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Matthew Perry joins a heavenly chorus of pop stars—including Michael Jackson, Freddie Mercury and Whitney Houston—as the greatest earners in the great beyond. Here are 2024’s highest-earning dead celebrities: https://lnkd.in/eutRAZAp

The campaign and political committees of billionaire presidential candidate Donald Trump have paid his businesses millions for air travel, lodging, catering and more. Read more: https://lnkd.in/e3Bm26KN

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The third American Opportunity Index ranks the top 100 employers by advancement opportunities, using a database of career histories that represents 40% of the U.S. workforce. The top 10 include W.W. Grainger, Costco Wholesale, Capital One Financial and Meta Platforms.

Professionals across Asia-Pacific (APAC) are navigating an era of profound transformation, with AI projected to reshape 70% of job skills by 2030. Sponsored by LinkedIn

Steve Forbes blasts the FEC's Consolidated Audit Trail, a new database that will track every single stock transaction made each day, which he calls the "one of the most egregious violations of privacy ever." #WhatsAhead

The researchers behind Gray Swan AI started the company after finding a major vulnerability in models from OpenAI, Anthropic, Google and Meta. Now, they build products that help safeguard them.

Francine Katsoudas, Executive Vice President and Chief People, Policy & Purpose Officer at Cisco, joined Forbes to celebrate the 2024 50 over 50 listees, which included groundbreaking women who understand that age and experience can be the best tools for success—and that, ultimately, there is no deadline for becoming who you are meant to be. Presented by Cisco

“Dying,” the pop culture critic Chuck Klosterman once wrote, “is the only thing that guarantees a rock star will have a legacy that stretches beyond temporary relevance.” It also still pays well. In 2024, several music greats—including Michael Jackson, Freddie Mercury, Bob Marley and Whitney Houston—are once again topping the charts of the highest-paid dead celebrities. Music catalog income and estate deals remain the top income generators for deceased recording artists. But it’s not all musicians who are earning the big bucks in the great beyond. The late Friends star Matthew Perry became the rare television actor to ever make the list. Here are 2024’s highest-earning dead celebrities: https://trib.al/nBor90y

Meet Emma, Germany’s new tourism ambassador. She’s young. She’s beautiful. She’s a polyglot who speaks 20 languages, including English in a posh British accent. She’s on Instagram. And she really loves to travel around her homeland. What she isn’t is real. Debuted on Thursday in a video by the Germany National Tourist Board, Emma is an AI-generated avatar billed as an “innovative, interactive brand ambassador” created to convince travelers to visit Germany. Read more: https://trib.al/SwEOLGu