• President Donald Trump bought a red Tesla Model S in a show of support for Elon Musk in March.
• After an explosive bust-up with the Tesla CEO, he's considering selling it, per a White House official.
• The dramatic disintegration of Trump and Musk's relationship sent Tesla stock plunging on Thursday.

Just under three months ago, President Donald Trump stood next to Elon Musk outside the White House to choose a new Tesla. Following his explosive feud with the Tesla CEO, Trump may be about to ditch his shiny EV too.

A senior White House official confirmed to Business Insider that Trump was considering selling or giving away the red Model S, which has a list price of about $80,000. The Wall Street Journal first reported the news.

Trump picked out the Model S from a lineup of Tesla vehicles during a sales pitch-like event with Musk at the White House in March.

At the time, it was a show of support from Trump to his biggest financial backer, with Tesla stock plunging and the company becoming a target for protests due to Musk's efforts to slash the government workforce at DOGE.

At the event, Trump said he was buying a Tesla because "it's a great product, as good as it gets," and because Musk had "devoted his energy and his life to doing this, and I think he's been treated very unfairly by a very small group of people."

Since then, the relationship between the president and the world's richest person has taken a dramatic turn for the worst.

A high-profile spat began on Thursday with Musk criticising Trump's "big, beautiful" tax bill in a series of posts on X. Trump then called the billionaire "crazy" and suggested that "the easiest way to save money in our budget, billions and billions of dollars, is to terminate Elon's governmental subsidies and contracts."

The feud damaged Tesla's stock price, closing down 14% on Thursday and wiping $138 billion off the company's valuation. Shares staged a recovery on Friday, rising nearly 5% in morning trading and remain down by a fifth this year.

If Trump does decide to sell his Model S, he should probably get a move on. A study by used car site iSeeCars in April found that used Model S prices had dropped more than any other model over the past year, as the resale value of used Teslas continues to slide.

Musk did not immediately respond to a request for comment.

• When our identical twin boys were born, we deliberately treated them as individuals.
• Even their closest friends struggled to tell them apart despite our efforts to differentiate them.
• The twins occasionally used their identical appearance for harmless mischief.

When Charlie and Thomas were born, I jokingly called them "Copy" and "Paste" in the hospital — my first official dad joke. But behind that joke was a genuine concern about how society would perceive them as identical twins.

As parents, we set out to ensure that our boys would be seen for who he was and not lumped together just because they looked the same.

Color-coding became our first identity strategy

While many parents of identical twins dress them alike for the cuteness factor, we deliberately went the opposite direction. From infancy, Charlie was always dressed in green while Thomas wore blue. This simple color-coding system helped friends and family identify which twin they were interacting with.

Most importantly, we wanted the boys to understand that they were individual people who happened to share DNA. However, our color strategy had one unexpected downside. If we ever dressed them outside their assigned colors, chaos ensued, and even people who knew them would become confused.

I even tried dressing Charlie in brown for a while (Charlie Brown), but that experiment was short-lived when he told me that he didn't like the color.

We built identity-affirming habits into everyday life

Our commitment to their individuality extended beyond clothing. We ensured each boy had his own bedroom from age 1, creating personal spaces where they could develop separate interests.

Birthday celebrations were another opportunity to reinforce their separateness. We always sang "Happy Birthday" twice — once for each boy — and made sure each boy joined in singing for his brother. Joint presents were strictly forbidden, even when it would have been more convenient.

Separate classrooms helped them develop different friend groups

When their first year of school approached, we faced our first major decision about their separation.

The school administrators asked if we wanted them in the same classroom, suggesting it might help them settle in more easily. Despite initial hesitation, we requested separate classes, hoping it would help them develop individual friendships and learning experiences.

While it helped their teachers, in the playground, their classmates simply couldn't keep them straight. They became known collectively as "Charlieandthomas" — one word, one entity. And they both learned to respond to either name.

Outside school, their interests initially aligned, particularly in sports, and they did most activities together. I was thrilled when Thomas showed interest in music and began taking ukulele lessons at age eight. Charlie had zero musical inclination, giving Thomas something that was uniquely his.

Their identical appearance became a source of mischief

Despite our efforts to distinguish them, the twins quickly discovered the power of their identical appearance. They executed their first major switch in third grade, trading classes for an entire day. Not a single teacher noticed.

Their prank was only discovered when Charlie, excited at his accomplishment, confided in a friend, who told a teacher. Rather than get angry at their secret stunt, their creativity secretly impressed me.

High school brought natural differentiation

The teenage years finally brought the natural divergence we had hoped for. Thomas gravitated toward math and science courses, while Charlie preferred humanities subjects. During the COVID lockdowns, I grew my hair long and encouraged Thomas to join me. For 18 months, we both sported long locks while Charlie, who hated the idea, kept his short. Looking back at the photos, I think he made the wise choice. This created the most visually distinct period of their lives — people rarely confused them during this time.

Their social circles also began to evolve naturally. Thomas took up basketball, while Charlie joined a gym and developed different fitness interests. This further expanded their worlds beyond their twin bond when they started dating.

During their final year of high school, they couldn't resist one last identity swap. They switched places for their yearbook photos, with Charlie initially planning to make his brother "look stupid forever" by pulling faces. The photographer made him redo the shot, but their switch was still successful — their final yearbook shows their photos reversed, a prank immortalized in print.

The effort to foster individuality paid off

Interestingly, they have never seemed bothered by being confused for each other. They would casually answer to the wrong name without correcting people, sometimes exchanging amused glances that only they understood.

As they started college this year at different schools — their choice — I reflected on our 18-year journey. The color-coding, separate bedrooms, individual birthday celebrations, and encouragement of different interests were all designed to give each boy space to discover who he was as an individual.

The copy-paste twins have become entirely different documents after all — mission accomplished.

• The US recently let another country take control of its bombs for the first time.
• It let Norway take control in flight and steer them toward targets.
• Norway was testing its technology to make networked weapons that can be guided and redirected in the air.

The US Air Force recently allowed another country to take control of American bombs in flight for the first time, with F-15 Strike Eagle pilots passing control of their glide bombs over to Norwegian forces.

The Norwegian Armed Forces announced the successful weapons test last week, describing it as a test of networked weapons, "weapons you can communicate with after they're fired," that delivered a "groundbreaking" result.

"For the first time, the Americans have allowed another country to take control of an American bomb on its way to the target," the armed forces said.

The Norwegians said that two US Air Force F-15E fighter jets flew toward Norway's coast with two American GBU-53/B glide bombs in the exercise, called Jotun Strike.

Using data provided by various sensors, including those on a deployed P-8 maritime patrol aircraft, Norwegian soldiers took control of the bombs when they dropped and used a network to direct them toward targets they had selected. With the data support, the soldiers adjusted the bomb's course.

Chief of the Norwegian Armed Forces' Operational Headquarters, Vice Adm. Rune Andersen, called the result of the test key to Norway maintaining a "technological lead." He added that the test highlighted the "good relationship" between the US and Norway, saying that the test was "based on a high degree of trust and integration between close allies."

Capt. Brett Stell, from the 494th Fighter Squadron, US Air Force, explained that the recent exercise was "a demonstration of what warfighting looks like in the future."

It proved that "a weapon launched from a US platform can be guided by a Norwegian sensor across domains and distances," he said, adding that "this level of integration shows our shared ability to conduct complex, network-enabled engagements-even in contested environments."

The unprecedented exercise was not just about Europe, "it's about homeland defense forward," Stell said.

"Threats to the US can originate beyond the Western Hemisphere, and our forward capabilities in the European theater are essential for early warning, rapid response, and deterrence," he said, explaining that "exercises like Jotun Strike make our collective force more lethal, more integrated, and ready to fight and win together."

A new kind of weapons test

Network-enabled weapons are ones that can be guided and redirected as they fly using communications networks.

The armed forces said that "via a built-in radio transmitter, military personnel can communicate with the weapon after it has been fired, change its course, change the target it is going to attack, and await or abort an attack. All based on updates they receive in real time."

The concept tested last month was developed in Norway with Norwegian industry, the armed forces said. Specifically, the Norwegian Battle Lab & Experimentation had been working on its concept for network weapons since 2019, with a 2025 deadline.

NOBLE is a group in the Norwegian Armed Forces that is affiliated with the operational headquarters and tasked with concept development and experimentation for the military.

Its network weapons concept had only previously been tested in simulations, and Col. Roger Samuelsen, the head of NOBLE, said "this was the big test."

He said that "it was fantastic that this worked."

"It is the first time this weapon has been released in a live version. And it was also the first time someone from the Norwegian Armed Forces tested a live network weapon."

The test took place on May 14 at Andøya, a large island in Norway's northwest.

The system had already been tested in the US against other simulators, Samuelsen said. He said Norway was repeatedly told it was ahead of others on this technology and that he believed that was why the US wanted to provide weapons and planes for this test.

He added that he was "very excited to see if the software we have developed would work as intended, even though we have done all the preparations and tests that were possible in advance."

He said the outcome means Norway "now can both plan, lead, coordinate and carry out an engagement with network weapons."

Network weapons can get real-time data from external sensors, making them more likely to hit their targets. And they can be made to change course after they are fired.

The Norwegian Armed Forces said the network weapons have "increased range and safety" since they don't need to see the target. Instead, they can be launched from further away and controlled, so they "can be fired at a safe distance without the platform supplying the weapon having to expose itself."

It also means the target can be changed depending on what's happening and what the military wants to hit.

The technology is key for Norway, a smaller country that needs to use its resources efficiently and make the most of recent acquisitions like the P-8 and F-35 fighter jets, but there's also interest from allies.

Samuelsen said that people who work in "concept development in NATO have already shown interest in the Norwegian concept." And he said allies are interested in the control software that it has developed with Norwegian software company Teleplan.

"There are not many nations that have this weapon or the technology within reach," the armed forces said.

• As a Costco employee of 19 years, I always look forward to browsing the aisles for new products.
• This June, Costco is carrying lots of great summer-focused items.
• The warehouse also has lots of tasty new food items like crispy beef tacos and a strawberry cake.

Summer is quickly approaching, which means Costco is stocking its aisles with barbecue essentials, delicious treats, and plenty of items to help elevate your outdoor gatherings.

As an employee of 19 years, I always look forward to scanning the shelves for fun new items. Here are nine of the best items I'm seeing this June.

