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National parks that feel like another world, from frequent US traveler

I've visited all 63 major US national parks and think places like Bryce Canyon, Death Valley, White Sands, and Badlands feel like another planet.

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Apr 6 • 9:01 AM EDT • Business • businessinsider.com
GenNx360 Capital Partners Announces Heartland Business Systems Acquisition of Applied Tech Solutions

NEW YORK, April 06, 2026--GenNx360 Capital Partners ("GenNx360"), a New York City-based private equity firm focused on investing in middle market services companies, today announced that its portfolio company, Heartland Business Systems ("HBS"), has acquired Applied Tech Solutions, LLC ("Applied Tech" or the "Company"), a provider of managed IT and cybersecurity services to clients in the Midwest and Rocky Mountain regions. The acquisition of Applied Tech represents the first acquisition by HBS

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Apr 6 • 9:00 AM EDT • Business • finance.yahoo.com
I grew up on a ranch. Now I sell them to billionaires.

I grew up working on a ranch and now sell multimillion-dollar properties to billionaires — but I can't afford one.

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Apr 6 • 8:19 AM EDT • Business • businessinsider.com
Surprising things about Amtrak's California Zephyr overnight train

I traveled from Chicago to Emeryville, California, on Amtrak's California Zephyr and booked a bedroom. The 53-hour ride was full of surprises.

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Apr 6 • 7:42 AM EDT • Business • businessinsider.com
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Live updates: Trump's massive military request faces tough climb, senator says

Get live updates and the latest news as Sen. Tim Kaine casts doubt on Trump's $1.5 trillion military request and Ruben Gallego considers a run for president in 2028.

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Apr 6 • 7:24 AM EDT • Politics • nbcnews.com
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'Nathan Drake Horror Game' Changes Main Character After Online Chatter

Earlier this week, users spotted a Nathan Drake rip-off character on the PlayStation Store. The developer has since changed that character.

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Apr 6 • 7:10 AM EDT • Technology • insider-gaming.com
Increased ACA premiums driving some patients to direct primary care

Rising ACA premiums are causing concerns for community health centers while driving some Coloradans into the arms of direct primary care providers.

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Apr 6 • 7:01 AM EDT • Health • coloradoan.com
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East Lansing Insider Podcast: A Conversation with Acorn Health

On this week's podcast, ELi Deputy Editor Anna Liz Nichols talks about autism awareness and acceptance with Paul Doher, national director of clinical quality for Acorn Health.

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Apr 6 • 7:00 AM EDT • Health • eastlansinginfo.news
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We've got a winner in our business-focused bracket

A champion has been crowned in our business-focused March Madness bracket: longevity. It won almost 67% of the more than 200 votes.

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Apr 6 • 6:07 AM EDT • Business • businessinsider.com
Jamie Dimon warns of a 'skunk at the party' his shareholder letter

Dimon said that the wars in Iran and Ukraine could impact prices beyond the immediate energy sector.

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Apr 6 • 6:00 AM EDT • Business • businessinsider.com
Republican Clay Fuller under pressure in Georgia race to replace Marjorie Taylor Greene

The special election runoff between Republican Clay Fuller and Democrat Shawn Harris is being watched by both parties as they consider strategy ahead of the midterms.

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Apr 6 • 6:00 AM EDT • Politics • ajc.com
Alphabet vs. Amazon stock: Vote for the winner of BI's stock bracket

You've voted and now the final is here. Which mega-cap tech company be the king of them all?

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Apr 6 • 5:50 AM EDT • Business • businessinsider.com
Survey: Has an AI agent interviewed you for a job?

Some employers are tapping the tech to act as a human recruiter. If you've been in the hot seat, Business Insider would like to hear from you.

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Apr 6 • 5:32 AM EDT • Business • businessinsider.com
19-year-old pivots failing art studio to make $320,000 in 10 months

For Merida Lim, owner of Scuro in Singapore, it was sink or swim. After struggling to draw customers to her art studio, she pivoted her strategy.

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Apr 6 • 5:19 AM EDT • Business • businessinsider.com
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I'm still betting on AI after it shrank my business and staff

A marketing CEO of 17 years says AI boosted productivity but cut demand, forced layoffs, and changed pricing.

