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3 weeks ago | businessinsider.com | Akin Oyedele |Alistair Barr |Henry Blodget

Each week in Business Insider's Tech Memo newsletter, I try an AI tool. What do you think of this one? What should I do, or use, next week? Let me know. This week, I tested Granola, an AI notetaking assistant. I fired it up for an interview with Raj Sharma, a bigwig at consulting giant EY. Coincidentally, he said his wife uses Granola to transcribe her interactions with patients. Installing it on my MacBook was easy.

3 weeks ago | businessinsider.com | Akin Oyedele |Kathleen Elkins |Henry Blodget

As Manny Reyna wrapped up his service in the Army in 2021, he had a lot of question marks about his future. He'd suffered a major hip injury that would require surgery and didn't have a clear career path. "I was super concerned about a lot of things," the 32-year-old told Business Insider. "I was hurt, I had a one-year-old son, I didn't really have a job.

3 weeks ago | businessinsider.com | Akin Oyedele |Christine Ji |Henry Blodget

This as-told-to essay is based on a conversation with Austin Mark, 39, who bought a house in July 2024 with three other people — his husband and another couple, Nate and Stephanie. Business Insider has verified Mark's home ownership. His words have been edited for length and clarity. My husband Bryan and I moved from Chicago to the West Coast 14 years ago. We decided to move back to Chicago last year, and our friends Nate Hanak and Stephanie Strother asked if we wanted to purchase property together.

4 weeks ago | businessinsider.com | Akin Oyedele |William Edwards |Henry Blodget

On a cold night in December, Nouriel Roubini stood in a dark room at Bloomberg's Manhattan headquarters and prophesied a menacing future for financial markets. Yields on 10-year Treasurys would soar to 8% thanks to persistent inflation, he said at Bloomberg's ETFs in Depth conference. That would send the S&P 500 and Nasdaq plummeting. The scene was perfectly on brand for the famously bearish economist widely known as Dr. Doom. That's why it might have been easy to dismiss his gloomy proclamations.

4 weeks ago | businessinsider.com | Akin Oyedele |Kathleen Elkins |Henry Blodget

This year, my employer switched HSA providers, leaving me with two different vendors: Ameriflex and Flores. HSA stands for health savings account, and its primary function is to save for health costs. However, as I've learned through my reporting, fiscally savvy individuals also like to use it as an investment tool. I decided to follow their lead last year and invested about $4,400 worth of my HSA dollars into a target date fund. I kept the $500 minimum in the cash account.