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Alexandr Wang's wild X feed seemed to lack any rhyme or reason, but the 29-year-old said it helped serve a broader purpose. Alexandr Wang said he had trouble focusing during recent Meta meetings. On his mind: New memes to post about the company's popular new AI assistant. "I would just like think of a meme and I'd be like 'Oh God, I have to get this out,'" Wang said in a recent interview with podcaster David Senra, adding that his coworkers were "somewhat surprised" at the buzz his posts were generating. "It actually made an impact on growth," he said of the posts, "which is kind of hilarious. "Much has been said about Meta's chief AI officer and his chaotic X feed, which the 29-year-old has crammed with occasionally off-color yet invariably eccentric references to Muse, Meta's personal AI assistant that sent the company's stock soaring and redefined the market for AI tools. In his interview with Senra, though, Wang said that his often spur-of-the-moment posts served a broader goal — to make Meta "cool again. ""Despite having like these incredible pieces of cultural software like Instagram and Facebook, historically, Meta was not cool," he said.

Following the devastation of the past three years, productive capacity in Gaza has been severely damaged, markets disrupted and the cost of basic goods has risen sharply. Their experiences reflect different parts of the same challenge: sustaining livelihoods that still exist, helping businesses restart and creating new opportunities where livelihoods have disappeared. Running a business today means navigating uncertainty at every turn. Yet amid these challenges, women continue to find ways to work, adapting their businesses, learning new skills and somehow – supporting their families. Nidaa: A livelihood built from childhoodNidaa, 35, has her own business raising and selling chickens, ducks and rabbits in the southern city of Khan Younis. “I was passionate about this business since I was a child,” she said. “My mother worked with animals, and she taught me everything she knew. During the war, I faced many challenges with continuing my business. However, I insisted on continuing.”When her home was destroyed during the war and she was displaced, she managed to save some of her animals and move them to Khan Younis.

A Canadian cybersecurity executive who specializes in negotiating with ransomware hackers has reportedly been arrested on federal charges in Pennsylvania. Edward Dubrovsky, 54, was arrested Thursday in the Philadelphia area, according to federal court documents cited by Reuters. The arrest comes as the FBI investigates ShinyHunters, a hacking group that recently claimed to have stolen information concerning nearly every FBI employee. Authorities have not publicly confirmed whether Dubrovsky's arrest is connected to that investigation. TREASURY EXPOSES TERROR NETWORK TREN DE ARAGUA'S $40M US ATM ‘JACKPOTTING’ PLOT Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) Director Kash Patel testifies during a Senate Judiciary Committee hearing in the Hart Senate Office Building on September 15, 2026 in Washington, DC. (Win McNamee/Getty Images / Getty Images)FBI Director Kash Patel announced Friday in a post on X that agents had arrested another suspected co-conspirator of ShinyHunters, the group believed to be responsible for a recent incident involving the FBI's jobs website.

Monday, Oct. 12 is Thanksgiving, a time spent gathered around the table with family, friends and possibly a roast turkey. It is also a day with plenty of service adjustments and closures. Here’s a list of what is open and closed in the city on Oct. 12:

Marc Benioff said Salesforce's AIForce platform will be renamed SIForce. Donald Trump wants two letters scrubbed from the tech industry’s vocabulary, and some executives are already reaching for replacements. Salesforce CEO Marc Benioff said Friday that his company’s AIForce platform is getting a new name. “The era of Super Intelligence is here. AIForce is officially SIForce,” Benioff wrote on X. The announcement follows Elon Musk’s pledge Sunday to rename SpaceXAI to SpaceXSI, giving Trump’s campaign to replace “artificial intelligence” with “super intelligence” traction beyond Washington. The company's X account has already been changed. Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella has also made the switch, referring to the tech as "Super Intelligence" in an X post about AI model containment and governance on Saturday. While Nadella has used the term "superintelligence" in the past, this was the first time he used it as two words — and capitalized. Salesforce’s change concerns its agent platform, rather than the company’s corporate name. Trump, meanwhile, is turning his terminology preference into a test.

