Buying a Franchise Why So Many Franchises Are Saying ‘Cheese’ This Fall Cheese is having a moment at drive-thrus and sit-down chains like Freddy's and Golden Chick.
Business News People Are Using AI Agents to Manage Their Investments ‘Without Lifting a Finger’: Is it Safe? AI agents named Alex, Sarah and Elena are managing real money now. Not everyone thinks that's a good idea.
Business News AI Has Killed an Entire Industry — People Who Got Paid to Do Homework for College Kids Thousands of college-educated Kenyans built real careers ghostwriting essays for students overseas. ChatGPT ended it almost instantly
Buying a Franchise He Took a Part-Time Job at McDonald’s 50 Years Ago. Now He Owns Six of Them: ‘I Never Could Have Imagined the Journey Ahead of Me’ Terry Eagle started working the register at age 16. Now he owns the register.
Business News The Anthropic Researcher Who Quit Over AI Fears Isn’t the Only One Sounding Alarm Bells: ‘Things Could Be Out of Control Next Year’ Jacob Coxon left OpenAI for Anthropic because of its reputation for AI safety. Now he's walking away from the industry entirely.
Business News LeBron James Is Teaming Up With Polymarket — Fans Accuse the Billionaire of ‘Selling Out’ The NBA superstar joins a growing list of athletes partnering with prediction markets as the booming industry pushes deeper into sports.
Business News Elizabeth Holmes Is Reportedly Plotting a New Theranos From Behind Bars A surprise documentary premiered at Telluride, featuring three years of access to the enigmatic Holmes. Here's what it caught on camera.
Buying a Franchise Planet Fitness Said No to New Franchisees for a Decade. Here’s How This Guy Got a Yes. For ten years, Planet Fitness had one rule for new franchisees: buy your way in. Then a hotel developer showed up.
Business News Baby Boomers Refuse to Retire: ‘If I Stop Moving, I Might Die’ — Here’s Why That’s a Problem Economists predicted a wave of retirements that never came. Now companies are staring down a succession crisis they didn't plan for.
Business News For the First Time in Decades, Not Having a College Degree Beats Having a Degree in the Job Market Blame the change on AI eating entry-level white-collar work and a skilled trades shortage that few saw coming.
Buying a Franchise He Started As a Barista When He Was 16 — Now He’s an Owner: ‘Proof of What’s Possible’ Elliott Disner spent years helping run Beyond Juicery + Eatery from the corporate side. Now he owns one, and says the job feels completely different.
Business News Dentists Have a Message for Anyone Inspired by That Billionaire Who Skipped Novocaine for a Root Canal: Please Don’t Doug Leone bragged about having a root canal done without anesthesia. Now the people who actually do root canals want a word.
Buying a Franchise This Family-Owned Iced Tea Chain Generated $147 Million in Sales By Obsessing Over Its Water While rivals fight over espresso and energy drinks, HTeaO built its whole brand around iced tea and purified water.
Business News Ernst & Young Is Paying Employees $100 Million in Bonuses Just for Being Human In a refreshing twist, the professional-services giant wants employees who can do the things AI still can't do.
Business News This Silicon Valley Billionaire Requested a Root Canal Without Novocaine — Here’s the Wild Reason Why Doug Leone has spent decades chasing fear on purpose. He wasn't going to let a little shot make him late for a meeting.
Buying a Franchise Pizza Hut Just Went Private in a $2.7 Billion Sale — Here’s the Turnaround Plan After 30 years under Yum Brands, Pizza Hut has a new owner, and a plan built on nostalgia instead of another remodel.
Business News This NFL Star Walked Away From Millions to Run a Sweet Potato Farm: ‘The Toughest Decision I’ve Ever Had to Make’ Jason Brown was the highest-paid center in the NFL. But his brother's death in Iraq changed everything he wanted out of life.
Buying a Franchise Taco Bell Abandoned This Market 14 Years Ago — Here’s Why It’s Going Back Now Taco Bell walked away from the UAE without explanation in 2012. Now it's betting the market is ready for some Cheesy Gorditas.
Business News While Fans Mourn Messi’s Retirement, He’s Quietly Running a Venture Capital Fund The soccer legend is stepping from one pitch onto another, with a Silicon Valley-style portfolio waiting for him.
Buying a Franchise Pumpkin Spice Fatigue Is Real — These Flavors Are Stealing the Spotlight This Fall Pecan orders are up 28% year over year, and chains from Dunkin' to Dairy Queen are catering to Pumpkin Spice burnout.
Business News Hiring Managers Are Going to Extremes to Weed Out Fake AI Applicants: ‘Wave Your Hand in Front of Your Face’ From waving at your webcam to proving your IP address matches your resume, job interviewers are running a whole new kind of background check.
Buying a Franchise McDonald’s and Taco Bell Are Fighting Over Your 3 P.M. Pick-Me-Up — Here’s Who’s Winning Both chains launched new energy drinks just days apart. The real fight is over who can stand out in a category getting crowded fast.
Business News How This $45 Million Golf Startup Lost a Major Sponsor Over a 15-Second Viral Clip: ‘It Was a Huge Mistake’ Good Good spent years building a family-friendly brand. One commercial undid a chunk of goodwill in a matter of days.
Business News Snoop Dogg Will Pay You $10,000 a Month to Eat Ice Cream. Here’s How to Apply. The rapper's ice cream brand, Dr. Bombay, is going global, and he wants your tastebuds on the team.
Business News Uber Just Green Lit Live Video for Teen Rides. Parents Can Watch, But Uber Can’t. The new feature lets parents check in on their teen's ride in real time. Uber says the footage is encrypted and deleted after two weeks.
Business News One Franchisee Said He’d ‘Die With His Locations’ — Here’s Why Yogurtland Operators Refuse to Cash Out The frozen yogurt chain's stores pull in close to $1 million a year each, and its franchise owners keep renewing.
Business News This Company Was Hacked by Rogue OpenAI Agents. Now Nvidia Wants to Buy It for $12.9 Billion. Hugging Face is the open-source AI platform whose security got breached by an OpenAI model earlier this summer.
Business News This Festival Gathers 1,000 Founders and Dealmakers to Connect, Pitch and Get Discovered — Getting In Isn’t Easy Founderland is an invite-only event for entrepreneurs, operators and investors to connect and make on-the-spot deals.
Buying a Franchise Wendy’s New CEO Has a Five-Point Plan to Get Back in the Burger Chain Fight — Here’s What’s in It Bob Wright says Wendy's chased cost savings over quality, and lost its No. 2 spot to Burger King. Now he's rolling out a five-point fix.
Business News OpenAI Shocked the World When Its AI Agents Hacked Another Company. Now, It’s Explaining How It Happened: ‘Pandora’s Box Is Open’ A 37-page report walks through exactly how OpenAI's own models broke out of a testing environment and breached Hugging Face last month.