OpenAI hires xAI’s former finance chief Summary OpenAI has hired Mike Liberatore, who briefly served as chief financial officer at Elon Musk’s xAI, as a senior finance executive. Liberatore will report to OpenAI CFO Sarah Friar and work closely with Greg Brockman’s team on contracts and the company’s compute strategy. His arrival follows a short […]
I’m Done Being a Girlboss. I Was Chasing a Goal That Wasn’t Mine. Summary Henley Carr, a 28-year-old advertising professional, recounts shifting her life priorities from career ambition to motherhood. Once driven by male validation, a high-paying director role and the identity of being the primary breadwinner shaped her sense of self. After a miscarriage […]
Jeni’s Splendid Ice Creams to open franchised locations Summary Jeni’s Splendid Ice Creams is recruiting franchisees for the first time, aiming to open franchised scoop shops in the Midwest and the Southeast — regions where it already runs company-owned stores. The company operates about 90 scoop shops today and plans a careful rollout, supporting an […]
OpenAI foresees millions of AI agents ‘somewhere in the cloud’ in just a few years — with human supervision Summary OpenAI executives outlined a near-term vision in which vast numbers of autonomous AI agents run in the cloud and in companies’ data centres, supervised and steered by humans. The company unveiled GPT-5 Codex, a model […]
Getting laid off from tech broke my heart. A job seeker support group helped me bounce back with a senior Fortune 100 role. Summary Amy Ma, a data scientist in her 30s from New Jersey, was laid off while five months pregnant. After giving birth she joined an online “job search council” inspired by Phyl […]
Forget woke chatbots — an AI researcher says the real danger is an AI that doesn’t care if we live or die Summary Eliezer Yudkowsky, founder of the Machine Intelligence Research Institute and author of If Anyone Builds It, Everyone Dies, warns that the true existential risk from AI is not biased or “woke” chatbots […]
I believed these 5 misconceptions about homeschooling. Years later, I know I was wrong. Summary The author has been homeschooling her two children for six years after moving them out of public school during the pandemic. She entered the journey with five major worries — social life, her teaching qualifications, compatibility with other homeschool parents, […]
Working Mother Prioritises Flexible Work, Has Multiple Income Streams Summary Jamie Davis Smith, an attorney and academic, explains why she chose to leave a traditional full-time role after having children and built a portfolio of part-time, flexible income streams. Her work now includes freelance legal research and briefs, occasional university teaching, family photography and freelance […]
The great LNG shipping reset: how geopolitics is rewriting maritime energy rules Summary What started as straightforward point-to-point LNG trades has evolved into a market driven by geopolitics, environment policy and strategic fleet decisions. By mid‑2025 many LNG carriers were idle and charter rates plunged despite heightened route risk from Red Sea and Strait of […]
Tankers: Nigerian Cargoes Heading East is a Recalibration of Global Flows Summary Geopolitical shifts and rising Nigerian output are changing tanker trade patterns. Intermodal’s report highlights a sharp rebound in Nigerian production and exports, while India — under pressure over its dependence on Russian crude — has started to buy more West African grades. That […]
