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Celebrity-founded beauty brands are proving that influence can be more than a marketing tool.

Christian Ulbrich’s first job involved sitting on a pod of five desks, right next to his boss.

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The four-day workweek has yet to go mainstream in the U.S.

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When an OpenAI researcher told company president Greg Brockman about “a hack to get around nytimes paywall,” Brockman replied, “ah nice,” according to newly unsealed court filings in The New York Times’ copyright case against OpenAI and Microsoft.

In the 1991 finale of Twin Peaks, Laura Palmer famously tells Agent Cooper, “I’ll see you again in 25 years.”

Good morning loyal Term Sheet readers, this is energy editor, Jordan Blum, filling in for Allie.

Nothing’s more humbling than being the newbie at work and working up the courage to bug the boss for the ninth time that day, asking if they have a minute.

Private employment in the U.S. was up by 90,000 jobs in September, according to the latest release from payroll services giant ADP.

As chairman of the 1998 Blue-Ribbon Commission on CEO Succession of the National Association of Corporate Directors, I vividly remember the enthusiastic and unanimous discussions among my fellow commissioners.

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In today’s CEO Daily: Americans’ demand for CEO activism is fading.

Yesterday, Ken Griffin announced a $3 billion gift to Carnegie Mellon University, the largest gift by an individual in the history of American higher education.

The health wave has made its impact on what could have been considered its mortal enemy: fast food.

Getting a cheap ticket somewhere is as welcome a surprise as anything.

When Wilbur Ross ran the Commerce Department in President Donald Trump’s first term, tariffs had one job: shrink the trade deficit.

Transportation Security Administration (TSA) agents checking passports and IDs in airport lines will no longer be able to sit down on the job.

“Payment systems are not neutral; they are instruments of power,” Gilles Boyer, a French member of the European Parliament, said in June.

Mike Mayo, who leads large-cap bank research at Wells Fargo, says John Waldron gives off the affect of an English Lit professor from the Midwest.

The TikTok creators arrived first.

Yann LeCun won the 2018 Turing Award—computer science’s equivalent of the Nobel Prize—along with fellow AI researchers Geoffrey Hinton and Yoshua Bengio for their work on deep learning, the neural network technology that underpins today’s AI boom.

Most of the fear about AI and knowledge work is that there won’t be enough jobs.

Many older people save their money in order to leave something to their families when they pass on.

The Securities and Exchange Commission is dropping the hammer on private fund advisers who allegedly mishandled millions in investor assets under the guise of granting them lucrative pre-IPO shares in coveted startups such as OpenAI, SpaceX, and others.

Ford CEO Jim Farley knows AI won’t leave blue-collar workers untouched.

Verizon CEO Dan Schulman offered a strikingly aggressive forecast for artificial intelligence’s development at the Ford Pro Accelerate event in Detroit, saying that an earthquake is headed our way.

Sweetgreen doesn’t use iceberg lettuce, and it doesn’t buy lettuce from Mexico, according to cofounder Nic Jammet, but the salad chain still paid for this summer’s cyclospora outbreak anyway.

More than 60 years after the U.S.

Nate Bargatze was once paid to go door to door reading water meters.

Mike Rowe offered a blunt way to describe America’s skilled-worker shortage: the country is losing tradespeople faster than it is replacing them.

Cloudflare is giving AI agents a stablecoin expense account.

When Hell Grind debuted in Cannes, France, this spring, the action film garnered no buzz from the involvement of an A-list movie star or an Oscar-winning director.

Billionaires have been on a giving spree recently, particularly toward higher education.

The contradiction at the center of America’s skilled-labor shortage was distilled into nine words at Ford Pro Accelerate, the Blue Oval’s giant workforce-development event in Detroit.

The U.S. economy grew at a solid 2.2% pace from April through June as consumer spending and business investment came in strong.

Bill Gates once heralded the age of AI as an optimist, writing in July 2023 that “the risks of AI are real but manageable.”

Corporate America is slowly waking up to a crisis facing America’s blue-collar workforce: There aren’t enough skilled workers to fill the jobs already available—and the gap is expected to widen.

Job seekers are sending out thousands of applications in hopes of finally landing stable work—and AI has become their best friend in the hunt.

Five African heads of state inaugurated on Wednesday a $16-billion oil refinery project in East Africa, following calls for the continent to boost its self-sufficiency in processing raw materials into finished products.

A dozen Impressionist and post-Impressionist artworks collectively valued at almost half a billion dollars are going up for auction after sitting unseen for decades in a fabled private collection in South America.

This week’s been rough for proponents of New York City’s pied-à-terre tax.

Mark Truby has three Gen Z sons, and he has watched them size up their futures with one eye on artificial intelligence.

A pilot stabbed another pilot and then apparently tried to crash to aircraft carrying dozens of Israelis on Wednesday, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said.

President Donald Trump is expected to announce on Wednesday plans for South Korea to invest roughly $54 billion in a project to export natural gas from Alaska, a proposal long backed by Republican Sen.

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Former NFL star wide receiver Antonio Brown is scheduled to be in a Miami courtroom Wednesday to accept a plea deal that will let him avoid prison time on a reduced charge in an attempted murder case, according to his attorney.

Iranian officials indicated Wednesday they have received an official U.S. response to Tehran’s latest proposal to end the seven-month war, which U.S.