Sweden can book their place in the next round with a win today against a Dutch side looking to improve on their opening draw against Japan last week. You'll find everything you need to know about where to watch Netherlands vs. Sweden right here, including multiple options to livestream it free from anywhere in the world.

The Netherlands vs. Sweden live stream will be shown on FOX in the US, BBC1 in the UK, SBS in Australia, RTVE in Spain, Tabii in Turkey, and DAZN in a few European nations, among others. All the links you need to access these channels are included below, and we can show you how to tune in to the free broadcasts from anywhere by bypassing international geo-restrictions with a VPN.

For more streaming details and match info for the whole tournament, make sure to check out our official where to watch the World Cup guide.

*Availability for local channels, like FOX, varies by market on Sling TV

• See also: Where to buy World Cup tickets

Where to watch Netherlands vs. Sweden for free

There are some great options for a free livestream of the Netherlands vs. Sweden. Our top picks include SBS On Demand in Australia and BBC1 in the UK. There's also an Arabic-language option via Tabii in Turkey, or Spain's RTVE for Spanish commentary. You'll need to create a free account and sign in for these options, but that's it; no credit cards or other ID paperwork required.

If you're outside any of these countries and want to tune in for free as well, we can help you get around geo-restrictions below. We've tested the VPN servers again today for these channels and checked local TV guides to confirm the matches will be shown.

How to watch Netherlands vs. Sweden from anywhere

As you'll find throughout the 2026 FIFA World Cup, every game will be streaming for free somewhere in the world, as is the case today with the examples mentioned above. You can enjoy these options, even if you're not in one of the free broadcast countries, via the use of a VPN (virtual private network) to bypass geo-restrictions. This will also let you continue using your home streaming services while traveling overseas.

These easy-to-use VPN apps let you temporarily digitally alter the location of your device, like your laptop, phone, or streaming stick, to appear as if you were physically in another country, in addition to helping bolster your online security.

NordVPN is our top recommendation for unlocking international streaming services and for digital privacy, and it ranks as the best VPN I've personally tested - and plenty of other tech writers have ranked it #1, too. Nord's global servers are perfect for streaming the World Cup online from anywhere, and the 30-day money-back guarantee makes it a risk-free, affordable spend that you'll have plenty of use for beyond the World Cup.

There are free live streams available for every match of the World Cup. The channels can change game-to-game, but the simplest, most consistent options include SBS in Australia (every game) and BBC or ITV in the UK (every game between them). So it's worth using a VPN to access these streams internationally for the duration of the tournament.

Where to watch Netherlands vs. Sweden in the US

The next 2026 World Cup game airs on FOX in the US today (games are shared between FOX and FS1 throughout the tournament). So if you have these channels in your package already, or can access them via an antenna, you're all set.

If this is the jolt you need to finally join the world of cord-cutters to pick up a deal with a wider selection of channels, you'll find that the best live TV streaming services we've tested are a great place to start. Let's break down your specific options, all of which can be canceled at any time, with no contracts required.

YouTube TV is one of the best options right now for FOX and FS1, and we have an exclusive offer for you: save $15 a month for your first five months after your free trial, bringing the monthly price down to $67.99. That's a $75 saving if you keep it for five months, but you're free to cancel at any time.

Fubo Sports + News is another great choice, with 25 other channels and ESPN Unlimited bundled in for $46 for your first month ($56 after), and you can cancel at any time. It also includes a 5-day free trial.

Sling TV is another option, but it's not a good fit for all US World Cup fans, as FOX channels aren't available everywhere. Be sure to check coverage options in your zipcode before joining up. If you get the green light, look for the Sling Select or Sling Blue plans, as they both include FOX and FS1. Sling Select is the cheapest at $25 a month, and Sling Blue is $51, but offers more channels.

If you'd prefer Spanish coverage, there's a great-value deal: you can find it on Peacock Premium for just $11 a month. This covers every match of the tournament. Subtitles are also in Spanish.

Where to watch Netherlands vs. Sweden in the UK

As with any World Cup or Euro tournament, the BBC and ITV continue to share free coverage for football fans in the UK, meaning the BBC iPlayer and ITVX websites/apps are great places to enjoy all the action online.

BBC1 has full coverage and a free live stream of Netherlands vs. Sweden today. You'll need to create a free login to watch online.

Where to watch Netherlands vs. Sweden in Australia

We love it when viewing options are super simple, and Australia has the most straightforward setup for the entire World Cup, as SBS On Demand will be showing every game. Yes, all 104 of them, including Netherlands vs. Sweden.

You'll need to create a free account and sign in before hitting that play button, though.

Note: VPN use is illegal in certain countries, and using VPNs to access region-locked streaming content may constitute a breach of the terms of use for some services. Business Insider does not endorse or condone the illegal use of VPNs.

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New Levels.fyi analyses show how equity grants at frontier tech companies have turned into life-changing sums.

A SpaceX Software Engineer II offer from August 2022 included a $155,000 salary and a $365,000 equity grant that vested over five years. At SpaceX's IPO valuation, that grant is estimated to be worth more than $4 million, assuming it was held.

At Anthropic, engineers who joined in 2023 may now be sitting on equity worth tens of millions of dollars after the AI company's valuation surge.

OpenAI shows a similar pattern, with some 2022 and 2023 equity grants to engineers now valued at over $50 million.

These are not guaranteed windfalls: variables such as vesting, dilution, and lockups mean employees may end up with less. And don't forget those huge tax bills.

Still, these estimates give a real taste of the wealth that Silicon Valley has created — and spread among workers.

Sign up for BI's Tech Memo newsletter here. Reach out to me via email at abarr@businessinsider.com.

• Earnings vary widely across the US, and what constitutes the middle class does too.
• Massachusetts has the highest median household income in the US, while Mississippi has the lowest.
• The middle class is considered to earn between two-thirds and double the median income.

You've been hearing about the K-shaped economy and the shrinking middle class, but what does it actually mean to be in the middle class at all in the US today?

For many, the label can describe a suburban, non-excessive way of life, but the actual income it implies can span a wide range.

A recent SmartAsset study calculated the income needed to be considered middle class in every US state.

The study used the US Census Bureau's 2024 one-year American Community Survey median household income estimates for all 50 states. It applied a variation of the Pew Research Center's definition of middle class — households that earn between two-thirds and double the median income — to identify a middle-class salary range.

Rankings were then determined by comparing the upper limit of middle-class income among states and ranking those earnings from highest to lowest.

In five states, households earning over $200,000 can still be considered middle class, while in seven, you can be counted in the category even with household incomes of under $45,000.

In Massachusetts, the highest-ranked state, a household can earn up to $209,656 and still be considered middle class, while in Mississippi, the lowest-ranked, earning more than $118,254 puts you above the threshold.

Meanwhile, in West Virginia, the second-lowest, a household earning $40,532 can be considered middle class, while in New Jersey, the second-highest, it takes an annual income of $69,529 to do so.

See how much money you really need to earn to be in the middle class in every US state.

ALABAMA

Middle-class range: $44,439 to $133,318

Median household income: $66,659

Rank: 44 out of 50

ALASKA

Middle-class range: $63,777 to $191,330

Median household income: $95,665

Rank: 11

ARIZONA

Middle-class range: $54,324 to $162,972

Median household income: $81,486

Rank: 20

ARKANSAS

Middle-class range: $41,404 to $124,212

Median household income: $62,106

Rank: 47

CALIFORNIA

Middle-class range: $66,766 to $200,298

Median household income: $100,149

Rank: 5

COLORADO

Middle-class range: $64,742 to $194,226

Median household income: $97,113

Rank: 8

CONNECTICUT

Middle-class range: $64,033 to $192,098

Median household income: $96,049

Rank: 10

DELAWARE

Middle-class range: $58,356 to $175,068

Median household income: $87,534

Rank: 13

FLORIDA

Middle-class range: $51,823 to $155,470

Median household income: $77,735

Rank: 26

GEORGIA

Middle-class range: $53,327 to $159,982

Median household income: $79,991

Rank: 23

HAWAII

Middle-class range: $67,163 to $201,490

Median household income: $100,745

Rank: 4

IDAHO

Middle-class range: $54,111 to $162,332

Median household income: $81,166

Rank: 21

ILLINOIS

Middle-class range: $55,474 to $166,422

Median household income: $83,211

Rank: 18

INDIANA

Middle-class range: $47,973 to $143,918

Median household income: $71,959

Rank: 41

IOWA

Middle-class range: $50,334 to $151,002

Median household income: $75,501

Rank: 34

KANSAS

Middle-class range: $50,343 to $151,028

Median household income: $75,514

Rank: 33

KENTUCKY

Middle-class range: $43,017 to $129,052

Median household income: $64,526

Rank: 46

LOUISIANA

Middle-class range: $40,657 to $121,972

Median household income: $60,986

Rank: 48

MAINE

Middle-class range: $50,961 to $152,884

Median household income: $76,442

Rank: 30

MARYLAND

Middle-class range: $68,603 to $205,810

Median household income: $102,905

Rank: 3

MASSACHUSETTS

Middle-class range: $69,885 to $209,656

Median household income: $104,828

Rank: 1 (the highest middle-class ceiling in the US)

MICHIGAN

Middle-class range: $48,259 to $144,778

Median household income: $72,389

Rank: 37

MINNESOTA

Middle-class range: $58,078 to $174,234

Median household income: $87,117

Rank: 14

MISSISSIPPI

Middle-class range: $39,418 to $118,254

Median household income: $59,127

Rank: 50 (the lowest middle-class ceiling in the US)

MISSOURI

Middle-class range: $47,726 to $143,178

Median household income: $71,589

Rank: 42

MONTANA

Middle-class range: $50,227 to $150,680

Median household income: $75,340

Rank: 35

NEBRASKA

Middle-class range: $50,917 to $152,752

Median household income: $76,376

Rank: 31

NEVADA

Middle-class range: $54,089 to $162,268

Median household income: $81,134

Rank: 22

NEW HAMPSHIRE

Middle-class range: $66,521 to $199,564

Median household income: $99,782

Rank: 6

NEW JERSEY

Middle-class range: $69,529 to $208,588

Median household income: $104,294

Rank: 2

NEW MEXICO

Middle-class range: $45,211 to $135,632

Median household income: $67,816

Rank: 43

NEW YORK

Middle-class range: $57,213 to $171,640

Median household income: $85,820

Rank: 15

NORTH CAROLINA

Middle-class range: $49,305 to $147,916

Median household income: $73,958

Rank: 36

NORTH DAKOTA

Middle-class range: $51,914 to $155,742

Median household income: $77,871

Rank: 25

OHIO

Middle-class range: $48,141 to $144,424

Median household income: $72,212

Rank: 39

OKLAHOMA

Middle-class range: $44,099 to $132,296

Median household income: $66,148

Rank: 45

OREGON

Middle-class range: $56,813 to $170,440

Median household income: $85,220

Rank: 16

PENNSYLVANIA

Middle-class range: $51,697 to $155,090

Median household income: $77,545

Rank: 27

RHODE ISLAND

Middle-class range: $55,669 to $167,008

Median household income: $83,504

Rank: 17

SOUTH CAROLINA

Middle-class range: $48,233 to $144,700

Median household income: $72,350

Rank: 38

SOUTH DAKOTA

Middle-class range: $51,254 to $153,762

Median household income: $76,881

Rank: 29

TENNESSEE

Middle-class range: $47,998 to $143,994

Median household income: $71,997

Rank: 40

TEXAS

Middle-class range: $53,147 to $159,442

Median household income: $79,721

Rank: 24

UTAH

Middle-class range: $64,439 to $193,316

Median household income: $96,658

Rank: 9

VERMONT

Middle-class range: $55,153 to $165,460

Median household income: $82,730

Rank: 19

VIRGINIA

Middle-class range: $61,393 to $184,180

Median household income: $92,090

Rank: 12

WASHINGTON

Middle-class range: $66,259 to $198,778

Median household income: $99,389

Rank: 7

WEST VIRGINIA

Middle-class range: $40,532 to $121,596

Median household income: $60,798

Rank: 49

WISCONSIN

Middle-class range: $51,659 to $154,976

Median household income: $77,488

Rank: 28

WYOMING

Middle-class range: $50,355 to $151,064

Median household income: $75,532

Rank: 32

• Jacob Bennett used a pitch deck to recruit his brother, Nathan, to his fintech startup.
• Nathan reached out to their grandfather, who is in business with his brother, for advice.
• Their grandfather told them to keep ego out of their business and not talk badly about each other.

This as-told-to essay is based on a conversation with Nathan Bennett, co-founder of Crux Analytics. It has been edited for length and clarity.

When my brother started asking me more and more questions about the financial technology company he wanted to start, I could see where things were heading.

Jacob's great with big ideas, and he had identified a problem in the market. He needed my engineering expertise to make his solution a reality.

One day, about three years ago, Jacob asked me to read his pitch deck for accuracy. The last slide was the team. There was Jacob, and next to him was my name. Under my bio, it said something along the lines of "Nathan knows he wants to jump ship from his job to work with his brother."

Jacob was right; we'd always had a dream of building something together. But I've always been the more cautious brother. Leaving my well-established career in medical devices felt risky. So, I reached out to our grandfather, Michael, to help me make the decision.

My grandpa is in his 90s and still working with his brother

Michael has been in business with his own brother, Maurice, for more than 70 years. Today they're 91 and 93, and they still work together. Most of their career has been in women's fashion, and more recently in men's shoes.

I told my grandfather to give me the good, the bad, and the ugly of working with your brother. I knew that if a startup didn't work out, I had other career options I could fall back on.

But I worried that being in business together might alter the great sibling dynamic that Jacob and I have.

We each have our own skillset

My grandfather said he and Maurice had different areas of expertise and different strengths, so they were never trying to prove anything to each other. No one had to assert dominance because they each filled different niches.

Like Michael and Maurice, Jacob and I have very different skill sets. Jacob's got the big ideas, and I'm the planner. If we were on a hike, Jacob would just start walking and figure it out, while I would analyze every possible route.

Jacob jokes we're like the Transformer toys that were popular when we were growing up in the 90s. We each have our own superpowers, but when you put us together, we become something even stronger.

We're intentional in how we talk about each other

Our grandfather had another piece of advice. He and our grandfather are very close with Maurice and his wife; they even live within walking distance of each other.

When Michael and Maurice started in business together, our grandfather told our grandmother that the friendship between the couples was always going to come first.

Sometimes, that meant my grandfather didn't tell my grandmother everything that happened during his day. He never wanted a little tiff at work or disagreement to cloud his wife's ideas about Maurice.

That's an example Jacob and I follow. We're very careful about how we talk about each other and the business with other family members.

Business has kept our family close

Being in business with my brother, I know with absolute certainty, all the time, that Jacob has my best interest at heart. There's almost a telepathic connection between us, and a lot that doesn't need to be said.

Partnerships with friends or co-founders might come close, but they don't have that same foundation that we've been building since Jacob was born.

Because our grandfather is in business with his brother, our families have been extremely close. When I called my grandfather that day, he emphasized that above all else, working with his brother has been fun and rewarding.

That's the legacy Jacob and I hope to carry on.

• The White Horse Tavern in Rhode Island is the oldest operating restaurant in the country.
• The restaurant opened in 1673, over a century before the start of the Revolutionary War.
• It's now a fine-dining establishment that pays homage to classic New England fare.

Years before the Revolutionary War and the Salem witch trials — and long before the United States even existed — this iconic Rhode Island restaurant was already serving up classic New England fare.

The White Horse Tavern, housed in a distinctive red colonial building in the quaint seaside city of Newport, dates back to 1673, making it the oldest restaurant in Rhode Island and one of the oldest continuously operating restaurants in the United States.

It is also widely recognized as the 10th-oldest operating restaurant in the world, drawing international attention and making it a popular destination for visitors.

A witness to America's earliest history

Originally built in 1652 as the home of merchant Francis Brinley, the property later became a tavern where locals, sailors, and other travelers gathered for food, drinks, and conversation.

During a time when public meeting places were scarce and when Newport was one of the busiest ports in the colonies, the tavern operated as a hub for the Colony's General Assembly, Criminal Court, and City Council, according to the restaurant's website.

The tavern also played a small role in the Revolutionary War era, when British troops and loyalists were quartered there during the British occupation of Newport in the late 1770s.

While The White Horse Tavern is often cited as one of the world's oldest restaurants, its run wasn't entirely uninterrupted. The building underwent a major restoration beginning in 1954 and reopened as a restaurant in 1957 after several years of closure.

That distinction separates it from establishments such as Boston's Union Oyster House, which has operated continuously since 1826 and is recognized as one of the oldest continuously operating restaurants in the United States.

Today, the White Horse Tavern is recognized as a National Historic Landmark, and many of its original historic features remain intact. Thick wooden beams stretch across the ceilings, fireplaces crackle during colder months, and candlelit white-tablecloth dining room tables help transport guests back in time.

An evolving menu

The menu highlights products sourced from Rhode Island and the surrounding region, including local seafood, artisanal cheeses, and honey, as well as classic British dishes like beef Wellington and Scotch eggs.

While some items are on the pricier side — the beef Wellington costs $59 — the menu has received favorable reviews, with guests praising the restaurant's "top-notch" service, traditional New England food, and upscale atmosphere.

For visitors to Newport, a meal at The White Horse Tavern offers more than dinner. It provides a rare opportunity to experience history firsthand, one bite at a time.

The US was once the biggest denim manufacturer in the world. But after decades of competition from cheaper foreign factories, the country that popularized jeans has lost almost every denim mill. We went inside Mount Vernon Mills, one of the oldest factories left in the US, to find out how it has made it this far. We also toured Crescent Bahuman, a high-tech facility in Pakistan, to see what it takes for American companies to compete with mass producers abroad.

• Margaret Burke, who lives in Taiwan, helps manage her mother's remote care in Myrtle Beach.
• Burke's mother lives in a budget-friendly condo that offers meals, activities, and communal events.
• Burke said living away from her mother has worked out well, but she wants to move back to the US.

This as-told-to essay is based on a conversation with Margaret Burke, 62, who lives in Taiwan and is caring remotely for her 91-year-old mother in Myrtle Beach, South Carolina. Burke, who works as a patent attorney, said this arrangement has allowed her mom to age well in a condo while she can live independently and save for her own long-term care. This interview has been edited for length and clarity.

I have lived in Asia for 18 years, working as a patent attorney. During the tech crash in the early 2000s, I was working for a startup. I wanted to get out, so I got a job in Tokyo. I later moved to Hong Kong, then came back to the US for a few years to deal with family stuff. I got my mom into a retirement community in Virginia, then went back to Hong Kong, where I started a firm. We had a branch office in Taiwan, so I decided to relocate.

Over the years, I have assisted family members with housing. I knew it would be the right thing to help my mother find the best place possible because I owe her so much, as she helped me raise my daughter as a single parent.

My mother moved into a very affordable condo

My mother worked for over 20 years as a paralegal for a town on Long Island. She has a small pension and gets Social Security. She is 91 and, at 85, moved to a condo in Myrtle Beach. She had wanted to move closer to the ocean and get out of the rat race of Northern Virginia, a very congested area.

It's a standard condo that she owns, but it includes a daily meal, mostly dinners, and various other services, like a bus to the supermarket and field trips. It isn't a luxury development, as it features both highly affordable condos, typically $40,000 to $70,000, and affordable monthly fees. These range from a little over $1,000 for a studio to about $2,500 for a two-bedroom, and include meals, all utilities, activities, a pool, and other amenities. There are gardening sessions, exercise classes, Bible study groups, and movie nights.

I paid around $62,000 for her condo and put it in her name. She's paid the monthly fee, which was $1,700 when she moved in and has increased to over $2,000 a month for a bigger unit. It's about 860 square feet for her two-bedroom apartment. The other money she uses for expenses like car insurance, though she's just given up driving. She's lived frugally here, and it hasn't been hard.

She's always on the go, often shopping, going for walks, or taking day trips to museums. Sometimes she crochets with friends. She and I have met many residents' families.

There are very few places like this in the US

There are a few other examples of this condo model across the country in states like Virginia, but we hadn't encountered this before looking. As baby boomers age, they will be needed more and more. They keep prices low because it's not a management company; the condo hires its own management, which hires its own maintenance. A few engineers keep the property running.

Many people here have lived to over 100, including my mother's friend, who died last year at 103. They're a very involved group and have lived fascinating lives. Some require more assistance than others and call in outside caregivers, and some are on Medicaid. A few have tried out assisted living and hated it.

I do own a unit there that I bought for my brother, who was dying of brain tumors and lived there for a year and a half before passing away in December. It was also a blessing for him. I have stayed there for several months while helping my brother. I can attest that many people in their 90s are living healthy, independent lives because of all these services, including the man who moved into my brother's place, a retired pastor who is 93.

So many people, including many of the people living where my mom does, cannot afford assisted living, so if their health declines, their children help or sometimes caregivers. What I've noticed over the years is a consolidation of what were formerly independent living communities, which has significantly increased costs.

I want to spend time with my mom

I will likely be moving back to the US with my mother this summer or fall. She doesn't need the help, but I want to. She's great fun, and I want to spend time with her. I have permanent residency here, so I can move back at any time. I've stayed here as long as I have because I had breast cancer, and Taiwan's medical system is among the highest-rated in the world. It was quite efficient, and from diagnosis to the surgery table, it took 13 days.

It's allowed me to live more comfortably halfway across the globe while knowing my mom has been in good hands. I know I want something like this when I'm her age. I know that my 37-year-old daughter in Manhattan isn't going to give up her life to take care of me.

I know I have only so many years left with her, and I want to enjoy every moment we have. I plan on doing day trips and drives with her while she's still relatively mobile. With computers, I can do what I do from anywhere.

I want other people to have the peace of mind that I've had for the last six years. There is this "third path" between independent living and assisted living that is affordable for most middle-income seniors.

• Every few years, I take each of my three kids on a trip and let them plan it.
• Traveling with them individually helps me get to know them outside our family dynamic.
• It also means they get to make decisions without the input of their siblings.

Every few years, I take each of my three kids on a trip for just the two of us. They pick the destination, and I help plan as much (or as little) as they want. What I love most about these trips is how much I learn about who my kids are outside our family dynamics, away from siblings, routines, and the roles they've settled into at home.

The trips started years ago

The year my third baby was born, my eldest turned 5 and started kindergarten. With a newborn and a 2-year-old also in the house, I wanted to set aside some time just for her, and my husband and I agreed that a weekend trip to Disneyland during fall break would be ideal. She loved rollercoasters and Minnie Mouse, and it was a short flight away from us.

A couple of years later, my middle child asked if he could take a trip like his sister had (the pictures and the stories endured), while my oldest asked to visit her best friend, who had moved to Seattle. Taking a family of five to Seattle on top of another trip to Disney wasn't practical, so I ended up planning two separate solo trips, and a tradition was born.

I learn a lot when it's just two of us traveling together

On a trip to Seattle, with my oldest, I climbed to the top of the Space Needle and rode The Seattle Great Wheel despite a serious fear of heights. At Disneyland, my middle traded a day of roller coasters for character meet-and-greets, and I discovered he always wants a midday rest, a preference that can be hard to accommodate when traveling as a family. On my youngest's recent first solo trip, we swam in the hotel pool right up until the minute we needed to leave for the airport. He hopped out, changed his swim trunks for shorts in the bathroom, and we made our flight, just barely.

When I travel with one child, they get to make every single decision without the noise of sibling input. It's fascinating to see what food, activities, and bedtimes they pick when it's just the two of us. My youngest prefers sticking close to a specific area, especially pools, beaches, and aquatic activities. My middle is a great adventurer. He's led me to national parks, Chinatown for "real Chinese food," and historic sites like Alcatraz. And I've watched my oldest's preferences change as she matures into a teen, from Minnie Mouse and kiddie coasters to going to Portland for brunch and to hit up Powell's bookstore.

On these trips, no one is there to yuck their yum, so they suggest things they'd likely never pitch at home. We can linger as long as they want at whatever captures their attention, change our plans mid-day, and talk about what's happening in their lives back home with no interruptions.

I'll travel with my kids for as long as they'll let me

I'm getting ready for the third adventure with my oldest, and these trips have become my favorite way to get a closer look at who each of my kids actually is right now, rather than who they become through our family shorthand. Maybe the same is true for how they see me.

The best takeaway for me, though, is that trips like this remind me how you can get to know someone better by traveling with them. Even after years of knowing them, even after being their parent all that time. And my hope is that one day, when they are adults and I'm much older, they'll still invite me to explore new corners of the world with them.

• Realtor.com ranked all 50 states and DC based on housing affordability and homebuilding.
• Each state received grades from A to F, with A being the best.
• The best US states for affordability and new-home construction are largely in the Midwest and South.

It's a tough real estate market no matter where you live, but some parts of the US are faring better than others.

Realtor.com released its annual housing report card on Monday, grading all 50 states and Washington, DC, from A to F based on how affordable homes are there and how much new housing is being built.

Joel Berner, a senior economist at Realtor.com, told Business Insider that homebuilding is an important indicator of a housing ecosystem because it signals how affordable homes will be over time.

"Without new homes being built, affordability will suffer under constrained home supply," he said.

Once again, the best-performing states — those earning either an A or a B grade — were concentrated mostly in the Midwest and South, regions known for their lower cost of living and abundance of relatively affordable homes.

Indiana ranked No. 1, largely because incomes there are relatively high compared with home prices, giving buyers more affordable options. But Berner said the state's "unremarkable" new-home construction could point to affordability problems in the future.

At the other end of the ranking, states that received grades between C and F were largely concentrated in the West and New England. Berner said building in these states is often slower and more expensive because of zoning rules, permitting delays, and building codes. As a result, they struggle to compete with states in the middle of the country, where land is cheaper, and building is generally easier.

Below are the 10 best and worst states in the US for affordability and homebuilding, according to Realtor.com.

Median listing prices and median household incomes for these states are from Realtor.com. Population data for each state is from the US Census Bureau.

The 10 best states for homebuilding and affordability

10. Oklahoma

• Grade: B
• Median listing price: $299,000
• Median Household income: $65,000
• Population: 4,123,288

9. Arkansas

• Grade: B
• Median listing price: $300,000
• Median Household income: $61,000
• Population: 3,114,791

8. South Dakota

• Grade: B
• Median listing price: $379,000
• Median Household income: $77,000
• Population: 935,094

7. Delaware

• Grade: B
• Median listing price: $486,000
• Median Household income: $88,000
• Population: 1,059,952

6. Nebraska

• Grade: B+
• Median listing price: $346,000
• Median Household income: $77,000
• Population: 2,018,006

5. North Carolina

• Grade: B+
• Median listing price: $299,000
• Median Household income: $65,000
• Population: 11,197,968

4. Texas

• Grade: A-
• Median listing price: $300,000
• Median Household income: $61,000
• Population: 31,709,821

3. South Carolina

• Grade: A
• Median listing price: $379,000
• Median Household income: $77,000
• Population: 5,570,274

2. Iowa

• Grade: A
• Median listing price: $486,000
• Median Household income: $88,000
• Population: 3,238,387

1. Indiana

• Grade: A
• Median listing price: $346,000
• Median Household income: $77,000
• Population: 6,973,333

The 10 worst states for homebuilding and affordability

10. New Hampshire

Grade: D+

Median listing price: $586,123

Median Household income: $96,809

Population: 1,409,032

9. New Jersey

Grade: D

Median listing price: $556,344

Median Household income: $99,357

Population: 9,500,851

8. Montana

Grade: D

Median listing price: $628,387

Median Household income: $72,066

Population: 1,137,233

7. Oregon

Grade: D-

Median listing price: $564,005

Median Household income: $80,356

Population: 4,272,371

6. Connecticut

Grade: F

Median listing price: $518,892

Median Household income: $95,392

Population: 3,675,069

5. California

Grade: F

Median listing price: $742,305

Median Household income: $95,065

Population: 39,431,263

4. Hawaii

Grade: F

Median listing price: $767,360

Median Household income: $94,556

Population: 1,446,146

3. Rhode Island

Grade: F

Median listing price: $563,235

Median Household income: $85,698

Population: 1,112,308

2. Massachusetts

Grade: F

Median listing price: $763,660

Median Household income: $98,170

Population: 7,136,171

1. New York

Grade: F

Median listing price: $668,173

Median Household income: $82,657

Population: 19,867,248

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Apple has a habit of showing up late to the tech party and still being the best-dressed. It might do it again with the new Siri in iOS 27 this fall.

Right now, Siri is bad — and that's not a harsh take. Ali has ChatGPT pinned to his iPhone's home screen. I have Gemini in a prime spot for quick access to a genuinely useful AI assistant.

These are the habits Apple is up against. But I'm using Gemini less after a few days of test-driving the first iOS 27 beta and years of dunking on Siri. It turns out Siri's new intelligence is based on Gemini models.

One nice update is that Siri AI (as Apple calls it) indexes your phone to capture details from texts, emails, notes, and calendar events. I got answers to queries like "when's my next personal training session?" and "by when do I have to cancel the hotel reservation for a refund?" Siri could fish out the answers to my somewhat vague prompts.

It's convenient to have a dedicated Siri app, too. I find its responses less flattering and more concise than those of other LLMs.

At long last, Siri impressively draws on real-world knowledge. While watching the Knicks parade, I showed Siri a photo and played dumb. It knew exactly what was happening and why. It also gave me helpful commuting tips when I asked, pulling from relevant local news sources.

Siri is not yet excellent. It still sometimes misunderstands my non-American accent (Gemini usually doesn't). And I can't get Siri to answer activity-related questions because it needs access to my Health app (it has access).