The author's parents have been married for 30 years. My parents met in May 1986, when they were just 14 and 15 years old, and started dating in September that same year. Just a month later, my mom turned 15. She can't remember exactly what their first date was. Maybe a movie, she says, or something simple, like hanging out with friends. But when she first saw my dad — a quiet yet funny guy — playing catch with his best friend while she babysat across the street, neither of them could have known what kind of journey they were about to take together. They were married in June 1996, at Alex & Henry's, a then-popular catering hall that closed a few years later. This year, the day before their official 30th anniversary, my twin brother and I pulled off what I'd argue was one of the best surprises of our adult lives: a party with more than 40 of their closest friends and family members. They deserved to be celebratedMy grandma traveled from Delaware to our hometown in Westchester County to help bring the surprise together. For months, she fielded my frantic calls about table arrangements, centerpieces, and cake flavors, while I dodged my parents at home.

There's a lot that I've loved about the French approach to pregnancy. When I fell in love with a Frenchman who wanted kids as much as I did, I knew there was a distinct possibility that I'd be going through pregnancy on foreign soil. And when we moved to France in 2021, with no intention of leaving anytime soon, my fate seemed all but sealed. Earlier in 2026, I found out that we were pregnant for the first time. For a year leading up to this moment, I'd set the stage for everything to go as smoothly as possible, ensuring that I was properly registered in France's national health-insurance program and completing all the preliminary checkups. Yet, despite my best efforts, nothing could have prepared me for the cultural differences surrounding pregnancy in France. Although I've found there's a lot to love about the French approach, there have also been a handful of times I've wished I were back in the US with my family in Southern California, where I'm originally from. I was expecting to have an OB-GYN, but using midwives is the norm over here

An icon in the shape of an angle pointing down. Ninety-nine percent of international internet traffic flows through cables stretched across the ocean floor. Demand is at an all-time high as the world becomes more dependent on cloud computing and AI. But only one US company can both make and lay them. We visited its 73-year-old factory and went aboard a multimillion-dollar cable-laying ship to see how it is keeping up — and why our data still needs to travel thousands of feet beneath the sea.

We have our own house, but my husband and I live on the same property as my parents and siblings. There's a popular saying that it takes a village to raise a child. I'd always understood the saying as a metaphor. But when my husband and I decided to build a house on the same property where my parents, younger siblings, and my brother's fiancé live, that adage became a lot more literal. Now, we're raising our daughter on our "family compound," with our village right next door. A compound wasn't the initial plan, but living here has been an incredible experience

The author and her family stayed in an extended-stay hotel for nearly three months while looking for a rental. After eight years in the same home, my family needed a change. We planned to rent while we built a new house, imagining a brief transition between the two. Instead, the rental market had other plans. Apparently, it was a very popular time to be looking for a new place to live. With multiple families vying for each house, landlords could be choosy. Being self-employed with dogs put us near the bottom of the list. In the meantime, we were living in an extended-stay hotel. Still, I wasn't discouraged because…well, how long could it take to find a match? What I thought would be a two-week hotel stay stretched into nearly three months. During that time, my husband, our 1-year-old daughter, Talia, two dogs, and our cat learned what it meant to live with little space. More surprisingly, hotel living changed how I parented — and eventually, my views on home. We took what we needed, and the rest went in storageWe moved everything we owned into two storage units, and I packed for a short stay.

Partake Foods founder, Denise Woodard, and her daughter Vivienne at the start of the business. This as-told-to essay is based on a conversation with Denise Woodard, founder and CEO of Partake Foods. The following has been edited for length and clarity. I spent my career in consumer packaged goods and spent significant time at The Coca-Cola Company. Then my daughter Vivienne came along. She's 11 now, but right around her first birthday, we had a couple of scary incidents that alerted us to the fact that she had multiple life-threatening food allergies. She was allergic to foods I consider to be super simple: eggs, tree nuts, bananas, and sesame. I started to realize that food allergies were going to become a big part of our everyday lives. I was really frustrated with the options from a taste and nutritional perspective. Most of all, I thought about how, emotionally, she wouldn't be able to partake in so many social events like birthday parties, playdates, and school snack time, and that she'd always feel excluded and othered. I wanted to create a solution for that.