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Apr 6 • 5:11 AM EDT • Business • businessinsider.com
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I spend $12,000 a year to keep up my appearance in Utah as a publicist

Hilary Reiter Azzaretti had never done Botox or gotten regular facials before moving to Utah. Once she saw the people in Park City, she started both.

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Apr 6 • 5:05 AM EDT • Business • businessinsider.com
Meta salaries revealed: How much engineers, researchers made in 2025

See how much Meta paid in 2025, with software engineers earning as much as $450,000. Salary data shows pay ranges across over 5,000 roles.

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Apr 6 • 5:00 AM EDT • Business • businessinsider.com
Pinckney to consider health and safety ordinance for rentals

A slate of important meetings are coming this week in Livingston County.

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Apr 6 • 4:51 AM EDT • Health • livingstondaily.com
US retirement age is changing: FIRE movement, Americans working longer

America's oldest workers and youngest retirees are challenging the standard US retirement age. They say age 65 is no longer the goal.

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Apr 6 • 4:13 AM EDT • Business • businessinsider.com
Protein is personal. Here's how to calculate your optimal intake

Protein is having a moment. Coffee chains are adding it into lattes. Many snack companies are labeling their products as high-protein. But how much protein do you really need? Host Marielle Segarra talks with NPR health correspondent Allison Aubrey about the different factors to consider when planning your protein intake.Follow us on Instagram: @nprlifekitSign up for our newsletter here.Have an episode idea or feedback you want to share? Email us at lifekit@npr.orgSupport the show and listen to it sponsor-free by signing up for Life Kit+ at plus.npr.org/lifekit

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Apr 6 • 3:05 AM EDT • Health • npr.org
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Expensive gold is changing how people buy engagement rings

High gold prices are raising ring costs, pushing couples toward 10K gold, heirlooms, and financing options.

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Apr 6 • 2:07 AM EDT • Business • businessinsider.com
Mark Cuban said CEOs face AI dilemma that could tank their stock

The billionaire said that they can either tear their companies down and rebuild with AI or do nothing. Either way, shareholders won't be happy.

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Apr 6 • 12:27 AM EDT • Business • businessinsider.com
Shore Sports Insider 2026 Week 2 Softball Top 10

St. Rose makes their first appearance in the 2026 Shore Sports Insider Softball Top 10 rankings.

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Apr 6 • 12:13 AM EDT • Sports • shoresportsinsider.com
Mercy Health outsources 24/7 critical systems monitoring

The Catholic-run healthcare provider has moved to managed monitoring of its clinical integration systems to improve incident response and reduce downtime across its services.

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Apr 5 • 10:26 PM EDT • Health • healthcareitnews.com
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I quit Brown after a year to launch my own venture capital firm at 21.

Smaiyl Makyshov started a VC firm at 21 to invest in young founders, and those from accelerator communities like Y Combinator and A16z's Speedrun.

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Apr 5 • 8:00 PM EDT • Business • businessinsider.com
Android and iPhone users warned by FBI that certain apps are a security risk

The FBI alerted iOS and Android users what to watch for and what to do if they install an app considered to be a security risk.

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Apr 5 • 4:05 PM EDT • Technology • phonearena.com
I quit my corporate job to start a pizza business with $20K

Chris Brady quit tech sales at 25 to start Timber Pizza Co. with $20,000. It has since grown to multiple locations and mobile units.

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Apr 5 • 3:56 PM EDT • Business • businessinsider.com
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Arc Raiders improves crafting, says new "streamlined system" is "just the start"

Arc Raiders is reworking its crafting system after acknowledging the "one piece of feedback [that] kept coming up" from…

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Apr 5 • 2:37 PM EDT • Technology • eurogamer.net
Flying in Korean Air's upgraded business class suite; mostly worth it

I spent hours in Korean Air's upgraded business class, Prestige Suites 2.0. The seat, food, and amenities on my flight were great despite one con.

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Apr 5 • 1:35 PM EDT • Business • businessinsider.com
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Nvidia shows neural compression can cut VRAM usage from 6.5GB to 970MB

Consider Nvidia's work on Neural Texture Compression (NTC). In its "Tuscan Wheels" demo, the company showed VRAM usage dropping from roughly 6.5GB with traditional BCN-compressed textures to...