This is, of course, a first beta experience. But my hunch is that come this fall, when the masses get access, Siri will be at least better than bad.

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My mom got sick, then gradually, and then all at once.

In 2014, she survived a subarachnoid aneurysm that ruptured while she was driving on the West Virginia Turnpike. After stabilizing, she spent six months recovering with me in South Carolina before heading back to her townhouse in my hometown of Charleston, West Virginia.

Unfortunately, her return was short-lived. Mom had a small stroke a year later, followed by a second, more serious stroke in 2016. The doctors told her it was no longer safe to live alone.

Mom had dedicated almost 50 years to teaching children in some of the poorest public schools in the country. She had also been my father's caregiver after an accident rendered him nearly paraplegic. She had a long, hard, and beautiful life. I wanted to care for her.

But neither of us had a financial cushion, so Mom moved in with me and my two sons — then 13 and 10 — in August 2016.

A decade later, I'm still paying off the debt I accrued through the years.

We had to pay several medical costs when insurance wouldn't

Being a caregiver isn't easy — mentally, emotionally, physically, or financially.

In the early days, everyday expenses were manageable because Mom contributed a chunk of her pension to help cover household bills. Our biggest financial challenge was a constant stream of out-of-pocket medical expenses and copays.

For example, after her stroke, Mom's right hand was non-functional. We pursued specialized hand therapy, paying out of pocket initially because the insurance company questioned its medical necessity.

When insurance finally approved the treatment, they refused to cover the number of sessions ordered. My mom and I shared these costs — whoever had money at the time. There were several occasions when we had to delay an appointment to ensure the bill was paid. Mom finished the recommended course entirely out of pocket once coverage ceased.

Combined with occupational therapy, physical therapy, and an endless array of medical devices, these compounding costs made money extremely tight.

There were indirect financial hits, too

For most of the past two decades, I have worked for myself. When my mom moved in, I was doing freelance and part-time work with very little margin for error.

There is zero way I could have cared for my mother had I held a traditional full-time job. Even with a flexible schedule, keeping all the balls in the air was incredibly difficult.

In 2016, my day was tightly scheduled around caregiving and parenting, leaving little room for work. My sons split their time between their father and me, and my ex's mom was often a big help.

However, a typical schedule when they were with me meant going non-stop.

When you're self-employed, if you aren't working, you aren't earning. This routine allowed about 4 hours and 15 minutes of daytime work.

Obviously, when the boys were at their dad's house, I had more time to work, but often that was when we scheduled more of Mom's appointments.

In 2018, I made just $6,400 above the poverty level for a family of three because I barely had time to work.

Despite assistance from Mom's pension, these years were a struggle.

I wish we'd put her into hospice sooner to save money

After a bad fall in 2020, Mom returned home in constant pain and required significantly more help. Her circadian rhythm was disrupted, causing her to wake up confused in the middle of the night, convinced it was time to get the boys ready for school. She was considerably more anxious.

My role transitioned from caregiver to nurse. I was running on empty, sleep-deprived, and in a constant state of fight-or-flight hyperarousal.

However, medical and self-care supplies not covered by Medicare quickly drained my income, regardless of Mom's pension.

Had we accessed hospice care earlier, it would have alleviated these costs and provided vital support. Like many, we delayed asking for hospice because we misunderstood the system.

Hospice isn't solely for the actively dying; it is available months earlier for patients experiencing rapid health decline, increased difficulty with daily tasks, and uncontrolled symptoms like chronic pain. Furthermore, once in hospice care, Medicare, Medicaid, and most private insurers cover certain medical supplies, equipment, and personal care products.

Fearing that hospice would signal to my mother that we were giving up, we stuck it out until what turned out to be the final three weeks of her life. That delay harmed both her quality of life and my finances.

The grief of my mom's death only worsened my financial situation

My mother died on March 16, 2022, at 3 a.m., while I held her hand, stroked her hair, and sang to her.

Caring for her was a privilege that taught me so much about human dignity, patience, and unconditional love. However, the financial and emotional toll did not stop when she passed.

For months afterward, I suffered from awful nightmares and severe complex PTSD from a lack of understanding of what I'd seen and heard — like her agonal breathing — in the process of Mom actively dying.

Paralyzed by trauma, loss, and a sudden "black void" of time, I couldn't work efficiently. It took until 2025 to finally begin digging out of the financial hole.

Giving Mom this time was invaluable, but I'm still paying the price

Right after my mother's death, my debt reached $16,972, and I immediately tried working as hard as I could to pay it down. But recent health issues of my own only made my debt grow again.

Many things are more important than money, and caring for a loved one is certainly one of them, but it shouldn't break a person financially.

It's been four years since my mother died, and I'm still struggling and looking for a way out of this financial hole.

• I took my first trip to Italy in October 2022, visiting Venice, Rome, and Milan.
• I made some mistakes when booking and planning my six-day trip that made it less fulfilling.
• I got caught being an annoying tourist and regretted visiting hot spots like the Colosseum in Rome.

I never thought I'd be that annoying tourist until one afternoon in Venice. I didn't imagine I would regret touring the Colosseum in Rome. I couldn't have predicted I'd feel sour about spending one night in Milan.

This was back in October 2022, when I took my first trip to Italy as part of a two-week backpacking trip through Europe. I traveled by train to four countries and spent six days exploring Venice, Rome, and Milan.

I was just one year into my career as a travel reporter. I hadn't yet learned that I'd make mistakes on every trip — especially when visiting a new place — and that's OK.

Looking back, my first Italian adventure could have been even more fulfilling and sustainable if I'd known a few things beforehand.

My first mistake was squeezing three cities into a six-day trip.

My trip to Italy felt like a race through three destinations in six short days. It began with a two-night stay in Venice, and before I knew it, I was off to Rome. Roughly 48 hours later, I was on the train to Milan, where I spent just one night before hopping on a train to another European city.

Traveling this quickly made me feel like I was always rushing. Going all the way to Milan for a single night didn't satisfy me. If I had chosen a single destination, I would have been more present during my trip — and more environmentally conscious.

Justin Francis, cofounder of the UK-based sustainable vacation company Responsible Travel, previously told Business Insider that longer stays are better for the planet than quick visits.

"Fewer but longer trips mean fewer air miles, more money in local hands, and you'll have a more relaxing trip, too," Francis said.

I thought visiting in October would help me avoid crowds. I was wrong.

Traveling to Europe in the summer doesn't seem like a good idea. During peak season, the continent's hottest destinations are overwhelmed with tourists.

That's why I booked my trip for October, during shoulder season, the time between peak and off-seasons. I thought the timing of my trip would help me avoid long lines and obstructed views.

Well, I was wrong. In Venice and Rome, I shuffled down cobblestone streets with pedestrian traffic jams. I dragged my feet over tourist-packed bridges. I viewed ancient sites like the Colosseum through the phone screens of people standing in front of me.

It seems the word is out about shoulder season. So next time I go to Italy, I'll take a winter trip.

In Venice, I shouldn't have booked my stay outside the city.

Spending two nights in a castle for $360 was an offer I couldn't pass up. After all, it was a unique opportunity to sleep like a queen in the tower of Castello di Roncade, just a half-hour drive from Venice.

Though my stay was marvelous and a steal for the price point, I felt regret after learning that daytrippers can worsen overtourism in places like Venice by adding to the crowds without spending on accommodations. By not spending the night in the city itself, I wasn't contributing as much as I could have to the local economy.

As a first-time tourist, I should have researched etiquette before my trip.

When it comes to tourism etiquette, I was wrong to assume my own sense of common courtesy would serve me well.

After a walking tour in Venice, I hoped to sit down for lunch, but all the restaurants I passed were packed. Hungry and hot, I eventually cut my losses and stood in line for gelato before sitting on a shaded step to enjoy it.

As I was about to take my first bite, the nearby authorities waved their hands up and down at me — a gesture I could only take to mean "get up."

And there I was, committing an etiquette violation that, according to the City of Venice, may result in a fine of 100 to 200 euros.

I never would have guessed this was considered rude since sitting on steps in a public space is normal in my home city, New York. So in the future, when visiting new countries, I'll always research etiquette rules beforehand.

If I could do it again, I'd be more aimless.

In Rome and Venice, I had a rigid schedule. I booked tours and planned every hour of my day to cover as many sights as possible. Every place I ventured to was one I'd seen repeatedly in films and on Instagram. Seeing these famous places in person was fascinating, but I felt like I was missing out on a sense of wonder.

When I got to Milan, I dropped the agenda and walked around the city in hopes of discovering something on my own.

It paid off. I stumbled upon a 15th-century castle I'd never seen on social media — Castello Sforzesco. Walking through the gate, I felt like I'd stepped into a fairy tale. Brick walls and towers lush with overgrown vines surrounded me.

Exploring the grounds of this castle was more fulfilling than the gondola ride in Venice or the Colosseum tour in Rome. And I think that's because I wasn't expecting it.

Next time I go to Italy, I'll make time to find more surprises.

Amazon Prime Day, which starts on June 23, is one of the biggest shopping events of the year, with discounts on everything from laptops and TVs to air fryers, vitamins, and paper towels. But if you've ever opened Amazon during Prime Day and somehow ended up with a cart full of things you didn't know existed an hour earlier, you're not alone.

The reality is that Prime Day deals are designed to keep you browsing. Between Lightning Deals, limited-time offers, and endless product recommendations, it's easy to mistake spending money for saving money.

That's why I asked deals editors for the Prime Day shopping tips they actually use themselves. Their advice isn't about obsessively refreshing the Amazon deals page or waiting until the exact right hour to buy. Instead, it's about shopping smarter, tracking prices, and making sure you're getting genuine Prime Day savings on products you actually want.

Here are the best Prime Day hacks our deals team swears by.

1. Start with a wish list, not the Prime Day deals page

If you only follow one Prime Day shopping tip, make it this one: Start with a wishlist.

Before Prime Day begins, figure out what products you already need or have been planning to buy. Then add them to your Amazon cart or create a dedicated list.

It sounds simple, but it's one of the easiest ways to avoid impulse purchases during Prime Day. Instead of scrolling through thousands of discounts, you'll immediately be able to see whether the items you actually want have dropped in price.

This also makes it much easier to spot a genuinely good Prime Day deal. Rather than wondering whether a random gadget is worth buying because it's 40% off, you can focus on products you've already researched and planned to purchase.

2. Check your Subscribe & Save items before Prime Day

Prime Day isn't just for big-ticket purchases. It's also one of the best times to stock up on everyday essentials.

"I often order a few extra bottles of my multivitamins during Prime Day because they're always discounted, and then I just pause my subscription for a few months until I need them again," says Sally Kaplan, executive editor of Business Insider Reviews. "It saves me a lot of money on things I'd be buying anyway."

This strategy works especially well for products you regularly buy through Amazon Subscribe & Save, including vitamins, pet supplies, toiletries, cleaning products, and pantry staples.

When Prime Day starts, take a few minutes to review your subscriptions. If one of your recurring purchases gets a deeper Prime Day discount than your usual Subscribe & Save price, it may make sense to stock up while the deal lasts.

3. Set Prime Day deal alerts ahead of time

One of the easiest ways to miss a great Prime Day deal is assuming you'll remember to check for it later.

"If there's something you have your eye on for Prime Day, set a deal alert now through Alexa, and it will let you know when that item — or like items — goes on sale," says Jaclyn Turner, senior home editor. "You can also customize it by brands or price thresholds you're looking for."

Deal alerts are especially useful for popular Prime Day categories like Apple products, robot vacuums, headphones, and kitchen appliances, where discounts can disappear quickly.

Instead of constantly checking prices, you'll get notified when a product hits the price you're waiting for. It's a much less stressful way to shop on Prime Day.

As an added bonus, Jaclyn notes that Amazon is currently running a sweepstakes that automatically enters shoppers who try some of its price-drop features.

4. Don't overlook Amazon Haul

If you haven't explored Amazon Haul yet, Prime Day might be a good time to start.

"Last year, during Prime Day, I found my new favorite way to shop on Amazon, with Amazon Haul," Jaclyn says. "It's a separate shopping interface with even more savings, and sometimes its prices beat the sale prices on a normal listing."

While many listings on Amazon Haul skew toward generic items, Turner recommends filtering by premium brands to uncover some surprisingly good deals.

"Last year, I scored a five-pack of Florence by Mills underwear for under $10," she said. It's not necessarily the fastest way to shop, but if you're hunting for Prime Day bargains, it's worth checking whether the item you're considering — or a similar alternative — is available for less through Haul.

5. If you spot a genuinely great deal, don't always wait

Deals editors spend a lot of time telling readers to be patient. But sometimes the best move is simply buying the thing.

"I purposely ignore any sale headline that starts with the word 'Run!' or 'Hurry!' but there are a few early deals that you shouldn't snooze on," says Bronwyn Barnes, deputy editor.

While many Prime Day discounts improve once the event officially begins, that's not always true. Lightning Deals can sell out. Popular products can go out of stock. And some of the best early Prime Day deals end up being the lowest prices we'll see until Black Friday.

Barnes recently broke her own rule and purchased the Breville Smart Oven Air Fryer Pro before Prime Day officially kicked off.

"It was recently named to our new list of the best air fryers, and it's currently 20% off," Barnes said. "I checked out the new Alexa for Shopping price tracker for the product and saw that it's at the lowest price since last spring and probably won't drop more until the Black Friday sales. So I clicked the Buy Now button."

The lesson? If you've done your research and the price is historically low, don't let the fear of missing an extra few dollars stop you from buying.

6. Compare Prime Day prices with other retailers

One of the biggest Prime Day myths is that Amazon always has the lowest price.

In reality, retailers like Walmart, Target, Best Buy, Nordstrom, and even brands' own websites often launch competing sales during Prime Day week.

Before checking out, take a minute to compare prices elsewhere. You may find the same discount — or an even better one — outside Amazon. Sometimes competing retailers also offer perks like rewards points, easier returns, or free store pickup.

This is especially important for expensive purchases like TVs, laptops, headphones, vacuums, and kitchen appliances.

7. Look at price history, not just the discount percentage

A giant "50% off" badge can be tempting, but it doesn't always tell the whole story.

Some products spend very little time at their listed retail price, which means the advertised discount may not be as impressive as it looks.

Whenever possible, check a product's recent price history before buying. Amazon's newer shopping tools can help track price drops, and third-party price trackers can show whether the current Prime Day deal is actually the lowest price of the year.

For deals editors, this is one of the quickest ways to separate a genuinely great Prime Day deal from clever marketing.

8. Stack coupons, credits, and extra discounts

One final Prime Day trick: Always look for ways to stack savings.

Many Amazon listings include clickable coupons that apply automatically at checkout. Amazon also frequently offers promotional credits for things like choosing slower shipping, using specific payment methods, buying gift cards, or trying new shopping features.

These discounts don't always make headlines, but they can significantly lower your final total — especially if you're stocking up on household essentials or buying multiple items at once.

Before you hit "Buy Now," take a few extra seconds to see whether there's an additional coupon waiting to be applied.

The bottom line

The best Prime Day deals aren't necessarily the biggest discounts. They're the purchases that save you money on things you were already planning to buy.

Whether you're building a wishlist ahead of time, setting deal alerts, checking Subscribe & Save discounts, or comparing prices across retailers, a little preparation goes a long way.

Prime Day can absolutely be one of the best times of year to shop. Just remember: The goal isn't to buy more stuff. It's to get the best possible price on the stuff you actually want.

• Overemployed workers are facing more challenges than ever, but many are still cashing in.
• Six workers shared how RTO mandates, layoffs, and employee monitoring have changed the game.
• AI, strategic planning, and a bit of luck are helping keep overemployment alive.

Daniel is making more money than ever juggling two full-time jobs — but pulling it off has never been harder.

He's on track to earn roughly $330,000 this year, but a growing list of workplace obstacles is creating headaches and threatening his overemployment setup. Daniel, who is in his 40s and lives in Texas, is one of several workers who asked to use a pseudonym, and Business Insider verified their identities.

Daniel said he used to average 40 to 50 hours a week across his roles, but is now regularly approaching 60 hours per week. Both of his jobs used to be fully remote, but now one requires a couple of office days each month. One employer had layoffs in the past year, and is now asking workers to manually log how they spend their time.

Still, Daniel said the additional income — which has helped him buy multiple rental properties and cover his child's college tuition — keeps him going.

"I can't even imagine going back to just a single job," Daniel said. "I've gotten used to the income."

Over the past three years, Business Insider has interviewed more than two dozen overemployed workers who have used their extra income to buy homes, travel the world, and retire early. But in recent years, holding two jobs in secret has become considerably more difficult amid return-to-office mandates, a tougher job market, and new employee-monitoring measures.

Despite this shifting landscape, interviews with overemployed workers suggest many have adapted rather than abandoned the practice. Some have embraced AI tools to work more efficiently, while others have found ways to navigate return-to-office pressures.

The challenges facing overemployed workers mirror many of the workplace pressures facing Americans more broadly. But for job jugglers, the rewards of successfully navigating those challenges are often far greater.

The strategies keeping overemployment alive

When one of Daniel's employers started requiring occasional in-office work he adapted by bringing his second work laptop to the office and carefully squeezing in work for his other employer when time allowed.

The arrangement works largely because his second job isn't very busy — and because he's not overly worried about getting caught. Daniel said his primary employer is aware he has outside work but seems to care more about the quality of his performance than how he spends every minute of his day.

Meanwhile, that primary job has become considerably busier over the past year. Daniel said AI-powered medical tools have helped offset some of that added workload.

AI has also helped George work more efficiently. He said he uses tools like Claude and Copilot constantly. George started a second remote IT job in 2022, viewing the role as a backup in case his employer mandated a return to the office. When the return-to-office mandate never came, he decided to keep both jobs.

For job jugglers like Reed, who lost four jobs in three years and began juggling multiple roles as a job-security strategy in 2024, avoiding employer detection is critical. He said one of his employers has ramped up oversight of employee activity. Even so, he said he hasn't heard any concerns from managers and tries to stay active and responsive throughout the workday to avoid drawing suspicion.

But avoiding detection doesn't make workers immune to layoffs. Daniel said he's working hard to maintain a reputation as a strong performer, taking on additional responsibilities in one role and positioning himself for a potential promotion.

"I'm actually making an effort to outperform," he said.

The divergent paths of the overemployed

Not every overemployed worker has been able to successfully adapt to growing workplace pressures.

Kelly was earning nearly $300,000 across two full-time remote jobs when one employer asked her to relocate from Arizona to Texas as part of a broader return-to-office push. She delayed the move for as long as she could, but ultimately resigned last fall, cutting her income roughly in half.

Since leaving the role, Kelly has focused on building a business to help replace some of the income she used to support her children as a single mother.

"I still need more money," she said. "I'm back to the drawing board."

Others are looking for ways to preserve the flexibility they gained from overemployment, even after giving up the practice.

Lisa used to earn about $250,000 juggling two jobs, but return-to-office pressure and burnout eventually pushed her to take one hybrid role. When her employer later announced a five-day office mandate, Lisa negotiated an informal arrangement that allowed her to work remotely when needed, typically spending only a few days a week in the office.

Still, some job jugglers aren't just staying afloat — they're thinking bigger.

Job juggling helped Adam pay off more than $100,000 in student debt in about two years, and he's earning more than $200,000 across two remote jobs. Rather than scaling back, Adam said he's looking for new ways to increase his income. With little room for a third job, he's considering other options, including day trading.

"I had a dream that I was making $500,000 a year," he said. "That would be nice to have — invest for a few years, and retire earlier."

But no matter how successfully job jugglers adapt to layoffs, office mandates, and increased scrutiny, many still confront the same hidden threat that can bring even the most carefully managed arrangements to an end: burnout.

"It seems like every day I'm living just to see the next day," Daniel said. "I think I need a vacation or something, but it's doable."

Do you have a story to share about how you're navigating a career crossroads? If so, please reach out to the reporter via email at jzinkula@businessinsider.com, or via Signal at jzinkula.29.

• Ben & Jerry's cofounder says young people should chase their passion, not a big paycheck.
• Ben Cohen said that doing what you love is "worth a lot of money."
• The ice cream legend took aim at billionaires and Ben & Jerry's parent company.

Passion trumps pay when it comes to choosing a career, Ben Cohen says.

Speaking on the sidelines of the SXSW London festival earlier in June, the Ben & Jerry's cofounder shared with Business Insider his advice for young people worried about affordability and AI.

"I was going to say, learn how to be an Uber driver, but Waymo is taking over that shit," Cohen quipped.

On a serious note, he said people should pursue a career "because you love the work, not in order to make money."

Aspiring entrepreneurs should "find a small niche in the market, a void, and fill it," he continued.

Employees should "find a company whose values you resonate with because then your work is meaningful, it's not just getting a paycheck," he added.

Cohen highlighted the deep feeling of purpose and fulfillment that comes from doing what you love.

"You're doing exactly what you want to do, following your passion — that's worth a lot of money," he said.

"I was a starving artist," Cohen continued. "The only reason I became an ice cream man is because nobody would buy my pottery that I was making."

Doing good while doing well

Cohen said he's learned that when it comes to money, "you don't need that much of it" to be happy.

Amassing billions feels "kind of crazy" to him, and only makes sense as "playing football" and seeking to "rack up as many points" as possible.

Cohen said the massive wealth gap between the rich and poor means that possessing that much money isn't justifiable. Nor is having an "economic system that pushes so much money up to the tippy top," he said.

He and his cofounder, Jerry Greenfield, didn't start their ice cream company to become fantastically wealthy, he said.

"We were looking to make a living," Cohen said. "We weren't looking to make a killing."

Cohen said he views business as the "most powerful force in society," and a scaled-up, high-profile company with a social mission "has the potential to do a lot of really good stuff."

Ben & Jerry's is known for allocating a portion of its profits to support refugees, LGBTQ+ rights, climate justice, and other progressive causes.

The business was sold to Unilever in 2000, then spun off as part of The Magnum Ice Cream Company last year. Cohen has been calling for Magnum to sell Ben & Jerry's in recent months as he believes it's not living up to the brand's social values.

Magnum didn't respond to a request for comment.

Business Insider asked Cohen whether he would buy back Ben & Jerry's if someone handed him the required funds. He replied that his goal isn't to own the business; he wants to "preserve the social mission" of the company and have it "owned by investors that agree with it."

"But if somebody gave me a couple of billion, sure, yeah, why not? I'd buy it," he continued, adding that he would want to "spread the wealth" by bringing in more owners at an attractive valuation.

• Fears around AI job loss are justified, said Replika founder Eugenia Kuyda.
• Kuyda said she believes "crazy protests around jobs and AI are going to start happening."
• Despite concerns, the Wabi CEO said she sees AI's potential to enable more people to create.

The founder of the AI chatbot startup Replika says fears about AI eliminating jobs are "justified" — and could eventually trigger widespread backlash and protests.

Eugenia Kuyda, who is also the CEO and founder of AI-powered mini-app platform Wabi, said during a recent live episode of the Platformer podcast that she believes "crazy protests around jobs and AI are going to start happening."

"We'll live in this very optimistic city where it's all about like future, future, future, but as soon as you get out of here, like it's pretty scary," Kuyda told Platformer founder Casey Newton. "People are really struggling to find jobs, and I think this can only get worse."

Kuyda pushed back on the argument that AI will create new jobs the way previous technological revolutions did, saying that companies, including her own, are already scaling back on hiring for entry-level roles.

"Probably tech needs to create a better narrative of how this is going to be, but I don't believe in, 'oh, it's just another technology, and we'll have even more — like radiologists still exist,'" Kuyda said.

"But I'm not hiring people anymore for these junior jobs, and I don't know who is," the AI entrepreneur added.

Hiring a more inexperienced person, she said, "becomes extremely expensive and completely not sustainable for a startup."

"That's like really bad news, frankly," said Kuyda.

Kuyda declined to comment further when contacted by Business Insider.

Despite her concerns about AI's impact on jobs, Kuyda says she's optimistic about the rapidly advancing technology's potential to enable more people to create software and build products on their own.

"I think that the idea that we can all be creators and can kind of channel our creativity a lot more, can build stuff that before was constrained by developers or designers or whatever — I think that's kind of cool," she said.

Kuyda also suggested AI could create an opening for entirely new operating systems, arguing that it may be the first time Apple's iPhone has appeared vulnerable.

"This is probably the first time in history where the iPhone's somewhat fragile," she said. "Maybe there is a way to build a better operating system that's more serving us versus serving companies through the apps that they built."

Chris Gayomali has long been a fashion guy, but in the last few years, he's become a health guy, too.

When he was younger, he drank, smoked, and partied. Then, a blood test in 2018 showed his biomarkers were out of whack. He spent days worrying he was dying, until the doctor called to say they'd made a mistake.

But it was too late. "I was thinking about all my choices and my mortality and I was like, 'Oh, I got to take my health a little bit more seriously,'" Gayomali, dressed head-to-toe in camo and smiling widely, recalls on a video call from New York City.

Bar his rambunctious 4-year-old's unruly sleep schedule that makes it near impossible to get eight hours of shuteye, now 41, the editor of the luxury shopping platform SSENSE has the basics down and tries to keep things simple.

"It's mostly just eating right 80% of the time, trying to get enough sleep, and hitting the gym and working out when you can," he says.

But then there's the more experimental stuff he does, like hyperbaric oxygen therapy, much of which is motivated by his desire to get really good at Muay Thai. Gayomali trains five times a week. "It's the only physical thing I've ever felt addicted to in a healthy way," he says.

As a journalist exploring "the body and the weird things it can do," Gayomali has taken a front-row seat to the most extreme, buzzy health and wellness practices. He has interviewed the evangelized neuroscientist and podcaster, Andrew Huberman and, most recently, embedded himself in the Enhanced Games, the subject of his new podcast.

He chronicles his wellness experiments, like taking nicotine pouches at the gym, for the 7,000 followers of his Substack HEAVIES (named after heavy barbells). He views this world with a critical eye, but it has rubbed off on him.

"It's fun, but I think of it more like the cherry on top," Gayomali says.

For years at Business Insider, I've been reporting on our growing obsession with health optimization, the latest iteration of wellness culture, which is expected to be worth $1.87 trillion by 2034, according to Global Insight Services. People like Gayomali interest me because they are, to some extent, relatable. He has a family and a 9-to-5, but spends 12 hours a week on exercise and recovery, $350 a month on gym memberships, and swears by the occasional NAD+ booster.

He's not trying to cheat death, but is happy to try something a bit wacky if it doesn't carry large risks and might help him feel more awake and perform better at the gym.

Here's Gayomali's routine.

6:30 a.m: Wake up and take supplements

Gayomali wakes up between 6:30 and 7 a.m., helps his kid get ready for school, then takes his supplement stack, which includes a multivitamin, fish oil, zinc, vitamin D, creatine, and tongkat ali, a shrub linked to testosterone production, although more research is needed. "I like the energy and mood benefits," he says of the plant.

On his 35-minute commute from Brooklyn to Manhattan, Gayomali takes "a meandering route to get a little bit loose, get my blood flowing."

Noon: Muay Thai followed by a slop bowl

Around lunchtime, Gayomali slips out of his office in SoHo and heads to his Muay Thai gym around the corner, where he stretches, fights, and strength trains for about 90 minutes. Since he joined in 2019, the gym has become more than just a place to exercise.

"I'll do that hour on the weekdays, then often I'll go on Saturday mornings and spend three hours there beating up all my friends and getting beat up myself," he says.

The gym's lending library, filled with books about topics like nutrition, stretching, and kettlebells, is where he gets a lot of his health information. "I'm pretty skeptical of a lot of stuff that you see online," he says, adding the only health influencer he trusts is Rhonda Patrick, a biomedical scientist with a preventive approach to disease.

After his workout, Gayomali typically grabs a slop bowl from Sweetgreen, usually steak or lamb. Or he has pho, which he calls "the ultimate superfood" because "it's basically just collagen, protein, and vegetables." Gayomali has an idea of the macros and calories he wants his meals to contain, but doesn't stress about the numbers.

5 p.m: Recovery

If his afternoon is fairly meeting-free, Gayomali sneaks in a massage in one of his favorite spots in Chinatown.

Most recently, he tried a Japanese massage technique called Seitai bodywork that involves gentle, rhythmic movements. He also likes cupping, foot reflexology, acupressure, and deep tissue massage. Generally, he's willing "to be a bit of a guinea pig" and will look up studies on PubMed and first-person accounts online before trying a new treatment.

Gayomali is not a biohacker, but of all his health habits, his recovery routine comes closest. Once a month, he visits MOCEAN, a physical therapy and longevity clinic in Midtown, where he gets pulsed electromagnetic field therapy, which is FDA-approved for treating broken bones, but the evidence that it boosts recovery in healthy people, like Gayomali, is mixed.

As the client lies on a metal plate, low-frequency electromagnetic pulses target chosen body parts. "It feels like just the deepest possible massage. It goes well below the surface and feels amazing, honestly," Gayomali says. "If I can prime my body to perform better and be in shape to go back to the gym again the next day, that's where a lot of my interests lie."

Next, he enters a hyperbaric oxygen chamber, where the oxygen levels in the air near 100%. Research suggests the therapy helps the tissues in the body heal and withstand infections, but the evidence that it could speed up post-workout recovery for healthy younger people is limited.

"I get it because this fighter named Illia Topuria swears by it for recovery and I like how it makes me feel," Gayomali says. "You basically lie in a tube and breathe. It simulates high-altitude oxygen training and speeds up healing in your body, and you basically doze off."

