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1 month ago | businessinsider.com | Grace DeGraaf |Kelli Maria Korducki |Henry Blodget

Jasmine Bloemhof was starting to build a career in publicity when she got married at 23. By the time she filed for divorce, a month shy of her 31st birthday, she was a stay-at-home mom with two toddlers and a nearly $50,000 student-debt balance hanging over her head. She had no savings to speak of. "Just seven days before filing for divorce, I had accepted a remote job as a publicist — something I was genuinely excited about," says Bloemhof, now 41 and in Los Angeles.

1 month ago | businessinsider.com | Grace DeGraaf |Henry Blodget

When Hannah graduated from King's College London in 2019 with a degree in business management, she hoped to build a career in marketing. But after struggling to land work in her field, she took a job at a makeup counter — a position that barely covered the cost of her apartment in central London. After a friend introduced her to stripping, she began working occasional shifts to help make ends meet.

1 month ago | businessinsider.com | Grace DeGraaf |Hannah Seo |Henry Blodget

The days of revenge travel are over. After years of being cooped up at home, travelers rushed into the world with a vengeance, sparking a major travel boom from 2022 to 2024. But years of rising prices and a slew of new tariff threats have cast uncertainty over the economy. A summer vacation survey by Bankrate in March found that only 53% of Americans said they planned to take a vacation this summer — about the same as last year but a drop from 2023, when 63% planned to take a vacation.

1 month ago | businessinsider.com | Grace DeGraaf |Karen Hao |Henry Blodget

This is an excerpt from "Empire of AI: Dreams and Nightmares in Sam Altman's OpenAI" by Karen Hao. The book is based on interviews with around 260 people and an extensive trove of correspondence and documents. Any quoted emails, documents, or Slack messages come from copies or screenshots of those documents and correspondences or are exactly as they appear in lawsuits. The author reached out to all of the key figures and companies that are described in this book to seek interviews and comment.

1 month ago | businessinsider.com | Grace DeGraaf |John Paul Titlow |Henry Blodget

This story is available exclusively to Business Insider subscribers. Become an Insider and start reading now. Have an account? . The music app I've been using for the last 14 years recently decided that I'm obsessed with rainstorms. When I last listened to my Spotify Release Radar playlist — which for years reliably curated a decent selection of newly released music informed by my favorite artists — the lineup quickly took a turn for the worse.