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Shopping for outdoor lifestyle stuff is normally a quick way to burn a lot of cash.Whether at Dick’s Sporting Goods or REI, well-made apparel and gear usually come at a premium price — even with the occasional coupon or sale.My consumer experience with activewear (and inactivewear), shoes, and other accessories led me to believe the relationship between quality and price was somewhat fixed.That was before I discovered Sierra. Summer is in full swing at Sierra. Dominick Reuter/Business Insider I gave my local store in Madison, Wisconsin, a look for the first time a few years ago.I’ve done plenty of shopping at…

Welcome back to our Sunday edition, where we round up some of our top stories and take you inside our newsroom. BI’s Jake Epstein spent the night aboard a US Navy destroyer traveling from England to France. He said the space was tight, as he got a taste of what daily life is like.By the way, you can get the latest on modern warfare, defense tech innovations, and more with BI’s new Defense Flash delivered to your inbox every week. Sign up here!On the agenda today:But first: BI has the receipts on the impact of AI data.If this was forwarded…

This is an as-told-to interview based on a conversation with Antara Dave, a senior product designer at Microsoft who leads user experience for AI tools. She’s worked at the company since 2022. This story has been edited for length and clarity.Microsoft was and still is my dream company.I applied one year before I got this job and was rejected. They gave some basic feedback on what I needed to learn, so I focused on that. I switched jobs at the company I was working, Home Depot, to get more of the real experience in design they were looking for.When I…

Alison Leiby remembers feeling her heart beat harder when she saw the email without a subject line appear on her phone.It was from Anna Wintour, longtime editor of American Vogue.As Leiby tapped on the message and waited for it to load, she felt a bolt of anxiety and thought, “Oh, God. What is about to happen?”To her relief, Wintour’s two-sentence message offered congratulations on a one-woman, off-Broadway show Leiby created and starred in. Wintour had been in the audience on opening night in May 2022, Leiby told Business Insider.While she didn’t need to worry about the contents of the message,…

Though Morgan Stanley’s Innovation Lab sits firmly in Manhattan’s Financial District, I hardly saw any of the finance bros who dot the streets outside during my recent tour.I didn’t know quite what to expect ahead of my visit — robots analyzing market moves? intricate gadgets? — and Megan Brewer, the head of firmwide market innovation and labs, tempered my wildest expectations when she described the space as “effectively a very large data center.” The lab, she said, gives people “all the infrastructure that is needed to test ideas in a secure, scalable fashion.”Morgan Stanley employees who want to experiment with…

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 birth…

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 the…

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 35…

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 EU…

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 stock…