6:30 p.m: A simple dinner

Once he's home from work at around 5:30 p.m., Gayomali cooks dinner. "We usually just do rice, and a simple protein, like chicken, steak, or beef," he says.

By around 8 p.m. it's time to put his son to bed. "Trying to get him to sleep is so hard. So often I'll sit in his room with him until he falls asleep and then kind of doze off myself," he says.

Gayomali aspires to have a bedtime routine, but that just isn't feasible right now: "My sleep hygiene is not good."

This is the first time he has been in "great shape," and seeing his abs is "pretty cool." But being strong is mostly beneficial for taking care of his kid, which is "very physically demanding thing," particularly when his son gets tired and wants to be carried.

"I hope to keep it up for the rest of my life," Gayomali says.

When he's been sleeping particularly badly, he injects an NAD+ supplement, which, despite the lack of clinical trials, is popular in the longevity-verse as an energy booster.

"It actually helps a lot for the perpetual brain fog that I feel these days," Gayomali says.

The day we speak, Gayomali is awaiting the arrival of a peptide called sermorelin, from a website that claims it aids deep sleep, recovery from workouts, and building muscle. (Research to back its use in healthy adults is lacking). He ordered it partly to research a story he's working on, and partly because he wanted to try it.

Gayomali's attitude toward the peptide craze reflects his wider approach to health optimization. He's excited by it, but isn't holding his breath for the fountain of youth to be discovered in a lab.

"I try not to stress too much about the stuff that I can't control," he says.

• Neuberger's Shannon Saccocia warns of high downside risk to consumer sectors amid inventory concerns.
• US consumer spending shows resilience, but a potential slowdown poses market risks.
• Retailers use promotions to clear inventory, indicating possible consumer weakness.

Consumer spending in the US has held up, even in a year rocked by economic volatility, but one Wall Street investment chief says there are reasons to be cautious.

Shannon Saccocia, CIO of Neuberger Berman's wealth division, isn't convinced that the current consumer spending strength will continue. Speaking with Business Insider this week, she said her team sees a strong possibility that investors are underestimating the risks to consumer-facing sectors, and there's one key signal that they should be watching: inventory.

"Attempting to use promotional prices to clear inventory, that's always a concern in terms of being able to clear that inventory," Saccocia said.

Over the last year, many companies have warned of pressures they are feeling from inflation, spurred in part by the lingering effects of President Donald Trump's tariffs and the US-Iran war. In many cases, this has meant raising prices, for everything from shoes to auto parts.

In an economy marked by persistent inflation since the peak in 2022, consumers have less buying power. The market has already priced this in, but as Saccocia noted, when pressure becomes visible in companies' inventories, it should be regarded as a stronger warning signal for investors.

"I think that consumer companies have been cautious already given higher inflation, and they acknowledge that there is a bifurcation or K-shape in terms of the existing consumer footprint," she said. "It would be more clear evidence if promotional activity would be necessary to clear inventories that are otherwise not being consumed by US consumers."

Discounts and promotions proved a pillar of retailers' strategies during the holiday shopping season of 2025. Many shopping chains opted to market affordability and promote lower prices in an attempt to draw cautious consumers back to their stories.

However, earlier that year, GAP Inc CEO Richard Dickson claimed that the clothing chain was finished "bombing" customers with promotions. A Business Insider investigation found significant price swings in clothes from Old Navy, a popular chain owned by Gap.

As Saccocia highlighted, though, trends point toward a potential slowdown in spending from consumers, despite the numbers that show resilience. If that proves to be the case, the risk to consumer-facing sectors of the market is likely to rise, and investors may not be properly pricing that in yet.

"Given the fact that the US consumer is such a meaningful part of economic growth, continued dampening of consumer confidence, along with indications that spending is ticking lower, could lead to more sour sentiment, not only for consumer stocks, but for the broader market in general."

• Cody Berman achieved financial independence by age 25, thanks to smart investments in stocks real estate.
• He says there are two main paths to FIRE: the nest-egg method and the cash-flow method.
• The cash flow method can be faster, helping investors hit financial independence in a couple of years.

When Cody Berman first started pursuing financial independence, his plan looked a lot like the traditional FIRE playbook: save and invest aggressively, build up a large stock-market portfolio, and eventually live off a small percentage of that nest egg each year.

Berman, the author of "Retire by 30" and host of "The FI Show," said he originally used the 4% rule to work backward into his FIRE number. The rule of thumb suggests that someone can withdraw about 4% of their portfolio in the first year of retirement, then adjust withdrawals for inflation each year. To spend $40,000 a year, for example, a person would need about $1 million invested.

That was Berman's initial target. When he started his first corporate job in commercial real estate lending in 2018, he built a spreadsheet showing that if he kept living on his side-hustle income and saved his full salary, he could potentially reach financial independence in five to seven years.

Over time, though, Berman started looking at financial independence through a different lens. Instead of asking only how large his portfolio needed to be, he began focusing on how much monthly cash flow he would need to cover his expenses. He calls that the "fast version" of FIRE: building income-producing assets rather than relying solely on a large nest egg.

The traditional FIRE path: the nest-egg method

Berman says there are two main paths to financial independence. The first is what he calls the "nest egg method" — the traditional FIRE path built around a large investment portfolio.

The appeal of this path is its simplicity. The math is straightforward — estimate how much you want to spend each year, multiply that number by 25, and build a portfolio large enough to support withdrawals under the 4% rule of thumb — as is the investment strategy: buy low-cost index funds and let compound growth do much of the work over time.

The trade-off is time and, potentially, lifestyle. Even with a high savings rate, building a seven-figure portfolio can take years or decades. For people trying to speed up that timeline, the traditional path can require years of aggressive saving, low spending, and delayed gratification.

The 'fast version' of FIRE focuses on cash flow

The second path, Berman said, is the cash-flow method. Rather than building a portfolio large enough to draw from, the goal is to create enough monthly income from assets to cover living expenses. That cash flow can come from rental properties, businesses, digital products, or other income-producing assets.

Berman said the math can work faster because someone spending $40,000 a year, or about $3,500 a month, does not necessarily need $1 million invested if they can instead create about $3,500 a month in mostly passive cash flow.

"You can get to $3,500-ish in monthly, mostly passive cash flow, typically a lot faster than you can get to a million dollars invested in the stock market," he said.

For Berman, real estate became one of the clearest examples of that idea. Between late 2020 and mid-2021, he and his wife, Lauren, bought 11 rental units. They put roughly $200,000 toward down payments, he said, and the properties generated enough cash flow to cover much of their lifestyle.

If he had invested that $200,000 in the stock market and used the 4% rule, it would have supported about $8,000 a year in withdrawals. Since real estate allowed him to use leverage — borrowing money to buy income-producing properties — the same amount of capital could produce far more monthly cash flow.

He is careful to point out that leverage cuts both ways: "Leverage is a double-edged sword. You don't want to be overlevered and have a bunch of mortgages, and then your property values crash, and then you're left holding the bag."

Used wisely, though, he said it can shorten the path to FIRE. He has seen some real-estate investors reach financial independence in roughly two years, while the fastest nest-egg paths he has seen typically take closer to seven or eight years.

Berman's own path included parts of both methods. By late 2021, shortly before his 26th birthday, he considered himself financially independent. At the time, he said he had about $500,000 invested in the stock market and 13 rental units producing about $3,700 a month in cash flow. His digital products business was also taking off, earning more than $10,000 a month in mostly passive income.

Ultimately, Berman said that real estate gave him something his stock portfolio did not: recurring monthly income.

"With the stock market, it's not like I'm selling off investments every month to live," he said. "But with real estate, we're actually getting rent in our account."

• Juan Guanuna went viral on Instagram for his excitement about being a FIFA World Cup volunteer.
• His lifelong passion for soccer stems from growing up watching his dad play weekly in Ecuador.
• As a World Cup volunteer, his role is to greet and assist people arriving at Newark Liberty International Airport.

This as-told-to essay is based on a conversation with Juan Guanuna, a 67-year-old FIFA World Cup volunteer, based in Bloomfield, New Jersey. It's been translated from Spanish to English and edited for length and clarity.

I remember being a kid in Ecuador, watching my dad play soccer every Sunday in Aloag, a town outside Quito, where I grew up. This is where my passion for soccer began.

As I got older, I started competing myself, and was selected to represent my school for six years, up until I graduated.

I was very involved with the sport by the time I came to the United States in 1977. I first lived in California, where for two years I created and coached a team for my local church. In 1993, I moved to the East Coast and didn't stay as involved with coaching or playing soccer.

Being a World Cup volunteer wasn't something I planned for. The opportunity presented itself to me.

None of this would've happened if I hadn't opened my computer one night

Last October, I opened my computer to do paperwork and saw an email pop up warning that it was the last day to sign up as a volunteer for the FIFA World Cup. I immediately filled out the application, which took me about 30 minutes.

I had always thought about contributing to soccer in some way, and I thought, This is the opportunity. If I hadn't opened my computer that night, none of this would have happened. It was a blessing from God.

The good news came on October 16, when I was invited to the tryouts.

When I got there, I was so excited. I did the interview, and I was told that I was probably going to be working at MetLife Stadium. That would have been amazing — being a volunteer for FIFA, experiencing the World Cup final, and possibly meeting and seeing some actual players.

That didn't end up being the case; in February, I was given the chance to volunteer at Newark Airport instead, and I accepted.

I surprised my kids with the uniforms

On May 23, I picked up my uniform as an official FIFA volunteer for the World Cup. I didn't tell my daughter or my son, and invited them to come home for a barbecue about a week and a half later.

When they came, we ate, and that was the moment I told them I had the uniforms. I brought the uniforms downstairs and told them, "Here they are, look!"

My daughter, who's an influencer, filmed me excitedly trying on the uniforms and posted the video on Instagram. It got over 3 million views. Everything that's seen in the video came directly from my heart; I didn't even know she had filmed me.

It was very nice to share that moment with my children. It was a happy day, and I felt blessed. It was one more dream I was able to fulfill: to do something for soccer.

"Hello, hello! Welcome to New Jersey!"

Each week, I go to Newark Airport for two days from 2 p.m. to 8 p.m. to greet people at arrivals. If people need to get a taxi, figure out where to go, or need any other help, we're there to help them. My favorite part is greeting people with a smile and making them feel welcome.

"Hello, hello! Welcome to New Jersey!" I say, and they laugh.

As a volunteer, we get uniforms and food, and are compensated for our transportation to the airport. There are three stations, and two people work per station during the morning or the afternoon shift.

Since I own my business — J &G Technical Services, a general machine shop — I decided to volunteer during afternoon shifts, which is when I can typically leave work.

Being a FIFA volunteer is priceless. The fact that we don't get paid doesn't bother me at all. Just being a volunteer is more than enough reward.

The first day I got to the airport, I parked my car and got recognized from the video. People wanted to take photos with me. That same day, I went to eat at one of the airport's restaurants, and heard people chanting, "Ecuador! Ecuador!" and I chanted it back.

The restaurant owner told the waiters, "Make sure you take good care of this gentleman. He's the one from the video." I'm overjoyed. I wasn't expecting so much attention.

I'm grateful to FIFA for accepting my application out of more than a million other people. That's a great source of excitement, happiness, and pride for me. I think it's because of the good record I've built here in this country.

It feels like a dream, but I'm actually living it

Last Thursday, I arrived home to a box with my name on it. I realized it was a package FIFA had sent me personally when some of my fellow volunteers said they hadn't received anything.

The card inside said that they had seen the video and loved my energy and enthusiasm. They sent me a few gifts, but what meant the most to me were the handwritten messages from different people on the FIFA volunteer management team.

That was really special; it will be one of the most cherished memories of my life. When I'm older, I'll show it to my grandchildren, especially the letter.

For the rest of the World Cup, I'll be rooting for all of the South American teams: Argentina, Brazil, Ecuador, Paraguay, Colombia, and Uruguay. I'm also going to go see the game between Ecuador and Germany in person, to cheer on Ecuador.

I would have loved to go see the final — that would complete my dream. That's the only thing left on my list.

Still, for me, being a FIFA volunteer is something huge; it's a great honor. It feels like a dream, but I'm actually living it as my reality.

Do you have a story to share about working behind-the-scenes at the World Cup? Contact this reporter at mros@businessinsider.com.

This as-told-to essay is based on a conversation with Emily McCarthy, who cofounded GORUCK with her husband, Jason McCarthy. She lives with him, their three children, and their pets in Atlantic Beach, Florida. This interview has been edited for length and clarity.

I didn't know what I was going to do out of college. I was dating Jason, my now-husband. 9/11 happened after we graduated, and he was very motivated to join the military. He looked into other roles, like the CIA, and thought it would be a good fit for me, given my adventurous view on life and language background — I was a French major and a Spanish minor.

I found out that I really enjoyed the work and did it for five years. It taught me to be mission-oriented. I'm also someone who fights routine, which is a plus, because you never want to be predictable in the CIA.

Jason and I started GORUCK because of our work. During his time in the US Army, he learned to wear a ruck, or a loaded military backpack, during training. It's the most efficient way to simulate what can happen in wartime, when you have to carry everything — your food, ammo, and weapons.

When I was stationed alone with my dog in West Africa, crossing borders on my own across rebel territory, he made me a go-ruck. We liked that rucking made us feel stronger and fitter. The idea stuck in his head, and we started working on the company, creating a bag with all the same features as the amazing military-issued gear he was given.

The brand eventually evolved to include rucking workouts. Now, in addition to the gear, we have more than 700 ruck clubs worldwide.

Jason and I live outside Jacksonville, Florida, with our three kids, our cat, and our senior dog. Here's a day in my life.

I wake up to very soft classical music between 5 and 6 a.m.

During the week, I get up somewhere between 5 and 6 a.m., and the first thing I do is drink water. Next, I take my multivitamin.

I don't like jarring alarms; I always wake up to quiet classical music. My husband thinks it's very funny — he doesn't know how I wake up to that, but I can hear it. It's so calming to me. I've been doing that since college.

I alternate between outdoor runs and rucking workouts

A few times a week, I run with my ultramarathoner friend. I jump into her easier runs, which I love because we chat the whole time.

When I'm not with her, I like to do ruck workouts in our driveway for about 30 minutes. I put out a mat, play music, and use gear like a GORUCK weighted vest and a sand kettlebell. Our director of training creates programming for me.

I love kettlebell swings and holding planks while wearing the weighted vest. I hate Turkish get-ups, but my programming calls for that from time to time. I wouldn't say I love burpees involving a 30-pound sandbag, either.

Biking with my boys to school

Most days of the week, I ride bikes with my boys to their elementary school about a mile away.

My older son is a member of the school safety patrol and needs to get there earlier than my third grader wants to, so my husband and I split up biking with the kids.

I add a creatine packet to my favorite smoothie

There's a local spot where I get my favorite daily protein smoothie with banana, almond milk, oats, peanut butter, and cacao nibs. I bring a creatine packet to pour in.

The staff knows my name, and on the days I don't show up, they ask, "What's wrong? Where have you been?"

If the weather permits, I push back meetings to surf

On the bike ride back, I like to take a road that parallels the beach. I check out a few lookout points where you can see the waves. If the waves look good, I reschedule earlier internal meetings so I can surf.

It reminds me of my time as a CIA officer; you don't know what exciting things await you when you show up in the morning.

I go to the office around 9 or 9:30 a.m.

Last year, we bought a building for our headquarters about four miles south of where I live.

I love working with people, but I need to either be in "people-mode" or "deep work-mode." Early in the week, I try to finish a lot of meetings in the morning. Then, after lunch, I try to give myself a long, uninterrupted stretch to sit and refocus. I leave the end of the week more open in case things pop up.

I share an office with Jason and my best friend from high school, Monica. On stressful days, she and I can relax and be ourselves.

When I can, I take rucking meetings or workout sessions

If I don't need to be looking at a spreadsheet, I take a rucking meeting for 20 to 30 minutes.

We also do weekly workouts at the office and have a ruck club that does three additional morning and evening sessions. Sometimes, if a brand partner comes in, I'll invite them to the midday workout and have our meeting afterward. It's a bonding activity.

I grab lunch from Whole Foods' hot bar

Our office has a great secret path to a shopping area. For lunch, I go to Whole Foods for the salad bar or hot bar.

I'd like to be one of those people who make myself lunch every day, but I can't. We're already making lunches for the kids every day. I get a soup or salad.

I leave work by 3:30 p.m. to coach my daughter's team

In the fall, I coach my daughter's middle school cross-country team.

During the offseason, I stay at the office pretty late, now that my kids are older and my boys can bike home from school on their own. They're latchkey kids.

I have a screen jail. I lock up their screens when I'm not home, and I don't give them the code unless they've done their homework and played outside. We have a landline phone, so we can communicate without relying on screens. My husband and I both think this is really important for them to have both responsibility and freedom.

I usually get home around 6:30 or 7:30 p.m.

If my boys have baseball games at 6:30 p.m., I'll try to hustle to get there in time. Otherwise, my daughter gets a ride home from track practice, and my boys bike home from baseball.

Once I'm home, it's dinner ops for Jason and me, though our 14-year-old daughter has also been helping us cook lately. We normally have a salad. I like to have a starch, either potatoes or rice, and then a protein. We eat a lot of seafood and grill a lot in Florida. We sit down as a family four or five nights a week.

My daughter goes to bed really early, which is great, but my boys like to push it. We recently got a hot tub — I'm finding that it helps everyone sleep better.

I try to get in bed no later than 10:30 or 11 p.m.

I used to stay up way past midnight. Those days are over.

I love the New Yorker for many reasons, but I do the crossword in it every week. It helps me wind down — I love puzzles. I do it at night, and I'll take it to baseball games because there's a lot of dead time.

When the world is full of chaos and unpredictability, knowing the answer and writing it down is really fun for me.

• We've gotten used to lots of reasons for higher prices: Remember supply chains? Tariffs?
• Now we're getting a new one: AI data centers.
• Apple CEO Tim Cook is one of many corporate leaders who say the AI boom is pushing their costs way up — and they're going to pass those costs onto consumers.

Your next iPhone is going to be more expensive than the last one you bought.

Same thing for your next Xbox.

And it could well be true for your next PC, or TV — or just about anything else with electronics inside it.

Blame AI.

That's the messaging we're getting from the C-suites across the country: A steady drumbeat of company leaders saying that the AI boom means that chips and other components they need for their products are getting snapped up by AI companies. That means their costs are going up, and they're going to pass those rising costs along to consumers.

Apple CEO Tim Cook made headlines this week when he previewed coming price hikes for iPhones in The Wall Street Journal. He said the price increases were "unavoidable" because the chips Apple needs for memory and storage are being hoovered up by Big Tech companies spending billions on their AI buildouts.

Cook is the most high-profile CEO sounding the alarm about AI price hikes, but he's not the only one.

A couple of weeks ago, Asha Sharma, the head of Microsoft's Xbox unit, said her business was in a "hardware component crisis" because of skyrocketing storage costs.

In February of this year, "the price we paid for console storage components was over 2x as high as we paid last fall," she explained in an open letter. "These costs have since doubled again. And as we plan for the 2027 holiday season, we expect another significant increase, taking us over 5x the prices we paid only two years earlier."

Her business is seeing the same pattern when it comes to memory costs, Sharma said.

These warnings have been coming for a while. In December of last year, Dell said it would hike its prices because of AI-related price hikes. Ford — yes, your car is a computer on wheels now — said it was worried about the same thing in February.

And they are coming from many corners of the economy. Earlier in June, a coalition of trade groups — including retailers, media companies, and the medical supply industry — told White House officials that "an urgent imbalance in the market for memory chips … could lead to significant and sustained near-term price increases for American households."

What is all of that going to mean for you, a person who buys things? We don't fully know yet.

Apple, for instance, won't roll out a new iPhone until the fall, so we won't be able to make a real comparison until then — and even when we do, we won't be comparing (forgive me) apples to apples, since the newest iPhone will have features that aren't on older models.

It's also going to be difficult to assess the AI impact on bigger-ticket items: It's very likely that the price of your next car will have more to do with Donald Trump's tariff policies than the price of DRAM chips.

And I also understand if you're a skeptical sort who thinks CEOs blaming higher prices on chip costs may have other motivations than truth-telling — the same way some people believe that AI-related job cuts aren't really about AI at all.

But there is plenty of evidence that the cost of AI-related chips is indeed going up, up up — all driven by the boom in AI data centers. Something to think about the next time you ask a chatbot for help.

• Loops and loop engineering are all the talk in AI.
• OpenClaw creator Peter Steinberger said users "shouldn't be prompting coding agents anymore."
• Here's how automated tasks are changing the way AI agents are deployed.

For the most powerful voices in AI, it's all about being in the loop.

Claude Code creator Boris Cherny recently said he doesn't write his own AI prompts much anymore. Thanks to loops, he doesn't have to.

"It's an agent that prompts Claude," Cherny recently told CNBC, adding, "I don't write the prompt anymore. Claude writes the prompt, and now I'm talking to that new Claude that is kind of coordinating."

In the same interview, Cherny said that loops and a similar feature were examples of the kind of work he would be proudest of in a decade.

Cherny isn't the only one embracing "loop engineering." OpenAI engineer Peter Steinberger, the creator of the viral OpenClaw project, wrote a public reminder to users who are still writing out prompts for AI agents.

"Here's your monthly reminder that you shouldn't be prompting coding agents anymore," Steinberger wrote recently on X. "You should be designing loops that prompt your agents."

What are loops?

Loops are recurring systems that guide AI agents, so the user doesn't have to constantly write prompts themselves. An example is /goal, which instructs an AI tool like Anthropic's Claude Code or OpenAI's Codex to keep working until a task is completed, rather than requiring a prompt at each step.

Claire Vo, founder of ChatPRD and host of the "How I AI," might have summed it up best by saying, "it's really just reminding people that you don't have to use your human fingers to type in a prompt in order for your agent to do work on your behalf."

The days of directly prompting generative AI coding tools are "kind of over, or at least some think it's going to be," Addy Osmani, director of Google Cloud, wrote in his post explaining the concept.

Osmani wrote that loops need five components: automations, worktrees, skills, plugins and connectors, and sub-agents. The foundation is automation, because that's what ensures a loop can be repeated rather than a one-off event.

One of the most frequently suggested setups, especially when it comes to coding, is to split up your loop so that one agent writes the code and the other checks the final product.

"The model that wrote the code is way too nice grading its own homework," Osmani wrote.

Steinberger shared an example of a loop he uses: "Tell codex to maintain your repos, wake up every 5 minutes and direct work to threads. That makes it easy to parallelize+steer work as needed."

When to use a loop

For the moment, the loop discourse is mostly focused on agentic coding. That doesn't mean loops are just for software engineers.

"This is the time for the manager," Vo said. "You are designing a job. And so just imagine that you're onboarding an employee. That employee could be an executive assistant, that employee could be a customer service agent, that employee could be a software engineer."

You might already be using a loop without knowing it.

"If you have used a scheduled task in ClaudeCowork, guess what, babe? You have written a loop," Vo said.

… And when not to

The biggest concern cited about loops is, by far, cost.

Running multiple agents with subagents on the latest frontier AI model is a great way to burn through your personal token budget or raise some eyebrows from your boss.

When users on X asked Steinberger about how he would modify his loop to be more budget-conscious, he responded: "Waking up and doing some API calls is fairly cheap, or opt for once per hour/day for lower token use."

At the same time, he also described himself as someone "the man with unlimited tokens." (Free tokens are one of the many perks of working at OpenAI.)

Osmani's advice is to spend only where necessary.

"Subagents do burn more tokens since each one does its own model and tool work, so spend them where a second opinion is worth paying for," he wrote.

• NYC population data shows the median ages, incomes, and occupations of residents.
• The typical New Yorker is young and feeling crushed by the steep cost of living.
• It's more common in NYC to live alone or with roommates than the national average.

There's much to debate about what makes a real New Yorker.

Maybe it's being born in the five boroughs. Or it could be knowing the subway routes without a map, being an all-weather Knicks fan, and braving the demoralizing walk to a laundromat in the rain.

But, really, the most typical NYC experience is being a 30-something with an above-average salary and an eye-watering rent bill. Business Insider looked at the data.

The average Big Apple resident is in their 30s

Often, to be a New Yorker is to be a millennial. Data from a NYC Planning analysis of the American Community Survey shows that the city's median age is 38, just below the national median of 39. Sixty-five percent of residents fall between the ages of 18 and 64.

Brooklyn skews the youngest with a median age of 35, while Staten Island's population is the oldest at 40.

Many NYC dwellers work in healthcare or education

NYC might be known for Wall Street and show business, but most residents work in the healthcare, education, or social service sectors. It's on par with the rest of the US job market — healthcare and education roles have been one of the few corners of the market actively growing. Twenty-nine percent of New Yorkers have a job in this category.

More New Yorkers live in non-family households

The city is pretty evenly split between men and women. The majority of residents are white or Hispanic, with 21% identifying as Black and roughly 15% identifying as Asian. There are more single mother-led households than single father-led households, and about a third of New Yorkers are married — half of which have children under 18. The average household size is between two and three people.

Forty-one percent of New Yorkers live in non-family households, meaning they either live with roommates or alone. It's slightly above the 2022 US average, which measured that 36% of Americans live in non-family households. NYC is leading a trend that's been happening across the US in recent decades: More adults are living alone, with friends, or with roommates than in traditional nuclear families.

The five boroughs tend to be affluent

Household income in the Big Apple tends to be higher than in most other US cities, with a median of $79,700 a year based on NYC Planning's analysis, which has since grown to $86,000 per a 2024 Census estimate, higher than the 2024 national median of $83,700.

While many residents are quite affluent — 16.8% of people have a household income at or over $200,000 a year — the cost of living is exceptionally high. A report from the mayor's office found that it takes $159,000 annually to afford basics for a family in the city, with housing and childcare making up the bulk of the cost.

New Yorkers are overwhelmingly rent-burdened

With 70% of residents renting their homes, NYC far outpaces the national average. Less than a third of the overall American population are renters, Census data shows.

The NYC Planning analysis found that the median gross rent in NYC is about $1,779, though that number is much higher in desirable neighborhoods — especially in Manhattan and Brooklyn. The majority of New Yorkers spend more than 30% of their income on housing, the threshold economists define as unaffordable. The city's robust subway and bus system, below-average household transportation spending, may soften the blow slightly. But being rent-burdened remains one of the most classic New York traits.

• Tech mogul Elon Musk has become the world's first trillionaire
• His estimated fortune reached new heights after SpaceX's historic IPO in June 2026.
• His net worth dwarfs that of other billionaires like Jeff Bezos and Mark Zuckerberg.

Elon Musk's net worth has skyrocketed to a whole new stratosphere. The SpaceX and Tesla chief is the world's first trillionaire.

He reached the milestone just seconds after SpaceX went public in June 2026.

Musk's wealth is now more than triple that of other famous billionaires, like Amazon founder Jeff Bezos, Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg, and Oracle CEO Larry Ellison.

How has Musk's net worth changed over time?

Musk, who was born in South Africa, moved to Canada and dropped out of a Ph.D. program at Stanford. He became a millionaire before he hit 30 thanks to Zip2, a website that provided city travel guides to newspapers. He cofounded the venture with his brother, Kimbal Musk, and the pair sold it to Compaq for more than $300 million in 1999 when he was 27.

His next big move came two years later, when he reinvested some of his profits to help start an online bank called X.com. The site soon merged with Peter Thiel's Confinity to become PayPal, which eBay bought for $1.5 billion in 2002.

That same year, Musk cofounded space exploration company SpaceX, and in 2004, he became an investor in and the chairman of EV company Tesla, which eventually became his first cash cow.

During the 2008 financial crisis, Musk saved Tesla from bankruptcy, investing $40 million and securing a $40 million loan. That same year, he was named Tesla's CEO.

It was "the worst year of my life," Musk said, with problems in his personal life compounding Tesla's poor performance and SpaceX's trouble launching the Falcon rocket.

By 2009, Musk was living off personal loans.

Things turned around in 2010, when Tesla went public, sending Musk's net worth climbing. In 2012, he debuted on Forbes' Billionaires List with an estimated wealth of $2 billion. 

Musk, meanwhile, kept building. In 2016, he set up his tunnel-digging business, the Boring Company, and the next year, he founded the neurotechnology startup Neuralink.

It wasn't until the start of the pandemic that Musk's net worth began its rapid ascent, thanks to Tesla's stock price. Musk started 2020 with an estimated net worth of just under $30 billion. He was worth about $170 billion one year later — a more than five-fold increase. His fortune reached an estimated $340 billion in November 2021.

Still, Tesla's stock is famous for its volatility — meaning Musk's net worth would also fluctuate. The company's share price jumped following the 2024 election of Musk ally Donald Trump, only to drop by more than 50% amid a vehicle sales slump, the Tesla boycott movement, and Musk's stint in the US government.

While Tesla's stock has largely rebounded, SpaceX's growth has been more stable over the past couple of years, pushing Musk's net worth up and to the right.

An insider share sale in December 2024 valued the company at $350 billion, sending Musk's net worth up about $50 billion in one day and making him the first billionaire to reach the $400 billion mark.

One year later, Musk's net worth broke records again when he confirmed SpaceX was planning an IPO. After an insider share sale valued the private company at $800 billion, Musk's fortune surpassed $600 billion.

SpaceX's IPO, the largest in history, took place in June 2026 and became the most formative wealth-generating event of Musk's life.

SpaceX — which Musk had combined with xAI, the parent company of X, formerly known as Twitter — was quickly valued at more than $2 trillion when it debuted on the public markets, pushing the CEO's net worth to more than $1 trillion.

