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Meet a 23-year-old electrician who was a ‘good student’ but skipped college to join Gen Z’s blue-collar revolution. He makes 6 figures

Remote college in 2020 didn’t work for Jacob Palmer. “It felt very intangible, is the best way that I have found to say it … It didn’t work for me. I hated it.”

By Nick LichtenbergJanuary 24, 2026
Dario Amodei looking up
Anthropic’s head of Claude Code on how the tool won over non-coders—and kickstarted a new era for software engineers
By Beatrice NolanJanuary 24, 2026
Jamie Dimon’s reality check for ambitious workers: ‘There’s going to be a grunt part to every part of a job. Get over it’
By Jake AngeloJanuary 23, 2026
Cursor used a swarm of AI agents powered by OpenAI to build and run a web browser for a week—with no human help. Here’s why developers are buzzing
By Sharon GoldmanJanuary 23, 2026
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CEOs at Davos were split on how bad the AI job wipeout will be
By Alyson ShontellJanuary 23, 2026
Latest Stories
PoliticsAlexandria Ocasio-Cortez says ‘we have to draw a line in the sand now’ after fatal shooting by federal agents in Minnesota
By Jason MaJanuary 24, 2026
PoliticsAfter deadly shooting by immigration agents, Texas Democrats running for Senate say ‘clean house’ at ICE and ‘take that money back’
By Thomas Beaumont and The Associated PressJanuary 24, 2026
North AmericaStranded by winter weather? Here’s what airlines owe you
By Rio Yamat and The Associated PressJanuary 24, 2026
PoliticsLatest deadly shooting by federal agents pushes government closer to shutdown as Trump claims Minnesota officials are ‘inciting insurrection’
By Jason MaJanuary 24, 2026
PoliticsMinneapolis Trump voter now helps move immigrants’ kids to safe houses to keep them away from his federal agents
By Jack Brook and The Associated PressJanuary 24, 2026
PoliticsTrump says U.S. used ‘discombobulator’ weapon in Maduro raid
By Kate Sullivan and BloombergJanuary 24, 2026
PoliticsTrump hails UK troops’ sacrifice after backlash over NATO remark
By Kate Sullivan and BloombergJanuary 24, 2026
LawAlex Pretti, the 37-year-old man killed by Border Patrol in Minneapolis, was an ICU nurse at veterans hospital and had no criminal record
By Michael Biesecker, Tim Sullivan, Jim Mustian and The Associated PressJanuary 24, 2026
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Sam Altman, chief executive officer of OpenAI Inc., during a media tour of the Stargate AI data center in Abilene, Texas, US, on Tuesday, Sept. 23, 2025.
BankingSam Altman’s OpenAI is coming for Wall Street’s grunt workers as AI continues to transform the entry level
By Nino PaoliOctober 22, 2025
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Economy‘If there’s no bottom rung on the ladder, it’s really hard to leap up’: Nonprofits focused on Gen Z employment get $25m Citi Foundation windfall
By James Pollard and The Associated PressOctober 21, 2025
Salesforce founder and CEO Marc Benioff on stage at the company's Dreamforce conference, pointing with both hands.
AISalesforce revamps Agentforce to try to pull customers across the gap between AI capabilities and AI adoption
By Jeremy KahnOctober 21, 2025
AIInstagram cofounder rips ‘AI FOMO’ that caused a rush to adopt and no metrics: ‘When it gets fuzzy, it’s very hard to then evaluate’
By Marco Quiroz-GutierrezOctober 21, 2025
SuccessBrené Brown warns American workers are not neurologically wired for this level of rapid change and instability: ‘People are not okay’
By Emma BurleighOctober 21, 2025
Sam Altman
AIOpenAI looks to replace the drudgery of junior bankers’ workload
By Omar El Chmouri and BloombergOctober 21, 2025
Toni Townes Whitley
C-SuiteTop defense CEO says non-linear paths can take you to the top: ‘Leapfrogging is one of my core values’
By Jessica CoacciOctober 21, 2025
Walmart
CommentaryChatGPT just became a shopping channel. Walmart is ready, but most retailers aren’t
By Mark SimonOctober 21, 2025
CommentaryTo lead in AI, start smaller
By Geoff Tuff, Steven Goldbach and Megan BuskeyOctober 21, 2025
Jan Hatzius, chief economist at Goldman Sachs
EconomyThis is the worst the jobs market has looked (outside of a recession) in 50 years, says Goldman Sachs, meaning bullish GDP estimates are too optimistic
By Eleanor PringleOctober 21, 2025
Jessica Wu, co-founder and CEO of Sola, at Coins2Day MPW 2025
MPWExperts say the high failure rate in AI adoption isn’t a bug, but a feature: ‘Has anybody ever started to ride a bike on the first try?’
