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Disney has momentum in streaming, and its leaders are looking for ways to further narrow the gap with Netflix in the battle for eyeballs.Since launching Disney+ in 2019, Disney’s direct-to-consumer business has gone from a promising but costly project to a profit engine.CEO Josh D’Amaro is prioritizing streaming by investing in technology like AI-generated ad tools for Disney+. He’s also named TV head Dana Walden as the company’s first-ever chief creative officer and tapped Adam Smith and Joe Earley as co-presidents of the DTC business.Business Insider recently published organizational charts showing who reports to D’Amaro and Walden, and we have…

This as-told-to essay is based on a conversation with Candice Bryant, who worked as an internal communications manager at Google until last October, when she left to focus on independent consulting and building AI-related products. Before Google, Bryant spent about 16 years at the Central Intelligence Agency, where her last role was in communications. She’s in her early 40s and lives in the Washington, DC, area.My whole career has really been a series of “Sure, I’ll try it” moments, and it all started with an opportunity I almost passed up.More than two decades ago, while I was pursuing a political…

Many job seekers treat their resumé like a career history.That’s a mistake, says Amy Perrotta, founder of Needa Strategy Group, a career branding firm. She told Business Insider that a résumé should be viewed as a marketing document, not a career biography.The goal isn’t to list every job you’ve had, it’s to get the hiring manager “excited and making them want to pick up the phone and call you,” Perrotta, who started her career as a  recruiter, working for staffing agencies like Robert Half.She recommends this template: Amy Perrotta said that résumés should be two to three pages max.  Needa…

I’m an executive coach with clients who are working to advance their careers across retail, finance, tech, and media. Whether they’re mid-career leaders or senior executives, many of my clients ask me some version of the same question: “What should I be doing right now so AI doesn’t make me irrelevant?”People are watching AI tools do work that once took them hours. They’re seeing companies rethink head count, productivity, and the value of certain roles. They’re also hearing a lot of vague guidance about “embracing AI” without getting much practical direction about what that means. It makes sense why they’re…

For Yolanda Vega, a social worker who runs a Head Start program in Queens, New York, winning tickets in a city-run lottery to see Brazil face off against Morocco was the highlight of her summer.”It’s a big thing for me to be out,” said Vega, who said she was wearing an ankle boot and had surgery scheduled for a few days after the game. “When I won this, I swear I thought it was a phishing tactic on my email.”In Mayor Zohran Mamdani’s New York, any day could be your lucky day — if you throw your name into the…

This as-told-to essay is based on a conversation with Rémi Louf, the 39-year-old cofounder of the AI startup .txt, which builds tools to ensure AI systems return structured, predictable outputs. It’s been edited for length and clarity.I’m based in Bourron-Marlotte, France. It’s an hour south of Paris, and it’s basically the countryside. I live in a village.We did the Covid lockdown in a small flat in Paris with a five-year-old and a one-month-old. I remember that the thing we did every day was to look at houses outside Paris. When the lockdown was over, we moved here. There’s also an…

Twice a week, Morgan Linton tells his 16 engineers which AI models to use and when.Business Insider spoke to Linton, the Lake Tahoe-based chief technology officer of AI startup Bold Metrics, 50 minutes before his engineering team’s standup. He planned to tell one team to use Claude Fable on low, and another to use GPT-5.5 on high. A third is using Cursor with Composer 2.5 and getting “totally perfect results,” he said.Being specific about model use means Linton doesn’t have to set hard token caps.”My team is getting to use the best stuff, but they’re using it a lot more…

If you work in tech, AI might not be replacing your job, though it’s changing what employers want from you.A recent analysis by the labor and market data platform Draup found that while AI is changing technical roles, it isn’t reducing demand for tech workers.The report is based on an analysis of 2.85 million job descriptions from June 2025 to June 2026. It comes after years of layoffs across the tech industry, with some companies pitching AI as a way to operate with fewer workers.Draup said AI is expanding the job market, not shrinking it. The company found that postings…

Karp is an avid skier who trains vigorously. As such, this 3,700-acre ranch about 15 miles north of Aspen at St. Benedict’s Monastery was a fitting buy.According to its original listing, the property is “situated in a private mountain valley” in Capitol Creek Valley.The property was originally listed for $150 million in 2024, but ultimately sold to Karp for $120 million, according to The Wall Street Journal, which cited a source familiar with the deal.Ken Mirr of Mirr Ranch Group, the listing agent who represented the sale, declined to confirm whether Karp was the buyer. But he told the Journal…

If you want a job you’ll love, you might consider working in healthcare — or crunching a whole lot of numbers.A recent Monster review of jobs across eight categories found that healthcare workers, math and data science professionals, and science technicians earned the highest workplace experience scores.Monster based the rankings on pay, workplace culture, job security, quality of management, work-life balance, career outlook, and factors such as CEO approval ratings and diversity, equity, and inclusion.The highest-ranked jobs came from a range of industries, Monster found. Among the top tier: education, entertainment, law, and finance. Construction support workers made the list,…