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Former IHOP CEO Julia Stewart
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Ex-Applebee’s exec was told she’d never be CEO—she bought the chain and fired her naysayer: ‘We don’t need two of us, so I’m gonna have to let you go’

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August 22, 2025
Older worker sad at laptop
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A quarter of young Boomers and Gen Xers who’ve been laid off in the last decade are still unemployed—and 11% have taken pay cuts to work

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July 22, 2025
James Gunn at the Superman premiere
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James Gunn said he thought his ‘career was over’ when Disney fired him: ‘I didn’t think I was gonna make another dime in this industry’

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July 21, 2025
Gen Z student doing online interview
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Goldman Sachs wants students to stop using ChatGPT in job interviews with the bank

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June 11, 2025
Demis Hassabis, chief executive officer of Google DeepMind
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Top Google exec says AI will rival humans in just 5 years and predicts we’ll ‘colonize the galaxy’ in 2030—but he draws the line at robot nurses

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June 6, 2025
Mark Zuckerberg, chief executive officer of Meta
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Meta wants to replace its human workers with AI to review privacy and societal risks

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June 2, 2025
Employees are using AI at work but hiding it from their bosses because they think it gives them a ‘secret advantage’ over their peers
Leadership

Employees are using AI at work but hiding it from their bosses because they think it gives them a ‘secret advantage’ over their peers

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May 29, 2025
customers walking into and out of Kohl's store
Retail

Kohl’s shocks investors reporting a not-too-bad quarter even after it fired its CEO just 100 days into the job

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May 29, 2025
Kohl's storefront
Retail

Kohl’s considers replacing headhunter that found the CEO it fired

By Lily Meier, Matthew Boyle and Bloomberg
May 20, 2025
RFK Jr. holding up his hands while appearing at a hearing
Politics

RFK Jr. defends slashing almost a quarter of all staff at the health department: ‘When we consolidate them, Democrats say they’re eliminating them’

By Amanda Seitz and The Associated Press
May 14, 2025
Kohl’s just fired its CEO after only 100 days on the job after striking a ‘highly unusual’ deal with a vendor he had a personal relationship with
Retail

Kohl’s just fired its CEO after only 100 days on the job after striking a ‘highly unusual’ deal with a vendor he had a personal relationship with

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May 1, 2025
FDA reverses course on RTO order after layoffs and resignations threaten basic operations like approving new medicines
Health

FDA reverses course on RTO order after layoffs and resignations threaten basic operations like approving new medicines

By Matthew Perrone and The Associated Press
April 10, 2025
Trump fires NSC officials day after far-right activist Laura Loomer raises concerns about their loyalty in Oval Office meeting
Politics

Trump fires NSC officials day after far-right activist Laura Loomer raises concerns about their loyalty in Oval Office meeting

By Matthew Lee, Aamer Madhani, Zeke Miller and The Associated Press
April 4, 2025
Reid Hoffman speaks in front of a patterned blue background.
Politics

LinkedIn cofounder Reid Hoffman says it’s not the speed of the Trump administration’s changes that pose a danger to U.S., it’s the ‘unwarranted’ risks

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March 24, 2025
Steve Wozniak holding a microphone
Politics

Apple cofounder Steve Wozniak lays into Elon Musk’s ‘mass firings’: ‘I don’t know what got into his head’

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March 6, 2025

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