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Apr 5 • 12:44 PM EDT • Technology • techspot.com
Trying Italian sandwiches at Subway, Jimmy John's, Jersey Mike's; best

I ordered an Italian sandwich from Subway, Jimmy John's, and Jersey Mike's to see which popular chain does the classic sub justice. One stood out.

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Apr 5 • 10:48 AM EDT • Business • businessinsider.com
Trump says 'good chance' of deal with Iran on Monday

"I'm considering blowing everything up and taking over the oil" he added

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Apr 5 • 10:41 AM EDT • Politics • euractiv.com
Family returns to NYC 10 years after leaving to discover roots

Ten years after leaving, I took my kids back to where they were born, New York City, to remind them of their roots.

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Apr 5 • 10:08 AM EDT • Business • businessinsider.com
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My fiancée and I live with my parents in a NYC apartment to save money

My parents live in a rent-controlled NYC apartment, so my fiancée and I moved in. We were able to save enough money to open an art gallery.

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Apr 5 • 8:07 AM EDT • Business • businessinsider.com
Best and worst design features in a family's 560-square-foot tiny home

Brielle Matranga loves that her tiny home brings her family together and is easy to clean, but she hates not having a dishwasher or ample storage.

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Apr 5 • 7:16 AM EDT • Business • businessinsider.com
Low and slow meets forever: US postage stamps honor lowrider car culture

NEW MEXICO Stamps honor lowrider culture ALBUQUERQUE — From Mexican American and Chicano barrios in the American Southwest to the halls of the Smithsonian on the National Mall and even the streets of Japan, lowrider culture has become part of mainstream car culture around the globe. The U.S. Postal Service is joining the club with […]

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Apr 5 • 7:00 AM EDT • Politics • coloradopolitics.com
Why now is the perfect time to load up on the AI stocks in the Mag 7

Mag 7 valuations relative to the S&P 500 have rarely been this cheap, said Marta Norton, the chief investment strategist at Empower Investments.

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Apr 5 • 6:15 AM EDT • Business • businessinsider.com
Helium price spike: Products and industries that could get more expensive

Cell phones, MRIs, and space research are among the things that could get more expensive as helium prices spike.

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Apr 5 • 5:35 AM EDT • Business • businessinsider.com
He quit tech and started homesteading. AI brought him back online.

Ryan Courtnage quit the tech company he cofounded and bought 22 acres of land in Creston, British Columbia.

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Apr 5 • 5:12 AM EDT • Business • businessinsider.com
How a custom $84,962 tiny home became a luxury Airbnb

Sakura Kishiro, 26, bought a 400-square-foot tiny home and designed "every square inch." It became a popular vacation rental — and a source of income.

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Apr 5 • 5:10 AM EDT • Business • businessinsider.com
No experience needed? Novices, newcomers dominate field in SC’s open coastal seat in US Congress.

SC’s 1st Congressional District race is packed with outsiders — just five candidates have ever held elected office. Mark Sanford’s surprise entry is reshaping an already crowded primary and making the path tougher for lesser-known hopefuls.

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Apr 5 • 5:00 AM EDT • Politics • postandcourier.com
San Francisco's new dating scene: AI matchmakers, cash bounties

$100,000 bounties, agentic matchmaking, and rizz keyboards: Can San Francisco's dating culture ruined by technology be saved by more of it?

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Apr 5 • 4:11 AM EDT • Business • businessinsider.com
What the Muppets can teach us about Maine politics

For dreamers like me, the Rainbow Connection seems distant. Our political climate has abandoned what I consider the Muppet spirit: a celebration of wistfulness, a collective made strong by diversity and humble and transparent leadership. Contemporary politics has been like shadow puppets: projections designed to obscure the causes of our dysfunctional society. The Muppets offer […]

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Apr 5 • 4:00 AM EDT • Politics • pressherald.com
What the Muppets can teach us about Maine politics

For dreamers like me, the Rainbow Connection seems distant. Our political climate has abandoned what I consider the Muppet spirit: a celebration of wistfulness, a collective made strong by diversity and humble and transparent leadership. Contemporary politics has been like shadow puppets: projections designed to obscure the causes of our dysfunctional society. The Muppets offer […]

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Apr 5 • 4:00 AM EDT • Politics • centralmaine.com
Single-session therapy can help address gaps in mental health care

Can a single therapy session make a difference? Experts say yes, but only with the right mindset. Jessica Schleider is a Northwestern University psychology professor and founding director of the Lab for Scalable Mental Health.

