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Five former Dell employees are suing the tech giant, alleging it mismanaged its 401(k) retirement plan and cost workers hundreds of millions of dollars.The complaint, filed on January 28 in a federal court in Texas, alleges that Dell and its retirement plan managers held employees’ money for several years in underperforming investment funds, even as better alternatives became available.They argue that the plan’s fiduciaries failed to properly monitor and replace several in-house investment options, including Dell Pre-Mixed Portfolio Target Date Series and Dell Core Funds, that consistently underperformed comparable funds in the market.The plaintiffs say those decisions violated the Employee Retirement Income…

What is a Chromebook?Most computers in the world either run on Windows or macOS. But Chromebook laptops run on a unique operating system called ChromeOS, which is mostly based around running programs made by Google. This includes productivity cloud apps like Google Docs and Google Drive, but also sites that you use every day, like Gmail and YouTube.Because they rely so heavily on Google apps, Chromebooks can’t run nearly as many programs as Windows or Mac devices. It’s also harder to use them offline, since so many Google services need an internet connection. Chromebooks do let you download and use…

Recently, I found myself in a pickle. I had a physical copy of a book from the library I wanted to read — a history of the Battle of Bunker Hill. (I feel certain there’s a sizable cohort of people like me who only had their middlebrow hyperfixations on Ken Burns’ “The American Revolution” PBS miniseries broken by “Heated Rivalry.”)In the last few years, I have embraced the convenience of audiobooks for driving/walking/exercising/doing dishes. As a result, I am consuming more books than ever, but not so much with my eyeballs. (If you have opinions about the superiority of paper…

This morning, I woke up to a stunning report that Google is gearing up to sell a 100-year bond.That follows a similar move in early November, when Google issued a 50-year bond.Investors are giving this company billions and are willing to wait up to a century to get it back. In contrast, the US government usually borrows money for a maximum of 30 years.And the interest rates Google is paying are not that much more than what the US Treasury pays. For the 50-year bond, Google paid about 1 percentage point more, but got an extra 20 years to repay.To…

Amazon is one of Anthropic’s largest investors and a key partner in bringing the startup’s AI models and products to customers.Inside Amazon, however, employees aren’t allowed to use Anthropic’s Claude Code for production work or for live products without formal approval.That disconnect became more visible late last year, when Amazon rolled out internal guidance steering teams toward Kiro, its in-house AI coding assistant, according to internal messages seen by Business Insider. The guidance encourages using Kiro over non-approved third-party tools, including Claude Code, for production code.The policy prompted criticism across internal Amazon forums. In one discussion thread, roughly 1,500 Amazon…

2026-02-11T13:25:54.525Z 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. Elon Musk’s AI startup is facing a flurry of top employee departures. The departures included xAI cofounders Jimmy Ba and Tony Wu, who both thanked Musk for the opportunity. More than half of xAI’s cofounders have left the startup since Musk founded it in 2023. xAI is facing an…

2026-02-11T12:48:10.813Z 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. “Ever tried. Ever failed. No matter. Try again. Fail again. Fail better.”Irish playwright Samuel Beckett’s famous quote has become Corporate America’s new mantra.From Okta to Salesforce to Blackstone, executives told BI’s Sarah E. Needleman and Ana Altchek getting it wrong is ok. Just do it quickly and learn from…

It’s never a good sign when a CEO warns something more disruptive than COVID is heading our way.In an essay titled “Something Big Is Happening,” Hyperwrite CEO Matt Shumer said AI can now do all of his technical work — and he thinks your job could be next.”I’m writing this for the people in my life who don’t… my family, my friends, the people I care about who keep asking me ‘so what’s the deal with AI?’ and getting an answer that doesn’t do justice to what’s actually happening,” Shumer wrote in his nearly 5,000-word post published Tuesday on X.As…

XAI brought staffers together for an all-hands on Tuesday night, shortly after the company lost its second cofounder in less than 48 hours.Musk did not directly address the departures of company cofounders Tony Wu and Jimmy Ba, but thanked those who had left for their contributions to the company.Musk said that the company would continue to carry on despite the recent exits, and said that the staff who had left were not necessary for the future of xAI.The xAI CEO also discussed a restructuring, though it’s unclear what it could look like. Wu and Ba both left the company shortly…

Salesforce executives, including Slack’s new general manager, addressed Salesforce CEO Marc Benioff’s jokes about Immigration and Customs Enforcement, according to internal messages.Benioff angered some employees with the comments on Tuesday, including one about ICE surveilling employees’ travel.”I want to acknowledge the jokes that happened this morning at CKO,” Slack general manager Rob Seaman wrote in an internal Slack message viewed by Business Insider. “I cannot defend or explain them. They do not align with my personal values and I know this to be the case for many of you as well.Salesforce has yet to respond to repeated requests about Benioff’s comments and…