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• A suspect in the White House Correspondents’ Dinner shooting is in custody.
• Photos of the suspect posted by Trump appear to match those on the LinkedIn profile for Cole Allen.
• Allen is a Caltech graduate, an indie video game developer, and a teacher, according to the profile.

Photos of the White House Correspondents’ Dinner shooter posted online by President Donald Trump on Saturday night appear to match the LinkedIn profile of Cole Allen.

Multiple outlets, including the Associated Press, have reported that Allen is the suspect now in custody. Business Insider was not able to independently confirm the suspect’s identity. Authorities have not yet publicly identified the suspect by name.

Trump told Fox News on Sunday that the suspect left a “manifesto” that called for the targeting of Trump administration officials.

Here’s what we know so far.

Allen, 31, is a resident of Torrance, California. Police conducted a raid on a home in Torrance overnight. Allen describes himself on his LinkedIn as a “mechanical engineer and computer scientist by degree, independent game developer by experience, teacher by birth.”

His current job is listed as part-time teacher at C2 Education, which provides “personalized support designed to improve test scores, strengthen academic skills, and help students reach their full potential.”

Allen has been in the role for six years, according to his LinkedIn profile, while also independently designing and building video games, including one he calls “Bohrdom.” Allen described the game online as “a skill-based, non-violent asymmetrical fighting game loosely derived from a chemistry model that is itself loosely based on reality.”

He graduated from the California Institute of Technology in 2017 with a degree in mechanical engineering. He then earned his master’s in computer science from California State University, Dominguez Hills in 2025, according to his LinkedIn profile. He also held a summer student fellowship at NASA in 2014, where he worked at the agency’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory.

Jeffrey Carroll, the interim chief of the Metropolitan Police Department in Washington, DC, said during a press conference after the shooting on Saturday night that Allen was armed with a shotgun, handgun, and knives when he tried to bypass a security checkpoint at the event.

In a video Trump posted to his TruthSocial account, the shooter can be seen running at full speed past security officers.

Acting Attorney General Todd Blanche told Margaret Brennan on CBS’s “Face the Nation” on Sunday morning that the shooter traveled from Los Angeles to Chicago to DC by train. Blanche also said that the shooter was not cooperating with law enforcement.

Jeanine Pirro, the US Attorney for the District of Columbia, said the defendant has been charged with two counts of using a firearm during a crime of violence and one count of assault on a law enforcement officer using a dangerous weapon. He will be arraigned on Monday.

• My husband and I remodeled our 600-square-foot kitchen into an open-concept space.
• We took down walls, added windows, and replaced the cabinets to make the room feel lighter.
• After the three-month renovation, I filled the room with bright, coastal-inspired decor.

Shortly after my husband and I returned from our honeymoon, we moved from a New York City apartment to a three-bedroom, two-bathroom house we bought in Greenwich, Connecticut.

It wasn’t a turnkey property — the white picket fence and bountiful rose garden I’d always envisioned were nowhere to be found — but it had potential.

The kitchen, in particular, needed extensive work.

Rather than writing off its harvest-gold linoleum floors, Formica countertops, and brown cabinets that looked straight out of the ’80s, we viewed the dated interior as an opportunity for improvement.

So my husband and I rolled up our sleeves and renovated the kitchen, ultimately transforming it into a bright, coastal-inspired room at the center of our home.

We designed the room and completed the demolition, insulation, drywall, and trim ourselves (with some help from my dad) and hired a kitchen designer to install new cabinets and a countertop.

It was our first renovation project, so we felt extremely excited and accomplished when we finished and admired the results.

Our goal was to turn the dated kitchen into an open-concept, multipurpose room.

As we designed the space, we knew we didn’t want it to have a traditional kitchen feel.

Our goal was to put together a warm, inviting room with an open floor plan where we could seamlessly cook, eat, relax, and entertain.

Because the front door opens directly into the room, it sets the tone for the home as soon as we walk in. Every detail mattered, and we had to carefully balance both aesthetics and functionality.

