• Jay-Z concluded his star-studded three-night residency at Yankee Stadium on Sunday.
• The final show, titled “Extra Innings,” featured musicians from across the rapper’s long career.
• Beyoncé, Usher, and Rihanna were among the guests brought onstage.

On Sunday, New York City’s Yankee Stadium was certainly a concrete jungle where dreams are made of — at least, for the thousands of Jay-Z fans who waited hours to see the rapper take the stage for the third and final night of his residency there.

A four-hour delay caused the show to kick off around 12:15 a.m., instead of the scheduled 8 p.m.

In a joint statement, Roc Nation and Yankee Stadium told Business Insider that “hundreds of individuals in large groups — who did not have tickets to tonight’s performance — stormed over peaceful ticketholders, and in some cases, breached security,” which led to the gates being closed for “an extended period of time.”

For many, it was worth the wait, as friends, family, and longtime collaborators joined one of New York City’s most beloved musicians onstage, including Beyoncé, Rihanna, Usher, Pharrell Williams, Jeezy, Fat Joe, and more.

Here are all the stars who showed up for Jay-Z’s third and final Yankee Stadium show.

Rihanna

Rihanna performed her song with Jay-Z, “Run This Town,” before launching into her own hit, “B**** Better Have My Money.”

Usher

Taking a quick break from his own tour, Usher stopped by Yankee Stadium to perform “Heart of the City (Ain’t No Love)” and “Throwback.”

Beyoncé

Mrs. Carter was on hand to perform one of their biggest hits as a couple, “Drunk in Love.”

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Pharrell Williams and Malice

Williams performed a medley of songs, including “Excuse Me Miss,” “I Just Wanna Love U (Give It 2 Me),” and “Allure,” before bringing out his protégés, Clipse, the duo consisting of Malice, seen here, and Pusha T.

Pusha T

Pusha T and Malice, as Clipse, performed “Grindin’.”

Teyana Taylor

Taylor took over for Mary J. Blige in a performance of “Can’t Knock the Hustle.”

Jeezy

Jeezy joined Jay-Z onstage to perform two of their collaborations: “Seen It All” and “Go Crazy.”

Jermaine Dupri

Dupri rapped “Money Ain’t a Thang” with his longtime collaborator.

Fat Joe and Jadakiss

Knicks summer wouldn’t be complete without a performance of “New York” by these two.

The-Dream

The-Dream subbed in for Frank Ocean’s vocals on the chorus of “No Church in the Wild.”

Swizz Beatz

Swizz Beatz and HOV performed another long medley of some of their best work, including “On to the Next One,” “Ruff Ryder’s Anthem,” and “Welcome to the Jungle.”

• Meta announced that it is supercharging its Louisiana data center, known as Hyperion.
• The project has led to year-end bonuses of up to $50,000 for local teachers, Meta said.
• The campus will now grow to 5 gigawatts of compute capacity and cost more than $50 billion.

Meta is scaling up what was already slated to become its largest AI data center, a Louisiana campus that the tech giant says has fueled “life-changing returns” for local teachers and businesses.

The company behind Facebook and Instagram said in a blog post on Monday that the Richland Parish data center, known as Hyperion, will now grow to 5 gigawatts of compute capacity, bringing the project’s cost to more than $50 billion.

The announcement offers a new data point for Wall Street investors watching Meta closely for updates on its AI spending plans. The company’s capital expenditures have ballooned in the last two years, largely due to AI infrastructure costs.

As part of its announcement, Meta touted the project’s local economic impact, saying that the increased tax revenues tied to the data center have recently led to year-end bonuses of up to $50,000 for Richland Parish teachers.

That’s 400% higher than what teachers received last year in the rural Louisiana parish that’s home to about 20,000 people, according to Meta.

Sheldon Jones, the parish’s school district superintendent, said in a statement shared by Meta that the influx of money has been “life-altering for our teachers and their families” and was “transforming our schools.”

“Last year, our teachers received a $10,000 bonus, this year that check was over $50,000,” Jones said, adding, “Meta’s investment has made Richland Parish a destination for education as well as industry.”

Jones did not immediately respond to a request by Business Insider for further comment.

The Hyperion project, according to Meta, is among the largest investments in AI infrastructure worldwide.

Meta said in its Monday post that local Louisiana businesses have received more than $1.6 billion in contracts from the company since it broke ground on the 4 million-square-foot site in December 2024.