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Apr 5 • 12:05 AM EDT • Health • apnews.com
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Insider Reveals What Trade Value Patriots Have On A.J. Brown

The New England Patriots and A.J. Brown have been linked in rumors all offseason, but no deal has happened yet.

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Apr 4 • 7:46 PM EDT • Sports • sports.yahoo.com
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Next Level Games wanted Link in Mario Strikers Charged

According to a developer that worked on Mario Strikers Charged, there was some consideration for having Link in Mario Strikers Charged. As a Mario game, Strikers Charged expectedly stuck with characters associated with that franchise. However, there was the possibility of bringing in that famous character from The Legend of Zelda. That tidbit was shared today by Did You Know...

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Apr 4 • 3:13 PM EDT • Technology • nintendoeverything.com
What is POTS, the disorder behind Fidji Simo's leave from OpenAI

POTS is a disorder that can cause heart palpitations, lightheadedness, and fainting. It is more common in women than in men.

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Apr 4 • 3:05 PM EDT • Business • businessinsider.com
AMD or Nvidia eGPUs can work on Apple Silicon Macs, but not for graphic acceleration

Apple has signed a driver for AMD or Nvidia eGPUs connected to Apple Silicon but there are some big caveats, and it won't improve your graphics. Here's what they're for.

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Apr 4 • 2:39 PM EDT • Technology • appleinsider.com
Steelers insider dismisses Aaron Rodgers to Broncos buzz

According to Mark Kaboly, Aaron Rodgers won't be heading to the Denver Broncos, and his signing with the Pittsburgh Steelers is an "almost done deal."

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Apr 4 • 1:03 PM EDT • Sports • sports.yahoo.com
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Veteran Halo Developer Accuses Studio of 'Numerous Unethical and Unlawful Acts'

The art director of Halo Infinite and a veteran developer on the franchise is accusing senior staff at Halo Studios of numerous unlawful acts.

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Apr 4 • 12:56 PM EDT • Technology • insider-gaming.com
Judge halts requirement that colleges show race isn't considered in admissions

The states argue the data collection effort threats student privacy and could lead to baseless investigations of colleges and universities

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Apr 4 • 12:25 PM EDT • Politics • spectrumlocalnews.com
Judge halts requirement that colleges show race isn't considered in admissions

The states argue the data collection effort threats student privacy and could lead to baseless investigations of colleges and universities

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Apr 4 • 12:25 PM EDT • Politics • spectrumlocalnews.com
Judge halts requirement that colleges show race isn't considered in admissions

The states argue the data collection effort threats student privacy and could lead to baseless investigations of colleges and universities

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Judge halts Trump effort requiring colleges to show they aren’t considering race in admissions

White House lawyers get another setback.

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Apr 4 • 12:18 PM EDT • Politics • floridapolitics.com
Insider: LeBron James could retire if Lakers win NBA championship

One insider says that LeBron James could retire this summer if the Lakers someone win the NBA championship this June.

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Apr 4 • 12:00 PM EDT • Sports • sports.yahoo.com
‘Bob’s Burgers’ Star Eugene Mirman Shares Health Update After Fiery Crash

The governor of New Hampshire and a member of her security detail swung into action at the scene after Mirman became trapped in the burning car.

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Apr 4 • 11:51 AM EDT • Health • yahoo.com
How NASA approved the iPhone 17 Pro Max for the Artemis II space mission

Early images of the Artemis II launch showed an iPhone floating inside the spacecraft. Here's how Apple's smartphone got approved for spaceflight.

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Apr 4 • 10:41 AM EDT • Technology • appleinsider.com
Reducing friction in ARC Raiders

ARC Raiders is a multiplayer extraction adventure, set in a lethal future earth, ravaged by a mysterious mechanized threat known as ARC.

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Apr 4 • 8:00 AM EDT • Technology • arcraiders.com
Tom Pohlad to lead Twins business operations throughout 2026 season

Twins owner Tom Pohlad initially considered hiring a president of business operations after Derek Falvey resigned in January.

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Apr 4 • 8:00 AM EDT • Business • startribune.com
Health care options open in Northeast Florida -- which ones and where

UF Health, HCA Florida and other providers are expanding services and opening new facilities in Northeast Florida.

