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Kevin O'Leary on the fight to build a massive data center
NEWS | 01 July 2026
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Introducing the better work project
NEWS | 01 July 2026
What’s Trending in the Labor Market with Indeed Hiring LabData can help hiring leaders better understand the state of work. The Indeed Hiring Lab and its team of economists and researchers deliver unique, data-driven research that informs talent management, hiring strategies, and labor policies. By analyzing millions of data points from Indeed’s job postings, resumes, and job seeker behaviors, Hiring Lab uncovers emerging trends and long-term shifts in labor markets across the United States and globally. Dive into Hiring Lab's research to understand the forces shaping the workforce, empowering decision-makers to stay ahead of the trends.

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The Case of the Missing Tesla Fatal Crash Data
NEWS | 01 July 2026
Every car with Tesla Autopilot, the agency told him, was engineered to automatically generate and transmit crash data to Tesla's headquarters immediately after any crash or near-collision. He brought an expertise in how Tesla's data systems worked, what they recorded, and how to limit the company's exposure after a fatal crash. He just had to swap out that car's computer with the one from the car crash. "The data transmitted to [Tesla] does not include either the crash video or snapshot data," he wrote. Tesla had long maintained that it never received the full set of crash data from McGee's Autopilot computer.

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How software engineers really feel about AI coding
NEWS | 01 July 2026
How software engineers feel about it is far from binary. Nearly 60% of developers have a positive view of using AI coding tools, according to a 2025 survey from Stack Overflow. Business Insider spoke with seven software engineers and aspiring developers about the industry's upheaval. Rather than fearing automation, he sees AI as another powerful addition to the software engineer's toolkit. He also began to hear growing concerns about whether software engineers would be replaced by AI.

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Luxury Realtors Are Spending Thousands on Botox, Skincare, and Clothes for Work
NEWS | 01 July 2026
Ashley Reidy Quinn's job as a real estate agent involves a lot of negotiating with buyers and sellers. Ashley Reidy Quinn says she spent six figures on clothes in 2025, and her quarterly Botox is "non-negotiable." "A luxury agent still needs to be polished; however, the agent could show up in a beautiful dress with cowboy boots, an Italian suit with loafers, or even elevated denim and flip flops." Ana Ruelas said the luxury real estate uniform in Austin differs from other parts of the country. Reality TV's influence on luxury real estate is so strong that four of the seven realtors we spoke to for this story work for agencies that have been featured on a reality series.

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SPONSORED | 01 July 2026
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An Investment Firm Shares an Under-the-Radar AI Play
NEWS | 01 July 2026
The investment firm published a report on June 30, revealing a long position in Regal Rexnord, an automation and manufacturing company. Kerrisdale highlighted its exposure to both the data center and robotics industries as integral to its bullish thesis. While the data center boom continues to be a market driving trend, Regal still operates mostly under Wall Street's radar. Kerrisdale maintains, though, that Regal's robotics exposure may be just as valuable as its ties to data centers, if not more. "Physical AI, or the extension of artificial intelligence into the physical world, promises to revolutionize manufacturing and logistics," Kerrisdale added.

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Trump's student-loan repayment overhaul has arrived — with borrowers facing new limits and higher bills
NEWS | 01 July 2026
New repayment plansTwo new repayment plans became available on July 1: the Repayment Assistance Plan and the tiered standard repayment plan. RAP calculates a borrower's monthly payment based on 1-10% of their adjusted gross income. The new tiered repayment plan will give borrowers fixed repayment terms over 10, 15, 20, or 25 years, based on the amount they borrowed. Student-loan borrowing capsBeginning July 1, graduate students and parents borrowing for children will face new federal borrowing limits. What's still up in the airNew PSLF ruleBeginning July 1, the Education Department wanted to redefine "public service."

