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Prediction platform Kalshi is looking to retain its power users with a new VIP program.Kalshi has started emailing high-volume traders about a new loyalty program called “Kalshi Platinum,” which gives them access to merchandise and referral incentives, a company spokesperson confirmed to Business Insider.Other program perks include tickets to in-person Kalshi events and dinners, plus access to a “dedicated account manager” who can assist with customer support questions from 7 a.m. to 1 a.m.”For the past couple of months, our team has been brainstorming ideas on how to best serve our most loyal customers,” one Kalshi Platinum email read. “After…

2026-01-06T19:34:19.367Z Share Copy link Email Facebook WhatsApp X LinkedIn Bluesky Threads lighning bolt icon An icon in the shape of a lightning bolt. Impact Link Save Saved Read in app This story is available exclusively to Business Insider subscribers. Become an Insider and start reading now. Have an account? Log in. MrBeast is making the first episode of “Beast Games” Season 2 copyright-free on Prime Video. That will enable people to share reaction clips without fear of repercussions. Season 2 features 200 contestants competing for over $10 million in prizes. MrBeast is blurring the lines between YouTube and TV in…

The investment manager who helped scuttle one of the biggest data center acquisitions of 2025 believes that his bet against the multibillion-dollar buyout is about to pay off in the new year.Trip Miller, the founder and managing partner of the Memphis-based investment firm Gullane Capital Partners, believes that Core Scientific, a data center developer and operator, is on the cusp of large new customer deals that will boost its value.”I think over the next 90 days, you’ll see them announce greater than a hundred megawatts of deals,” Miller said. “It would show that there was a lot more value to…

Hourly earnings growth at small businesses continued to decelerate in December, reflecting a pattern for much of the year, while job growth also moderated, payroll provider Paychex reported Tuesday.Processing ContentThe Paychex Small Business Employment Watch showed the hourly earnings growth rate at 2.71% in December, closing the year below 3% for the 17th month in a row. The Small Business Jobs Index component of the report, which reflects the payroll data of Paychex’s customers with fewer than 50 employees, indicated minimal change throughout the year and averaged 99.67 in 2025. Weekly hours worked growth ended the year up 0.25%, reaching…

A former producer for the syndicated CBS news program “Inside Edition” has sued Paramount Global, claiming he was fired after complaining about repeated antisemitic comments by senior talent.Joshua Bernstein said Lisa Guerrero, then a correspondent on the program, called him a “whiny Jew,” “spoiled Jew,” and an “old Jewish woman” and asked how he could have married a Muslim woman or worked for a “terrorist network” like Al Jazeera.She also called him homophobic slurs and made “countless other racist and offensive comments” about interview subjects and coworkers, Bernstein claimed in the lawsuit, which was filed earlier this month.A publicist for…

This as-told-to essay is based on a conversation with Wendy Sheridan, a full-time intuitive psychic and artist who loves to thrift. It has been edited for length and clarity.I began thrifting and antiquing at the age of 12. I’ve always had an interest in reusing and recycling things.Thrifting was my outlet once I stopped working and stayed home with my kids. I used to put my youngest in the stroller with a sucker and take them to Goodwill. I would use my intuition about things; I had a sense when things were going to be significant.Back then, in the mid-90s,…

A view of the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE) on Wall Street November 13, 2024, in New York City. Angela Weiss | AFP | Getty ImagesA version of this article appeared in CNBC’s Inside Alts newsletter, a guide to the fast-growing world of alternative investments, from private equity and private credit to hedge funds and venture capital. Sign up to receive future editions, straight to your inbox.Private equity firms that raised funds in 2025 charged the lowest average management fee rates ever recorded, continuing a multiyear downward trend. Buyout funds of last year’s vintage asked investors to pay a mean rate of 1.61% of…

YouTuber MrBeast is all about one-upping himself with bigger and bolder videos.That approach is at the core of the second season of “Beast Games,” MrBeast’s Amazon Prime Video show that returns to TV screens this week.”We took everything from season one — all of the learnings from creative to production — we put it all on a wall, and every single day we just set out to make it better, which is the nature of the brand,” Sean Klitzner, one of the show’s co-creators and showrunners, told Business Insider.The second season will pit 100 “strong” and 100 “smart” contestants against…

A number of tech leaders have weighed in on how the entry-level software engineering space is changing — and now Blackstone CTO John Stecher is sharing his take.”There definitively is a shift,” Stecher told Business Insider.The CTO, who graduated with a computer science degree from the University of Wisconsin-Madison in 2001, said the software engineering landscape looked “totally different” back then. In the 2000s, he said the field had a reputation for being an “ultra-nerdy” career path for “super introverted people,” which he considered himself to be at the time.He said he remembers “busting out books” and having to read…

A version of this article appeared in CNBC’s Inside Alts newsletter, a guide to the fast-growing world of alternative investments, from private equity and private credit to hedge funds and venture capital. Sign up to receive future editions, straight to your inbox.With fears growing of an investment bubble in artificial intelligence infrastructure, the next phase of AI growth will come from private software companies already creating massive gains in productivity, according to Robert Smith, CEO of Vista Equity Partners.The soaring valuations of Nvidia, Meta, Microsoft, Alphabet, OpenAI and other hyperscalers and large-language models have dominated the debate over AI opportunities and risks.…