The Oxo coiled grill brushes are great for summer barbecues.

Summer typically means more opportunities for outdoor cooking, which is why I think the Oxo coiled grill brushes are a must-buy for barbecue season.

These stainless steel brushes are dishwasher safe and even come with replacement heads.

I recommend trying this tasty mix between a croissant and a waffle.

If you're looking to spice up your breakfast or snacking routine, I recommend trying the When We Eat butter Croffle. The name says it all — this tasty treat is a mix between a croissant and a waffle.

They're easy to make in the toaster, oven, air fryer, or toaster oven, and can be ready in minutes.

The crispy beef birria tacos look delicious.

This month, Costco's prepared food section is carrying a delicious-looking crispy beef birria taco kit.

Each platter contains eight birria tacos stuffed with cheese and slow-roasted beef. The container also includes Spanish-style rice, a consommé dipping sauce, and limes.

The Ninja Slushi is perfect for making frozen drinks at home.

Nothing screams summer quite like a nice frozen drink. That's why I was drawn to the Ninja Slushi frozen drink maker.

This machine has five settings to make everything from spiked drinks to milkshakes. It even comes with two insulated cups to keep drinks colder even longer.

Get your vitamins and minerals in with the AG1 powder supplements.

The AG1 powder supplement is great for those who don't like taking their vitamins in pill form. Each box has 40 premeasured packages with vitamins, minerals, and probiotics.

To enjoy, all you have to do is add a serving to cold water, a smoothie, or juice.

The Cool retractable screen door is easy to install.

The Cool retractable screen door is perfect for getting some fresh air without letting bugs in the house.

It's easy to install and comes in different heights and finishes to match any home.

Cook an entire meal at once with the Gourmia dual-basket air fryer.

Those who love cooking with an air fryer may want to check out the Gourmia dual-basket option.

This air fryer can cook up to four dishes at once and has eight different cooking functions. Each basket can be controlled with different temperatures and timers, making it easy to cook an entire meal in one shot.

Costco's strawberries and cream cake looks incredible.

This month, the Costco bakery is selling a new strawberries and cream cake that's perfect for summer get-togethers.

This delicious-looking sponge cake is filled with strawberries and topped with sweet whipped cream.

For hours of outdoor fun, check out the Wham-O slip n' slide.

If you have kids, you may want to check out the inflatable Wham-O slip n' slide. This 30-foot slip n' slide inflates in minutes and even has a waterfall.

Costco was not involved in the sourcing or writing of this story. The views contained within represent the author's personal views.

• I tried the cheapest cheeseburgers on the menu at Applebee's, Chili's, and TGI Fridays.
• Each affordable burger was properly cooked and served with plenty of fries.
• The best value was at Chili's, where my burger came with fries, a soft drink, and a starter.

Fast food may still be quick and convenient, but rising prices are making it lose some of its appeal.

On the bright side, the fact that it costs me $10 just to get a burger, fries, and drink at McDonald's is making sit-down chains look extra appealing.

Turns out, I can get that order at several popular casual dining chains like TGI Fridays, Applebee's, and Chili's for about the same price.

So, I visited each of them in search of the cheapest burger-and-fries combo on the menu.

I wanted to see if I could get a good meal at a low price at these chains, and I was pleasantly surprised at all three — but one really stood out.

TGI Fridays' burger was tasty, but my meal wasn't perfect.

A cheeseburger and fries cost me $9.99 at TGI Fridays, though my meal didn't include a soft drink.

My burger was perfectly cooked to my medium-well request and generously topped with lettuce, tomatoes, red onion, pickles, TGI Sauce (sweet and tangy), and cheese.

The veggies were layered under the patty, with the cheese on top, which made the burger easier to eat. I appreciated how well it held together, especially as so many cheeseburgers devolve into knife-and-fork piles.

The meat itself seemed entirely free of gristle, and the patty was a decent size — I'd estimate it was at least ¼ pound of beef, if not a bit more.

My fries came out hot and had a nice crunch, but they were way too salty for me. They only made me wish my meal had come with a refreshing soft drink, but that would have cost extra.

Fortunately, my water was still free and, overall, the meal was certainly well worth its price.

The burger at Applebee's tasted great, but it was a mess to eat.

To get the best deal on a burger meal at Applebee's, I ordered from the chain's Really Big Meal Deal menu.

That menu includes several different burgers and a chicken sandwich priced at $9.99. Each comes with fries and a soft drink, meaning this meal was already a better value than the one I got at TGI Fridays.

I went with the classic cheeseburger, which was a hit. It was cooked just right, with a bit of pink left in the center and a hint of char on the exterior. The lettuce, pickles, and tomato were stacked high, and the tasty, slightly sweet brioche bun seemed fresh.

I appreciated the generous portion of toppings, but they made the patty slide off the bun with each bite. I needed to use a fork and a knife toward the end.

The fries at Applebee's were hot, crunchy, plentiful, and not too salty.

All told, this meal was entirely worth its price, messy burger and all.

My burger at Chili's came with a starter.

The cheapest burger I found at Chili's was on the chain's 3 for Me menu. I could get a burger with fries, a soft drink, and a starter, all for $10.99.

The options for starters include a cup of soup, a house side salad, or chips and salsa. I went with baked-potato soup, which came heavily topped with bacon, cheese, and green onions.

The portion wasn't huge, but as the soup seemed like a total bonus, I didn't mind.

The burger and fries at Chili's were pretty decent, too.

The burger I got at Chili's was pretty bare bones, but at least the patty was large — it was broad and flat, in a "smash" style — and cooked well. Plus, the bun tasted fresh.

However, it felt like the most boring burger I tried, topped with just a tangy sauce, cheese, and a bit of chopped onion. I had expected the usual lettuce, tomato, or pickles (and think they would've paired well with the patty) but I didn't get any.

This wasn't that big of a deal, though, as I was already half sated from my bonus starting course.

The fries at Chili's were thick and had just the right amount of salt. They were pleasantly complemented by my ginger ale (also included with my meal).

All things considered, I'd probably head back to Chili's first.

Each meal cost an extra $2 or so after tipping my servers. Even still, I felt the prices I paid were fair across the board.

In terms of final thoughts, I was bummed my affordable cheeseburger at TGI Fridays didn't come with a soft drink.

At Applebee's, I got a drink, burger, and fries — but at Chili's, my burger was accompanied by fries, a beverage, and a starter, making it far and away the best deal.

Although the Chili's burger wasn't my favorite, it was still good. If it had been more heavily topped, it would've been on par with the ones from Applebee's and TGI Fridays.

Next time, I might just ask for some more toppings —ideally for no added cost.

• Eve Jobs is the youngest child of late Apple cofounder Steve Jobs.
• She is a Stanford University alum, model, and equestrian.
• Jobs has been described as a "funny firecracker" and poked fun at the iPhone 14 in 2022.

Steve Jobs once described his youngest daughter, Eve Jobs, as "a pistol" with "the strongest will of any kid I've ever met."

While she didn't take her talents to Silicon Valley, Eve Jobs has made a name for herself outside the tech world as an equestrian and model.

Here's an overview of her family, career, and connection to her famous father.

DNA Model Management, which represents Jobs, did not immediately respond to a request for comment.

Eve Jobs, the youngest child of Steve Jobs and Laurene Powell-Jobs, was born in 1998.

Jobs, 26, has three older siblings named Reed, Erin, and Lisa.

She was 13 when their father died in October 2011.

In high school, Jobs balanced equestrian sports in Florida with applying to colleges and attending high school in California.

Jobs said her school allowed her to make up for missed classes through Upper Echelon Academy, a tutoring program based in Wellington, Florida.

"It took me a long time to figure out how to balance friends, school, and riding, but through the years I figured out the best way to make it all work is to prioritize what is most important to you," Jobs said in a 2016 interview with Upper Echelon Academy. The interview has since been removed from Upper Echelon Academy's website, but an archived version is still available online.

Jobs graduated from Stanford University in 2021, the same school where her parents met.

Jobs majored in science, technology, and society, Elle reported.

Jobs is an accomplished equestrian who once hoped to compete in the Olympics.

In 2016, Jobs' mother bought a $15 million ranch in Wellington, Florida, where she frequently competed and trained with Missy Clark.

The Daily Mail reported that the ranch included a barn big enough for 20 horses and a show-jumping training rink. Jobs also bought a stallion named Chill RZ in 2016.

Jobs told World of Showjumping in 2020 that competing in the Olympics and the World Equestrian Games "would be a dream." After the Tokyo Olympics were postponed due to COVID-19, she decided to pursue other avenues.

"I had done everything I wanted to achieve in the sport, and I just felt at peace," she told Vanity Fair in 2022.

In May, she returned to the sport to compete in the Royal Windsor Horse Show.

"So grateful to be back jumping at this level," she wrote on Instagram.

Jobs isn't the only famous heiress to take up equestrian sports. Other famous show jumpers include Michael Bloomberg's daughter Georgina, Bill Gates' daughter Jennifer, Bruce Springsteen's daughter Jessica, and Steven Spielberg's daughter Destry.

Jobs now works as a model represented by DNA Model Management.

Jobs made her modeling debut in 2020 in a Glossier ad campaign alongside "Euphoria" star Sydney Sweeney and "RuPaul's Drag Race" finalist Naomi Smalls.

She signed with DNA Model Management in 2022, which also represents stars such as Kaia Gerber and Emily Ratajkowski.

She has also been a regular guest at Paris Fashion Week since 2022.

She makes occasional appearances at red-carpet events such as the Met Gala and the Vanity Fair Oscar Party.

Jobs walked the Met Gala's red carpet in 2022 wearing a Louis Vuitton gown and posed for photos at the Vanity Fair Oscar Party in 2022 and 2023.

She also attended the WSJ Magazine 2023 Innovator Awards and the 2023 TIME100 Gala.

Jobs is reportedly engaged to Harry Charles, a British equestrian who won a gold medal at the Paris Olympics.

Jobs made their relationship Instagram official when she posted photos with Charles during the 2024 Paris Olympics.

Page Six reported that their wedding will be held in August in the Cotswolds in England.

While Jobs has pursued career paths outside tech, she has occasionally weighed in on Apple product launches.

