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Welcome back to our Sunday edition, where we round up some of our top stories and take you inside our newsroom. It’s gotta be the shoes! Why else would people be willing to drop at least $1,100 on a pair of sneakers? I’d never shell out that much but I am tempted to go try on Wall Street’s favorite pair of kicks.On the agenda today:But first: Are you leaving the money on the table?If this was forwarded to you, sign up here. Download Business Insider’s app here.This week’s dispatchGolden handcuffed Getty Images; Rebecca Zisser/BI Imagine you work for a company…
Phoebe Gates and Sophia Kianni, both 23, are turning heads with Phia, their AI fashion app that’s drawing interest from investors and trendsetters.Phia, an AI-powered shopping assistant, went live in April and said it has since amassed over 600,000 users. The free app and browser extension compare prices on fashion items across around 40,000 linked sites to help users find deals. It’s the pair’s first business, and it’s making waves with investors.Gates and Kianni raised $8 million in seed funding in September. The round was led by venture capital firm Kleiner Perkins and included investors like Kris Jenner, Hailey Bieber,…
With the cost of health insurance set to rise, some Americans are asking a surprising question: Is it actually cheaper to get medical care without it?The short answer: Sometimes. But not often. And it may require a little — or a lot — of homework.Some hospitals and clinics offer self-pay or cash only discounts for patients who pay without insurance, skipping the paperwork and administrative fees that come with having coverage. Hospitals are required by federal law to make their discounted cash prices publicly available online. An allergy test or an X-ray, for example, may be a few hundred dollars…
In a 2009 interview, a 25-year-old Mark Zuckerberg offered a grand prognosis on the human condition. “You have one identity,” the Facebook founder said. “The days of you having a different image for your work friends or coworkers and for the other people you know are probably coming to an end pretty quickly. Having two identities for yourself is an example of a lack of integrity.”At the time, his five-year-old social network was shaping the identities of more than 350 million people. Like Sergey Brin and Larry Page with their mission to “organize the world’s information” with Google, like Steve…
HLTH is one of the biggest and flashiest healthcare conferences of the year, so it’s no surprise that 2025’s edition delivered the health AI hype in full force.But beneath the sheen lurked mounting AI fatigue, fears of formidable new competitors, and a plaguing awareness of an AI bubble.Healthcare VC is facing many of the same boons, and the same predicaments, as the tech world, albeit hundreds of billions of dollars short. Investors are pouring money into top startups promising enterprise savings, while critics fear those tools won’t pay off as expected. Big Tech companies like Google and Microsoft, as well…
LINCOLN UNIVERSITY, Pa. (AP) — Gunfire erupted during outdoor festivities at Pennsylvania’s Lincoln University late Saturday, killing one person and wounding six others as students and alumni celebrated homecoming at the historically Black school, authorities said.A person who had a firearm was detained, and officials are investigating the possibility that there was more than one shooter but don’t believe there is any active threat to the campus, Chester County District Attorney Christopher de Barrena-Sarobe said during a brief news conference early Sunday. “We don’t have a lot of answers about exactly what happened,” he said. “What I will tell you…
Food giant Hormel is recalling nearly 5 million pounds of chicken products after complaints that pieces of metal were found in food, officials said Saturday.There have not been any reports of injury, the Food Safety and Inspection Service under the U.S. Department of Agriculture said in a statement.The issue was discovered after “multiple complaints from foodservice customers finding metal in their frozen chicken breast and chicken thigh products.”AdvertisementAdvertisementAdvertisementAdvertisementHormel Foods Corp. found the metal came from a conveyor belt during production, the agency said.The chicken breast and thigh products were distributed to HRI Commercial Food Service nationwide between Feb. 10 and…
The giant hole in the White House left by construction crews this week could be a metaphor for something bigger, one lawmaker says: the erosion of public trust.The East Wing of the White House was demolished on Monday to make way for President Donald Trump’s new 90,000 square-foot ballroom. The president says the project will cost upward of $300 million — paid for by corporate donations.Mississippi Rep. Bennie G. Thompson is now demanding answers from those companies.”It looks like you’re tearing an abandoned building down, and you are looking at the citadel of democracy just being attacked by a bulldozer,”…
A high school student in Baltimore County, Maryland was reportedly handcuffed and searched after an AI security system flagged his bag of chips as a possible firearm. Taki Allen, a student at Kenwood High School, told CNN affiliate WBAL, “I was just holding a Doritos bag — it was two hands and one finger out, and they said it looked like a gun.” But as a result, Allen said, “They made me get on my knees, put my hands behind my back, and cuffed me.” In a statement shared with parents, Principal Katie Smith said the school’s security department had…
The world’s top leaders often say they can read people better than anyone else — a trait that has long intrigued psychologists and management experts.Some call it an art, others say it’s a science.Sequoia partner Jess Lee — a Silicon Valley veteran who previously worked at Google and Yahoo, and founded the e-commerce company Polyvore, which Yahoo acquired for $200 million in 2015 — shared some of her secrets on a recent episode of “The Library of Minds” podcast.Lee said she now relies on a process to evaluate workers beyond quantifiable metrics, which she learned from her Sequoia colleague Shawn…