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Most of us, no matter how healthy we try to eat overall, have a soft spot for fast food occasionally. For some, it’s fried chicken nuggets dipped in mystery sauce, while on other occasions it’s hard to resist the temptation for a few slices of glistening pizza or a double-decker burger with sketchy but oh-so-tasty toppings. Nobody is immune from greasy fries lust. Cheap, convenient, undeniably delicious, and rich in nostalgia are these guilty pleasures. But it’s also true that almost universally they are nutritional train wrecks that will derail your fitness and health goals if you give in to…
2026-03-05T21:45:46.041Z Share Copy link Email Facebook WhatsApp X LinkedIn Bluesky Threads lighning bolt icon An icon in the shape of a lightning bolt. Impact Link Save Saved Read in app Loading audio narration… This story is available exclusively to Business Insider subscribers. Become an Insider and start reading now. Have an account? Log in. Amazon faced an outage affecting tens of thousands of shoppers globally on Thursday afternoon. Downdetector reports surged complaints of Amazon issues, peaking at 20,000 by 3:49 p.m. ET. Amazon’s outage involved checkout and pricing errors, unrelated to AWS issues from October 2025. Amazon appears to be…
Elon Musk is one of those guys who only has one towel, according to his mother.In an X post on Tuesday, Maye Musk described her son’s living space in Boca Chica, southern Texas, near SpaceX’s Starbase launch site.”There is no food in the fridge,” the billionaire’s mother, 77, said. “The garage where I slept is on the right.”She added, “The shower only has one towel so I left it for Elon. That was okay with me.”There is no food in the fridge. The garage where I slept is on the right. The shower only has one towel so I left…
Block CEO Jack Dorsey issued a warning about the impact of AI on employment, particularly for other companiesAfter announcing he’s cutting about 40% of Block’s 11,000 employees, Dorsey outlined Block’s next phase as a “smaller, faster, intelligence-native company” in his opening remarks during the company’s earnings call on Thursday.”I don’t think we’re early to this realization. I think most companies are late,” he said.AI, he said, is dramatically accelerating work inside Block.”A significantly smaller team using the tools we’re building can do more and do it better. And intelligence tool capabilities are compounding faster every single week,” Dorsey saidDorsey pointed…
The average American’s skyrocketing electric bill has caught the attention of everyone from President Donald Trump to Microsoft executives — just don’t expect lower rates in 2026.Electric and gas utilities asked state regulators to approve $31 billion in rate increases last year, more than double the $15 billion they sought in 2024, a new study from PowerLines, a nonprofit that advocates for utility customers, found.The surge in requests from utilities to tack on additional charges to customer bills comes as Big Tech companies continue their sweeping buildout of power-hungry AI data centers across the country. Many utilities have attributed rate…
Rajesh Jha, a key Microsoft executive who oversees the company’s most recognizable businesses, is retiring. Loading audio narration… Jha runs Experiences and Devices, a major unit within Microsoft responsible for products including Office, Windows, and Teams. He’s one of CEO Satya Nadella’s most influential lieutenants.”Rajesh has been a constant throughout my entire life at Microsoft,’ Nadella wrote in a memo to employees. “When I think about the pantheon of leaders who have truly shaped this company, Rajesh stands firmly among them.”Business Insider reported in December that Jha was considering retirement.Jha is one of Microsoft’s longest-serving executives and rose through the…
Kate Sieler and Samantha Martin had a secret.For several months, the cofounders of dating app Left Field had to keep their lips sealed about pitching their startup on the hit show “Shark Tank.””It was definitely a crazy secret to be sitting on for so long, especially because there’s no guarantee that the episode is going to air,” Sieler told Business Insider.The pair’s “Shark Tank” experience began with an unexpected email from a producer — which they initially thought was spam — and included months of video calls before they flew to Los Angeles to pitch on camera.On set, the two…
2026-02-10T16:31:12.095Z Share Copy link Email Facebook WhatsApp X LinkedIn Bluesky Threads lighning bolt icon An icon in the shape of a lightning bolt. Impact Link Save Saved Read in app This story is available exclusively to Business Insider subscribers. Become an Insider and start reading now. Have an account? Log in. Wall Street has cooled a bit after a massive sell-off wiped more than $1 trillion in Big Tech valuations. Recent AI advancements have undermined some investors’ faith in established software names. Jensen Huang, Arm CEO Rene Haas, and former Microsoft exec Steven Sinofsky were skeptical of the market’s reaction.…
This as-told-to essay is based on a conversation with Hassan Ismail, the 24-year-old cofounder of Yellowcake, who lives in Toronto. It’s been edited for length and clarity.In 2021, there was a government bid in Canada for some military hardware. My cofounder and I officially founded West Tek Defense Corporation in August 2022. We were doing smart rifles for the military.It was complicated. (At one point, we were literally balancing redox equations for propellant in the ammo.) The physics background we both had helped a lot; essentially, everything we saw was something we’d encountered in a class or during personal research.We…
Marc Andreessen says he’s heard enough stories about psychedelics in Silicon Valley to know they’re not for him. Loading audio narration… Speaking on David Senra’s podcast, the cofounder of Andreessen Horowitz — one of the largest venture capital firms in the Bay Area — said some founders who experiment with hallucinogenic drugs become calmer and more at peace.He said they also sometimes lose interest in running their companies.”I have tons of horror stories from people I know or know of,” he said. “They try it, and they kind of come out the other end as a changed person. They come…