Where does Musk's fortune come from?

Musk's wealth, which used to be largely dependent on Tesla shares, is now dominated by SpaceX.

The rocket, satellite, and AI firm accounts for more than 70% of his net worth. Tesla represents a 13% stake, and Neuralink and The Boring Company make up the rest.

For his work at both Tesla and SpaceX, the CEO is largely compensated with stock options awarded when the company meets challenging performance metrics. In SpaceX's case, those goals include a colony on Mars and orbital data centers, while at Tesla, he's been charged with getting one million robotaxis on the road.

That gives Musk billions of reasons to make his sci-fi dreams a reality.

• Some AI users now ask chatbots what to eat, what to text, what to wear, and when to go to bed.
• Researchers worry they're losing the ability to think for themselves and letting AI shape beliefs.
• A Wharton researcher says AI users risk becoming "followers of unthought thoughts."

People are giving away their most powerful tool to AI: The ability to think.

Across TikTok and Substack, users are posting about how they have become so dependent on AI that they use it to make basic and personal life decisions — what to eat, what to wear, how to phrase a message to friends, or how to navigate a toxic relationship.

What may seem like a harmless convenience is becoming increasingly common. And researchers say it could have profound consequences. The more people rely on AI to make decisions, the less practice they get making difficult decisions on their own.

Over time, that risks weakening the cognitive and social skills people develop through experience, uncertainty, and trial and error. In more extreme cases, AI researchers say it could begin shaping not just what people do, but also the beliefs they hold.

"We want to believe we're becoming more powerful thanks to our [AI] tools," Cornelia C. Walther, a Wharton senior fellow and pro-social AI researcher, said. "But in fact, we're giving away ever more power."

"We are only half a step away from reliance and maybe in a not-too-far future full-blown addiction," she said.

Should I stay or should I go?

Carolyn Yoo, a former software engineer who worked in tech for nine years until mid-2024, felt the draw of a decision-making chatbot firsthand.

For months, Yoo had been wrestling with the question of whether to leave tech, until she turned to Anthropic's chatbot, Claude, for help. She spent up to two or three hours a day asking the chatbot to map out different versions of her future.

"I kept seeking AI's reassurance to confirm whether this was a good life choice," she said.

"Every single day, whether I was talking to a new person who made me feel a bit unsure, I would go back to it again," she said.

Other users say they are turning to chatbots to help navigate relationships.

In a Substack post titled, "I've Outsourced My Judgement to AI. So Has Everyone Else," financial writer and comedian Dominic Frisby described how he uploaded his entire WhatsApp exchange with an ex-partner for advice.

"I was stuck in a toxic relationship I couldn't seem to break out of, even after we separated. At one point, I thought I was going mad," he wrote.

The bot's explanation of their relationship and personality types finally gave him clarity on how to move on.

Some apps are capitalizing on indecision by offering AI tools that explicitly claim to help users make decisions on their behalf — Moot is one example.

The AI-powered decision-making app, launched earlier this year, allows users to ask questions, which are debated by different AI personas that then vote on the best path forward.

The rise of 'cognitive surrender'

Researchers worry that overdelegating decisions to AI could gradually weaken the critical thinking and judgment skills that underpin independent thought.

Over time, people may become less comfortable with uncertainty, less practiced at weighing competing options, and more likely to defer to AI rather than trust their own judgment.

John Nosta, founder of the innovation think tank NostaLab, has warned that a heavy reliance on AI can create a kind of "cognitive codependent relationship," in which people become more productive in the short term while quietly losing the underlying skills the technology is replacing.

Vivienne Ming, a theoretical neuroscientist and founder of Socos Labs, described the process as a classic case of "use it or lose it."

By repeatedly outsourcing mental effort to AI, she worries people may engage less often in the kinds of thinking that strengthen memory, attention, learning, and decision-making over time.

Some researchers say the consequences could extend further. What begins with everyday choices could eventually shape how people think about relationships, politics, and society.

Wharton School researchers have dubbed this phenomenon "cognitive surrender," in which users shift from treating AI as a tool to treating it as an authority, accepting its answers rather than actively evaluating them.

Steven Shaw, a postdoctoral researcher in marketing at Wharton, said people could become "passive followers of unthought thoughts," adopting ideas generated by AI without fully processing them.

Getting sucked in

So why is AI so hard to resist in the first place, and why are we turning to it for life decisions?

Well, AI doesn't get tired, impatient, or uncomfortable. It responds instantly and can mirror reassurance back in seconds, often making it an appealing alternative to a friend or partner.

Joanna Stern, chief technology analyst at NBC and author of "I Am Not a Robot," said that after spending a year using AI throughout her work and personal life, the most unsettling part was seeing the relationship you can have with a computer.

"Even for people that seem well-adjusted, you can get so, so sucked into it," Stern said in a recent interview on journalist Kara Swisher's podcast.

But your sycophantic AI best friend isn't necessarily good for your long-term people skills.

"When AI systems are optimized to please, they erode the very feedback loops through which we learn to navigate the social world," Anat Perry, a Helen Putnam Fellow at Harvard University, said.

"Over time, this could also recalibrate what people expect feedback to feel like, making honest human responses feel unnecessarily harsh by comparison," she said.

'Sit in our own uncertainty'

For Yoo, stepping back from AI meant relearning how to sit with uncertainty instead of immediately reaching for an answer.

She began relying more on notebooks, meditation, writing groups, and conversations with other people.

"The whole purpose is to sit in our own uncertainty and come to our decisions ourselves," she said. "That's the only way you can really feel integrity in the choices you make."

Still, some users say that outsourcing parts of their judgment to AI can help them make better decisions and avoid mistakes they might otherwise regret.

As Frisby writes on Substack, "I'm done with bad decisions. I've made enough wrong decisions for one life. I'm 56 now. I just want to make optimum choices and have a really good next three or four decades, or however long I've got left."

• A new survey of 2,000 young workers by RiseGuide found that 42% avoid phone calls.
• Many Gen Z and millennial workers said that their avoidance of phone calls costs them opportunities.
• RiseGuide said that technology provides people "countless ways to delay real conversations."

A fear of phone calls may be costing young workers raises and career opportunities.

A new survey of 2,000 Gen Zers and millennials by the self-improvement app RiseGuide found that 42% don't answer phone calls, while 58% script or rehearse conversations before making them.

The consequences may extend beyond anxiety. Among respondents who avoid spoken conversations, 78% said the habit has cost them earnings or opportunities.

The findings come as anxiety around phone calls appears to be growing. RiseGuide coined the term "callergy" for the reluctance to speak over the phone and finding workarounds like texts, emails, and social media messages.

Jaimee Campanella, a time strategist and productivity consultant at RiseGuide, said that the convenience of technology now provides people "countless ways to delay real conversations" so that communication skills don't get to improve through practice.

"Text messages, emails, and social media give us time to edit our responses, while face-to-face communication requires us to engage in the moment," said Campanella. "The more we postpone difficult conversations, the more intimidating they can seem."

"Unfortunately, avoidance often creates bigger problems than the conversation itself," Campanella added. "We miss opportunities, strain relationships, and spend unnecessary time and energy worrying about issues that could have been resolved through a direct discussion."

Spontaneous calls are more stressful than breakups

The current tough job market for young workers, however, may be nudging some out of their comfort zone.

Adrian Poon, a Gen Z HR worker trying to transition from temporary contracts to a more permanent position, told Business Insider — over text messages — that he overcomes his anxiety about answering calls only when he is "in job applying mode." He usually won't pick up unless the caller is a friend.

"I would mentally register that as a blind box opening," said Poon of getting a call from a number not in his contacts.

Poon said that although he has been actively job-seeking, he has never cold-called a recruiter and generally prefers to connect in other ways. Having a prescheduled call with a clear agenda also helps, says Poon.

"This is more of a talking to people thing in general, especially if they're busy people: I need to know what I need to ask," Poon said of calling others, including friends. "Like I figure out what I need to tell them and what I need to ask so that I don't waste my time with them."

GenZers and millennials have a complicated relationship with their devices, especially smartphones. While younger workers often prefer texting to talking, many are also trying to spend less time on their devices altogether. More people are making digital detoxes part of their lives, turning to app blockers like Brick or "dumb phones" to curb screen time.

Being more conscious of screen time doesn't necessarily mean young people are eager to pick up the phone: In RiseGuide's survey, one in 10 respondents said a spontaneous call is the most stressful form of communication for them — more than a breakup or a job interview.

• Automakers have reorganized their EV lineups since September 2025, when federal tax credits ended.
• Sagging demand, tariffs, and a new generation of EVs have also led to several product cancellations.
• Business Insider compiled a list of EVs that have been killed or indefinitely delayed in 2026.

American EV sales are still facing pressure.

Since September 2025, when the federal $7,500 tax credit for US-made EVs ended, fewer shoppers have chosen a battery-powered car for their next set of wheels.

In the first quarter of 2026, deliveries dropped 27%, according to Cox Automotive data. That follows a 46% plunge in EV sales in the final quarter of 2025.

The slowdown began reshaping which new car models appeared on US dealership lots last year. By the end of 2025, Ford ended production of the F-150 Lightning, Nissan axed the Ariya, Acura stopped building the ZDX, and Volkswagen paused the ID. Buzz until 2027.

That shake-up has continued into 2026.

The lineup changes aren't a wholesale retreat from EVs. Each of those brands has next-generation EV models in the pipeline — they're cheaper, longer-range, and faster charging.

Business Insider is tracking every EV canceled or postponed since January 1, 2026 — a list we'll keep updating as the industry redraws its all-electric road map.

Hyundai Ioniq 6 Standard

Hyundai confirmed to Business Insider that it will stop selling the Korean-built, standard Ioniq 6 in the US.

The retro-styled sedan never matched the success of its crossover sibling, the Ioniq 5 (which has been on a sales tear this year; in May, the company reported delivering 5,002 units, up 16% from last year).

Hyundai said it sold just 229 Ioniq 6 units in February.

"Sedan sales have declined a lot over the past decade, and the Ioniq 6 is no exception," Sam Abuelsamid, the vice president of market research at Telemetry, told Business Insider. "Without enough sales to justify US production, the numbers just don't add up for Hyundai."

Hyundai said it plans to import a limited number of high-performance Ioniq 6 N models to the US — a pricier variant with more oomph in the electric motor and track-focused upgrades.

"In the meantime, 2025 Ioniq 6 sedans continue to be available at dealers alongside our award-winning, US-assembled Ioniq 5 and Ioniq 9 SUVs," the automaker said.

The Ioniq 6 will still ship to Canadian dealerships.

2026 Hyundai Kona Electric

In 2019, Hyundai electrified its popular Kona crossover, swapping the gas engine for a battery-powered drivetrain.

It became one of the automaker's first mass-market EVs.

That run is now on pause. Hyundai said in February that it would not ship the 2026 Kona Electric from its Korean plants to US dealerships. Like the Ioniq 6, the Kona Electric remains available in limited numbers as a 2025 model.

The model could return for the 2027 model year.

With a starting price around $33,000, it was one of the cheapest EVs on the US market in 2025.

Kia Niro EV

The Kia Niro EV has been discontinued in the US, InsideEVs reports.

First introduced in the US for the 2018 model year, the Niro EV was developed from Kia's small Niro crossover, which was also offered in hybrid and plug-in hybrid variants.

The model received a facelift for the 2026 model year, and the plug-in hybrid version was discontinued as part of the lineup adjustment.

The Niro EV was imported from Kia's Hwaseong plant in South Korea, leaving it exposed to ongoing US automotive tariffs.

Those added costs, combined with slowing sales in the EV segment, reportedly made the model increasingly difficult to justify at American dealerships, according to InsideEVs.

Kia has not responded to a request for comment from Business Insider.

Tesla Model S

The Model S was critical to Tesla's historic ascent.

When the sedan debuted in 2012, it was the company's first ground-up vehicle — and a sharp break from the slow, quirky EVs that came before it.

With hypercar-like acceleration, sleek body lines, and a tech-forward cabin, the sedan made going electric feel aspirational rather than a legacy automaker's compliance exercise.

That shift helped propel Tesla into America's dominant EV automaker.

Now, despite its historic role, CEO Elon Musk says the $94,990 sedan is headed for an "honorable discharge" after years of sliding sales.

Tesla Model X

The Model X is also going the way of the dodo.

Tesla's second built-from-scratch vehicle will end production in the second quarter of 2026 amid soft demand. The SUV starts at $99,990.

Launched in 2015, the Model X was ambitious. And complicated.

Its signature second-row falcon-wing doors — which opened by pivoting upward via electronically connected hinges mounted to the roof — became a production headache.

Musk once called the car a "Fabergé egg."

The production lines that made the two vehicles will now build the company's Optimus robots.

"We're really moving into a future that is based on autonomy," Musk said while announcing their final days, adding that the decision was "slightly sad."

Kia EV6 GT and EV9 GT

Kia's flagship EV portfolio is also getting tweaked — but more narrowly.

The Korean automaker is delaying the GT trims of two models, the EV6 and EV9. Those versions are the highest-performance variants in each lineup.

Kia confirmed to Business Insider that the GT trims are delayed "until further notice" due to "changing market conditions."

Other trims — which are made at Kia's plant in West Point, Georgia — remain on sale in the US.

"This delay does not impact the availability of other trims in the EV6 and EV9 lineups," the company said.

Volvo EX30

Volvo has confirmed to Business Insider that it's discontinuing the EX30 in the US.

The small SUV was meant to be a breakthrough in America's electric car market: a ground-up EV with a starting price under $35,000.

Tariffs — spanning both the Biden and Trump administrations — upended those plans. Volvo first intended to build the EX30 in China, then shifted production to Belgium, driving up costs and US prices.

Now, the automaker is turning its focus to the EX60, a midsize two-row SUV expected to offer up to 400 miles of range, with a US launch set for summer. The three-row EX90 remains at dealerships, too.

"Volvo Cars' commitment to electrification and our customers remains unchanged," the company said in an emailed statement.

Honda's 0 Series EVs

In March, Honda said it was canceling production of its coming 0 Series Saloon and SUV.

Both vehicles — the wedge-shaped Saloon (shown above) and the SUV — were slated to be Honda's first internally developed EVs. The automaker's earlier electric models were built through a joint venture with GM.

Honda had planned to produce the cars at its Marysville, Ohio, plant with a starting price of around $50,000.

Instead, the company is pivoting toward hybrids after booking a $15.7 billion loss in its EV division.

It leaves Honda with just one electric car on US dealership lots: the Mexican-built Prologue.

Acura RSX

Honda also scrapped plans for the RSX EV — a Tesla Model Y-style SUV — as it pulled back on its electric ambitions.

The cancellation caught some auto analysts off guard. Honda had just unveiled a production-ready version of the vehicle in August.

The car was also supposed to roll out of the Marysville plant, leaving Acura without an electric vehicle in its lineup.

Honda Sony Mobility Afeela

In March, Honda confirmed it would no longer build the Afeela.

The sedan — which was expected to hit the market at the end of the year before a sibling SUV reached dealerships — was a joint venture product between Honda and PlayStation-maker Sony. It featured a bevy of wild tech options: a customizable screen on the front bumper, lidar sensors, and a place to hold a car-connected PlayStation controller.

It was canceled a few months before its Ohio production was set to start, a "very unusual" move, Adam Bernard, founder of AutoPerspectives, told Business Insider.

It's still available to race in Gran Turismo 7.

BMW i4

German luxury automaker BMW is phasing out the i4, per Car and Driver.

The i4 — a five-seat hatchback with a sedan-like profile (what BMW calls a "Gran Coupe") — will end production by late 2026.

The model favored performance, reaching 60 mph from a standing start in as little as 3.7 seconds, with an estimated range of 268 to 333 miles.

It will be replaced by a new generation of EVs built on BMW's coming "Neue Klasse" platform, which the company says will boost performance while lowering costs.

The closest successor, an electric i3 sedan, is expected to offer up to 440 miles of range.

BMW iX

BMW is also phasing out its iX electric SUV in favor of a next-generation model built on its "Neue Klasse" platform.

The iX — BMW's midsize luxury EV — first hit US dealerships in 2021 as the company's second all-electric vehicle. The five-seat SUV carried a price tag ranging from about $70,000 to over $100,000, with an estimated range of 290 to 360 miles depending on the trim.

The German luxury automaker is discontinuing the iX in the US, though it will continue selling the model in Europe. American dealerships are instead preparing for the arrival of the new iX3 midsize electric SUV, which is expected to reach showrooms this summer.

"We remain fully committed to electrification in the US," a BMW spokesperson told BMW Blog. "This marks the beginning of the Neue Klasse era and the introduction of these technologies across our future portfolio."

Porsche Taycan Cross Turismo and Sport Turismo

Porsche's Taycan lineup is getting a refresh for the 2027 model year. Its Cross Turismo and Sport Turismo wagons are not part of those plans, the company confirmed to Business Insider.

The Taycan was Porsche's first fully electric nameplate in the US, debuting in 2020 as a sedan. The low-slung Cross Turismo and Sport Turismo options with an extended roofline and a lift-up hatch reached American dealerships in 2021.

Still, station wagons are a dying breed in America, and Porsche says sales for both options never took off.

In a statement, the company said the wagon variants played a "minor role" in Porsche's sales.

The Taycan sedan is back for 2027 with a larger battery, more exterior paint options, and a NACS charging port.

• KFC's new strategy focuses on staying relevant across generations, not only targeting Gen Z.
• Design head Christophe Poirier said too many brands target a single age bracket and get stuck.
• KFC's new boba drinks and immersive designs aim to adapt what's trending for broader audiences.

Every brand wants Gen Z to think it's cool. KFC's design chief thinks that's the wrong goal.

"It's all about Gen Z, Gen Z, Gen Z," Christophe Poirier, KFC's global chief concept officer, told Business Insider.

As KFC rolls out a sweeping global overhaul spanning new menu items, drinks, restaurant designs, and branding, Poirier said the fried chicken chain isn't trying to become a Gen Z brand.

"Gen Z won't stay Gen Z forever," he said, "At some point, the Gen Zs will be like me."

Instead, the goal is to stay relevant across generations. "We need to be in constant evolution to be forever young," Poirier said.

The philosophy comes at a pivotal moment for the brand. KFC has spent the past year trying to regain momentum in the US after years of pressure from rivals, including Chick-fil-A, Raising Cane's, and Wingstop.

Recent visit trends suggest some progress: KFC has posted positive year-over-year visits-per-location growth nearly every month since August 2025, according to Placer.ai, which attributed gains to menu innovation, value offers, and the return of nostalgic favorites like potato wedges.

The approach runs counter to a broader trend in retail and restaurants, where companies increasingly build products, marketing campaigns, and loyalty programs around younger consumers. Poirier argues brands can become too focused on chasing a specific demographic. Instead, KFC's new strategy aims to adapt to changing consumer habits without abandoning the identity that made it successful in the first place.

The company is betting heavily on specialty beverages. Its new global drink platform, Kwench by KFC, includes boba refreshers, sparkling lemonades, iced coffees, and shakes designed to attract customers outside traditional meal occasions.

"People drink more and more often than they eat," Poirier said.

KFC has also spent years trying to improve how customers perceive the brand. According to Forrest Morgeson, associate professor of marketing at Michigan State University and director of research emeritus at the American Customer Satisfaction Index, KFC significantly narrowed its customer-satisfaction gap with Chick-fil-A between 2015 and 2024 before slipping in 2025 as competition intensified from newer chicken chains.

The strategy appears to align with broader industry trends. Nik Allen, Euromonitor's global insight manager for consumer foodservice, said younger consumers increasingly seek customization, novelty, and "allowable indulgences" from restaurant brands.

Poirier's goal isn't necessarily to win over Gen Z. It's to make sure KFC remains relevant long after Gen Z stops being the industry's favorite consumer cohort.

Poirier pointed to Pixar as a model: movies that work for children while still giving adults something to enjoy. KFC, he said, needs to do the same.

"If a 7-year-old kid goes to KFC with the 77-year-old grandparent, the grandparent should still find what he wants," Poirier said.

KYIV REGION, Ukraine — Near the front lines in eastern Ukraine, a routine supply run can be a death sentence.

Mines, artillery, and drone-saturated skies have expanded the kill zone, threatening soldiers carrying food or ammunition to troops in the trenches. "If you send a human driver to deliver such things, there is a huge chance that he will be killed," Andrii Kushnierov, a platoon leader with Ukraine's 59th Assault Brigade, told Business Insider.

So Ukraine is increasingly sending robots instead.

These machines are no longer the crude, remote-controlled carts loaded with bombs that appeared early in the war.

Business Insider went inside a factory in the Kyiv region, far from the front lines, where workers were rapidly assembling a new generation of battlefield robots.

The vehicles rolling off the line inside the factory looked a little like military-grade golf carts, except that they didn't have seats or steering wheels.

They weren't built for a soldier to climb aboard and drive into battle. They're designed to keep the driver out of the kill zone.

Once workers fit them with electronics, heavy-duty tires, and sensors, remote Ukrainian operators will send them toward the front lines, where they'll haul ammunition, evacuate wounded troops, lay mines, launch other drones, attack Russian positions, and try to keep moving under fire.

Many won't survive for long. Some may be destroyed within days of arriving at the front. For Ukraine, that's an acceptable trade-off. These machines can be easily replaced. A soldier can't.

That also means Ukraine will need many more of these vehicles. Factories across the country are racing to replace battlefield losses and expand production, offering a glimpse of what it takes to sustain a war increasingly dominated by drones.

It's a wartime manufacturing race for cheap, rugged machines that can be built quickly, adapted easily, repaired when possible, and replaced when destroyed.

Ground robots are evolving from explosive carts into battlefield workhorses

Taras Ostapchuk used to manufacture street lamps before the war. Now he is CEO of Ratel Robotics, one of the hundreds of Ukrainian companies making ground robots.

"Most important is to save our soldiers' lives," Ostapchuk told Business Insider.

Ratel built its first ground robot in late 2023, producing a small machine packed with anti-tank mines and designed to drive toward Russian targets and detonate.

Now, Ratel's roughly 350 employees can produce hundreds of uncrewed ground vehicles, or UGVs, a month. Its robots cost between $2,000 and $40,000, depending on size and function, making the prices far lower than comparable European systems, Ostapchuk said.

"We know how to produce the cheapest battle-proof robots," he said.

Ukraine has built much of its wartime defense industry under pressure, with limited resources and heavy dependence on foreign support. The same pressures are shaping its robotics industry, and companies are racing to build low-cost, adaptable machines for a war that consumes equipment almost as quickly as it can be produced.

The war machines coming off Ratel's factory floors are built for the kinds of jobs Ukrainian soldiers are increasingly trying to avoid: hauling hundreds of kilograms of cargo or ammunition across the battlefield, laying mines, evacuating the wounded, launching FPV drones, and attacking Russian outposts.

The company is also developing robots that can launch interceptor drones for air defense missions and execute amphibious casualty evacuation, logistics, and assault missions. Testing for the latter was scheduled to begin last month, with scaled production expected to follow quickly to support operations in southern Ukraine.

"We need to destroy Russian enemies in the left bank" of the Dnipro River, Ostapchuk said, referring to the intense fighting near the Ukrainian city of Kherson.

Ratel's operation is part of a broader national effort, and Ukrainian UGVs are being sent into battle and tasked with unusual and increasingly ambitious missions. President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said recently that robots had captured Russian positions and forced soldiers to surrender without direct infantry involvement.

Ukraine is building tens of thousands of ground robots and sending them into the kill zone

The push for more robots is accelerating quickly. Ukraine contracted 25,000 ground robots in the first half of 2026 — twice as many as in all of 2025 — and Zelenskyy wants 50,000 produced by the end of the year.

Zelenskyy said in April that Ukrainian-made robots had logged more than 22,000 missions since the start of the year. By June, that number had climbed to more than 50,000.

In 2022, only a few Ukrainian companies were making warfighting robots, and they were limited in function. Now, 550 different models made by 280 companies are delivering hundreds of tons of cargo to the front every week, said Andrii Hrytseniuk, the CEO of the state-backed innovation platform Brave1. Ukraine's defense ministry wants ground robots to eventually handle 100% of its battlefield logistics.

"We should not risk our soldiers," Hrytseniuk told Business Insider. "Everything that is possible to replace by drone, we are replacing with drones," he said, referring broadly to uncrewed systems.

The Ukrainian president and the country's defense ministry have praised the life-saving potential of UGVs. Troops say these robots do more than keep human soldiers out of danger: They also strengthen Ukraine's armed forces.

Grek, a UGV company commander with the 21st Unmanned Systems "Kraken" Regiment, told Business Insider that the robots increase Ukraine's "operational endurance" because they don't fatigue on missions the way humans do. Equipped with cameras and sensors, they also provide troops with greater situational awareness than they would have on their own.

And like other uncrewed systems, they deliver cheap mass. The rush to build UGVs points to a key lesson with implications beyond Ukraine. Future fights may demand more than exquisite systems that take years to produce, and instead call for large quantities of cheap robotic systems that armies can afford to lose. In future wars, production speed and replaceability may be decisive factors.

Ukraine expects many of its war robots won't survive

Kushnierov, the platoon leader, said that near the front lines, the ground robots may survive only five to 10 missions before being destroyed.

That is a loss Ukraine is willing to absorb if it keeps soldiers alive.

Although vehicle combat losses are expected, companies are taking steps to make UGVs more survivable. Ratel began installing anti-shrapnel armor on the robots this year, turning them into mini tanks of sorts with extra protection. The company is also developing technology that allows the robots to fire netting as a defense against incoming Russian first-person-view, or FPV, drones.

They're already quite durable, though.

Video footage captured by a UGV, which Ostapchuk shared with Business Insider, shows the uncrewed vehicle moving down a desolate road near the front lines when a munition suddenly strikes it from above, creating a small fireball and a plume of smoke. The robot drives out of the smoke and keeps moving.

Ratel's war robots are also designed to keep going even when obstacles like pervasive electronic interference try to cut them off. Operators can control them via Starlink, mobile networks, or radio, and Ratel is developing a feature that would allow a robot to automatically reverse 100 meters along its route if it loses connection.

Multiple cameras give operators a 360-degree view of the battlefield, while some robots are fitted with doorbell cameras, allowing UGV operators to speak to wounded troops as the machines carry them away from the front.

UGVs have a fundamental limitation, though: They see the battlefield from the ground. A Ratel instructor, who spoke on the condition of anonymity for security reasons, said soldiers often use aerial drones to map main and alternate routes for UGVs before sending the ground robots forward. Pairing the systems can maximize their battlefield impact.

Ukraine is rushing to train soldiers for its expanding robot force

A short drive from the factory Business Insider visited, Ratel operates a training facility where soldiers can hone their driving skills on a dirt track lined with tires, resembling a motocross course. Last year, the company taught more than 500 operators to use its UGVs.

Driving a UGV is like driving a remote-controlled car, only larger and often armed or rigged to explode on target. Ostapchuk said soldiers with FPV drone experience can learn to operate the robots in a day. Those who haven't played video games, however, might need closer to a week, still a short training window for uncrewed systems.

At Ratel, these machines move quickly from the factory floor to the training track to the battlefield. In any given day, workers are assembling ground robots in one facility, soldiers are learning to drive them at another, and front-line units are requesting more because the machines don't often last long in front-line combat.

More and more units are starting to use UGVs, Kushnierov said. "It's too dangerous now to send logistics by manned vehicles."

That's the core of Ukraine's bet on UGVs. The robots rolling off factory production lines may be built for missions they're not expected to survive. But the machines can be replaced, unlike the soldiers they spare.

• I invited two cleaners and a chef from the startup Shift into my New York apartment.
• The workers cooked and cleaned for free — but recorded the process to train AI and robotics.
• Initially, I was nervous. I soon got used to the wires hanging from beneath their baseball caps.

I let an AI startup film every inch of my apartment.

That's a privacy nightmare — and yes, I did suitably hide all my personal items before they arrived. But, as a 23-year-old living in New York on a journalist's budget, I'm not exactly splurging on house cleaners.

These were free, so long as I agreed to the cameras.

The cleaners came from Shift, a startup that offers free housekeeping across New York. The price is the video recording, which will later be used to train robots. (Shift says it anonymizes "names, faces, or other personal information," per its website.) It's part of a bigger trend: startups are paying for videos of household tasks, like folding laundry, to train robots.

When Shift premiered in May, I quickly booked myself a spot. When the cleaners arrived two weeks later, I was nervous. Who were these strangers in my shoebox apartment? I grew even more nervous when they texted me 10 minutes before my appointment time that another staffer — a chef! — would be joining.

Eventually, though, I relaxed. It was free, after all.

The cleaners came first

When Shift's cleaners arrived at my apartment, I was hesitant. These were 20-somethings, wearing baggy white polos and suiting up with baseball caps attached to cameras.

The cameras hung off the brim of their caps. While they weren't walking around with large camcorders, the wires hanging off the cameras were still highly visible.

The cleaners mostly used a mix of their supplies and mine. They took about 90 minutes of the two-hour slot. I was working while they cleaned, and they rarely disrupted me, which I appreciated.

I wasn't overly impressed with the cleaning. (When my roommate came home, he asked: Did they even come?) Still, the service was free, and I liked not having to vacuum myself.

Shift surprised me with a three-course meal

About 10 minutes after the cleaners arrived, I heard a knock on the door. Chef James was here.

James wore the same uniform: white polo, baseball cap, wire running up the neck. He set up in my kitchen and asked if I had any allergies or dietary preferences.