“With this expansion, we will be investing over $1 billion in local infrastructure improvements, including roads, water and wastewater systems,” said Meta.

It added that the company “pays the full costs of the energy, water, and related infrastructure the data center uses so consumers aren’t paying the cost.”

The project’s expansion marks a dramatic escalation from last year when Meta and investment firm Blue Owl Capital put the data center’s price tag at about $27 billion with plans for more than 2 gigawatts of compute capacity.

Once operational, Meta says the data center will create more than 1,000 jobs.

While Meta has highlighted the project’s economic benefits, the rapid buildout of AI data centers by Big Tech has become a flashpoint, with critics raising widespread concerns about energy demand, water consumption, and the strain on local infrastructure.

• Palantir CEO Alex Karp said AI could be about to create a huge wealth disparity.
• “That’s a problem for society,” he told Axel Springer CEO Mathias Döpfner.
• Karp also said the overselling of AI by the companies that make it is “disconcerting.”

AI is making a lot of people rich. You might not be one of them, says Palantir CEO Alex Karp — and that’s the problem.

In an interview with Axel Springer CEO Mathias Döpfner, Karp said AI will likely raise living standards broadly, but the scale of gains at the very top will be wildly disproportionate to gains elsewhere. Axel Springer is Business Insider’s parent company.

Karp said that AI wealth disparity is the “biggest problem in this country.”

“While it will raise the standard of living of the average person, the people involved are likely to get 10, 100 times wealthier than they already are,” Karp said on an episode of Döpfner’s “MD Meets” podcast that aired Monday.

In past technological revolutions, Karp said, the gap between winners and everyone else was far narrower: “The person at the bottom, maybe their salary doubled, and the person at the top became five times wealthier, but it was very unusual to be a billionaire 40 years ago.”

“You now have a revolution where, you know, I could become 20 times wealthier than I am now,” he added.

AI is creating a “complete decoupling” between ordinary economic gains and a small class of people who attain “unimaginable wealth,” he said.

‘They’re telling you your life is going to suck’

Karp said that even if AI doesn’t cause massive job losses, it doesn’t stop people from worrying about it, as some of the people behind the technology have made those cuts seem inevitable.

“The people running the lab companies, who are the leaders, told you it’s true,” Karp said. “They’re telling you your life is going to suck. And they’re also getting very wealthy, and you don’t find them very likable.”

While he didn’t name any executives, Anthropic’s Dario Amodei and OpenAI’s Sam Altman have warned about AI causing job disruption. Recently, they have softened their positions.

Karp’s comments come as anxieties around AI are boiling over into public backlash. Gen Z has shown resentment toward the technology, while the data center boom is also being met with hostility from communities and politicians.

It’s also not the first time Karp has spoken critically of the AI industry. He ripped into the leading labs earlier this month in a CNBC interview where he said “something has gone completely wrong” with the AI market.

Karp told Döpfner that while he believed AI would make a lot of people’s lives better, he was skeptical of any framing that AI would be a “plethora of good things” that everyone would profit from.

“The overselling of AI in this country is really, really, really, somewhat disconcerting, but it’s also depressing because you don’t have to do it,” Karp said, describing AI as a “natural resource” with both positive and negative potential.

He also had some choice words about those leading the AI race.

“These are like very oddly-shaped-IQ specimens that you probably wouldn’t want to have over for dinner,” he said. “And if they were over for the dinner, you have nothing to talk to them about. And, by the way, vice versa.”

• Sen. Lindsey Graham died on Sunday at the age of 71.
• The senator’s office confirmed his death after a “sudden illness.”
• Graham was key in shaping Trump-era policies like lower corporate tax rates and tariffs.

Republican lawmaker Lindsey Graham, who died on Saturday at the age of 71, had a major influence on corporate tax rates, tariff policies, and defense spending.

Graham’s office said in a statement on Sunday that the four-term senator died after a “brief and sudden” illness. Graham, an ally of President Donald Trump, had just returned from a trip to Kyiv, where he had met with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy.

In his 23 years in the Senate, Graham helped shape a protectionist, national-security-driven approach to trade and business-friendly policies that lowered corporate tax rates. His interventionist foreign policy views also translated into support for increased defense spending. Billions of dollars in military spending ultimately flowed to his home state of South Carolina.

Here’s how the late lawmaker impacted American businesses and the US economy.

