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Like many CEOs, Asana’s Dan Rogers uses what his company sells. That means letting AI agents steer his workday.Asana makes a platform for connecting all work across a business, and it expanded in 2024 to let users collaborate with AI agents. Rogers, 49, took the top job the following year, and now regularly taps the bots to manage everything from his calendar and inbox to customer relationships and engineering priorities.His routine is a modern-day approach to the problem that led former Facebook engineering leaders Dustin Moskovitz and Justin Rosenstein to found Asana in 2008: freeing people to spend less time…

This as-told-to essay is based on a conversation with Charles Hanna, the CEO of Cedar’s Foods, based in Haverhill, Massachusetts. The following has been edited for length and clarity.When my father came to the United States from Lebanon in the 1960s, he fell in love with this beautiful country. In 1981, he decided to start a hummus company, even though it was not yet common in the US. When he told my mother, she called her sister and said, “My husband is going crazy. Who is going to buy hummus?”My mother made samples, which my father would take to the…

This as-told-to essay is based on an interview with Jennifer Rosner, 42, who lives in the suburbs of Chicago. At 36, Rosner moved into an apartment complex with mostly older residents. This interview has been edited for length and clarity.In 2019, I had moved jobs, and the office was in the suburbs. I didn’t want to commute from downtown Chicago, so I decided to bite the bullet and go to the suburbs. It’s a slower life and not great for dating. Everyone’s married with children.I moved into a newly built apartment building, and it turned out to be predominantly older…

The spookiest day of the year is getting especially bone-chilling at the grocery store.Halloween candy lovers are in for a fright when they stock up for trick-or-treating (or personal consumption): Prices for candy and chewing gum have grown 7.7% year-over-year in September, according to the Bureau of Labor Statistics, far outpacing general inflation of 3.7% in the same period. That means candy prices have grown faster than breakfast cereal, meats, and apparel. Broadly, inflation has surpassed wage growth for each of the past six months. In candy terms, that means that an hour of work will earn the average worker…

There’s a sweeping “manifesto” that’s making the rounds with software engineers — and many say it’s dead on.Proton CTO Bart Butler wrote a three-page sermon on the state of coding, as reported by 404 Media. The memo explains that the role of the engineer is no longer what it once was, and the company must adapt to the state of AI.”Your job has fundamentally changed,” the memo reads. “It is no longer to write code, and LLMs are not here to help you write better code faster. Your job is to help the LLM write better code faster.”Proton did not respond…

Workers remove downed trees from the East Potomac golf course on Monday. Julia Demaree Nikhinson/AP hide caption toggle caption i Julia Demaree Nikhinson/AP WASHINGTON, D.C. — A federal judge is launching a formal inquiry into potential misconduct by Trump administration officials in the lawsuit over East Potomac Park, including whether they repeatedly misrepresented the president’s plans for the municipal D.C. golf course. District Judge Ana Reyes ordered Friday’s hearing — the third in as many weeks — to seek clarity from government lawyers days after they acknowledged in writing Wednesday that there is a plan to transform the municipal golf…

Noa Argamani said she never doubted that she would return home alive when she was held hostage by Hamas.That optimism was unwavering, she said in a conversation with editor in chief Jamie Heller at Business Insider’s “The Long Play” event on Thursday, even as two friends died in captivity and she regularly heard rockets and bombs exploding. “I was by myself in a tiny room,” Argamani said.She said she found something to be grateful for in the smallest of comforts, like half a liter of water, a sock, or a blanket.”I said thank you for everything that I have at…

MrBeast has found his first CMO, Business Insider exclusively learned.The top YouTuber’s company promoted Michelle St. Jacques to the role. St. Jacques has led consumer goods, including Feastables, MrBeast’s snack and candy company, since February.In her new role, she’ll add marketing duties for Beast Industries, the star’s holding company, while continuing to oversee consumer goods. She’s based in Chicago.Beast Industries started the search earlier this year, a move that reflected the company’s growing ambitions. It’s been expanding far beyond its core YouTube channel and seeks to become a Disney-style entertainment giant.Beast Industries CEO Jeff Housenbold said in a memo to…

Ever since my wife and I started dating about eight years ago, we’ve talked openly about our personal finances.From the very beginning, we discussed our 401(k) withholdings and emergency funds. These conversations became even more important when we started living together and sharing expenses about a year into our relationship.As a queer couple, my wife and I have always believed that we can write our own rules when it comes to how we approach our finances. Our incomes have varied over the years for many reasons, and we’ve tried several different payment breakdowns before finding what works for us.Over the…

No one is safe from Elon Musk’s trolling. Not even his own shareholders.Musk set his sights on Binance cofounder Changpeng “CZ” Zhao on Thursday after hackers breached the cryptocurrency trading platform.Earlier that day, Binance said it was investigating a potential security breach and that hackers siphoned away as much as $6.3 billion. Binance initially said the breach may have involved a staffer’s compromised laptop, but later said the “complex attack” went beyond that. Two cryptocurrency tracing firms have linked the attack to TraderTraitor, a North Korean hacking group.While Binance users panicked and crypto markets wavered, Musk, who has tangled online…