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A person walks past a Peloton store in New York, Jan. 25, 2022.Carlo Allegri | ReutersPeloton is betting that revamped treadmills, AI and new distribution channels can bring it back to sustained growth.The connected fitness company on Tuesday unveiled three new treadmills and new features for its Peloton IQ artificial intelligence platform with tools for runners, walkers and hikers. Peloton aims to widen its customer base, from people looking for a more affordable, space-saving treadmill to more experienced athletes looking for personalized coaching. “From record marathon turnouts around the world to the rise of local run clubs, we’re rediscovering the…

Rob Crisp, a peer support specialist with the Holistic Empathetic Assistance Response Team (HEART) program, responds to a call for a wellness check at a parking lot in Durham, N.C., on Sept. 14. Cornell Watson for NPR hide caption toggle caption Cornell Watson for NPR On a recent Wednesday in Durham, N.C., Rob Crisp and Allie Craft were on a mission, equipped with snacks, bottled water and hygiene kits. They are part of Durham’s unarmed community response team, and they were looking for a man someone called 911 about. “Our notes say we got a trespasser on a business property.…

You entered your profession because you wanted to teach, code, write, create, or design. But thanks to AI — and the immense pressure to use it — you now spend less time practicing your craft and more time managing the technology that’s doing the work you wanted to do.For many professionals, that means supervising agents: tools designed to perform tasks autonomously but that, in practice, require workers to set expectations, delegate assignments, evaluate performance, demand revisions, and intervene when things go wrong. Others manage a steady pipeline of AI-generated work, reviewing the output and taking responsibility for what ultimately ships.Congratulations!…

President Donald Trump’s plan to buy potash from Belarus has drawn a warning from the leader of Canada’s biggest potash-producing province, who says the fertilizer would have to be shipped through Russia.His comments came after Trump said Monday that the US is negotiating a “massive Deal” to buy potash from Belarus.”The pricing would be for substantially less than we are currently paying to Canada, very good news for our Farmers and Ranchers.,” Trump wrote on Truth Social.Potash is a key fertilizer ingredient used to boost crop yields, and Canada supplies the vast majority of US imports.The proposal is the latest…

A top engineer for Big Tech asked for a demotion at the peak of his career.Philip Su, who reached the prestigious “distinguished engineer” or IC9 level at Meta and OpenAI, said on “The Peterman Pod” podcast that promotions lost some of their shine as his career progressed.”The thrill of the promotion itself was no longer the same as when I was younger,” Su told show host Ryan Peterman. “When I was younger, because I sought after those grades, those measurable metrics, I very much felt great every time I got promoted.”By level seven, however, advancement no longer felt like an…

For our Still in the Game series, Business Insider has been interviewing and surveying people in their 50s who are navigating career changes. As we’ve shared their struggles and triumphs through unemployment and career pivots, we’ve heard from more than 100 readers via emails and comments, many expressing the same sentiment: “Thank you for showing me that I’m not alone.”While looking for work or starting over at any age comes with challenges — especially after spending decades building a career and in the current difficult job market — some of those challenges may come as a surprise. In Still in…

Iced coffee has become the latest unlikely subject of workplace controversy.TikTok users are debating whether bringing iced coffee to a job interview is a harmless caffeine fix or a frosty professional faux pas.The discourse became heated enough to reach LinkedIn News on Friday, where LinkedIn news editor Rachel Kleinman described it as a “fiery debate lighting up social media.”While some recruiters said arriving with a drink in hand could appear distracting or disrespectful, others questioned why a simple attempt to remain caffeinated should have any bearing on a candidate’s ability to do the job.Three career experts told Business Insider that…

To avoid getting iced out by hiring managers, you might want to leave your iced coffee at home.In a viral TikTok video, recruiter Caitlin Wehniainen discussed Gen Z candidates arriving at interviews with iced coffees and lattes. She thinks this comes across too casually, as though the interview is “a stop on your list of errands for the day.”The video prompted plenty of reactions. Some questioned why an iced coffee should factor into a hiring decision at all.”I wanna vomit watching this take and seeing this kind of stuff,” one TikToker said. “This is why I left the corporate world…

One of the world’s richest men, and his son, wanted to buy one of the most prestigious assets in the media world.Now they have gotten their wish.That’s the important part about Monday’s news: Larry and David Ellion’s Paramount has settled a lawsuit brought by California and several other states, which sought to hold up Paramount’s planned acquisition of Warner Bros. Discovery. With that out of the way, there are no longer any serious regulatory challenges to the deal. So the Ellisons can start finalizing their $111 billion acquisition in the very near future.That means the Ellisons will have combined control…

Paramount Skydance CEO David Ellison just confirmed to employees that the company had settled the lawsuits that were holding up its deal to buy Warner Bros. Discovery.”We have complete clearance for this merger and can move toward closing,” Ellison said in a Monday memo, which was obtained by Business Insider.Ellison said that Paramount is “tentatively planning” to complete its $110 billion acquisition of WBD in “approximately two weeks.”After completing this deal, Paramount will be a Hollywood behemoth that owns Paramount Pictures, the Warner Bros. studio, CBS, HBO, HBO Max, Paramount+, Pluto TV, and TV networks like CNN, TNT, TruTV, and…