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• The long-standing alliance between the US and Canada experienced a challenging year.
• Canadian sentiment on the US soured over Trump's annexation comments and tariffs.
• Here is a look back on how the relationship

• Small hedge funds outperformed larger peers in 2025.
• Funds overseeing less than $100 million led the pack, returning 14.6%, per PivotalPath data.
• Strong stock-market gains in 2025 favored long-short equity strategies used by smaller funds.

Hedge fund managers delivered another strong year in 2025, rewarding investors who poured hundreds of billions of dollars into the

• Audiences have increasingly shifted toward free streaming services like YouTube this year.
• Paid streaming services have seen their viewership growth slow as they raise prices.
• Netflix and Disney are experimenting with creative ways to win viewers.

Free streaming services are having

• Retail startups have raised over $390 million in 2025, led by Gopuff's $250 million round.
• Venture capital funding for startups has tightened since the surge in fundraising following the pandemic.
• Retail startups span instant delivery, pet health, AI devices, cannabis retail, and luxury goods.

With venture capital pouring

• AI jobs are hot right now, and some in the tech industry are pivoting their careers to get them.
• In 2025, the Business Insider reporter Charissa Cheong asked 4 tech workers how they broke into AI.
• They all shared the same, simple piece of advice: Get your hands

• More and more lawmakers are beginning to use AI themselves.
• That includes some who told Business Insider just months ago that they hadn't gotten into it.
• "I use it, despite the fact that I think it's going to destroy us," said one senator.

As

• Gig workers have been facing declining earnings and the rise of self-driving cars.
• Some have told Business Insider that they're looking for an alternative way of making money.
• Fill out our survey if you've left gig work or are considering it — or

• Reed Duchscher, MrBeast's former manager, says we won't see another MrBeast-scale creator soon.
• As social algorithms focus on individual interests, it's harder for creators to achieve a broad reach.
• Influencers who stick to a niche are well-positioned to sell products to fans, even if they're less famous.

YouTuber MrBeast is a social

• Amanda Luther, a senior partner at BCG, starts her day at 7 a.m.
• Luther leads AI strategy for clients and says she spends the bulk of her days in internal meetings.
• She travels between two to four cities a week, and takes meetings on the way to the airport.

This is an as-told-to essay based on a

This as-told-to essay is based on a conversation with Barbara Brown, 83, who works as a yoga instructor in Richmond, Virginia. Brown said her work has been fulfilling, given that many of her classes are at nursing homes. Though she needs to work to supplement her Social Security, Brown said she has no intention of