Mamdani gets 74,000 resumes in sign of New York City’s job-market misery
More than 74,000 people, with an average age of 28, have applied for roles in Zohran Mamdani’s new administration. Those figures are both a measure of enthusiasm for New York City’s incoming mayor…
Sweetgreen co-founder is stepping down from executive role
Sweetgreen Inc. co-founder Nathaniel Ru is leaving the struggling salad chain following a string of disappointing results and a precipitous decline in the company’s stock price. Ru, who has served as…
YouTube is giving the Oscars the lifeline it desperately needs
“We are thrilled to enter into a multifaceted global partnership with YouTube to be the future home of the Oscars and our year-round Academy programming,” said Academy CEO Bill Kramer…
Coinbase announces stock trading and new Kalshi-based prediction markets
The stock trading and prediction markets announcements came at a San Francisco event titled System Upgrade that featured stage presentations by Coinbase CEO Brian Armstrong and other executives, who also…
$1 billion fraud revealed with guilty pleas from subprime auto lender Tricolor
The founder of Tricolor Holdings led other top executives of the subprime auto lender on a seven-year campaign to defraud its largest lenders out of nearly $1 billion, authorities said…
James Cameron is now a billionaire. The boomer college dropout worked odd jobs like truck driving before making his big break with films like Avatar
The legendary director is the creative force behind several of the highest-grossing films of all time. Collectively, Cameron’s movies have earned nearly $9 billion at the global box office—a success…
Tech CEO Bryan Johnson says he’ll make humans immortal by 2039—first he just needs to sort out ‘buggy’ issues like ‘mistakenly causing cancer’
The 48-year-old said that the 14-year goal is based on “new, promising therapies that can turn back the clock decades,” while adding that thanks to AI, it’s actually a very…
Klarna CEO says he feels ‘gloomy’ because AI is developing so quickly it’ll soon be able to do his entire job
I realize my statements on “AI can already do all our jobs” caused quite a stirr. So let me explain and expand what I mean. In my opinion the major…
In a frozen luxury housing market, buyers are asking to ‘try before you buy’ and having sleepovers in multimillion-dollar mansions
So to woo prospective buyers, sellers are trying a new tactic: offering up sleepovers in their mansions to help seal the deal. “In the luxury sector, where buyers often have the…
Prices at the gas pump are the lowest since the pandemic and still falling—just in time for record-high holiday travel
Gasoline prices—now well below an average of $3 per gallon nationally—and crude oil costs have plunged to their lowest levels since the pandemic in early 2021, coming just in time…
