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[ad_1] Beauty fades. Good negotiation skills are forever.Judge Judy Sheindlin spent over 25 years presiding over televised legal arguments. On her syndicated program “Judge Judy” and later streaming programs, Sheindlin was firm as she looked to make sure litigants weren’t, as she liked to say, peeing on her leg and telling her it was raining.Behind the scenes, Sheindlin was also negotiating her own contracts. By the end of her run, the television judge was making a reported $47 million annually. On the “Good Hang” podcast, Sheindlin shared her best negotiation tips.It starts with knowing your worth, something Sheindlin said women…

[ad_1] It’s not just tech CEOs — consumer brands are going hardcore now too.Unilever’s new CEO, Fernando Fernandez, said he’s shaking up the company’s top leadership, and he expects that to result in a “refreshing” of up to a quarter of the company’s top 200 leaders.He said Wednesday, speaking at the Barclays Global Consumer Staples Conference, that the company is reviewing these leaders one by one and asking: “Are they good enough? Are they at the level that Unilever deserve?”The global consumer brand conglomerate, which makes everything from Dove soap to Vaseline to Ben & Jerry’s, has cut roughly 18% of its…

[ad_1] Mike Liberatore, xAI’s chief financial officer, has left the company, according to reporting from The Wall Street Journal. This marks the latest in a string of high-profile executive departures.  The former Airbnb executive joined the company in April and left around the end of July, per WSJ. While at xAI, he helped orchestrate the company’s $5 billion debt raise, alongside another $5 billion in equity — almost half of which came from SpaceX. He also oversaw some of the Elon Musk-owned AI firm’s data center expansion in Memphis.  Liberatore’s departure comes after xAI’s general counsel, Robert Keele, left in…

[ad_1] Mike Liberatore, xAI’s chief financial officer, has left the company, according to reporting from The Wall Street Journal. This marks the latest in a string of high-profile executive departures.  The former Airbnb executive joined the company in April and left around the end of July, per the WSJ. While at xAI, he helped orchestrate the company’s $5 billion debt raise, alongside another $5 billion in equity — almost half of which came from SpaceX. He also oversaw some of the Elon Musk-owned AI firm’s data center expansion in Memphis.  Liberatore’s departure comes after xAI’s general counsel, Robert Keele, left…

[ad_1] Updated 2025-09-03T20:03:54Z 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. Iconic skylines are one way to immediately identify some cities. Some looming skyscrapers haven’t stood the test of time, ending up abandoned or incomplete. Cities must figure out what to do with the structures, and the cost of revitalization can be huge. In some cities, the tallest…

[ad_1] (These are the market notes on today’s action by Mike Santoli, CNBC’s Senior Markets Commentator. See today’s video update from Mike above.) -A wan, unconvincing bounce attempt from Tuesday’s stumble, but with enough pep in Mag 7 names to support the broad indexes. -The pops in Alphabet and Apple after a favorable antitrust ruling – the stock gains exceeding 8% and 3%, respectively – are so far holding the S & P 500 harmless against a bare majority of stocks trading in the red. -The equal-weighted S & P 500 off half a percent and small caps negative after…

[ad_1] CoreWeave, which provides cloud servers to large companies training AI models, has struck an agreement to acquire OpenPipe, a two-year-old Y Combinator-backed startup that helps enterprises develop customized AI agents with reinforcement learning, the companies announced on Wednesday. “Reinforcement learning is emerging as a pivotal force to strengthen model performance on agentic and reasoning tasks,” said Brian Venturo, co-founder of CoreWeave, in a statement to TechCrunch. “By combining OpenPipe’s advanced self-learning tools with CoreWeave’s high-performance AI cloud, we’re expanding our platform to give developers at AI labs and beyond an important advantage in building scalable intelligent systems.” CoreWeave and OpenPipe…

[ad_1] Boston Scientific was a recent trade idea for CappThesis clients. Since it has yet to break out, I wanted to both share the idea with CNBC Pro subscribers and also highlight the process I typically use to come up with trade idea candidates like this. This involves starting with a plain chart and then working through different variations, with the goal of building a stronger case for it to become a recommended “chart trade.” BSX initially caught my eye through my normal process of screening for technically constructive stocks. Sometimes this is done using predefined screens, while other times it’s simply a matter of reviewing hundreds of charts…

[ad_1] florent_dartora / 500px/Getty Images 2025-09-03T18:30:20Z 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. Homeowners in lower-value areas at high risk of natural disasters are feeling the pinch of high premiums. Housing markets in states like Louisiana and Florida have the highest insurance costs in the country. Insurance premiums for US homeowners have climbed an average 24% over…

[ad_1] Institutional interest has been shifting toward Solana in recent weeks as bitcoin and ether lag. The token tied to the Ethereum alternative is up about 15% in the past two weeks, while ether is flat and bitcoin is down 4%. In the past month, SOL has gained 30%, outperforming ether (up 24%) and bitcoin (down 2%) in that period. Solana’s rally picked up more recently after VanEck filed to launch a staked Solana ETF in partnership with the decentralized finance platform Jito. Adding to that momentum was a Bloomberg report last week that said Galaxy and Jump are seeking…