• Employees have found a bold new way to cheat their way to the top.
• For some lucky boomers, now is the golden age of retirement.
• The big winners of the AI boom are the most boring companies imaginable.
• Bobby Jain’s monster hedge fund is live. Here’s everyone Jain Global has hired.

That’s the story of a critical 10-day period in the US presidential race, which kicked off with Biden’s historically bad debate performance.

Biden’s poor performance led to a Democrat freak out and growing calls for Biden to step aside. In a sign of the public mood, BI’s list of the Democrats who could replace Biden saw a sudden and dramatic spike in readership shortly after the debate.

In the days since, there have been excuses, new Biden flubs, and fresh calls from donors and House Democrats for Biden to step down. Republican rival Donald Trump has been posting furiously on social media throughout.

Biden remains defiant. In a Friday interview with ABC’s George Stephanopoulos, he dismissed his low approval rating and questioned polling data that shows Trump is growing his lead in the race.

Crucially, Biden said that only God could get him to drop out, and that he’d be OK with losing to Trump “as long as I give it my all.”

Neither sentiment is likely to satisfy the many Democrats who have serious concerns about Biden’s mental acuity and electability.

Across the globe, employees are secretly outsourcing parts or all of their jobs, creating a clandestine world of “shadow stand-ins.”

The workers secretly outsourcing their jobs.

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• It’s suddenly a whole lot harder to get a promotion

Three boomers who spoke with Business Insider are a bright spot in an increasingly grim retirement landscape: They’re benefiting from now-rare pensions, real estate value increases, and stock-market gains.

How they’re winning retirement.

The key is data centers, which will only become more important as AI goes mainstream. And these under-the-radar stocks are already outperforming.

The boring champs of AI.

BI has been keeping tabs on the fund’s hires, and has a running list of 135-plus new employees, including names, job titles, and past employers.

See our list of new hires.

Also read:

• Jain Global, the most anticipated new hedge fund in years, is about to make its debut. An architect of the manager explains how it will be different.

“I didn’t want to be a rich kid who used connections to get everything.”

• “Hawk Tuah Girl” has our attention. Next, she would like our money.
• Google’s ambitious plan to replace tracking cookies is crumbling.
• New data shows YouTube is really good at getting kids to buy stuff.
• Jeff Bezos is once again cashing out billions in Amazon shares.
• Women’s sports merchandise is a $4 billion industry. Who’s going to step up to the plate?
• The VC that predicted a “mass extinction event for startups” says it’s time for a “Great Reawakening.”
• Google is testing facial-recognition security at one of its campuses.

Matt Turner, deputy editor-in-chief, in New York. Jordan Parker Erb, editor, in New York. Dan DeFrancesco, deputy editor and anchor, in New York City. Lisa Ryan, executive editor, in New York. Amanda Yen, fellow, in New York.

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