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Student-loan borrowers are coming up on the first deadline to transition off a key repayment plan.Beginning July 1, borrowers who were enrolled in SAVE — the Biden-era plan that allowed for lower payments — began receiving notices with a 90-day timeframe to transition off the plan after the Trump administration eliminated it.That set the deadline for the first batch of borrowers at the end of September. However, those borrowers then received a “final notice” that they had 30 more days to select a new plan or be automatically placed in a standard or tiered plan, the most expensive options.With that…

What are some of the most common scams targeting older Americans?Scams often involve impersonation of an institution or government agency like the IRS, Medicare, or Social Security. Fake technical support scammers contact you with claims of a breach at your bank or financial institution.A good friend and client is in his mid-60s, is a single Notre Dame graduate, and is a retired university English professor. He talked incessantly about his gorgeous, accomplished girlfriend. She has sent him photos, but he had never met her in person, nor via video chat.Fast forward to earlier this year. They are no longer an…

This as-told-to essay is based on a conversation with Edward Tian, the 26-year-old cofounder of GPTZero, who’s based in New York. His words have been edited for length and clarity.I was never planning to go down the founder path straight out of college. I had a visual investigations fellowship lined up for after graduation and was ready to start a journalism career.My cofounder Alex and I went to high school together. When ChatGPT came out, he was pursuing his Ph.D. in computer science at the University of Toronto, and I was in my senior year at Princeton. Over winter break,…

Former FBI Director James Comey speaks during a Senate Intelligence Committee hearing on Capitol Hill, Thursday, June 8, 2017, in Washington. Alex Brandon/AP hide caption toggle caption i Alex Brandon/AP WASHINGTON (AP) — The Trump administration is attempting to prosecute James Comey for what it calls a decade-old leak of classified information, an effort the former FBI director’s lawyers immediately dismissed as invalid and outside the legal time limit for when the Justice Department can file a criminal indictment. The allegations from the Justice Department were revealed Monday in newly unsealed court documents that shed light on a closed-door fight…

Dollar General is facing fresh federal scrutiny over its pricing practices.The US Federal Trade Commission said Monday it has filed a lawsuit, along with 20 states, accusing the discount retailer of deceptive pricing on its shelves, price tags, and advertisements.”Dollar General has, for years, repeatedly mislabeled prices, overcharged consumers and failed to correct the issue despite extensive corporate knowledge of the problem,” the FTC said in a statement.The company operates more than 21,000 US stores and typically serves customers in more rural and low-income areas of the country.The filings say Dollar General has received tens of thousands of complaints from…

Instacart is carting away a technology it once said would play a key role in shopping.The grocery delivery company will wind down the team that develops its Caper smart shopping carts, it said on Monday. The move, approved by Instacart’s board of directors, will be completed by the second quarter of 2027.A wind-down will cost the company between $55 million and $80 million, including the costs of terminating some employees and contracts, it said in a filing with the SEC. Instacart will reinvest savings from the decision into “strategic growth initiatives.”Caper carts were one of the most visible of Instacart’s…

Instagram’s top executive, Adam Mosseri, has a plan to keep the platform “culturally relevant” — by making it more like YouTube.Meta-owned Instagram unveiled an overhaul of long-form video features on Monday, including a test of horizontal videos called “Features.” Taken together, the changes make the app feel a lot more like YouTube.”We want to be the most culturally relevant platform,” Mosseri said in an interview with content creators and founders of Press Publish, Colin Rosenblum and Samir Chaudry. “To do that, we just need to show up where people are.”The context: YouTube has become a major hit on TV screens,…

Last year, the federal government made a windfall of $627 million when it sold Anthropic shares it had seized from associates of crypto fraudster Sam Bankman-Fried.If it had held on to that stake, its windfall could have been a lot bigger.Business Insider previously reported that the federal government last year sold shares of Anthropic that had belonged to Caroline Ellison and Nishad Singh, two executives at Bankman-Fried’s now-defunct companies.Anthropic’s S-1 filing on Monday revealed how much the federal government made from the sale of their shares. The prospectus doesn’t name Ellison and Singh specifically. It says the government in October…

Anthropic is rapidly growing head count, concerned about retaining top talent, and trying to build a “low-ego” culture.Those are among the workplace insights in the Claude maker’s IPO filing released Monday.The more than 200,000-word document reveals what it takes to thrive as an employee — or an “Ant,” as staffers are called — and why the company is so focused on retaining its top talent.Here’s a look at three workplace themes in Anthropic’s S-1:Head count is booming, but could be higher without ClaudeAnthropic said its workforce grew from about 940 employees at the end of 2024 to about 5,300 as…

JetBlue Airways reported a bigger loss in the third quarter compared with last year, but the New York carrier said strong travel demand is helping to offset higher fuel prices as it seeks to calm investors after shares fell to a new low Monday.JetBlue stock soared roughly 11% in after-hours trading Monday.JetBlue on Monday posted a net loss of $257 million for the three months ended Sept. 30, compared with a loss of $143 million a year earlier. The carrier’s fuel bill rose 61% to $868 million. “Resilient demand and strong yields drove revenue well ahead of our initial expectations,…