Before starting the renovation, we decided on our priorities.

To get an idea of how much we’d spend during the renovation, we listed all of our desired changes, from our must-have appliances to our wish list of finishing touches.

Our sights were set on a white cast-iron farmhouse sink, a high-end refrigerator, a custom farm table, and the quietest dishwasher we could find.

Of course, the project required more than just filling up our shopping cart. To create the open floor plan we designed, we had to take down several walls, including one that was load-bearing. We also added new windows and glass farmhouse doors to bring more natural sunlight into the space.

Other major expenses to plan for included electrical work, plumbing, insulation, drywall, flooring, kitchen cabinetry, hardware, countertops, a stove, and eventually new furniture.

Making so many decisions at once felt overwhelming, but we were determined to keep our three-month timeline on track and stick to our budget.

The cabinets were the centerpiece of the room.

We removed the dated brown cabinets from the studs and swapped them out for bright white, Shaker-style ones with honey-bronze hardware.

Before we even made it to this step, I’d already planned to showcase my favorite Anthropologie plates and glasses inside a few glass cabinets.

When it came time to furnish and decorate, we chose multifunctional pieces with a coastal-cottage aesthetic.

Although construction took three months, we needed a bit more time to get the space ready for guests.

The room is only about 600 square feet, so we had to be intentional with the space if we wanted it to look clean and uncluttered.

On the wall opposite the cabinets, we installed an arched glass buffet. It provides plenty of storage and doubles as a surface for serving guests.

The furniture we selected is all light in color and extremely practical.

Instead of a traditional island, we opted for a custom farm table in a natural beachy wood finish that could serve as a dining surface and prep area. On top of it sits an oversized charcuterie board, a practical and aesthetically pleasing piece.

We removed the wood-burning fireplace and opted for a modern gas unit, complete with driftwood logs. We styled the area in front with shiplap and white marble tiles.

For seating, we decided on a cozy sectional, statement chair, and plush ottoman that doubles as a coffee table.

The finishing touches really brought our vision to life.

The wide farmhouse-style trim throughout the space and around the windows ties the aesthetic together.

I also always have fresh flowers from my garden in a vase and beach-themed candles on my arched cabinet buffet.

Once one of our least favorite rooms in the house, the kitchen is now the space of our dreams.

Our charming, quaint main room is everything I hoped it would be. I spend every day in our open-concept kitchen and wouldn’t have it any other way.

It serves as both my workspace and a calming oasis. I now have a space where I can be productive, experiment with new recipes, entertain family and friends, or simply relax in front of the fireplace.

Whether I’m coming home from a trip or a day of errands, I breathe a sigh of relief the moment I step inside the front door. Enjoying my morning espresso in the sunlight pouring through the windows gives me pure joy.

The results are worth every penny we spent and each hour of our hard work.

• AI startups are increasingly relying on consultants to distribute their technology to companies.
• Working with AI startups has become a key survival tactic for consulting firms.
• The result: partnerships galore.

Things are getting serious.

For consulting firms, partnering with AI startups has become a key survival tactic as the technology upends everything about their industry. And for AI startups, consulting firms have become an important channel for distributing their products to companies.

This blossoming love affair between the two industries was apparent in a flurry of recent dalliances.

Google announced Wednesday it was launching a $750 million fund to help consulting firms like McKinsey, Accenture, and Deloitte roll out agentic AI to their clients.

McKinsey and Google have also created a new working group to help companies go from identifying AI opportunities to building and scaling them across the business.

Also on Wednesday, The Wall Street Journal reported that OpenAI was working with consulting firms like Accenture, Capgemini, and PwC to sell its AI coding assistant, Codex, to companies.

The rationale is simple: AI technology is moving so fast that Silicon Valley and the consulting industry need each other.

