Why divorce rates go up when women earn more

This is a condensed version of Business Insider Today, a newsletter that gives you a look at the week’s top stories. Sign up here to get the full Business Insider Today in your inbox every day for the top stories in markets, tech, and business.

Welcome back to our Sunday edition, where we round up some of our top stories and take you inside our newsroom. A woman who’s been driving for Uber for more than a decade explains how she’s looking for new work as her pay drops.  

Tomorrow’s the big launch of First Trade, our new markets newsletter led by Joe Ciolli. Subscribe here!

On the agenda today:

• Can this AI necklace really help solve the loneliness crisis?
• Why married women are finding more money means more problems.
• The 36 leaders reporting to the CEO of the world’s most valuable company.
• AWS is losing its grip on the startup community that’s been its bread and butter.

In the Friend zone

AI startup Friend offers a $129 necklace that aims to help solve the loneliness crisis by going with you everywhere. If the oft-graffitied subway ads are any indication, New Yorkers aren’t buying it.

BI’s Amanda Hoover tested out the necklace for a week. While the bot could hold a conversation, Hoover wasn’t convinced it really counted as a friend.

What it got wrong about friendship.

Also read:

• Meet the Gen Zer behind Friend, the creepy new AI necklace

What about the men?

Last month, Nicole Kidman and Keith Urban joined the ranks of broken-up couples where the woman outearns the man. That particular ending is more common than you may think.

Divorce rates for heterosexual couples go up when a woman is more professionally successful than the man, and they go down when the opposite is true. It shows how women’s economic progress is clashing with old expectations about marriage, an executive coach said.

But it doesn’t mean your marriage is doomed.

Jensen Huang’s inner circle

As of this month, the Nvidia CEO has 36 direct reports, according to an internal list obtained by BI. The list offers a glimpse into the group of leaders at the top of the world’s most valuable company.

Last year, Huang said he had 55 direct reports. He’s known for having many people report into him, and has said it helps with information flow. 

Here’s who’s reporting to Huang.

AWS has a startup problem

Amazon Web Services is feeling a shift in one of its biggest clientele segments, according to internal documents obtained by BI. Startups, which typically allocate a significant portion of their budgets to AWS, are instead spending it on AI tools. 

"Founders tell us they seek to adopt AWS at a later stage," the company warned in one of the documents. The shift represents a massive threat to AWS, which holds a firm grip on the lucrative startup ecosystem. 

More on Cloud 2.0. 

More of this week’s top reads:

• After studying history's biggest crashes, Andrew Ross Sorkin tells us what parallels he sees between 1929 and today's stock market frenzy. 
• See inside JPMorgan's old Wall Street offices that are now 1,320 apartments and over 100,000 square feet of gyms, pools, and recording studios. 
• Celebrity lawyer Alex Spiro's hourly rate has nearly doubled to $3,000 in four years. 
• A day in the life of Andrew Yang, from watching “Star Wars” and the Mets to the lunch ritual he swears by.
• Spotify is finally getting parental controls. They're really needed — here's how I'm going to use them for my kids. 
• Exclusive: Leaked Disney email about a new employee event series shows the company's reworked approach to DEI. 
• Dear Tim Cook: Please bring back the iPod. 
• Young founders share eight pitch decks that raised millions in the AI boom.
• OpenAI's latest Sora apology is actually a strategy: Ask for forgiveness, not permission.

Curated by Steve Russolillo and edited by Dan DeFrancesco, Akin Oyedele, Grace Lett, and Amanda Yen.

This is a shorter version of our flagship newsletter, which brings you in-depth analysis and summaries of the top stories from Wall Street to Silicon Valley.

Sign up here to get the full Business Insider Today in your inbox every day.