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Tom Brady attends Fanatics Fest NYC 2024 at Jacob Javits Center in New York City on Aug. 16, 2024.Dave Kotinsky | Getty Images Entertainment | Getty ImagesSports giant Fanatics is pitting fans against greats Tom Brady, Kevin Durant and Alex Rodriguez at an upcoming marketing event.The company announced Tuesday it is introducing a skills-based competition at Fanatics Fest 2025, taking place June 20-22 in New York City. Fanatics says more than $2 million will be given away in prizes, including a $1 million cash prize for first place, a Ferrari 812 GTS for second place and a Lebron James collectors…

The Levi’s brand logo on a store. Jens Kalaene | Picture Alliance | Getty ImagesLevi Strauss has agreed to sell Dockers to brand management firm Authentic Brands Group for $311 million, the companies announced Tuesday. Under the terms of the deal, Authentic will own Dockers’ intellectual property while Centric Brands will take on operations, handling manufacturing, sourcing and distribution. Under the brand management business model, Levi’s stands to make up to $391 million in future years based on how well Dockers performs under the Authentic umbrella, which also includes Forever 21’s intellectual property and brands like Reebok and Nautica.”The Dockers transaction further…

Along with the list of 16 books, and increase from prior lists, which had 10, this year’s summer reading list also includes suggested summer experiences, from the Dataland exhibit at The Grand LA, to the SailGP racing series and the Hill Family Estate in Napa, California.”Life in Three Dimensions: How Curiosity, Exploration, and Experience Make a Fuller, Better Life” by Shigehiro Oishi”Becoming You: The Proven Method for Crafting Your Authentic Life and Career” by Suzy Welch”Reset: How to Change What’s Not Working” by Dan Heath”The Next Day: Transitions, Change, and Moving Forward” by Melinda French Gates”Iron Hope: Lessons Learned from…

A customer pushes a shopping cart in front of a Home Depot store on Feb. 25, 2025 in San Rafael, California.Justin Sullivan | Getty ImagesHome Depot will report quarterly earnings and revenue on Tuesday as the retailer contends with high interest rates, a sluggish housing market and tariff-related cost pressures.Here’s what Wall Street expects for the retailer’s fiscal first quarter, according to a survey of analysts by LSEG:Earnings per share: $3.59 expectedRevenue: $39.32 billion expectedSpring is Home Depot’s peak sales season — the Christmas of the home improvement world — as homeowners and contractors typically tackle more projects because of…

The Big Four — Deloitte, PwC, EY, and KPMG — are a select and powerful few. They dominate the professional services industry and have done so for decades.But all empires fall eventually. Large corporations tend to merge, transform, or get replaced by the latest wave of innovative upstarts.It’s hard to see that time coming for the Big Four. With huge revenues, international reach, vast workforces, and numerous service offerings, they’re indispensable for many corporations.Yet AI could be poised to disrupt their business models, organizational structure, and day-to-day roles, while driving opportunities for the mid-market.Automation is coming The Big Four advise…

In an era of quiet quitting, the Great Resignation, and lazy girl jobs, the assumption is that workers are slacking.These trends are actually all symptoms of a workforce that is toiling harder and longer and doing more with less, according to Amanda Jones. The senior lecturer in organizational behaviour and HR management at King’s Business School at King’s College London specializes in remote working and work-life balance.Jones told Business Insider that “work intensification has been happening for decades. She remembers hearing about it and becoming interested in the concept while she was at school.When Jones was doing her doctorate, a…

This is an excerpt from “Empire of AI: Dreams and Nightmares in Sam Altman’s OpenAI” by Karen Hao.The book is based on interviews with around 260 people and an extensive trove of correspondence and documents. Any quoted emails, documents, or Slack messages come from copies or screenshots of those documents and correspondences or are exactly as they appear in lawsuits.The author reached out to all of the key figures and companies that are described in this book to seek interviews and comment. OpenAI and Sam Altman chose not to cooperate.In November 2022, rumors began to spread within OpenAI that its…

Alex Mundo gets a little worked up at the idea of tariffs making the instruments at his music store more expensive, especially for beginners. “There’s going to be a lot of kids now who aren’t going to be able to get their stuff, aren’t going to be able to become musicians,” he says. “It’s already becoming very cost-prohibitive as it is.”Mundo is a jack-of-all-trades within one trade: music. He spent more than a decade in sales and retail management, mainly at Sam Ash Music, and now works as a guitar technician at a retailer on Long Island, New York. He…

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Unlock the White House Watch newsletter for freeYour guide to what Trump’s second term means for Washington, business and the worldPresident Donald Trump’s “big, beautiful” tax bill risks sharply increasing the US public debt, sparking alarm among investors and fuelling questions over how long the world will finance Washington’s largesse.US long-term borrowing costs rose at the start of this week, after a congressional committee on Sunday advanced a budget bill that is estimated to add trillions of dollars to the federal deficit over the next decade by extending tax cuts. The bill progressed after Moody’s on Friday stripped the US…