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Tech leads market near records while D.C.’s shutdown stalls jobs data

The U.S. stock market has looked past the delays of such data, leaving corporate announcements as the main drivers of trading Thursday.

U.S. stocks are drifting around their records on Thursday as technology stocks keep rising and as Wall Street keeps ignoring the shutdown of the U.S. government.

Musk reports Tesla sales jump 7% after months of boycotts

Tesla benefited from consumers taking advantage of a $7,500 tax credit on EVs before it expired on September 30.

Six months after Elon Musk left the Trump administration to the great relief of Tesla investors worried about boycotts, the world’s richest man has announced some good news: Sales of Tesla cars are back.

These 3 tricks will get AI chatbots to help you do your job

With the help of generative AI chatbots such as ChatGPT, Google’s Gemini, and Anthropic’s Claude, creating content is easier and faster than ever. Here are a few quick and easy methods you can use to create content, summarize information, and even brainstorm new ideas.

With the help of generative AI chatbots such as ChatGPT, Google’s Gemini, and Anthropic’s Claude, creating content is easier and faster than ever. Here are a few quick and easy methods you can use to create content, summarize information, and even brainstorm new ideas.

High-performing teams are using AI differently. Here’s how you can, too

Working with AI as a team isn’t about knowing the latest technology. It’s about changing your mindset to build skills AI can’t replace, focusing on outcomes, not optics, and leaving room for strategic tests.

Working with AI as a team isn’t about knowing the latest technology. It’s about changing your mindset to build skills AI can’t replace, focusing on outcomes, not optics, and leaving room for strategic tests.

Employees are using AI at work without asking—and putting company security at risk

Organizations are scrambling to keep up with employees using AI tools like ChatGPT, text generators, and automation platforms to help them at work. The phenomenon is known as Bring Your Own AI. And while workers are hitting performance goals faster, they’re also exposing companies to unprecedented legal and security risks.

Organizations are scrambling to keep up with employees using AI tools like ChatGPT, text generators, and automation platforms to help them at work. The phenomenon is known as Bring Your Own AI. And while workers are hitting performance goals faster, they’re also exposing companies to unprecedented legal and security risks.

How to make sure your company is set up to use AI successfully

Automation doesn’t fix broken operations—it magnifies them. 

Your company rolls out an AI agent to assign tasks, draft updates, and nudge overdue approvals. But within days, it’s flagging completed work, tagging the wrong people, and creating confusion instead of clarity. 

How to keep performing when layoffs have ravaged your company

Layoffs are hard on everyone including the people who don’t get cut. Here are 5 tips for keeping up your performance if you survive a layoff.

Whenever there’s economic uncertainty, it’s easy to worry that your position is at risk. But what if the worst has happened: Your company has done a big layoff—and you and your team weren’t on the list? Of course, you and your direct reports may both fear that more cuts are on the horizon. And yet, there’s work to be done. 

U.S. cybersecurity was bad during the first Trump administration. Somehow, it’s getting worse

Workforce cuts and vindictive treatment of former cybersecurity-agency directors have experts worried.

Eight months into the second Trump administration, what’s most striking about its cybersecurity policy is what’s missing: Much of the workforce of the Cybersecurity & Infrastructure Security Agency, a permanent leader for the agency, and a public discussion about what the president did to its two previous directors.

Everything we know—and don’t know—about ‘The Life of a Showgirl,’ including a classic Taylor Swift mystery

Swift’s new album comes out October 3: Get up to speed on track titles, Eras tour influences, and why die-hard fans are on ‘standby.’

You might have noticed some of your coworkers are overly excited this week and counting down the minutes until midnight on October 3. No, these are not die-hard cinephiles devoted to the 2004 film Mean Girls (which features a joke about the date). They’re Taylor Swift fans.

‘Heavy soda’: Why TikTok is packing soda with more and more syrup

‘You know when the gas station fountains have this option, you’re in God’s country.’

Rumor has it that soda fountains at a handful of gas stations and convenience stores across the Midwest are serving a thicker, more syrupy variant—with extra sweetness.