Ben Ellencweig, a senior partner at McKinsey who leads alliances, acquisitions, and partnerships for its AI arm, Quantum Black, told Business Insider in an interview that the firm has quadrupled its ecosystem of tech partners since the launch of ChatGPT.

He added that the depth of the firm’s relationships and the level of collaboration have “grown dramatically” in the past few years.

He said McKinsey operates an “ecosystem of alliances and acquisitions” with hundreds of contributors, including key players such as AWS, Amazon, Nvidia, and OpenAI, that it leverages to tailor solutions for clients.

Amid the deluge of new products and AI startups, Ellencweig said the firm still adheres to a rigorous vetting process. “There’s a bit of a dating period that we get to know each other,” he said. “Partnering means a two-way street.”

Given the pace of the AI boom, however, he said the firm is more willing these days to team up with smaller companies.

Former McKinsey consultants told Business Insider that these alliances also fill the talent gap needed to marry the raw models coming out of AI labs with the needs of corporate clients.

These consultants said their role is to bring these models to the enterprise level — customizing them with data, adding appropriate guardrails, and helping clients implement them in specific contexts. Many of the models fresh out of Silicon Valley simply aren’t enterprise-ready, consultants said.

McKinsey says about 40% of its work now comes from generative AI-related projects. BCG said 20% of its work was AI-related in 2024.

Andy Triedman, a partner at Theory Ventures, an early-stage venture capital firm focused on data and AI, told Business Insider that tech startups have long relied on consulting firms to help sell their products to enterprise clients, but are now partnering much earlier as pressure builds to adapt to AI.

Before ChatGPT, he said, partnerships typically happened once startups reached $10 million or more in revenue — about two to four years in. Now, they’re forming at the $2 million to $5 million mark, when companies are only 12 to 18 months old.

Triedman, a former Bain consultant, said the AI ecosystem around consulting firms falls into three main buckets: enterprise software startups that partner with consultants to distribute and implement their products, AI-native consulting firms that compete with traditional players, and smaller AI tools that automate core consulting work, which could become acquisition targets for bigger consulting firms.

“It’s a mutually beneficial relationship between the two,” Triedman said.

• My fourth-grade son was the only one in his class without a Nintendo Switch.
• My husband and I bought him one and set firm boundaries, but still regretted it.
• I noticed a shift in my son’s priorities to always want to be online.

My 10-year-old son Ezra was the only one in his fourth-grade class without a Nintendo Switch. His teacher had a policy allowing students to pull out their electronics at the end of the day, so Ezra often felt left out when his friends played.

This led to relentless begging. Some of Ezra’s classmates even offered to donate to a fund to help him get one.

I was a firm no. I’m not big on electronics and wasn’t going to give in to the peer pressure — and I certainly wasn’t going to let other kids buy him one.

But when my husband became a full-time teacher at a new school, I wanted Ezra to transfer there in the fifth-grade so they could be together. The dilemma was that Ezra loved his current educational environment. He didn’t want to leave his friends and the school where he felt comfortable and made memories.

So, I struck a deal with him — a “Switch for a switch.”

I regretted it almost immediately, especially after spending around $300 on the hand-held console. In the end, my husband and I let him stay at his current school for one more year instead, and rebranded the Switch as a combined Christmas and birthday gift.

We set boundaries, but still noticed a shift

My husband and I monitored what Ezra played, sticking to age ratings and avoiding shooter games. We turned on parental controls so that the device would shut off after an hour.

Even with that limit, Ezra seemed to fixate on and feel entitled to that time every day.

“When am I going to get my screen time?” he’d ask, melting down on days it didn’t happen.

Road trips were less sweet, too, since he didn’t even look up and out the window. “Yeah, cool,” he’d say, eyes glued to his screen.

I started to notice that ordinary life no longer excited him the same way. He showed less interest in being outdoors or exploring. More often, he just wanted to sink into his beanbag chair and tune out.

He realized on his own how much time he was spending with it

One day, I caught him playing a game instead of doing his homework, and I took the device away. He didn’t ask for it back. Weeks turned into months.

