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McKinsey Consultants Are Letting New Technology Take Over an Essential Part of Their Work
McKinsey staff are known for their dependence on PowerPoint — but times are changing.
By Sherin Shibu
News and Trends
Business News
She Paid Under $100 for a Thrift Store Painting. Google Gemini Helped It Sell for $254,000.
Helene Plotkin bought the painting in 1966 and loved it for decades. Her son's five-minute experiment with Google Gemini changed everything.
Business News
Forget Learning to Code. Meta Just Launched a $115 Million Program to Train Electricians and Plumbers.
The company is starting a “workforce academy” to train workers to build the infrastructure of its data centers.
Business News
One Is a Poet. One Pleaded Guilty to a Felony. Here’s How the Second Wave of AI Billionaires Is Worth $59 Billion.
The latest wave of AI wealth isn't coming from chips or data centers. It's coming from founders who applied AI to old industries.
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The Man Behind Anthropic’s Claude Code Hasn’t Written a Line of Code in 8 Months — Here’s What He Does Instead
Boris Cherny says developers have come a long way from using a single Claude Code tab in a window.
By Sherin Shibu
Business News
This Podcast Star Has 17 Million Subscribers. He Gave His Protégé One Valuable Piece of Advice.
Steven Bartlett invested a seven-figure sum in Maggie Sellers Reum’s “Hot Smart Rich” podcast and also became an active mentor, not just a financial backer.
By Sherin Shibu
Business News
While the U.S. Fights Over Where to Put AI Data Centers, China Just Built One on the Ocean Floor — But How Safe Is It?
The $226 million structure sits 115 feet below the ocean and runs on wind power. Some scientists are questioning its impact on marine life.
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Forget Golf. The Ultra-Wealthy Are Joining This Private Racetrack for $450,000.
Singer Drivers Club, outside of LA, is a members-only club where car enthusiasts can race their $3 million Porches and Ferraris.
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The World Cup Is Days Away. So Why Can’t FIFA Sell Out Its Opening Matches?
According to FIFA, the World Cup is sold out. According to StubHub, it very much is not. Excitement is in the air, so what is going on?
Business News
Goldman Sachs Accepted Less Than 1% of Intern Applicants This Year. Here’s What Set Candidates Apart.
It’s the third year in a row that Goldman Sachs’ intern acceptance rate was under 1%.
By Sherin Shibu
Business News
Colleges Want Students to Sign Up for Degree Programs in This Emerging Field: ‘We’re Basically the Test Subjects’
This degree has recently exploded in popularity as students try to keep up with technology.
By Sherin Shibu
Business News
A 26,000-Pound Truck Full of Doritos Is Heading to Walmart. Nobody Is Behind the Wheel.
PepsiCo's 41 autonomous trucks have hit a 99% on-time delivery rate with zero accidents. The Teamsters union is not happy about it.
Business News
After Two Years of Delays, Apple Finally Unveiled Its Completely Rebuilt Siri AI. Here’s What It Can Do.
Built partly on Google's Gemini technology, the long-anticipated new Siri takes direct aim at ChatGPT and Claude.
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Someone Stole 1,000 Racks of Shake Shack’s Baby Back Ribs. It Almost Killed Their Hottest New Sandwich.
A truckload of ribs vanished in Mexico last month, nearly killing Shake Shack's newest menu item. The CEO says the chain almost ran out.
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NYU Stern Professor Says This Is the ‘Very Worst Career Advice’ She Has Received — And Her Students Get It ‘All the Time’
NYU Stern School of Business professor Suzy Welch says this is a “dumb, dumb” piece of advice.
By Sherin Shibu
Buying a Franchise
He Gave Up Medical School to Make Better Ice Cream in His Parents’ Garage. Now He Has 16 Locations and $6.8 Million in Annual Sales.
Danny Golik built a machine named Lola that flash-freezes orders in under six minutes. CEO David Leonardo is now scaling it nationwide.
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How Today’s Tough Job Market Could Haunt Recent Graduates for Years
Young graduates are entering the toughest hiring climate since the pandemic.
By Sherin Shibu
Business News
‘Chat Is Dead’: OpenAI Plans to Relaunch a Version of ChatGPT That Prioritizes Agents Over Answers
With an IPO looming in the future, the chatbot that started the AI boom is getting its biggest overhaul since its launch.
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Are Billionaires Done Investing In AI Startups? Here’s the Surprising Thing They’re Betting On Instead.
Goldman Sachs says 25% of family offices already invest in sports. Another 25% want in. A $225 million pickleball deal explains why.
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Kevin O’Leary Said Demands to Shrink His Utah Data Center Were ‘Outrageous.’ Now He’s Admitting He ‘Screwed Up.’
After facing fierce public opposition over environmental concerns, O'Leary agreed to cut the project's developed land by 75%.
Tech
4 AI Prompts That Tripled a One-Person Business’s Revenue in 12 Months (No Team, No Funding, No Guessing)
Find the AI prompt that could triple your revenue this year.
By Ben Angel
Business News
Small Business Owners Are Now Overseeing Entire Teams of AI Agents. Here’s What the New Technology Can Do.
Small business owners are shifting from using AI as a tool to managing it as a workforce, with AI agents handling core operations like customer service.
By Sherin Shibu
Business News
Mark Cuban Tells Recent Graduates to ‘Start Your Job Search’ At This Kind of Company
These businesses already account for roughly half of net job creation in recent years.
By Sherin Shibu
Buying a Franchise
Arby’s Was Written Off. Then This Investor Rescued It. Now He Wants to Do the Same Thing for Pizza Hut.
The private equity firm circling Pizza Hut turned Arby's into a $20 billion empire. Now it wants another comeback story.
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Airbnb’s Brian Chesky Passed on OpenAI — Now He’s Quietly Building His Own AI Company
The Airbnb founder has said AI chatbots aren't robust enough for the travel industry. So he's building a company to deliver what he needs.
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US Tech Layoffs Hit a Two-Year High in May. But There’s a Catch: ‘The Labor Market Is Being Reshaped’
AI is the leading reason for job cuts, with 38,242 positions eliminated in May. But the full picture is more complicated than it looks.
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Zoom and Google Already Had This Product. But He Built It Anyway and Hit $1.5 Billion: ‘Care More About Your Particular Problem’
Chris Pedregal built a $1.5 billion AI app in a market that Zoom and Google already owned. His secret had nothing to do with technology.