AI exposure generally indicates that, compared to other occupations, a larger fraction of an occupation’s tasks can be completed or assisted by AI technology, and that LLMs have been observed performing some of the occupation’s…

This is an as-told-to essay based on a conversation with Robert Pyles, a pastor and McDonald’s franchisee in Milwaukee. McDonald’s reported its slowest US sales growth in over a year in its quarterly earnings report last month. Pyles said sales at his seven restaurants are growing. This story has been edited for length and clarity.I bought my first McDonald’s in 1998.I was in the military for 15 years and started working part-time at McDonald’s during that time as a crew member, later becoming a shift manager. Then I had the opportunity to get into the owner-operator program.I had to go…

Man Group — the $250 billion-plus asset manager whose roots date to a sugar brokerage founded in 1783— knows change can be hard.There are both real, bottom-line costs and less tangible cultural ones associated with any tweak, no matter how minor, especially at a big institution.But the firm’s decision to merge its two long-standing quant brands, AHL and Numeric in June, into a single, $156 billion computer-run unit was unanimous among their management committees, said Russell Korgaonkar, chief investment officer of the newly formed Man Systematic, in an interview with Business Insider.Two things that made this an easy decision: AI…

Norah O’Donnell is returning to “CBS Mornings” seven years after leaving the program, and career experts say her comeback offers lessons for anyone considering a return to an old job.O’Donnell coanchored the morning program from 2012 to 2019 before taking over “CBS Evening News.” On Thursday, CBS announced O’Donnell’s return to “CBS Mornings” and that she is expected to rejoin cohosts Gayle King and Nate Burleson by September 8.Robert Thompson, a television and popular-culture professor at Syracuse University, said that the evening news anchor was once the undisputed face of a network, but in today’s media environment, morning shows offer…

This as-told-to essay is based on a conversation with Luciana Pereyra, a 25-year-old Peruvian national who moved to the US at 17 on a tennis scholarship, lost her H-1B-sponsored job in 2025, and had to return to Peru. It has been edited for length and clarity.I was born and raised in Lima, Peru, and I’ve been into tennis since I was 7, when my dad first took me to a court five minutes from our house. My parents had always wanted me to play a sport. I started competing when I was around 11, and by 14, I was watching…

Americans have been paying some of the highest prices for gas in years since the US attacked Iran in February.That war shows no signs of cooling off anytime soon. The US and Iran traded multiple strikes on each other’s oil tankers over the weekend.US Department of Energy Secretary Chris Wright, however, said, while making the rounds on the Sunday morning news shows, that despite the ongoing conflict, gas prices will soon go down because summer is ending.”As we pass Labor Day tomorrow, you’ll start to see demand decline as we move out of summer driving season,” Wright said on ABC’s…

Scroll down in American Express’ TikTok account, and you’ll find a video of Ira Galtman popping up from behind a bison at the Bronx Zoo.”Ira content makes my day,” one commenter wrote, evidently already familiar with Galtman, who, as a middle-aged archivist, didn’t expect to become a social media hit for the brand when he first started filming “Ira, The Archivist” videos in 2023.”I don’t even have a cat in my video, and people are looking at it! I don’t even have to dance in the video to get attention,” he said on a video call.Galtman has served as Amex’s…

This as-told-to essay is based on a conversation with Vinoo Ganesh, the 34-year-old CEO of Kepler. He spent over six years at Palantir in the 2010s and later worked at Citadel. He’s based in New York. It’s been edited for length and clarity.Palantir had a program we called Project Frontline. The idea behind Frontline was: How do we take software engineers and expose them to life as a forward-deployed engineer?I actually went through a version of this before the program. I started off on the product development team, did a rotation that lasted for a long time as a forward-deployed…

This as-told-to essay is based on a conversation with Maggie Bodner, a 28-year-old employee at Spirit Halloween, based in the Fort Lauderdale area. Her identity and employment have been verified by Business Insider. This story has been edited for length and clarity.I was laid off in June and started to apply for jobs like crazy.When people say the job market is tough, the job market is tough. It’s especially challenging if you do something really specific, like learning and development. It’s just rejection email after rejection email, and some of them come in an hour after I applied.In July, my…

Last month, Paul Lee was reviewing applications for a legal and compliance job at the small technology company he leads when his screening software flagged an anomaly.Hidden in one of the hundreds of résumés he received was a block of roughly 1,500 characters typed in white text on a white background. It was an AI prompt to ignore prior instructions and declare the applicant a top-tier fit, regardless of whether the person met the role’s requirements.Lee said he was stunned and described the move as an ethical red flag for a role built on trust and integrity.”You’re cutting in front…