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Updated 2025-10-07T12:32:01Z Share Facebook Email X LinkedIn Reddit Bluesky WhatsApp Copy link 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. Inventor Samuel F. B. Morse spent summers at his Locust Grove Estate in New York’s Hudson Valley. The 14,000-square-foot Italianate villa, built in 1852, has 45 rooms over six floors. It was purchased in 1901 by the Young family and has remained uniquely preserved. When Samuel F. B.…

This as-told-to essay is based on a conversation with 28-year-old Mwangi Wanjau, who is from Kenya and based in Canada. The following has been edited for length and clarity.My parents named me Mwangi after my grandfather, James Mwangi Wanjau.I grew up in Nairobi, Kenya, and Mwangi is a very common name within my tribe, the Kikuyu.In 2016, at age 19, I moved from Kenya to western Canada to study, graduating with a degree in mathematics. I felt like an outsider. My name stood out: I often had to repeat it, and people struggled to remember it.During my studies, and later…

What do all successful leaders have in common?Executive coaches might highlight shared qualities such as authenticity, charisma, or even the ability to foster psychological safety.That’s wrong, says Jon Levy.Certainly, many influential people are intelligent and charming. But are any of these traits a prerequisite for wild success in a given industry? After all, some of the most famous leaders out there — say, Warren Buffett, Oprah Winfrey, and Elon Musk — don’t really have all that much in common, personality-wise.It’s an epiphany that occurred to Levy, an author and behavioral scientist, after hosting hundreds of dinner parties for successful people…

The only thing advancing faster than AI is the enthusiasm that many CEOs have for it.Nearly seven in 10 chief executives expect to see returns on their AI investments within one to three years, compared with 21% who held this view in 2024, KPMG US found in a recent survey of 400 heads of large US companies.The shift underscores that, in only a year, CEOs’ confidence in investing in AI has swung “completely to the other extreme,” Tim Walsh, the company’s US chair and CEO, told Business Insider.About two in 10 leaders now expect to see returns in just six…

This as-told-to essay is based on a conversation with Patricia Wheatley, 82, who earns $16 an hour working at her friend’s boat store in western Pennsylvania. She doesn’t have much in savings, and she works to supplement her Social Security and have enough to send gifts to her many grandchildren and great-grandchildren. This interview has been edited for length and clarity.I’m just a plain Jane. I don’t have an amazing story. I wonder about my future, but I don’t spend a whole lot of time on that, because there are too many things to be busy with.My first job was…

Attorney General Pam Bondi testifies before a Senate Appropriations subcommittee on June 25 in Washington, D.C. Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images hide caption toggle caption Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images Attorney General Pam Bondi is set to testify before Congress Tuesday amid mounting concerns that the Justice Department under her leadership is being weaponized to go after President Trump’s perceived enemies. Bondi’s appearance before the Senate Judiciary Committee comes less than two weeks after the department secured an indictment against former FBI Director James Comey following public demands from the president to do so. Comey, who faces one count of making false statements and…

The Supreme Court Andrew Harnik/Getty Images hide caption toggle caption Andrew Harnik/Getty Images The Supreme Court hears arguments Tuesday on questions of sexuality and government regulation. Once again, a case pits conservative Christian groups against the LGBTQ community. At issue in the case is conversion therapy. It’s generally defined as the treatment used to cure a person’s attraction to the same sex; in other words, to make a gay person straight, and to cure a person’s desire to change their gender identity by making them comfortable with their gender at birth. Every major medical organization from the American Medical Association…

Big changes are happening in media — and one last name is at the center of it all: Ellison.David Ellison is showing his ambitions are far greater than using media to buy more influence and Hollywood glamour. The son of tech billionaire Larry Ellison is shaking up storied institutions in news and entertainment as he seeks to build Paramount into a new media empire at lightning speed.The clearest sign yet of Ellison’s willingness to ruffle feathers and fundamentally remake iconic American media brands was his Monday installation of Bari Weiss atop Paramount’s CBS News, the 98-year-old institution home to the…

George Clooney’s kids are growing up away from Hollywood, and that’s exactly how he wants it.In an interview with Esquire published on Monday, the actor spoke about family life and his decision to raise his kids in France.”You know, we live on a farm in France. A good portion of my life growing up was on a farm, and as a kid I hated the whole idea of it. But now, for them, it’s like — they’re not on their iPads, you know? They have dinner with grown-ups and have to take their dishes in. They have a much better…

This as-told-to essay is based on a conversation with Girik Malik, an applied scientist at Amazon Web Services. The following has been edited for length and clarity. Business Insider has verified his employment and academic history.When I completed my Ph.D. in AI at Northeastern University in 2023, the AI job market was a world away from the red-hot AI talent war Big Tech companies are waging now.I secured a job as an applied scientist at Amazon after interning there in the summer of 2022. This was before the company implemented a hiring freeze for the rest of that year.Today, a…