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Apr 4 • 7:18 AM EDT • Health • jacksonville.com
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The 15 best US cities to live in

US News & World Report ranked the best big cities to live in, and ones in Texas dominated the list.

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Apr 4 • 7:09 AM EDT • Business • businessinsider.com
Companies are replacing workers instead of hiring more

Recruiters say companies are swapping out employees for more skilled or lower-cost talent as hiring slows and budgets tighten.

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Apr 4 • 6:45 AM EDT • Business • businessinsider.com
Woman saves money living in a 50-foot narrowboat she bought for $40K

Dottie Turnbull left her one-bedroom cottage and bought a narrowboat for about $40,000. Five years later, she says it saves her money every month.

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Apr 4 • 6:34 AM EDT • Business • businessinsider.com
How a Louisiana lawyer from the 1800s appeared in the legal fight over birthright citizenship

WASHINGTON — U.S. Supreme Court justices are considering two cases that could change long-established constitutional interpretations concerning race — and Louisiana plays an integral role in both.

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Apr 4 • 6:15 AM EDT • Politics • nola.com
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Meta, Block rebrand some managers as 'org leads' and 'player-coaches'

As AI reshapes how work gets done, Meta and Block are doling out new job titles without the word 'manager.'

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Apr 4 • 5:48 AM EDT • Business • businessinsider.com
XAI's cofounder chaos, rebuilding is vintage Elon Musk

xAI lost Ross Nordeen, its final non-Musk cofounder, this month. What does the turnover mean for the startup's looming IPO with SpaceX?

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Apr 4 • 5:22 AM EDT • Business • businessinsider.com
What it's like flying Southwest after all the changes; A-List helped

I hit the spending threshhold on my Chase Reserve card in 2025 to secure free A-List status on Southwest. Now, I wouldn't fly the airline without it.

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Apr 4 • 5:11 AM EDT • Business • businessinsider.com
Dover School District doing away with health insurance provider

This comes after the provider has faced numerous problems in the last year, including quoting districts millions of dollars to help pay for a lack of funds.

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Apr 3 • 10:35 PM EDT • Health • wmur.com
Anthropic cuts off OpenClaw support for Claude subscriptions

Anthropic said third-party tools like OpenClaw put an "outsized strain on our systems." OpenClaw's founder said cutting support would be "a loss."

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Apr 3 • 10:25 PM EDT • Business • businessinsider.com
Teen Science Cafe/ AI in Everyday Life and Healthcare

We are excited to invite you to the Alexandria Teen Science Café on April 16, where we’ll explore how emerging technologies are reshaping the future of health. This month’s café will show you how the data behind everyday apps is being transformed into powerful tools that help solve medical challenges once considered impossible, even predicting

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Apr 3 • 7:37 PM EDT • Science • arlnow.com
Super sports agent Leigh Steinberg talks to ASU Law students about success in the business

Leigh Steinberg is considered one of the most powerful sports agents in history.He has negotiated record-setting contracts for elite NFL quarterbacks, represented hundreds of professional athletes and hosted annual Super Bowl parties for 5,000 of his closest friends. His career even inspired the film “Jerry Maguire” and the iconic line, “Show me the money.”

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Apr 3 • 5:57 PM EDT • Sports • news.asu.edu
Meta CTO's advice to college students: 'constantly be building.'

Andrew Bosworth, the CTO of Meta, gave a college student some advice for breaking into Silicon Valley. He also waded into a recent internet debate.

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Apr 3 • 4:21 PM EDT • Business • businessinsider.com
Cincinnati business grows with new restaurant at Factory 52’s Gatherall

Some of those menu items include sliders, build-your-own bowls, smoothies and tacos.

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Apr 3 • 4:08 PM EDT • Business • fox19.com
Meta's superintelligence labs taps leader for hardware role

Meta Superintelligence Labs, led by Alexandr Wang, is hiring a new leader to spearhead its AI hardware division, hinting at new AI devices.

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Apr 3 • 2:55 PM EDT • Business • businessinsider.com
Who could be next after President Trump ousts Bondi? Political analyst weighs in on possible cabinet moves

President Trump is said to be considering removing other officials in his cabinet according to Trump administration officials.

