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The US Treasury Department said it is imposing more than $1.2 billion in penalties against Bank of America. The Treasury said in a Tuesday news release that the bank — the country’s second-largest — failed to report over $5 billion in suspicious transactions to the Financial Crimes Enforcement Network. This included Chinese money-laundering networks along

Walmart, America’s largest private employer, said it will expand the health benefit options for its 1.6 million-strong workforce. The retail giant said Tuesday that health plan participants will have several new benefits starting in 2027, including about 250 prescription drugs at no cost, including some insulin and inhalers. A spokesperson also told Business Insider that

AI could help keep the global economy growing while pulling the first rung of the career ladder out from under young workers. That’s the warning from International Monetary Fund managing director Kristalina Georgieva, who described AI as a “tsunami” for jobs during a conversation in Bangkok, where Thailand is hosting the IMF–World Bank Annual Meetings

Bigfoot is the star of one of the most well-known urban legends in the US. Christy Rowe/Getty Images There are famous urban legends, including Bigfoot and the Loch Ness monster. However, there are also plenty of local myths that have not made it into mainstream pop culture. Keep reading to find out the creepiest urban

This as-told-to essay is based on a conversation with Raymond Loong Ng, 21, the cofounder of Makeable, a San Francisco-based startup. It’s been edited for length and clarity. I was born in Vietnam and moved to Singapore when I was 9. As a kid, I always had some kind of side hustle. In school, I

Alexandr Wang said he had trouble focusing during recent Meta meetings. On his mind: New memes to post about the company’s popular new AI assistant. “I would just like think of a meme and I’d be like ‘Oh God, I have to get this out,'” Wang said in a recent interview with podcaster David Senra,

This story is based on an interview with Nicole Ethridge, 39, a Southern Marylander who works in finance and is also an influencer. It has been edited for length and clarity. My hair had always been thin, but I first noticed it coming out soon after the birth of my daughter, now 19. It was

Rossi said it’s important to her and her husband that their kids are happy with RV life, especially as they get older. “I know a lot of people have different opinions on this, but I feel like your kids should want to do the lifestyle as well,” she said. “We do have frequent check-ins with

Donald Trump wants two letters scrubbed from the tech industry’s vocabulary, and some executives are already reaching for replacements. Salesforce CEO Marc Benioff said Friday that his company’s AIForce platform is getting a new name. “The era of Super Intelligence is here. AIForce is officially SIForce,” Benioff wrote on X. The announcement follows Elon Musk’s

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The Trump administration’s Thursday declaration that it was suspending Microsoft and Adobe from a federal visa sponsorship program is reverberating through the tech industry. Immigration attorneys told Business Insider that employees on H-1B visas working at Microsoft, Adobe, and the other named tech companies should seek counsel and get clarity about their status in light

Netflix has released its first trailer for “The Altruists,” its upcoming series dramatizing the massive multibillion-dollar fraud scheme that led to the collapse of Sam Bankman-Fried’s cryptocurrency empire, FTX. In the eight-episode series, which hits the streaming giant on November 19, Anthony Boyle stars as Bankman-Fried, opposite Julia Garner, who plays Caroline Ellison, a former

Jacob Coxon, the poster child for AI doom and gloom, said there’s a reason that pacing the frontier may not work. Coxon, who quit Anthropic last month after accusing it and OpenAI of “gambling with lives,” said on businessman Patrick Bet-David’s podcast that slowing US AI development may be ineffective because Chinese spies might have

Warren Buffett says almost nobody can do what he does, so they shouldn’t even try. His advice continues to pay off. The legendary investor has proclaimed for decades that 99% of people shouldn’t try to pick winning stocks, dabble in options, time the market, or hire a money manager. “My regular recommendation has been a

JPMorgan Chase CEO Jamie Dimon said Anthropic’s Mythos AI model has dramatically raised cybersecurity risks. The risks “went up 10-fold after Mythos,” Dimon told Bloomberg TV on Tuesday. “AI created vulnerabilities that we didn’t know about, and we always worried about cyber before these things,” he added. The JPMorgan CEO has long described cybersecurity as

Correction, October 6, 2026 — This story has been corrected to reflect that Norway’s legislation is in the proposal stage, and has yet to be passed. Bad news if you planned on capturing photos of the majestic fjords in your Meta Ray-Bans. Norway is proposing a temporary ban on camera glasses in public spaces like

Elon Musk has regained his title as the world’s only trillionaire. The Tesla CEO made history earlier this year by becoming the first person worth 13 figures after SpaceX’s blockbuster initial public offering in June. Musk’s wealth came back down a little closer to Earth after SpaceX’s stock price fell following an initial surge. The

Health-focused restaurant chain True Food Kitchen, which has counted Oprah Winfrey and former Starbucks CEO Howard Schultz among its backers, has filed for bankruptcy. The Phoenix, Arizona-founded chain filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection in a Texas court on Sunday and is pursuing a court-supervised sale of the business as part of its restructuring proceedings.