America’s dumbest war (no, not this one)
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Faced with less compute and fewer tokens, Chinese AI labs are tightening the gap with the U.S. by just being more efficient
Federal agencies accused six Chinese AI companies of training on American models to do this, but analysts say it’s not…
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Black Lake founder Yuxiang Zhou pitted an AI agent against his top sales coach. His most experienced salespeople chose the AI
But he’s still waiting for the “Google moment” in AI.
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One of X’s most notorious ragebaiters explains how the outrage business earned him $80,000—and why he’ll keep posting even as the creator model shifts
A typical month posting for Lefkowitz has paid between $3,000 and $10,000 from X.
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The rich are learning how to look less rich on their children’s college applications
A $300,000 private-jet college tour may promise an admissions edge, but conspicuous privilege can undermine the…
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The new American retirement fear: working until you die
In a strained economy, more Americans suspect their worst retirement fear is coming true—that they won't get to retire…
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One year after a bipolar episode put him in the hospital, Bonobos cofounder Andy Dunn sold his company to Walmart for $310 million
Andy Dunn says Bonobos was “wrapped up in my ego and my identity.” Now, his social app Pie is strengthening human…
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Miami is the luxury capital for the rich fleeing New York and LA—now a $100M office has infrared saunas, a stem cell clinic, and a Vegas-style valet
Robert Rivani bet against a cratering office market with a $100 million Miami Beach redevelopment—and says it was 90%…
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Amazon workers on food stamps have tripled despite its record revenue—and it’s just the latest evidence of the new economy of shrinking labor shares
“These are families that are really barely able to make ends meet,” one policy expert said. “And yet they are working,…
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A German founder’s case for why America still needs immigrants
Immigrant founders are central to America’s innovation edge—but sustaining it will require a clearer path for them to…
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Former CIA official found with $40 million in gold bars for ‘work-related expenses’ reaches tentative plea deal
Investigators searched Rush's home and seized about 300 gold bars worth more than $40 million, plus about $2 million in…
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U.S. diesel prices are now 60% higher than they were before the Iran war, with one Trump voter paying twice as much to fuel his farm equipment
Kurtz, 49, said his finances were “already tight” this year after he also had to pay more for fertilizer and chemicals.
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Mortgage lending standards are so tight that homebuyers must have ‘pristine’ credit histories, study says, as sales head for 31-year low
"These changes helped to reduce delinquencies and defaults but also made it more difficult for many Americans to…
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Trump’s childhood home sells for $1.9 million after prior owner bought it for $835,000 last year, when it was a mold-ridden den of feral cats
Tommy Lin, had purchased the five-bedroom, three-bathroom home last year for $835,000 after it sat vacant and neglected…
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The trade deficit with Canada that’s upset Trump so much is due to crude the U.S. buys at a discount for the Midwest. ‘It’s the only oil they can use’
“They can’t use Texas crude. They can’t use Venezuelan crude. They’re not set up for it. It would take years and…
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Housing market: Mortgage rates rise for third straight week to highest level since June 2025 while home sales fall for third month in a row
The benchmark 30-year fixed rate mortgage rose to 6.76% from 6.71% last week. One year ago, the average rate was 6.35%.
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After attack on Saudi pipeline, Trump says Houthis don’t want the U.S. involved — ‘everything’s going to work out fine and dandy’
“The Houthis called us, and they don’t want to fight with us,” Trump said.
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As Europe weighs a peacekeeping force in Ukraine, Putin warns sending troops ‘means a war with Russia’
Polish Prime Minister Donald Tusk said two incidents along Ukraine’s borders with Poland and Moldova this week were a…
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Saudi Arabia’s nightmare scenario comes true as Houthis threaten crucial Red Sea shipping route and drone attacks force closure of major pipeline
For decades, Saudi Arabia and other Gulf states have relied on U.S. security guarantees. Those have eroded under Trump.
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Big Players ravage prediction markets
The idea that insiders hold the whip handle in prediction markets runs counter to claims made by promoters, who include…
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(Sm)all banks should compete on technology, not fear it
Community banks do not need to launch their own stablecoins—but they do need to offer digital-dollar and…
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Anthropic CEO calls to slow the race toward AI ‘superintelligence,’ and grants outside evaluators permanent access
In an essay, Dario Amodei said Anthropic is giving outside evaluators permanent access to its safety practices.
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Mark Penn: How to save a billion and a half hours
AI promises convenience, but the internet is still clogged with cookie banners, CAPTCHAs, passcodes and unreadable fine…
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The world’s largest health and beauty retailer says AI will make shopping ‘more human, not less’
The biggest risk with AI, warns AS Watson CEO Malina Ngai, is using it to polish today's processes. Do that, and "you…
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‘No one was coming to save me’: How Reese Witherspoon built a $900 million company from a problem Hollywood wouldn’t fix
The actress built Hello Sunshine after Hollywood told her there were no female-led movies to make. Six years later, she…
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Jamie Dimon runs JPMorgan’s 300,000 employees—but says it beats rivals by fighting in Navy SEAL-sized teams
Decades-old research backs up the idea that individual effort decreases as group sizes increase.
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American schools weren’t broken until Silicon Valley used a lie to convince them they were—now reading and math scores are plummeting
Neuroscientist Jared Cooney Horvath warns the U.S.’s $30 billion bet on laptops in schools has made Gen Zers less…
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IBM launched limb tracking at this year’s U.S. Open – and it’s scoring every tennis player’s serve for fans to see
This marks the first time IBM has launched a limb-tracking feature at a Grand Slam tennis tournament.
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The Chamber of Commerce and the College Board on the missing subject in American high schools: business
Students are graduating from high school without a clear understanding of how organizations function, how money flows,…
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The ghost cartel — your pricing algorithm may have stopped competing without your knowledge
Antitrust law was built to catch human agreements. It has no name for what machines learn to do on their own.
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Boards were built for a vertical world. Risk has gone horizontal
Governance may be straining against its own design.
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A flawed system and one man’s hubris cost Meta shareholders $17 billion
Meta's settlement may seem large, but it may be just the tip of the iceberg. The plaintiffs' own models put the damages…
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From AI FOMO to AI hangover: corporate America is taking a long, hard look in the mirror right now
How companies got GenAI adoption wrong, and what they need to do next.
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After a decade of failed bills and three years of resignations, Washington finally discovers it cares about AI safety
Jacob Coxon's resignation didn't start this fight, but his resignation ignited the moment officials on both sides…
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Mark Zuckerberg’s Meta bet that AI would shrink its management ranks. Now it’s quietly rebuilding them
The company that spent the past year telling managers to code is now asking some engineers in a key AI division whether…
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‘Combine your passion with an investment strategy’: Meet the VC using 500,000 Pokémon and trading cards as a hedge against a debt crisis
Peter Levin thinks collectibles and trading cards are here to stay in the alternative asset market.
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