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Apr 3 • 2:38 PM EDT • Politics • news4jax.com
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Here's how United's new 'basic business class' will work

United's new premium fare structure is meant to make business class cheaper by unbundling things you may not need, like lounge access or seat choice.

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Apr 3 • 1:21 PM EDT • Business • businessinsider.com
Gemma 4 and what makes an open model succeed

Having written a lot of model release blog posts, there’s something much harder about reviewing open models when they drop relative to closed models, especially in 2026. In recent years, there were so few open models, so when Llama 3 was released most people were still doing research on Llama 2 and super happy to get an update. When Qwen 3 was released, the Llama 4 fiasco had just gone down, and a whole research community was emerging to study RL on Qwen 2.5 — it was a no brainer to upgrade. Today, when an open model releases, it’s competing with Qwen 3.5, Kimi K2.5, GLM 5, MiniMax M2.5, GPT-OSS, Arcee Large, Nemotron 3, Olmo 3, and others. The space is populated, but still feels full of hidden opportunity. The potential of open models feels like a dark matter, a potential we know is huge, but few clear recipes and examples for how to unlock it are out there. Agentic AI, OpenClaw, and everything brewing in that space is going to spur mass experimentation in open models to complement the likes of Claude and Codex, not replace them. Especially with open models, the benchmarks at release are an extremely incomplete story. In some ways this is exciting, as new open models have a much higher variance and ability to surprise, but it also points at some structural reasons that make building businesses and great AI experiences around open models harder than the closed alternatives. When a new Claude Opus or GPT drops, spending a few hours with them in my agentic workflows is genuinely a good vibe test. For open models, putting them through this test is a category error. Something else to be said about open models in the era of agents is that they get out of the debate of integration, harnesses, and tools and let us see close to the ground on what exactly is the ability of just a model. Of course, we can’t test some things like search abilities without some tool, but being able to measure exactly the pace of progress of the model alone is a welcome simplification to a systematically opaque AI space. Share The list of factors I’d use to assess a new open-weight model I’m considering investing in includes: Model performance (and size) — how this model performs on benchmarks I care about and how it compares to other models of a similar size. Country of origin — some businesses care deeply about provenance, and if a model was built in China or not. Model license — if a model needs legal approval for use, uptake will be slower at mid-sized and large companies. Tooling at release — many models release with half-broken, or at least substantially slower, implementations in popular software like vLLM, Transformers, SGLANG, etc due to pushing the envelope of architectures or tools. Model fine-tunability — how easy or hard it is to modify the given model to your use-case when you actually try and use it. The core problem is that some of these are immediately available at release, e.g. general performance, license, origin, etc. but others such as tooling take day(s) to week(s) to stabilize, and others are open research questions — with no group systematically monitoring fine-tunability. In the early era of open models, the days of Llama 2 or 3 and Qwen pre v3.5, the architectures were fairly simple and the models tended to work out of the box. Some of this was due to the extremely hard work of the Llama, Qwen, Mistral, etc. developer teams. Some is due to the new models being genuinely harder to work with. When it comes to something like Qwen 3.5 or Nemotron 3, with hybrid models (either gated delta net or mamba layers), the tooling is very rough at release. Things you would expect to “just work” often don’t. I’ve been following this area closely since we released Olmo Hybrid with a similar architecture, and Qwen 3.5 is just starting to work well in the various open-source tools that need to all play nice together for RL research. That’s 1.5 months after the release date! This is just to start really investing more into understanding the behavior of the models. Of course, others started working on these models sooner by investing more engineering resources or relying on partially closed software. The fully open and distributed ecosystem takes a long time to get going on some new models. All of this is lead-in for the most important question for open models — how easy is it to adapt to specific use-cases? This is a different problem for different model sizes. Large MoE open-weight models may be used by entities like Cursor who need complex capabilities in their domain, e.g. Composer 2 trained on Kimi K2.5. Other applications can be built on much smaller models, such as Chroma’s Context-1 model for agentic search, built on GPT-OSS 20B. The question of “which models are fine-tunable” is largely background knowledge known by engineers across the industry. There should be a thriving research area here to support the open ecosystem model. The first step is to understand characteristics of different base and post-trained models to understand what they look like. The second step is to tune pretraining recipes for open models so they’re more flexible. Interconnects AI is a reader-supported publication. Consider becoming a subscriber. Subscribe For The ATOM Project and other Interconnects endeavors, we’ve put in substantial effort