Jobs made headlines in 2022 when she posted a meme poking fun at Apple's iPhone 14 reveal, hinting it wasn't much different than the previous model.

In the biography "Steve Jobs," Walter Isaacson describes Eve Jobs as growing up to become "a strong-willed, funny firecracker" who knew how to take on her famous father.

Isaacson wrote in the 2011 biography that Jobs would even call her father's assistant at work to ensure that she was "put on his calendar."

When it comes to the future, Isaacson wrote that Steve Jobs joked that he could envision her running Apple or becoming president of the United States.

"She's a pistol and has the strongest will of any kid I've ever met," her father told Isaacson.

• Roblox's "Grow A Garden" game is breaking popularity records.
• The game involves buying seeds, planting, and selling virtual crops.
• I tried it — and I can see how you could get ahead quickly if you want to spend real money.

The hottest trend this spring for young people is … gardening. Growing carrots and strawberries, pruning weeds. I'm sorry to inform parents anxious about screentime: This doesn't mean your kids are digging in the dirt outside in the fresh air.

They're probably on Roblox, playing "Grow a Garden," which, as I typed this Thursday, had more than 2.2 million people playing — four times as many as the next most popular game. (A Roblox spokesman told me the game had around 9 million concurrent players at one point over a weekend in late May — a Roblox record.)

I tried the game myself, and I can see how — if you're willing to spend real money on seeds and other garden accoutrement — you can get ahead.

Bloomberg reported there's already a robust secondary market for some of the things you can buy to help grow your garden. Items like seed and livestock have popped up on Discord, some niche sites, and even on eBay, to the tune of millions of dollars of turnover a week, the report said. (Selling items on third-party sites is against Roblox's rules, but it still happens.)

How did 'Grow a Garden' sprout?

"Grow a Garden's" origin story is much like many games on Roblox: A random user — in this case, reportedly a 16-year-old — created the game. The teen has remained anonymous, and I couldn't reach him.

Roblox's user base is 40% under the age of 13, CEO David Baszucki has said recently. Users can create their own games — and by using "Robux," the platform's own virtual currency that players can buy with real money, players and game-builders can make money. (It's roughly one real cent per Robux, though they can be had cheaper with package deals and other promotions.)

According to an interview in a gaming newsletter with well-regarded Roblox developer Janzen "Jandel" Madsen, "Grow a Garden" was initially created by the teen who built it in a few days. Then Madsen acquired part of the game to build it out with a team of developers.

It got even bigger when Do Big Studios, a Florida-based company, also partnered in the game. The exact workout of who owns what isn't clear. Madsen and Do Big Studios didn't respond to my requests for comment.

I played 'Grow a Garden'

In "Grow a Garden," which is free to play, you start by planting some simple seeds (carrot, strawberry), which quickly grow into plants that you can sell. With that money, which comes in the form of the game's virtual currency, the Sheckle, you earn more to buy even more seeds, eggs, animals, and so on.

Curious, I tried it. You start with just enough Sheckles to buy a few carrot seeds, which you can plant in your garden. Compared to my real-world failures in vegetable gardening, the carrots grew satisfyingly quickly, which I then harvested and took to sell at a farm stand, using my Sheckles to buy more seeds for strawberries and more carrots.

I strolled around the world beyond my own garden to look at the gardens of other players, who were milling about, buying seeds and selling crops.

Some players had really elaborate setups, which must've taken days or weeks of play to build up. After not too long, I had about 400 Sheckles. The leaderboard showed I was playing with someone who had 968 million Sheckles. I walked over to see her garden, which was full of lush plants and blocky animals walking around. Her profile showed she had created the account in early May — quite a feat (or a lot of real-world money).

It's possible to "steal" another player's crops — but for that and other things, you have to use real Robux. In general, the gameplay is similar to other games — over time, you do a thing to trade in points for more things, which takes time and patience. And if you're willing to spend real money, you can get ahead much faster (this is not unlike the real world).

So what makes 'Grow a Garden' so compelling?

Justin Watkins, who runs the popular Roblox gaming YouTube channel ThinkNoodles, told me the game's creators obviously knew what they were doing.

"The developers have really optimized everything about the game to maximize its spread in the Roblox algorithm, and also have a deep understanding of what players value in Roblox," he said.

"There's been many games that use different hooks for players, but this game has incorporated almost all of them into a single game," including live events that he said are considered "must-attend" to get "rich" in the virtual world of "Grow a Garden" and "flex on others with cool mutations" in your virtual patch.

How did 'Grow a Garden' get so big?

"Grow A Garden" is undeniably popular. Roblox spokesman Eric Porterfield said it was one of the games that most quickly racked up 1 billion visits in Roblox's history.

Still, some adults in video game forums on Reddit, X, and YouTube have criticized the game as being for "dopamine-addled children," saying it doesn't take a lot of brain power to play. (To be fair, there were plenty of adults who also said they found the game soothing and fun.)

Others said that Do Big Studios' involvement led to a bigger focus on monetizing the game — in-app purchases to get ahead and the like — which they said had put a damper on the game's community. (Again, I couldn't get Do Big to respond to my questions, so I don't know what they have to say about this criticism.)

"Grow A Garden" is still new, having launched in March 2025 — and the kind of momentum and popularity it has doesn't suggest it will fizzle out anytime soon. After playing a few minutes a day for a few days — without spending any of my own money on Robux or Sheckles — I had grown my garden to more than 180,000 Sheckles with tulips, watermelons, tomatoes, and a rare bamboo plant.

Hard to complain about that.

• The US added 139,000 jobs in May, exceeding the expected 126,000.
• Unemployment was 4.2% for the third consecutive month.
• Other reports show businesses are being cautious due to economic uncertainty.

The US added 139,000 jobs in May, more than expected, and the unemployment rate didn't budge.

Economists predicted job growth of 126,000 and for unemployment to remain at 4.2%. This is the third straight month of a 4.2% rate and the 13th straight month at or above 4%.

April's job growth was revised from 177,000 to 147,000, and March's growth was revised from 185,000 to 120,000. That means that there were 95,000 fewer jobs created over those two months than BLS previously reported.

Wage growth continued its consistent year-over-year growth of 3.9% in May. Average hourly earnings increased from $34.89 a year ago to $36.24. Month-over-month wage growth was also slightly better than expected.

Labor force participation cooled from 62.6% in April to 62.4% in May.

Healthcare and leisure and hospitality had high job growth over the month compared to other industries. Employment fell by 8,000 in manufacturing and by 18,000 in professional and business services. There were more cuts to the federal government; employment fell by 22,000 in May, more than the declines in the past few months.

The new data release from the Bureau of Labor Statistics is just one of several recent reports illustrating the much-watched US labor market. The Federal Reserve's Beige Book showed that some businesses are delaying hiring due to economic uncertainty. Separately, the National Federation of Independent Business showed small business optimism has continued to weaken. While insured unemployment claims are still low, they climbed in May.

The back and forth on tariffs, including a 90-day pause with China and higher duties on steel and aluminum, is adding pressure to business decisions. Cuts and deferred resignations within federal government agencies could mean job seekers turn to the private sector or leave the labor force.

"Tariffs, funding cuts, consumer spending, and overall economic pessimism are putting intense pressure on companies' workforces," Andrew Challenger, senior vice president of the outplacement firm Challenger, Gray & Christmas, said in a report before Friday's news release. "Companies are spending less, slowing hiring, and sending layoff notices."

President Donald Trump has argued tariffs will help the US economy, despite some short-term pain for businesses and consumers.

"It shows us that President Trump's economy is working. For the third month now, we've beat job expectations," Deputy Secretary of Labor Keith Sonderling told BI. He said that May's jobs beat showed the administration's focus on "putting the American worker first for jobs" is working. "We're very excited about the numbers and the way President Trump's economy is going."

CME FedWatch showed based on market trades an overwhelming chance the Federal Reserve will decide to hold interest rates steady at the next Federal Open Market Committee meeting in mid-June. Like business owners, the Fed is hoping for more clarity on the evolving economy.

This is a developing story. Please check back for updates.

• I'm married and we want kids, but I'm not starting a family until I complete my travel bucket list.
• We've spent the past 10 years going on trips in between my husband's deployments.
• We hope to be parents someday. For now, we're embracing going on once-in-a-lifetime trips together.

When I got married in 2018, I imagined my husband and I would start our family within a few years. But seven years later, it's still just the two of us and our dogs.

Many friends our age have kids, and we feel the pressure to start a family now that we're in our 30s. However, we've prioritized pursuing career opportunities and travel adventures over settling down.

Over the last decade, we've been eagerly checking off destinations from our bucket list — and I don't regret taking more time to focus on our marriage, careers, and travel dreams together.

For us, having children would mark the end of a chapter filled with freedom, spontaneity, and adventure. That's not a decision we take lightly.

Travel has been a foundational part of our relationship since the very beginning

As a little girl, I fantasized about traveling all over the globe — and when I met my now-husband in college, I was giddy that he shared the same dreams.

Soon, we fell in love with exploring the world together.

He applied for his first passport to meet me in Morocco and England while I studied abroad. Throughout college, we worked summer jobs to save up for a bucket-list cruise to Asia.

A few months later, he proposed on a bridge in Venice during a Mediterranean cruise. Within the first months of marriage, we honeymooned in Italy, experienced the magic of Christmas markets in Prague, and jetted off on a spontaneous weekend trip to Tokyo.

However, our travel plans changed as my husband kicked off his military career less than a year after our wedding.

Although we squeezed in a two-night trip to London during a training break, we couldn't take another trip together for nearly two years.

Then, a pandemic and another military deployment meant we once again had limited time to chip away at our travel bucket list.

As a couple, we've decided to focus on growing our careers and traveling to make up for lost time

Between deployments, we squeezed in as many adventures as possible — and starting a family still wasn't on our radar.

Between trips, I kept busy as my husband spent months away from home. I prioritized my data analytics career, worked on my MBA, and traveled with family and friends to Japan, China, and Austria.

I planned trips to Hawaii, Scotland, the Caribbean, Alaska, and England. I wrote about my travels, and my freelance-writing career began to take off.

Suddenly, I was being paid to go on trips and living a dream I hadn't even imagined. My husband was supportive and relieved that I was making the most of his time away and embracing new opportunities.

After he returned from his second deployment, we took a much-needed getaway to the Canary Islands — a destination that had topped our bucket list since we first met.

