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With the skyrocketing cost of higher education and a questionable return on investment, many Gen Zers are considering alternative career paths—whether as full-time content creators, in the trades, or piecing together gig work.

“After nearly five years at OpenAI and a lot of reflection, I’ve decided it’s time for me to step back and move into my next chapter,” said OpenAI’s former chief communications officer (CCO) Hannah Wong in a January 2026 LinkedIn post announcing her depar…

If you’re a believer in stock market patterns, good news: History shows that in midterm election years, October is the best month of the year for stock performance, followed closely by November.

Stop me if you’ve heard it before: Jeff Bezos leaves Washington state for a “billionaire bunker” in Florida.

Costco Wholesale last week announced a new partnership with DoorDash and a major extension of its relationship with Uber, vastly expanding its same-day delivery firepower but nonetheless leaving it well behind rivals like Walmart and Amazon, which use dro…

Meta’s new AI agent app is quickly taking hold of the consumer market, unseating ChatGPT as the top free app on Apple’s App Store in recent days.

For elite students, college has never looked like a worse deal.

The daily 30-year fixed mortgage rate soared to 7.24% last week, adding yet another cost for homebuyers already facing the double whammy of high housing prices and inflation squeezing their wallets.

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Vice President JD Vance and other Trump administration officials said Tuesday they plan to remove 760,000 Affordable Care Act enrollees from public healthcare exchanges, alleging that the individuals were fraudulently enrolled in the program, or simply do…

Sometimes the best investments are more about a gut feeling than hard numbers.

President Donald Trump said U.S. and Iranian officials met on Tuesday, shortly after threatening in his address to the U.N.

Anthropic and OpenAI debuted more affordable versions of their frontier models as they battle for wallet share from increasingly cost-conscious businesses, and face growing competition from lower cost open weight models.

Washington and Silicon Valley have found a new fight to pick over artificial intelligence in “pacing,” or the deliberate throttling of frontier model development until safety, alignment, and society at large can catch up.

Later this week, Trump and Xi Jinping will meet at the White House to discuss AI policy.

For years, a 5% yield on the Treasury looked like a relic from another interest-rate era—where borrowers faced soaring loan rates.

In the great debate over AI safety guardrails, Scott Bessent said the government will not become a “liability shield” for hyperscalers.

Selective pricing.

Last week the debate was whether the AI industry was about to slow down.

Two of Puerto Rico’s biggest newspapers announced Monday that they will end their print editions in upcoming days and pivot to digital only, joining a worldwide trend.

It’s harvest time in California wine country, but many growers are struggling to sell their grapes as changing drinking habits have caused demand to plunge.

In June 1926, the SAT exam was first administered to 8,000 high school students who hoped to attend elite universities.

Binance is deepening its ties with Circle.

People are turning to artificial intelligence for a seemingly unending variety of reasons.

I recently typed a simple question into Google search: How much screen time is too much for teenagers?

British bank Barclays has just ramped up its return-to-office expectations, calling on its U.K. staffers to come in three days a week instead of two—and for senior employees, four.

For two weeks in September, everyone wants to be Italian – at least judging by the crowds at the annual Feast of San Gennaro in New York City’s Little Italy.

A grassroots revolt against automated license plate readers, or ALPRs, has gained momentum across the United States.

From mortgages to auto loans to credit cards, borrowing is set to get even pricier.

We’ve all seen the emails: A spoofed message from your company’s CFO or a vendor asking you to pay an outstanding invoice.

China’s Alibaba unveiled new artificial intelligence chip technologies and plans for more powerful models on Tuesday, including what it said was China’s most powerful AI chip, days ahead of a meeting between Chinese and U.S. leaders at which competition to

China said Tuesday that it is now requiring permits for exports to the United States, Mexico and Canada of two additional chemicals that can be used to make illegal drugs, expanding controls on shipments to the three countries.

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The Gates Foundation and MTN Group Foundation on Tuesday announced a partnership to launch an AI-enabled maternal health platform in Nigeria, with the goal of helping 500,000 women access better care by 2030.

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Frank Weishaupt did not expect to be workshopping heavy metal album titles with me 15 minutes into a press call about his own survey data.

“It requires a little fortune, now, to buy a house, and every article of furniture costs about three times as much as it did ten years ago.”

KPMG LLP is folding its AI, innovation and ecosystem functions into a single new unit designed to spin up AI-native businesses at start-up speed, installing a vice chair who reports directly to the firm’s chief executive to run it — a structural bet that…

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There’s a huge divide between how the world’s AI leaders view the transformative technology.

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In today’s CEO Daily: Women leaders are moving the AI debate beyond who builds the best model.

The average rate on a 30-year fixed-rate mortgage stood at 6.95% for the week ending Sept. 17, up from 6.76% a week earlier and 6.26% a year ago, according to Freddie Mac.

AI is barreling into white-collar industries, and more people than ever are trying to AI-proof their careers.

In 1981, Jeff Thomasson earned his MBA from Indiana University’s Kelley School of Business, which is regularly ranked among the top programs.

When Apple announced back in 2011 that its chief operating officer, Tim Cook, would succeed its ailing, revered cofounder and CEO, Steve Jobs, many commentators wondered whether he’d be able to fill such big shoes.

Apple’s history is often told as a procession of blockbuster devices—and that’s certainly a striking part of it.

The U.S. is bankrolling a new trans-Pacific internet cable that deliberately skirts the South China Sea, as Washington tries to wall off Southeast Asia’s digital infrastructure from China.

President Donald Trump has long had an antagonistic relationship with the press.