Back through political history to the age of Ronald Reagan, Republicans have repeatedly promised the US public that tax cuts would pay for themselves, firing up economic growth and filling the government’s coffers. The promise never really panned out. From the Gipper’s day on, the Republicans’ tax cuts inevitably increased the budget deficit. Despite its failure, though, the promise is back, coated in a fine new layer of artificial intelligence pixie dust. It will fail again. The treasury secretary, Scott Bessent, is relying on an AI-laced economy when he promises to deliver annual economic growth of 3% – a rate that, except for the rebound from the Covid pandemic, has been achieved only twice this century. Dreams of AI inflect Donald Trump’s fantasy that “we’re growing at a faster rate than we’ve ever grown before,” which will allow the government to “take care of the 40 trillion” in federal debt “over a period of time”. Financial markets, however, are not buying. Last week, the yield on the 10-year treasury bond surged to its highest in almost a quarter century, more than a full percentage point higher than when Trump launched his misbegotten war against Iran.

Karen Anderson moved to a small village in Northwestern France. This as-told-to essay is based on a conversation with Karen Anderson, 57, a Californian who moved to the UK in 2011 and now lives in a small village in northwestern France. The conversation has been edited for length and clarity. I was working as a 911 dispatcher for a California police department when I met my ex-husband, who is English. After dating for a year, we got married in 2011 and eventually moved to his home country, the United Kingdom. I wanted a different life and the chance to experience more of the world. For years, we split our time between the UK, where he worked, and France. And in 2016, we bought a house in France for €45,000 ($50,450), far less than anything we could have afforded in the UK. At closing, I remember being handed more than 100 pages of paperwork. We were foreigners buying a home in a language we didn't understand, so it was very scary. But our hands were held during the process. After my divorce, I decided to remain in FranceIn 2021, I returned to the US to care for my mom, who had been diagnosed with cancer.

I left my $200K Microsoft job to bet on my startup. Work became less fun, and AI made me feel ready to build it alone. Junead Khan left Microsoft in 2025 to focus on building his AI startup, Treasury, without a cofounder or venture capital funding.

British Airways is re-fitting its Airbus A380s with 106 business-class suites. Airlines love business class, and British Airways' latest updates to its Airbus A380s are proof. This week, the airline unveiled a major overhaul to the interiors of its superjumbos, including what it says is the world's largest business-class cabin, with over 100 suites spanning the double-decker jet's upper floor. "This is the largest single investment that any airline has ever made in reconfiguring an aircraft, stretching from nose to tail and touching every single aspect of the experience on board," CEO Sean Doyle said at a media event, which Business Insider attended. Over 35,000 individual parts are installed on each aircraft as part of the retrofit, which includes new galleys and staircases, British Airways said. While the A380 has fallen out of favor with many airlines since the pandemic, it still plays a key role in British Airways' fleet. The flag carrier has 12 such airplanes — the second most behind Emirates.

Personal AI agents are helping consumers claw back cash — and threatening companies that profit from consumer inertia. Personal AI agents are coming for one of companies' most profitable customer behaviors: doing nothing. As personal AI agents make their way into people's financial lives, early users are using them to lower internet bills, recover airline credits, find cheaper insurance, chase refunds, and unearth money they had forgotten was theirs. Noah Shinn, the CEO of Instinct, one such personal AI agent, touted their saving benefits on an episode of "Invest Like the Best" released last week, saying they can scan users' bank transactions, identify forgotten subscriptions, and cancel them. "It just sends back the number of what it saved you," Shinn said. Meta has marketed its new agent, Muse, in a similar way. That could come at a cost to insurers, airlines, banks, broadband providers, and subscription businesses — industries that have for decades benefited, at least in part, from consumer inertia: the millions of people who do not compare the renewal price, dispute the fee, call about the credit, or brave the cancellation maze.