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Did TikTok just have its “glue pizza” moment? Loading audio narration… The company is pulling back on a new artificial intelligence feature it was testing that went haywire, adding wildly inaccurate AI-generated text summaries to videos from users like Charli D’Amelio, Shakira, and Saturday Night Live.These “AI overviews” were designed to provide additional context for a video, recommend similar products to what’s on-screen, and generally explain what was happening. While the tool did a good job summarizing some posts, for others, it hallucinated more than Bryan Johnson did during his livestream mushroom trip.Here are a few chaotic examples of AI…

FanDuel CEO Amy Howe has been ousted from that post after five years at the company, people familiar with the matter told CNBC.Christian Genetski, FanDuel president, will step in to lead the company, according to the people, who asked not to be named in order to speak about internal matters.Howe, head of the nation’s leading sportsbook, has shepherded the sports betting company since 2021. She has overseen FanDuel during a time of dramatic expansion in sports gambling and other online gambling in multiple states. Shares of FanDuel parent company Flutter fell sharply in afternoon trading Wednesday, down roughly 2.5%. The stock…

Wide pants, a Middle Eastern oil crisis, and pesky inflation. It almost feels like the 1970s, but don’t expect this decade’s labor crisis to hit Americans who work with their hands. Loading audio narration… Instead, the AI-revolution labor squeeze will come for office workers, Marc Rowan, the CEO of private markets giant Apollo, said.”This will be very, very far-reaching, almost every job will be enhanced or replaced,” Rowan said, noting this was “certainly” the biggest tech cycle of his career.”We’re going to see, in our opinion, a complete flip of blue-collar ascendancy and white-collar stress,” he said.”If you are an…

Our story about millennial daughters paying the price to take care of aging parents really struck a nerve. Loading audio narration… As a millennial daughter myself, I was interested: A mix of actual costs, lost wages, and missed retirement contributions can cost daughters caring for their parents nearly $300,000.This was clearly something a lot of our readers are going through. One commenter wrote, “I literally just had to pass up a huge job offer because they could not accommodate the time I needed to visit and attend to my ailing single father. This hits.”The article’s author, Kelli Mariá Korducki, wrote…

A technician prepares to refuel a Delta Airlines aircraft at the Austin-Bergrstrom International Airport on April 10, 2026 in Austin, Texas. Brandon Bell | Getty ImagesU.S. airlines spent 56.4% more on jet fuel in March, the month after the U.S.-Israel strikes on Iran began, than they did in February, U.S. government data released Wednesday shows. U.S. carriers spent $5.06 billion on fuel in March, up from $3.23 billion in February. It was 30% more than what they paid in March 2025, according to the Department of Transportation.Airlines have lowered or scrapped their 2026 forecasts altogether because of the spike in…

Novo Nordisk is looking for deals more than ever before, the CEO of the Danish drugmaker said in an interview with CNBC on Wednesday. “If our ambition is to help hundreds of millions of patients out there, then we need not just the best, but the broadest pipeline in the world,” said Novo Nordisk CEO Mike Doustdar. “So let’s go and see who else basically has assets that are complementary to what we have. And we are quite active with those [business development] talks and acquisitions, and you’ll see more of those as well going forward.”Novo created the market for…

Marc Rowan, chief executive officer of Apollo Global Management LLC, speaks during an interview on an episode of Bloomberg Wealth with David Rubenstein in New York, U.S., on Tuesday, April 5, 2022. Jeenah Moon/Bloomberg via Getty ImagesJeenah Moon | Bloomberg | Getty ImagesApollo Global Management CEO Marc Rowan on Wednesday warned investors that he was preparing his giant asset management firm for a potential market downturn and sharply criticized what he called the “egregious” practices of some rival insurers.The current solid economic backdrop — which helped Apollo report a banner quarter, in which the firm reached $1 trillion in assets…

This as-told-to essay is based on a conversation with Brent Phillips, 47, a software engineer who started renting out units on his guest ranch in Burton, Texas, to help pay bills. The following has been edited for length and clarity. Loading audio narration… I’ve been a software engineer my whole career.I had built a couple of companies and worked for some companies, always doing software engineering.I’m originally from South Africa, but my brother got recruited to play rugby in Aspen, Colorado, so that’s how I came to live in America.His daughter had a stroke several years later, and we moved…

Gas prices aren’t just causing headaches at the pump — they’re also worsening a growing economic divide. Loading audio narration… A new report from the Federal Reserve Bank of New York finds that spending on gas mirrors — and deepens — the chasm between America’s higher and lower earners. While everyone is spending more money, those at the bottom of the income distribution are cutting their real consumption at a much deeper rate than higher earners, suggesting a decline in driving or getting creative with how they get around.All three household income groups — low, middle, and high — saw…

Former New York Yankee and Hall of Fame closer Mariano Rivera said he believes Major League Baseball should adopt a salary cap in its next collective bargaining agreement.”Yes, there should be one, because it has to be fair to everybody,” Rivera said during a Latinos in Sports event in Miami on Friday. “It makes the competition better.”The MLB collective bargaining agreement, or CBA, expires at the end of this season, setting up negotiations between the league and its players. Talks are expected to begin in the coming weeks. It’s notable for a player — even a retired one, like Rivera…