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A small group of tech workers have signed a petition calling on their CEOs to speak out against Immigration and Customs Enforcement and cancel contracts with the agency.San Francisco Chronicle/Hearst Newspapers/San Francisco Chronicle via Getty ImagesThe Trump Administration has been deploying federal agents into metropolitan cities.A group of 200+ tech workers has signed a petition demanding that CEOs speak out against ICE.One of the demands includes canceling company contracts with the federal agency.A small group of tech workers is calling on their CEOs to speak out against Immigration and Customs Enforcement, as the Trump administration deploys federal agents into metropolitan areas.The petition, titled "Tech demands ICE out of our cities," calls on tech leaders to "pick up the phone" and call the White House to demand Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents "leave our cities."Other demands include canceling company contracts with ICE and speaking out publicly against "ICE's violence."The petition has received more than 250 signatories, which represents a small sliver of the overall tech workforce in the US.Employees from Google and Amazon make up a plurality of the signatories, although not every participant chose to disclose their name; at the time of publication, roughly 170 of the signatories were named, the others chose only to share their title and or company.Organizers of the petition were not disclosed. Business Insider reached out to the contact provided on the website and did not immediately get a response.A spokesperson for Amazon declined to comment. A Google spokesperson did not immediately respond to a request for comment.The Trump administration has been aggressively executing on immigration enforcement; some of the tactics have led to highly publicized clashes between local community members and ICE agents.Minneapolis — the city where George Floyd was killed by a police officer — recently became a focal point of an immigration crackdown, and where an ICE officer fatally shot Renee Good, a US citizen.The Minneapolis Regional Labor Federation, an AFL-CIO affiliate, endorsed a move on Saturday encouraging local residents to skip work on January 23.The White House has also targeted the tech industry by attaching a higher fee to the H-1B visa — a program tech companies and other industries have relied on to hire overseas talent.The move has seen ripple effects from Big Tech, down to higher education.Data from the National Student Clearinghouse Research Center showed a 5.9% decline in enrollment at US universities by graduate international students for the Fall 2025 semester.Read the original article on Business Insider

CEO James Quincey said fiber might be the next thing for its drinks.Denis Thaust/SOPA Images/LightRocket via Getty ImagesCoca-Cola CEO James Quincey said customers might see fiber creep into the company's drinks this year.Coca-Cola already sells Diet Coke with fiber in Japan, a drink aimed to "address specific dietary needs."Other F&B CEOs have predicted that fiber would be a hot trend in 2026.Coca-Cola's CEO said the drinks company is looking at one viral health trend this year.Speaking with CNBC at the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland, CEO James Quincey said fiber might be the next big thing for Coca-Cola."So you've got a lot of focus on refreshment and a lot of focus on protein, and people are definitely seeing more protein," Quincey said. "We might see fiber creep in this year."He said fiber can be put into anything because it's soluble in beverages. He gave the example of the Diet Coke Fiber+ drink from Coca-Cola, which has been available in Japan since 2017.The drink is advertised as sugar- and calorie-free, with five grams of dietary fiber per bottle.The drink was part of a "fast-growing segment where ingredients are added to beverages to address specific dietary needs," Quincey said in 2017.However, he said on Tuesday's Squawk Box that Diet Coke Fiber+ was still a "niche" drink, because "people don't buy drinks to have their fiber."Quincey's comments echo those of other food and beverage executives who have predicted the rise of fiber this year.McDonald's CEO, Chris Kempczinski, took to Instagram last week to predict his top three food trends for 2026, and the first item on the list was fiber. He said fiber was "going to be big" this year.PepsiCo CEO Ramon Laguarta predicted in an October earnings call that "fiber will be the next protein."The term "fibermaxxing" was a viral health trend on social media in 2025, with dieticians saying that it helps aid gut health, lower cholesterol, and reduce the risk of colon cancer.And cabbage, a fiber-rich vegetable, is having its moment on social media, with Pinterest predicting that the vegetable would trend highest on social media in the US in 2026.Pinterest released its annual trends report in December, which showed that the search term "cabbage dumplings" rose 110% from September 2024 to August 2025, compared to the same period the year before.Read the original article on Business Insider