As many of our friends began planning for kids, we continued planning trips to Iceland, Norway, Belgium, the Netherlands, and back to the Canaries.

Over the next few years, we have once-in-a-lifetime adventures planned in India, Sri Lanka, Thailand, New Zealand, and Australia.

We hope to start our family once we've crossed the last adventures off our travel bucket list

We still have dreams of traveling the world with kids if we have them, but we know it won't be the same.

For now, we're enjoying the freedom and flexibility of planning trips with just the two of us. Prioritizing ourselves and our quality time has only made our marriage stronger.

This isn't the timeline we envisioned, but I don't regret taking a few years to focus on ourselves and our travels.

I hope our future kids will be proud that we followed our dreams and crossed all the destinations off our bucket list.

• Audio startups are changing how we listen to and discover music.
• A new crop of companies has emerged to help artists and other audio creators build businesses.
• We spoke with six audio-startup founders who shared the pitch decks they used to raise funds.

Innovation in music tech is on the rise.

Startups are building new ways for artists and creators to make and distribute songs and other audio. 

Some companies, including social-entertainment apps like TikTok and YouTube, are making it easier for artists to get discovered. Platforms like Roblox and Discord have added new formats for artists to reach fans. And generative AI tools like Suno have created a tidal wave of new music while raising new questions about artist compensation in the age of AI.

One area of focus among audio startups is finding ways to help artists interact with their most loyal listeners, sometimes called superfans.

Sesh built a platform that lets users add "fan cards" of their favorite artists to their smartphone wallets, for example. Hangout created a group-listening platform that enables music fans to stream songs together.

"Even with a hundred superfans, you're going to be able to make a living instead of needing to do extra jobs for you to be able to pay for your instruments or your music career," Sesh's CEO, Iñigo-Hubertus Bunzl Pelayo, told Business Insider.

Other upstarts are focused on building internal tools for artists and their teams. Offtop built a Dropbox-style platform to help music collaborators share files, for instance. And RealCount offers data analytics for artists on their ticket sales.

Read BI's list of 14 promising music startups

Investors have poured millions of dollars into audio startups over the last few years. The category has drawn funding from institutional firms like SoftBank Ventures Korea and record labels like Sony Music.

BI spoke with six audio-startup founders who've raised money in the past few years about their fundraising process. They each shared the pitch decks they used to win over investors.

Read the pitch decks that helped 6 audio startups raise millions of dollars:

Note: Pitch decks are sorted by investment stage and size of round.

Series A

• Slipstream Music, a music and sounds library for creators: $7.5 million (13 pages)

Seed

• Hangout, a social-listening platform: $8.2 million (26 pages)
• Sesh, a fan-engagement platform: $5 million (13 pages)
• Chartmetric, a music data startup: $2 million (46 pages)
• Supercast, a podcast subscriptions platform: $2 million (20 pages)

Other

• Spoon, a live audio streaming platform: $60 million total (15 pages)

Geoff Weiss, JP Mangalindan, Nhari Djan, and Michael Espinosa previously contributed reporting.

Chartmetric

Chartmetric is a data-and-analytics tool that enables music-industry professionals to track the digital performance of songs.

The company created a platform for customers like record labels and artists to review streaming and social-media data all in one place.

"There is more and more data that artists and record labels measure and that they care about, and the importance of the data changes over time," Chartmetric founder and CEO Sung Cho told Insider.

Read the 46-page pitch deck that the company used to raise $2 million in seed funding

Magroove

Brazil-based Magroove helps independent musicians distribute music on global platforms like Spotify and iTunes, and runs a music-discovery app. 

A prime selling point for artists on the platform is its affordable distribution services. The company is also testing features to help artists earn more, including a digital-store offering. 

"I had my history as trying to make it as a musician, knowing absolutely nothing to now being in the position to help other artists and serve them with things that I didn't have back then," cofounder Vítor Cunha told Insider.

See the 21-page pitch deck Magroove used to raise $1.6 million in seed funding

Slip.stream

Slip.stream built a subscription service for creators that opens up access to a library of royalty-free music and sound effects.

Roughly 40% of its clients are livestreaming gamers, the company told Insider.

The company raised in June a $7.5 million Series A in a round led by Sony Music Entertainment.

"The 'majors' were not our first target – we initially wanted to go the classic VC route," Slip.stream CMO Jesse Korwin told Insider at the time. "We realized that having one of the major music companies as a backer provided a ton of validity and support for our vision."

Read the 13-page pitch deck that Slip.stream used to raise $7.5 million in funding

Spoon Radio

Spoon Radio is a live audio platform founded in South Korea that expanded to the US in late 2019.

The platform's users tune into different audio rooms, similar to the Clubhouse app, where creators host listening sessions. Users can also tip livestreamers with virtual tokens called "spoons."

Read the 15-page pitch deck for Spoon, which has raised more than $59 million in funding

 

Supercast

Supercast built a subscription platform designed specifically for podcast creators.

The company launched in September 2019 and raised $2 million in seed funding from investors like Form Capital and Table Management.

"The world of podcasting is sitting on a goldmine, and they don't even know it," said CEO Jason Sew Hoy. "They've done the hard work of building up the audiences that they may be monetizing by ads. But they have an entirely new additive revenue stream that they can switch on with listeners' subscriptions."

Read the 20-page pitch deck the company used to raise $2 million

Ultimate Playlist

Ultimate Playlist is a music-marketing platform that incentivizes users to listen to and rate songs in exchange for daily cash prizes.

Each day, the company features a new set of 40 songs on the app. Eventually, the company plans to charge rights holders around $200 to $300 for a song to be included.

"There's not a lot out there for this middle-class artist," cofounder Shevy Smith told Insider. "One key component of Ultimate Playlist is that it isn't anchored by superstars."

Read the 9-page pitch deck that the company used to raise $2 million

JP Mangalindan and Michael Espinosa contributed additional reporting. This story was originally published in January 16, 2023.

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Happy Friday! What do you get when you mix Pokémon-like trading cards with K-pop? A collectible that's big business. BI's Cheryl Teh describes the photo trading cards, known as "boy paper," as "a blood sport that's equal parts lottery and enterprise."

In today's big story, the historic relationship between President Donald Trump and Elon Musk dramatically imploded.

What's on deck

Markets: JPMorgan just put its foot down against its new junior bankers hunting for PE jobs.

Tech: At NY Tech Week, the talk of the town was … the town.

Business: Inside a wild three days at the world's biggest bitcoin party.

But first, no love lost.

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The big story

Bad Blood (Trump and Musk's version)

Like a toddler determined to pour their own milk, the Trump-Musk relationship seemed destined to crash. On Thursday, the proverbial glass finally spilled.

President Donald Trump responded to Elon Musk's ongoing attacks on his "Big Beautiful Bill," saying he had a "great relationship" with the billionaire but that, "I don't know if we will anymore."

Trump suggested to reporters that Musk's motivation was self-interest, citing the bill's phase-out of the electric vehicle tax credit that could negatively impact Tesla. The billionaire quickly fired back on X that his focus was the bill fueling the country's growing deficit.

The rest, as they say, is history.

Both men's attacks grew increasingly hostile. Musk, who spent almost $300 million on the 2024 election, took credit for Trump's win. Trump threatened to cancel Musk's government contracts, describing it as the "easiest way to save money in our budget."

Not to be outdone, Musk said SpaceX would decommission its Dragon spacecraft. Five hours later, he appeared to walk back the decision in response to an X user. Musk also went after Trump's tariffs, saying they will cause a recession later this year.

As BI's Peter Kafka pointed out, much of the fight took place between the two combatants' social platforms of choice: X (Musk) and Truth Social (Trump).

Regardless of what's fueling Musk (we had some theories earlier this week), the impact on at least one of his businesses is already clear. Tesla gave back much of the gains accumulated in May. On Thursday alone, the stock fell 14%.

Still, there's no point crying over spilled milk.

Despite the split, both men remain two of the world's most powerful people. Which raises the question: Where do we go from here?

Here are three big questions in the aftermath of the Trump-Musk breakup.

Who gets the "kids" in the divorce? Both men have deep fan bases whose devotion rivals just about anyone's supporters. (Yes, that includes the Swifties and the BeyHive.) But there is also plenty of overlap between Team MAGA and the Elon acolytes. If things remain contentious between the two sides, will fans of both feel forced to pick a side? And if they do, who will come out on top?

Is a reconciliation still on the table? White House aides have scheduled a call on Friday with Musk, Politico reported. Bill Ackman and Ye took to X to urge the duo to end their public feud. As brutal as the attacks have been, both men have traded barbs before. Back in 2022, Trump called Musk a "bullshit artist" while Musk said the then-former president shouldn't run for reelection and instead "hang up his hat & sail into the sunset." Fighting with Trump doesn't mean the person is on the outs forever, though. Just look at Secretary of State Marco Rubio.

What happens to Musk's political allegiance? If Trump and Musk can't mend their relationship, the Tesla CEO could be without a political home. The GOP remains firmly in Trump's grasp, and Democrats seem highly unlikely to welcome Musk into their ranks. (And who's to say Musk would want to join them.) Perhaps sensing his potential future as a political nomad, Musk asked his X followers if it's time for a new party "that actually represents the 80% in the middle." It appears he already has one constituent: Mark Cuban. Here's what other business leaders had to say about the fallout.

3 things in markets

1. JPMorgan's stern warning for junior bankers. Analysts who accept a "future-dated job offer" within their first 18 months of employment will be terminated if discovered, the firm said in a memo sent on Wednesday. It's an escalation of CEO Jamie Dimon's ongoing criticism of private equity's "on-cycle" recruitment process that continues to creep earlier and earlier.

2. Three reasons to bet on Palantir. Shares of Alex Karp's software giant have soared 74% year-to-date, outpacing the broader index and tech stocks to make it the second-best-performing S&P 500 stock of the year. Government deals, AI hype, and retail bullishness have propelled it to new heights.

3. Ken Griffin doesn't get Trump's MO. At the Forbes Iconoclast conference, the Citadel founder and GOP megadonor said he didn't understand why Trump wants to bring manufacturing "jobs that'll never pay much" back to the US. "It's one thing to make Nikes, it's another thing to make F-35 fighters," he said.

