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[ad_1] CEOs sending scary AI memos to employees may be doing more harm than good.In recent months, some company leaders have gone public with strikingly bleak outlooks, predicting generative AI tools like OpenAI’s ChatGPT and Google’s Gemini will displace wide swaths of white-collar workers and shrink job opportunities for recent college graduates.”It does not matter if you are a programmer, designer, project manager, data scientist, lawyer, customer support rep, salesperson, or a finance person — AI is coming for you,” wrote the CEO and founder of the freelance-job site Fiverr in an email to employees that he shared on LinkedIn.Other…

[ad_1] Happy Saturday! Apparently, some people are looking up at the stars for help in deciding where to move. It’s called astrocartography, a form of astrology. Would you try it?On the agenda:But first: Vive la Europe!If this was forwarded to you, sign up here. Download Business Insider’s app here.This week’s dispatchThe American Euro summer dream Americans are worried about the economy. They’re vacationing in Europe anyway. Marco Bottigelli/Getty Images Despite very real economic anxiety, some American travelers aren’t giving up their dreams of climbing the Eiffel Tower, sitting on the Spanish Steps, or sipping an Aperol spritz in the Italian…

[ad_1] China has a significant card to play in its trade negotiations with the US, which could not only put the Trump administration in a bind but also impact a wide range of consumer goods.Rare earth minerals, namely scandium, yttrium, and 15 types of lanthanides, usually sit unnoticed at the bottom of the periodic table. But experts in rare earths have told Business Insider that a shortage of these minerals — which mainly come from China — could induce a shortage in everything from aircraft parts to TV remotes.”It’s not industry agnostic because rare earths are used in everything from…

[ad_1] Stay informed with free updatesSimply sign up to the Global Economy myFT Digest — delivered directly to your inbox.In recent years, June Fridays have often been viewed by financiers as a good moment to work from home. Not now. As news spread about the Israeli air strikes on Iran, traders across Wall Street and London — not to mention Asia — rushed back to their offices to prepare for the inevitable storm.It swiftly materialised: oil prices surged (initially by around 13 per cent), stock prices fell (initially by 1 per cent in the US), and the dollar reversed its recent…

[ad_1] Landing a summer internship can sometimes feel like only half the battle — the next challenge is often turning it into a full-time gig.Interning at a tech giant puts you in the running for a full-time role, but that doesn’t mean it’s a done deal. Yasmeen Ahmad, a product and GTM executive at Google Cloud, has seen her fair share of interns at the tech giant, and she said there’s one trait that jumps out to her.”The people who stand out the most for me are those who really take initiative and look for opportunities,” Ahmad told Business Insider…

[ad_1] If your LinkedIn inbox is a deluge of wishful recruiters, you hold a doctorate in machine learning, and you’re swatting away mid-six-figure job offers, congratulations: you’re probably an AI research engineer — one of the most eligible job candidates in America.Knowledge of machine learning is the hottest ticket in today’s hiring market, and there’s data to show it. An analysis of job-listing data by the University of Maryland, along with job listings platform LinkUp and Outrigger Group, found that one in four US tech jobs posted so far this year are seeking employees with AI skills.LinkedIn data shows that…

[ad_1] This as-told-to essay is based on a conversation with Charles Smith, 87, who lives in Pennsylvania. After hundreds of unsuccessful applications in his mid-80s, he found work at the Lancaster County Office of Aging and makes about $30,000 a year. He and his wife live a frugal and somewhat comfortable life, though Smith said if he didn’t work, they would be much more stressed financially. This interview has been edited for length and clarity.The job I have now is not the best-paying job I’ve ever had, as I only make a little more than $30,000 a year, but it’s…

[ad_1] Secretary of Housing and Urban Development Scott Turner kept repeating the same phrases to Congress in defense of President Donald Trump’s proposal to cut the agency’s budget by 51%.”It’s time for a paradigm shift.” “We have to refocus.” “We want to be efficient and effective, not bloated and bureaucratic.”Democrats on House and Senate appropriations subcommittees were outraged — and even some Republicans were skeptical.Turner was tasked with explaining what Trump’s proposed $45 billion cut to HUD’s funding would look like in practice. The agency would be among the hardest hit parts of the federal government under Trump’s plan to eliminate…

[ad_1] Jack Stone, 60, sold her belongings and moved from Maryland to Portugal with her cat Olive last year — with no plans to return.It might not be her last relocation, but the US isn’t in her future either because of retirement concerns.Stone was worried about what aging would look like in the US. She estimated she would need at least $2 million to comfortably live as a retiree in her Maryland home with healthcare and aging care.”I realized that even if I had Social Security, I would not be able to survive in the United States,” Stone told Business…

[ad_1] CNN  —  Virtually every flashpoint in American politics right now involves the First Amendment right to free speech and free expression. Some of this tension is due to President Donald Trump, who vowed in his inaugural address to “bring back free speech to America,” but who keeps showing that he wants some forms of speech to carry a great cost. From arrests of Palestinian activists to blitzes against universities to threats against demonstrators in Washington, DC, the Trump administration’s actions and words have alarmed free speech organizations — and have fueled Saturday’s “No Kings” protests across the country. “Trump’s…