Corporate taxes

Graham was instrumental in pushing corporate tax cuts through Congress over the last decade. He was a major supporter of the 2017 Tax Cuts and Jobs Act, which lowered the corporate tax rate from 35% to 21%.

During Graham’s unsuccessful 2016 run for president, he made cutting corporate taxes a central part of his campaign. During a Republican primary debate in 2015, Graham argued that the corporate tax rate should be lowered to prevent businesses from relocating overseas and to help create jobs for middle-class Americans.

“The best way to grow the middle class is to make it a good place to create a job,” he said during a debate at the time.

During Trump’s second term, Graham, who chaired the Senate Budget Committee, helped clear a path in Congress for the president’s 2025 tax-and-spending package, known as the One Big Beautiful Bill, which made permanent many of the corporate tax cuts the two leaders spearheaded in 2017 and restored or expanded other business-friendly policies.

Nine days before his death, the senator published a statement celebrating the first anniversary of making those tax cuts permanent.

“One year ago, President Trump signed the One Big Beautiful Bill into law, delivering the largest tax cut for working and middle-class families in American history,” Graham wrote. “As the Senate Budget Chairman, I was proud to lead this effort alongside my Senate and House Republican colleagues. We also ended taxes on tips and overtime and delivered no taxes on Social Security benefits for over 35 million seniors.”

Fair trade

While a broad supporter of free trade policies, Graham broke from some other Republicans in his calls to use tariffs to punish countries that, in his view, operated unfairly.

In 2005, during his first term in the Senate, Graham called for aggressive tariffs against China for manipulating currency and stealing intellectual property. His views helped influence Trump’s own tariff policies, which became a pillar of his administration’s strategy in his second term.

Graham, like Trump, argued that tariffs should be used as leverage over other governments. Graham supported using tariffs to force countries like Mexico and Canada to increase border security, both as a way to manage illegal immigration and stem the flow of fentanyl into the country.

Trump’s sweeping tariffs ultimately caused some headaches for American businesses, which struggled with supply chain uncertainties and rising prices. And the Supreme Court ruled in February that Trump’s use of the International Emergency Economic Powers Act to unilaterally issue sweeping tariffs on US imports was illegal.

In response to that ruling, Graham said it was “undeniable” that the tariffs were having their intended effect.

“One of the chief reasons that our border is so secure is President Trump threatened to put tariffs on countries that were allowing illegal immigrants to pour in through our southern border and held them accountable for the problem,” Graham wrote in a statement. “When it comes to finding fentanyl and other dangerous products coming into the country, President Trump has used tariffs extremely effectively.”

Defense spending

Graham was one of the Senate’s most vocal advocates for increased defense spending.

After the Trump administration outlined its initial 2027 budget plans, which included a total request for $1.5 trillion for the US military, the largest single-year military funding in modern US history and a near 45% increase from the previous year, Graham called Trump “second to none” on national security.

“President Trump’s budget is truly historic when it comes to defense spending. It is the most robust increase in defense spending in many years, and it is more than justified by the threats we face throughout the world,” he wrote in a statement in April.

Graham’s support for robust defense spending stemmed from his interventionist views on national security. He supported the Iraq war and opposed the withdrawal from Afghanistan. He supported Ukraine and called for sweeping sanctions and tariffs on Russia, as well as any country buying Russian oil. He also backed military support for Israel and the continuing war on Iran.

His support for military spending also benefited his home state of South Carolina, which grew a large military footprint during Graham’s time in the Senate. In 2024, South Carolina received nearly $7 billion in military spending through things like payroll, contracts, and construction, according to the Defense Department.

A 2022 state-commissioned study found that the military supported over 250,000 jobs in the states and generated an annual economic impact of some $35 billion.

Federal defense dollars have supported major bases, nuclear-weapons work, and aviation manufacturing in South Carolina. As a member of the Senate Appropriations Committee, Graham pushed money toward construction and military programs that helped secure and expand bases like Fort Jackson and Marine Corps Air Station Beaufort.

In 2023, Graham said his work to bring military spending to South Carolina “will pay dividends for our state for years to come.”

• In one week, I lost my dream tech career, a family member, and my long-term relationship.
• On a whim, I decided to move to Ireland (which I’d never visited) and pursue my sailing dreams.
• Now, I’m living out my bucket list in Dublin and can’t imagine being anywhere else.