By Dave SmithOctober 21, 2025
Walmart
CommentaryWalmart’s deal with ChatGPT should worry every ecommerce small business: Your website is living on borrowed time in the age of AI
By Fayez MohamoodOctober 20, 2025
Andrej Karpathy
SuccessAs workers fear for AI job cuts, Open AI co-founder says AI agents will take a decade before they even work: ‘They don’t have enough intelligence’
By Jessica CoacciOctober 20, 2025
AIJensen Huang says the future workforce will be a mix of ‘humans and digital humans,’ who could be licensed out or hired—and need onboarding
By Jason MaOctober 20, 2025
AIEmpathy is the most under-hyped factor of the AI transformation era, American Express exec says
By Sydney LakeOctober 20, 2025
Businesswoman working late at night at office.
SuccessIt’s not 40 hours—Gen Zers don’t know how long they need to work in a week and even experts can’t decide
By Emma BurleighOctober 20, 2025
Bianca Miller behind a jet engine
SuccessThis Gen Zer dropped out of college and is making over $100,000 repairing plane engines after 21 months of training 
By Preston ForeOctober 20, 2025
CEOs
CommentaryThe AI bubble debate misses the point: We are just at the light-bulb stage now
By Rob ThomasOctober 19, 2025
Daniel Pelaez
SuccessMeet the Gen Z whiz kids maniacally working ‘996’ hours with AI to help governments repave your roads: ‘I’m sure we got close to burning ourselves out’
By Nick LichtenbergOctober 19, 2025
MagazineCoins2Day Archives: The roots of the crises facing American agriculture
By Indrani SenOctober 19, 2025
Bill Hoogterp portrait
C-SuiteCEO coach to the Coins2Day 500: The best leaders have developed a surprising talent—they know how to be ‘actively’ lazy
By Bill HoogterpOctober 19, 2025
C-SuiteMeghan, Duchess of Sussex, on work-life balance as a CEO: ‘I’m still going to chaperone the first-grade field trip’
By Sydney LakeOctober 19, 2025
farm
Economy‘These are people who are in this country doing hard work that many Americans don’t want to do’: Farmers, schools reel from Trump immigration crackdown
By Paul Wiseman, Gisela Salomon and The Associated PressOctober 18, 2025
Nick Tzitzon
CommentaryPut AI to work for people
By Nick TzitzonOctober 18, 2025
AIUber is paying drivers extra to train its AI models. Here are 3 things you can do to earn more cash
By Dave Lozo and Morning BrewOctober 17, 2025
Gen Z
SuccessGen Z’s yearning for a world before tech ruined everything fuels retro design boom: ‘Nostalgia-driven design choices become comforts that help us cope’
By Kim Cook and The Associated PressOctober 17, 2025
teachers
AIWhy OpenAI, Microsoft and Anthropic are funding millions in teacher training: ‘AI, like it or not, is part of our world’
By Jocelyn Gecker and The Associated PressOctober 17, 2025
A woman smiling and laughing with a coworker
SuccessThe 3 magic phrases that will instantly make you more likable, according to a body language expert
By Dave SmithOctober 17, 2025
Mark Zuckerberg, chief executive officer of Meta Platforms Inc
SuccessMeta is hiring entry-level roles that pay up to $290,000 a year and require little prior experience
By Emma BurleighOctober 17, 2025
AIThis 27-year-old’s TikTok-like AI app makes playful, creative short videos from just a few words—it’s built for Gen Z
By Sharon GoldmanOctober 16, 2025
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