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This World Cup will be the largest gambling event in US history. According to a PwC survey, 58% of Americans who plan to watch the World Cup will also plan to place a bet on a game.If you’re reading this, there’s a good chance you’re considering one yourself.An expanded field of 48 teams means more matches than ever, creating more opportunities to wager as sports-gambling fever is in full force across the US, one of the host nations.Amid the constant stream of ads promoting bookmakers and prediction markets on TV and online, it can be easy to forget that gambling…

Even off the clock, Danny Hamam feels like he’s falling behind.The software engineer, who lives in New York City, said every new AI tool release can trigger a fresh wave of anxiety.”The first thought that I get isn’t that, ‘Oh, this is so exciting. Another AI tool dropped.’ It’s, ‘I’m behind. I have to learn this ASAP,'” Hamam said. “So you start freaking out.”Hamam, like many tech workers, is confronting an ever-growing wave of AI tools that kick-started with the launch of ChatGPT in late 2022. Since then, Anthropic, Google, and OpenAI have been in an arms race to outdo…

Cody Berman’s first entrepreneurial venture was a disc golf manufacturing company he started with a friend at 19.The business was not a financial home run, the now 30-year-old told Business Insider, but it taught him skills he would use for years: “I learned how to market, how to network, how manufacturing works, how to talk to customers, build websites.”Over the next decade, Berman kept experimenting.The Massachusetts-based serial entrepreneur, author of “Retire by 30,” and host of “The FI Show” had a brief stint in the corporate world, working about seven months in commercial real estate lending. During that time, he…

Alex Karp has added to the growing list of billionaires buying large pieces of land for personal residences.The Palantir Technologies cofounder and CEO spent $120 million on a 3,720-acre ranch in Snowmass, Colorado — a ski town 15 miles north of Aspen.Karp, who’s worth $11.7 billion as of June 23, 2026, according to Forbes, purchased the land from St. Benedict’s Monastery, which no longer has enough monks to support itself. It was originally listed for $150 million in 2024. Karp knocked a few million dollars off the price tag and bought it in 2025.Ken Mirr of Douglas Elliman, who specializes…

New data is out on the scope of staffing cuts at the Department of Education — and their impact on student-loan borrowers.The office of Federal Student Aid, which oversees the $1.7 trillion student-loan portfolio, lost 40% of its staff during the DOGE era in early 2025, according to a new inspector general report released Tuesday.It offers the clearest picture yet of how deeply the loss of nearly 1,600 staffers at the Department of Education in early 2025 affects borrower-facing and oversight functions.Some of the hardest hit offices include those that oversaw servicers and lenders, as well as efforts to collect…

Everyone has their own way to go about saving money. Some go for strict budgeting, coupon collection, and hunting for deals.Others get creative: they implement no-spend months or commit to only carrying cash when doing groceries.Whatever your preferred method, Business Insider wants to know: What are your best saving hacks? What do you save money for? How do you track your spending?Fill out the survey below to let us know how and why you save money on your day-to-day. Make sure you hit submit at the end of the survey so your response is recorded.This year, Business Insider has looked…

After a long day selling multimillion-dollar condos in downtown Miami, Maile Aguila retreats to her five-acre farm about 30 miles south. The place is a far cry from the city’s soaring high-rises, where uber-rich buyers enjoy access to perks like indoor lap pools, private padel courts, and spacious balconies overlooking the water. Tucked inside a barn on Aguila’s property, though, is an amenity that would feel right at home in any penthouse: her prized infrared sauna.Aguila, 71, has lived on the property for decades, but she awoke to the wonders of the sauna a couple of months ago at an…

Polaroid is taking another shot at AI — this time by targeting the massive data centers powering the technology.The 89-year-old camera company recently unveiled a billboard at Brooklyn, New York’s iconic Coney Island Beach that reads: “Go jump in some water before the data centers drink it all up.”Polaroid is one of a growing crop of brands leaning into anti-AI marketing. The company’s latest ad is part of its global marketing campaign titled “the best of summer is analog,” tied to the launch of its new Go Generation 3 camera.In an Instagram post on Monday, the company echoed the billboard’s…

A massive 826,780-square-foot warehouse sits illuminated Feb. 12, 2026, in the El Paso suburb of Socorro, Texas, that was recently purchased by the U.S. Department of Homeland Security for $122.8 million. Morgan Lee/AP hide caption toggle caption Morgan Lee/AP A federal appeals court on Tuesday allowed the Trump administration to resume carrying out speedy deportations of undocumented migrants throughout the United States, not just near the border. A divided three-judge panel of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit threw out a lower court decision that temporarily blocked President Donald Trump’s expanded use of expedited removal.…

This as-told-to essay is based on a conversation with Jareb Dougherty, 29, the co-owner of Donovan’s Irish Pub in St. Augustine, Florida. When his professional basketball career didn’t work out, he went on to manage a restaurant with his mother.It has been edited for length and clarity.When I say I was “this close” to going pro, I actually was.I started playing ball in 6th grade; I was the tallest one in the school. Now, I’m six foot four, and basketball has been the love of my life.I went to a junior college in Kansas for a year, and then in…