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[ad_1] Paul Graham, the founder of startup incubator Y Combinator, said identifying and leaning into your passions will be the best way to secure your job in the age of AI.”It may be a mistake to ask which occupations are most safe from being taken by AI,” Graham wrote in an X post on Tuesday.”What AI (in its current form) is good at is not so much certain jobs, but a certain way of working. It’s good at scutwork. So that’s the thing to avoid,” he continued.Graham said programming jobs “at the bottom end” are not safe from AI, adding…

[ad_1] The stock market and consumer spending may be up, but so is household debt.A new report from the Federal Reserve Bank of New York shows total household debt has risen to $18.39 trillion when adjusted for inflation — that figure is about $1.05 trillion less than the all-time peak in the last quarter of 2008. Around 4.4% of household debt is at some stage of delinquency, a percentage that the bank’s researchers called “elevated.”Credit card balances have also risen to match last year’s all-time high, to a collective of $1.21 trillion, up 2.3% from the previous quarter.”This quarter’s flow…

[ad_1] Metinee Kingpayome arrived in Bangkok on her 20th birthday.Born in Maryland and raised in New York City by Thai immigrant parents, Kingpayome had only visited Thailand twice as a child.That trip back to Thailand in 1992 marked more than just a birthday milestone; it marked the beginning of her new life.”It was something special,” Kingpayome, now 53, told Business Insider. “Something that would change my life forever.”Troubled teenage yearsRaised in a working-class neighborhood in Queens, Kingpayome was around 9 when her parents separated. As the oldest of four — and the only daughter — she often took on the…

[ad_1] Palantir CEO Alex Karp talks a big game when it comes to his employees, calling a job there “by far the best credential in tech.”So, do recruiters agree?Karp has boasted on several occasions that Palantirians, as the company refers to employees, are the crème de la crème of tech workers.”If you come to Palantir, your career is set,” Karp said on Monday’s earnings call. He’s previously said that “no credible institution in commercial life can really be built without Palantir or an ex-Palantirian.”Palantir has minted founders and startups in droves.Former Palantir alums have raised over $30 billion total at…

[ad_1] Sales automation startup Clay has raised a $100 million Series C at a $3.1 billion valuation in a round led by CapitalG, confirming TechCrunch’s report from June. The financing follows a $1.25 billion Series B round from six months ago and a $1.5 billion Sequoia-led tender offer announced a couple of months ago, which allowed most employees to sell some of their shares. The latest deal brings Clay’s total funding to $204 million. Existing investors Meritech Capital, Sequoia Capital, First Round Capital, BoxGroup, and Boldstart also participated in the Series C, and a new backer, Sapphire Ventures, joined the…

[ad_1] Linda Yaccarino made waves when she announced she was stepping down as the CEO of X on July 9, 2025, but her career didn’t start in the tech space.From decades at Turner Broadcasting, to climbing the ladder at NBCUniversal, to becoming chief executive of X, to leading a telehealth company, Yaccarino has climbed the advertising ladder.Here’s a quick breakdown on her path to — and now away from — X.Yaccarino is a graduate of Pennsylvania State University. The Pennsylvania State University campus Gene J. Puskar/AP According to her LinkedIn, Yaccarino was a liberal arts student who studied telecommunications between 1981…

[ad_1] It didn’t take Linda Yaccarino long to get a new job after leaving Elon Musk’s X, where she was CEO.On Tuesday, just a month after exiting her high-profile job, she was named CEO of EMed, a telehealth startup that sells weight-loss drugs.It might seem like a right turn for an executive who’s made her name selling advertising for big-name companies. Before X, Yaccarino was the head of ad sales for NBCUniversal.But if you look closely, it’s not that surprising. Yaccarino told confidants for years before taking the X job that she wanted to be CEO of a company. And…

[ad_1] Some gamers spend weekends on the couch. Others spend them luxuriating in the most expensive assets money can buy.Gabe Newell, the cofounder of video game developer Valve Corporation, has purchased Oceanco, the Dutch builder behind some of the world’s most prominent superyachts.The amount that Newell, who Forbes reports is worth $9.5 billion, paid for the shipbuilder has not been disclosed. The previous owner, Mohammed Al Barwani, purchased Oceanco in 2010.Neither Newell nor Oceanco responded to requests for comment from Business Insider.Newell’s Valve is behind some of the most beloved video games, including the “Half-Life” and “Portal” series. It also…

[ad_1] AT&T is facing a once-in-a-century challenge, and CEO John Stankey is pushing the company to “disrupt itself” and go hardcore to meet the moment.The telecom’s sprawling network of copper wires is no longer suited to 21st-century demands for speed and mobility, demands that increasingly require new infrastructure of fiber optic networks and wireless spectrum.Stankey, who took the helm as CEO in July 2020, knows this. He’s shown himself willing to do something about it — even if that means a sharp departure from the legacy company’s past to prepare for the future.As the company moves to sunset most of…

[ad_1] Sam Altman’s blowtorch to his competitors is so hot, it even includes a new partnership with Amazon Web Services. As OpenAI announced two open-weight reasoning models with capabilities on par with its o-series, Amazon announced that the new models would become available on AWS on Tuesday. This is the first time that OpenAI models will be offered by AWS, the company confirmed to TechCrunch. They will be available as a model choice with Amazon AI services Bedrock and SageMaker AI. While anyone can download the models via Hugging Face, Amazon is offering these models with OpenAI’s full knowledge and…