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Last summer, Bushra Amiwala faced a career-defining choice: stay at Google or quit to run for Congress.In May, Democratic Rep. Jan Schakowsky, who represents Illinois 9th District, announced she would not seek reelection. With the seat open, Amiwala said she began weighing a run, speaking with more than 100 district residents in and around Skokie, where she lives.As she weighed the decision, Amiwala, 28, said she applied for a six-month unpaid leave of absence from Google. When her request was denied, she said she was left with two options.”Do I run for this seat and quit my job, or do…

People love to complain about baby boomers, including that they have a lot of stuff. They’re hoarding all the houses, they’re keeping all the money, they’re materialists who have accumulated an exorbitant amount of possessions. There are a couple of problems with these gripes: For one, no generation is a monolith, and everybody amasses things over the course of their lives, so back off. But more importantly, youths and slightly-beyond-youths, the stuff pileup is actually to your benefit.The golden age of boomer estate sales is upon us, and while you probably don’t want all the wedding china that’s about to…

Netflix co-CEO Ted Sarandos doesn’t think tariffs are the right way to boost US movie and TV production — and he thinks he’s gotten through to President Donald Trump on the issue. Loading audio narration… “He has brought up tariffs for the movie and television industry many times, and I’ve hopefully talked to him the way out of them,” Sarandos said in a new interview with POLITICO, which, alongside Business Insider, is part of the Axel Springer Global Reporters Network.Trump has been keen on using tariffs to encourage more filming in the US. In May, he announced on Truth Social a…

Hiring has slowed sharply across many advanced economies, but companies may simply be getting better at picking the right people, according to Goldman Sachs.That’s due in part to a decline in short-term job separations: workers leaving or losing jobs soon after being hired. That decrease suggests firms and workers are increasingly finding better matches from the start, even as labor markets cool after the post-pandemic hiring surge.”Most of the pullback in churn reflects a decline in job separations within one or two quarters after hiring, a pattern that suggests that workers and firms have gotten better at identifying ‘good’ matches…

As Hollywood celebrated the Oscars this weekend, Wolfgang Puck and his team were once again tucked away in the kitchens. They’re behind one of the ceremony’s biggest traditions: the Governors Ball dinner that follows the awards.Puck has run the culinary team at the Governors Ball for over 30 years. And while the Oscars may be one of the most glamorous nights in Hollywood, Puck says the catering business behind events like the Governors Ball can be tougher to run than a restaurant — an industry where about half of new businesses fail within the first five years.”A catering business is…

Elon Musk’s artificial intelligence company, xAI, which makes the Grok chatbot, is being sued by teenagers who say the company’s AI models were used to create nonconsensual nudes of them. Nicolas Tucat/AFP via Getty Images hide caption toggle caption Nicolas Tucat/AFP via Getty Images Three Tennessee teenagers have filed a class action lawsuit against Elon Musk’s artificial intelligence company, xAI, alleging its large language model powered an app that was used to make nonconsensual nude and sexually explicit images and videos of them when they were girls. “Like a rag doll brought to life through the dark arts, this [AI-generated]…

The U.S. Supreme Court Kevin Dietsch/Getty Images hide caption toggle caption Kevin Dietsch/Getty Images The U.S. Supreme Court on Monday temporarily blocked the Trump administration from going ahead with plans to deport some 6,000 Syrians and  350,000 Haitians who were granted Temporary Protected Status by Presidents Obama, Biden, and Trump himself in his first administration. But at the same the court expedited arguments so that the cases will be argued in April, with a decision likely by the end of June. Federal law allows presidents to grant TPS for people in the U.S. whose home country is experiencing armed conflict, natural disasters,…

Nvidia CEO Jensen Hwang gives the keynote address at the company’s annual GTC developers conference at the SAP Center in San Jose, California, on March 16, 2026. Josh Edelson | Afp | Getty ImagesNvidia is expanding deals for its autonomous vehicle development business to Hyundai Motor, Nissan Motor and Isuzu, as well as Chinese automakers BYD and Geely, the software and chip giant announced Monday.The new tie-ups are for Nvidia’s “Drive Hyperion” platform for AVs. The system helps companies develop and deploy driver-assist and autonomous driving capabilities for “Level 4” AVs, which are capable of driving without human intervention under…

The livestreamer Clavicular — who was once filmed running into someone with his Cybertruck — is the kind of provocative creator most major brands won’t touch. Loading audio narration… That hasn’t stopped him from making serious money.The 20-year-old says he’s pulled in more than $100,000 a month on Kick, his primary streaming platform, where he’s known for “looksmaxxing,” or going to extreme measures to maximize attractiveness.Clavicular, whose real name is Braden Peters, isn’t alone. Kick has become a haven for some creators who are fed up with — or have been banned from — other platforms, particularly Amazon-owned Twitch.Kick’s payouts…

Apollo Global Management signage in New York on Dec. 5, 2023.Jeenah Moon | Bloomberg | Getty ImagesApollo’s John Zito had a blunt assessment of how private equity firms are valuing their software holdings as shares of comparable public tech companies have plunged: They’re not, he said.Zito, co-president of the firm’s giant asset management division and its head of credit, spoke to clients of investment bank UBS last month in remarks first published by the Wall Street Journal. CNBC confirmed Zito’s comments. “I literally think all the marks are wrong,” Zito told the clients. “I think private equity marks are wrong.”For…