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Two tech titans are now competing on another battlefield: Employee snacks.Earlier this month, Meta CTO Andrew “Boz” Bosworth said the company would be taking steps to improve employee morale after successive waves of layoffs and AI strategy pivots. One of those steps, he said in a memo, would be improving the snacks and drinks in its office kitchens.Elon Musk’s social media is going toe-to-toe on that front.To entice engineers to work for X, Nikitia Bier, the top product executive at the social media platform, offered to up its snack game.”Neglected Meta employees: X is hiring web and data engineers &…

Presidents: William Henry Harrison and Donald TrumpHarrison had quite an opportunity on his hands at the University of Pennsylvania, which he began attending in 1790.He studied medicine under Dr. Benjamin Rush, a famed physician and Founding Father who signed the Declaration of Independence.However, Harrison realized shortly after that he didn’t want to be a physician. He told his biographer that he found himself “not liking the medical profession,” so, after his father died and left his family in financial straits, he pursued a military career.The first actual University of Pennsylvania graduate to ascend to the White House is Trump, who…

Months after Amazon deepened its ties with OpenAI, Amazon MGM Studios has dropped plans to release Luca Guadagnino’s star-studded movie about Sam Altman and the leadership crisis that nearly toppled him.”We believe that ‘Artificial’ will be better served if it were released by a different studio and are working closely with the filmmaking team to find the film a new home,” an Amazon spokesperson said in a statement.Directed by “Call Me by Your Name” filmmaker Luca Guadagnino, “Artificial” is a retelling of the tumultuous few days during which Altman was abruptly fired from and then quickly reinstated at OpenAI.Altman was…

For a growing number of Americans, living with family members has become a necessary trend.Young adults are moving back into their parents’ homes as the housing market becomes increasingly unaffordable, and grandparents are offering childcare in exchange for a place to stay.June Boyd, 90, hosts 13 people in her Toledo, Ohio, home, including children, grandchildren, and great-grandchildren. Together, the adults split the home’s $700 monthly rent — a huge plus for living with others.”In our case, there are no downsides to multigenerational living,” Boyd told Business Insider in May. “The main thing is that it reduces the cost of living,…

Spend a day at Shanghai Disneyland and you wouldn’t know Chinese consumers are struggling.Wang Jiandong and his girlfriend Yan Xu said they have been skipping meals out and scrimping on day-to-day necessities so they could afford to enjoy the park.”We save in our daily lives so we can spend more on trips,” Wang explained while taking photos with Yan in front of Disney’s iconic castle. “This is a romantic place.”Shanghai Disneyland celebrated its 10th anniversary this week, with former Disney CEO Bob Iger flying in for the festivities.”I’m feeling filled with pride really,” Iger told CNBC during an interview at…

America’s homebuyers are staying put.As home prices and the cost of essentials climb across the country, households are struggling to keep up — and increasingly looking to their local governments for help. That’s according to Harvard University’s Joint Center for Housing Studies 2026 State of the Nation’s Housing report. The findings, released June 17, detailed trends and challenges in the US housing market in recent years.From a wave of vacant residences to a shortage of affordable housing, here are Business Insider’s biggest takeaways.Americans are paying more for housing while demand weakensHomeowners in particular are experiencing rising non-mortgage costs from line…

This as-told-to essay is based on conversations with Renee Li, a 29-year-old analytics engineer in New York. It has been edited for length and clarity.I’ve been in New York for about three years. Before that, I was fully nomadic in Asia, South America, and Europe, living out of a carry-on.Most of my friends were in New York, and over time, I found myself spending a quarter to half the year here. Eventually, I got a remote analytics engineer job at a fintech company based in the city, and it gave me another reason to settle down here. I wanted a…

For many people, the plan is simple: finish school, get a job, build a family, buy a house, and, after decades of climbing the corporate ladder, retire around 65.Brendan Pon calls that life trajectory the default path, and it’s been two years since he stepped off it through the FIRE movement.FIRE — Financial Independence, Retire Early — is a strategy that combines aggressive saving and intentional investing to accumulate enough money to retire ahead of the traditional schedule.”It was my wife who introduced it to me, and she’s honestly the brains behind our whole journey,” Pon, 37, told Business Insider.Initially,…

Kaska Adoteye, 36, lives in Atlanta and recently left his job at Netflix as part of his pursuit of the FIRE movement, or Financial Independence, Retire Early. Business Insider verified his former employment, investment holdings, and medical status. The following has been edited for brevity and clarity.When I was 19, I got a diagnosis that basically meant that my life expectancy was a lot lower than that of other people. It’s called a cerebral AVM. It’s a rare brain malformation that greatly increases my chance of brain hemorrhaging.I might not have those golden years that a lot of people have.…

Lyft is hiring ride-hailing drivers to do everything but get behind the wheel.Flexdrive, Lyft’s car rental arm, plans to open a depot in Nashville to service Waymo self-driving cars later this year. Waymo started offering rides in the city in April.Some of the 70 people Flexdrive plans to employ there are car mechanics, and others with technical skills. About half, however, are current or former Lyft drivers stepping into new roles as car cleaners and depot management, said John Parks, CEO of Flexdrive.Ride-hailing services like Lyft traditionally outsourced many of the costs and obligations of vehicle maintenance to the gig-worker…