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A year ago, my husband and I were living aboard a sailboat, traveling to a different port each week. Then, everything changed.My husband received a job opportunity in New York, meaning it was time to move again. This adventure would be very different, though: Instead of leaving after a week, we were going to stay in one place indefinitely.This would be a big shift for other reasons, too. I’d lived in the UK all my life before exploring Europe by boat. Sailing is a slow way to travel, so my surroundings shifted gradually. Now I’d be changing continents — and…

Can’t see the video above? Watch it here. President Trump claims that there is no automatic guarantee to birthright citizenship in the Constitution. But, will that claim hold up in court? The Fourteenth Amendment to the Constitution, enacted after the Civil War, was aimed at reversing the Supreme Court’s infamous Dred Scott decision, a ruling that declared Black people, enslaved or free, could not be citizens of the United States. The Amendment says: “All persons born or naturalized in the United States and subject to the jurisdiction thereof, are citizens of the United States.” Challenges to birthright citizenship have long been…

An Nvidia-backed startup is looking for “rebellious” engineers to help rebuild search for the AI era. Loading audio narration… Exa, which builds search infrastructure for AI applications, said it is opening a Singapore office on Monday as part of its push into Asia-Pacific. Exa has only a handful of staff in Asia-Pacific, and plans to hire up to 10 engineers across backend, infrastructure, and product roles in the coming months.In an exclusive interview with Business Insider, CEO Will Byrk said he is hiring “rebellious” engineers.”Someone who doesn’t care about the status quo, how things were done in the past, can…

Five Big Tech bosses have taken a nearly $200 billion blow to their combined net worth this year as AI buzz eases and the US and Israel’s war with Iran continues to spook investors. Loading audio narration… Larry Ellison, Oracle’s cofounder and tech chief, has seen his personal fortune shrink by about $60 billion since the start of January, the Bloomberg Billionaires Index shows.Ellison was worth $188 billion at Friday’s close, well off a peak of nearly $400 billion in September last year, when he briefly dethroned Elon Musk as the world’s richest person.His sharp wealth drop has been fueled…

And then there were two. Loading audio narration… We’ve narrowed down our business-focused March Madness bracket to a championship showdown: tariffs vs. longevity.Before we get into it, let’s recap how we got here. After starting off with eight business trends, we narrowed it down to a final four last week. Nearly 300 of you voted this round, and the appetite for underdogs continued.Let’s check the results:Note: The voting percentages are in brackets. Every time Dan publishes a story, you’ll get an alert straight to your inbox! Stay connected to Dan and get more of their work as it publishes. [61.6%]…

Here is what I would tell someone if they asked me what I learned from “The AI Doc: Or How I Became an Apocaloptimist,” which premiered at Sundance and opened in theaters on Friday: Loading audio narration… There are now 20,000 people working on artificial general intelligence, and fewer than 200 working on alignment and safety.Those numbers induce anxiety. Numbers, however, rarely tell the whole story.In the 104-minute documentary, directors Daniel Roher, the 2023 Academy Award winner for Best Documentary for “Navalny,” and Charlie Tyrell, try to make sense of the rapid onset of AI.It features several of the CEOs…

LinkedIn wants its users to do more than scroll. Thomas Snyder’s job at the networking platform is to make that happen by giving them mind-bending challenges to solve — and maybe even brag about. Loading audio narration… The 46-year-old handcrafts logic games meant to give its millions of users a shared daily experience they can bond over. Initially hired as a consultant, he joined LinkedIn full time in October in a newly created role with one of the rarest of titles: principal puzzlemaster.”It’s definitely a conversation starter,” said Snyder, a three-time world Sudoku champion and an author and editor of…

Any child born on U.S. soil has a right to citizenship. It was established by the 14th Amendment in 1868, and affirmed by the U.S. Supreme court 128 years ago. On Wednesday, the high court is set to hear oral arguments in a case that could narrow or even end birthright citizenship in Trump v. Barbara. The Trump administration has argued the “privilege” has been too freely applied to children of non-citizens. “Hundreds of thousands of people are pouring into our country under birthright citizenship, and it wasn’t meant for that reason,” President Trump said last year. If this constitutionally…

When Mirav Steckel opened each of her 15 credit cards, she thought the discounts and rewards they offered would save her money. Instead, her plastic portfolio pushed her into impulse purchases and forced her to reevaluate her spending habits.”If it was a really bad day at work, my first thought wasn’t, ‘Oh, let me go home and chill.’ It was, ‘I’m going to go treat myself to something that’s going to make me feel better,’ but it got to a point where I was asking people around me for money to pay my cards off,” Steckel tells me. “That’s not…

Mickey Lyons is holding off on booking her next vacation — at least until prices drop.”I can’t believe I’m saying this,” the 53-year-old Detroit resident said. “But I’m considering driving across the border to Windsor, Ontario, and taking a 12-hour train ride to Montreal rather than deal with airport hassles.”While Lyons is a case study for the burgeoning vacation debate of 2026 — Are you better off flying, driving, or staying put? — long security lines aren’t the only thing plaguing Americans. The sudden onset of the Iran war has scrambled prices, mortgage rates, and the overall economic outlook in…