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Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang speaks to members of media outside a restaurant in the Hongdae district of Seoul, South Korea, June 5, 2026.SeongJoon Cho | Bloomberg | Getty ImagesJensen Huang built the world’s most valuable company by pioneering the specialized computer chips behind the artificial intelligence boom.To keep his vision for the future within reach, the Nvidia founder is now attempting a different kind of engineering: convincing Wall Street investors that those chips are long-term financial assets akin to commercial real estate or toll roads.His bet hinges on outpacing AI developments in China. This week, Nvidia unveiled agreements with six…

The General Motors global headquarters in Detroit, Jan. 12, 2026.Jeff Kowalsky | Bloomberg | Getty ImagesDETROIT — General Motors has reached a unique, multibillion-dollar parts deal as it aims to preserve cash and prevent supply chain disruptions like ones that have hit the global automotive industry this decade.In a public filing Tuesday, GM said the up to $4.5 billion purchasing agreement includes a company called Procura Auto Parts that specializes in sourcing rare or critical parts. It will receive funding through a bank syndicate led by JPMorgan Chase and Banco Santander to prepay select suppliers on behalf of GM.In return,…

Elhanan Harel and his wife were living in New York City, where they paid $1,770 a month for a tiny one-bedroom apartment. The rent might have been manageable had Harel’s lice-treatment business been doing well, but the pandemic’s disruptions had made it difficult to make ends meet.In 2020, the couple moved to Miami, hoping their money would stretch further. The move initially paid off. Harel got a job running a COVID-19 lab, and the couple rented a spacious two-bedroom condo for $2,000 a month and spent far less on expenses like groceries and car insurance than they did in NYC.By…

Twas the night before Jeff Dean left Google, and he was up at 2 a.m. responding to messages.Dean left the search giant last week to build his own AI startup, Discovery Loop. He was Google’s 30th employee, spending decades climbing the ladder to his final role of chief scientist. So, he had a lot of goodbye chats to respond to.At the KDD Conference in Jeju, South Korea, Dean shared the hourly schedule of his final two days at Google.”For my Google colleagues who might have sent me internal chat messages after I closed my laptop for a final time on…

It’s a common saying in real estate that kitchens and bathrooms sell homes.It can be easy to miss the mark when trying to create a luxury kitchen, though. That’s why Business Insider spoke with two interior designers about the details that can make the space look cheap.Here’s what they had to say.Dull colors and lightingIt’s common for modern kitchens to have neutral color palettes, but the experts said that’s often a mistake.Charlotte Eustace, a UK-based interior designer who founded Eustace Studio, said she especially dislikes millennial gray kitchens.”It just looks so cheap,” she said, adding that gray can look “cold”…

President Donald Trump’s student-loan changes are facing another legal battle.On Tuesday, a coalition of unions filed a lawsuit against the Department of Education seeking to block Trump’s new student-loan changes, including its narrowed definition of professional degrees. The suit argues that the administration violated administrative procedure in its rule and that it will harm public service professions.The coalition includes the American Federation of State, County, and Municipal Employees, American Federation of Teachers, National Nurses United, and the AFL-CIO.On July 1, the Education Department rolled out a $100,000 lifetime borrowing cap for graduate students and a $200,000 lifetime cap for professional…

TikTok is shuttering its Nashville office in early October and laying off 250 staffers.Last week, the company told impacted workers they’d remain on payroll for the next couple of months before the office officially closed. After that, employees are being offered one month of severance pay plus an additional month of pay for each year they’ve worked at the company, three impacted staffers said.TikTok’s severance package falls within the range of what other media and tech firms have offered in recent layoff rounds:In February, The Washington Post offered laid-off workers a month of base pay, plus two weeks of pay…

For months, I’d been looking forward to my five-week solo trip to Mexico, where I’d be housesitting in a beautiful oceanfront home in La Paz.I expected I’d have a relaxing stay, and I was especially eager to learn more about the area and its local culture to see if I might want to retire there someday. Right now, I’m not tied to staying in the US and am exploring options close by.I planned my trip before the official start of summer, bought gauzy clothes to cover my arms and legs, and packed a couple of sun hats. I assumed that…

The CEO of Invitation Homes, the nation’s largest single-family rental landlord, said he believes the recently passed housing bill that bans investors like him from buying existing homes will eventually lower home prices, but not in the short-term. “I believe in the medium- to long-term, it definitely will,” said Invitation Homes chief executive Dallas Tanner. “I think 90% of the bill focuses on deregulation. How do we simplify capital coming into housing? Are there ways that we can spur up the supply side challenges that we have? I think overnight in the immediate term, it’s a bit trickier because there’s…

President Donald Trump’s latest executive order calls for splitting the measles, mumps and rubella, or MMR, vaccine into three separate shots – but doctors and other experts say that effort has no scientific basis and is unlikely to get off the ground. Trump on Monday said without evidence that the vaccine could be “quite lethal” in its combined form, even though the shot has repeatedly been proven safe and effective across large-scale studies. Experts called that claim “completely false” and said there is no scientific data showing benefits of separating the shot. Splitting the vaccine would also come with “significant logistical limitations,”…