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Billboard’s Top Music Business Schools 2026 list highlights the next generation of industry leaders at colleges and universities across the world.

New York, NY – Altaris, LLC (collectively with its managed funds, “Altaris”) announced today that it completed the acquisition of the Life Sciences & Healthcare business (“LS&H”) from Clarivate plc (NYSE: CLVT). LS&H will operate as an independent company under Altaris’ ownership with Henry Levy continuing to lead the business as Chief Executive Officer. LS&H will be headquartered in Pennsylvania and will be rebranded in due course. LS&H is an AI-enabled data intelligence platform providing decision-support tools for R&D and commercialization applications to the pharmaceutical, biotechnology, and medical technology industries. The company has two business units: Cortellis and Decision Resources Group (DRG). Cortellis delivers insights to its customers across drug development, regulatory, and safety use cases. DRG provides data-driven products and consulting services to optimize product commercialization and market access strategies. LS&H has approximately 2,300 employees across 22 countries serving a global customer base including the top 20 pharmaceutical companies and 18 of the top 20 medical technology companies.

British Airways is ripping out coach-class seats and building a giant premium economy and business class in a bet on the high-end travel boom.

Justine Musk said her former husband "thrives on chaos" and that "everything is life and death" in his narrative. For Elon Musk, chaos may be more than a management style: His ex-wife says it’s where he feels comfortable. Justine Musk described the billionaire’s appetite for intensity in a teaser posted Tuesday for Kara Swisher’s interview with her and filmmaker Alex Gibney ahead of the release of Gibney’s documentary “MUSK.”“I once described him as somebody who can, like, jump off the edge of a cliff and, you know, invent a parachute on the way down,” Justine Musk told Swisher about her ex-husband, “Like, I think he thrives on chaos.”Justine Musk, an author and the mother of Vivian Jenna Wilson, said the Tesla CEO's language often casts challenges as existential emergencies, with an element of performance. “Everything is life and death,” she said. “And I think he really lives like that. He really lives with that pitch of intensity.”That description echoes inside Elon Musk's companies. At xAI, current and former employees told Business Insider that Musk’s growing involvement led to abrupt shifts in priorities, intensive “war rooms,” and a group chat of more than 300 engineers.

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Hours after announcing an initial committed investment in LIV Golf, BC Partners Credit head Ted Goldthorpe explained his confidence in the global league’s new business model while speaking at Sportico’s Invest London conference on Tuesday. “The more we dug into this, the disconnect between myth and fact is massive,” Goldthorpe said. “I think you can easily see a path in very short order to over $100 million valuations per team.”

Developers are embracing AI coding, but many feel exhausted, obsolete, and unable to trust it. The people building the AI boom are running on empty. According to Stack Overflow's 2026 Developer Survey, released Tuesday, nearly half of 30,903 developers surveyed in 169 countries reported being complacent in their current jobs, while a third were unhappy, and just over 22% were happy. Among the complacent group, burnout or tech fatigue was the leading reason, cited by 21% of respondents. The findings come amid an environment where software engineers' jobs are changing at breakneck speed. AI coding has taken over a greater share of their daily work — reducing some developers to button-pushers and human meat proxies, contributing to an identity crisis among some engineers, and fueling "off-the-charts" anxiety among tech workers. The malaise comes alongside a major shift in how software gets made. Stack Overflow found that almost two-thirds of respondents use AI coding assistants or agents, while 62% use general-purpose AI chat tools. Among daily AI users, 31% said they use them for four hours or more.

Nova ScotiaAs the Canada-U. S. trade war escalates, owners of small businesses in Nova Scotia are doing whatever they can to mitigate the impact of tariffs. Entrepreneurs call on Canadians to support local businessesYuan Wang · CBC News · Posted: Oct 06, 2026 11:38 AM EDT | Last Updated: October 6Listen to this articleEstimated 3 minutesThe audio version of this article is generated by AI-based technology. Mispronunciations can occur. We are working with our partners to continually review and improve the results. Natasha Lawyer's ceramics sales have taken a nosedive due to tariffs, forcing her to take a side job to make ends meet. (Submitted by Natasha Lawyer)A Kentville, N. S., woman says she has had to take on a side job to make ends meet because the Canada-U. S. trade war has cratered sales for her ceramics business. Natasha Lawyer said Sugarhouse Ceramic Co. two years ago brought in $4,000 US to $5,000 US a month from U. S. sales, which accounted for 80 per cent of her total customer base. Last month, her U. S. sales plummeted to only $300 US.

Local NewsThe latest Rochester Road closure is adding miles to commutes and creating headaches for nearby businessesWhat to know:The west side of the Long Lake Road and Rochester Road intersection is closed on Monday. The closure is expected to last about three weeks, weather permitting. The closure is part of a multi-year project to widen and reconstruct Rochester Road. The east side of the same intersection was closed in June as construction progressed. TROY, Mich. — Drivers and businesses in Troy are hitting another roadblock — and this time, it’s the other side of the same intersection. The west side of Long Lake Road at Rochester Road closed Monday, and the disruption is expected to last three weeks. It’s the latest chapter in a multi-year reconstruction project to widen Rochester Road. Back in June, the east side of that same intersection shut down. “All of a sudden, I was heading east on Long Lake and saw that it was closed — shoot,” said Doug Gilman. “Hopefully it’s for the best, but in the moment, it’s pretty chaotic.”Detours adding miles to daily commutesThe closure is turning what was a one-mile drive into a three-mile detour.

Listen now on Apple, Spotify or YouTubeIn This Edition, Undead Labs’ Philip Holt on… Leaving XboxFinding finance and cutting staffState of Decay visionBeing irresponsibly transparentAt the start of July, Xbox announced that Undead Labs had a buyer. The State of Decay developer was one of five studios that Xbox was looking to offload. And we understand that UK developer Splash Damage was going to be picking it up. But, come September, and Undead Labs new owner was revealed to be… Undead Labs. The studio’s own employees had bought the company. Meanwhile, its upcoming open world horror game State of Decay 3 had a new, unnamed publisher. So, what went wrong? “I don’t know that anything went wrong,” answered studio boss Philip Holt in today’s The Game Business Show. “It was an accelerated period of time for Microsoft’s divestiture. We had a lot of interest. I also thought that because we were so close to being in revenue, the amount of capital that we needed to finish [State of Decay 3] was not an insurmountable amount that we couldn’t go raise it ourselves.