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Nearly every parent knows you can be literally anywhere with the kids — out to dinner, at the park, sitting around the living room, or packed in the car — and they’ll come up with questions you can’t answer.Until recently, my parental refrain was, “Let’s Google it.”Growing up with Google as a fact of life, my son never had any objections. Now that AI has hit the scene in full force, he’s not as comfortable with my new response: “Let’s ask AI.”My son, Noah, has gleaned very clear anti-AI sentiments from YouTube, his peers, and likely ambient cultural unease. In…

This as-told-to essay is based on a conversation with Lorraine Schwarz, 70, a retiree who sold her two-bedroom condo in Westminster, Colorado, in October 2025 using Ridley, an AI-powered online platform, rather than a traditional agent. The following has been edited for length and clarity.I’ve bought and sold real estate throughout my life.My first real estate purchase was a co-op in Park Slope, Brooklyn. I sold that, then bought and sold two houses in Westchester, New York. Then I moved to Madison, Wisconsin, renovated that house, sold it, moved to Colorado to build a house, and then moved into a…

A JetBlue Airlines plane lands near the Air Traffic Control tower at the Fort Lauderdale-Hollywood International Airport on Oct. 7, 2025 in Fort Lauderdale, Florida.Joe Raedle | Getty ImagesJetBlue Airways is already the biggest airline in Fort Lauderdale, Florida, and it wants to get even bigger.”Lauderdale has been a star for us,” JetBlue President Marty St. George said this month about Fort Lauderdale-Hollywood International Airport.Capitalizing on growth at the Broward County airport is key for JetBlue as it revamps its network and rolls out more high-end options like a domestic first-class cabin to return to profitability. Its last profitable quarter…

In April 2025, I sat contentedly at my full-time job as a publishing associate — until I got a foreboding feeling I couldn’t shake.One minute, I was joyfully dealing with Netflix celebrities. Next, my instincts were screaming that something was wrong. I couldn’t explain it, but the feeling haunted me until I did something reckless.I quit my job. I put in my resignation, and in the morning, that feeling of doubt was gone.I was shell-shocked. “Did I really just do that?” Amid the disbelief, a headline announced shortly after that my former company was closing.It should have felt validating. But…

“What’s for dinner?”For many Americans, the nightly question is often as much about taste preferences as it is about economic realities.My own family’s mealtimes invariably require tradeoffs of time, money, and skill that we must navigate every single day.Now, rising inflation is once again squeezing families’ finances across the US.Food costs have so far held relatively steady this year, with increases and decreases mostly offsetting each other in a basket of goods. But soaring gas prices and other consumer expenses are eating up a larger share of household budgets, according to the latest consumer price index.For some families, that might…

From about 8,000 layoffs at Meta to thousands of cuts at Amazon, media outlets have been following high-profile employment changes.However, cuts at major tech companies this year represent only a sliver of what’s happening in the massive job market, filled with millions of workers and unemployed Americans across different industries and business sizes.That larger job market is showing renewed strength, although there are still some bumps in the road. Overall job growth is more robust, layoffs remain pretty low, and it’s not just the healthcare sector keeping it alive. On the downside, wage growth isn’t keeping up with inflation anymore,…

This as-told-to essay is based on a conversation with Josh Giegel, the 41-year-old cofounder of the AI startup Gambit, who lives in Los Angeles. It’s been edited for length and clarity.I was in grad school at Stanford, finishing my master’s and wanting to do a Ph.D.I had worked at NASA the previous summer, and one of the women I worked with was also a Stanford graduate, and was like: “You’re going to be so bored at NASA. Why don’t you check out this small space company in Los Angeles called SpaceX?”I applied and interviewed in the two weeks between flight…

Brian Rezendes anticipates his retirement years will be filled with AI agents, algorithms, and APIs — along with the occasional vacation with his wife.Rezendes, a former pool business owner, retired in April from a retail job in rural North Dakota. Like many retirees, the 64-year-old envisioned his post-work years as a time to relax, travel, and stay active. He did not expect to be neck-deep in conversations with chatbots, vibe coding websites, or building YouTube channels. Though he’d always been interested in technology, he rarely delved into the deeper plumbing behind it until a few years ago, when he became…

“What is an RTO?”That was Together AI CEO Vipul Ved Prakash’s response when asked by Business Insider whether he had ever had to send a return-to-work (RTO) memo to push employees back to the office of the cloud compute startup.”People generally like to come in,” said Prakash. “We’ve never enforced it.”Prakash’s response illustrates a stark cultural difference between AI startups formed after the COVID lockdowns and long-established corporations, with people voluntarily coming to the office, sometimes on weekends.Nicholas Bloom, an economics professor at Stanford University, told Business Insider that the age demographics and personal stake many startup employees have in…

Missed your chance to snag one of Mayor Zohran Mamdani’s affordable World Cup jerseys? You might now have to pay resellers a very unaffordable price.The New York City-themed jerseys popped up on sites like eBay and Facebook Marketplace hours after they went on sale, going for at least $400. Some sellers are asking as much as $999. That’s a considerable upcharge from the $50 that residents paid for the same jerseys on Friday. Mayor Zohran Mamdani’s affordable World Cup jersey on eBay.  eBay Mamdani unveiled the apparel earlier this week. In an Instagram post, he said they were “made by…