Michael Jeffries at an event in NYC in 2005The International Center of PhotographyLawyers for the ex-CEO of Abercrombie & Fitch say he's unfit to stand trial for sex trafficking.At a court hearing on Thursday, a prison doctor called Michael Jeffries "logical" and "funny."She testified that he joked, "We could be married. I'm gay, but that …
John F. Kennedy International Airport on Sunday.Adam Gray/Getty ImagesThis post originally appeared in the Business Insider Today newsletter.You can sign up for Business Insider's daily newsletter here.A last-second TSA deal doesn't mean we've seen the last of the travel problems.After weeks of travel chaos (you thought four-hour lines were bad? You ain't seen nothing yet), …
Dario AmodeiKrisztian Bocsi/Bloomberg via Getty ImagesA federal judge has temporarily struck down the Pentagon's effective blacklisting of Anthropic.US District Judge Rita Lin's ruling hands a major victory to the AI frontier model maker.The Pentagon has already struck a deal with OpenAI and is looking to find other AI companies.A federal judge has granted Anthropic a …
ATLPresident Donald Trump says he plans to sign an order to pay TSA workers amid a DHS shutdown deadlock.TSA agents face another missed paycheck, causing travel chaos and extended wait times at airports.It is unclear whether Trump has the power to allocate the budget without congressional approval.President Donald Trump said that he will sign an …
Real estate agent Jordan Hooten decided to franchise his favorite coffee shop as an investment.Courtesy of Jordan HootenFlorida real estate agent Jordan Hooten franchised his favorite coffee shop to diversify his income.Hooten leveraged his real estate earnings to make a bigger investment.He said agents are entrepreneurial by nature and should try to enter other businesses …
A worker refuels a vehicle at a gas station in Santiago, Chile, on Tuesday, March 24, 2026. Chile's government will hike fuel prices by as much as 54% on Thursday, stoking expectations for a steep rebound in inflation and triggering a wave of panic buying at gasoline stations across the country.Cristobal Olivares/Bloomberg via Getty ImagesEnergy …
Elon Musk offered to cover the TSA workers' salaries as they go without pay during the partial government shutdown.Andrew Harnik/ReutersTSA agents are working without pay amid the partial government shutdown.Elon Musk on Saturday said on social media that he'd like to cover the workers' salaries.The White House said that it poses "legal challenges" due to …
Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg.Bloomberg/Getty ImagesA large division within Meta Reality Labs is undergoing an overhaul to become fully "AI-native."The unit is now organized into "pods" made up of "AI builders" and "AI pod leads."This new push and the latest layoffs at Reality Labs are unrelated, Meta said.Meta is rebranding some employees as "AI builders" and …
StoReel's founders, from left: Rui Zhang, Angela Yu, and Shipeng Fan.StoReelBeijing-based StoReel raised $34 million to build out its AI micro drama app.StoReel has creators make micro dramas using AI, which it says can produce better stories at a lower cost.Read the pitch deck it used to raise its funding round.Micro dramas are booming — …
Salish Matter and her dad, Jordan, are among a growing handful of YouTubers making TV-like shows.Rodin Eckenroth/Getty Images for NickelodeonA Spotter report says creators are starting to make TV-like shows at a scale similar to legacy TV.The Amazon-backed startup estimated the size of the "creator TV" market.Spotter, like YouTube, has been trying to convince advertisers …