Then, when he was almost 12, he came to me and told me he had played games that his dad and I didn’t want him to access, followed by an apology. It’s been over a year and a half now, and Ezra hasn’t asked for his device back.

When I inquired why, he said, “I gave it up mostly because I subconsciously knew that my life started revolving around it.”

He spends his time differently

Now, he plays guitar and piano, draws, bikes, and skateboards with the kids in the neighborhood. Last week, he decided to take up pickleball.

“I have more time to do stuff. More creativity and a longer attention span,” he told me. ” I get less frustrated when trying new things.”

Most research suggests that kids do OK with about an hour of screen time a day. Ezra still gets that — usually by watching TV with his siblings. But now that screen time feels more intentional. It’s family time, something shared, rather than something that pulls him away.

We didn’t force him to give up his Switch

The fact that Ezra chose to give up his device might say something about maturity and maybe the values we’ve tried to model. We’ve talked openly about how screens can create quick, addictive hits of dopamine, and he says knowing that did influence his decision.

If I could go back, I don’t know if I would’ve bought a Switch for him in the first place. But if I hadn’t, would he always wonder what it was like? Would he have felt resentful?

Parenting is full of calls like this that you can’t fully predict and never feel entirely sure about. But I do know I’m proud of my kid for making the decision to better himself on his own.

• Sam Altman apologized to a community in Canada after a mass shooting by a banned ChatGPT user.
• The OpenAI CEO said he is “deeply sorry” his company didn’t alert police to the shooter’s activity.
• He promised to “help ensure something like this never happens again.”

OpenAI boss Sam Altman has apologized to a Canadian community for failing to alert authorities about a banned ChatGPT account linked to a teenager who went on to commit a mass shooting.

Jesse Van Rootselaar, who died from a self-inflicted gunshot wound during the attack in January, killed eight people and injured dozens of others in Tumbler Ridge, British Columbia.

OpenAI said it banned 18-year-old Van Rootselaar’s ChatGPT account because of problematic usage, but did not refer the matter to police because it did not meet its threshold of a credible or imminent plan for serious physical harm to others.

Altman said he was “deeply sorry,” in a letter “to the community of Tumbler Ridge,” which was published in full by a local news website.

“The pain your community has endured is unimaginable. I have been thinking of you often over the past few months,” Altman wrote.

“When I spoke with Mayor Krakowka and Premier Eby about this tragedy, they conveyed the anger, sadness, and concern being felt across Tumbler Ridge,” he continued. “We agreed a public apology was necessary, but that time was also needed to respect the community as you grieved. I share this letter with the understanding that everyone grieves in their own way and in their own time.”

Altman wrote that he could not imagine “anything worse” than losing a child. “My heart remains with the victims, their families, all members of the community, and the province of British Columbia.”

He wrote that going forward, his company would work with all levels of government to ensure “something like this” never happens again.

ChatGPT’s famously sycophantic personality has led some users down dark paths, leading OpenAI to revise how the chatbot behaves when asked about sensitive subjects like depression.

OpenAI is facing an ongoing lawsuit filed by the parents of 16-year-old Adam Raine. The suit alleges ChatGPT “actively helped” Raine explore suicide methods over several months before he died. OpenAI previously told Business Insider that it was saddened by Raine’s death and that ChatGPT includes safeguards.

OpenAI said last year that it was working with mental health professionals to improve how ChatGPT responds to users who show signs of psychosis or mania, self-harm or suicide, or emotional attachment to the chatbot.

• I caught myself criticizing my body in front of my 18-month-old daughter.
• Seeing her watch me made me rethink how I speak to myself
• I now try to model self-acceptance, so she learns to do the same

A spring doesn’t go by that I don’t think about a pivotal moment I had in a Macy’s dressing room.

I’d ventured to the mall with my then 18-month-old daughter, desperate for a new swimsuit before pool season began. I maneuvered the stroller, piled high with promise, into the family dressing stall, my daughter’s little head peeking out from a sea of nylon and hangers.

