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businessinsider.com | Lauren Steussy |Alex Bitter |Henry Blodget
Starbucks' latest change could affect loyalty program members who bring their own cup for baristas to fill. Starting June 24, the coffee chain will scrap its bonus for customers who bring their personal, reusable cup to stores. Currently, Starbucks Rewards members get 25 stars for bringing their own cup. Instead, Rewards members who use their own cup will earn double the stars on their entire order.
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1 month ago | 
businessinsider.com | Lauren Steussy |Ana Altchek |Sarah Perkel |Henry Blodget
After spending the day promoting his company's AI technology at a developer's conference, Anthropic CEO issued a warning: AI may eliminate 50% of entry level white-collar jobs in the next one to five years. "We, as the producers of this technology, have a duty and an obligation to be honest about what is coming," Dario Amodei told Axios in an interview published Wednesday.
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1 month ago | 
businessinsider.com | Lauren Steussy |Katherine Tangalakis-Lippert |Henry Blodget
You'd be hard pressed to find a company out there that's not using some form of AI at this point. In just a few years, tech leaders say the same will be true of quantum computing. "It's equivalent to the exact thing that you're seeing with classical computing and AI, but it's going to happen at a much larger scale," Jay Gambetta, the vice president in charge of IBM's quantum initiative, told Business Insider.
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1 month ago | 
businessinsider.com | Lauren Steussy |Dominick Reuter |Henry Blodget
One really important — and often overlooked — thing about coming up with a new product idea is finding a way to make it. That's what Cirkul co-founders Garrett Waggoner and Andy Gay discovered when they came up with a concept for a water-enhancing flavor cartridge system back in 2015. "The Cirkul cartridge was such a novel form factor, and no one had ever done anything like it before," Waggoner told Business Insider.
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1 month ago | 
businessinsider.com | Lauren Steussy |Kelsey Vlamis |Henry Blodget
2025-05-27T21:43:45Z Share Facebook Email X LinkedIn Copy link lighning bolt icon An icon in the shape of a lightning bolt. Impact Link Save Saved Read in app This story is available exclusively to Business Insider subscribers. Become an Insider and start reading now. Have an account? Log in. Trump said he will pardon Todd and Julie Chrisley, who were convicted of bank fraud and tax evasion.
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1 month ago | 
businessinsider.com | Lauren Steussy |Kelsey Vlamis |Henry Blodget
Have you ever secretly brought a friend or partner on a work trip, leaving them to sneak around the hotel while dodging your boss? Brian, a millennial who works in the film industry and asked that we only use his first name, told Business Insider that when he traveled to Cannes Film Festival on a business trip in 2017, a friend secretly crashed in his hotel room. He said he didn't tell his boss because he didn't want to seem unprofessional.
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1 month ago | 
businessinsider.com | Lauren Steussy |Dominick Reuter |Henry Blodget
It's an experience that almost anyone shopping at TJ Maxx, Marshalls, Sierra, or Home Goods eventually has: you're browsing items, see a price tag, and think, "that can't be right."Before you know it, you're a full-blown Maxxinista. As it happens, TJX CEO Ernie Herrman said the company wants you to feel a little suspicious when you encounter a sharp deal. "We want a customer to actually say, 'That almost feels too cheap,'" he said in a quarterly earnings call Wednesday.
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1 month ago | 
businessinsider.com | Lauren Steussy |Katherine Li |Henry Blodget
The "T-word" may soon go the way of DEI and ESG. In the months since President Donald Trump began rolling out his shifting tariff policies, companies have been grappling with how to communicate the impact the policy will have on prices. But consumers may be hearing about that less.
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1 month ago | 
businessinsider.com | Lauren Steussy |Jordan Hart |Henry Blodget
Google cofounder Sergey Brin says now is the time for retired computer scientists to dust off their keyboards. Six years after leaving Alphabet in 2019, Brin is back working on its most ambitious projects. Reports of Brin helping out at Google began to emerge sometime in 2023 after OpenAI rocked the tech industry with ChatGPT's release in 2022. It's clear that Brin is no longer a retired computer scientist.
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businessinsider.com | Lauren Steussy |Katherine Tangalakis-Lippert |Henry Blodget
A week into his appointment, FEMA's new acting chief, David Richardson, held his first town hall for the agency's employees. His May 15 remarks outlined a planned overhaul of the nation's disaster response operations dubbed "FEMA 2.0," tried to reassure staff that the agency is "to a great degree ready" for the 2025 "disaster season," and made clear he plans to carry out President Donald Trump's agenda.
