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[ad_1] 2025-07-06T09:11:01Z Share Facebook Email X LinkedIn 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. Sam Altman’s endorsement boosted Cradlewise’s site traffic in 24 hours. His recommendation of the Cradlewise crib also led to a peak in related Google searches. The crib, priced at $1,999, features a baby monitor and sound machine. Sam Altman can officially add “baby influencer” to his resumé.The OpenAI CEO announced the…

[ad_1] 100 million-dollar pay packages aren’t just for the Shohei Ohtanis and Cristiano Ronaldos of the world anymore. In Silicon Valley, nine-figure pay days are reportedly now being floated to the world’s top talent as the race to own AI enters a new frenzied stage.Meta has made at least 10 high-pay offers of up to $300 million over four years to top OpenAI researchers for what it’s calling its Superintelligence Lab, Wired reported this week. Sam Altman claimed in June that OpenAI workers had been offered $100 million signing bonuses to jump ship. Meta spokesman Andy Stone called news of…

[ad_1] Gen Zers are starting their careers in a tough job market. Millennials and Gen Xers can relate.Business Insider interviewed eight Americans who completed an undergraduate or graduate degree between 2007 and 2010, during the heart of the Great Recession. They found themselves launching their careers in a job market that was even more daunting than the one recent grads are facing today.As of March, the most recent data available, 5.8% of recent college graduates ages 22 to 27 were unemployed, compared with 4% of the overall workforce ages 16 to 65. That gap is the widest it’s been in…

[ad_1] Stay informed with free updatesSimply sign up to the US equities myFT Digest — delivered directly to your inbox.Retail traders “buying the dip” in US stocks this year have racked up the biggest profits since the early stages of the Covid-19 crisis, helping to fuel a rally that has pushed Wall Street equities to record highs.Individual investors have poured a record $155bn into US stocks and exchange traded funds during 2025, according to data provider VandaTrack, surpassing the meme-stock boom of 2021. They continued to buy even as President Donald Trump’s blitz of tariffs on US trading partners sent…

[ad_1] Stay informed with free updatesSimply sign up to the Oil & Gas industry myFT Digest — delivered directly to your inbox.The writer is David S Lobel professor in business and sustainability and professor of political economy at Stanford UniversityI recently served as an expert witness in court. A question put to me was: how will increased production of natural gas contribute to climate change? This question is relevant for European policymakers as well. The demand for natural gas is expected to explode over the next few decades. The UK plans to increase its import of gas and, while the…

[ad_1] CNN  —  The 90-day deadline President Donald Trump set for countries to make trade deals with the United States or risk substantially higher tariffs is just days away. What will happen after that’s reached at 12:01 a.m. ET on July 9 is anyone’s best guess. The stakes could not be higher, with the entire global economy on notice. On April 2, a date Trump dubbed “Liberation Day,” he unveiled new, “reciprocal” tariff rates for key US trading partners, with some levies as high as 50%. Collectively, the rates were the highest the US has charged on foreign goods in…

[ad_1] This as-told-to essay is based on a conversation with Brad Barrett, who hosts the ChooseFI podcast. Business Insider has verified his professional history.My journey to financial independence, or FI, started long before I had heard of or read about this term.I’m a Certified Public Accountant, and I began my career at a big accounting firm. I lived at home with my parents when I got my first job and started saving big chunks of my salary. I was frugal and made decisions in the service of a life I wanted in the future.In 2013, I read the Mr. Money…

[ad_1] Not everyone believes AI spells the end for animators.Pixar’s chief creative officer, Pete Docter, recently said on comedian Mike Birbiglia’s “Working It Out” podcast that he was unimpressed with AI so far, calling it “bland.””AI seems like it is the least impressive blah average of things,” he said.AI is an anxiety-inducing topic in Hollywood. Critics of the technology are concerned that it could eliminate jobs across the entertainment industry. It was one of the reasons unionized writers went on strike for nearly five months in 2023. Those in support of integrating AI, on the other hand, like director James…

[ad_1] A group known as the Independent Publishers Alliance has filed an antitrust complaint with the European Commission over Google’s AI Overviews, according to Reuters. The complaint accuses Google of “misusing web content for Google’s AI Overviews in Google Search, which have caused, and continue to cause, significant harm to publishers, including news publishers in the form of traffic, readership and revenue loss.” It also says that unless they’re willing to disappear from Google search results entirely, publishers “do not have the option to opt out” of their material being used in AI summaries. It’s been a little over a…

[ad_1] In early January 2024, I received a dream acceptance letter from the prestigious University of Sydney’s creative writing graduate program. It wasn’t just some program; it was validation.Ever since I can remember, I have spent countless hours sitting in my room, writing stories. I was sure I’d write a bestseller someday. Although my parents didn’t see writing as a career back then, I was determined to beat the odds and prove them wrong. Getting into the University of Sydney was the first step in that success.But after my acceptance letter arrived, I realized the world was moving in a…