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Pentagon official details the 'holy cow' moments that sparked rift with Anthropic
NEWS | 07 March 2026
Pentagon R&D chief Emil Michael (right) said he was so alarmed about Anthropic that he brought his concerns to Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth. Pentagon R&D chief Emil Michael (right) said he was so alarmed about Anthropic that he brought his concerns to Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth. Win McNamee/Getty ImagesPentagon R&D chief Emil Michael (right) said he was so alarmed about Anthropic that he brought his concerns to Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth. (On February 27, President Donald Trump ordered federal agencies to stop using Anthropic's AI, though that directive came with a six-month phase-out period.) Anthropic has suggested it will challenge the designation in court, especially since Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth has said it prevents any defense contractor from doing business with Anthropic.

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Chart shows Claude's dethroning of ChatGPT in app downloads race
NEWS | 07 March 2026
Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei's defiant stand has led Claude to the top of the US app stores. Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei's defiant stand has led Claude to the top of the US app stores. On Saturday, Anthropic's Claude dethroned ChatGPT to take the top spot in the US Apple App Store. Data obtained by Business Insider shows just how suddenly the tide turned in the fight for app downloads. Data from Appfigures, an app intelligence firm, showed that Claude surpassed ChatGPT in the US for the first time on Saturday.

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Millennium hires one of Citadel's longtime stockpickers
NEWS | 07 March 2026
A person familiar with the move told Business Insider that Mazur, a stockpicker for Citadel's Global Equities unit since the summer of 2016, is joining Izzy Englander's Millennium as a senior portfolio manager. Citadel and Millennium declined to comment. The war for investing talent, particularly among the big four multistrategy firms, Millennium, Citadel, Point72, and Baylasny, has ramped up the costs across the industry. Citadel's Global Equities unit, run by Justin Lubell, lost two top talent recruiters last year: first, Alex Topkins, and then Laura Sterner. Global Equities poached Spencer Washburn, a former analyst at Millennium, to manage a book.

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US gas prices climb to the highest point in Trump's second term. He says, 'If they rise, they rise.'
NEWS | 07 March 2026
The firm added that if crude rises by $10 a barrel amid escalating tensions, US gas prices could climb by roughly 30 to 40 cents per gallon in the short term. Any disruption there could quickly drive oil prices higher — and those moves would show up at the pump within weeks. "As oil prices rise, gas prices follow," Carol Spieckerman, an independent retail analyst, told Business Insider. Higher fuel costs can push up travel, delivery, and retail prices — including goods made with petroleum-based materials. "The ripple effects of fuel prices are far-reaching and underestimated," she said.

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Wall Street's Young Bankers Roasted Over Glossy Spread
NEWS | 07 March 2026
Most were texting him about the now-viral article profiling Wall Street's "finest boys in finance," a glossy photo shoot in Interview magazine published Wednesday evening that's spawned a wave of memes and discourse among Wall Street's chronically online. When he got to the photo shoot at the heart of the piece, which profiled four junior Wall Street employees decked out in designer clothes, he had his pick of brands. One of Wall Street's many unspoken rules for juniors is to avoid being too flashy, or at least to avoid being flashier than your managing director. Johnson shared photos from the shoot at the iconic Wall Street steakhouse Delmonico's. He posted about the article on TikTok, including a meme making fun of him specifically for self-identifying as a Wall Street guy despite working at a consulting firm.

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SPONSORED | 07 March 2026
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Here's how private credit bosses are defending their software bets as markets scrutinize Blue Owl
NEWS | 07 March 2026
Months of concern over the private credit industry finally coalesced this year into its first real reputational crisis. Blue Owl, a buzzy private investor specializing in loans to the software industry, has seen its stock crater following growing redemption requests across its non-traded private credit funds and market jitters over the impact of AI disruption on software companies. With market watchers concerned that generative AI will make many software-as-a-service companies obsolete, the general angst about private credit over the past few months has now found a target in software loans. And this week, at the Bloomberg Invest conference and on CNBC, other private credit bosses had the chance to assuage fears that they were in too deep on software bets. Here's what top private credit players said about their software exposure.

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How David Ellison's Paramount Is Transforming Before Buying WBD
NEWS | 07 March 2026
David Ellison is tackling the mountain-sized challenge of transforming Paramount Skydance from a shrinking legacy media company into a Hollywood powerhouse. That goal — of creating a "next-generation" media company, in Ellison's words — is all before the planned mega-merger with Warner Bros. That's why Paramount is bolstering its streaming tech, which six staffers told Business Insider is inferior to industry leader Netflix's in both features and user experience. While Ellison didn't share more details, Business Insider has uncovered some yet-to-be announced features and others that are being workshopped. As Paramount+ and Pluto TV come together, Ellison's company is joining key technical teams across the streamers, Business Insider reported.

