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GM began rolling out Google’s Gemini in eligible model year 2022 and newer Cadillac, Chevrolet, Buick, and GMC vehicles in the U.S. earlier this year with Google Built‑in.Courtesy GMDETROIT – General Motors plans to launch its own in-vehicle artificial intelligence system that’s better tailored for its customers later this year.The new GM AI assistant is expected to be more integrated with the vehicle as well as its capabilities and telematics information than the company’s recently launched Gemini AI assistant from Google, according to Anna Santos, GM director of product management of voice and AI/machine learning.”Later this year, we’ll be launching…

Signage at a Jersey Mike’s restaurant in Washington, July 20, 2026.Graeme Sloan | Bloomberg | Getty ImagesFive years after the initial public offering boom of 2021, public markets look a lot different as more companies are choosing to stay private for longer.In 2021, public markets saw a multitude of companies join the ranks. The Nasdaq said it welcomed 743 IPOs that year, while the New York Stock Exchange said it added more than $1 trillion in new market capitalization, marking the second straight year of record new listings. The biggest IPOs five years ago spanned a range of industries, including…

Explaining why you’re quitting a job can be tricky, especially if your plans change soon afterward.Lilian Weng announced on Monday that she was leaving the AI startup she cofounded, Thinking Machines Lab, citing stress-related illness. “I don’t feel I’m able to continue at the pace a startup requires,” she wrote on X. “The amount of consistent stress and workload have pushed me beyond what my health can sustain physically.”Two days later, OpenAI confirmed that Weng was rejoining the ChatGPT maker to lead a team focused on accelerating internal research. She had previously worked at the company from 2018 until late…

Moving abroad and investing consistently helped Miguel Marquez reach “Lean FI,” a variation of financial independence in which your investments can cover your basic necessities, but not much else.Sometimes described as “the minimalist’s way to retire early,” Lean FI is often a stepping stone to traditional financial independence, when a portfolio can support both essential expenses and more discretionary spending.Marquez, a 47-year-old university professor from Spain, struggled to build meaningful savings while completing his PhD and teaching in Bloomington, Indiana. His financial outlook changed completely after relocating first to Brazil in 2016 and later to China in 2022.”I managed to…

This as-told-to essay is based on a conversation with Tim Perks, a 58-year-old vice president of store design and planning at DICK’S Sporting Goods in Pittsburgh. It’s been edited for length and clarity.After two decades at Nike, my team and I got cut from the company in a major reorganization. It was my first corporate job. I wasn’t freaked out when I heard the reorg was coming — it had been announced some months before, so everybody knew it was on its way.In September 2024, just four months after being let go, I started a new executive role as a…

DoorDash CEO Tony Xu never expected that people would pay as much as they do for food delivery.The delivery service became one of the biggest companies in tech by delivering food, groceries, and other purchases to customers’ homes for a premium over in-store ordering. And people continue to spend on food delivery, even as some cut back on groceries and other essentials.People’s willingness to pay extra for the convenience of delivery has surprised even Xu himself, he told the Uncapped with Jack Altman podcast in an episode published on Tuesday.”Was that obvious to you in 2013 that it would go…

Luke Helton realized too late that he rushed into law school.After taking out $80,000 in student loans for undergrad at the University of Tennessee, he thought going straight for his J.D. would propel him into a stable career. So he borrowed more to make that happen.Personal life challenges derailed his final year, and he failed the bar exam. By the time he realized that law might not have been the best path for him, his student loan balance had grown to $119,000 — plus another $103,000 his stepdad took out on his behalf, but that he is paying for.Helton, 33,…

As AI reshapes the tech workforce, Amazon is making a billion-dollar bet that one engineering job is only becoming more valuable.The company said on Thursday in its second-quarter earnings report that it will invest $1 billion to build AWS Forward Deployed Engineering, a new team of AI engineers who will work directly inside customer organizations to build and launch agentic AI systems in “days rather than months.”Early customers include the Allen Institute, Cox Automotive, the NBA, the NFL, Ricoh, and Southwest Airlines, Amazon said.The announcement underscores the rapid rise of the forward-deployed engineer, or FDE, a once-niche role that has…

Situational awareness is crucial to understanding what’s happening with the hedge fund Situational Awareness — and the mid-20s wunderkind behind it.Leopold Aschenbrenner is the man at the center of the high-profile hedge fund meltdown that’s dominating headlines and X feeds, after his once $20-billion-firm was forced to sell most of its public equity holdings to Citadel on Wednesday. Heralded as an AI savant, Aschenbrenner worked at, and was quite publicly fired from, OpenAI before founding his now flailing firm.Aschenbrenner has stood out for his intellectual chops since he was a teenager. A German native with coiffed blonde hair, he arrived…

Buying or selling a home is one of life’s biggest milestones — and with the right support, it can feel a lot less overwhelming.Enter: independent mortgage brokers. They are local, licensed home loan experts who can guide you every step of the way from checking your credit to getting preapproved, comparing loan options, and setting a realistic budget. Unlike the big banks, they’re also small business owners who know your market and provide one-on-one guidance tailored to your needs.With a constantly changing housing market, there are plenty of opportunities for well-prepared buyers — especially with a trusted mortgage broker in…