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Smart Voices in Tech React to Return of Anthropic's Fable and Mythos
NEWS | 01 July 2026
Anthropic is restoring general access to Fable 5 after weekslong negotiations with the Trump administration to lift unprecedented restrictions on the powerful AI model. The AI startup said on Tuesday that the Department of Commerce has lifted export controls that prompted it to disable access to Fable 5. The dispute began in June after the White House imposed restrictions on the AI models over concerns they could be misused by adversaries for cyberattacks. Anthropic said there had been a misunderstanding over a potential Fable 5 jailbreak and sent senior executives to Washington to negotiate a resolution. The return of the models, which Anthropic said come with additional safeguards, marks a significant moment in the debate over how governments should regulate frontier AI systems.

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Stock Market Q2 in Review: 4 Stats That Defined a Wild Trading Period
NEWS | 01 July 2026
We didn't know it at the time, but the table was perfectly set in late March for what ended up being a historic quarter for stocks. Speaking of which…The SOX index had its best quarter everSome of the moves in the Philadelphia Semiconductor Index (SOX) — particularly when it comes to memory chips — were downright silly in the second quarter. Small caps had their best quarter since 2020 (and best first half since 1991)The Russell 2000 index of small-cap names soared 21% in the second quarter. Energy stocks had their worst quarter since 2020These declines were a byproduct of crude oil prices plummeting over the same period. But the quarter-level performance masks some weakness in June that struck software stocks, pushing AI hyperscalers like Microsoft and Oracle sharply lower.

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Big Tech is spending billions to not employ people
NEWS | 01 July 2026
Of those seven, Meta, Nvidia, Apple, and Alphabet did not disclose severance costs. The only Mag 7 company to disclose these costs, Amazon, spent $2.7 billion in estimated severance costs through 2025. Outside the Mag 7, we looked at five other US tech giants — Oracle, Intel, Dell, AMD, and Micron — all of which disclosed severance costs. Cisco disclosed $617 million in employee severance charges as part of a restructuring plan. AMD spent $79 million on severance, while Micron reported $30 million in employee severance costs.

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How 6 top CMOs are working to make their brands show up on AI platforms
NEWS | 01 July 2026
"What's your AI search strategy?" But make no mistake — CMOs are looking to make sure their brands show up in AI search in the right way. "Everyone's talking right now" about going from traditional search to AI search, Chime's Vineet Mehra said. Some, like Brommers and Mehra, listed various startups they're using to pump out LLM-friendly content and measure AI search visibility. "Everyone's looking for a silver bullet," said Lily Ray, a VP of SEO and AI search at the SEO agency Amsive.

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Men in Blazers Isn't a TV Giant. Its World Cup Audience Doesn't Care.
NEWS | 01 July 2026
Eventually, they were going to watch the US men's team beat Australia in a World Cup match. Men in Blazers cofounder Roger Bennett, seen here at a World Cup rally in Seattle, has become an unlikely influencer for American soccer fans. Men in Blazers can't show you the World Cup. The 10 World Cup live shows his company is hosting are core to the company's business model. Does Men in Blazers need American soccer to keep getting bigger, or can it keep growing by gathering the audience that already exists?

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AI actors helped this micro drama app raise $100 million in financing
NEWS | 01 July 2026
The micro drama app Shortical, based in Israel, raised $100 million in financing from PvX Partners, a financial services firm, the companies shared exclusively with Business Insider. Deloitte predicted that revenue made by micro drama apps would more than double this year to $7.8 billion, with the US accounting for about 40% of that. Previous raises by prominent micro drama companies included Holywater, which raised $22 million, and GammaTime, which snagged $14 million. This is PvX's third such investment in micro drama apps, after StoReel and Luni. Most micro drama apps are subscription-driven and rely heavily on paid marketing to get people to download their apps.

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The people getting rich off AI are spending big on some distinctly analog status symbols
NEWS | 01 July 2026
But not all AI wealth is paper wealth anymore. And elite AI researchers and engineers are landing pay packages that would have been unthinkable in tech a decade ago. As more AI wealth becomes liquid, the question is no longer just how these fortunes are being made, but how they're being spent. "Unless the AI valuations crack, AI wealth will be a major driver of the current US luxury upswing," Scott Kerr, founder of luxury consultancy firm Silvertone Consulting, told Business Insider. The new tech elite are combining analog watches with wearables: "One wrist for data and one for identity," Kerr said.