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[ad_1] No company has capitalized on the AI revolution more dramatically than Nvidia. Its revenue, profitability, and cash reserves have skyrocketed since the introduction of ChatGPT over two years ago — and the many competitive generative AI services that have launched since. And its stock price soared. During that period, the world’s leading high-performance GPU maker has used its ballooning fortunes to significantly increase investments in all sorts of startups but particularly in AI startups. The chip giant ramped up its venture capital activity in 2024, participating in 49 funding rounds for AI companies, a sharp increase from 34 in…
[ad_1] Gen Z wants to make their office jobs more like driving for Uber.Business Insider has previously reported that younger professionals are increasingly prioritizing their work-life balance, and unlike their elders, eschewing management roles to better preserve their mental and physical well-being. Research shows they also lean toward gig work more than other generations, with more than half of all Gen Z professionals taking up freelance positions in 2023 rather than traditional 9-to-5 jobs, according to a survey from the jobs platform Upwork.When they do take a corporate gig, workplace culture experts told BI that Gen Z workers prefer roles…
[ad_1] This as-told-to essay is based on a conversation with Elaine Ryan, a psychologist with two decades of experience. The following has been edited for length and clarity.I’m a psychologist. I don’t work with clients one-to-one anymore because I spend most of my days writing, but I still hear from people — past clients and readers.Over the past year, I’ve noticed a new kind of unease creeping into the conversations I have with people. They don’t come to me saying, “I have AI anxiety.” Just like no one used to say, “I have job anxiety” or “relationship anxiety.” They simply…
[ad_1] 2025-06-19T09:08:02Z 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. Donald Trump has long been an iPhone fan. Security experts have fretted about the president’s decision to keep using his personal device. Photos show the evolution of his cellphone, from a flip phone to an Android phone and, finally, an iPhone. President Donald Trump is just a phone call away. The…
[ad_1] I have a question — a serious one, don’t laugh: Is Walmart actually cool now?On TikTok and Instagram, people are showing off Walmart “hauls” — particularly for kids’ clothing. These videos tend to be similar: excited shoppers going through a bag of clothes still on the hanger and admiring each item, often expressing surprise or shock that the piece of clothing is so cute or trendy, considering it’s from Walmart.Several videos I saw had thumbnails asking “Zara or Walmart?”One TikTok creator who posts videos of fashion and home items mostly from Target recently posted a video of her cart…
[ad_1] A dating coach with a multimillion-euro business realized she couldn’t “do it all” when she was pregnant in 2020.”This was such a difficult lesson for me to learn because I wanted to do it all,” said Sami Wunder, who runs a dating and relationship coaching service that helps high-achieving women find partners.”I wanted to be seven months pregnant and travel, be CEO, manage a team, be there for my clients, and my doctor said to me, ‘you will die’,” she told Business Insider. “‘You will die or your baby will die. You can’t burn the candle on both ends.…
[ad_1] Unlock the Editor’s Digest for freeRoula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter.Trafigura’s head of strategic projects Julien Rolland is set to leave the commodities trader, in the latest high-profile departure from the global firm as new boss Richard Holtum begins to make his mark.Rolland, a 19-year veteran of Trafigura, has been in charge of leading the trader’s investment in renewable energy, including hydrogen, ammonia and other low-carbon technologies. He will retire on October 1, according to people familiar with his plans.His departure comes as Holtum has been on a mission to simplify…
[ad_1] While some new dating apps look to the future with AI, others are going back to basics.Myles Slayton, CEO of dating app Cerca, is betting that Gen Z dating app users want their next relationships to come from their already established social circles — not strangers.Cerca, which launched in March, curates matches with mutuals using people’s contact lists on their phones. Cerca’s users are limited to seeing four profiles a day and find out at 8 p.m. each day whether someone liked them back.The startup recently raised a $1.6 million seed investment led by venture capital firm Corazon Capital,…
[ad_1] “I like my money where I can see it — hanging in my closet,” Carrie Bradshaw famously declares in “Sex and the City.”Sarah Jessica Parker, the actor who’s portrayed the fashionista columnist in six seasons of the TV show as well as two movies, shares her character’s love for designer clothes and luxury accessories. Her teenage daughters have different ideas, Parker revealed on the “Call Her Daddy” podcast this week.Marion and Tabitha, 15, like clothes and will ask Parker a couple of times a month to buy something, she said, adding: “But they mostly buy their clothes used, almost…
[ad_1] 2025-06-19T08:01:01Z 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. Kate McAndrew cofounded the San Francisco-based VC firm Baukunst in 2022. She told BI she builds out her schedule every quarter to accommodate her son and 12 p.m. dance classes. Her “deep work” begins around 4 a.m., and she’s asleep by about 8:30 p.m. This as-told-to essay is based on a…