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Meta’s AI agent, Muse, has been going shopping for Leif Abraham. With Amazon blocking the AI agent from placing orders, Abraham says that means fewer purchases from Amazon.Abraham, the cofounder and co-CEO of investing platform Public, told Business Insider he’s turned to Muse to purchase mostly niche, hard-to-find products — skincare, vintage wines, a German creatine product, discontinued Levi’s jeans.”Since the thing came out, I’ve been buying so much stuff,” he said. “I literally just have to approve the payment, and that’s it.”Muse is Meta’s bet that customers will entrust AI agents to handle internet errands, like booking a restaurant…

Brand new Lucid electric cars sit parked in front of a Lucid Studio showroom in San Francisco on May 24, 2024.Justin Sullivan | Getty ImagesLucid Group reported a 6.7% decrease in year-over-year vehicle deliveries during the third quarter, after the embattled all-electric vehicle maker cut production to better align with slower customer demand.The U.S. automaker, which is heavily backed by Saudi Arabia’s Public Investment Fund, on Monday said it delivered 3,806 EVs and produced 2,954 vehicles from July through September. Those results compare with deliveries of 4,078 EVs on production of 3,891 vehicles in the year-ago quarter.Deliveries of Lucid vehicles…

AstraZeneca CEO Pascal Soriot told CNBC on Monday that Summit Therapeutics’ lead drug could help power next-generation cancer treatment combinations that could be the “future of cancer care.”Soriot’s comments in an exclusive interview with CNBC come a week after the pharmaceutical giant announced a $2 billion equity investment and clinical collaboration with the biotech company to test potential cancer drug combinations. At the heart of that investment is Summit’s ivonescimab, which is a first-in-class bispecific antibody that works by attacking cancer through two pathways simultaneously: PD-1, which acts like a brake on immune cells, and VEGF, a signal that helps…

Getting a student to choose a college is one thing. Getting them to come back for another year is just as important.Ranging from Ivy League universities to military academies, Business Insider calculated the college with the highest retention rate in each state.The first-year retention rate shows the proportion of students who return to their studies in the fall for their sophomore year. It’s a metric colleges care about because it can indicate higher student satisfaction and strong academic support.Business Insider compiled each state’s winner using provisional fall 2024 data from the Department of Education’s Integrated Postsecondary Education Data System (IPEDS).The…

This as-told-to essay is based on a conversation with Alena Beliauskaya, a 37-year-old product director based in San Francisco. The following has been edited for length and clarity.Here in San Francisco, it seems like everyone is a startup founder.I’m the director of product management at Wolf Games, an AI narrative games company, where I work part-time. On the side, I run 12 Scrappy Founders, a founders community in the Bay Area with paid memberships and sponsored events.When I first moved here for my job in March 2025, I wanted to make friends, so I started going to founder events, but…

Health-focused restaurant chain True Food Kitchen, which has counted Oprah Winfrey and former Starbucks CEO Howard Schultz among its backers, has filed for bankruptcy.The Phoenix, Arizona-founded chain filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection in a Texas court on Sunday and is pursuing a court-supervised sale of the business as part of its restructuring proceedings.True Food Kitchen also closed 12 of its restaurants on the day it filed, cutting its footprint to 34 locations across 14 states. Those eateries remain open and are serving customers as usual, the company said.The company’s Chapter 11 court filings say it is about $42 million…

An American and Alaska Airlines planes land on the runway in near-perfect synchronization at San Francisco International Airport in San Francisco, California on March 23, 2026. Tayfun Coskun | Anadolu | Getty ImagesHow much is domestic airfare this fall? It depends where you’re flying and when.Thanksgiving fares are up more than 30% this year over last as airlines pass more of this year’s surge in jet fuel prices along to customers, according to a tally of “good deal” fares from flight-tracking site Hopper. But there are some bargains outside of that period for certain routes, while others are sky-high.The cheapest…

Paramount Skydance CEO David Ellison and incoming co-CEO Ynon Kreiz on Monday announced the executives who will help lead Skydance, the soon-to-be merged Paramount Skydance and Warner Bros. Discovery, after the deal closes on Tuesday. The full leadership team brings together executives from both companies and will report to Ellison and Kreiz, according to a news release.Bari Weiss, editor-in-chief of CBS News, and Mark Thompson, chairman and editor-in-chief of CNN Worldwide, will remain in their roles and lead the company’s news divisions after the merger is completed. Weiss joined Paramount Skydance in October 2025 when the company bought digital news…

From Patagonia vests to Rolex Submariners, the finance world is full of status symbols and fashion flexes. Wealthy Swiss investors have one of the weirdest: a blue briefcase filled with roughly 10 pounds of chocolate.Lindt shareholders who vote at the Swiss chocolatier’s annual meeting in Zurich every April receive a “Schokoladekoffer” or “chocolate suitcase.”The briefcase is free, but a Lindt voting share costs around 78,000 Swiss francs, or more than $94,000. The shares have traded as high as 132,000 Swiss francs — north of $150,000 — within the past year.”Nobody rationally spends around 100,000 Swiss francs on a share because…

I was born and raised in Mexico, but I spent most of my financially independent adult life in New York and London.Living abroad made me second-guess a lot of the norms related to money and dating that I’d long internalized — for instance, the expectation that in a heterosexual relationship, men should just pay for everything.For years, though, I was single, so I never had to decide how I’d actually split finances with another person.Things changed when I entered a serious relationship. Funny enough, my partner’s background is remarkably similar to mine: She is also Mexican and has built much…