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Advice from businesses that have been successful for generations
Below, Eric Becker shares five key insights from his new book, The Long Game: A Playbook of the World’s Most Enduring Companies. Eric is the founder and chairman at Cresset,...
AI wrote the code. You got hacked. Now what?
When AI systems started spitting out working code, many teams welcomed them as productivity boosters. Developers turned to AI to speed up routine tasks. Leaders celebrated productivity gains. But...
Stop hiding behind your slides: Lead the room, don’t read to it
I once attended a slide presentation given by an executive in a telcom company. The presentation was highly technical, but that was not the main problem. It was boring...
Facing Hurricane Melissa, State Department turns to Elon Musk’s Starlink in Jamaica
The State Department has enlisted Starlink, the satellite internet service run by the Elon Musk company SpaceX, to support its staff in Jamaica in the event that Hurricane Melissa,...
Will the race to the moon run through Texas or Washington?
NASA wants to reopen competition on its moon lander, a multi-billion-dollar contract for a new space vehicle that will help support one of America’s most ambitious missions yet: going...
Renewable energy and EVs have grown so much faster than experts predicted 10 years ago
Most climate reports are bleak. Temperatures are soaring. Sea levels are rising. Companies are missing—or abandoning—their emissions targets. But a new report from the nonprofit Energy & Climate Intelligence...
Political campaigns love copying brand logos. Here’s why
After Zohran Mamdani’s campaign aired a commercial that used a Knicks-style campaign logo that wrote out “Zohran” over an image of a basketball, the NBA team asked them to...
UPS reports 48,000 jobs cut in the year to date
United Parcel Service posted third-quarter results that handily beat Wall Street’s expectations and gave details about its turnaround efforts, including approximately 48,000 job cuts. Shares rose more than 7%...
Apple suppliers Qorvo and Skyworks to merge, creating a $22 billion chip giant
Apple suppliers Skyworks Solutions and Qorvo will merge in a cash-and-stock deal to create a radio chip company with an enterprise value of $22 billion. Qorvo shareholders will receive...
ChatGPT is turning into a shopping mall—and PayPal’s running the registers
ChatGPT wants to be your personal shopper.  PayPal announced Tuesday that its digital payment system will be integrated into ChatGPT, inviting anyone who uses it to shop directly from...
Blue states launch new legal attack on gun industry immunity
Two decades after a Republican-controlled Congress gave gun manufacturers immunity from being sued over crimes committed with their firearms, blue state Democrats upset about gun violence think they’ve found a way...
What to know about the ‘everyone is 12’ theory
A new internet theory about American politics and society just dropped. From anti-vaxxers to AI slop, everything can be explained by one simple idea: Everyone is 12 now.  In...