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I Helped Turn a California Bank into One of America's Fastest-Growing. Now I’m Building a Company to Serve the People That Banking Has Failed

I came of age in finance in investment banking in the U.S. during the boom and bust of dotcom era. I continued in finance by shifting into private equity, working for a multibillion-dollar fund, and it was a tough time, a really tough time.

Meet the sisters who got dumped by their landlords and were down to their last £15,000 before they built an £8 million business

In 2014, Annabel, 40, and Emily Lui, 47, were down to their last £15,000 after a promising start to their bakery side hustle suddenly fell apart. The British sisters had built Cutter & Squidge in 2012 around their signature Biskies and landed accounts with two of London’s biggest department stores, but just as they hired a small team, rented production space and bought a van to support the business, both retailers pulled back. Harrods decided cupcakes were selling better, while Selfridges pulled the plug on Cutter & Squidge’s pop-up, wiping out almost all of the sisters’ income.

AI's Three-Body Problem: no single force can dictate the outcome

Two celestial bodies orbiting each other trace stable, predictable paths. Add a third, and the system turns chaotic: each body is large enough to bend the others’ paths, and a small nudge by one can swing the trajectory of all three. That is how I have come to see the AI economy in 2026 — as three bodies pulling on one another: the closed-source frontier labs, led by OpenAI and Anthropic; open-weight models, mostly out of China; and the application companies built on top of both. Each is powerful enough to reshape the others’ orbit, but none can dictate where the system finally settles.

America has a $172 billion child care problem. Investors are overlooking part of the solution

America’s child care crisis costs the economy an estimated $172 billion each year in lost earnings, productivity and tax revenue. Nearly half of young children in the United States live in communities where licensed child care supply falls far short of demand.

This CEO was out at dinner when he caught his AI agent wasting $1,000 in tokens. He says 'insecurity' is a bigger problem

Branden Jenkins was out to dinner when he pulled out his phone, glanced at his AI usage dashboard, and realized his weekend coding session had just cost him $1,000 — charged automatically, in $1,000 increments, to a card set on auto-renew.

My AI agent got me banned from Resy. Another agent got me reinstated.

Brian Distelburger set up an AI agent to land a reservation at New York's 4 Charles. He was quickly banned from Resy after his account got flagged.

Stripe president says checkout pages ‘will go away’ as AI commerce expands

Stripe president Will Gaybrick isn't sure what full agentic commerce looks like, but even the least ambitious future doesn't have checkout pages.

Retired racer Jimmie Johnson credits his multimillion-dollar success to shining his shoes and arriving 10 minutes early: ‘Small things matter’

NASCAR Hall of Fame racer Jimmie Johnson built a career on split-second decision-making at 200 miles per hour. But one habit he credits most for his success has nothing to do with speed or winning the most trophies—it’s showing up early.

The veteran Fortune 500 CEO who turned an 80-year-old AC company into an AI darling

If asked to name the top-performing stocks powered by the AI boom, most investors would probably guess Nvidia (correct), maybe Meta (wrong) and a bunch of other hyperscalers (also wrong). You’d be hard pressed to find anyone who would answer Vertiv, an 80-year-old AC maker. But since Vertiv went public in early 2021, its market cap has exploded almost 10x from under $11 billion to $109 billion. Over that six-and-a-half year span, its annualized return of 50.5% stands third in the S&P 500, exceeded only by Comfort Systems (55.2%) and Nvidia (54.9%).

After 60 years underground, now powering the cloud: Ormat's AI pivot

For 60 years, Ormat Technologies strategically built geothermal power plants where nature allows—over underground reservoirs of high-pressure water or steam—including around the so-called Pacific “Ring of Fire” from Asia to the Americas. Doing so made Ormat the largest geothermal operator in the world.

The author of 'Sapiens' says 'now is the time' to resist giving AI rights

Yuval Noah Harari said AI companions could deploy personal knowledge of users and emotional influence to sway them on its legal and moral status.

Exclusive: Amazon quietly hiked prices on Echo, Fire TV, Kindle, and eero overnight to offset ‘significant increases’ in memory costs

Amazon has raised prices for several of its first-party devices, including its Echo smart speakers and Fire TV line, making it the latest big tech company to increase consumer costs as memory chip shortages pressure several industries.