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Panama City wants Elon Musk's Boring Company to build a tunnel beneath its famous canal
NEWS | 07 March 2026
Mayer Mizrachi, the 38-year-old mayor of Panama City, wants Elon Musk to build him a pedestrian tunnel under the Panama Canal. And Musk's Boring Company recently announced it just might. Of the 16 finalists, half were in Tennessee or Texas, where the Boring Company is headquartered and where Mizrachi recently went to make his pitch. The project, if chosen, has the potential to tie together Mizrachi, the former DOGE leader, and the Panama Canal that Trump once fixated on seizing. Why do you think Panama City could beat out American cities for this project?

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Billy Joel just sold his Long Island estate for a total of $35 million — $14 million under the original asking price
NEWS | 07 March 2026
Billy Joel sold his waterfront estate in New York that he once could only dream of owning. Billy Joel sold his waterfront estate in New York that he once could only dream of owning. Berkshire Hathaway HomeServices/Laffey International RealtyBilly Joel sold his waterfront estate in New York that he once could only dream of owning. The 26-acre waterfront estate, known as "MiddleSea," in Centre Island, New York, first went on the market in 2023 after completing a five-year renovation project. Joel first spotted the waterfront estate as a teenager while harvesting oysters to earn extra money to support his working-class family.

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Joaquin Garcia Reveals Dangers of FBI Undercover Mafia and Cartel Work
NEWS | 07 March 2026
Joaquin Garcia spent 24 of his 26 years with the FBI working undercover. Working undercover for the mafia vs. the cartelFrom 2002 to 2005, Garcia embedded himself inside the Gambino crime family as "Jack Falcone." Why he fears the cartel mostA young Joaquin Garcia. While there was no shortage of violence within the mafia, it did not compare to what he witnessed from the Mexican cartel, Garcia added. He later co-wrote a memoir, "Making Jack Falcone: An Undercover FBI Agent Takes Down a Mafia Family," which became a New York Times bestseller.

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Harry Styles wants to be an ordinary guy. That's the problem.
NEWS | 07 March 2026
Lately, Harry Styles had relished being a regular guy — another runner on the road, another face in the crowd. During the promotional tour for his new album, "Kiss All the Time. Too famous to flopHarry Styles, Tyler Johnson, and Kid Harpoon accept album of the year for "Harry's House" at the 2023 Grammys. 1, and the aforementioned "Harry's House" won album of the year at the 2023 Grammys. Styles is an expert in non-specific, unserious, broadly enjoyable pop music, and it's made him a lot of money.

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A family ditched their dining room and added a primary suite above the garage in a $1 million renovation of their home
NEWS | 07 March 2026
In October 2022, they saw a 2,700-square-foot house built in 1979 that spoke to Martino. It had four bedrooms, two bathrooms, and two half bathrooms, one of which was in the three-car garage. "On our property, we have dozens of 100-foot trees," Martino said. She also loved the surrounding area, which offers easy access to apple orchards and horseback riding while remaining within commuting distance of her partner's restaurants. "It was like right price, right location, and we can do what we need to do to make it look how we wanted to in the end," she said.

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We spent 2 summers testing out living in different European countries. A year later, we're happily settled in our top pick.
NEWS | 07 March 2026
We searched Europe for a new home and eventually settled on our top pick and made the move. We searched Europe for a new home and eventually settled on our top pick and made the move. Ashley StahmWe searched Europe for a new home and eventually settled on our top pick and made the move. Ashley StahmAround six weeks into our foray across those four countries that summer, we took a beat. Although their two countries shared a border, these two cities couldn't have been more different to us.

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I live in a 400-square-foot tiny home. See inside my space, from clever storage solutions to unavoidable chaos.
NEWS | 07 March 2026
lighning bolt icon An icon in the shape of a lightning bolt. lighning bolt icon An icon in the shape of a lightning bolt. Impact LinkWhen people imagine tiny-house living, they often picture hyper-efficient design and perfectly optimized spaces from drawers in the stairs to ultra-slim, slide-out pantries. The house was produced by a mass-market company out of Texas, and in many ways, is poorly designed for full-time living. Between awkward design choices, dead spaces with little storage potential, and rooms that have to constantly change function, it takes a lot of flexibility to make it work.