Garry Tan is a top seed investor. Courtesy Y Combinator founders seized the AI boom in 2025, with increasingly younger teams securing millions in seed funding. Founders launched companies ranging from...
Networking during the holidays can pay off in the new year. Rogelio V. Solis/Associated Press Job seekers can use the holiday season to network and reconnect with contacts. Holiday messages offer a na...
In 2025, I interviewed four tech industry professionals about how to break into AI. Courtesy of Mostofa Shakib; Patrick Leung; Sophia Sun AI jobs are hot right now, and some in the tech industry are p...
Watching K-dramas helped Jane Newman through lockdown. It also sparked a curiosity about South Korea that eventually led her to move there. Greg Samborski. Burnout and physical strain from Jane Newman...
Joshua Nelken-Zitser made sure to celebrate writing milestones with dinners and a vacation. Joshua Nelken-Zitser Joshua Nelken-Zitser researched and wrote an 80,000-word book in less than a year, whil...
Brands including Chili's, Starbucks, and Cracker Barrel have undergone revitalization efforts this year. Getty Images; Tyler Le/BI Many major restaurant chains have been undergoing revitalization and ...
Beneath the Mediterranean, physicists at the Cubic Kilometre Neutrino Telescope Initiative built a cathedral of glass spheres that listens for cosmic whispers—and this year, it heard the most energeti...
As a space scientist, I predict that the company will soon have to reckon with a growing problem: space debris....
Lou Gerstner, the former CEO of IBM, has died at 83. James Leynse/Corbis via Getty Images Lou Gerstner, who led IBM's turnaround in the 1990s, has died, the company told staff. He kept IBM intact and ...
2025 has been one of the strongest years for anime in ages, building on what is clearly a new Golden Age in the Japanese animation industry. With widening viewership, more access to anime on streaming...
A strong economy doesn't mean good news for job seekers this time around. Spencer Platt/Getty Images The US economy looks strong, but job growth remains slow — creating a "jobless boom."...
Wall Street CEOs Jamie Dimon, Jane Fraser, and David Solomon. AP Bank CEOs have praised the epochal efficiency changes promised by AI. But what does efficiency mean for employees? Does it mean fewer j...
Georg Loewen Georg Loewen Georg Loewen struggled to get to the office on time due to his daughter's day care drop-off. His manager approved a more flexible schedule than the company's policy typically...
Investors trading commodities, such as oil, have been in high demand. Jeri Clausing/AP Hedge funds that trade commodities struggled in 2025. Big-name managers with exposure to energy or agriculture tr...
President Donald Trump posing for photo with law enforcement in front of a Boeing VC25 operating as Air Force One. MANDEL NGAN/AFP/Getty Images The US president flies on Air Force One. Other countries...
High cocoa prices pushed Singapore's Mr. Bucket Chocolaterie to innovate across its business. Huileng Tan/Business Insider Faced with soaring cocoa prices, Mr. Bucket Chocolaterie is turning crisis in...
Season four of "Bridgerton" premieres in January. Liam Daniel/Netflix The first trailer for season four of "Bridgerton" dropped on Christmas. The next season will focus on Benedict Bri...
Paramount Skydance, Warner Bros. Discovery, and Netflix have very different approaches to remote work. John Lamparski/Getty Images; Dania Maxwell / Los Angeles Times via Getty Images; Beata Zawrzel/Nu...
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LG is getting ready to take the wraps off a new robot it claims is capable of performing a "wide range" of household chores. The robot, called LG CLOiD, will make its debut at CES next month, featurin...