3 things in tech

1. Meta's AI-driven hiring plan revealed. The company is planning to automate key parts of its job recruitment process, like testing coding skills and assisting interviewers with question prompts, per an internal document obtained by BI. It'll also use AI to evaluate its human interviewers.

2. Googlers behind NotebookLM launch their own AI startup. Last year, NotebookLM went viral with its AI-generated podcasts. Some of the team have since split from Google to work on Huxe, which released an app that leverages users' data to generate daily audio briefings. BI got a sneak peek.

3. New York Tech Week is NYC's pitch to be the new SF. Startup culture may have found a home in the Bay Area, but AI is picking up steam in the Big Apple. For techies, the city's Tech Week happy hours were a far cry from pulling a coding all-nighter. Spicy marg, anyone?

3 things in business

1. Three days at the world's biggest bitcoin party. Some 35,000 attendees gathered in Las Vegas for the Bitcoin Conference, complete with free Zyn, MAGA pride, and an awkward closing keynote. Here's what it was like.

2. How creators make Patreon their podcasting goldmine. Patreon helps creators turn audiences into paying subscribers, and podcasting is the platform's biggest category. Three creators told BI how they use the platform that makes one of them six figures a month.

3. For top business executives' pay, timing is money. Some corporate leaders could be enriching themselves by timing big, market-moving announcements around their scheduled stock options grant days. BI analyzed more than a decade's worth of executive compensation data and found some eye-opening patterns.

In other news

• Amazon cuts jobs in its Books business, internal email shows.
• Leaked Microsoft org chart shows the team Jay Parikh assembled to lead CoreAI, full of fellow ex-Meta execs.
• Meet the 'reclusive' tech billionaire making an audacious bid to buy TikTok.
• Inside Citadel's most selective intern class ever, from where they go to school to what they study.
• 'We live in a terrarium': Larry Fink on why today's leaders should be 'more guarded.'
• Content karma catches up to Reddit in its fight with Anthropic.
• A top consulting firm rips up its traditional billing playbook for the AI era.
• A US Navy sailor walked BI through what it was like shooting down a small drone with a .50 caliber machine gun.
• Nine cocktails that will be everywhere this summer, according to bartenders and mixologists.

What's happening today

• Bureau of Labor Statistics releases monthly employment report.

The Insider Today team: Dan DeFrancesco, deputy editor and anchor, in New York (on parental leave). Hallam Bullock, senior editor, in London. Grace Lett, editor, in Chicago. Amanda Yen, associate editor, in New York. Lisa Ryan, executive editor, in New York. Lina Batarags, bureau chief, in Singapore. Ella Hopkins, associate editor, in London. Elizabeth Casolo, fellow, in Chicago.

• A Southwest flight from Nashville to Phoenix diverted to Oklahoma.
• A passenger is accused of kicking and spitting at cabin crew after trying to open an exit in midair.
• Jendaya Kashar Brennan was charged with interference with flight crew members and attendants.

A Southwest Airlines passenger was indicted on Tuesday, accused of assaulting a flight attendant, which in turn led to the flight being diverted.

Jendaya Kashar Brennan, 30, also tried to open the plane's emergency exit in midair, says an FBI special agent's affidavit.

The incident occurred on May 22 on Southwest Flight 3239 from Nashville to Phoenix.

Data from Flightradar24 shows how the Boeing 737 diverted to Oklahoma City, around halfway through the typically 3-hour journey.

Crew members told the FBI special agent that Brennan told the flight attendants she wanted to get off the plane.

Brennan, who was sitting in the last row, tried to use the rear exit door, while a flight attendant had to block her, per the affidavit.

It adds that after Brennan continued screaming and ignoring the crew's requests to stop trying to exit the plane, two passengers were asked to help restrain her.

While somebody trying to open a plane's exit in midair would be a frightening situation, it is not possible to actually open the door at altitude. The cabin's pressure is much higher than outside, producing huge forces that keep the doors sealed shut.

The affidavit says that flight attendants started to apply wrist restraints to Brennan while she kicked them in the legs and spat at them.

It also says that Brennan tried to pull one flight attendant by their lanyard, before the crew also applied leg restraints.

"Brennan continued to fight the flight crew and broke her wrist restraints," the affidavit says.

The two passengers, who were retired correctional officers, held down Brennan's hand, per the affidavit.

The captain said he decided to divert the plane to Oklahoma City to prevent the flight attendants or passengers from being injured.

"Brennan continued to actively scream and yell until the flight landed," and local police carried her off the plane, the affidavit says.

Brennan was charged with one count of interference with flight crew members and attendants. If found guilty, she could face up to 20 years in prison and a fine of up to $250,000.

• Aside from a few misses, celebrity fashion has been strong in 2025.
• Stars like Lauren Sánchez and Blake Lively have embraced glamour for dramatic red-carpet moments.
• Billionaire athletes, including LeBron James, have also stood out in designer fashion.

Now that we're halfway through 2025, it's time to reflect on what celebrity fashion has looked like this year.

Aside from a few outfits that missed the mark, most celebrities have stunned at movie premieres, awards shows, and other red-carpet events.

Lauren Sánchez, LeBron James, and Miley Cyrus are just a few of those who have done the latter. Here's a look at their best ensembles and other standouts worn by celebrities this year.

Halle Berry was effortlessly chic at the closing ceremony of the Cannes Film Festival.

She walked the red carpet in a cream-colored lace gown from Dior. It had a mock neckline, puffed short sleeves, and a thin black belt tied into a bow around her waist.

The dress was glamorous on its own, but Berry accessorized to perfection with Chopard diamonds.

Also in France, Lauren Sánchez stunned in black at the Global Gift Gala.

Dolce & Gabbana designed her strapless gown. It was covered in sparkles across its structured bodice and wrapped with a ruched fabric around the hips to enhance its floor-length skirt.

Sánchez also wore an updo hairstyle and a diamond necklace from Messika to complement the statement dress.

Elaine Zhong wore one of the best ball gowns of the year at the "Dossier 137" premiere.

The Elie Saab gown made her one of the best-dressed stars at the 2025 Cannes Film Festival.

It was strapless, with floral appliqués extending across its bodice and the top of its full skirt. Zhong wore the white gown with a thick diamond necklace, a matching bracelet, stud earrings, and a few sparkling rings.

LeBron and Savannah James subtly coordinated their looks for the 2025 Hammer Museum Gala, and it paid off.

The billionaire basketball star arrived at the event in black trousers, $1,690 Louis Vuitton sneakers, and the designer brand's $3,800 Damier jacket in tan, which is now sold out.

Savannah James, on the other hand, wore a dramatic pleated dress from Issey Miyake and $1,795 Giuseppe Zanotti heels with gold snake detailing.

Kylie Jenner and Timothée Chalamet matched in black ensembles at the 2025 David di Donatello Awards.

Jenner posed in a sleeveless Schiaparelli design that featured form-fitting textured fabric, a deeply scooped neckline, and a floor-length skirt.

Chalamet opted for a velvet Tom Ford suit in the same dark shade with a white rose pinned to his jacket.

Not only were the stars' outfits sharp on their own, but they also strongly suited each other.

Blake Lively had her best fashion moment of the year at the Time100 Gala.

She wore a red Zuhair Murad gown and an assortment of jade jewelry. The former had a corseted top with ruched off-the-shoulder sleeves, a form-fitted skirt, and extra fabric attached at the hips.

It was one of the best looks on the Time100 red carpet and one of the strongest outfits Lively has worn throughout her career.

Sergey Brin dazzled with crystals at the Breakthrough Prize ceremony.

As the billionaire cofounder of Google, you might not expect Brin to be overly fashionable.

However, he proved those assumptions wrong with straight-legged trousers, a satin button-down top, and a suit jacket encrusted with pearls, crystals, and beads in leaf patterns.

Miley Cyrus showed just how stylish she is at the 2025 Oscars.

She wore a custom Alexander McQueen gown made from a mix of sparkling fabric and semi-sheer mesh. It also had a halter neckline, a long skirt with a short train, and a row of velvet below her hips.

Her accessories and makeup were arguably even better than the standout dress. She wore lace gloves, a silver watch, diamond earrings, a wavy hairstyle, and bleached eyebrows.

The look was unique and true to Cyrus' style.

Selena Gomez brought the glamour to the EE BAFTA Film Awards.

She arrived on the red carpet in a custom Schiaparelli gown that was impossible to miss. Its top layer was sleeveless, sparkling, and decorated from top to bottom with thick crystals.

The latter piece also had a scooped neckline so deep that it sat below her chest and revealed a black velvet top with off-the-shoulder sleeves.

At the Grammy Awards, Taylor Swift made a fun nod to her 11th studio album and her boyfriend.

She wore a ruby-colored minidress designed by Vivienne Westwood. It had a corset top with a single shoulder strap, fabric that wrapped around her hips to create a miniskirt, and all-over sparkles.

Most fun, though, was her leg chain, which Swift co-designed with Lorraine Schwartz, People reported.

It had multiple rubies in a line that led to a charm of the letter T, seemingly referencing both her boyfriend Travis Kelce and a line Swift sings in her song "Guilty as Sin?" off her 11th studio album, "The Tortured Poets Department."

The song lyric reads: "What if he's written 'mine' on my upper thigh only in my mind?"

No one has pulled off theme dressing quite like Jennifer Lopez this year.

Lopez promoted her film "Kiss of the Spider Woman" at the 2025 Sundance Film Festival, where she wore a dress with spider-inspired details from Valdrin Sahiti.

The long-sleeved design was made from lace and embellished with crystals in the shape of a web. It also had long sleeves, a mock neckline, and a slit in the back of its long skirt.

Shaboozey looked cool and comfortable on the Louis Vuitton carpet at Paris Fashion Week.

He wore a full ensemble from the designer brand that included light-wash blue jeans, a brown tweed coat, and a printed silk scarf over a white T-shirt.

He also wore standout boots seemingly made with cowhide.

Zendaya looked like a princess in January at the 2025 Golden Globes.

She was one of the best-dressed stars of the event thanks to her Louis Vuitton gown.

The strapless design fit Zendaya like a glove, though extra fabric was attached at the back to create the illusion of a full skirt.

She also wore pumps that matched its orange color perfectly, and a statement diamond necklace with an emerald charm.

