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If you want to work at BlackRock, make sure you’re using AI — just not too much.Nigel Williams, BlackRock’s global head of talent acquisition, said that AI is shifting his hiring priorities, and that fluency with the technology is now key to any strong application. However, he warns against depending on it in the interview process.”We want to hire people that are curious, that understand that AI is here,” he told Business Insider, especially because it’s embedded in functions across the world’s biggest asset manager.The strongest applicants can demonstrate that they are both digitally native and comfortable with various AI tools,…

Paige Stansbury grew up shopping at Tory Burch.Each year, she’d vacation in Texas and shop at Houston’s Galleria mall with her family. There, her grandmother always bought her a new pair of the designer’s monogrammed ballet flats.”I never really liked them,” Stansbury, 23, admitted to Business Insider. “But my grandma, she gets me into everything. She’s a style icon.”So, when Stansbury saw a photo of a Lee Radziwill bag from Tory Burch in 2022, the social-media marketing professional added one in the petite size to her holiday wish list.It was her grandmother, of course, who bought it for her. “My…

The next generation of leaders wants their family offices to look different from those run by their parents — and that shift is driving fierce competition for a new class of talent.A new report from IMD’s Global Family Business Center and the Family Business Network, based on 186 survey responses and 65 interviews with family principals across six continents in the first two quarters of this year, found that family offices are rapidly evolving as younger heirs step into leadership roles.The report said younger family members increasingly prioritize impact investing, sustainability, technological innovation, and diversity and inclusion — particularly in…

Gen Z is embracing one decades-old phenomenon: Trading card games like Pokémon.Collectible card games were the most-purchased secondhand product category for Gen Z in the US on eBay so far this year, according to data from the e-commerce platform.The trend was especially clear among Gen Z men, who collectively shifted spending from electronics to trading cards and other collectibles, according to eBay. Trading cards were also the top secondhand sales category among Gen Z women on the platform, followed by books and cameras.While trading cards for franchises such as Pokémon and Yu-Gi-Oh! initially became popular with kids and teens in…

You can’t download a crafting experience.While you may look up instructions, the digital world doesn’t offer the feeling of a pencil on a sketchpad, wool yarn through your fingers, or shaping clay into a new vessel.It’s an analog experience that more people are craving: sitting down to create something, meeting a new group of people, or being exposed to new ideas. Hobbies are, in some ways, the ultimate tech-proof activity — and offer a rosier picture of what an AI-future could look like.”It’s not the kind of thing that you want AI to speed up or improve. The whole value…

From Elon Musk — the guy who brought the world a branded flamethrower — it somehow tracks that Tesla is now making pickleball paddles.The EV company launched its latest lifestyle product on Friday: a $350 pickleball paddle created in partnership with Selkirk, a sports equipment company.The paddle, made of carbon fiber with a foam core, was “optimized for high-performance play,” according to the product page.”This wasn’t simply a branding exercise. It was a true engineering collaboration,” Selkirk’s co-owner and director of research and development, Tom Barnes, said in a statement about the release. “Tesla’s design group and our R&D team…

Scenes from an Italian restaurant; blue Hawaii; you’re gonna be soooory;  and other highlights of recent tax cases.Processing ContentMalden, Massachusetts: Tax preparer Yves Isidor, of Somersville, Massachusetts, has been sentenced to 18 months in prison for filing false returns for clients.Isidor owned and operated Tax Realty Pro, a tax preparation service. From 2012 to 2019, he prepared more than 1,500 returns for taxpayers, falsified returns for unsuspecting clients by preparing fraudulent schedules that claimed inappropriate expenses or deductions. On multiple occasions, Isidor inflated clients’ total itemized deductions by fabricating medical expenses, charitable contributions, employment expenses, and taxes. On a few…

The Internal Revenue Service is reminding taxpayers who finalized an adoption this year or who started their adoption process before 2025 that they may qualify for the Adoption Tax Credit, adding that changes to the credit come in the wake of One Big Beautiful Bill Act.Processing ContentThe credit can be claimed for eligible expenses related to international, domestic, private and public foster care adoptions. The maximum Adoption Credit that taxpayers can claim on their 2025 return is $17,280 per eligible child. Among recent changes:This credit is now partially refundable. The refundable amount is up to $5,000 per qualifying child for…

California Attorney General Rob Bonta is leading a 20-state coalition suing the Trump administration over its new $100,000 fee on H-1B visa petitions. The states say the policy is unlawful and threatens aspects of the public sector that depend on skilled foreign workers.The states plan to file the suit on Friday.The lawsuit argues the Department of Homeland Security imposed the fee outside the bounds of congressional authority and skipped required notice-and-comment procedures, according to a press release from Bonta’s office. The states say the fee — more than 10 times the existing typical H-1B fees — would strain schools, universities,…

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