to measuring adoption trends in the open ecosystem. Everything takes a long time to unfold after a model is first publicly available — and adaptability is why. What we know for sure now, when Qwen has been going from strength to strength with its releases, is that technical staff across the industry has gotten comfortable working with Qwen models. Countless research methods and datasets were made to work with Qwen. It’ll take patience for any other model family to get to this point — a patience I’m not sure many open model builders have. This takes us to Gemma 4, Google’s latest open models. Gemma 3 was released more than a year ago, in March of 2025, and is a bit underrated. Gemma 4 comes in 4 sizes for now, with a bigger, MoE model of over 100B total parameters rumored but not released yet. The models we have today come in sizes of ~5B dense, 8B dense, 26B total 4B active MoE, and 31B dense. I’m most excited that they’re finally adopting a standard Apache 2.0 open source license. This’ll massively boost adoption. The standard of better licenses for strong open-weight LLMs was set by mostly Chinese open model labs in the last 1-2 years, and now U.S. companies are following suit. I will personally be so happy if the horrible Llama licenses and Gemma terms of service were an ~18-month transient dynamic of the industry being nervous about releasing strong open models. The Gemma 4 scores look very solid, the small models have incredible benchmark scores (especially in general domains like LMArena) and the 31B model rivals the recent Qwen 3.5 27B, which is the leading member of that class. The ~30B size range is an important one, as it’s accessible both to researchers and to enterprises looking to deploy the model in real use-cases. Where the 7B model scale is the default for tinkering and research, a 30B model is the default for seeing if an open model can unlock substantial value in your specific workflow — a good mix of intelligence, low price, tractability for downstream training, etc. This takes us back to the above adoption criteria I mentioned for open models and the bigger question — do I think Gemma 4 will be an overwhelming success? Previous Gemma models have been plagued by tooling issues and poorer performance when being finetuned. Gemma 4’s success is going to be entirely determined by ease of use, to a point where a 5-10% swing on benchmarks wouldn’t matter at all. It’s strong enough, small enough, with the right license, and from the U.S., so many companies are going to slot it in. I’m cautiously optimistic that Gemma 4 is going to work better here. Winds are shifting for open models built in America. We saw GPT-OSS go through a bumpy launch to become an overwhelming success. There’s a collective energy around the likes of Reflection, Arcee, Nemotron, Gemma, Olmo, and peers that show substantial demand for building new stacks around open models. There’s capital to be spent on AI stacks across the economy by those who want more ownership of everything, including the model. After launching The ATOM Project 240 days ago, the conversation is shifting into the next stage. Summer of 2025 was a crisis moment where the U.S. AI scene realized it can’t wait and figure out open models after building AGI. The two markets will capture different areas and proceed in parallel. Now that more companies in the U.S. are releasing strong models, we need to improve the ecosystem so that these models are easy to use, understand, and build value around. It’s the hard work to build another inflection point in these adoption plots I’ve been updating consistently, but that’s the work to be done. Join me in it. More data coming soon! Here’s a sneak peek:

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Only two players in NFL history have made more money than Cousins and they are both locks for the Pro Football Hall of Fame.

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One UI 9 reveals Galaxy Z Wide Fold’s wider screen

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A Look Back at Health Insurance Providers Stocks’ Q4 Earnings: Alignment Healthcare (NASDAQ:ALHC) Vs The Rest Of The Pack

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Microsoft releases new AI models: competition with OpenAI ramps up

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Chicago travel mistakes I made as a first-time tourist

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Women's Health Is Breaking Records And Breaking No Ceilings

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Maui Mental Health Providers Face Stress And Uncertainty About State Jobs

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Save the Michaels is out of business

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Austin home-based business rules could change under new pilot program

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Austin weighs allowing front-yard businesses to help residents launch dreams from home

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Graham Platner’s political outsider vibe gains steam in Maine among Democrats

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Apple's Eddy Cue explains how iTunes shaped its services strategy

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Here's where ICE is buying up warehouses to make detention centers

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McKinsey's new AI leadership playbook: flatten teams and move faster

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Cal Poly student Parker Jones calls out professors' slowness on AI

This Cal Poly computer science student says professors lag on AI as students already use tools like ChatGPT for learning, not cheating, in class.

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