• FLEETWERX, defense industry partners, and the US military are figuring out how to sustain the Navy.
• A recent event explored how to build and get critical materials to warfighters quickly and cost-effectively.
• The process involves augmented reality, autonomous platforms, and other future warfare technologies.

In a future war, the US military might not be able to rely on traditional supply chains. Instead of flying or sailing in replacement parts, it may be forced to build them on the spot, wherever its forces happen to be — on land, at sea, or on remote islands.

Enter FLEETWERX, a project rethinking how the US military sustains its forces. Backed by DEFENSEWERX and the Naval Postgraduate School, it's working with industry partners and the US military on new ways to test and build critical parts.

The work being done incorporates 3D printing technologies, artificial intelligence, augmented reality, and other emerging tech into solving key problems and overcoming logistics issues.

In early May, FLEETWERX and its partners conducted an event testing how field-ready machines that can make or fix parts anywhere perform under real-world stress.

Take the stainless steel printing process, for example. Stainless steel is a vital material for building and repairing vessels. Having it readily available is key, but the logistics are less than ideal.

"That type of technology traditionally takes a lot of argon gas, so you have these big, giant green bottles that you're trying to transport all over the Pacific Ocean," FLEETWERX's Lt. Col. Michael Radigan with the Marine Corps, told Business Insider.

"It's very expensive, and there are lots of points where you may not be able to get that gas," he said.

A solution was a mobile nitrogen generator, an isolated unit inside of a 10-foot container that could power a steel printer. That removes the logistics challenge.

"I can put it on a ship. I can put in on a forward island," Radigan said. "I can do all of those things and I've cut my logistics train down dramatically."

FLEETWERX's process typically starts at the top, with a commander or leader coming with a problem: a specific part or material is needed, and there are challenges with how to build it or get it where it needs to go. Drawings and plans are quickly made, and then it's 3D-printed in plastic for what's called a form, fit, and function test, basically determining if the product is the right size and will do what it's supposed to do.

Building the technology and making sure that the process is streamlined, is just one aspect of the work being done. The real focus is on understanding how it performs in an actual conflict and gets where it needs to be.

The aim is to deploy these manufacturing machines into the field, where they can produce parts on demand and deliver them using autonomous platforms like drones.

Radigan said that the advantage of using uncrewed systems is that a crewed aircraft isn't wasting time and resources flying parts that could be carried by a drone. The Navy has been experimenting with this concept as part of its BlueWater Maritime Logistics UAS program to reduce the logistics demand on crewed aircraft and pilots.

Radigan compared the idea to Amazon Prime's Phoenix drone delivery system. He said "that's the scale and speed that we need to be focusing on, but in a defense-related application."

At last year's Rim of the Pacific exercise, students from the Navy, Marine Corps, Army, and FLEETWERX researched how additive manufacturing equipment like 3D printing worked at sea and on land.

Submarine repair, and shipbuilding more generally, were important topics at the event. Those industrial bases have seen significant shrinkage in the decades since the Cold War, and goals of revitalizing them have become a top priority for military leaders, industry partners, and the Trump administration. The emphasis isn't just the shipyards, though; there's also the work in the field.

At the May testing event, FLEETWERX, teams from across the military, and five private sector companies were present. Some firms, like Firestorm Labs, are focused on modular autonomous systems. Other companies, like Dynovas, Craitor, and Phillips Federal, brought their manufacturing tools.

Dynovas has a pod that can produce structural parts from metal, composites, or ceramics in under 72 hours, and Craitor has a deployable, man-portable system that can print on the move and in a range of temperatures and climates. Philips Federal has a containerized manufacturing system for building and repairing critical parts quickly.

And another partner, Overmatch, is working on an artificial intelligence adaptive training platform. That speaks to a major core element of this process, Radigan said, which is making sure that service members can learn how to use the machines to build what's needed. That comes from training.

"You may be great in traditional manufacturing," he said, "but I bring you one of these new machines and you're like, 'Well, shoot, where do I begin? I've got the manual here, but how do I get started?'"

Equipped with something like augmented reality goggles, a person could receive clear instructions on what steps to take, buttons to press, and how to use the machine. Largely, digitization of these and other processes is useful for building quickly and with much greater precision.

In a potential wartime environment in the Indo-Pacific region, for example, a service member may need to do repairs on a ship and work with a machine they haven't touched before. That AR aspect helps lighten the load, Radigan added.

The US Department of Defense has recognized over the past few years that it needs to adapt how it builds and gets materials and parts to forward-deployed forces. Part of that comes from concerns that future wars will occur in heavily contested environments, making logistics operations difficult. Recent national defense strategies have also touched on this concept.

In 2021, DoD released its first-ever Additive Manufacturing Strategy, which outlined how 3D printing and other technologies would be implemented into the larger force's workflow, as well as the connections with the industrial base.

There have been widespread concerns in DoD and Washington about whether the US has the supply and logistics chains to maintain its forces and how those need to adapt to the complexities and speed of what future wars might look like.

• Kori Cioca was sexually assaulted during her time in the military.
• She told her daughter, Shea, about the assault when Shea was 14.
• Her daughter, now 17, wants to be an advocate for survivors of sexual assault.

This as-told-to essay is based on a conversation with Kori Cioca, a speaker with Peace Is Loud, an organization that helps survivors and advocates use public platforms to drive policy change, and her daughter, Shea Cioca-McDonald. It has been edited for length and clarity.

This story contains references to sexual assault and suicidal ideation.

When I joined the Coast Guard, I was excited. I loved boot camp — the way the military bearing was squared away, standards were upheld, and professionalism and respect for one another was maintained at all times.

However, when I arrived at my first posting on a small Coast Guard station, everything was drastically different. It was the little things I noticed at first, like how they used first names, not rank, and it felt like the people on board took zero pride in grooming and uniform standards. The culture was toxic; men would openly read pornographic magazines in common spaces, for example.

That culminated in 2005, when I was violently sexually assaulted by one of the men above me in the chain of command.

During the attack, he hit me so hard that he dislocated my jaw — an injury that still causes me pain 20 years later. Since then, I've dealt with immense pain, both physically and emotionally.

Finding out I was pregnant saved my life

Despite all the trauma, I found moments of joy. After leaving the boat station where I was attacked, I moved out of state to Michigan, where I met my husband in the Coast Guard.

We got married on Friday the 13th in 2007. Many people said it was bad luck to get married on a Friday the 13th, but I wasn't scared. Nothing could touch what I'd already been through.

However, despite my love for my husband, I was suicidal. I actively had a plan to overdose on pain medications. At a doctor's visit during the same time, I took a urine test, and I found out I was pregnant.

I couldn't kill my baby. When I heard Shea's heartbeat for the first time in 2007, it was like my heart started beating again, and I came alive. I couldn't fight for myself, but I would fight like hell for her. She truly saved my life.

Telling my daughter about the assault helped her understand me

I gave birth to Shea's brother four years later. As they grew, I knew they could see the lasting impact of my attack. I hadn't told them about it, but it was impossible to hide my visits to pain doctors and therapists. I'm also hyperaware in all situations and dislike crowds.

Once we were in PetSmart, and a dog barked. The unexpected noise made me jump and scream. Shea put her arms around me, and we laughed together, which diffused the tension.

As Shea grew older, she came to recognize that my behaviors — like wariness around men — meant that there had to be more to my story.

When she was 14, I told her about the assault. It came up unexpectedly, on a trip to the gas station. She was old enough to understand the fullness of the situation, and it would help her piece together who I am.

We have a very open, close relationship. It was important to me to be transparent with her. My 13-year-old son, however, still doesn't know about the assault — he's too young right now.

Telling Shea about the assault shaped her life, too

Shea says she was completely heartbroken for me when she heard about the assault.

She understood the shame I carried about it, even though I shouldn't have. She told me that she never wanted me to feel ashamed and didn't want shame to exist between us.

Today, Shea is 17 and entering her senior year of high school. She wants to be an advocate for survivors of sexual assault and is exploring options for how to do that.

Shea is already so good at supporting others. Recently, private pictures of another student were shared around the school, where Shea is a member of the marching band's color guard.

The photos were shared without that student's permission. The girl in the pictures was so remorseful for taking them, but Shea told her, "Don't you dare think this is your fault."

My daughter is becoming the advocate I wish I had

Shea tells me she wants to change how people talk about sexual assault, down to the jokes that people are willing to laugh at. I tell her she has her work cut out for her.

Yet, I'm so proud she's willing to take that work on. Shea has become the person I wish I had in my corner after I was sexually assaulted.

This story came together with support from Peace is Loud, which helps amplify the voices of women and nonbinary activists around the world.

• AI leaders like Elon Musk and Sam Altman have long called for a universal basic income.
• Rapid advances in AI are already causing job losses in various industries.
• David Sacks, Trump's AI and cryptocurrency czar, however, called UBI-style payments a "fantasy."

Americans probably won't be getting a universal basic income as long as President Donald Trump's AI czar has a say in the matter.

David Sacks, the cofounder of Craft Ventures and a member of the so-called "PayPal Mafia," which includes Elon Musk and Peter Thiel, is now a top White House policy advisor for AI.

It's an important role as rapid advances in AI bring about generational changes in how the world lives and works. The technology is already reshaping the job market, as chatbots like ChatGPT begin to do the work of entry-level employees.

Those at the forefront of the AI revolution have long warned about the risk AI poses to jobs, and have called for a universal basic income to soften the blow. A UBI is a government program that distributes no-strings-attached checks to all residents to spend how they please. Numerous cities and states are already experimenting with its humble cousin, a guaranteed basic income, which distributes checks to specific populations in need.

The idea has a long history, and support for these kinds of programs has skyrocketed at the local level in recent years. Any consideration of a basic income at the federal level, however, will likely have to wait. Sacks is not a fan.

The AI czar said on X this week that such government "welfare" is a "fantasy."

"The future of AI has become a Rorschach test where everyone sees what they want. The Left envisions a post-economic order in which people stop working and instead receive government benefits," Sacks wrote. "In other words, everyone on welfare. This is their fantasy; it's not going to happen."

Although reports from recipients who participate in basic income programs are overwhelmingly positive, they have faced political pushback.

Last year, Republicans in Arizona voted to ban basic income programs in the state, and similar opposition efforts have gained traction in Iowa, Texas, and South Dakota. Lawmakers in several states have argued that the checks increase reliance on the government and dissuade recipients from working.

