Fast-food execs keep pushing for more AI systems, but fail to see the big picture: Customers still want humans
The fast food industry’s automation push carried a simple promise: Robots would flip burgers, AI would take drive-thru…
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Flirting with $5 trillion, Apple has never been more valuable—or more risky for investors
At 41 times earnings, Apple’s stock is pricier than it’s been in a decade—and its famous buyback machine is losing its…
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Inside Ikea’s big bet on humans in the age of AI
After rolling out a customer service bot, the Swedish retailer is remaking—not replacing—its workforce.
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Warren Buffett is handing $140 billion to his family’s foundations. The way he’s doing it reveals how billionaire philanthropy really works
People assumed Buffett was avoiding taxes or warehousing the money. Experts say the more telling question is how he's…
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Mamdani’s pied-à-terre tax was designed to hit the wealthy, but it’s sending most New Yorkers to their estate lawyers
Trusts and LLCs offer not only anonymity from public records, but also a way to protect your assets from liabilities.
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Mamdani’s pied-à-terre ‘hit list’ is as unsexy as it sounds
The supposed socialist takeover of New York City is similar in scope to Andrew Cuomo's tax policy — and not unlike a…
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How Gen Z’s love of ‘handcrafted’ blockbusters created Hollywood’s ‘memory moment’
With the box office tracking to its first $10 billion year since the pandemic, Tom Holland and Zendaya (and Jon…
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Meta stock drops 10% as free cash flow gets crushed—and Zuckerberg hints at launching cloud business with few details
Meta’s quarterly results showcased the strength of its core social media business, as well as the gap in its business…
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Robinhood CFO details surging prediction market business as firm posts record revenue in Q2
Robinhood beat analyst expectations on several fronts though crypto revenue fell significantly.
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Dr. Fauci, the Lockdown Czar, just won’t go away
During the pandemic, two colleagues and I led a comprehensive scientific literature review and meta-analysis about…
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Microsoft’s cloud just hit a new milestone—Azure crosses $100 billion in annual revenue
Microsoft’s fiscal Q4 revenue of $90 billion topped Wall Street targets, while Copilot reached 30 million paid seats,…
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Beyond the Covid origins: Fauci’s pandemic diary reveals a starstruck Julia Roberts and Trump gasping for oxygen
Newly released pages show the president's temperature hit 103°F before Mark Meadows called Fauci for advice on his…
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Southeast Asia is ‘hungry for innovation’ and eager to leapfrog, says SAP’s new APAC president Verena Siow
Southeast Asia, home to young, digitally-savvy populations and a rising middle class, offers fertile ground for…
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RFK says he found Fauci’s diary in government archives as Fauci invokes the Fifth Amendment over 100 times
Rand Paul's panel will vote next week on holding the NIH veteran in contempt after he refused to answer questions on…
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Inside China’s two-speed economy: Why goods consumption is slumping even as exports and services boom
From collapsing car sales to booming services and AI-linked manufacturing, China’s growth engines are pulling in…
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Dow drops over 1,100 points as sinking tech stocks combine with jumping oil prices to drag markets down
The S&P 500 fell 1.5% after swinging sharply between gains and losses in the last hour of trading. The Nasdaq composite…
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More than 1,200 AI workers across Anthropic, DeepMind, OpenAI, and Meta are asking for Washington’s help building an AI slowdown plan
The statement, signed by senior executives at competing companies, calls on the government to help build the tools…
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Wall Street is panicking over Kevin Warsh’s patience
The Dow fell over 2% after the conference.
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Fed, in a nail-biter July meeting, decides to leave rates unchanged
The Fed's rate-setting committee reached the 9-3 decision after two days of deliberations.
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Hugging Face drops in-depth hack report, while OpenAI gives us 7 bullets. Here’s what we know now, and what remains a mystery
The timeline, models involved, and other juicy details are starting to become more clear—nearly 20 days after the…
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Fauci accuses Rand Paul of ‘unhinged obsession,’ pleads Fifth at least 100 times on COVID origins despite full Biden pardon
Fauci’s attorney was also removed from the room after he tried to speak without being recognized.
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He worked 100-hour weeks to save a nearly bankrupt boat company. At 83, he’s just turned down $400 million for it—and gave it all to charity instead
Instead of selling Grady-White Boats for $400 million, Eddie Smith Jr. was inspired by Patagonia founder Yvon Chouinard…
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LVMH CEO Bernard Arnault reveals he owned nearly 20% of Netflix, but cashed out too early—his stake could be worth up to $60 billion today
Bernard Arnault owns LVMH—and with it, Louis Vuitton and Dior. But he also owned nearly 20% of Netflix, a stake that…
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Millionaires are leaving the U.K. in droves thanks to tax hikes—but the CEO of $1 billion tax platform says it’s their ‘social responsibility’ to stay
As Andy Burnham considers a 2% wealth tax, Taxfix CEO admits millionaires are eyeing up an exit—but says it’s their…
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Costco’s $14 million email settlement: Who qualifies for an up-to $500 payment and how to claim before the Aug. 24 deadline
Costco denies any wrongdoing but agreed to resolve claims it sent Washington shoppers emails with misleading subject…
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Obama got ‘whooped’ by a Paralympian on the basketball court — now he wants Iowa to send him to the Senate
“I know a little something about winning Iowa,” Obama said while endorsing Josh Turek for Senate.
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EEOC has indefinitely suspended all federal-sector class complaints, lawsuit claims
Attorneys say the undisclosed suspension has left correctional officers facing escalating abuse with no timeline for…
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Exclusive: Rent the Runway cofounder Jenn Hyman is taking over IPO-bound Babylist as it nears $1 billion in revenue
Babylist founder Natalie Gordon will become executive chair, in a rare founder-to-founder CEO transition.
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Johnson & Johnson proposes $5.5 billion talc settlement after $9 billion deal shot down by bankruptcy court
A federal judge nearly tossed the talc cases for lacking causation proof; J&J settled 76,000 of them instead.
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California is banning ‘sell-by’ dates in grocery stores, but they’re pretty much made up anyway
Only infant formula has a federally mandated expiration date, as over 50 different labels confuse U.S. shoppers.
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Scientist on wildfires: ‘we have our foot on the gas pedal’ but ‘we’ve lost the brakes’
Wildfires are becoming more extreme in Europe and North America even as global burning falls, largely because of…
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Fed expected to hold rates as Iran-Jordan clash reignites war fears, with oil prices jumping more than 4%
The central bank isn't expected to move on rates Wednesday, but 76% of traders see a September hike as inflation stays…
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AWOL Mitch McConnell challenged by his governor: ‘provide proof of your capacity to serve, or resign’
McConnell's office has issued just two updates, each with a single photo, since his June 14 hospitalization.
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‘I started going to Instagram to get my news’: Left-wing’s populist turn fueled by retreat from traditional media
"I couldn’t stand all the lies on the stations,″ said Farah Berent, a physician assistant in Michigan, who cited…
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China’s robot makers shipped 25x more units than U.S. rivals in 2025, so America banned them
The ban lands weeks before Xi Jinping's planned September visit to meet President Trump, adding another flashpoint in…
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Tapes: 3 years before he was elected, Biden talked to a ghostwriter about classified documents, showed memory lapses
Newly released audio tapes, disclosed by a conservative activist group, appear to show Joe Biden sharing classified…
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