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New England Patriots owner Robert Kraft shot back at Macklemore after he challenged him to match a $1 million donation he is making to organizations providing aid to Palestinians, the latest escalation in a dispute that saw the artist booted from Ed Sheeran’s U.S. tour. On Wednesday, Macklemore, whose real name is Benjamin Hammond Haggerty, said in a statement on Instagram that he would donate $1 million in his net earnings from Sheeran’s Loop Tour to six organizations supporting Palestinians. In the post, he invited Kraft to match the donation. Kraft countered later that day, saying in a statement that Sheeran had already asked him to match the singer’s own $2 million commitment to humanitarian aid in the region “to fight this humanitarian crisis.”  The exchange marked the latest clash between the artist and the billionaire owner of Gillette Stadium, which began after Macklemore made pro-Palestinian comments during two September opening performances at MetLife Stad...

This year marks the 25th anniversary of Is This It , the classic album by the Stokes, the rock band that turned the page from Gen X pop culture to something more distinctly millennial. It’s also a favorite album for this author and Glassdoor senior economist Chris Martin, who used the phrase in a recent conversation about his latest Millennial Report . Millennials, he told me about his most recent research, have reached midcareer, their earnings have “for the most part peaked,” and they can expect growth to match inflation from here on out for the rest of their careers. The vibe is “we’ve made it,” Martin said, “and the long and the short of it is, it doesn’t feel good.” He described it as an “is this it?” moment. I had to ask, was he channeling Strokes lead singer Julian Casablancas? “Guilty as charged,” Martin said, adding that of course, he used to listen to the Strokes, and that vibe does sum ...

U.S. robotaxi operator Waymo is breaking into a new market. After unveiling roadmaps to bring its self-driving cars to Germany and the United Kingdom, it’s now setting its sights east. On Sept. 18, Waymo announced plans to launch in Singapore by 2028, marking its first entry into Southeast Asia. The announcement came just days after the robotaxi firm revealed plans to enter its first market in Asia: Japan .  “Singapore has built one of the safest, most efficient and most forward-thinking transportation ecosystems in the world,” said Tekedra Mawakana, Waymo’s co-CEO, in a Sept. 18 press release. “As we begin our journey here, we are committed to listening to the community, creating high-skilled local operational jobs and working…to complement Singapore’s world class public transit network.” Singapore is already one of the world’s most crowded AV markets. Last September, Chinese robotaxi firms WeRide and Pony AI announced partnerships with ride-hailing platform Grab and tr...

The tech leaders who once hailed AI use as the key to unlocking every employee’s full potential are now changing their tune. This includes Shopify cofounder and CEO Tobias Lütke. He t old employees last year that using AI is “a baseline expectation,” and they should first prove they “cannot get what they want done using AI” before asking for more resources. He’s now saying Shopify employees are producing unexamined emails and code with AI and not taking responsibility for the sloppy output. “We call those ‘slop grenades’ that people toss at each other,” he said during an interview on The Knowledge Project podcast  on Tuesday. “That’s definitely a bad thing.” Lütke said it’s easy to let AI “go nuts,” but abusing it creates more headaches for the people receiving and reviewing the work. For instance, he suggested AI use is supposed to help synthesize points in an email rather than turning it into “a big missive” that wastes time. “You don’t really read it, an...

Former Palantir engineer-turned New York state Assemblymember Alex Bores knows Americans want AI regulation. He co-authored the RAISE Act, New York’s frontier AI safety law. He ran this year for Rep. Jerry Nadler’s open congressional seat on that platform, even as many of his donors came from within the AI industry. But that didn’t stop Leading the Future, a super PAC funded in part by OpenAI president Greg Brockman and Andreessen Horowitz, from spending more than $7.6 million against him over that law. Public First Action, with $20 million from Anthropic, spent on the race in Bores’ corner. Total outside money in the race topped $40 million , the most expensive House primary of the cycle. Bores still lost. That loss helped lead to Who Decides, the nonprofit Bores launched on Tuesday with his former chief of staff, Anna Myers. So far, it has raised $10 million and aims to raise $20 million more in 2027, for a $30 million total ahead of 2028. Bores intends t...

Good morning! Indeed CEO Deko Idekoba says he thinks AI is a “bit too slow” to change the labor market.  That may sound counterintuitive amid warnings that AI is wiping out entry-level jobs and disrupting white-collar work. But Idekoba is concerned with how uneven AI’s impact is: While the new tech advances rapidly through office work, skilled tradespeople are retiring from jobs AI can’t do, and too few young workers are preparing to replace them. “No parent is telling their kid, ‘You have to be a plumber. You have to be an electrician,’” he says. In the U.S., he adds, “there’s not a respect for those skills. In Japan or Germany, these people are really well respected.” But how do hiring managers combat this prestige problem? It may require changing how young people, their parents, and educators define a promising career. Maggie Hulce, Indeed’s chief revenue officer, sees it as an information problem. “When we help people see where there is demand and where th...

Karin Rådström is used to being the only woman in the room. She was the first to lead Scania’s bus and coach division, having worked her way through the ranks from marketing trainee to head of sales and marketing and executive vice president at the Swedish truck manufacturer. Now, as CEO of Daimler Truck, she heads up the world’s largest manufacturer of commercial vehicles. Rådström became only the second woman to lead a company in the DAX 40 upon her appointment in 2024 and is one of only 43 women CEOs in the Fortune 500 Europe. “I try to use that as a positive motivation more than a heavy burden,” she says. “The best way to increase the number of leadership opportunities for women is, of course, to be successful.” Since Rådström became CEO, Daimler Truck’s share price has increased almost 40%, from €33.15 to €46.24, and she has overseen significant growth in the company’s zero-­ emissions vehicle sales, which rose 67% in 2025. But this success has not come easily. Rådström r...