Elon Musk is cracking under the pressure of the biggest gamble he's ever taken in his life

Tech Insider
As Elon Musk's face reddens, the stacks of cash surrounding him start to disappear
Elon Musk's chaotic behavior is a sure sign that his luck has turned for the worse.

Arantza Pena Popo/ Business Insider

Elon Musk was on a heater.

The next lucrative side hustle: selling electricity to your neighbors

Tech Insider : Economy
Solar power turning into cash flow.
Instead of relying on monolithic utilities to keep the lights on, the rising popularity of solar panels and battery storage could allow average Americans to sell electricity to their neighbors.

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Forget Sam Altman. America's greatest AI visionary is... an English professor in Illinois

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Ted Underwood
Our greatest AI visionary isn't Sam Altman or Bill Gates. It's Ted Underwood, an English professor at the University of Illinois.

L Brian Stauffer/University of Illinois; iStock; Rebecca Zisser/BI

Elon Musk's Cybertruck apocalypse

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Elon Musk laughing in a Cybertruck surrounded by flames
Tesla's armored pickup truck is straight out of 'Mad Musk: Fury Road' — but with hexagonal cupholders

Slaven Vlasic/Getty Images for The New York Times; Tesla, Inc.; Adobe Stock; iStock; Rebecca Zisser/Insider

The better you are at your job, the more you should be worried about AI

Tech Insider : Economy
White-collar workers on laptops sitting on bar graphs, with AI robots affecting productivity, pushing one down and lifting the other up

Getty Images; Alyssa Powell/BI

After 3 years of pain, America has finally achieved economic nirvana

Tech Insider : Economy
Bankers wrestling a piggy bank
The US economy is about to make a soft landing — a situation in which inflation cools without causing a recession or sudden spike in unemployment.

Liam Eisenberg for Insider

The hidden expense that's sucking $74 billion out of the economy

Tech Insider : Economy
Illustration of a house shaped cage releasing dollar bills.
Rising home and car insurance costs could cause many Americans' budgets to crack — and hamstring the driving force behind the US economy.

Kiersten Essenpreis for Business Insider

Average homebuyers are beating out Wall Street landlords

Tech Insider : Economy
A homebuyer pulls the welcome mat from under a wall street investor.
Deep-pocketed investors bought lots of homes during the pandemic, drawing the ire of regular homebuyers and lawmakers. But the panic over corporate vultures obscures the real problems in the housing market.

Chelsea Jia Feng/BI

'The most taboo topic I've ever seen': Inside Microsoft's war over the war in Gaza

Tech Insider : Technology
A Microsoft logo is being shattered, with the Israel and Palestinian flags overlaid on top.
Internal Microsoft posts offer a window into the anger and vitriol that workplaces across America grapple with as the war has escalated.

Chelsea Jia Feng/BI

Americans ditched big cities during the pandemic. Now many are regretting it.

Tech Insider : Economy
A keychain containing a house, sad face and covid virus.
The dream of owning a home with a yard in the suburbs is turning out to be disappointing.

Chelsea Jia Feng/BI

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