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[ad_1] 2025-09-10T12:32:01Z 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. WalletHub ranked the US states by happiness, measuring economic, environmental, and social factors. The states it ranked as happiest have low divorce rates, economic security, and life satisfaction. West Virginia and Louisiana were among the least-happy US states. Many factors go into major decisions like moving states, from…

[ad_1] Apple’s latest annual product release event gave analysts just enough to keep their hopes up. The company on Tuesday announced the iPhone 17 lineup led by the slimmed-down iPhone Air, alongside its latest Apple Watch and AirPods Pro products. As expected, Apple increased the starting price of one of its iPhone models , the iPhone 17 Pro, and replaced last year’s iPhone 16 Plus with a pricier and thinner iPhone 17 Air device. The company said that this year’s entry-level phones now all come with 256GB of storage, higher than the standard 128GB on last year’s phones. Analysts remain optimistic…

[ad_1] Three former Google X scientists aim to give you a second brain virtually — not in the sci-fi or chip-in-your-head sense — but through an AI-powered app that gains context by listening to everything you say in the background. Their startup, TwinMind, has raised $5.7 million in seed funding and released an Android version, along with a new AI speech model. It also has an iPhone version. Co-founded in March 2024 by Daniel George (CEO) and his former Google X colleagues Sunny Tang and Mahi Karim (both CTOs), TwinMind runs in the background, capturing ambient speech (with user permission)…

[ad_1] Analysts are stunned by Oracle’s cloud growth projections given in the company’s first-quarter report, with many cementing the stock as an artificial intelligence frontrunner alongside the market’s biggest tech giants. Oracle on Tuesday missed Wall Street’s consensus earnings and revenue estimates but surprised the Street when it said that remaining performance obligations — a measure of contracted revenue that has not yet been recognized — jumped 359% from a year earlier to $455 billion. The company now sees $144 billion in cloud infrastructure revenue in the 2030 fiscal year, up from $10.3 billion in fiscal 2025. Chief executive Safra…

[ad_1] As AI is increasingly helping hackers to launch mass-scale email attacks, former Google security leaders have joined forces to build autonomous AI agents that aim to stop phishing, malware, and business email compromise threats before they ever reach user inboxes. That is the mission behind AegisAI, a new email security startup that has just emerged from stealth with $13 million in seed funding co-led by Accel and Foundation Capital. More than 90% of successful cyberattacks begin with a phishing email, per U.S. federal cybersecurity agency CISA. A recent CrowdStrike study (PDF) also found that phishing messages generated by large…

[ad_1] CEO of Booking Holdings Glenn Fogel sits at the helm of a portfolio of travel brands, including Booking.com, KAYAK, OpenTable, Agoda, and Priceline. But three decades ago, he was in a very different position — laid off from a corporate job and unsure about what was next.After earning an MBA from Wharton and a law degree from Harvard, Fogel worked in investment banking at Kidder, Peabody & Co. He told Business Insider that when the firm merged with Paine Webber, many bankers were cut. What struck him, though, was that some of his colleagues were retained when he wasn’t…

[ad_1] Traders work on the floor at the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE) in New York City, U.S., August 14, 2025. Brendan McDermid | ReutersWith the desire to have private market exposure alongside publicly traded stocks gaining traction among investors, Morningstar has developed a benchmark to reflect the trend.The Morningstar PitchBook US Modern Market 100 Index, or the Modern Market 100, is the first to combine public and private equity exposure in one index, the investment research company announced Wednesday. The benchmark is meant to capture the performance of 100 of the largest U.S. companies, broken down to 90 public…

[ad_1] After years in management, a frustrating job search has Karen Del’Olio rethinking what she wants next.In April, the 59-year-old was furloughed from her role as a research program manager at an academic institution in Massachusetts after a sponsor pulled funding from the project she led. Despite beginning her search in April and applying to dozens of jobs, she said she didn’t land any interviews beyond an initial recruiter call during the first four months of her search. While she’s since secured two interviews past the recruiter stage, she’s still looking for an offer.”I just get recruiters who say they’re…

[ad_1] Rivian CEO RJ Scaringe said Chinese automakers have such a built-in cost advantage that won’t last forever.”It’s inconceivable that Western markets would not allow their domestic manufacturers to produce in China, but simultaneously allow freely those Chinese companies to produce in China and sell,” Scaringe said during a recent appearance on the Everything Electric podcast.The US already imposes barriers similar to Scaringe’s prediction. The Biden administration imposed a 100% tariff on Chinese-made EVs. President Donald Trump has used tariff threats to pressure automakers to make more vehicles in the US.Rivian isn’t in the Chinese market, but Scaringe says the…

[ad_1] Alphabet’s life sciences unit, Verily, plans to restructure its business as it anticipates a fresh round of investment.In a town hall meeting on Monday, Verily CEO Stephen Gillett told staff that Verily would transform from a Limited Liability Company to a C-corp, a business structure generally considered more investor-friendly, according to a person who heard the remarks and asked to remain anonymous because they were not permitted to speak to the press.Gillett told employees the change was happening as Verily anticipated a fresh round of investment and stopped short of confirming whether any investment had been secured and by…