I had no idea what James had come to cook. (I didn't even know Shift had a chef service!) It turned out that my work lunch would be a three-course meal. James brought the ingredients himself and only used my pans, knives, and plates.

My favorite was the entrée: seared tuna with coriander salt, Meyer lemon, artichokes, sugar snap peas, and asparagus. My least favorite was the appetizer, a cured salmon belly that was vastly overpowered by mustard oil. I saved the dessert, a light cake with whipped cream and strawberries, for later.

The chef service was Shift's peak. I don't have anything sensitive in my kitchen, so I didn't have to worry about him filming, say, a passport. And who doesn't love free food?

My final takeaways

About thirty minutes into the cleaning, I got used to the wires and baseball caps milling around my apartment.

I'll be interested to see whether these free robot-training services are sustainable. The costs of my session were likely high for Shift: three workers, cleaning supplies, and food. I'm hesitant to believe that a video of my apartment is worth that much.

The demand is certainly there: Shift filled its slots quickly and was similarly booked up when I checked a week later. I get why.

After they left, I enjoyed my semi-clean apartment and my leftovers. And I prayed that I didn't have any IDs or credit cards lying around that would get accidentally ingested by the AI machines as they tried to learn how to cook and clean like humans.

• Several top men in Trump's cabinet are reportedly loading up on sauerkraut.
• It's part of a diet plan endorsed by an elite doctor.
• Fermented foods can improve gut health, reduce inflammation, and increase satiety.

Welcome to the summer of sauerkraut.

Several prominent men in President Donald Trump's cabinet — including Vice President JD Vance, Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy, and Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick — have been loading up on the fermented food lately in an effort to slim down and improve their gut health, The Wall Street Journal reported.

US Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. said he lost 20 pounds and shed 40% of his visceral fat on his version of the sour meal plan, which he previously told USA Today consists only of "meat or fermented foods."

According to the Journal, the growing interest in sauerkraut among Trump's cabinet is all part of a diet strategy from Dr. Sean O'Mara, who encourages his elite clients in business and politics to eat more fermented foods and protein, while shunning sugary treats and alcohol.

Joining in on Sauerkraut Summer could benefit your gut health — as long as you don't overdo it. Here's what to know.

Sauerkraut and other fermented foods nourish the gut microbiome

Fermented foods like sauerkraut, kimchi, yogurt, and kefir typically contain beneficial microorganisms like live bacteria, the active ingredients that feed off of sugar in raw foods to turn them tangy.

Some of the most common bacteria in fermented foods, such as lactobacillus and bifidobacterium, are considered good for the gut. They aid digestion, help the body produce essential nutrients like vitamins, kill off pathogenic bacteria, and can decrease inflammation.

O'Mara wouldn't confirm whether he treats any members of the Trump cabinet, citing patient confidentiality, but he told Business Insider that he generally encourages his patients to follow a high-protein, low-carbohydrate, no-junk-food diet, and to "garnish" their plates with some fermented vegetables every day.

Though they're not a magic wand for weight loss, fermented foods can improve the overall composition of your gut, leading to better blood sugar control, more satiety, and improved nutrient absorption.

Just don't overdo it — eating too many fermented foods when you're not used to them can lead to gastrointestinal issues like gas, bloating, stomach cramps, and diarrhea. O'Mara said he encourages his patients to add fermented foods to their daily routine bit by bit.

"Eventually they start colonizing, and eventually they tolerate it, and eventually they like it, and soon they start loving these microbes," he said.

Other nutrition experts also generally suggest adding more fermented foods into your diet slowly, alongside fiber from nuts, seeds, vegetables, and whole grains, to nurture a healthy, well-balanced gut microbiome.

O'Mara said anyone, whether they're vegan, paleo, carnivore, or omnivore, can benefit from a "living diet" with daily doses of fermented foods.

Scientists have been studying how the gut microbiome may play an underestimated role in certain diseases. They are uncovering how diets high in ultra-processed foods may foster certain strains of toxic bacteria in the gut that can increase the likelihood of diseases like colon cancer.

Turkey and Paraguay are facing off in a Group D matchup that could prove crucial in the race for the knockout rounds. After both teams opened the tournament with losses, this match gives each side an opportunity to get back on track and keep its World Cup hopes alive heading into the final round of group-stage play. Read on to learn where to watch Turkey vs. Paraguay live.

The pairing brings together two nations that have built reputations as difficult opponents on the international stage. Turkey will be looking to rebound after a disappointing start, while Paraguay hopes to earn its first points of the tournament and stay within striking distance of the group leaders.

In short, the match will stream on FS1 via a live TV service in the US, on ITVX in the UK, and on SBS on Demand in Australia. We recommend using a VPN to stream the entire tournament (and future sporting events) from anywhere in the world. Follow the full tournament and learn how to watch your team in our where to watch the World Cup guide, or try your chance at scoring tickets with our guide to buying World Cup tickets.

*Local channel coverage, like FOX, varies by region on Sling.

Where to watch Turkey vs. Paraguay for free

Luckily for fans, there are plenty of ways to catch this match at no cost. In Australia, tune in via SBS On Demand; in the UK, via ITVX. In the US, the best way to see it without incurring a fee is to sign up for a free trial of Fubo or YouTube TV. Or you can use a VPN, as detailed below, to access your free live streaming options from anywhere in the world.

How to watch Turkey vs. Paraguay from anywhere

Found yourself away during the match? Don't sweat the details — you can access the Turkey vs. Paraguay match from anywhere in the world using a VPN (virtual private network). This simple app lets users change their device's location, granting access to their favorite free streaming service from anywhere. It's a helpful tool outside of just streaming the game, especially for avid travelers hoping to access their usual services from abroad and folks interested in cybersecurity.

We recommend NordVPN, one of the top picks in our guide to the best VPNs, for catching the game. Fast, easy to use, and home to a variety of global servers, it'll have you covered for the whole tournament. Plus, it comes with a 30-day money-back guarantee.

Where to watch Turkey vs. Paraguay in the US

Just like the rest of the World Cup, the Turkey vs. Paraguay game will air on FS1 in the US (some other matches will be available through FS1). To tune into the channel, you'll need cable, an antenna, or a paid streaming subscription. For this game specifically, you can catch it for free by signing up for a free Fubo or YouTube TV trial.

We also recommend Sling TV, but you'll need to double-check that the service covers FOX in your ZIP code to ensure World Cup coverage. If it does, Sling Select ($25 a month) or Sling Blue ($51 a month) are our suggestions, since both also include FS1. Sling Select plans without local channels start at just $20 a month.

Alternatively, a live TV package could be the right solution for your home, since it'll offer you more than just Fox — check out our guide to the best live TV streaming services to find your perfect fit.

Fubo Sports + News ($56 a month) is a great choice, offering Fox, FS1, and about 27 other channels. If you're hoping to find a more inclusive service, Fubo's pricier plans are a good choice with even more channels bundled in. All Fubo plans come with a free trial for new users.

YouTube TV is another solid option. Plans cost $83 a month, but a special deal will knock your first five months down to just $68 a month. Fox and FS1 are also available in YouTube TV's cheaper Sports Plan. All YouTube TV plans come with a free trial for new customers.

Viewers looking for Spanish-language tournament coverage will be best served by Peacock. Plans with sports streaming start at $11 a month.

Where to watch Turkey vs. Paraguay in the UK

ITVX and the BBC have split rights for the World Cup. The Turkey vs. Paraguay game will be free to stream via ITVX for UK viewers. You'll just need to create an account.

Where to watch Turkey vs. Paraguay in Australia

Australian viewers can catch the entire World Cup tournament via SBS On Demand. The free service requires account creation, but no payment.

Note: VPN use is illegal in certain countries, and using VPNs to access region-locked streaming content may constitute a breach of the terms of use for some services. Business Insider does not endorse or condone the illegal use of VPNs.

• Actors James Van Der Beek, Robert Duvall, Chuck Norris, and Patrick Muldoon died in 2026.
• So did painter David Hockney, "Dilbert" creator Scott Adams, and Grateful Dead's Bob Weir.
• Civil rights leader Rev. Jesse Jackson and mogul Ted Turner also died this year.

Below, we look back at the celebrities we lost in 2026, listed in alphabetical order.

Scott Adams, 68

Scott Adams worked at a telephone company in the 1980s. The experience inspired his beloved comic strip, "Dilbert."

By the end of the decade, the character and his satirical office humor began appearing in comic strips.

At its peak, "Dilbert" was syndicated in over 2,000 newspapers. A cartoon series debuted in 1999, running for two seasons.

Adams gained notoriety when he began writing blog posts praising Donald Trump during his 2016 presidential run. In 2023, "Dilbert" was pulled from newspapers across the US following racist comments made by Adams.

Adams died on January 13 from metastatic prostate cancer.

Brad Arnold, 47

The lead singer of 3 Doors Down, Brad Arnold launched the group into fame with the 2000 rock anthem "Kryptonite," which peaked at No. 3 on the Billboard Hot 100 that year.

The success led to other hits like "Loser," "Here Without You," and "When I'm Gone." Arnold's vocal range and lyrics focused on love and love lost, which fueled the group to stardom.

Arnold died on February 7 from a type of kidney cancer.

Afrika Bambaataa, 68

A hip-hop pioneer during the 1970s and 1980s, Lance Taylor, known professionally as Afrika Bambaataa, first gained attention as a DJ in the Bronx.

He signed with Tommy Boy Records in 1981 and released landmark songs like "Jazzy Sensation" and "Planet Rock." He would go on to influence the likes of Queen Latifah and A Tribe Called Quest throughout his career.

Bambaataa founded the hip-hop awareness group, Universal Zulu Nation, in the 1970s to steer kids away from gang life. Bambaataa stepped down as the head of the organization in 2016 after accusations of sexual abuse.

Bambaataa denied all claims.

He died on April 9 due to prostate cancer.

Rob Bass, 59

One of the icons responsible for bringing hip-hop to the mainstram, Rob Bass crafted the iconic track "It Takes Two" alongside DJ E-Z Rock.

The track, released in 1988, reached No. 3 on the Billboard Hot Dance/Club Songs chart and later went certified platinum. In 1989, it was voted the greatest single of all time by Spin magazine.

Bass died on May 22 following cancer.

Nicholas Brendon, 54

Nicholas Brendon was a television actor, best known for playing Xander Harris in all seven seasons of "Buffy the Vampire Slayer."

He also starred in "Criminal Minds" and "Kitchen Confidential."

Brendon died in his sleep on March 20 due to natural causes, according to his family's statement.

In 2023, Brendon suffered a heart attack and was diagnosed with a congenital heart defect. He also had cauda equina syndrome, which led to several spinal surgeries.

"While it's no secret that Nicholas had struggles in the past, he was on medications and treatment to manage his diagnosis, and he was optimistic about the future at the time of his passing," the statement to The Hollywood Reporter read. "Our family asks for privacy during this time as we grieve his loss and celebrate the life of a man who lived with intensity, imagination, and heart."

Peabo Bryson, 75

Two-time Grammy winner Peabo Bryson is best known for his classic love ballads.

Bryson began releasing music in the late 1970s, but one of his first major hits was opposite Roberta Flack on the 1983 duet, "Tonight, I Celebrate My Love." He continued hit-making a year later with the smash "If Ever You're in My Arms Again," and in 1991, he topped the R&B charts with "Can You Stop the Rain."

Bryson found global stardom with his renditions of two Disney classics. In 1991, he released the pop version of "Beauty and the Beast," alongside Céline Dion, and a year later, he duetted with Regina Belle on "A Whole New World" from the 1992 release of "Aladdin."

Bryson died on June 2. No cause was given.

James Burrows, 85

An 11-time Emmy winner and co-creator of "Cheers," director James Burrows helped shape modern TV comedy through his work on iconic sitcoms including "Will & Grace," "Friends," and "Frasier."

Known for his comedic timing and elaborate blocking, Burrows got his start directing episodes of "The Mary Tyler Moore Show." Throughout his career, he directed episodes of "Frasier" (winning an Emmy for the pilot episode), "Will & Grace," "Friends," and "The Big Bang Theory." He directed over 50 pilot episodes.

Burrows died on June 19. No cause was given.

Kyle Busch, 41

Two-time NASCAR Cup Series champion Busch was considered one of the greatest racers of all time.

Busch was hospitalized on May 21, before two upcoming races. Hours later, he was pronounced dead.

Busch died from severe pneumonia that progressed into sepsis.

Robert Carradine, 71

Robert Carradine was best known for his roles as Lizzie McGuire's dad and as the iconic geek Lewis Skolnick in the 1980s franchise "Revenge of the Nerds."

As a member of Hollywood's famed Carradine family, Robert was destined for an onscreen career.

He received one of his first screen credits starring in his brother David Carradine's popular 1970s TV series "Kung Fu" and went on to land roles in everything from Samuel Fuller's World War II classic "The Big Red One" to the "Lizzie McGuire" series.

Carradine's family shared statements with Deadline that emphasized being open about his struggles with mental illness.

"We are bereft at the loss of this beautiful soul and want to acknowledge Bobby's valiant struggle against his nearly two-decade battle with Bipolar Disorder," Carradine's family said. "We hope his journey can shine a light and encourage addressing the stigma that attaches to mental illness."

Carradine died by suicide on February 23.

If you or someone you know is experiencing depression or has had thoughts of harming themself or taking their own life, get help. In the US, call or text 988 to reach the Suicide & Crisis Lifeline. Help is also available through the Crisis Text Line — just text "HOME" to 741741. The International Association for Suicide Prevention offers resources for those outside the US.

Bud Cort, 77

Most famous for his role as Harold in the 1971 cult-classic "Harold and Maude," Bud Cort became the epitome of 1970s counterculture thanks to his baby-faced looks, wit, and sophisticated persona.

The dark comedy starred Cort as Harold, a man in his 20s who is obsessed with suicide until he meets 79-year-old eccentric Maude (Ruth Gordon).

Before that, Cort scored bit parts in Robert Altman's "M*A*S*H*" (1970) and "Brewster McCloud" (1970).

After "Harold and Maude," Cort worked steadily for the rest of his life, occasionally showing up in hit movies like Michael Mann's "Heat" (1995) and Wes Anderson's "The Life Aquatic with Steve Zissou" (2004).

Cort died on February 11 following a long illness.

Eric Dane, 53

Long before becoming one of TV's most recognizable heartthrobs, Eric Dane was building his career with guest roles on series like "Saved by the Bell" and "Married… with Children."

He later gained wider attention with appearances on "Charmed" before landing his breakout role as Dr. Mark "McSteamy" Sloan on "Grey's Anatomy." He most recently starred in HBO's "Euphoria," where he played Cal Jacobs, the father of Jacob Elordi's character, Nate Jacobs.

Dane has two children with his wife, Rebecca Gayheart. In April 2025, the actor said that he was diagnosed with amyotrophic lateral sclerosis, or ALS.

Dane died on February 19 at age 53, his publicist confirmed in a statement to Business Insider.

"He spent his final days surrounded by dear friends, his devoted wife, and his two beautiful daughters, Billie and Georgia, who were the center of his world," his publicist said.

Robert Duvall, 95

Robert Duvall starred in a plethora of timeless classics, including "The Godfather," "The Godfather Part II," "Apocalypse Now," "THX 1138," "The Natural," "Days of Thunder," and "The Apostle."

Duvall will be best remembered for starring in three of director Francis Ford Coppola's iconic films: playing Tom Hagen in the first two "Godfather" movies and Lieutenant Colonel Bill Kilgore in "Apocalypse Now," in which he delivers one of the most memorable lines in movie history: "I love the smell of napalm in the morning."

Duvall was lauded for his acting talent, from not saying a word while playing Boo Radley in his first big screen role in the 1962 classic "To Kill a Mockingbird" to his portrayal of a country singer dealing with alcoholism in 1983's "Tender Mercies," which earned him an Oscar.

He died on his ranch in Virginia on February 15. No cause was given.

Mark Fuhrman, 74

Fuhrman cemented his place in popular culture as one of the lead LAPD detectives on the 1995 murder case of O.J. Simpson's ex-wife, Nicole Brown Simpson, and her friend Ronald Goldman.

Fuhrman found the famed bloody glove on the Simpson estate, and during the trial, he gained infamy when Simpson's defense team used his past racist language to discredit him as a witness.

Fuhrman retired from the LAPD after the Simpson trial and moved to Idaho, where he wrote true crime books.

Fuhrman died on May 12 of throat cancer.

Valentino Garavani, 93

For over six decades, one name has been synonymous with women's high fashion: Valentino.

The Italian designer launched his fashion business in Rome in 1960 and never looked back. Soon, every star wanted to be seen in his creations. They've been worn by icons like Elizabeth Taylor, Joan Collins, Jackie Kennedy, Princess Diana, Sharon Stone, and more.

Though Garavani retired from designing in 2008, his label is still a red carpet staple, as is his famous shade of bright red dubbed "Valentino Red."

Garavani died on January 19. No cause was given.

Donald Gibb, 71

No one defined a bully for a generation more than Gibb's hulking fraternity character Orge in the "Revenge of the Nerds" movies of the 1980s.

Since the original raunchy comedy was released in 1984, Gibb's intimidating size and loud yells of "NERDS!" have become as memorable as the pocket protectors worn by the movie's geeks.

Gibb went on to star opposite Jean-Claude Van Damme in his classic 1988 action movie "Bloodsport." He also landed guest star roles through his career on shows like "Quantum Leap," Magnum P.I.," "MacGyver," "Night Court," and "Cheers."

Gibb died on May 12 following health complications.

Anthony Head, 72

Rising up through the UK stage scene in the 1980s, Head found fame when he was cast as Rupert Giles, who became a father figure to Sarah Michelle Gellar's Buffy Summers in all seven seasons of "Buffy the Vampire Slayer."

Most recently, he played the bitter former owner of AFC Richmond on "Ted Lasso."

Head's death was announced by his family on June 5. They stated the cause was "complications due to pneumonia."

David Hockney, 88

British painter David Hockney was renowned for his striking portraits and figurative pop art. Many of his best-known paintings, including 1966's "The Splash" and 1972's "Portrait of an Artist (Pool with Two Figures)," were inspired by the bright colors and sun-dappled pools of Los Angeles.

Hockney moved to Los Angeles in the late '60s, and his work became synonymous with the warmth and leisure of Southern California. He was also one of the few popular artists at the time to depict openly gay scenes, and Hockney was outspoken about anti-gay censorship.

Throughout his career, Hockney split time between California, England, and France. He died at his home in London on June 12 at age 88, his publicist confirmed to The New York Times. No cause of death was given.

Jesse Jackson, 84

The Rev. Jesse Jackson was a leader of the Civil Rights Movement, a minister, and an activist icon who twice ran for president.

Born on October 8, 1941, in Greenville, South Carolina, Jackson experienced Jim Crow segregation on public buses and at school firsthand. It would shape the rest of his life.

His fight for civil rights began in the 1960s, when he helped organize protests and demonstrations across the US and worked closely alongside civil rights icon Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.

His decadeslong career as a leading civil rights activist included support for modern national movements, such as the push for voting rights, the fight against racism, and a higher minimum wage.

Jackson ran for president twice, both times as a democrat. He placed third for the party's nomination in 1984 and second in 1988. This marked the most successful presidential runs of any Black candidate prior to Barack Obama.

Jackson announced in 2017 that he'd been diagnosed with Parkinson's disease. In November 2025, Jackson was treated in a Chicago hospital after complications from progressive supranuclear palsy (PSP), a rare neurodegenerative condition.

Jackson died on February 17.

Patrick Muldoon, 57

In the 1990s, you couldn't escape the piercing eyes of Patrick Muldoon.

He played Austin Reed on "Days of Our Lives" for most of the decade, and when he wasn't on the soap, he was over on "Melrose Place" playing the villain role of Richard Hart.

If being on two iconic shows wasn't enough, he also showed up on "Saved by the Bell" and had a role in the cult classic movie "Starship Troopers."

Muldoon died on April 19 after a heart attack.

Tom Noonan, 74

Standing at a towering 6' 5", Tom Noonan was born to play the bad guy. And he did just that, starring as the villain in movies like "Manhunter," "RoboCop 2," and "Last Action Hero."

But this actor had more to show off. He showcased his comedy chops as Rodney Dangerfield's degenerate gambling friend in the 1983 comedy "Easy Money," and set up the heist for Robert De Niro in Michael Mann's 1995 classic "Heat."

His knack for storytelling also translated behind the camera. Noonan wrote, directed, and starred in the drama "What Happened Was," which won the grand prize at the 1994 Sundance Film Festival.

Noonan died on February 14; no cause was given.

Chuck Norris, 86

Few action stars have Chuck Norris' credentials.

Before he ever stepped in front of a camera, he was a martial arts champion and a black belt in Karate, judo, Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu, Taekwondo, and Tang Soo Do.

His talents would become known the world over in 1972, when he faced off against Bruce Lee in "The Way of the Dragon."

Through the 1980s, Norris became one of the biggest action stars in the world thanks to movies like "A Force of One," "The Octagon," and the "Delta Force" and "Missing in Action" franchises.

In the 1990s, he took over the small screen, playing the lead in the "Walker, Texas Ranger" TV show, which aired in over 100 countries during its run from 1993 to 2001.

Norris was hospitalized on March 19 in Hawaii and died the following day, according to his family. No cause was given.

Catherine O'Hara, 71

O'Hara, who was best known for her roles in "Beetlejuice" and "Home Alone," got her start in the Canadian comedy scene, appearing in the now-legendary cast of "SCTV."

It would mark the beginning of a fruitful partnership with fellow actor Eugene Levy, who became her frequent costar and collaborator in memorable appearances in Christopher Guest films like "A Mighty Wind" and "Best in Show" and television series like "Schitt's Creek," which earned her an Emmy Award for outstanding lead actress in 2020.

O'Hara's representation confirmed her death to Business Insider on January 30. Los Angeles County Department of Public Health confirmed in a death certificate viewed by People that O'Hara died of a pulmonary embolism, with rectal cancer listed as an underlying cause.

Valerie Perrine, 82

Perrine found herself cast alongside the biggest stars of the 1970s.

She played the love interest opposite Jeff Bridges in 1973's "The Last American Hero" and Robert Redford in 1979's "The Electric Horseman." She earned an Oscar nomination for starring alongside Dustin Hoffman in 1974's "Lenny."

For most, she'll be remembered best for sharing the screen with Gene Hackman as the secretary to his evil Lex Luthor in 1978's "Superman." She also starred in the sequel. As Ms. Teschmacher, her loyalty to Luthor is questioned when she rescues Superman (Christopher Reeve) after he's chained with Kryptonite.

Perrine died in her home in Beverly Hills on March 23. She was diagnosed with Parkinson's disease in 2015.

Sonny Rollins, 95

One of the most influential jazz musicians in history, Rollins recorded more than 60 albums over his seven-decade career.

His live album, "A Night at the Village Vanguard," is considered one of the greatest jazz albums ever made.

Rollins died on May 25; no cause was given.

Neil Sedaka, 86

Sedaka is responsible for some of the biggest pop songs of the 1960s and 1970s.

The Brooklyn native wrote over 500 songs, including classic hits like "Laughter in the Rain," "Breaking Up Is Hard to Do," "Bad Blood" and the Captain & Tennille song, "Love Will Keep Us Together."

Sedaka died on February 27; no cause was given.

Gene Shalit, 100

Before there was Rotten Tomatoes or even Siskel & Ebert, movie lovers got their recommendations from Gene Shalit.

The iconic movie critic could be seen sporting his signature look of glasses, bushy hair, and big mustache as a staple on the "Today" show from 1973 to 2010. If he wasn't interviewing the biggest movie stars, he was reviewing movies with incredible puns ("'Ishtar' is Ish-terrible.")

His larger-than-life presence left a mark on pop culture: he was parodied as a Muppet and on countless episodes of "SCTV" and "Saturday Night Live."

Shalit died on June 12; no cause was given.

Kiki Shepard, 74

In her 15-year tenure as a co-host on "Showtime at the Apollo," Kiki Shepard was considered royalty at Harlem's famed Apollo Theater.

Known in the building as "Apollo Queen of Fashion" thanks to her dazzling outfits, Shepherd was a fixture on the show from 1987 to 2002.

Throughout her career, Shepard also appeared on TV shows like "Baywatch," "A Different World," "NYPD Blue," and "Grey's Anatomy."

Shepard died on March 16 after suffering a heart attack.

Béla Tarr, 70

Hungarian filmmaker Béla Tarr became a legend in the arthouse world for his unflinching work featuring several-minute-long takes.

With movies like "Family Nest" (1979) and "The Turin Horse" (2011), Tarr showcased his slow cinema style while focusing on marginalized characters living bleak lives. Tarr pushed the envelope with his style when he made "Sátántangó" in 1994, which had a run time of 450 minutes.

His work influenced several arthouse filmmakers, including Jim Jarmusch and Gus Van Sant's "Death Trilogy" ("Gerry," "Elephant," and "Last Days").

Tarr died on January 6 following a battle with a "long and serious illness."

James Tolkan, 94

You might not recognize the name, but if you're a movie fan, you know the face.

Tolkan's tough-guy persona made a mark on movie history in films like "Top Gun" and the "Back to the Future" franchise.

In "Top Gun," he played Commander Tom "Stinger" Jardian, who famously gives Tom Cruise's character a tongue lashing, saying, "Your ego is writing checks your body can't cash."

In "Back to the Future" and its sequels, he played Principal Strickland, who had zero tolerance for "slackers."

Other credits include "Serpico," "WarGames," "Masters of the Universe," and "Dick Tracy."

Tolkan died on March 26; no cause was given.

Ted Turner, 87

Ted Turner changed the television landscape thanks to his maverick maneuvers to harness the 24-hour news cycle.

After taking over his father's advertising company in the 1960s at the age of 24, Turner embarked on a path to change the media landscape by buying up radio and TV stations around the South. He even bought sports teams including the Atlanta Braves MLB team and the Atlanta Hawks NBA team.

All of that programming would eventually become part of TBS, a "super station" that showed old movies, reruns, and Braves and Hawks games.

Turner then set his sights on the news. He founded CNN, the first 24-hour news channel, in June of 1980.

Over the decades, Turner gained celebrity status, particularly after marrying with Jane Fonda, a union that lasted from 1991 to 2001. In 1991, he was named Time's "Man of the Year." He sold his networks to Time Warner for $7.5 billion in 1996.

Turner died on May 6; no cause was given.

James Van Der Beek, 48

Van Der Beek was beloved all over the world for his role as the titular teen Dawson Leery on the WB series "Dawson's Creek."

The series, which ran from 1998 to 2002, turned Van Der Beek into a star and a teen heartthrob. While "Dawson's Creek" was still airing, he'd cement his stardom playing the lead role of high school quarterback "Mox" Moxon in the 1999 coming-of-age drama "Varsity Blues."

Van Der Beek found steady work the rest of his career in movies like "Texas Rangers" and "The Rules of Attraction, and memorably played a fictional version of himself on the TV series "Don't Trust the B---- in Apartment 23," and performed on "Dancing with the Stars" in 2019.

Van Der Beek learned he had stage 3 colon cancer in 2023, and publicly announced his diagnosis in late 2024.

Van Der Beek previously told Business Insider that the news came as a shock, given the subtleness of his symptoms and his efforts to stay as healthy as possible.

"I was doing everything," he said. "I was doing sauna, cold plunge, weightlifting, Pilates. I would dance and also do football training."

Van Der Beek died on Feb. 11.

Bob Weir, 78

Weir was one of the founding members of the Grateful Dead.

The singer-songwriter wrote and/or sang on songs like "Sugar Magnolia," "Playing in the Band," "Truckin,'" "I Need a Miracle," and "The Other One."

After the Grateful Dead disbanded in 1995, Weir went on to form several other bands, including Kingfish, Bobby and the Midnites, RatDog, The Other Ones, and, alongside John Mayer, Dead & Company.

In the summer of 2025, Weir was diagnosed with cancer.

Weir died on January 10.

Frederick Wiseman, 96

For over five decades, Wiseman's brand of non-fiction storytelling put a spotlight on everyday people.

From high schoolers to hospital workers to Air Force cadets training for nuclear war, Wiseman's close to 50-film catalogue is an unvarnished reflection of America over the last half century.

Wiseman died on Februay 16, no cause was given.

• Kimberly Wilson is training for the Philadelphia Half Marathon after losing 200 pounds.
• Run coach Tiffany Templeton created a personalized plan for her half-marathon training.
• Wilson's training includes strength, cardio, and run sessions to build endurance and pace.

I've had a love-hate relationship with running since the Presidential Fitness Test back in the 90s. Running a mile in front of my peers and always being at the back of the pack will certainly do it to you.

So, to think nearly 30 years later, I'd be gearing up to run a half-marathon, almost seems unbelievable. Still, as a millennial going through what is being deemed the new "mid-life crisis," it was either this or divorce. And well, I'm not married quite yet, so this will have to do.

Months and months of preparation are going to get me across that finish line in November at the Philadelphia Half Marathon, and of course, willpower, determination, and the grace of God himself.

I've come a long way. A few years ago, I was nearly 200 pounds heavier, couldn't run for more than a few seconds, and now, here I am: a member of a run club, can run 3-4 miles consecutively without stopping, completed two Hyrox races this year, and dare I say, excited, for this next phase of my fitness journey.

The decision to sign up didn't happen in a vacuum. A friend mentioned the race (I will report back if that person continues to be my friend after this experience), and I said yes before I could talk myself out of it. I then immediately started Googling whether I could get a refund. With no luck, I did the next logical thing and found myself a coach.

