The Gen Xers turning to odd jobs — from summer internships to ice hockey refereeing — to stay employed

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William Simon
William Simon works as an ice hockey official when he has the opportunity to.

William Simon

Starting a business in your 80s isn't easy — but it may be the only way to earn a living

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Ina Harris, 82
Ina Harris, 82, opened a direct care business last year and has slowly been securing clients.

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Ina Harris, 82, believes that starting a business is the only way she can earn enough to pay her bills.

These co-CEOs can't imagine running things on their own

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Connor Diemand-Yauman and Rebecca Taber Staehelin
Connor Diemand-Yauman and Rebecca Taber Staehelin are co-CEOs of the nonprofit Merit America. The times they've disagreed on strategy tested their thinking in ways that were "exponentially beneficial," she said.

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I'm 16 and just raised $1 million for my AI project despite being average at school. Here's why it helps to be delusional.

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Toby Brown, 16, decided to leave school to move to San Francisco.

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This is your doctor on ChatGPT

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Dr. Carl Dirk at his praxis
St. Luke's internal medicine physician Carl Dirks said that ambient listening was a solution for "clinician burnout."

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Adam Rodman uses ChatGPT when he's stumped.

The internal medicine physician and Harvard Medical School professor is upfront about it with his patients, and said he avoids putting in private medical information.

Why Goldman's CEO thinks the bank will have more people in 10 years — not less — thanks to AI

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David Solomon addressed AI spending this week at a conference in Italy.
Goldman Sachs CEO David Solomon addressed AI spending this week at a conference in Italy.

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Meta is monitoring how much employees use AI — and turning it into a game

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Meta is monitoring how much employees use AI.

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Meta Superintelligence Labs executives are pushing staff to ditch slow internal systems for faster engineering tools

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Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg wears the Meta Ray-Ban Display glasses, as he delivers a speech presenting the new line of smart glasses, during the Meta Connect event at the company's headquarters in Menlo Park, California, U.S., September 17, 2025.
Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg wears the Meta Ray-Ban Display glasses during at presentation at the Meta Connect event in Silicon Valley

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She made $250K secretly juggling two jobs. Now she's making $195K and dodging a five-day RTO mandate.

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A woman works from home.
A millennial (not pictured) made $250K juggling two jobs in secret, but "overemployment" eventually became unsustainable.

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This networking trick helps you skip the 'cattle call' of applying for jobs

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Veterans looks for jobs at the Career Source Broward table at a job fair Thursday, Aug. 28, 2025, in Sunrise, Florida.

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