I knew from my first week in Toronto that it wasn’t the place for me.

However, it took me six years, one death, a breakup, and the loss of my dream job for me to buy a one-way ticket out of there.

It was never my intention to settle in Toronto, but when love had called, I’d answered. The partner I’d met while living in Australia had a job there. We decided we’d stay here for a few years, then move back to the country where we’d met.

Still, I had a hard time acclimatizing to the concrete sprawl, especially after living in the lush Australian landscape and growing up surrounded by the rugged natural beauty of British Columbia.

If I was going to stick this out, I realized I needed to appreciate Toronto for what it was — a commercial hub. I set my sights on the ultimate distraction: professional fulfillment.

Luckily, I’d landed a contract job I loved in tech marketing in Toronto. I found that if I focused on work, it was easy to ignore other problems and pretend I didn’t miss living near the ocean.

For a while, focusing on my career helped me ignore parts of my life that weren’t working

After several contract extensions, I was finally offered a permanent role on my dream team, but something felt off.

On one hand, I was doing work I enjoyed with people I liked and respected. On the other, the gap between my partner and me had become a chasm, and our plan to move back to Australia together felt less likely the closer it got.

I had achieved the career goal I’d spent a year hustling toward, yet I was deeply unhappy. So, I decided to spend a month in Canada’s Pacific Northwest.

Surfing in Tofino, I realized I hadn’t been in the water for six years. I hadn’t done a lot of things I loved or taken any steps toward my lifelong dream of learning to sail.

I’d put all my personal ambitions and passions aside to be in a city I didn’t like, in service of someone else’s dreams, and wound up pouring myself into work as a coping mechanism.

I began to wonder, if I didn’t live by the ocean, doing these things I loved so much, who was I? And if my partner decided he didn’t want to leave Toronto, where would I go?

I still wasn’t ready to face reality, so I returned to Toronto and focused on the thing I knew would keep me tethered: my job. I turned into an ostrich, burying my head in my work, unwilling and unsure of how to fill the void.

After a restructuring and a breakup, I finally pushed myself to a new place: Ireland

Sometimes, when you’re ignoring your intuition, the world stops nudging you and starts shoving.

I was good friends with my coworkers, so when the group chat started to buzz while I was on vacation, I took note. One by one, my former teammates were pulled into meetings to notify them of their termination due to restructuring. I felt for them, but I was also relieved I wasn’t on their team anymore. I felt safe.

When my manager texted me to ask if I could hop on a quick call, I was a bit surprised but thought it was nice of him to notify me of the staffing changes while I was on vacation.

I wasn’t prepared to be part of the restructuring. Or for my relationship of seven and a half years to end the day after I got back to Toronto. Or for my beloved grandma to die not long after.

Sometimes, life shoves so hard the tether snaps.

That’s how I found myself lying on the air mattress in the spare bedroom of the Toronto house I’d grown to loathe, wondering where to go next.

For me, doing something new had to start with going somewhere new.

I knew I needed to be by the water again, a place with accessible hiking, surfing, and nature. And, most importantly, I had to be somewhere I could get a visa as an unemployed person over 30.

Eventually, I set my sights on Ireland, a country I’d never visited. I secured a temporary visa and booked my flight for November 8, a date I picked because it just felt lucky.

Eighteen months later, I’m living a 20-minute walk from the beach in Dublin. I have a great tech marketing job again, but without the sacrifice of living somewhere that doesn’t feel like home. I have been surfing, I finally learned to sail, and I have found a vibrant community.

Somehow, with plenty of hope but little expectation, a decision I made on a whim has led to the life of my dreams. Now, I’m working on securing my next visa so I can continue to live in Dublin, where I hope to stay for a long time.

• In 2024, Cara West moved from the US to Greece with her husband and young daughter.
• The family wanted a better quality of life, more affordability, and a greater sense of community.
• West told BI that their family is happier, but raising a child abroad isn’t always smooth sailing.

After Cara West became a mother in 2022, she began rethinking the kind of life she wanted for her family. She grew increasingly concerned about the cost of living in the US, the lack of community she felt in Houston, and the quality of education her child might receive.

“I considered the possibility of moving abroad to live more affordably and comfortably,” West, 35, told Business Insider. “I didn’t want my child to attend a traditional public school in the US, and I wanted to teach her through travel and real-life experiences.”