Here's the exact plan I'm following.

I found a coach who understood my goals

Signing up was the easy part. Figuring out how to actually prepare to run 13.1 miles without burning out, getting injured, or losing my mind somewhere around week six is a whole other story.

I was introduced to Tiffany Templeton, a run coach and the founder of Unity Performance Club in DC, through the nonprofit, The Running Industry Diversity Coalition (RIDC)'s "Movement For All Program." It's a free program, and their goal is to pair non-traditional athletes, or those who face common barriers to running (such as access, community, money, or time), with in-person or virtual trainers, to help them along their journey.

As someone who has never seen herself as a runner, I absolutely fit into this bucket. So after a brief enrollment call, Templeton built a plan that works around my existing workout schedule, my fitness level, and the fact that I am a real person with real limitations.

Here's what my weekly training schedule looks like

My training plan was built on the fact that I already have a solid fitness base from Hyrox training, which means I'm not starting from zero, but I'm also not a runner (I will be, come this fall!). Coach Tiff took all of that into account.

I shared many details with her, including my current workout routine, my schedule, my injury history, and what I hate doing. And this is what Coach Tiff created:

Monday: Strength Training. Lifting gives my body the structural support it needs to handle increasing my mileage without falling apart. This is the foundation, and extremely necessary to my plan, Coach Tiff said. Mondays for me are for my upper body.

Tuesday: Zone 2-3 at Barry's Bootcamp. At Barry's, the treadmill workouts alternate between Zone 2 and Zone 3 training, which is what Coach Tiff recommended. Zone 2 is a conversational pace. Zone 3 is when we're hitting higher speeds on the treadmill to 8, 9, and 10, and I'm huffing, puffing, and ready to meet my maker. Both are key to increasing aerobic capacity and building the endurance needed for a half-marathon.

Wednesday: Strength Training + 2 Easy miles. I strength train first, then wrap the morning with two easy miles alongside Coach Tiff. I run these miles slowly on purpose, which may seem counterintuitive, but running slower can improve pace and speed over time.

Thursday: Rest or Zone 2-3 at Barry's. This one depends on how my body feels. I'm learning to actually listen to that instead of overriding it.

Friday: Strength Training or Zone 3-4 at Barry's. The plan has flexibility built in, again, depending on how I'm feeling, but also to add variety.

Saturday: Long run, 3 miles at conversational pace. This is the week's anchor. Three miles may not sound significant, but every Saturday run is laying the foundation for the harder weeks ahead.

Sunday: Rest day, or, for me, I typically use it as an active recovery day and get some movement in by walking for at least 45 minutes to an hour.

Having a coach helps keep me accountable

Now that I've officially started my summer training block, I already notice a difference. For one, it's a completely different experience having someone run alongside you to push you to go further, or even check in with you to see how the program is going.

I've had personal trainers that I've paid for in the past. And because I hate wasting my money, whether I want to be there or not, I'm going to show up.

Another thing I've realized about myself is that everything comes down to mindset. My body will only go as far, and for as long as my mind allows it to go. So if I tell myself I want to stop, I'm going to. But when I repeat to myself, "I can do hard things" (my personal mantra), I'm motivated to keep going. That's given me an extra push of .25 to even half a mile when I've wanted to quit.

And no, I can't run 13.1 miles quite yet, but I'm getting there with every step. I'm still in that 3-4 mile range, but my pace has gone from about 14-15 minutes/mile to 12-13 minutes/mile. And while that may still be slow for others, no one can take this joy away from me because I remember where I started.

November feels far away and very close at the same time. Still, I'll be there, still likely in the back of the crowd (but this time with pride), running a race I would have laughed at myself for even considering a few years ago.

• Anne Hathaway and Adam Shulman have been married since 2012 and share two sons.
• Hathaway, who shared her struggles with conceiving in the past, just announced her third pregnancy.
• Hathaway generally keeps her family life private, choosing not to reveal much about her children.

After months of promoting "The Devil Wears Prada 2," Anne Hathaway stunned on a more private carpet — while announcing her third pregnancy.

On Friday, she posted a video on Instagram to share the news, captioning the post: "x Baby, I'm yours x."

Hathaway, 43, previously spoke about her struggles with getting pregnant, including experiencing a miscarriage in 2015.

"For everyone going through infertility and conception hell, please know it was not a straight line to either of my pregnancies," she wrote in a 2019 Instagram caption when announcing her pregnancy with Jack, her second child.

Hathaway has been married to actor, producer, and jewelry designer Adam Shulman for nearly 14 years. They share two sons: Jonathan, 10, and Jack, 6.

Here's everything to know about Hathaway's growing family.

Hathaway and Shulman met at the Palm Springs Film Festival in 2008

Hathaway met Shulman through a mutual friend when she was going through a tough time.

"I knew from the second I met him that he was the love of my life," she told Harper's Bazaar UK. "I also knew that I couldn't have met him at a worse time."

Hathaway had broken up with her previous boyfriend, entrepreneur Raffaello Follieri, and he was sentenced to prison on fraud and money laundering charges soon after. But she immediately knew Shulman was someone worth pursuing.

After roughly three years of dating, Shulman proposed.

Their wedding was low-key

About a year later, Hathaway and Shulman tied the knot in Big Sur, California, on September 29, 2012.

It was an understated affair; Hathaway wore no jewelry, and out of the 150 guests, there were no A-list stars, according to People.

"It was just friends and family," a guest told People. "No movie stars. There were only a few people in the business there, like her stunt double."

Their sons Jonathan and Jack were born in 2016 and 2019, respectively

Hathaway and Shulman's sons are about three years apart.

She said motherhood changed her life. "I didn't feel fully landed and fully here until I was a mom," Hathaway told WSJ Magazine in March 2022. "It's not like I was lacking integrity, but it made me want to be completely, on every level, true to my word."

Hathaway keeps her family life under wraps

Hathaway likes to keep her public and private lives separated.

She didn't reveal Jack's name in public until 11 months after he was born, during an appearance on "Live with Kelly and Ryan."

"My family has needs, and one of the needs of children is that they need to be able to define their own lives," she told Porter in November 2023.

"It doesn't even occur to me to link the two up, except through gratitude that they serve each other so beautifully. But they serve each other through me, and not through a space that's outside of myself."

• The Battle of the Gullet will take place in "House of the Dragon" season three.
• Showrunner Ryan Condal teased the battle as "arguably the craziest episode of television ever made."
• Here's how the Battle of the Gullet unfolds in the book, "Fire & Blood."

"House of the Dragon" fans have been anxiously awaiting more action from HBO's tentpole "Game of Thrones" spinoff — and their wish may be granted much sooner than later.

Ahead of the season three premiere on Sunday, "House of the Dragon" co-creator and showrunner Ryan Condal has been teasing the Battle of the Gullet, described in the original book "Fire & Blood" as one of the "bloodiest sea battles" in Westerosi history.

"To try to tell this story without doing the Gullet would be trying to film 'Lord of the Rings' without doing the Battle of Helm's Deep," Condal told Entertainment Weekly. "If we were gonna do it, we had to do it right. And that meant dragons and ships and multiple theaters of conflict."

Condal also said that in terms of expense and execution, the impending Gullet sequence makes for "arguably the craziest episode of television ever made."

Of course, fans of George R. R. Martin's fantasy world are no strangers to spectacle and violence; think of Princess Rhaenys Targaryen's fiery death in "House of the Dragon" season two, the epic Battle of the Bastards in "Game of Thrones," or the many, many men that Daenerys Targaryen burned alive.

But the Battle of the Gullet isn't just about expensive sets, special effects, and sacrificial background actors. It's a crucial turning point in the Targaryen civil war, also known as the Dance of the Dragons, and proves deeply consequential in the grand scheme of the dynasty.

Here's what happens in the book when naval forces and dragonriders collide. (Obviously, spoilers ahead for "Fire & Blood" and potential spoilers for "House of the Dragon" season three.)

'A new threat was closing from the east'

In "Fire & Blood," the Battle of the Gullet takes place in 130 AC, less than one year after Aegon II Targaryen was crowned instead of his older half-sister, Rhaenyra Targaryen, the late king's chosen heir. (AC denotes "after conquest," meaning the number of years after Aegon I conquered Westeros and became the first Targaryen king.)

At this point in the story, Rhaenyra's war council is plotting from Dragonstone — largely led by her 15-year-old son, Prince Jacaerys, aka Jace — while Rhaenyra's husband, Prince Daemon Targaryen, is rallying an army at Harrenhal in the Riverlands.

However, as Jace hatches a plan to fly against King's Landing, Rhaenyra's foes are covertly planning an attack by sea.

King Aegon's council has formed an alliance with the Triarchy, a trio of powerful fleets from the free cities of Essos.

The Triarchy had long warred with Lord Corlys Velaryon, Rhaenyra's right-hand man and sea commander, over a chain of islands known as the Stepstones. With the Triarchy's 90 warships, King Aegon's council hopes to break the blockade set up by Rhaenyra and Corlys, which prevents food and supplies from coming into King's Landing.

As the Triarchy sails toward the Gullet — a narrow channel next to the islands of Dragonstone, where Rhaenyra is based, and Driftmark, the seat of House Velaryon — they come across a ship called the Gay Abandon, sailing away from Westeros.

Aboard the Gay Abandon are Rhaenyra's two youngest sons, Prince Aegon III (also known as Aegon the Younger) and Prince Viserys II. They'd been sent away by their older brother, Jace, to wait out the war across the narrow sea. Corlys had also sent seven warships to escort them.

When they cross paths, the Triarchy sinks the seven warships and captures the Gay Abandon. Nine-year-old Aegon III is able to escape on his young dragon, Stormcloud, and fly to Dragonstone, where he warns his family about the Triarchy's assault — but Stormcloud is shot by several arrows while they flee, and the dragon dies soon after landing.

Meanwhile, 7-year-old Viserys II has no means of escape; the dragon egg given to him at birth hadn't even hatched yet, and Stormcloud is too small to carry both boys. The younger brother is captured by the admiral of the Triarchy's fleet, Sharako Lohar of Lys.

'It is one thing to face a dragon, another to face five'

Roused by his little brother's warning, Jace flies to meet the Triarchy on his own dragon, Vermax.

While Vermax sets their ships ablaze, the Triarchy warriors attempt to unseat Jace with arrows and spears. However, he's quickly joined by four more dragonriders, the non-Targaryen "dragonseeds" who recently claimed dragons in Rhaenyra's name: Ulf on Silverwing, Addam on Seasmoke, Hugh on Vermithor, and Nettles on Sheepstealer. (Nettles doesn't exist in the show; it seems her storyline is being given to Rhaena Targaryen.)

You may be thinking: What about Rhaenyra? After all, the would-be queen is a dragonrider herself — one far more experienced than her teenage son or any of the dragonseeds. With Rhaenys dead and Daemon far away at Harrenhal, surely Rhaenyra would be the greatest asset in battle.

In the book, Rhaenyra isn't even mentioned during the Battle of the Gullet. She's been essentially neutralized after the death of her son, Prince Lucerys, aka Luke, at the hands of her half-brother, Prince Aemond Targaryen.

"Fire & Blood" is written as a history book, drawing on various informants and eyewitness accounts that are often colored by personal biases; one source says Rhaenyra is horrified by kinslaying and refuses to attack her own family, while another blames a "mother's heart" for her inaction. Her court jester, Mushroom, says Rhaenyra was "still so griefsick" over Luke that she withdrew from her war council, leaving Corlys and Jace to make decisions in her stead.

In the show, Rhaenyra is not depicted as quite so ineffective. She is both devastated and infuriated by Luke's death, and she tries to take action multiple times — but she's usually convinced to stand down by her advisors, who say that her life is too important to risk.

Whatever the reason, Rhaenyra is nowhere to be found in the text as Jace flies into his first major battle.

'All seemed lost… all was lost…'

While the Triarchy's southern squadron succeeds in sacking Driftmark, its fleet panics and scatters when five dragons decend from the sky.

"Ship after ship burst asunder or was consumed by flames," the book reads. "Screaming men leapt into the sea, shrouded in fire. Tall columns of black smoke rose up from the water. All seemed lost… all was lost…"

Suddenly, Vermax plummets from the sky. Again, eyewitnesses disagree on the exact series of events, but the result is the same: Jace's dragon is hit and falls into the sea, "smoking and screaming, clawing at the water."

As Vermax dies, Jace is apparently able to unclip from his saddle and leap to safety, clinging to a piece of floating wreckage. But his survival is short-lived. Crossbowmen from the Triarchy's nearest ship shoot him with arrows until he, too, is "swallowed by the sea."

The Battle of the Gullet continues to rage through the night, and only 28 out of the Triarchy's 90 warships survive. Technically, Corlys and the Velaryon fleet claim victory, but with Driftmark destroyed and Jace dead, their victory is hollow.

The book says that when Corlys is congratulated, he replies, "If this be victory, I pray I never win another."

'Jace's death hardened her'

The Battle of the Gullet had dire consequences for Rhaenyra's family and legacy. Jace was her eldest son and heir, throwing the line of succession into chaos if she were to finally take the Iron Throne — but moreover, he was her pride and joy, and the latest blow in a story already stained by grief.

Rhaenyra's second son, Luke, was already dead. Her third son, Prince Joffrey, had been sent away to the Vale. Her fourth son, Aegon III, was irrevocably traumatized after his escape from the Triarchy, and her youngest son, Viserys II, was presumed dead in the Gullet, either "drowned or burned or butchered."

The fictional "Fire & Blood" historians also blame the Battle of the Gullet for draining Rhaenyra of her queenly qualities. Once celebrated as "The Realm's Delight," she became brutal and callous in her quest for vengeance, vowing to "rain down fire and death upon Aegon and all those who supported him."

"Broken by the loss of one son, Rhaenyra Targaryen seemed to find new strength after the loss of a second," the book reads. "Jace's death hardened her, burning away her fears, leaving only her anger and her hatred."

• Figma CEO Dylan Field sees AI as a creative ally, not a threat, for graphic designers.
• Field encourages designers to push creative boundaries beyond AI's "average" design capabilities.
• AI-generated graphic design means creative careers will become more generalist, he said.

That AI slop can't hurt you, according to Figma's top executive.

Figma CEO and cofounder Dylan Field said creative people — like the graphic designers who use his company's tools — should find the AI era "a great time to be creative."

AI models, he said, are trained on the "distribution of data" and typically create designs that people recognize as "average."

Humans, on the other hand, can make something that hasn't been seen before, Field told The New York Times' "Hard Fork" podcast.

"If you're in distribution, and you're not actually pushing the bounds, I think that you're in a worse shape than if you're actually going and exploring the frontier of human knowledge, creativity, and what you can put out in the world," Field said. "And making something that's fundamentally new as an expression of yourself. So I get excited about that."

Field made the remarks at a San Francisco event hosted by the podcast last week. A video of the interview was posted online on Friday.

Figma has released its own AI "vibe design" tools that allow users to mock up apps and other software. It's faced competition from other tech companies, like Google, which has Stitch, and Anthropic, which has Claude Design.

Field said that the flood of AI-generated designs in marketing, in particular, should be pushing companies to make work that's more original.

"In advertising now, we're seeing ways to prove authenticity, to prove that you are actually making something that is not generated by AI, and some companies are really going for that," Field said. "In the world of design, I think that what we're going to see and what we are starting to see is a lot more interactivity, a lot more creativity, people really making software more of a creative medium."

The CEO also waved away the notion that AI would create a job apocalypse for graphic designers. Jobs will become more generalist rather than specialized, he said.

"A lot of people that are doing other jobs, I think, will start calling themselves 'designers-creatives," Field said. "I think in general, we're seeing more of this kind of generalist vibe that people are feeling like they have to embody."

• A key Google DeepMind engineer is leaving for Anthropic.
• He's the latest Silicon Valley name to join the AI giant.
• John Jumper won the 2024 Nobel Prize in Chemistry for his work with Google's AlphaFold technology.

John Jumper, a chemist and computer scientist who once won a Nobel Prize alongside Demis Hassabis, announced Friday he is leaving Google DeepMind to join Anthropic.

He's the latest Silicon Valley name to jump ship for the AI startup darling. Jumper worked at Google for nearly a decade.

"The entire GDM team taught me so much about how to do great science," he wrote in an X post on Friday. "GDM is a special place, and I'll still be excited to hear about what amazing things they discover next."

Jumper is best known for spearheading Google's AlphaFold team, an AI system that predicts a protein's 3D structure from its amino acid sequence.

The AI-powered technology was a major breakthrough in medical and biological research, enabling scientists to understand protein design in greater detail. Now offering over 200 million protein structure predictions, it's a resource that cuts months and even years from the research process.

Hassabis, the cofounder and CEO of DeepMind, said that Jumper's work with Alphafold will have a lasting legacy.

"What we achieved with AlphaFold changed the world, and showed the field what was possible with AI for science and medicine, lighting the way for how AI can benefit humanity," he wrote.

Hassabis and Jumper shared the 2024 Nobel Prize in Chemistry for their work developing AlphaFold.

Jumper's exit to Anthropic coincides with a series of tech leaders at companies like Google and Meta leaving for the big AI startups. Firms like Anthropic and OpenAI are the hottest tech job around — especially as both prepare for an initial public offering.

Jumper did not say what his role will be at the AI giant. First, he said, he will be "taking some time to recharge."

• Bo Pettersson runs his socials with the help of his daughter, Emily.
• Emily suffered a brain injury playing soccer, which changed both their lives.
• Their content helps support treatments for Emily's injury.

This as-told-to essay is based on a conversation with Bo and Emily Petterson, of Dad Advice From Bo. It has been edited for length and clarity.

Parents aren't supposed to have a favorite child, but there's no secret that Emily has always been mine. She's the second youngest of my six children. She's been the boss of our household since she was 3. She was the type of child who you'd look at and think, "This kid is going places."

Emily got a scholarship to college. Then, in 2009, she was playing soccer when she and another player both jumped to head the ball and collided. From that moment, Emily's life changed forever.

At the time, my wife and I had a "shake it off" mentality. No one was talking about concussions back then.

We were horrified as we slowly watched Emily's life fall apart. Today, Emily describes her injury as being seasick 24/7. When Emily has a bad spell, she stays near the toilet, vomiting for days. There's nothing I can do except hold her.

I never wanted to be a TikTok star

In the years since Emily's injury, her world got smaller and smaller. First, she lost control of her body, then she lost her friends, her social life, and her ability to work. By 2020, she'd also lost hope. Emily was severely depressed, and her mother and I were worried.

Emily had mentioned making videos with me, but I had always brushed her off. I'm not the type of person who wants to put himself out there. I didn't even know what TikTok was at the time. But I could see that Emily was desperate to have something positive in her life. So, one day when she asked, I reluctantly agreed.

Emily prompted me to give Dad advice. I thought about the things my own father had taught me and settled on a simple tip: how to back up a trailer. Emily posted the video, and the next day we were amazed by how many people had seen it. As we made more videos, I could see that our channel was pulling Emily out of the depths of despair.

I enjoy hearing about the real impact my advice has

Usually, our videos are based on something I'm already doing around our home and land. I'm shy, so I try not to think about the fact that millions of people watch me — I just speak like I'm talking to my own kids.

I love seeing the comments and messages our audience sends. One woman messaged to say that when her dishwasher sprang a leak, her husband was running around trying to figure out how to turn off the water. The woman remembered I'd posted about just that, and she saved the day.

Another time, I encouraged viewers to pick up the phone and call their fathers. I'd be thinking about my own dad, and the conversations we'd had during his final years. A bit later, a viewer messaged us to say that she had reconnected with her estranged father because of that video.

The channel has helped Emily access treatment and community

A good dad is always there for his family, but he's not perfect. I've always been clear about that with my kids, and I make a point of saying it on social media. I make mistakes. As a parent, you're going to mess up millions of times. The best you can do is always try to make the next right decision.

I made a mistake with how I initially responded to Emily's injury. But deciding to get onto social media with her was definitely the right decision. We have so much fun together making videos. We often laugh until we're on our knees. It's been amazing to have this much time with my daughter.

It's also helped Emily directly. When we started, she didn't know anyone else with a traumatic brain injury. Now, she has a network. Because of funds and connections on social media, Emily has had access to new treatments. We started making content because we were desperate. Now, because of everything that content has given us, we have hope.

The FIFA World Cup has officially kicked off, almost four years since Argentina's victory, and Lionel Messi and his crew will attempt to defend their title against a stacked field. We've scoured the viewing options and rounded up everything you need to know about where to watch the World Cup, including free and global streaming options for all 104 matches.

If you don't want to scroll any further, we've got you covered. You can live stream every game on FOX and FS1 via FOX One or a live TV service in the US, for free on SBS On Demand in Australia, and for free across BBC iPlayer and ITVX in the UK, among many other viewing options around the world (which we'll break down below). You can access your streaming options from anywhere with the help of a VPN. Keep reading to learn more about the tournament, whether you're hoping to watch from home or attend in person.

Where to watch the World Cup for free

Several countries around the world will offer free access to World Cup coverage. In Australia, all matches will be available for free on SBS On Demand. In the UK, all matches will be split across BBC iPlayer and ITVX.

Other regions offer select games for free, often focusing on their national team and major late-tournament matches, while the rest are available via a paid service. In Spain, select matches will be available for free on RTVE Play. In Italy, RaiPlay will offer free coverage of select matches. M6 offers some free matches in France. Tabii in Turkey has plenty of free live streams in Arabic, too.

Want to access some of these free World Cup viewing options from outside the above countries? We'll show you how to get around those geo-restrictions next.

How to watch the World Cup from anywhere

Football fans who are away from the location where their streaming service works during any notable matches can still access their free viewing options with the help of a VPN. Short for virtual private networks, VPNs are handy tech tools that let people temporarily change the virtual location on their electronic devices. They're popular among people looking to upgrade their cybersecurity and keep up with their usual websites and apps while traveling abroad.

NordVPN is our top recommendation and one of the best VPNs on the market. It's fast, offers a massive selection of global servers, and comes with a helpful 30-day money-back guarantee if you find that it's not helping you out.

Where to watch the World Cup in the US

All 104 World Cup games will air on either FOX or Fox Sports 1 (FS1) in the US. FOX offers a direct streaming counterpart, FOX One, for $20 a month with a three-day free trial. If you're looking for a service with additional channels or a longer free trial, one of the best live TV streaming services we've tested might be of interest.

Fubo offers FOX and FS1 coverage in its Sports + News plan, along with 25+ other key channels. The streaming package also unlocks ESPN Unlimited access. Sports + News costs $56 a month, but new users can get $10 off their first month after a five-day free trial. FOX and FS1 are also available in the Pro and Elite plan.

YouTube TV is another live TV service with ample FOX and FS1 coverage. Until June 30, a special deal can help new users get $75 off YouTube TV for five months (that's $15 a month off each month over a five-month period). The sale brings the price of YouTube TV's main plan down from $83 a month to just $68 a month. There's also a sports plan with FOX and FS1, which costs $65 a month, but new users can get $10 a month off their first 12 months. The live TV service typically offers a free trial for new customers.

Sling TV also carries FOX and FS1 across several of its plans, with the cheapest being Sling Select. Sling Select starts at $20 a month for 10 channels (including FS1), but it jumps up to $25 or $30 a month when local channels (like FOX) are involved. However, Sling's local channel coverage varies widely by region, so check what's available in your area before signing up. Sling Blue also carries FS1 and FOX (when available). Plans start at $46 a month, but they go for $51 a month with local channels.

You can also sign up for the service as a Prime Video add-on

If you're looking for Spanish-language coverage, Telemundo has the broadcast rights in the US, and all 104 matches are available to stream on Peacock with Spanish commentary. Peacock's sports-friendly tiers start at $11 a month for Peacock Premium, but you'll be able to watch the first couple of days of the tournament with a pared-down Select plan as well.

Where to watch the World Cup in the UK

Every match at the World Cup will be available for free in the UK. Coverage is split across the BBC and ITV, meaning fans can live stream all matches via a combination of BBC iPlayer and ITVX. These are free streaming options that only require account creation to watch.

Where to watch the World Cup in Australia

It's good news in Australia. All 104 World Cup matches will be available in one place, through SBS, SBS Viceland, and SBS On Demand. That means that you can live stream all of the games via SBS On Demand, which just requires account creation if you haven't already made a login.

Where to watch the World Cup in Spain

RTVE will carry several World Cup matches in Spain. This means that fans will be able to live stream coverage for free on RTVE Play. You'll just need to create an account, and then you're all set to start watching. Coverage will favor games with Spain's national team, along with other marquee match-ups. Football fans in Spain hoping to watch every single World Cup match will need a paid subscription through DAZN.

Where to watch the World Cup in Italy

Select matches will be shown through RAI in Italy, which means that coverage will be available to stream for free via Rai Play. Italian FIFA fans hoping to watch every single match of the World Cup will need a paid DAZN subscription, which will grant access to all 104 matches.

Where to watch the World Cup in Germany

In Germany, select World Cup coverage will be available for free through ARD and ZDF. For full German coverage of the entire tournament, including all early group stage matches, fans will need a paid subscription to MagentaTV.

Where does the 2026 FIFA World Cup take place?

Typically, the FIFA World Cup is hosted by a single country (except for Japan and South Korea in 2002), but the 2026 tournament will be held across Canada, Mexico, and the United States. In Canada, Toronto and Vancouver serve as host cities. In Mexico, host cities include Guadalajara, Mexico City, and Monterrey. US host cities include Atlanta, Boston, Dallas, Houston, Kansas City, Los Angeles, Miami, New York/New Jersey, Philadelphia, Seattle, and the San Francisco Bay Area.

Is this a larger World Cup tournament than in past years?

If you've been looking at your TV guide and thinking that there are a lot of matches and teams, you're not alone. 2026 marks FIFA's largest World Cup tournament to date. The tournament was expanded from 32 to 48 teams, nearly doubling the number of matches scheduled to take place. This change increased the number of teams and groups in the group stages and means that knockouts begin with a new Round of 32 before the Round of 16.

Who is favored to win the FIFA World Cup?

Heading into the tournament, Spain is the favorite to win the FIFA World Cup. On DraftKings (prior to the start of the World Cup), Spain led at +450, followed by France (+475), England (+700), Portugal (+800), Brazil (+950), and Argentina (+950).

Previous FIFA World Cup winners

Argentina, led by Lionel Messi, won the 2022 World Cup. Previous winners include France (2018), Germany (2014), Spain (2010), Italy (2006), Brazil (2002), France (1998), Brazil (1994), West Germany (1990), Argentina (1986), Italy (1982), Argentina (1978), West Germany (1974), Brazil (1970), England (1966), Brazil (1962), Brazil (1958), West Germany (1954), Uruguay (1950), Italy (1938), Italy (1934), and Uruguay (1930).

When and where is the next men's World Cup?

The next FIFA Men's World Cup tournament will take place in 2030. Most of the games will be hosted by Morocco, Portugal, and Spain, with one match each taking place in Uruguay, Argentina, and Paraguay. These South American games are in honor of the 100th anniversary of the first FIFA World Cup, which was held in Uruguay in 1930.

When and where is the women's World Cup?

The next FIFA Women's World Cup is scheduled for 2027. Brazil will host the tournament for the first time. Spain is the most recent women's World Cup winner, beating out England 1-0 in the 2023 final. Prior to that, the USA won back-to-back in 2019 and 2015.

How do you get World Cup tickets?

Getting your hands on World Cup tickets has proven to be no easy task. The tournament is incredibly popular, and the initial FIFA ticket release was a bit confusing. Our team has found that some of the best prices and seating variety come from the resale market right now. You can learn more in our World Cup tickets guide.

2026 FIFA World Cup Schedule

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• Chris Rojas barely touched alcohol until he entered the restaurant trade and drank with colleagues.
• His drinking got worse as he got older, and he had bad hangovers after consuming beer and whisky.
• The dad of four finally realized he wasn't being present for his children and got sober.

This story is based on an interview with Chris Rojas, 41, of Tucson, Arizona, where he works in food distribution. It has been edited for length and clarity.

Some of my friends growing up were into recreational drugs and drinking, but I was big into sports and stayed away from all that.

Then, at 18, I got my first job in the restaurant industry. My colleagues and I would work hard all evening and then party when we were done.

We'd hit the bar scene around 10 pm or go to someone's house. I drank heavy beers, whisky, tequila, gin, vodka, and anything else I could get my hands on.

I used alcohol to soothe myself

Then I got hit by a drunken driver. I was left with a lot of soft tissue damage, and I couldn't stand up for more than 30 minutes for about a year.

There was a lot of pain involved, and I used alcohol to soothe myself. I got married and divorced within two-and-a-half years, which didn't help.

Still, I met my second wife, and we got married in 2013. It wasn't long before our first child arrived. We went on to have three more.

I didn't go out so much because I had kids, but I would drink whisky and beer in my home office after helping them with their homework and eating dinner.

I was a bit of a workaholic with several side projects that I was passionate about. I'd stay up late working and drinking every night or every other night.

Alcohol dominated my thoughts. I'd drive to the supermarket to buy 12-packs of beer as soon as my supply got low in the fridge.

Stress got to me

The hangovers were awful, and I felt slow and sluggish. I was constantly tired from lack of sleep and wasn't as connected to my little ones.

In 2022, I tried to reduce my drinking and was successful for about 18 months. Then I was demoted twice over the course of six months and earned 45% less than my previous salary.

The stress got to me, and I suffered from my prior injury to my back. My solution was drinking again.

