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• Brian Niccol explained the mistake he made during his first year as Starbucks' CEO.
• He said he didn't position the turnaround plan as part of the cultural conversation quickly enough.
• Niccol added that leadership means hearing feedback — and being

• Benjamin Leong pivoted from full-time traditional Chinese medicine to AI engineering in his 20s.
• The move boosted his base salary by about 30% at a medtech startup.
• The 31-year-old tells BI how he adapted to his new role — and why breaking into AI isn't difficult.

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YouTube services are seemingly down as of Wednesday evening. Fortunately, the video streaming platform reports that it's now back up and running.

Shortly after 7 p.m. ET / 4 p.m. PT, users reported encountering playback errors, according to Downdetector and Google Trends data. YouTube acknowledged the outage shortly after 8 p.m. ET / 5 p.m. PT, addressing it on its official X account. The post also

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In an embarrassing error, PayPal blockchain partner Paxos accidentally minted 300 trillion of the PYUSD token today. PayPal's stablecoin, which it debuted in 2023, is supposed to be redeemable at a 1:1 rate for US dollars. $300 trillion is more than double the entire world's current GDP of $117 trillion. In short, that's a really bad mistake from Paxos.

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• I stayed at the Four Seasons Hotel Boston, and it was every bit as luxurious as I expected.
• As a guest of the hotel, I could get complimentary espresso drinks delivered to my room.
• My bathroom had luxurious products, and each floor had a pantry stocked with free snacks.

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Google has released a new update to its Veo AI video generation model that should make it do a better job of sticking to prompts and converting images into videos. Veo 3.1 is available to try today through Google's Gemini API and is now also powering the company's Flow video editor.

Veo 3.1 builds on the new capabilities Google introduced with launch of Veo 3 at Google I/O 2025. The new model

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• Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth made his speech to generals and admirals mandatory viewing for the military.
• A recent memo orders all personnel to watch the speech or review the transcript by October 31.
• The speech highlighted issues like physical