The following year, West and her family tested out living in Lisbon for a few months. In Portugal, they found a lower cost of living and a quality of life that better aligned with how West and her husband wanted to raise their daughter.

“After two weeks in Portugal, we knew we’d made the right decision and were ready for bigger changes,” she said.

In 2024, the family made their move to Europe permanent, choosing Syros, Greece — a small Cycladic island west of Mykonos — as their new home. West is a travel blogger, while her husband is a stay-at-home dad. This month, they signed a lease on a new house and renewed their visas, while their 4-year-old daughter prepares to start kindergarten.

West shared with Business Insider what she sees as the biggest pros and cons of moving across the world and raising a child abroad, from learning a new language to living far from friends and family.

My daughter is growing up with a strong community

While West lived in Houston, she hardly knew her neighbors and rarely spoke with them. And while she had friends, making plans was difficult, especially given the amount of time and effort it took to get something on the calendar.

In Syros, West said, she’s finally been able to build a community.

“I would say one of the biggest pros, at least for us, is the community that we have here, from other digital nomad and expat families to the local families,” she said. “The community is something that my daughter gets to grow up with. It’s so special and everything I could have hoped for.”

In Syros, the island’s small size makes it easier for her to see friends regularly. On a typical day, she often runs into someone she knows while walking around town.

“We bump into each other in the streets, you know, and may go, ‘oh, let’s go play tomorrow, or let’s meet up for coffee,'” West said. “It’s much easier to make plans and for us to be in community with people.”

Balancing an old and new language is a delicate dance

West and her husband want their daughter to grow up feeling connected to Greek culture rather than like “an outsider,” and they see learning the language as an important part of that.

They’ve been helping her develop her Greek skills by encouraging her to speak with locals, watch Greek shows, and read Greek books.

“At first, she saw it as a negative thing that she was learning Greek,” West said. “Now, she’s a lot more receptive and gets really excited every time she makes a local friend who speaks Greek.”

This year, her daughter will start at a private school where teachers will primarily speak Greek, though they will translate for English-speaking students.

“I worry that as she gets settled into school, speaking Greek will be really difficult for her, but at the same time, I’m grateful that we’re starting it at such a young age because I do think that she’ll adapt way faster,” West said.

As her daughter learns Greek, West said she’ll also be keeping an eye on her English skills. It’s a concern many other English-speaking moms on the island share.

“It’s so interesting because we’ve been really focused on our kids feeling comfortable and confident speaking Greek, but now we’re like, ‘Maybe they’re forgetting English,'” she said.

I’m raising a worldly, open-minded child

One reason the family decided to relocate to Europe was the ease of traveling to other countries. This month alone, they visited Lisbon, Venice, and Paris.

“She’s only four, and we just got done visiting her 20th country,” West said. “She’s being exposed to customs, cultures, foods, and experiences before she even reads about them in a textbook.”

From hearing the Call to Prayer in Turkey to seeing the northern lights in Iceland, West’s young daughter has already experienced more of the world than many people do in a lifetime.

West said these experiences have helped her daughter understand early on that people live, eat, worship, and move through the world in different ways.

“It’s always the things that you don’t think are going to stick with her,” she added. “I love that she is seeing so many different ways of doing things.”

It’s difficult being far away from family

For West, living abroad also means raising her daughter far from family. It’s a major concern for her, especially because her daughter is an only child.

“I worry sometimes that she is missing out on things happening back in the states with my husband’s and my family, and that she may not be as close to certain family members like her cousins back home,” she said.

To help maintain those bonds and keep up with milestones in everyone’s lives, West makes sure they regularly FaceTime with family.

“We just make sure that’s a regular cadence for her, so she doesn’t feel that disconnect when she sees them in person,” she said. “And we also try at least once a year to get back to the States as well.”

We feel safer in Europe

West’s daughter was about 3 months old in 2022 when the Uvalde school shooting happened. At the time, West and her husband were living in Houston, roughly four hours away. The tragedy pushed her to think more seriously about where her daughter would go to school — and how safe she would be.

“That, honestly, for me, was the biggest catalyst,” West said. ” I was like, okay, we really do need to look into what it would be like to live abroad, especially somewhere where gun laws are much more restrictive.”

Greece has very strict gun laws, with firearm possession generally prohibited unless a permit is issued by authorities. In Syros, West said, life on the island feels “incredibly safe.”