OpenAI CEO Sam Altman helped fund one of the largest basic income studies, which found, in part, that it encouraged recipients to work harder.

Elon Musk, who until recently was the face of Trump's effort to reduce government spending, has said a basic income will likely play a role in future economies as AI continues to rapidly develop.

Sacks' comments came as another prominent AI leader, Google DeepMind CEO Demis Hassabis, called for not just a universal basic income, but a "universal high income" at SXSW in London this week.

When asked about AI's impact on jobs, Hassabis said there would be a "huge amount of change," but that "new, even better" jobs could replace affected positions and boost productivity.

"Beyond that, we may need things like universal high income or some way of distributing all the additional productivity that AI will produce in the economy," Hassabis said.

Representatives for the White House and DeepMind did not respond to a request for comment from Business Insider.

• Jennifer Dulski began her career in the late 90s and worked her way up in Big Tech.
• Adaptability, relationship building, and initiative are key skills that helped her along the way.
• She said soft skills are more important than technical skills for succeeding inside big companies.

This as-told-to essay is based on a transcribed conversation with Jennifer Dulski, the CEO of Rising Team, from the San Francisco Bay Area. The following has been edited for length and clarity.

I've held several leadership positions in Big Tech. I was the director of product management for Google Shopping from 2011 to 2012, and head of groups and community at Facebook in the late 2010s. Now, I run my own leadership coaching software company.

I don't subscribe to the narrative that younger generations lack key skills. As a lecturer at Stanford Graduate School of Business, teaching early-career students about management, I'm always really impressed with my students.

When I consider what it takes for early-career people to succeed inside big companies, I think it's more important to focus on soft skills. The hard skills you might need change so quickly that you can't make a list, but soft skills are the real needle-movers to a career.

Skills like adaptability, relationship-building, and taking initiative helped me in my early career and are essential for young professionals to grow their careers and become good leaders.

Adaptability is important, particularly in Big Tech

My tech career began in 1998 with an internship at Yahoo. I joined full-time in 1999 in the marketing org, where I worked my way up. If I think about what helped me climb the ranks in my career, the first piece was adaptability.

The phrase, "the only constant is change," is a cliché for a reason. Things change so often.

My career started when the internet was nascent. Messaging, mobile, streaming, and now AI have become part of our work and personal lives. I needed to adapt to new market products and what was being asked of me in my role.

In Big Tech, there are constant reorganizations. Macroeconomic changes like tariffs and trade can influence large companies to change their strategies or sometimes lay off employees. To succeed inside these companies, you have to be adaptable.

At one point during my time at Yahoo, I switched roles. Listening to and learning from the people around me was key. I asked to sit in on meetings with other teams so I could understand more about our core audience and adapt quickly to the new role.

There are sister skills to adaptability that can help

One is learning agility. If you can learn quickly, you can adapt faster. AI could change everything about work. The people who are actively trying to learn and use AI will be the most adaptable.

Don't wait until your company says you need to learn AI and offers you training. There's lots of free training available, just go do it. Early on, I taught myself HTML by practicing coding web pages. Learning to speak the language of the engineers I worked with helped me advance in my career.

Another important sister skill is relationship-building. When you get to know your colleagues as human beings, it's much easier to adapt to big changes, because you have a support network within your company.

Relationships can also help as you're climbing the ranks at a company. Early in my tech career, I developed relationships with engineers in my office because I wanted to get to know them. I remember wanting to test a hypothesis and needed a technical colleague to build a process to test it.

When I needed help, I could go to someone I already knew and ask. I was able to show executives what we built together, helping both of us advance our careers.

Take initiative

Sometimes, people early in their careers believe they need permission to do something, like bring up a big idea.

The most successful people in large companies are what I call hand-raisers. They see things that need to be done and think, "How can I help?" These people will often be given more responsibility faster because they take initiative.

Early in my career, a colleague and I had an idea to boost sales between holiday peaks. We pitched the idea to senior leadership, got the green light, and successfully executed the plan. This earned us the right to continue pitching big ideas.

I really encourage people to bring creative ideas or recognize where pain points are and volunteer to help, even in junior roles.

You can learn the hard skills that you need at any given time

I started my career in marketing, and I've worked in commerce, then marketplaces, then social impact, and now I run a SaaS company. To navigate a career like mine that has so many varied elements, focusing on soft skills — the things that aren't specific technical skills — is really important.

I've learned hard skills like reading a balance sheet. I do use this skill as the CEO of a company, but it's not what's helped me advance in my career. It's been a check-the-box skill and not a needle-mover.

Soft skills are those needle-movers. They're more valuable in the long-term and are necessary complements to the hard skills. Right now, AI is a hard skill that I believe people should absolutely be learning. But even if you learn it today, tomorrow there might be something else you need.

Adaptability and the ability to learn quickly are way more important than any given hard skill you will learn.

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• Doctors and scientists are using a blood plasma test to study longevity.
• The test measures proteins and can tell you about your organ health.
• This field of proteomics could one day help detect diseases like cancer before they start.

Should you have that second cup of coffee? How about a little wine with dinner? And, is yogurt really your superfood?

Scientists are getting closer to offering consumers a blood test that could help people make daily decisions about how to eat, drink, and sleep that are more perfectly tailored to their unique biology.

The forthcoming tests could also help shape what are arguably far more important health decisions, assessing whether your brain is aging too fast, if your kidneys are OK, or if that supplement or drug you're taking is actually doing any good.

It's called an organ age test, more officially (and scientifically) known as "proteomics" — and it's the next hot "biological age" marker that researchers are arguing could be better than all the rest.

"If I could just get one clock right now, I'd want to get that clock, and I'd like to see it clinically available in older adults," cardiologist Eric Topol, author of the recent bestseller "Super Agers: An Evidence-Based Approach to Longevity," told Business Insider. Topol said armed with organ age test results, people could become more proactive stewards of their own health, before it's too late.

"When we have all these layers of data, it's a whole new day for preventing the disease," Topol said. "You see the relationship with women's hormones. You see the relationship with food and alcohol. You don't ever get that with genes."

A test like this isn't available to consumers just yet, but it's already being used by researchers at elite universities and high-end longevity clinics. They hope it can become a tool any doctor could use to assess patient health in the next few years.

A startup called Vero, which was spun out of some foundational proteomics research at Stanford University, is hoping to beta test a proteomics product for consumers this year.

"Knowing your oldest organ isn't the point; changing the trajectory is," Vero co-founder and CEO Paul Coletta told a crowd gathered at the Near Future Summit in Malibu, California, last month.

Coletta told Business Insider Vero's not interested in doing "wealthcare." The company plans to make its test available to consumers for around $200 a pop, at scale. Their draw only requires one vial of blood.

Why measuring proteins could be the key to better personalized medicine

The big promise of proteomics is that it could be a more precise real-time tool for tracking important but subtle changes that emerge inside each of us as we age.

Genetic testing can measure how our bodies are built, spotting vulnerabilities in a person's DNA that might predispose them to health issues. Standard clinical measurements like a person's weight, blood pressure, or cholesterol readings are a useful proxy for potential health issues.

Then there are the increasingly popular "biological age" tests available to consumers at home. Most of those look at "epigenetic changes" — how environmental factors affect our gene expression.

Proteomics does something different and new. It measures the product that our bodies make based on all those genetic and environmental inputs: proteins. It offers a live assessment of how your body is running, not just how it's programmed.

If validated in the next few years, these tests could become key in early disease detection and prevention. They could help influence all kinds of medical decisions, from big ones like "What drugs should I take?" to little ones like "How does my body respond to caffeine or alcohol?"

Elite longevity clinics already use proteomics

Some high-end longevity clinics are already forging ahead using proteomics to guide clinical recommendations, albeit cautiously.

Dr. Evelyne Bischof, a longevity physician who treats patients worldwide, said she uses proteomic information to guide some of the lifestyle interventions she recommends to her patients.

She may suggest a more polyphenol-rich diet to someone who seems to have high inflammation and neuroinflammation based on proteomic test results, or may even suggest they do a little more cognitive training, based on what proteomics says about how their brain is aging.

Dr. Andrea Maier, a professor of medicine and functional aging at the National University of Singapore, told BI she uses this measurement all the time in her longevity clinics. For her, it's just a research tool, but if the results of her ongoing studies are decent, she hopes to be able to use it clinically in a few years' time.

"We want to know what kind of 'ageotype' a person is, so what type of aging personality are you, not from a mental perspective, but from a physical perspective," Maier said. "It's really discovery at this moment in time, and at the edge of being clinically meaningful."

"Once we have that validated tool, we will just add it to our routine testing and we can just tick the box and say, 'I also want to know if this person is a cardiac ager, or a brain ager, or a muscle ager' because now we have a sensitive parameter — protein — which can be added," Maier said.

The two big-name proteomics tests are Olink and SOMAscan. For now, their high-end screening costs around $400-$800 per patient.

"I'm losing lots of money at the moment because of proteomics for clinical research!" Maier said.

Proteomics could soon help predict who's most likely to get certain cancers, fast-tracking both prevention and treatment

Top aging researchers at Stanford and Harvard are pushing the field forward, racing to publish more novel insights about the human proteome.

The latest findings from Harvard aging researcher Vadim Gladyshev's lab, published earlier this year, suggest that as we age, each person may even stand to benefit from a slightly different antiaging grocery list.

To research this idea, Gladyshev looked at proteins in the blood of more than 50,000 people in the UK, all participants in the UK Biobank who are being regularly tested and studied to learn more about their long-term health. He tracked their daily habits and self-reported routines like diet, occupation, and prescriptions, comparing those details to how each patient's organs were aging.

He discovered some surprising connections. Yogurt eating, generally speaking, tended to be associated with better intestinal aging but had relatively no benefit to the arteries. White wine drinking, on the other hand, seemed to potentially confer some small benefit to the arteries while wreaking havoc on the gut.

"The main point is that people age in different ways in different organs, and therefore we need to find personalized interventions that would fit that particular person," Gladyshev told BI. "Through measuring proteins, you assess the age of different organs and you say, 'OK, this person is old in this artery.'"

For now, there's too much noise in the data to do more. Dr. Pal Pacher, a senior investigator at the National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism who studies organ aging and injuries, told BI that proteomics is simply not ready for clinical use yet. There's just too much noise in the data.