Then, on November 15, 2024, I woke up with yet another hangover after a binge. I finally realized I couldn't keep punishing my body.

I was giving up my energy and attention to my kids to a substance that was parasitic. I downloaded an app that offered advice on both reducing and eliminating alcohol consumption.

It was a life-changer, and I haven't touched a drop since then. I read about the neurological and physiological effects of long-term abuse and what it was doing to my relationships.

I feel so much closer to my children

I created a routine of waking up, lifting weights at home, and committing to not drinking.

Unfortunately, my second marriage ended. It was traumatic, but it would have been 10 times worse if I'd been drinking.

Best of all, I feel so much closer to my children. I spend a whole lot more time with them and am fully present.

They're young, but I've talked to my kids about my past through a filter. My 11-year-old recently told me that she was proud of me. It felt like the ultimate praise.

• Yale Budget Lab researchers are tracking the impact of AI on the job market.
• They found that AI isn't causing major unemployment, and its impact is similar to the internet's early days.
• The new technology is changing the nature of work, making companies reevaluate their bottom lines.

It's easy for job seekers to feel stuck in an AI doom loop.

Chatbots have overhauled white-collar 9-to-5s, agents are rewriting the rules for basic tasks, and C-Suite leaders can't stop talking about productivity gains. If you're struggling to land a new role right now, however, new research found that technology likely isn't the main culprit.

An analysis by Yale Budget Lab found that AI has had a modest impact on America's job market since the release of ChatGPT in 2022. So far, AI has changed jobs more than it has eliminated them, the researchers said — a pattern similar to the impact of other major advances, such as the internet and computers.

Yale's team put it bluntly: AI usage has "no connection" to changes in employment or unemployment.

AI is changing work, but not eliminating it

While it may not be obliterating jobs just yet, AI has undoubtedly changed the nature of those jobs. Business Insider has heard from Americans without a tech background who vibecoded solutions to their biggest problems, and business leaders who are using chatbots to streamline their workflow.

A solid benchmark for AI's actual impact on jobs, Yale's researchers found, is to compare it with other tech advances, such as the introduction of computers in the 1980s and the dawn of the internet in the 1990s. AI's effect is slightly sharper in the months after launching, but not the work revolution some Silicon Valley leaders have heralded.

Some sectors have been hit harder than others. Finance and business are more vulnerable than a profession like nursing. Occupational churn, which measures growth and decline in the job market, however, is following a similar trend line to these other moments in tech history — not causing a massive reset.

The Yale report also found that high AI exposure doesn't have a stark impact on how long job seekers are unemployed — those who have been out of work for less than 5 weeks have a relatively similar trend line to those who have been unemployed for 27 weeks or more. The number of unemployed workers whose jobs were automated is also fairly static.

It's not to say that the job market is rosy. A lack of vacancies, widespread hiring freezes, and layoffs — which some CEOs say are somewhat related to AI — have boxed people of all ages out of offices. And relatively low quit rates mean that open positions have been few and far between. Jobs numbers are recovering a bit this summer after months of disappointing results, though that dip may have had more to do with high interest rates than tech disruption.

Giants like OpenAI and Anthropic are also reevaluating how they price their products, meaning companies will have to shell out a lot more money if they want their employees to use AI regularly. And, as Business Insider has reported, much of the current AI use in the corporate world isn't translating to major profits or productivity gains.

It's still early days for chatbots at the office, and the tech is evolving rapidly. But, at least for now, it's unlikely to cause a sudden wave of unemployment.

• Meta said it'll be improving its snack-filled office kitchens to improve employee morale.
• X's product lead, Nikita Bier, offered to "match or exceed any snack budget offer."
• Meta's employees have taken a pummelling with frequent AI pivots and layoffs.

Two tech titans are now competing on another battlefield: Employee snacks.

Earlier this month, Meta CTO Andrew "Boz" Bosworth said the company would be taking steps to improve employee morale after successive waves of layoffs and AI strategy pivots. One of those steps, he said in a memo, would be improving the snacks and drinks in its office kitchens.

Elon Musk's social media is going toe-to-toe on that front.

To entice engineers to work for X, Nikitia Bier, the top product executive at the social media platform, offered to up its snack game.

"Neglected Meta employees: X is hiring web and data engineers & scientists," he wrote on the platform on Thursday. "We will match or even exceed any snack budget offer."

He instructed employees to use the word "snacks" in their application for software engineering roles, which pay between $180,000 to $440,000, according to the job listing — plenty of money to buy snacks in case Bier can't get your favorite Dubai chocolate-covered pretzels in the office kitchen.

While Meta's workplace morale has taken a pummelling in recent months, X's is on a high.

The company is part of xAI, Musk's artificial intelligence company, which is part of SpaceX, which had the biggest initial public offering ever last week. The IPO minted over 4,000 new millionaires at the company.

The company vaulted past Meta to become the 6th-most-valuable company in the world, behind Amazon. Meta is now ranked No. 12.

Representatives for X and Meta didn't immediately respond to requests for comment.

• Ukraine is mounting weapon stations on ground robots to hunt Russian troops.
• A Ukrainian company says its turret is now being used to make "small tanks."
• The robots let troops attack Russian positions from safer distances.

Ukraine is combating Russia's infiltration groups by putting weapons stations on ground robots and turning them into "small tanks," a Ukrainian arms maker told Business Insider.

Frontline Robotics said Ukrainian soldiers are looking for more ways to strike Russian positions from safer distances, including by mounting weapons on ground robots that can drive toward enemy lines and attack.

The company makes its "Buria" turret, an autonomous remote weapon station that can be placed in a fixed position on a tripod and fire grenades or a machine gun. Mykyta Rozhkov, Frontline Robotics' chief business development officer, described it as "basically a metal robotic arm for a grenade launcher" or another weapon.

At the start of last year, the main use was placing it in a hidden position where it could fire on the enemy and blunt Russian attacks. But now, the weapons station is being used on ground robots, "so it can be mobile and be used as a small tank," Rozhkov said.

"Right now we put our robotic arm on the robotic vehicle and then the two operators, 20, 40, 50 kilometers out of the zone, are driving it through the forest lines and trying to stop these small groups penetrating even further into our defense," he added.

The rapidly changing battlefield drove the company to transform its stationary turret system into something mobile.

Frontline Robotics makes small changes to its products up to 20 times a month and typically makes major updates to products every six months, relying on regular input from soldiers.

"We don't even have to ask them for the feedback. It goes directly 24/7 into our inbox," Rozhkov said.

Other Ukrainian companies report a similar flow of feedback and a swift update pace, an approach NATO countries are trying to learn from. Rozhkov described Ukrainian manufacturers as having an "unfair advantage" because of their proximity to the battlefield and its fighters.

These infiltration groups have been a key tactic for Russia. Small groups of soldiers creep across the front lines in a bid to avoid being spotted by drones, aiming to take Ukrainian positions or disrupt Ukraine's defenses.

The front lines are so saturated with drones and so dangerous that there is what officials describe as a "kill zone" around them.

That has made large troop movements much harder and turned small infiltration teams into one of Russia's main ways to advance. Ukraine is trying to stop them without exposing more soldiers to threats within the zone.

Tanks and armored vehicles have struggled for both Ukraine and Russia, in part because of how easily they can be spotted by drones. It's one of the reasons Ukraine wants to use ground robots and drones. If they are destroyed, they are cheaper and faster to replace than armored vehicles, and no human lives are lost.

Ground robots are being used to evacuate wounded soldiers, to carry supplies, to lay and to remove mines, and to attack.

Oleksandr Yabchanka, the head of the robotic systems for Ukraine's Da Vinci Wolves Battalion, previously told Business Insider that robots equipped with weapons are valued because they can do things that can't be done "even by the bravest infantry people."

While there is proven value in fixed turrets, automatic weapon systems that can move are particularly useful.

Yabchanka said armed robots are especially valuable when they can move: They can enter Russian trenches, close in on enemy soldiers, and keep operating under heavy fire. Because Russian troops often shoot back at the source of an attack, a robot that can change positions without exposing Ukrainian soldiers is a major advantage.

Frontline Robotics isn't alone. Other Ukrainian defense companies are taking a similar approach, putting grenade launchers and machine guns on ground robots so soldiers can attack Russian forces from a distance.

Ukrainian robotic systems maker DevDroid equips ground robots with the ability to launch grenades and fire machine guns because it can "save people's lives," Oleg Fedoryshyn, its director of R&D, told Business Insider. Soldiers can attack Russia with powerful weapons without needing to get close to the target or carry the weapons themselves.

Ground robots are a relatively new technology on the battlefields of Ukraine, but their use is growing rapidly. Ukraine's defense minister said earlier this month that the military had carried out more than 50,000 logistics and evacuation missions with the help of ground robots since the start of the year. That's a huge increase from the 2,000 missions that officials had said the robots carried out in the six months leading up to December.

The tech has recently seen new battlefield firsts, like Ukraine capturing a Russian position for the first time with just aerial drones and ground robots, without using any infantry. Robots have also been able to get Russian soldiers to surrender to them.

Ukraine wants to use unmanned systems like aerial drones and robots as much as it can to keep its soldiers safer and farther back from the fighting. Rozhkov said that the aim is to defend areas "without humans."

"And this is really our important mission in order to keep our soldiers safe," he said.

• Pixar movies are those unique kinds of films that entertain both children and adults.
• Business Insider's entertainment correspondent Jason Guerrasio ranked them all from best to worst.
• See where movies like "The Incredibles," "Inside Out 2," and its latest release, "Toy Story 5," rank.

Pixar has released 31 feature films. Here they all are, ranked.

31. "Cars 2" (2011)

Taking Lightning McQueen (voiced by Owen Wilson) and Mater (Larry the Cable Guy) away from Radiator Springs and going international (plus making Mater a spy) didn't grab critics. This sequel became the first "rotten" Pixar movie on Rotten Tomatoes. Deservedly.

30. "A Bug's Life" (1998)

In the second movie ever released by Pixar, an ant named Flik (voiced by Dave Foley) sets out to find others to help save his colony against grasshoppers and ends up recruiting a unique group of allies.

Though the movie was successful at the box office, with the release of DreamWorks' "Antz" a month earlier, you're more likely to remember the Lasseter-Katzenberg feud than the films. 

 

29. "Cars 3" (2017)

Though the "Cars" movies are the least acclaimed of anything Pixar makes, the company continues to churn them out. "Cars 3" touches on some interesting themes like mortality and self-confidence, but it feels like everyone involved in the making of it was on cruise control.

28. "The Good Dinosaur" (2015)

Perhaps one of the more serious stories in the Pixar inventory, this coming-of-age tale about an Apatosaurus and his human friend Spot trying to return home didn't catch on nearly as much as Pixar's other release in 2015, "Inside Out."

Burnout may have been at play here, but mostly Pixar challenged its core audience with a darker story than they were used to.

 

27. "Brave" (2012)

With perhaps a little too much old-school Disney gloss, the movie nevertheless featured a princess who's one of the most strong-willed we've seen in an animated feature. But it just didn't work as well as Pixar titles before or since.

26. "Onward" (2020)

In this touching story that centers a family story in the fantasy world, we follow two elf brothers as they set out on a magical quest to bring their father back from the dead.

Like all Pixar movies, there's a lot of self discovery in this one that is hit or miss throughout.

25. "Lightyear" (2022)

"Lightyear" is the movie that Andy from "Toy Story" is obsessed over and what leads to him getting the Buzz Lightyear toy.

Wish we could say we were as obsessed over the movie as he was.

It's fun, and Chris Evans is great voicing the "real" Buzz. But it just misses that quality that makes the great Pixar movies so special.

Still, the action sequences are exciting and the theme music from composer Michael Giacchino is a standout.

24. "Cars" (2006)

The final Pixar movie that the company produced independently before being bought by Disney, "Cars" — a look at a hotshot racing car that finds humility and true friends in a dusty country town — was one of those for-the-whole-family, feel-good stories that was light on the clichés.

23. "Monsters University" (2013)

In the prequel to the popular "Monsters, Inc.," Pixar does impressive work to make the backstory of how Mike (Billy Crystal) and Sully (John Goodman) met as fun and original as the classic first film.

Setting the story in the college life of monsters opens the door to easy traps, but the movie mostly steers clear and has a strong ending.

22. "Soul" (2020)

In Pete Docter and Kemp Powers' latest directing effort for Pixar, the two take us into the world of a struggling musician, who dies on the day of his big break.

On the verge of going to the great beyond, or an alternate universe for souls, he tries to get back into his own body.

Jamie Foxx is great voicing the main character, Joe. Tina Fey, as the difficult spirit 22, can get annoying at times, but that's likely the point of her bratty character who doesn't want to live on Earth.

The real hit of this movie, however, is the amazing digital animation that makes New York City pop.

21. "Elio" (2025)

This story of love and loss will pull at your heartstrings, as the titular young boy struggles with the loss of both his parents and must adapt to being under the care of his aunt, an Air Force major with ambitions of her own. Elio's wish to be understood is granted in the form of an extraterrestrial connection, though that, too, turns sideways when he must lead an intergalactic dispute.

Like every Pixar movie, "Elio" is fueled by an emotion. You'll want to hug your loved ones tightly after it's over.

20. "Elemental" (2023)

Pixar has created its first ever rom-com with this touching story set around a girl made of fire and a boy made of water.

Directed by Peter Sohn ("The Good Dinosaur"), the movie has lots of layers like immigration, different cultures, tolerance, and family, as the movie sets around a family made of fire that has to try to live in a city that doesn't accommodate them. 

But at its core, the movie is a lighthearted look at young love. This is one that's going to make you feel good when you leave the theater.

19. "Turning Red" (2022)

After gaining an Oscar for her beloved short film "Bao," director Domee Shi delivers a moving look at what it's like to be a teenage girl in her directorial debut.

Following 13-year-old Meilin as she navigates being a teen and her overbearing mother, she also comes to learn that thanks to a family curse whenever she gets excited she turns into a giant red panda.

This one is definitely a mother-daughter watch.

18. "Hoppers" (2026)

In this Pixar title, a nature-conscious teen tries to save a local forest glade by transferring her mind into a lifelike robotic beaver so she can communicate with the animals to return to the glade. In the process, she realizes that the best way to live is not us-against-them but everyone in harmony.

Along with the great message, there are a ton of comedic moments. It's definitely one of the more lighthearted stories Pixar has ever released.

17. "Inside Out 2" (2024)

Nine years after the Oscar-winning original, we're back inside the mind of Riley. Now 13, she's got a lot more swirling in her head besides "Joy," "Anger," "Sadness," "Fear," and "Disgust."

With puberty hitting, there's now "Envy," "Boredom," "Embarrassment," and "Anxiety."

Like the first movie, the sequel cleverly examines how emotions fuel our everyday lives, especially in our youth. Here, the main focus is Riley trying to fit in at hockey skills camp, which leads to a lot of anxiety and repressing her key emotions.

Though the middle of the movie gets a bit stale as Joy tries to race back before Anxiety goes too far, it gets points for having one of the better endings in the Pixar filmography.

16. "Coco" (2017)

Marking the first time Pixar based a movie around a holiday, director Lee Unkirch ("Toy Story 3") gives us a powerful story about family and never forgetting your past all set around Dia de los Muertos. Make sure to bring the tissues for this one.

15. "Luca" (2021)

Director Enrico Casarosa delivers a beautiful look at friendship and Italian culture with this movie that follows two boys who are sea creatures but long to explore above the surface. 

Looking like regular boys when they are out of the water, they embark on a journey through the small fishing town near where they live.

It results in an adventure that speaks to expanding your horizons and never being scared of change.

14. "Monsters, Inc." (2001)

The first directing effort by Pete Docter ("Up," "Inside Out"), "Monsters, Inc.," the story of how monsters use the screams of children to power their world, was a genius idea that was elevated by the performances of Crystal and Goodman as the leads. With laughs and a heartwarming story, the movie showed that Pixar had more up its sleeve than the "Toy Story" movies.

13. "Incredibles 2" (2018)

14 years after the hit original, director Brad Bird finally returns to continue the story of the superhero Parr family. Starting up right where we left off at the end of the first movie, the sequel has all the fun and thrills of the original while still cleverly keeping those family strife undertones that ground the story. (You have to have something for the parents to relate to.)

12. "Toy Story 5" (2026)

With "Toy Story 5," the "Toy Story" franchise continues to prove it's still one of the greatest animated franchises of all time.

In this chapter, the toys must face their biggest competition yet: the tablet. Director Andrew Stanton ("Finding Nemo," "WALL-E") weaves parental anxieties into a heartfelt story about why you should never lose your inner child.

11. "Finding Dory" (2016)

The highest-grossing animated movie of 2016, the sequel to "Finding Nemo," did not disappoint with audiences. In it, we follow Dory (Ellen DeGeneres) on her journey to find her parents. With many characters from the original returning and some great new ones, Pixar proved that the 13-year gap since the original opened didn't affect their storytelling or our love for this world.

10. 'Toy Story 4' (2019)

Though many thought the third "Toy Story" was a beautiful close to the franchise that launched Pixar into a giant in the animation world, "Toy Story 4" doesn't do a bad job in trying to match up to its predecessor. Though it doesn't pull the emotional strings as dramatically as "3," it is definitely a worthy addition thanks to new characters like Forky and Duke Caboom, as well as a strong storyline for Bo Peep. 

9. "Inside Out" (2015)

Pixar's Oscar-winner for best animated feature touches on all the things that have made its movies so beloved. The original story of a young girl growing up told through personified emotions, and the journey to finding one's true self, could've been corny. But Pixar's execution was flawless.

8. "Toy Story 2" (1999)

The second "Toy Story" puts Woody (Tom Hanks) in the clutches of a toy seller who's ready to ship the antique cowboy off for some major coin. Buzz (Tim Allen) and the rest of the toys have to figure out how to save him. Like the first time, the movie has some great drama and thrills that proved a lot more could be told about these plastic toys.

7. "Up" (2009)

"Up" is a perfect example of the adult topics Pixar began to take on once it was on steady ground in Hollywood. Focusing on love and the inability to let go, the story of an elderly man's journey to a far-off land on his floating house after his wife dies is equally heartbreaking and life-affirming — a triumph that led to it getting a best-picture Oscar nomination.

6. "Toy Story 3" (2010)

Hailed by critics when it came out, and nominated for a best picture Oscar, the third "Toy Story" is the franchise's most emotionally charged to date. Woody, Buzz, and the gang find themselves mistakenly delivered to a day-care center, where they encounter some interesting new toys. 

 

5. "The Incredibles" (2004)

Playing on the big Hollywood secret agent/superhero movies, Pixar's curveball turned off some who didn't want it meddling in the genre. But the story of a superhero past his prime and realizing he's even more powerful when his family is by his side indicated the emotional depths Pixar wanted to explore.

4. "Ratatouille" (2007)

This touching examination of the sanctity of art and how it can be commercialized into watered-down muck — cleverly using the setting of a restaurant kitchen — is one of the most emotionally fulfilling movies ever made, Pixar or otherwise.

3. "Finding Nemo" (2003)

From the sarcastic comedy of Albert Brooks opposite the sweetly naive tone of Ellen DeGeneres, to the attention to detail in the gorgeous CGI-rendered underwater world, "Finding Nemo" provided a lot for everyone to love. And the giant box-office numbers speak for themselves.

2. "Toy Story" (1995)

The movie that started it all. Lasseter directed it and pretty much put all the company's chips into one basket. "Toy Story" elevated what kinds of stories animated movies could tell. And its computer-generated animation was the nail in the coffin for Disney's traditional hand-drawn work.

1. "WALL-E" (2008)

Director Andrew Stanton ("Finding Nemo," "WALL-E") gives us a remarkable story that celebrates old cinema (the silent movie, the musical) while delivering a message about the need to protect the planet (and our health) as flashy technology takes over.

Pixar is known for making us care about fictional creatures and objects, but with "WALL-E," that connection to the characters — the sense that they're living beings — is so intertwined with our experience of watching that you have to remind yourself it's just a story.

And that's the best kind of storytelling.

• Only 93 songs have debuted atop the Billboard Hot 100 since the chart was launched in 1958.
• "I Knew It, I Knew You" by Taylor Swift is the most recent song to achieve this feat.
• Drake has the most entries with 10, followed by Swift with nine and Ariana Grande with eight.

The Billboard Hot 100 is widely considered the definitive all-genre singles chart in the US.

Although it was officially launched in 1958, Billboard began using modern airplay and sales data in 1991, allowing for more time-sensitive calculations and accurate rankings.

Well over 1,000 songs have reached the coveted No. 1 spot, but it's far more difficult for a song to debut in the top position; it typically means a much-promoted single has met high expectations, or at least that an artist is supported and beloved by a legion of fans.

Keep reading for a complete list of instant chart-toppers throughout history.

1. "You Are Not Alone" by Michael Jackson

Michael Jackson was the first artist to achieve this feat with "You Are Not Alone," which debuted at No. 1 on the chart dated September 2, 1995.

It was the second single from Jackson's ninth album, "HIStory: Past, Present and Future, Book I."

2. "Fantasy" by Mariah Carey

"Fantasy" debuted at No. 1 on the chart dated September 30, 1995. It was the lead single from Mariah Carey's fifth album, "Daydream."

3. "Exhale (Shoop Shoop)" by Whitney Houston

"Exhale (Shoop Shoop)" debuted at No. 1 on the chart dated November 25, 1995. It was the lead single from the soundtrack for the film "Waiting to Exhale."

4. "One Sweet Day" by Mariah Carey & Boyz II Men

"One Sweet Day" debuted at No. 1 on the chart dated December 2, 1995. It was the second single from Carey's fifth album, "Daydream."

5. "I'll Be Missing You" by Puff Daddy & Faith Evans, featuring 112

"I'll Be Missing You" debuted at No. 1 on the chart dated June 14, 1997. It was the second single from Diddy's debut album, "No Way Out," when he was known as Puff Daddy.

6. "Honey" by Mariah Carey

"Honey" debuted at No. 1 on the chart dated September 13, 1997. It was the lead single from Carey's sixth album, "Butterfly."

7. "Candle in the Wind 1997/Something About the Way You Look Tonight" by Elton John

"Candle in the Wind 1997/Something About the Way You Look Tonight" debuted at No. 1 on the chart dated October 11, 1997. The double A-side single later became the first song ever to be certified diamond.

8. "My Heart Will Go On" by Celine Dion

"My Heart Will Go On" debuted at No. 1 on the chart dated February 28, 1998.

The famous ballad was written for the soundtrack of "Titanic" and served as the movie's main romantic theme. It was also released as a single from Dion's fifth English-language album, "Let's Talk About Love."

9. "I Don't Want to Miss a Thing" by Aerosmith

"I Don't Want to Miss a Thing" debuted at No. 1 on the chart dated September 5, 1998. It was recorded for the film "Armageddon."

10. "Doo Wop (That Thing)" by Lauryn Hill

"Doo Wop (That Thing)" debuted at No. 1 on the chart dated November 14, 1998. It was the lead single from Lauryn Hill's debut album "The Miseducation of Lauryn Hill," which won the Grammy Award for album of the year.

11. "This Is the Night" by Clay Aiken

"This Is the Night" debuted at No. 1 on the chart dated June 28, 2003. It was Clay Aiken's debut single after competing on season two of "American Idol."

12. "I Believe" by Fantasia

"I Believe" debuted at No. 1 on the chart dated July 10, 2004. It was Fantasia's debut single after winning season three of "American Idol."

13. "Inside Your Heaven" by Carrie Underwood

"Inside Your Heaven" debuted at No. 1 on the chart dated July 2, 2005. It was Carrie Underwood's debut single after winning season four of "American Idol."

Underwood made history as the first country artist to have a No. 1 debut on the Billboard Hot 100.

14. "Do I Make You Proud" by Taylor Hicks

"Do I Make You Proud" debuted at No. 1 on the chart dated July 1, 2006. Taylor Hicks first performed the song on the fifth season finale of "American Idol," and it was released as a single shortly after his victory.

15. "3" by Britney Spears

"3" debuted at No. 1 on the chart dated October 24, 2009. It was the lead (and only) single from Britney Spears' second greatest hits album, "The Singles Collection."

16. "Not Afraid" by Eminem

"Not Afraid" debuted at No. 1 on the chart dated May 22, 2010. It was the lead single from Eminem's seventh album, "Recovery."

17. "We R Who We R" by Ke$ha

"We R Who We R" debuted at No. 1 on the chart dated November 13, 2010. It was the lead single from Kesha's debut EP, "Cannibal."

18. "Hold It Against Me" by Britney Spears

"Hold It Against Me" debuted at No. 1 on the chart dated January 29, 2011. It was the lead single from Spears' seventh album, "Femme Fatale."

19. "Born This Way" by Lady Gaga

"Born This Way" debuted at No. 1 on the chart dated February 26, 2011. It was the lead single from Lady Gaga's second studio album of the same name.

20. "Part Of Me" by Katy Perry

"Part of Me" debuted at No. 1 on the chart dated March 3, 2012. It was the lead single from "Teenage Dream: The Complete Confection," a reissue of Katy Perry's third album.

21. "Harlem Shake" by Baauer

"Harlem Shake" debuted at No. 1 on the chart dated March 2, 2013.

Baauer's viral hit benefited from a recent adjustment to the Hot 100's formula, which saw the chart begin incorporating YouTube data. The chart methodology is updated at least once a year to reflect rapidly evolving listening trends. (YouTube song user-generated content was later removed from chart calculations in 2020.)

22. "Shake It Off" by Taylor Swift

"Shake It Off" debuted at No. 1 on the chart dated September 6, 2014. It was released as the lead single from Taylor Swift's fifth album, "1989."

23. "What Do You Mean?" by Justin Bieber

"What Do You Mean?" debuted at No. 1 on the chart dated September 19, 2015. It was the lead single from Justin Bieber's fourth album, "Purpose."

24. "Hello" by Adele

"Hello" debuted at No. 1 on the chart dated November 14, 2015. It was the lead single from Adele's third studio album "25," which sold over 3 million copies in its first week.

25. "Pillowtalk" by Zayn

"Pillowtalk" debuted at No. 1 on the chart dated February 20, 2016. It was the lead single from Zayn's debut solo album, "Mind of Mine."

26. "Can't Stop the Feeling!" by Justin Timberlake

"Can't Stop the Feeling!" debuted at No. 1 on the chart dated May 28, 2016. It was the lead single for the soundtrack of the film "Trolls."

27. "Shape Of You" by Ed Sheeran

"Shape of You" debuted at No. 1 on the chart dated January 28, 2017. It was one of the lead singles, along with "Castle on the Hill," from Ed Sheeran's third album, "Divide."

28. "I'm The One" by DJ Khaled featuring Justin Bieber, Quavo, Chance the Rapper, and Lil Wayne

"I'm the One" debuted at No. 1 on the chart dated May 20, 2017. It was the second single from DJ Khaled's 10th album, "Grateful."

29. "God's Plan" by Drake

"God's Plan" debuted at No. 1 on the chart dated February 3, 2018. It was the lead single from Drake's fifth studio album, "Scorpion."

30. "Nice for What" by Drake

"Nice for What" debuted at No. 1 on the chart dated April 21, 2018. It was released as the second single from "Scorpion."

31. "This Is America" by Childish Gambino

"This Is America" debuted at No. 1 on the chart dated May 19, 2018. It was released as a standalone single and later became the first rap song to win record of the year at the 2019 Grammys.

32. "Thank U, Next" by Ariana Grande

"Thank U, Next" debuted at No. 1 on the chart dated November 17, 2018. It was the lead single from Ariana Grande's fifth studio album of the same name.

33. "7 Rings" by Ariana Grande

"7 Rings" debuted at No. 1 on the chart dated February 2, 2019. It was the second single from "Thank U, Next."

34. "Sucker" by the Jonas Brothers

"Sucker" debuted at No. 1 on the chart dated March 16, 2019. It was the lead single from the Jonas Brothers' fifth studio album, "Happiness Begins."

35. "Highest In The Room" by Travis Scott

"Highest in the Room" debuted at No. 1 on the chart dated October 19, 2019. It was featured on "JackBoys," a compilation EP by Travis Scott and other members of his label.

36. "Toosie Slide" by Drake

"Toosie Slide" debuted at No. 1 on the chart dated April 18, 2020. It was the lead single from Drake's compilation mixtape, "Dark Lane Demo Tapes."

37. "The Scotts" by The Scotts

"The Scotts" debuted at No. 1 on the chart dated May 9, 2020. It was the debut single from newly formed hip-hop duo The Scotts, aka Travis Scott and Kid Cudi.

38. "Stuck With U" by Ariana Grande and Justin Bieber

"Stuck With U" debuted at No. 1 on the chart dated May 23, 2020. It was released as a charity single to raise money for the First Responders Children's Foundation.

39. "Rain On Me" by Lady Gaga with Ariana Grande

"Rain On Me" debuted at No. 1 on the chart dated June 6, 2020. It was the second single from Gaga's sixth album, "Chromatica."

40. "Trollz" by 6ix9ine and Nicki Minaj

"Trollz" debuted at No. 1 on the chart dated June 27, 2020. It became the fifth No. 1 debut in 2020 alone, marking a new single-year high.

41. "Cardigan" by Taylor Swift

"Cardigan" debuted at No. 1 on the chart dated August 8, 2020 — the same week as its parent album, "Folklore," debuted at No. 1 on the Billboard 200, making Swift the first artist ever to debut at No. 1 on both charts in the same week.

"Folklore" received less than 24 hours' promotion before its release at midnight on July 24. The music video for "Cardigan" arrived at the same time.