The fluorescents were predictably stark as I began to disrobe and jimmy myself into the first option. Looking up at my reflection, I visibly shuddered at what I saw staring back — an involuntary reflex, followed by an audible groan.

Then the negative self-talk started.

My daughter was watching me

Oh. My. God. Look at that cellulite! Are you kidding me?? I do CrossFit, for God’s sake. That is just not OK.

Shock, then disgust, gave way to a cacophony of muttered insults and curses. I’d transformed into a lunchroom mean girl, hurling insults at that horrible excuse for a human being in the mirror.

You should not be wearing a bathing suit AT ALL. Those legs. How can you show those legs?

Just then, my eye drifted beyond the horror show unfolding in front of me. I caught my little girl’s eye in the mirror and realized she was watching me. Taking me in. Taking all of this in.

Oh, no, I thought. I’m saying these things out loud.

It was under my breath, yes, but loud enough to be heard. And even if I wasn’t, I knew my body language was speaking volumes. Self-loathing. Shame. And there’s my beautiful, blank-slate angel, drinking in every moment.

I wasn’t being kind to myself

I suddenly surged with anger. This was not what I wanted to model for my daughter.

As a feminist, I’d always believed I had a responsibility to be kind, generous, and encouraging to other women. Yet there I was, treating myself worse than I’d treat any stranger on the street.

I wouldn’t perpetuate this. If my child hadn’t been there in the room with me, I might have missed the moment entirely — because until then, I hadn’t even been aware of this toxic inner dialogue.

I wanted so much more for my baby girl, who would one day stand in front of a mirror as she shopped. I wanted her to feel proud of what she saw, not become her own worst enemy, measuring herself against an impossible beauty standard that doesn’t even exist in real life. She did not deserve to learn this kind of shame.

At that moment, I decided to consciously press “pause” on my thoughts and think this through. I began coaching myself up.

I changed the tone

I imagined someone else, someone stronger and bolder and more evolved than me, standing there. I imagined this woman’s self-acceptance, self-approval, self-love, as she gazed back at herself with pride.

“Damn, I look good!” I said to myself. The voice was quiet. I wasn’t quite sure I believed it, but I continued. “I’m burning up the place!” I whispered, this time with more conviction.

Right there, standing in that small, windowless room in a leopard-print bathing suit, I practiced seeing myself with new eyes. I intentionally reprogrammed my negative self-talk. I befriended myself.

A smile started to curve at the edges of my lips as I continued gazing in the mirror, if not in full belief, then at least with amusement. This was kind of fun. I could do this.

And then something strange happened. Suddenly, I wasn’t totally hating what I saw in the mirror. It wasn’t perfect, but it wasn’t too bad either.

I imagined I was a good friend trying on this bathing suit. How would I react to her? I wouldn’t focus on any one aspect of her body, I’d take in the whole package. I’d admire her sense of style. I’d notice if the color was eye-catching. I’d make sure it was a good fit.

I actually liked what I saw

So, I stopped zeroing in on the jiggly skin and dimples, and finally saw the full me: shiny dark hair, wise golden eyes, a sturdy frame housed in a spunky, modestly sexy one-piece. I stopped obsessing over all the things I disliked and allowed myself to see the big picture.

Just then, I caught my daughter’s eye in the mirror again. She was still watching me. She beamed at me proudly.

From that day forward, I pledged never again to bully myself in front of my daughter.

I don’t always get it right on the first try. I could have a wonderful time out with my family, only to later scroll through the photos on my phone and feel that familiar gut-punch when I spot an unflattering shot. The difference is, I notice it now. And as soon as I do, I deliberately choose to redirect it. I challenge myself to find three nice things to say. Kind things. True things. Things I would say to a friend.

Because the way I speak to myself will one day become the voice my daughter hears in her own head. And I want that voice to be as strong and empowered as the woman I see in the mirror now.