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The artificial intelligence job apocalypse hasn't materialized, according to venture capital firm Andreessen Horowitz co-founder Ben Horowitz. Warnings about mass unemployment from AI assume the future of work can be known with certainty, a view history rarely supports, he said recently on the "...

OpenAI CEO Sam Altman dismissed claims about ChatGPT's water and energy consumption and offered a comparison that quickly grabbed attention. During a recent interview in India, where he attended the AI Impact Summit 2026, Altman told The Indian Express that critics often use the wrong math. The...

Elon Musk has a talent for making enormous ideas sound like casual errands. Launch a rocket, build a robot, fix traffic, fix the internet… fix aging. Yes, aging. In a post on X in 2023, the Tesla CEO zeroed in on something that's both obvious and deeply weird once you notice it: our bodies age with...

Falling birth rates have become a global flashpoint. Tesla and SpaceX CEO Elon Musk has warned that civilization could weaken if people stop having children, arguing that shrinking populations threaten long-term economic strength. But inside a Reddit thread claiming the planet is already...

Actor Mark Ruffalo is taking direct aim at New York City's affordability crisis, urging New York Gov. Kathy Hochul to raise taxes on the state's wealthiest residents. In a video posted Tuesday on social media, Ruffalo argued that working families are being squeezed while billionaires continue to...

There's something quietly radical about a tech CEO saying, essentially, please put the phone down. Not in a smug, wellness-influencer way. Not in a "delete everything and move to the woods" way. Just… look up. And when that CEO was Tim Cook, who's run Apple since 2011—the company that put the...

Universal basic income has been floating around for years. Tech leaders warn that automation could wipe out entire industries. Others argue a guaranteed check is the simplest fix. If robots end up doing the work, humans still need a way to pay the mortgage. But how big would that check have to be?...

For many Americans trying to dig out of debt, the promise of easy “passive income” is hard to ignore. Social media is packed with claims of $5,000 a month for just a few hours of work, but for people juggling bills, gas and groceries, the real question is simple: Do any of these side...

Some careers look glamorous, creative or meaningful from the outside. But once people land those jobs, many say the reality is far less exciting, and sometimes outright miserable. That tension sparked a heated debate on Reddit, where one person asked: “What is a job that is heavily...

Comedian and podcaster Joe Rogan says traditional career paths were never going to work for him. On a recent episode of the “Joe Rogan Experience” with entrepreneur Evan Hafer, Rogan explained why he has always felt out of place around people who follow conventional job tracks. At one...

If you spend enough time around small business owners, you start to notice a pattern. The businesses quietly making serious money are rarely flashy. They are not trendy apps or viral startups. They are simple, repetitive, and often a little dirty. In a recent Reddit discussion, hundreds of...

As baby boomers exit the workforce in record numbers, many are putting long-running small businesses up for sale. For aspiring entrepreneurs with $100,000 or more saved, the idea is tempting: buy a steady, unglamorous local company, keep the cash flowing and skip the startup grind. But a recent...

Shrinking populations may pose a larger economic threat than artificial intelligence-driven job losses, according to venture capital firm Andreessen Horowitz co-founder Marc Andreessen. The economy would already be in panic without AI, he said recently on "Lenny's Podcast," hosted by Lenny...

Is Generation Z economically doomed, or are they positioned to become the wealthiest cohort in history? That was the central question during a recent discussion on MS NOW featuring University of Michigan economist Justin Wolfers and commentator Kyla Scanlon. While much of the public conversation...

Mark Cuban has a simple rule for success: you don't have to be perfect. You just have to be right once. Speaking at the Oxford Union in 2017, the billionaire entrepreneur laid out a philosophy shaped by failure, risk and stubborn persistence. “You don't have to know exactly what you want to...