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This as-told-to essay is based on a conversation with Chris Fong, 25, who lives in the San Francisco Bay Area. In March 2025, he was laid off from a tech startup. After about nine months of searching for a job, he started a content-creation business. The following has been edited for brevity and clarity. Loading audio narration… I worked at a tech startup for a little over a year. I was doing revenue operations, which is the intersection of acquiring customers and keeping them happy.After I got laid off, I decided to take a month off to travel. I thought…

This as-told-to essay is based on a conversation with Maahir Sharma, a 24-year-old software engineer in Dublin, Ireland. His employment and identity have been verified by Business Insider. The following has been edited for length and clarity. Loading audio narration… I work in a division that builds internal AI tools.A year and a half ago, I used AI to help solve small bugs, like a UI fix or adjusting the margin of a website. Now, I’m using it to ship full-fledged production features and projects. I treat AI as a junior-level engineer with whom I have to collaborate.I started coding…

The next time you are bored, head over to TikTok and search for #HusbandGroceryShopping. The results lean a little hard into “clueless men” tropes, but they are funny. In one video, a woman laments that her husband’s grocery haul “gives me a heart attack every time.” In another, a woman says her husband seems to have picked up ” a bunch of random snacks lol no meals.” One popular theme: women realizing they’ve left their phones on silent after sending their partners to the grocery store, only to find streams of desperate, confused mid-shopping texts asking what to do.Of course,…

New data suggests the dietary recommendations championed by US Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. could be out of the budgets of many American households. Loading audio narration… A recent survey from consumer analytics firm Numerator found that US shoppers are still learning about the new “Real Food” pyramid released by the federal government in January. Less than half of the respondents surveyed that month said they were aware of the changed guidance.The survey, which had more than 2,000 respondents, also found that half of the shoppers cited affordability concerns as the leading reason they were not able to shop…

“The Pitt” actor Patrick Ball, 36, says he once thought he’d be stuck with his student loans for life. Loading audio narration… In a Cultured interview published Tuesday, Ball spoke about how his finances changed after landing the role of Dr. Frank Langdon on the HBO Max medical drama.When asked about paying off his student debt, he paused and began to cry, according to the interview.”I paid off my student loans like three months into ‘The Pitt,’ and that was a really profound moment ’cause I thought I was gonna die with it,” Ball told Cultured.The actor described his debt…

A man holds his phone up next to a U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) Border Patrol agent during an immigration raid in Chicago on Oct. 4, 2025. The top official of CBP’s sister agency, Immigration and Customs Enforcement, confirmed last week that the agency is using powerful spyware that can hack into phones. Octavio Jones/AFP via Getty Images hide caption toggle caption Octavio Jones/AFP via Getty Images Immigration and Customs Enforcement is using spyware tools that can intercept encrypted messages as part of the agency’s efforts to disrupt fentanyl traffickers, according to a letter sent last week by the…

A pedestrian walk by sign is posted in front of Levi Strauss headquarters on Oct. 9, 2025 in San Francisco, California. Justin Sullivan | Getty ImagesLevi Strauss beat Wall Street’s expectations on the top and bottom lines Tuesday, leading the retailer to raise its guidance. The denim maker is now expecting full-year adjusted earnings per share to be between $1.42 and $1.48 per share, compared to expectations of $1.47 per share, according to LSEG.It’s expecting sales to rise between 5.5% and 6.5%, ahead of estimates of 5.6%, according to LSEG. Here’s how the apparel maker did in its first fiscal quarter compared…

TikTok’s advertising team is undergoing another big shake-up. Loading audio narration… Khartoon Weiss, the lead exec for TikTok’s North American ads business, is exiting the company, four people familiar with the matter told Business Insider.Weiss, who pitched TikTok’s suite of ad products to marketers onstage at its NewFronts event last month, joined the company almost six years ago from Spotify. She oversaw TikTok’s global agency and accounts teams before being promoted to lead the North America division of the global business solutions team in March 2025, following the departure of advertising head Blake Chandlee.Digiday first reported on Weiss’ exit.Weiss’ exit is…

Bankrupt luxury retailer Saks Global is looking to shed a high-end executive perk — its sole corporate jet. Loading audio narration… In a recent court filing, Saks Global, the owner of department stores Saks Fifth Avenue, Neiman Marcus, and Bergdorf Goodman, detailed its plan to sell its 2003 Gulfstream G400 jet for $6 million to a private buyer.The jet, which can carry up to 16 passengers and is powered by two Rolls-Royce engines, was primarily used by Saks executives for business travel and to “meet operational needs,” attorneys for the retailer said in the Sunday filing.When the jet was not…

Matt McAlear, chief executive officer of Chrysler and Dodge, during the 2026 New York International Auto Show (NYIAS) in New York, US, on Wednesday, April 1, 2026. Bing Guan | Bloomberg | Getty ImagesChrysler and Dodge CEO Matt McAlear wants the world to know that the minivan is not dead. Far from it, he said, at the New York International Auto Show, where he showed off the latest version of the Pacifica Pinnacle, the highest-end trim of the brand’s sole product line. The Chrysler brand — once one of the biggest names in the auto industry — only sells a…