CheatGPT: the hidden wave of employees using AI on the sly

Tech Insider : Economy
A women sits at an office desk typing on the computer. At the focal point of the illustration is a vibrant textured square that shows here gleefully using AI on her desktop.

The death of hobbies

Tech Insider : Economy
Hands knitting a scarf made out of money
Hobbies have been killed off and milked for cash — but in the rush to turn a passion into a side hustle, the fire a person has for that activity can be snuffed out.

Robyn Phelps/Insider

How side hustles turned everyone's leisure activities into work

War with China would be an 'onslaught' like the US hasn't faced in decades

Tech Insider : Economy, Politics
A boxing match between China and the US.
Military and experts agree: the US is nowhere near ready for a war with China.

Derek Zheng for Insider

The weird and disastrous rise of generational warfare

Tech Insider : Economy, Politics
A collage of different generations, from left to right, millennials, boomers, gen-z.
Gen Z hates boomers, everyone hates millennials, and no one thinks about Gen X. Why are we so obsessed with talking about generations?

Chelsea Jia Feng/Insider

Every city in America looks exactly the same now

Tech Insider : Economy
A couple from the big city looks at a selection of small cities with notifications on them, vying for attention while all looking the same.
Remote work caused a flood of new arrivals to small and midsize cities. And now those cities all look the same.

Chelsea Jia Feng/Insider

How every American city became exactly the same

Why Threads will never be the new Twitter

Tech Insider : Politics
Twitter logo with the threads logo in its mouth like a worm
Threads doesn't have any of the magic that made Twitter popular in the first place.

Twitter, Threads, Tyler Le/Insider

Meet Hollywood's hottest new movie star: corporate brands

Tech Insider : Economy
Barbie, Mario, and a beanie baby with paparazzi flashes surrounding them
Brand-centric films like Barbie have a dark side: They are a symptom of the precarity of today's job market.

Barbie/Mattel, Mario/Amazon, Tyler Le/Insider

The last, best hope for homebuyers

Tech Insider : Economy
Newly constructed houses shine brightly on a grassy field, which a line of eager homebuyers filing at the bottom of the hill, for a chance to snatch this housing from this new construction boom. The sky in the background is a greenish purple.

Arantza Pena Popo/Insider

The dirty little secret that could bring down Big Tech

Tech Insider
Four fish rushing towards a dollar sign shaped fishing hook
New research reveals that Silicon Valley uses predatory pricing to crush competitors and scam investors — evidence the government can use to bust up tech monopolies.

Tyler Le/Insider

The job market is never going to return to normal

Tech Insider : Economy, Politics
Empty office chairs crowded into a corner, and one chair rolling by the pile
The coming surge in boomer retirement will create a labor shortage that will last for decades — and that's great news for everyone.

Arif Qazi/Insider

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