But he imagines a future where a more sophisticated protein clock could help link up which people may be most vulnerable to diseases like early cancer, kidney disease, and more. (A California-based proteomics company called Seer announced last weekend that it is partnering with Korea University to study whether proteomics can help more quickly diagnose cancer in young people in their 20s and 30s.)

"How beautiful could it be in the future?" Maier said. "Instead of three hours of clinical investigation, I would have a tool which guides me much, much better, with more validity towards interventions."

• Wes Anderson's latest movie, "The Phoenician Scheme," is now playing in theaters.
• The star-studded cast includes Scarlett Johansson, Tom Hanks, and Benicio Del Toro.
• Mia Threapleton, who is Kate Winslet's daughter, also has a lead role.

"The Phoenician Scheme" is the latest Wes Anderson film to be filled with Hollywood's biggest names.

Casting is a key feature of Anderson's movies, alongside his picturesque visuals and whimsical storylines.

The new film, led by Benicio Del Toro, Michael Cera, and Mia Threapleton, follows an arms dealer on a risky mission to salvage his plan to control and exploit a region called Phoenicia before he is assassinated.

The cast is rounded out with multiple big names, such as Scarlett Johansson, Benedict Cumberbatch, and Tom Hanks.

Here's what to know about the cast behind the eccentric costumes.

Benicio Del Toro plays Zsa-Zsa Korda

"The Phoenician Scheme" follows Zsa-zsa Korda, an arms dealer, as he tries to teach his daughter how to run his organization after a near-successful assassination attempt.

Benicio Del Toro, who plays the character, who won an Oscar in 2001 for his supporting role in "Traffic." He previously worked with Anderson on his 2021 movie "The French Dispatch."

Del Toro also appeared in three Marvel movies as the Collector, and starred in "Star Wars: The Last Jedi," "Sicario," and "The Usual Suspects."

Mia Threapleton as Liesl

Liesl, Zsa-Zsa's eldest daughter, was raised in a convent away from her family's criminal enterprise. Although she wants to be a nun, her father wants her to be the heir to his estate, distracting her from her faith.

Mia Threapleton, who plays Liesl, may seem familiar to fans even if they haven't seen her act before. That's because she's Kate Winslet's daughter.

Threapleton made her acting debut at 13 with "A Little Chaos." Before "The Phoenician Scheme," her biggest role was playing Honoria Marable in the AppleTV+ series "The Buccaneers."

Michael Cera plays Bjorn

Bjorn joins Zsa-zsa and Liesl on their adventure as Zsa-zsa's personal tutor about insects.

He is played by Michael Cera, who is best known for his roles in films such as "Barbie," "Scott Pilgrim vs. the World," "Juno" and "Superbad."

Steve Park plays the pilot

Early in the film, Steve Park appears as a pilot for Zsa-zsa.

This is the third Anderson film Park has appeared after starring in "The French Dispatch" and "Asteroid City." Park has also starred in "Death of a Unicorn," "Mickey 17," "Do the Right Thing," and "Fargo."

Rupert Friend plays Excalibur

Excalibur leads the shady consortium attempting to sabotage Zsa-zsa's organization in the movie.

Rupert Friend, who plays Excalibur, starred in Anderson's 2021 movie "The French Dispatch" and his 2024 short films "The Swan" and "The Rat Catcher."

Friend also played Mr Wickham in the 2005 version of "Pride & Prejudice," and starred in the "Obi-Wan Kenobi" and "Anatomy of a Scandal" series.

Riz Ahmed plays Prince Farouk

Riz Ahmed stars as Prince Farouk, the son of the King of Lower Western Independent Phoenicia, who has partnered with Zsa-zsa to build a tunnel across the region.

This is Ahmed's first Wes Anderson movie, but he has starred in "Rogue One: A Star Wars Story," "Venom," and "Sound of Metal."

Tom Hanks plays Leland

Leland is part of the Sacramento Consortium, which is in business with Zsa-Zsa and Prince Farouk to build the tunnel.

Beloved American actor Tom Hanks plays Leland. Hanks starred in Anderson's 2023 movie "Asteroid City," but is better known for his older roles like "Forrest Gump," "Cast Away," and "Big."

Bryan Cranston plays Reagan

Reagan is Leland's brother, also part of the Sacramento Consortium.

Bryan Cranston, who plays Reagan, has starred in two of Anderson's movies — "Asteroid City and "Isle of Dogs." Cranston is best known for starring in the TV drama "Breaking Bad" and "Malcolm in the Middle."

Mathieu Amalric plays Marseille Bob

Marseille Bob is a French nightclub owner and leader of the Savarin-Montrachet Gang. He is also part of Zsa-zsa's Phoenician business scheme.

Mathieu Amalric, who starred in Anderson's "Isle of Dogs" and "The Grand Budapest Hotel," plays Marseille Bob. Amalric has also played a Bond villain, Dominic Greene, in 2008's "Quantum of Solace."

Richard Ayoade plays Sergio

Sergio is the leader of the Intercontinental Radical Freedom Militia Corp jungle unit, which attacks Marseille Bob's nightclub in the movie.

Richard Ayoade, a British comedian, plays Sergio after starring in two of Anderson's short films, "The Wonderful Story of Henry Sugar" and "The Rat Catcher." Ayoade mainly has voice acting roles, but has appeared on-screen in the sitcom "The IT Crowd" and "Paddington 2."

Jeffrey Wright plays Marty

Marty is a shipping magnate and the leader of the Newark Syndicate gang. He is also in cahoots with Zsa-zsa.

Jeffrey Wright plays Marty, making "The Phoenician Scheme" his third Anderson movie. He also starred in "Asteroid City" and "The French Dispatch."

Wright has also starred in "American Fiction," "The Batman," "Quantum of Solace," and three "Hunger Games" movies.

Scarlett Johansson plays Hilda Sussman-Korda

Hilda Sussman-Korda is Zsa-zsa's second cousin and has an intimate relationship with him. She is also part of Zsa-zsa's business scheme because she is constructing a trans-basin hydroelectric embankment within her private utopian outpost in Phoenicia.

Scarlett Johansson, who is best known for her roles in Marvel movies, "Her" and "Lost in Translation," plays Hilda. Johansson has worked with Anderson twice before, starring in "Asteroid City" and "Isle of Dogs."

Benedict Cumberbatch plays Uncle Nubar

Benedict Cumberbatch plays Zsa-zsa's brother, Uncle Nubar. Though Uncle Nubar is part of Zsa-zsa's business plan, the brothers often oppose each other.

Benedict Cumberbatch, another Marvel star, plays Uncle Nubar. He starred in Anderson's 2024 short films "The Wonderful Story of Henry Sugar" and "Poison." Cumberbatch is also known for his roles in "Star Trek: Into Darkness," "The Imitation Game," and the "Sherlock" TV series.

F. Murray Abraham, Willem Dafoe, Bill Murray, Hope Davis have small cameos in the movie

Though they do not appear in the film's trailers, F. Murray Abraham, Willem Dafoe, and Bill Murray all have cameos in hallucination scenes.

Abraham, who cameos as a prophet, has starred in Anderson's 2014 movie "The Grand Budapest Hotel," "Amadeus" and HBO drama "The White Lotus."

Dafoe has brief appearance as a knave and has appeared in 4 of Anderson's films since starring in 2004's "The Life Aquatic with Steve Zissou." Dafoe has also starred in four "Spider-Man" movies, "Aquaman," "Poor Things," and "Nosferatu."

Murray makes a cameo as god and has made appearances in 10 of Anderson's films, skipping only "Bottle Rocket" and "Asteroid City." Murray is best known for starring in "Lost in Translation," "Groundhog Day" and the "Ghostbusters" movies.

Hope Davis, who makes a small appearance in the trailers, plays Mother Superior in the movie, Liesl's superior in her convent. She also appeared in Anderson's last feature "Asteroid City," "Captain America: Civil War" and the "Succession" TV series.

• TikTok users are claiming ties to industry giants in viral "holy airball" trend.
• Many videos are satirical, with users joking about their family's role in major companies.
• TikTokers touted ties to brands like ELF and Folgers, though BI couldn't verify some of the claims.

Descendants of wealthy families — or so they say — are flexing their lineage for millions of views.

A slew of TikTok videos of people shouting out their family's involvement in industry giants have gone viral. This trend, known as the "holy airball," is set to rapper Jeezy's "Soul Survivor."

"Told her my dad runs a makeup company," Dhruv Amin, the son of ELF Cosmetics CEO Tarang Amin, posted on TikTok, in one example.

"She said, 'Oh like a boutique,'" the next slide read. Then the reveal, captioned: "HOLY AIRBALL."

Some commenters immediately recognized the satirical videos as jokes, while others lamented over their wealthy status or called them a "nepo baby."

"I'm afraid you win this trend," one commenter wrote under Amin's TikTok. Amin's father just closed a $1 billion deal with Hailey Bieber to acquire the beauty brand Rhode. ELF confirmed Amin's identity to Business Insider.

Amin's post was a stunt to bring attention to his artificial intelligence startup, Create.

Many of the other posts appear to be jokes. A TikToker with the last name Khan said her dad owns the study platform Khan Academy, though the company said it couldn't verify that claim, and her name doesn't match the one it has on file for founder Sal Khan's child.

Dan Folger, a photographer, posted that his family was involved in the coffee business. Folger (the man) told BI that he has no connection to the Folgers coffee brand.

Like other videos that follow the trend, Folger's starts with, "I told her my family was in the coffee business."

On the next slide: "She replied 'aw like a little coffee shop?'"

Then, he completes the trend with a photo of a Folgers factory and #holyfuckingairball — a basketball reference for when a shot widely misses the net. As of Thursday morning, Folger's video had 5.4 million views.

Some TikTok users included photos to show their relationships with high-powered CEOs. James C. Fish is the CEO of Waste Management, which reported $22 billion in revenue for 2024. A woman with the last name Fish posted photos with him in a now-deleted TikTok video.

Others claimed connections to General Mills-owned food brand Annie's Homegrown and the Bellagio Hotel & Casino in Las Vegas.

BI contacted Annie's, Bellagio owner MGM Resorts, and Waste Management to confirm these users' identities and did not receive a response.