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Part-time rocker. Part-time philosopher. Full-time tech boss. Meet Marco Argenti, the executive at the helm of Goldman’s push into artificial intelligence.Argenti is Goldman Sachs’ chief information officer, but his interests stretch beyond finance. Before joining Goldman in 2019, he was a top Amazon executive, helping build out its cloud-computing business. He also plays in a Seattle rock band and has long been fascinated by philosophy — particularly the ways technology can shape people and their decisions.That perspective has helped shape his view of AI. At Goldman, Argenti oversees a 12,000-person engineering team — one of the largest on Wall Street…

Many young people dream of making bank on Wall Street. But industry titan John Studzinski said it was generosity, not greed, that fueled his career success.Studzinski, 69, held senior roles at Morgan Stanley, HSBC, and Blackstone over five decades and is now Pimco’s vice chair.He started giving at age six when he volunteered in a soup kitchen, ran a health hotline as a teenager, worked with Mother Teresa in New York during the AIDS crisis, and set up the Genesis Foundation in 2001 to nurture young artists, and the Arise Foundation in 2015 to combat modern slavery and human trafficking.Studzinski,…

Retired Supreme Court Justice Anthony Kennedy attends President Trump’s address to a joint session of Congress at the U.S. Capitol on March 4, 2025 in Washington. Win McNamee/Getty Images hide caption toggle caption Win McNamee/Getty Images In the decades I have covered the Supreme Court, I have read lots of books written by justices, and with a couple of notable exceptions, they are…sigh, pretty boring. Retired Supreme Court Justice Anthony Kennedy, however, has written a very interesting book — “Life, Law, & Liberty,” scheduled for release Oct. 14 — because he reveals more than usual about himself and his 30…

2025-09-27T20:05:26Z 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. Private jets flooded a small Long Island airport for the Ryder Cup this weekend. The Ryder Cup is a biennial golf tournament that pits the top US golfers against the top Europeans. At the last Ryder Cup in Rome, there was a similar surge in private jet arrivals. The…

FBI personnel take a knee with demonstrators that were marching on Pennsylvania Avenue in Washington, D.C., on June 4, 2020, during a protest over the death of George Floyd. Jose Luis Magana/AP hide caption toggle caption Jose Luis Magana/AP Over a dozen FBI agents were fired Friday, including ones photographed kneeling during a racial justice protest in June 2020 following the police killing of George Floyd, according to the FBI Agents Association and news reports. Some of the agents had been reassigned earlier this year, in what were widely seen as demotions, The Washington Post reported. The agents were sent…

ABOARD A HONEYWELL TEST PLANE — Aerospace giant Honeywell is building new cockpit alerts that developers say will give airline pilots more precious time to react to hazards at airports.Honeywell senior test pilot Capt. Kirk Vining late last month put the alerts — called Surface Alert, or SURF-A — to the test by recreating some of the most serious near disasters at airports in recent aviation history.Moments before landing at Topeka Regional Airport, a Gulfstream G550 business jet was stopped on the same runway where Vining was about to touch down at the Kansas airport.”Traffic on runway!” called out the automated…

Utah-based drink chain Swig coined “dirty soda” back in 2010. Fifteen years later, the trend is fueling innovation everywhere from PepsiCo to McDonald’s, infusing the sluggish beverage category with new life.”Dirty soda” drinks use pop as a base, followed by flavored syrups, cream or other ingredients. While Swig claims credit — and the trademark — for dirty soda, TikTok videos and the reality TV show “The Secret Lives of Mormon Wives” have helped the trend spread far and wide, outpacing even the soda chain’s speedy expansion.Now, consumers can find it nearly everywhere, from grocery store aisles to fast-food chains.In a…

2025-09-27T11:24:01Z 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. Starbucks on Thursday announced it would close 1% — more than 100 — of its North American stores. The announcement didn’t specify which locations would close, so Business Insider started a list. Starbucks said in a statement that it is grateful to the communities its coffeehouses have built. When Starbucks…

As I approached the spring semester of my senior year of college, the realization that this journey of college would soon be ending sank in.It was time to start turning in my textbooks, submit my senior thesis, and say goodbye to the life I’d known for the past four years.It also meant I needed to find a full-time job. I was extremely fortunate that I did not have to search for a full-time job because former employers offered me a position in March of my senior year.I had worked at the company before and was offered a management position in…

This as-told-to essay is based on a conversation with Karen Lee-Coss, 53, who lives in North Carolina. The mom of two teenagers takes care of her 78-year-old mom and took care of her dad before he died. The following has been edited for length and clarity.Caregiving for a parent is a lot like being a parent yourself. Even if you do send your children to day care or someone comes into the home to help, you’re still always on 24 hours a day.I’ve been a full-time employee at a medical device company for eight years and have been caring for my parents for…