42. "WAP" by Cardi B featuring Megan Thee Stallion

"WAP" debuted at No. 1 on the chart dated August 22, 2020. It was Cardi B's first single since 2019's "Press" and became her fourth No. 1 hit.

The raunchy song also became the fourth all-female collaboration to hit No. 1 in 2020 — and just the ninth in the history of the Billboard Hot 100 — while setting a record for first-week streams with 93 million.

43. "Dynamite" by BTS

"Dynamite," the septet's first all-English-language single, debuted at No. 1 on the chart dated September 5, 2020.

BTS is the first all-South Korean group to top the Hot 100.

44. "Franchise" by Travis Scott featuring Young Thug and M.I.A.

"Franchise" debuted at No. 1 on the chart dated October 10, 2020.

It became Scott's third single to debut atop the chart in less than a year — following "Highest in the Room" and "The Scotts" — setting a record for the fastest accumulation of three No. 1 entries by any artist in the Hot 100's history.

It was Scott's fourth No. 1 song overall, Young Thug's second, and M.I.A.'s first.

45. "Positions" by Ariana Grande

"Positions" debuted at No. 1 on the chart dated November 7, 2020. It was the lead single from Grande's sixth studio album of the same name.

Grande made history as the first artist with three No. 1 Hot 100 debuts in a single calendar year.

In the "Positions" music video, Grande assumed the role of US president, flanked by an all-female staff.

46. "Life Goes On" by BTS

"Life Goes On" debuted at No. 1 on the chart dated December 5, 2020, the same week as its parent album, "Be," debuted at No. 1 on the Billboard 200 — making BTS the second artist in history to debut at No. 1 on both charts simultaneously, mere months after Swift became the first.

47. "Willow" by Taylor Swift

"Willow" debuted at No. 1 on the chart dated December 26, 2020 — the same week as Swift's ninth album, "Evermore," debuted at No. 1 on the Billboard 200.

Swift became the first artist in history to debut atop both charts simultaneously — twice.

She previously became the first artist to do so with "Folklore," less than five months previously.

"Willow" was also the 12th song in 2020 to arrive on the chart in its top position, handily setting a single-year record.

48. "Drivers License" by Olivia Rodrigo

"Drivers License," Olivia Rodrigo's official debut single, debuted at No. 1 on the chart dated January 23, 2021.

At just 17 years old, the Disney Channel star is the youngest solo artist in history to arrive atop the Hot 100. The record was previously held by Fantasia, who was 20 when "I Believe" debuted at No. 1. 

"Drivers License" was ranked at No. 2 on Business Insider's list of the best songs of 2021.

49. "What's Next" by Drake

"What's Next" debuted at No. 1 on the chart dated March 20, 2021.

The rapper became the first artist in history to have three songs arrive in the Hot 100's top three simultaneously. "What's Next" was joined by "Wants and Needs," featuring Lil Baby, at No. 2, and "Lemon Pepper Freestyle," featuring Rick Ross, at No. 3.

50. "Peaches" by Justin Bieber featuring Daniel Caesar and Giveon

"Peaches" debuted at No. 1 on the chart dated April 3, 2021, becoming Bieber's fourth instant chart-topper.

It was released as the fifth single from Bieber's sixth album, "Justice," which debuted at No. 1 on the Billboard 200 the same week.

51. "Montero (Call Me by Your Name)" by Lil Nas X

"Montero (Call Me by Your Name)" debuted at No. 1 on the chart dated April 10, 2021. It was the lead single from Lil Nas X's album, "Montero."

52. "Rapstar" by Polo G

"Rapstar" debuted at No. 1 on the chart dated April 24, 2021. It was the third single from Polo G's third album, "Hall of Fame."

53. "Good 4 U" by Olivia Rodrigo

"Good 4 U" debuted at No. 1 on the chart dated May 29, 2021. It was the third single from Rodrigo's debut album, "Sour."

54. "Butter" by BTS

"Butter," the second all-English single from BTS, debuted at No. 1 on the chart dated June 5, 2021. It was ranked at No. 8 on Business Insider's list of the best K-pop songs of 2021.

55. "Permission to Dance" by BTS

"Permission to Dance" debuted at No. 1 on the chart dated July 24, 2021, giving BTS their fourth instant chart-topper in less than one year.

56. "Way 2 Sexy" by Drake featuring Future and Young Thug

"Way 2 Sexy" debuted at No. 1 on the chart dated September 18, 2021. It was the lead single from Drake's sixth studio album, "Certified Lover Boy," which debuted at No. 1 on the Billboard 200 the same week.

57. "My Universe" by Coldplay and BTS

"My Universe" debuted at No. 1 on the chart dated October 9, 2021. It was the second single from Coldplay's ninth album, "Music of the Spheres."

Thanks to their feature, "My Universe" became the fifth No. 1 debut for BTS.

58. "All Too Well (Taylor's Version)" by Taylor Swift

"All Too Well (Taylor's Version)" debuted at No. 1 on the chart dated November 27, 2021.

It was released alongside Swift's rerecorded album "Red (Taylor's Version)," which simultaneously debuted atop the Billboard 200.

"All Too Well (Taylor's Version)" was included on the updated "Red" tracklist in two different iterations: its original five-minute length and the long-awaited 10-minute version, both of which are combined into one listing on Billboard's charts.

At 10 minutes and 13 seconds long, "All Too Well" is the longest No. 1 hit of all time.

The record was previously held by Don McLean's 1972 hit "American Pie (Parts I & II)," which ran for 8 minutes and 37 seconds.

59. "As It Was" by Harry Styles

"As It Was" debuted at No. 1 on the chart dated April 16, 2022. It was released as the lead single from Harry Styles' third solo album, "Harry's House."

The song dropped out of first place in its second week of tracking, but later returned to the No. 1 spot for 15 nonconsecutive weeks, setting a record for a British performer.

60. "First Class" by Jack Harlow

"First Class" debuted at No. 1 on the chart dated April 23, 2022. It was released as the second single from Jack Harlow's sophomore album, "Come Home the Kids Miss You."

61. "Wait For U" by Future featuring Drake and Tems

"Wait For U" debuted at No. 1 on the chart dated May 14, 2022. It was released as the seventh track on Future's album, "I Never Liked You."

62. "Jimmy Cooks" by Drake featuring 21 Savage

"Jimmy Cooks" debuted at No. 1 on the chart dated July 2, 2022. It was released alongside Drake's album, "Honestly, Nevermind," which also debuted at No. 1 on the Billboard 200.

63. "Super Freaky Girl" by Nicki Minaj

"Super Freaky Girl" debuted at No. 1 on the chart dated August 27, 2022.

64. "Anti-Hero" by Taylor Swift

"Anti-Hero" debuted at No. 1 on the chart dated November 5, 2022.

It was released alongside Swift's 10th album, "Midnights," which also arrived atop the Billboard 200.

Among the album's other records, Swift became the first artist in history to debut 10 songs in the top 10 of the Billboard Hot 100 simultaneously, as "Anti-Hero" was joined by nine fellow tracks from "Midnights."

65. "Flowers" by Miley Cyrus

"Flowers" debuted at No. 1 on the chart dated January 28, 2023. It was released as the lead single from Miley Cyrus' eighth album, "Endless Summer Vacation."

66. "Like Crazy" by Jimin

"Like Crazy" debuted at No. 1 on the chart dated April 8, 2023, making Jimin the first South Korean soloist to top the Hot 100. (He previously achieved the feat as a member of BTS.)

67. "Vampire" by Olivia Rodrigo

"Vampire" debuted at No. 1 on the chart dated July 15, 2023. It was released as the lead single from Rodrigo's sophomore album, "Guts."

Rodrigo is now the only artist in history to have both lead singles ("Drivers License" and "Vampire") from her first two albums ("Sour" and "Guts," respectively) arrive in the chart's top position.

68. "Seven" by Jung Kook featuring Latto

"Seven" debuted at No. 1 on the chart dated July 29, 2023, making Jung Kook the second member of BTS to have a chart-topping solo hit.

69. "Rich Men North of Richmond" by Oliver Anthony Music

"Rich Men North of Richmond," Oliver Anthony Music's breakout single, debuted at No. 1 on the chart dated August 26, 2023.

The controversial country singer is the first and only artist to achieve the feat without any previous entries on a Billboard chart.

70. "I Remember Everything" by Zach Bryan featuring Kacey Musgraves

"I Remember Everything" debuted at No. 1 on the chart dated September 9, 2023. It was released on Zach Bryan's self-titled album, which simultaneously arrived atop the Billboard 200.

71. "Slime You Out" by Drake featuring SZA

"Slime You Out" debuted at No. 1 on the chart dated September 30, 2023. It was released as the lead single for Drake's eighth studio album, "For All the Dogs."

72. "First Person Shooter" by Drake featuring J. Cole

"First Person Shooter" debuted at No. 1 on the chart dated October 21, 2023. It was released alongside "For All the Dogs," which simultaneously debuted at No. 1 on the Billboard 200.

73. "Is It Over Now?" by Taylor Swift

"Is It Over Now?" debuted at No. 1 on the chart dated November 11, 2023.

The vault track from "1989 (Taylor's Version)" dethroned Swift's own "Cruel Summer," which had reigned for two weeks. (It later returned to the summit for two more weeks.)

Swift is the only woman to have replaced herself atop the Hot 100; she previously achieved the feat in 2014 with the original "1989," when "Blank Space" climbed the chart to replace "Shake It Off."

74. "Yes, And?" by Ariana Grande

"Yes, And?" debuted at No. 1 on the chart dated January 27, 2024. It was released as the lead single for Grande's seventh album, "Eternal Sunshine."

75. "Hiss" by Megan Thee Stallion

"Hiss" debuted at No. 1 on the chart dated February 10, 2024. In the fiery track, Megan Thee Stallion seemed to take subliminal shots at Drake.

76. "We Can't Be Friends (Wait for Your Love)" by Ariana Grande

"We Can't Be Friends (Wait for Your Love)" debuted at No. 1 on the chart dated March 23, 2024. It was released as the second single from "Eternal Sunshine," which simultaneously topped the Billboard 200.

77. "Like That" by Future and Metro Boomin featuring Kendrick Lamar

"Like That" debuted at No. 1 on the chart dated April 6, 2024.

78. "Fortnight" by Taylor Swift featuring Post Malone

"Fortnight," a duet between Swift and Post Malone, debuted at No. 1 on the chart dated May 4, 2024. It was released alongside Swift's 11th album, "The Tortured Poets Department," which also arrived atop the Billboard 200.

For the second time in her career, Swift occupied the Hot 100's entire top 10 with brand-new songs.

79. "Not Like Us" by Kendrick Lamar

The diss track "Not Like Us" debuted at No. 1 on the chart dated May 18, 2024.

"Not Like Us" was released amid Lamar's heated feud with Drake, ignited by Lamar's verse on "Like That," and widely praised as Lamar's symbolic killshot.

Another of Lamar's diss tracks, "Euphoria," peaked on the same chart at No. 3, while Drake's response, "Family Matters," debuted at No. 7.

80. "I Had Some Help" by Post Malone and Morgan Wallen

"I Had Some Help" debuted at No. 1 on the chart dated May 25, 2024.

The country duet became Malone's second song to arrive in the top spot after "Fortnight" — both within the same month — and his sixth No. 1 song overall.

As for Wallen, "I Had Some Help" marks his second Hot 100 leader after "Last Night" charted at No. 1 for 16 weeks in 2023, setting a record for a solo song. (It has since been broken by Shaboozey's "A Bar Song.")

81. "Love Somebody" by Morgan Wallen

"Love Somebody" debuted at No. 1 on the chart dated November 2, 2024.

82. "Squabble Up" by Kendrick Lamar

"Squabble Up" debuted at No. 1 on the chart dated December 7, 2024, making Lamar the first solo male artist in history with three instant chart-toppers in a single year.

The song was released alongside Lamar's "GNX," which also arrived atop the Billboard 200.

"Squabble Up" was accompanied on the Hot 100 by other "GNX" tracks, including "TV Off" (No. 2), "Luther" (No. 3), "Wacced Out Murals" (No. 4), and "Hey Now" (No. 5). Lamar joins Swift, Drake, and The Beatles as the only artists to blanket the entire top five with songs debuting in those positions.

83. "4X4" by Travis Scott

"4X4" debuted at No. 1 on the chart dated February 8, 2025, becoming Scott's fourth song to arrive in the top spot and fifth No. 1 hit overall.

84. "What I Want" by Morgan Wallen featuring Tate McRae

"What I Want" was released as the fourth track on Wallen's album, "I'm the Problem."

It debuted at No. 1 on the chart dated May 31, 2025, becoming Wallen's third song to arrive in the top spot and Tate McRae's first No. 1 hit overall.

85. "Manchild" by Sabrina Carpenter

"Manchild" debuted at No. 1 on the chart dated June 21, 2025. It was released as the lead single for Carpenter's album, "Man's Best Friend."

86. "The Fate of Ophelia" by Taylor Swift

"The Fate of Ophelia" debuted at No. 1 on the chart dated October 18, 2025. It was released alongside Swift's 12th album, "The Life of a Showgirl," which also arrived atop the Billboard 200 — making Swift the first and only artist in history to debut at No. 1 on both charts simultaneously on seven separate occasions.

"Ophelia" became the most-streamed song in a single week in Spotify history, breaking the record previously held by Cyrus' "Flowers."

Swift is also the only artist to occupy the Hot 100's entire top 10, a feat she's now managed on three separate occasions. Every track on "Showgirl" debuted within the chart's top 12, with "Ophelia" flanked in the top five by "Opalite," "Elizabeth Taylor," "Father Figure," and "Wood."

87. "I Just Might" by Bruno Mars

"I Just Might" debuted at No. 1 on the chart dated January 24, 2026. It was Mars' 10th chart-topper, but his first to debut in the top spot.

88. "Aperture" by Harry Styles

"Aperture" was released as the lead single from Styles' fourth album, "Kiss All the Time. Disco, Occasionally." It's also Styles' second song to debut at No. 1 after "As It Was" in 2022.

89. "Swim" by BTS

"Swim" was BTS' comeback single after a four-year break so the band's members could complete their mandatory military service in South Korea.

90. "Drop Dead" by Olivia Rodrigo

Rodrigo cemented her princess of pop status when she filmed the music video for "Drop Dead" at the Palace of Versailles.

She also extended her own record with "Drop Dead," topping the chart. She's the first artist to have the lead singles from her first three albums debut at No. 1, after "Drivers License" and "Vampire."

She's also the only artist born in the 21st century with multiple No. 1 hits.

91. "Janice STFU" by Drake

In May 2026, Drake earned his 14th No. 1 with a track from his album, "Iceman."

Drake holds the record for the most No. 1 song debuts in history, with 10 to his name.

92. "Hate That I Made You Love Me" by Ariana Grande

"Hate That I Made You Love Me," the lead single from Grande's eighth studio album, "Petal," also became Grande's eighth instant chart-topper.

93. "I Knew It, I Knew You" by Taylor Swift

Swift's ninth No. 1 hit is an original song from the coming film "Toy Story 5," titled "I Knew It, I Knew You," which is speculated to be about Jessie and her former owner, Emily, whom fans first met in "Toy Story 2."

Swift has the second-most No. 1 debuts of any artist in history (nine), trailing Drake for the all-time record.

It's also the first song from a Disney animated film to debut at No. 1 — though not the first Disney song to ever reach the top ("We Don't Talk About Bruno," from "Encanto" and "A Whole New World" from "Aladdin" also did that).

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Isn't capitalism great? Especially the Silicon Valley version: Giving employees a share of the business they help build is one of the most democratic and empowering ways to incentivize hard work.

Out here, hard work can sometimes pay off spectacularly: Workers are rewarded handsomely if their toil results in a much more valuable company and their small stakes rise along with it.

Take SpaceX. You may have heard that working for Elon is hard. Rockets don't launch themselves (at least yet). But after many years and long hours, thousands of employees get to share in the success of what has become the world's dominant rocket company.

The IPO created more than 4,000 millionaires and hundreds of centimillionaires. I can't think of a better way to encapsulate Silicon Valley's version of capitalism than this.

Variations of this happy outcome are happening across the tech industry. For example, this 25-year-old founder is suddenly a billionaire. Anthropic and OpenAI are planning their own IPOs, which could mint many more multimillionaires. Nvidia's surge has made its employees incredibly wealthy, too.

What ties these situations together is equity. The wealth wave washing over Silicon Valley is mostly in the form of stock. Unwinding some of this, and using the money wisely, is a challenge that may be new to many lucky tech employees.

First up: The tax bill can be brutal when selling highly appreciated stock. No one likes paying more tax than they should. Luckily, there are strategies to cushion the blow.

Some techies are paying top dollar for homes in and around San Francisco. Others are donating to charity, or handing money down to kids and other relatives.

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• Some US colleges have alumni who have achieved the highest office in the country.
• The Ivy League, the US Military Academy, and some liberal arts colleges have shaped US presidents.
• Harvard leads the ranking, with five former presidents among its alumni.

Some US colleges stand out for being highly selective schools, for producing high-earning graduates, or for having surprising sticker prices.

But some have bragging rights to a different metric: multiple former US presidents among their alumni.

The oldest school in the country leads the pack in producing the most commanders-in-chief: Harvard University has taught five US presidents at the undergraduate level.

A number of other schools also helped shape the minds of the 45 men who've served as president, including Ivy League institutions, small Christian colleges, and state research universities.

However, presidents didn't necessarily graduate from all of the schools on this list. Some future leaders, including William McKinley, John F. Kennedy, and Jimmy Carter, bounced between institutions due to financial reasons, health difficulties, or changing preferences.

But US presidents did study at an undergraduate level at all of these colleges. Many also went on to attend law school and pursue graduate studies, although this list does not include those institutions.

Other presidents, including George Washington, never attended college at all.

Here's a look at which colleges' undergraduate programs have produced the most US presidents.

Fordham University: One president

President: Donald Trump

Donald Trump attended this Bronx-based Jesuit school before transferring to the Wharton School at the University of Pennsylvania.

According to "The Trumps: Three Generations of Builders and a Presidential Candidate," the president's sister, Maryanne, said that Trump chose to attend the college because "that's where he got in."

University of Delaware: One president

President: Joe Biden

During his college years at the University of Delaware in Newark, Joe Biden "was more interested in football, girls and late-night gab sessions than in his studies," The New York Times wrote in a 2008 profile.

Biden's school transcript showed that he earned mostly C's and D's during his first three semesters. Biden quit the football team after receiving a warning from his parents to focus on his grades and after meeting Neilia Hunter, who would become his first wife, The Daily Pennsylvanian student newspaper reported.

Occidental College: One president

President: Barack Obama

Before attending Columbia University, Barack Obama studied for two years at Occidental College in Los Angeles.

Columbia University: One president

President: Barack Obama

Obama transferred to Columbia University as a junior. There, he studied political science with a specialty in international relations, as well as English literature.

Georgetown University: One president

President: Bill Clinton

Bill Clinton received scholarships to attend Georgetown University, where he was class president in 1964 and 1965.

Eureka College: One president

President: Ronald Reagan

Ronald Reagan attended this non-profit Christian college, which was originally founded by abolitionists in 1855.

Georgia Southwestern State University: One president

President: Jimmy Carter

Jimmy Carter bounced around before transferring to the US Naval Academy. He began his undergraduate journey at Georgia Southwestern College before transferring to the Georgia Institute of Technology.

Georgia Institute of Technology: One president

President: Jimmy Carter

After leaving Georgia Southwestern State University, Carter attended this public research university before transferring to the US Naval Academy.

United States Naval Academy: One president

President: Jimmy Carter

As a young man, Carter had always dreamed of attending the US Naval Academy. He achieved that goal in 1943.

University of Michigan: One president

President: Gerald Ford

Gerald Ford attended the University of Michigan, where he was a star player on the Wolverines football team.

Whittier College: One president

President: Richard Nixon

Richard Nixon attended Whittier College. He had received a grant to attend Harvard, but he remained in his hometown of Whittier, California, in order to help his parents care for his tuberculosis-stricken older brother and run the family grocery store. 

Texas State University: One president

President: Lyndon B. Johnson

Lyndon B. Johnson enrolled at the Southwest Texas State Normal School, now known as Texas State University. There, he became editor of the student newspaper and honed his debate skills.

London School of Economics: One president

President: John F. Kennedy

John F. Kennedy briefly studied at the London School of Economics before being forced to return to the US due to health reasons.

Stanford University: One president

President: Herbert Hoover

Herbert Hoover entered Stanford University in 1891, the first year the school admitted any students. He later claimed to be the university's first student by sneaking into its unfinished dormitories and sleeping there before anyone else.

Amherst College: One president

President: Calvin Coolidge

Calvin Coolidge sharpened his debating skills at Amherst College, from which he graduated in 1895.

Ohio Central College: One president

President: Warren Harding

Warren Harding attended Ohio Central College, where he founded a student newspaper: The Iberia Spectator.

The college, founded by the Free Presbyterian Church, ceased operations by the end of the 19th century.

Davidson College: One president

President: Woodrow Wilson

Woodrow Wilson's time at Davidson came to an end in 1874 after he became sick. He later moved on to study at Princeton.

Allegheny College: One president

President: William McKinley

William McKinley attended this Pennsylvania liberal arts school before withdrawing. During his time at the school, he was a member of the Sigma Alpha Epsilon fraternity.

University of Mount Union: One president

President: William McKinley

McKinley briefly studied at the University of Mount Union — then known as Mount Union College — but was forced to withdraw for financial reasons. 

Miami University: One president

President: Benjamin Harrison

Benjamin Harrison graduated from Miami University in 1852. There, he was involved with Phi Delta Theta.

Union College: Chester A. Arthur

President: Chester A. Arthur

Chester A. Arthur was president of the debate club at Union College, a private liberal arts college in Schenectady, New York.

Hiram College: One president

President: James Garfield

James Garfield attended Hiram College back when it was called the Western Reserve Eclectic Institute, where he worked as a janitor and an instructor and wooed his wife, Lucretia.

Williams College: One president

President: James Garfield

Garfield later graduated from Williams College in 1856 and served as his class's salutatorian.

Kenyon College: One president

President: Rutherford B. Hayes

Rutherford B. Hayes didn't just attend Kenyon College — he graduated as the valedictorian of the class of 1824.

Dickinson College: One president

President: James Buchanan

James Buchanan, who began attending Dickinson College in 1807, was expelled from the school in 1808 for bad behavior. He later graduated from the school, although he kept no strong ties to his alma mater, per the school's archives.

Bowdoin College: One president

President: Franklin Pierce

Franklin Pierce attended the Maine school, where he was ranked last in his class after two years.

University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill: One president

President: James K. Polk

James K. Polk matriculated at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill in 1816. There, he roomed with William Dunn Moseley, the first US governor of Florida.

Hampden-Sydney College: One president

President: William Henry Harrison

William Henry Harrison attended Hampden-Sydney when he was just 14. He studied there for three years but eventually left the school on orders from his father.

Leiden University: One president

President: John Quincy Adams

Leiden University may be the oldest university in the Netherlands, but it also had an impact on US history as well. John Quincy Adams attended the storied school while accompanying his father on a diplomatic mission to France.

University of Pennsylvania: Two presidents

Presidents: William Henry Harrison and Donald Trump

Harrison had quite an opportunity on his hands at the University of Pennsylvania, which he began attending in 1790.

He studied medicine under Dr. Benjamin Rush, a famed physician and Founding Father who signed the Declaration of Independence.

However, Harrison realized shortly after that he didn't want to be a physician. He told his biographer that he found himself "not liking the medical profession," so, after his father died and left his family in financial straits, he pursued a military career.

The first actual University of Pennsylvania graduate to ascend to the White House is Trump, who transferred from Fordham University to the Wharton School. While in college, Trump worked for his father's business.

In speeches, Trump often uses his Wharton pedigree as evidence that he is "a very smart person."

"Good genes, very good genes, OK, very smart, the Wharton School of Finance, very good, very smart," he told a South Carolina crowd in July 2015.

United States Military Academy (West Point): Two presidents

Presidents: Ulysses S. Grant and Dwight Eisenhower

Ulysses S. Grant didn't just get a military education from West Point; he got a new name there. The future president was born Hiram Ulysses Grant, but his sponsor, Rep. Thomas Hamer, accidentally wrote down the wrong name.

So the new cadet became known as "Sam" around campus because his new "US" initials also stood for "Uncle Sam." At the Academy, Grant developed a reputation as a phenomenal horseman.

Dwight Eisenhower entered West Point in 1911, where he played football and was a member of the class of 1915. This group of West Point alumni would become known as "the class the stars fell on," given that 59 of its members became general officers.

The College of William & Mary: Three presidents

Presidents: Thomas Jefferson, James Monroe, and John Tyler

The College of William & Mary produced three presidents, although the last one graduated in 1807.

Thomas Jefferson enrolled at the school when he was 16. He wasn't a fan of Williamsburg, Virginia, however, which he labeled as "Devilsburg."

James Monroe studied at the college, but was more focused on revolutionary activities than attending class. In 1776, he dropped out after a year and a half in order to fight in the American Revolution.

John Tyler was the final president to attend the school. He was following in the footsteps of his father, who knew Jefferson in college.

Princeton University: Three presidents

Presidents: James Madison, Woodrow Wilson, and John F. Kennedy

Three presidents attended Princeton University, which was originally known as the College of New Jersey. One transferred to a different Ivy League school, while another went on to become president of the college.

According to the book "James Madison: Philosopher, Founder, and Statesman," Madison may have nearly had an emotional breakdown as a student due to the intensity of his studies.

Meanwhile, Woodrow Wilson studied at Princeton and was active in a number of debate societies. Wilson eventually returned to Princeton as an academic in 1890 and became president of the school in 1902.

John F. Kennedy only studied at Princeton briefly before transferring to Harvard.

Yale University: Three presidents

Presidents: William Howard Taft, George H.W. Bush, and George W. Bush.

William Howard Taft was a big man on campus at Yale College and graduated second in his class.

The only two other Yale alumni to ascend to the White House were the father-and-son-duo of George H.W. Bush and George W. Bush.

All three presidents were members of the Skull and Bones secret society.

Harvard University: Five presidents

Presidents: John Adams, John Quincy Adams, Theodore Roosevelt, Franklin D. Roosevelt, and John F. Kennedy

Harvard University has produced the most presidents in US history.

John Adams, the first college-educated US president, attended the school. After returning from his travels in Europe, Adams' son John Quincy Adams also returned to his father's alma mater.

Continuing the familial tradition, both Roosevelts attended Harvard. 

In addition to committing himself to his studies, Theodore Roosevelt also boxed and rowed. Meanwhile, Franklin D. Roosevelt was editor of The Harvard Crimson and joined the Alpha Delta Phi fraternity.

The last Harvard alum to become president was Kennedy.

In his application, he noted that his father also attended the school and wrote, "To be a 'Harvard man' is an enviable distinction and one that I sincerely hope I shall attain."

Editor's note: This story was first published in June 2018 and most recently updated in June 2026. Áine Cain contributed to an earlier version of this report.

• Amazon MGM Studios has dropped the Sam Altman movie "Artificial."
• Luca Guadagnino directed the star-studded movie about the OpenAI CEO's dramatic leadership crisis.
• Amazon's decision follows a $50 billion investment in OpenAI earlier this year.

Months after Amazon deepened its ties with OpenAI, Amazon MGM Studios has dropped plans to release Luca Guadagnino's star-studded movie about Sam Altman and the leadership crisis that nearly toppled him.

"We believe that 'Artificial' will be better served if it were released by a different studio and are working closely with the filmmaking team to find the film a new home," an Amazon spokesperson said in a statement.

Directed by "Call Me by Your Name" filmmaker Luca Guadagnino, "Artificial" is a retelling of the tumultuous few days during which Altman was abruptly fired from and then quickly reinstated at OpenAI.

Altman was ousted from the company on November 17, 2023, in a move many in the tech community likened to a "coup." Five days later, OpenAI announced an agreement had been reached for Altman's return as CEO. In recent months, evidence presented in the Musk v. Altman trial has offered further insight into what went down during those chaotic few days.

OpenAI and Guadagnino did not immediately respond to requests for comment from Business Insider.

An all-star cast

The startup saga was adapted into a screenplay by former "Saturday Night Live" writer Simon Rich, and the movie features an all-star cast, including Andrew Garfield as Altman, as well as Cooper Koch and Mark Rylance.

Director Guadagnino, who received an Oscar nomination in 2018, said filming had wrapped by October 2025. He had previously worked with Amazon MGM Studios on movies such as "Challengers."

"We have the utmost respect and admiration for Luca Guadagnino as an award-winning filmmaker — not to mention a longstanding relationship that we hope to continue," the Amazon spokesperson said in the statement.

The move to drop "Artificial" comes a little over three months after Amazon announced a $50 billion investment and sweeping cloud partnership with OpenAI in late February.

At the time, Amazon said the investment was part of a "multi-year strategic partnership to accelerate AI innovation for enterprises, startups, and end consumers around the world."

Earlier this year, Amazon MGM Studio's big bet on a movie about another high-profile figure didn't exactly pay off.

The company paid $40 million for the rights to distribute "Melania," the highest amount ever paid for a commissioned documentary. It also paid an additional $35 million on marketing and its theatrical release.

The documentary about the first lady, Melania Trump, was released in January 2026. It flopped with critics and failed to break even at the Box Office. Business Insider's Peter Kafka described it as "not a good movie" and "a gift from Amazon founder Jeff Bezos to the Trump administration."