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TikTok has unseated its social media rivals as the top spot for young people to get their news.TikTok is now the most popular social app for news among 18- to 29-year-olds in the US, according to new survey data from the Pew Research Center. The app surpassed YouTube and Instagram, which were the top choices in 2024.Forty-three percent of young adults said they regularly get news from TikTok in 2025, compared to 41% for both YouTube and Facebook. Forty percent named Instagram as a regular news source, while 21% said X (formerly Twitter) and 18% said Reddit.Social media beat out…

“I’m either going to get sober or die.” This was the startling realization Parker Schley came to after his battle with alcoholism reached what he describes as the point of no return. “I couldn’t continue like that,” Schley, 26, tells Yahoo. “I was asking to die, basically.”Schley, who works as an assistant property manager in Virginia, represents a growing number of Gen Z-ers (born between 1997 and 2012) who are openly discussing their relationship with alcohol and their journeys to sobriety online. A quick search of “sobriety in your 20s” on TikTok yields thousands upon thousands of videos of people…

Getty Images; Tyler Le/BI 2025-12-29T10:00:01.273Z 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. Business Insider asked investors at 18 VC firms to share their predictions for what’s next in tech. They forecasted a flurry of acquisitions and a trend toward tiny teams and young founders. Investors warned a correction is coming for AI companies as “AI spending meets…

Just like a long line of executives before them, leaders of some of the world’s hottest firms are learning to hate an age-old enemy: short sellers.Last month, Palantir CEO Alex Karp had a meltdown of sorts about the subject. When asked about short sellers, aka investors betting against the company’s stock, Karp unloaded on the naysayers.”They could pick on any company in the world. They have to pick on the one that actually helps people, that’s actually made money for the average person, that is actually supporting our war fighters,” Karp said on CNBC. (It should be noted that some…

Rippling’s product chief has a winning strategy: Put the pedal to the gas until understaffed teams call for backup.In an episode of “Lenny’s” podcast released on Sunday, Matt MacInnis, the chief product officer of human resource software startup Rippling, said that he purposely gives teams fewer people than they need.”Everyone is constantly asking for more resources,” he said. “Of course, where we can afford to and where it’s appropriate, new resources arrive, but it is really important to me that we feel that we’ve deliberately understaffed every project at the company.”MacInnis joined Rippling as its chief operating officer in 2019,…

OpenAI wants to pay someone over half a million dollars to mitigate the downsides of AI.If that seems like a lot of money, consider those potential downsides: job loss, misinformation, abuse by malicious actors, environmental destruction, and the erosion of human agency, to name a few.CEO Sam Altman described the job as “stressful” in an X post on Saturday. “You’ll jump into the deep end pretty much immediately,” Altman wrote.Altman said the “head of preparedness” position is “a critical role at an important time.””Models are improving quickly and are now capable of many great things, but they are also starting…

This as-told-to essay is based on a conversation with Barbara Brown, 83, who works as a yoga instructor in Richmond, Virginia. Brown said her work has been fulfilling, given that many of her classes are at nursing homes. Though she needs to work to supplement her Social Security, Brown said she has no intention of retiring. This interview has been edited for length and clarity.I started working after school at the age of 15 and have been working ever since. My family wasn’t well-off and needed help, so I took it upon myself to attend college at night and work…

OpenAI is looking to hire a new executive responsible for studying emerging AI-related risks in areas ranging from computer security to mental health. In a post on X, CEO Sam Altman acknowledged that AI models are “starting to present some real challenges,” including the “potential impact of models on mental health,” as well as models that are “so good at computer security they are beginning to find critical vulnerabilities.” “If you want to help the world figure out how to enable cybersecurity defenders with cutting edge capabilities while ensuring attackers can’t use them for harm, ideally by making all systems…

For many people, grit – the perseverance and passion for long-term goals – is a virtue. It is also a key ingredient in overcoming challenges, achieving success and maintaining resilience.Studies have linked grit with success in goal attainment, improved psychological well-being and increased life satisfaction.But despite conventional narratives equating this type of psychological persistence with well-being, brain research is beginning to show that mustering grit in the face of adversity may also have some unexpected detrimental effects – particularly for communities that are already under chronic stress.As a behavioral scientist studying Alzheimer’s disease and brain health in Black communities, I…

Many CEOs see meetings as the pinnacle of corporate bureaucracy — and have been on a tear to minimize them.Snowflake CEO Sridhar Ramaswamy is no exception. Business Insider previously reported that Snowflake has tracked the number of phone calls and in-person meetings as it pushes for greater efficiency. Ramaswamy told Business Insider that “meetings are like bureaucracies,” and that “all of us hate bureaucracies except our own.”Ramaswamy, who joined the cloud data-warehousing company in 2023, said he doesn’t make product or company decisions one-on-one with anyone, and expects published notes about them before and after.To ensure that meetings are an…