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“Do you think we should get a work divorce?” I asked Cody, furiously scribbling in my notebook about a client meeting.”What do you mean?” he said as he flushed and looked up at me. “Honey, we literally just got the LLC paperwork filed with the IRS. We can’t quit now.”It was April 2025, and Cody and I were still living out of suitcases after moving to Lisbon.Both of us had recently been let go from our previous jobs within days of each other. In a fit of sweat and panic, we decided to really make a go of being entrepreneurs…

This as-told-to essay is based on a conversation with Alexandria Belton, 33, who is in the market for a home in the Bay Area. She’s been priced out mainly due to the AI boom. The following has been edited for length and clarity.My fiancé and I started looking to buy a home around October 2025.A lot of people opt for a condo just because, A, single-family homes are very expensive, and B, people like city life, and you can sometimes get a little bit more of it with a condo.But for me, my apartment already serves that purpose, and if…

Humanoid industrial robot are on display at the humanoid robot data training center in Shougang Park on March 27, 2025 in Beijing, China. VCG | China News Service | Getty ImagesPARK CITY, Utah — Rivian Automotive CEO RJ Scaringe envisions a day in the not-so-distant future when the electric vehicle maker’s manufacturing employees will have a new type of colleague: humanoid robots.”There’s going to be thousands of people that are collaborating alongside these robots. They’re going to be taking pictures, ‘Hey, check this out! My co-worker’s name is Phil, and he’s a robot,'” Scaringe said during a media event for…

Drugmakers are only months into introducing GLP-1 pills and navigating huge changes in how patients pay for weight-loss drugs. Even so, they’re already outlining their visions for the future of obesity drugs. At the American Diabetes Association’s Scientific Sessions in New Orleans last week, drugmakers pitched doctors and investors on the idea of new shots and pills, drugs that can be taken less frequently, and new treatments beyond GLP-1s that could come with fewer side effects. The attendees debated where all these new treatments might fit in, especially with Eli Lilly currently dominating the market for shots and impressing attendees…

Disney is encouraging streaming staffers to embrace AI while warning against wasteful token usage.Streaming leaders at the Mouse House have recently been pushing employees to boost their velocity and productivity by using AI, two senior tech employees told Business Insider.”The No. 1 thing is to increase velocity,” or the pace of output, a high-level, AI-focused employee said.However, Disney doesn’t want its employees to be “tokenmaxxing,” Andre Rohe, Disney’s EVP of product engineering, said in a Wednesday meeting, according to two tech staffers in attendance. “Tokenmaxxing” refers to maximizing AI token usage, regardless of its impact on productivity.One software engineer shared…

When the dress code is team spiritIt only takes a few glances around New York City’s Financial District, where Business Insider’s offices are located, to see how the city has gotten in on team spirit.Whether it’s the New York Knicks or their favorite World Cup soccer team, many professionals aren’t confining their sports gear to the games; they’re bringing it to the office.However, there’s a right way and a wrong way to show your allegiance, so you can still get the job done. I reached out to Alison Bruhn, an executive stylist for more than a decade, for advice on…

AI CEOs and tech leaders are trying to find the right way to talk about the labor market.Increasingly, they are moving beyond the sweeping statements about a white-collar job wipeout that may have fueled the growing AI backlash.”I’m delighted to be wrong about this,” OpenAI CEO Sam Altman said at a recent event hosted by the Commonwealth Bank of Australia. “I thought that there would have been more impact on entry-level white-collar work jobs being eliminated by now than it’s actually happened.”The OpenAI CEO said his views began to change when he briefly tried to let AI write emails and…

New York City’s swag (democratic) socialist renaissance has arrived.Mayor Zohran Mamdani unveiled an affordable Big Apple-themed World Cup jersey — going for about $50 while FIFA’s are topping $150 — this week, and people lined up for it in the thousands. Available only at the city-government-run NYC City Store location in Manhattan on June 12, residents woke up at dawn, played hooky from work, and spent hours outside for a chance at the merch. Most were also fans of the mayor. After waiting hours in line, lucky New Yorkers got their hands on Mamdani’s soccer jerseys.  Sydney Bradley/BI “Our computers…

Jessica Ariel-Wamala told representatives from New York City’s government that she’s used to sitting in traffic. She typically rises early and rushes to feed her daughter breakfast before driving to a Brooklyn preschool, but they always end up waiting in the same jam.The 30-something said it’s because a crowd of her neighbors must line up at their local civic office each morning, spilling into the street as they wait to prove their SNAP eligibility.The city recorded tens of thousands of cases last year in which missed calls or incorrect contact information caused a family to lose access to SNAP —…

When Kugan Suppiah was 24, he wasn’t thinking about climbing the corporate ladder. He was thinking about cookies.The University of Oklahoma graduate spent months persuading his parents to invest with him in a Bang Cookies franchise in Oklahoma City after becoming convinced the gourmet cookie chain could succeed there.Now 25, Suppiah is already scouting locations for a second store, though he doesn’t necessarily see baked goods as his end goal.”I’ve always been business-minded, so this was something that I’ve always wanted to get into,” Suppiah said. “I’m definitely interested, down the line, in opening something of my own.”For now, he…