In the past few years, job listings have increasingly touted remote or partially remote work alongside other perks like gym memberships and childcare benefits. The assumption is baked in: employees prefer remote work. It implies that companies that care about employee well-being give them the freedom to work from home. But the tide is shifting. I heard a term recently that made me chuckle: FOMOW. Fear of missing out at work. Professionals, and Gen Z in particular, are feeling the drawbacks of not going to the office. Nearly half of Gen Z and 30% of millennials reported that office working…
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The politicians always promise everything to everyone because that is how they get elected. They hand out benefits, expand programs, borrow endlessly, and then leave the bill for the next generation. What has made this crisis even worse across Europe is that governments have become addicted to debt while pretending there are no consequences. Now Slovakia’s Constitutional Court has stepped into the middle of that problem and delivered a message that politicians everywhere should be paying attention to. The court ruled that when government debt breaches constitutional limits, the government cannot simply continue business as usual. It must immediately seek…
Reddit cofounder Alexis Ohanian, who is married to tennis legend Serena Williams, is weighing in on some controversial—and what many have called racist—remarks that Ultimate Fighting Championship (UFC) fighter Josh Hokit made about former first lady Michelle Obama. The athlete’s contentious, mean-spirited language has sparked major backlash across the internet and social media. On Sunday, Hokit won a high-profile UFC bout on the White House South Lawn to mark President Donald Trump’s 80th birthday—part of America’s 250th anniversary festivities. (Protesters countered with a star-studded political concert in New York City, which was broadcast nationwide via streaming watch parties.) In comments to…
Since the Knicks won the Eastern Conference finals on May 25, New York City transformed into one big fan zone. After enduring decades of heartbreaking defeats, dysfunctional ownership, and bad luck, the city had real hope that a championship title was on the horizon at last. The dream came true on June 13, with a 94-90 win over the San Antonio Spurs in Game 5 of the NBA Finals. To support the team, everyone (and it really did feel like everyone) turned out with their orange and blue. And with each gripping win, team spirit grew even stronger and more…
The AI talent wars are raging on. Two years after Google paid $2.7 billion to poach leading AI researcher Noam Shazeer and part of his team at Character.AI, Shazeer is leaving the company to join OpenAI. Shazeer worked at Google as the vice president of engineering and co-lead of Gemini, where he was credited for helping close the gap between the capabilities of Gemini and ChatGPT. “I’m excited to share that I’ll be joining OpenAI and look forward to working with the exceptional team there,” Shazeer said in an X post. “It was a difficult decision to move on,” he…
In a January 2025 podcast episode, Open AI CEO Sam Altman was asked what the most important skill would be in the age of AI. His answer was—in simplest terms—the ability to ask creative questions. Last summer, Mustafa Suleyman, CEO of Microsoft AI, wrote that, for all the fear about AI, he genuinely believes that “creativity will remain the real currency.” And in an August Business Insider feature, Autodesk CEO Andrew Anagnost said that people will need to become “creative orchestrators” if they want to succeed in an AI-driven workplace. If you listen to enough AI experts, you’ll inevitably hear…
The World Cup is officially up and running, bringing fans from across the world together for the globe’s largest sporting event. But in Mexico, fans are cheering more than the players. Following the inaugural match between Mexico and South Africa in Mexico City, fans took to the streets to celebrate the victory of “el Tri”—Mexico’s national team— on national soil. Among the crowds walking around the city, a duck wearing a Mexican jersey was caught on camera, tugging at the heartstrings of people online. “Honestly, it’s better than the official mascot jajajaja half-court goal from the Mexicans,” a user said…
After driving into floodwater, gates, and telephone poles, Waymo’s robotaxis are being recalled yet again for driving into hazards. This time, Waymo’s fleet of nearly 4,000 vehicles is being recalled after at least 13 instances of the cars driving into construction zones on highways. Seven of those incidents occurred in a single day in San Francisco. On May 18, seven of Waymo’s robotaxis drove into active construction zones on highways in the Bay Area, reportedly because the company’s software was “prioritizing the avoidance of other freeway hazards and/or failing to recognize the construction zone,” per filings with the National Highway…
ASIA: The major Asian stock markets had a mixed day today: • NIKKEI 225 increased 1,151.24 points or 1.65% to 71,053.49 • Shanghai decreased 17.595 points or -0.43% to 4,090.481 • Hang Seng decreased 387.35 points or -1.59% to 23,924.81 • ASX 200 decreased 55.20 points or -0.62% to 8,911.10 • SENSEX increased 254.36 points or 0.33% to 77,409.98 • Nifty50 increased 82.30 points or 0.34% to 24,168.00 The major Asian currency markets had a mixed day today: • AUDUSD increased 0.00092 or 0.13% to 0.70227 • NZDUSD decreased 0.00087 or -0.15% to 0.57593 • USDJPY increased 0.763 or 0.47%…
A GoFundMe campaign for a woman whose dog was shot and killed by police on Saturday is gaining traction online. The fundraiser was created shortly after a tragedy unfolded in Los Angeles as a woman was celebrating the New York Knicks’ NBA Finals victory inside her apartment. After a concerned neighbor who heard screaming called 911, officers arrived to investigate. But when the woman, Marie Marseille, opened the door, what began as a check to ensure she was okay became a violent encounter. “While speaking with the resident, a large dog was by her side barking at the officers, the…