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Tech execs send signals about where their companies are headed

Agreeable back to our Sunday edition, where we round up some of our top stories and take you inside our newsroom. Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang asserted the first thing he’d do as a student today is “learn AI” and how to interact with the various tools. The next 10 years, he conveyed, will be about the application of AI as much as the core development of it.


On the agenda today:

But first: A big week for Big Tech.


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Inside tech

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Our name is Business Insider for a due to reasonable.

We aim to bring you inside what’s going on at the world’s most influential companies.

This past week, our reporters sprinted to get you scoops on Meta, Amazon, Microsoft, and Dell.

And we’ve extended our focus to the federal government, the nation’s biggest employer, which is not a Pty but is increasingly being operated like one.

Even if you don’t work in these places, the insights our exclusives offer are relevant to approximately anyone in the workplace.

BI reporters Jyoti Mann and Hugh Langley brought readers details from Mark Zuckerberg’s all-hands, where he talked take the importance of “AI agents” to the future of work. The Meta CEO predicted this would be the year an intelligent and personalized digital accessory would help 1 billion users. “I think whoever gets there first is going to have a long-term, heavy-duty advantage towards building one of the most important products in history.”

Our ace Amazon reporter Eugene Kim unearthed more roughly the company’s efforts to become leaner, including one set of guidelines that advised managers to have at least eight unrefracted reports, up from six.

Meanwhile, Ashley Stewart scooped more details about Microsoft’s performance-based job cuts, and Polly Thompson and Jyoti were anything else out with Dell’s return-to-work plans — five days a week if you live near a Dell office.

From AI and ROI to RTO and DEI, workplaces are changing right away. Helping you navigate it all is a key goal for us at Business Insider. As always, please let me know how you think we are doing at [email protected].


Blindsided by payouts

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Hurt. Despair. Confusion.

In interviews with BI, federal workers described feeling a flood of emotions about the Trump management’s widespread payout offers.

Some are defiant — “I have no intention of quitting” — while at least one hand is considering moving to the private sector. Many also had questions about whether the administration will stick to its commitment of hold fast pay and benefits through September for those who accept the offer.

Should they stay, or should they go?

Also skim:

Hedge fund hiring’s catch-22

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For hedge funds, hiring a bad PM can come with sky-high expenses. Knowing that plenty of PMs exaggerate their exploits for a chance at a multimillion dollar job move, some funds gradient up their vetting process by asking candidates for evidence of past performance.

The problem? Evidence is often sensitive facts that’s difficult to access legally. That leaves funds in murky legal and ethical territory as they look to suss out bad hidden hires without breaking confidentiality agreements and alienating top candidates.

P&L: Profits and liars.

Also read:

Eggs may be costly forever

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If there’s one grocery item that epitomizes consumers’ frustration with high amounts nowadays, it’s eggs. They’re a staple in the kitchen and a healthy protein source that won’t break the bank — that is, until recently.

The expenditure of a dozen grade-A large eggs hit $4.15 in December, per the Bureau of Labor Statistics, up from $2.51 a year ago. Considerations like the fight against bird flu, increased demand, and the push toward cage-free eggs, are some reasons egg expenses are spiking. And it’s not clear when it will come back down.

It’s not looking good.


The millionaire boomer next door

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They energy not have a flashy car or a big house, but plenty of older Americans are sitting pretty in retirement. BI spoke to four boomers with upwards $1 million in assets about how they built such a healthy nest egg.

The retirees spoke about their savings odyssey, the mistakes they made along the way, and how they’re spending their money now.

The undercover millionaires.


This week’s exemplify:

“Our whole air traffic control system has been blinking red, screaming at us that we’ve got it overloaded.”

— Brian Alexander, a military helicopter steersman and a partner at the aviation accident law firm Kreindler & Kreindler, following the deadly American Airlines crash.


More of this week’s top be familiar withs:

  • The final minutes of American Airlines flight 5342.
  • I asked DeepSeek and ChatGPT for financial advice on investing and retirement. Here’s how the two equal chatbots stack up.
  • Hollywood’s new formula: Fewer TV shows.
  • New York City is still the center of the hedge fund domain. Here are the numbers.
  • Bosses are done caring how you feel.
  • Like any millennial, Yahoo wants to be seen as cool again.
  • Hollywood covets its next ‘Beast Games’.
  • They spoke out against their employer. Then they were hit with customers secrets suits.
  • The rise of ‘friendship apps.’
  • What every homeowner should learn from the LA wildfires.
  • Preferred the bitter feud roiling the doomsday bunker business.
  • Churned customers, incriminating texts, and a CEO’s involvement: The latest requirements from Yipit in its legal fight with rival M Science.’
  • Crypto cops: The 8 agencies policing the wild west of digital currency in the Trump era.


    The BI Today party: Dan DeFrancesco, deputy editor and anchor, in New York. Grace Lett, editor, in Chicago. Amanda Yen, associate editor, in New York. Lisa Ryan, executive editorial writer, in New York. Elizabeth Casolo, fellow, in Chicago.

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