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Careers are long and not always linear.At least, that’s how Rong Yan, now the chief technology officer at HeyGen, thinks about it.So his best advice for those who want to climb the tech ladder: Don’t aim for promotions.”Don’t make promotions the objective of your work,” he said on “The Peterman Pod” recently.Things are going to get “painful” if you focus too much on promotions, he said.It’s surprising advice from someone who has swiftly leaped up the corporate ladder during his career.Yan has been working in the tech industry since he earned his Ph.D. in computer science from Carnegie Mellon University…

AI has become one of the most popular fields in tech. The people working in it didn’t all follow the same path to get there, but for some, college played a crucial role in their success.For one AI startup engineer, returning to school provided an opportunity to explore what an AI career would be like before committing to it. For another, moving to the US for a graduate program opened doors to being closer to the center of the action in Big Tech. In another case, relationships formed during college — with peers, professors, and mentors — continued to shape…

TikTok has unseated its social media rivals as the top spot for young people to get their news.TikTok is now the most popular social app for news among 18- to 29-year-olds in the US, according to new survey data from the Pew Research Center. The app surpassed YouTube and Instagram, which were the top choices in 2024.Forty-three percent of young adults said they regularly get news from TikTok in 2025, compared to 41% for both YouTube and Facebook. Forty percent named Instagram as a regular news source, while 21% said X (formerly Twitter) and 18% said Reddit.Social media beat out…

It’s not yet 5 pm on a Thursday in late November, and the skies have fully darkened over the City of London’s Leadenhall Market. It’s the coldest day in recent memory, a harbinger of the looming winter, but no matter.Here in London, it’s time for a pint.After-work pints have been a sacred tradition of British workers for centuries. For years, Leadenhall Market has been the go-to spot for bankers, insurance brokers, and financial advisors who work in the City, the financial center of London.But reports of waning nightlife due to a post-pandemic hangover and Gen Z’s growing disinterest in drinking…

Work schedules don’t always have much sympathy for holiday plans — especially the notoriously grueling hours of the finance industry.When it comes to carving out time for gifting, some Wall Streeters opt to outsource the task, while others shop at convenient stores close to, or even within, their offices.”This time of year, time seems to move a little bit faster,” said Elisabeth Brown, the director of US membership at luxury travel and lifestyle concierge company Knightsbridge Circle. Brown said that gift help is a popular service among members, and that Knightsbridge Circle will suggest, buy, and even deliver items. Members…

Attorney General Pam Bondi, third from right, Washington Metropolitan Police Chief Pamela Smith, left, U.S. Attorney Jeanine Pirro, ATF Special Agent in Charge of Washington Anthony Spotswood, FBI Director Kash Patel, and FBI deputy director Dan Bongino speak during a news conference at the Department of Justice, Thursday, Dec. 4, 2025, in Washington. Alex Brandon/AP hide caption toggle caption Alex Brandon/AP WASHINGTON — The man accused of placing two pipe bombs in Washington on the eve of the Jan. 6, 2021, riot at the U.S. Capitol told investigators after his arrest that he believed someone needed to “speak up” for…

Bank of America CEO Brian Moynihan said the Trump administration’s trade policy is showing signs of de-escalation after a year in which tariffs unsettled businesses.”If you go back to where we were in April, there was a lot of lack of understanding about where this would end up, and that affected small businesses and medium-sized businesses,” Moynihan said on CBS News’ “Face the Nation,” which aired Sunday.”They were shocked,” he said.Since returning to office, President Donald Trump has rolled out a 10% baseline tariff on imports, alongside higher rates for certain countries and product-specific duties such as those on automobiles.But…

This as-told-to essay is based on a conversation with Jerome Peñafort, 38, the founder of Mr. Bucket Chocolaterie in Singapore. The following has been edited for length and clarityOnce prices go up, they rarely come back down — and that’s definitely true for cocoa.For a small business where the main material is cocoa, it’s a real issue when your core ingredient keeps getting more expensive.We work directly with farmers across Southeast Asia, so even before prices started climbing around mid-2023, we were already paying about two to three times the market rate — and now we’re paying even more.We’re still…

Tiffany Chng and Olivia Yiong said they went from being work besties to regular besties and then work besties again.The duo, both 31, met in 2018 and became inseparable while working at GuavaPass, a fitness app. Yiong was laid off when Guavapass was acquired by ClassPass in 2019.Two years later, during the pandemic, Chng was laid off from her marketing job. The duo reunited to launch an athleisure brand, then called Butter, despite having no experience in fashion or entrepreneurship.Chng’s retrenchment and the pandemic lockdown gave them the push they needed to start the brand.”At that point, we had nothing…

When I tell people I bought a fixer-upper in Vermont with my siblings, the reaction is almost always the same: part envy, part amusement, part horror.”That’s so exciting, but you must really like your siblings. I could never do that with mine. It would end in disaster,” they say.Did I mention the house — tucked deep in the woods — is nearly impossible to find, three stories tall, and has no interior staircases or electricity?We decided to purchase a property together in 2022, but it took 3 years to find one After three years of searching, my siblings and I…