When SpongeBob SquarePants premiered on Nickelodeon in 1999, there was no indication it would become the global phenomenon it is today. At the time, the underwater adventures of a perennially cheerful sea sponge fit squarely
Recent Nielsen data confirmed what many of us had already begun to sense: Streaming services surpassed broadcast and cable in TV viewership. It’s a streaming world. Broadcast television just lives in it. Nowhere is that more
Last week, OpenAI CEO Sam Altman announced GPT-oss, a family of language models with “open weights.” MANDEL NGAN/AFP via Getty Images The US trails China in open-source AI. OpenAI’s latest move could help close the
Cash dollars and stock market indicators (inflation, economy, crisis, finance) Getty Images The AI boom will go bust and dwarf the dot-com crash because of its greater scale, Erik Gordon said. AI startups such as
A chess board Getty Images OpenAI’s o3 swept xAI’s Grok 4 in the final of an AI chess tournament. Hosted by Google’s Kaggle, the tournament pitted general-purpose AI models against each other. The win adds
JPMorgan’s new office tower in New York City will feature copious coffee outposts and cafés on every floor, new documents show. bluesky85/Getty Images Business Insider obtained new documents revealing details about JPMorgan’s office tower. The
Getty Images; Alyssa Powell; Rebecca Zisser/BI Months ago, Ahmet Tozal took out three credit card loans and withdrew his life savings to make a fortune off crypto. The 44-year-old Turkish garment worker, who lived in
Imagine walking down the street and stumbling upon a soccer match, except the competitors are robots, not humans. Would you be surprised to learn that this isn’t a Steven Spielberg futuristic movie set but a
CEO Daniel Snell says the best way for employees to bulletproof their jobs from the AI revolution is to get really engaged with AI. Keeproll/Getty Images CEO Daniel Snell has been running a management consulting
Starting the day with water and sea salt reminds me to stay hydrated. Elizabeth Fernandez/Getty Images Adding salt to your water can help boost hydration by replenishing electrolytes lost through sweat. But a sports dietitian
Pokémon fans Kiko and Madison Hodges scored a haul of Pokémon cards from the more than 20 Happy Meals they bought. Hitoshi Yamada/NurPhoto via Getty Images, Kiko Ochoa-Beovides McDonald’s launched a Happy Meal with Pokémon
Imagine a busy train station. Cameras monitor everything, from how clean the platforms are to whether a docking bay is empty or occupied. These cameras feed into an AI system that helps manage station operations
Eduardo Noriega Eduardo Noriega Eduardo Noriega was laid off by Microsoft in May after 17 years with the company. He said job security concerns led him to build a side business while he was still
Olivia loves her position in product marketing. One day, Olivia’s firm announced it would be acquired by a Japanese company. Shortly afterwards top management was let go, including her boss. Olivia’s new interim manager encouraged
Nailah Williams discovered her path to a college degree in the most unlikely place: behind the wheel of her Uber. After years of jobs that forced her to choose between earning a paycheck and pursuing
Mandy Moore Rodin Eckenroth/WireImage Mandy Moore says she framed the loss of their home in the LA fires as a “big adventure” for her three kids. Watching her kids adapt to the change showed her
A TU-95MS strategic bomber and an Ilyushin IL-78 fly over the Kremlin during a Victory Day parade in 2021. Anadolu/Anadolu Agency via Getty Images Russia’s bombers are still attacking Ukraine steadily despite Operation Spiderweb, the
Co-founder and co-CEO of Robinhood Vladimir Tenev in 2016. Noam Galai/Getty Images for TechCrunch Robinhood’s CEO said he has created a founders club for the top 150 performers at the company. The club, initially compensation-focused,
Michael Burry, the investor of “The Big Short” fame. Astrid Stawiarz/Getty Images Michael Burry warmed to stocks last quarter, switching out bearish put options for bullish calls. The “Big Short” investor bet on the likes
Warren Buffett Scott Morgan/Reuters Warren Buffett’s Berkshire Hathaway built a $1.6 billion stake in UnitedHealth last quarter. The wager is likely to be one of the last under Buffett’s watch as he prepares to step