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[ad_1] After Donald Trump imposed tariffs on Chinese goods during his first term as president in 2018, Scott Williams had a problem.He was CEO of Batteries Plus, a retailer that imported around one-third of its inventory from China. The chain sells batteries that power cars and other electronics at about 740 mostly franchised locations across the US.Trump’s 25% tariff on certain Chinese goods, which escalated the US-China trade war, raised costs for Williams.That’s when Williams decided to make a long-term change: He started buying products from as many sources as possible other than China.Seven years later, he told Business Insider that he’s…

[ad_1] It’s time to go full “Love Island” on your job search.That doesn’t mean having future employers surveil your every move in hopes they’ll pick you (yikes). Think of it more like building and leaning on relationships so that a hiring manager might give your job application their vote.That approach is often more effective than expecting your résumé to do the talking for you, career advisors told Business Insider. And this is especially the case if you’re just starting out and don’t have a lot of experience.”People hire people, they don’t hire paper,” Andy Chan, who runs the Office of…

[ad_1] This as-told-to essay is based on a conversation with retired lawyer Kristine Wu, 31, based in Hong Kong. It’s been edited for length and clarity.I pursued law solely because I saw it as a practical, respectable career, but I didn’t love it. Before starting my first job, I came across the financial independence early retirement (FIRE) movement, and I saw it as a way out.By my first day in Big Law, I already had a 7-year escape plan laid out.I lived frugally, invested wisely, and treated every dollar spent as another dollar away from my freedom. Over the next…

[ad_1] This as-told-to essay is based on a conversation with Gavin Carter, 42, who owns an auto repair shop. In 2025, Carter purchased a home with an assumable mortgage in Maryland.An assumable mortgage allows qualifying buyers to acquire the interest rate, current principal balance, and other conditions of a seller’s existing loan. Not all loans can be assumed.The essay has been edited for length and clarity.I’m a small-business owner; I own an auto shop. I live in a suburb of Maryland. The real estate market here is very competitive, and home prices have gone up a lot in the area.…

[ad_1] Keith Anderson started his Big Tech career at Google as a web developer in 2015.He added positions at Uber, YouTube, Meta, Calibrate, and DoorDash to his résumé before launching his own career coaching company, Career Alchemy, in 2022, where he helps people navigate career transitions.In his most recent Big Tech roles — at Calibrate and DoorDash, which he left in 2024 — Anderson was a hiring manager.Beginning in 2022, he noticed a change in applicants’ cover letters and résumés. “Everyone started to sound the same,” Anderson said.Job seekers had started using AI to craft their job-search materialsHe said that…

[ad_1] Just when I thought the millennial-Gen Z alliance had reached a zenith, the “Gen Z stare” debate was born.The “Gen Z stare” is supposedly the blank look Gen Zers give when they’re asked a question or faced with a situation they don’t know how to respond to. Most of the debate hinges on Gen Zers working customer service roles, like hostessing at restaurants or taking orders at coffee shops.I’m skeptical that the “Gen Z stare” is even real (though maybe I’m biased, since I am a Gen Zer), but let’s suppose that it is. There are plenty of possible…

[ad_1] I’m not sure there are any days left in the year, but according to public relations professionals, July 16 is AI Appreciation day.Every year, we are supposed to gather to celebrate the amazing things that this new technology is bringing to society. Something like that, anyway.I thought I’d mark the occasion this year by asking ChatGPT to suggest some amusing ways to show our gratitude to the machines, software, and giant energy-sucking data centers that are powering this technological revolution, for better or worse.Before we dive in, I should thank the Enterprise version of ChatGPT that OpenAI provides to…

[ad_1] OpenAI kicked off the AI boom with ChatGPT in 2022. It plans to make some kind of mystery gadget with famed Apple designer Jony Ive.It is also working on … a web browser?Yes: Sam Altman and company are working on a web browser — something most of you don’t spend much time thinking about, even though you use it all the time. Like when you’re reading this article.OpenAI’s interest in a browser is something of an open secret in tech. Earlier this month, Reuters reported that the company plans to release its browser “in the coming weeks.”But why would…

[ad_1] Unlock the Editor’s Digest for freeRoula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter.Under the gilded ceiling of the Mansion House’s Egyptian Hall about 300 City grandees were asked to charge their glasses of Mâcon-Montbellet La Bergerie to the “health of the chancellor of the exchequer”.Rachel Reeves was speaking for the second time at the Mansion House dinner, fresh from unveiling her “Leeds Reforms” — a long awaited financial strategy that promised to “make the country more active and more confident”.However, amid the grandeur of the occasion on Tuesday night, the gathered audience of…

[ad_1] New York CNN  —  For Silicon Valley giants, getting ahead in the artificial intelligence race requires more than building the biggest, most capable models; they’re also competing to get third-party developers to build new applications based on their technology. Now, Meta is teaming up with Amazon’s cloud computing unit, Amazon Web Services, on an initiative designed to do just that. The program will provide six months of technical support from both companies’ engineers and $200,000 in AWS cloud computing credits each to 30 US startups looking to build AI tools on Meta’s Llama AI model. The partnership is set…