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How to use the clean energy tax credits before they’re gone

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Adele Peters

Why male corporate leaders and billionaires need financial therapy

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The Conversation

The $2.5 billion renovation that Trump is mad about

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Nate Berg

Douglas Rushkoff wants us to use AI to ask better questions

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Steven Melendez

Elmo sparks a national therapy session: A brief oral history

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Jay Woodruff

What to do if your boss is playing favorites—and you’re not the favorite

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Jared Lindzon

These companies are paying entry level designers the most

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Andrew Thompson

This new smartphone is designed for old-school physical keyboard lovers

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Sam Byford

Bolt CEO Ryan Breslow was a progressive workplace innovator. Now he’s axing it all

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Rheana Murray

7 brain-based strategies to achieve more in less time

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Gerald Leonard

Stop being a martyr at work. Aim for sustainable success instead

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Alli Kushner

The Trump administration is pushing to open new coal mines that will likely never turn a profit

This story was originally published by Grist . Sign up for Grist‘s weekly newsletter here. It looked for a while like the coal mining era was over...

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Grist

What is Opendoor? OPEN stock price soars as housing market platform becomes the latest meme stock

What is Opendoor? OPEN stock price soars as housing market platform becomes the latest meme stock

Watch out, AMC. There’s a new meme stock on the market. Shares in Opendoor Technologies Inc. (Nasdaq: OPEN) have been on fire over the past week....

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Michael Grothaus

We designed shade out of our cities. We can design it back in

We designed shade out of our cities. We can design it back in

As I write these words, a heat wave is sweeping through Europe. Last month, a heat wave swept through the East Coast. Next month, a heat wave might...

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Elissaveta M. Brandon

These are the keys to good strategic partnerships that can future-proof your business

These are the keys to good strategic partnerships that can future-proof your business

Hello and welcome to Modern CEO! I’m Stephanie Mehta, CEO and chief content officer of Mansueto Ventures. Each week this newsletter explores...

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Stephanie Mehta

Court greenlights Mississippi’s social media age verification law

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Perplexity CEO predicts AI could replace recruiters and assistants in as little as six months

Yet another CEO in the artificial intelligence space is warning that major job losses are imminent due to advancements in the technology—and they...

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Chris Morris

Astronomer CEO resigns after viral Coldplay concert video

The IT company CEO captured in a widely circulated video showing him embracing an employee at a Coldplay concert has resigned. Andy Byron resigned...

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Beef prices soar to record highs in the U.S.

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Pumpkin Spice Latte returns to Starbucks on Aug. 26

Want a little autumn in your August? You’re in luck. Starbucks said Monday that its Pumpkin Spice Latte will return to store menus in the U.S. and...

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‘Superman’ stays at No. 1 after second weekend, raking in $57.3 million

James Gunn’s “Superman” showed staying power in its second weekend at North American box offices, collecting $57.3 million in ticket sales and...

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Associated Press

Alaska Airlines resumes operations after equipment failure grounds all flights

Alaska Airlines resumes operations after equipment failure grounds all flights

Alaska Airlines has resumed operations after the failure of a critical piece of hardware forced the airline to ground all its flights for...

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Associated Press

5 ways retailers break trust—and how data can fix it

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Kimberly Shenk

Figma targets $16.4 billion valuation in IPO

Figma targets $16.4 billion valuation in IPO

Figma is targeting a fully-diluted valuation of up to $16.4 billion in its initial public offering, as the cloud-based design software firm...

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How financial inclusion is transforming displaced lives

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Vishal Ghotge

‘Self-expression should be celebrated’: Sylvanian Drama spills into real life as TikTok creator faces lawsuit

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Eve Upton-Clark

OpenAI and the UK form partnership to expand AI research, infrastructure

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The surprising details of fashion entrepreneur Christine Hunsicker’s fraud indictment

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Jennifer Mattson

Storytelling isn’t just for marketing

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Ben Wintner

Southwest Airlines’ open seating is ending: Here’s what the new 8-group boarding process will look like

Southwest Airlines’ open seating is ending: Here’s what the new 8-group boarding process will look like

Around this time last year, Southwest Airlines announced that it would scrap its signature open-seating model in favor of a more traditional...

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Grace Snelling

Domino’s Pizza Q2 sales exceed estimates—thanks to new items

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Microsoft SharePoint hack: An active cybersecurity incident could impact tens of thousands of servers

On July 19, Microsoft alerted users that it was experiencing an active cyberattack on its SharePoint servers, which allow organizations to share...

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Grace Snelling

Over 67,000 cases of popular deodorant recalled nationwide

The Food and Drug Administration has issued a recall for more than 67,000 cases of deodorant that are sold nationwide.  The products, Power Stick...

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Sarah Bregel

Exclusive: 77% of employees have worked through a mental health crisis

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Sarah Bregel

Here’s exactly how much you’ll save on your 2026 taxes, by income bracket: Trump’s One Big Beautiful Bill benefits

Here’s exactly how much you’ll save on your 2026 taxes, by income bracket: Trump’s One Big Beautiful Bill benefits

Now that President Donald Trump’s so-called “big, beautiful bill” is the law, you’re probably wondering how much you’ll save on your taxes when you...

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Jennifer Mattson

This 4-mile bench could someday snake through downtown San Francisco

In cities across the world, urban design is increasingly oriented around preventing people from resting. Details like seats with bisecting...

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Grace Snelling

How AI is impacting trust among college students and teachers

The advent of generative AI has elicited waves of frustration and worry across academia for all the reasons one might expect: Early studies are...

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The Conversation

Can AI think? Here’s what Greek philosophers might say

In my writing and rhetoric courses, students have plenty of opinions on whether AI is intelligent: how well it can assess, analyze, evaluate, and...

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The Conversation

How AI browsers like Perplexity Comet will reshape the internet—and the media

I’ve been using Comet, Perplexity’s AI-powered browser, for the past week. Using it to navigate the internet is very similar to any other browser...

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Pete Pachal

This public art project found a new way to bring the January 6 attacks to life

This public art project found a new way to bring the January 6 attacks to life

President Donald Trump’s modus operandi is to keep the news cycle moving, fast. For even avid consumers of news, that can make it hard to keep up....

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Hunter Schwarz

This is what happens when you give the world’s biggest nerds a chance at branding

This is what happens when you give the world’s biggest nerds a chance at branding

When Mark Zuckerberg recently announced his grand plans to build enormous data centers in Ohio and Louisiana, two things stood out. First was the...

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Chris Stokel-Walker

Older adults now make up a third of U.S. gamers

If you thought gaming was a young person’s activity, think again. Older adults now make up nearly one-third of all U.S. gamers, with 57 million...

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Eve Upton-Clark

5 steps to earning more in your career

We’re taught to think of raises as the holy grail of career and financial success. Annual performance reviews. Awkward remuneration conversations....

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Roxanne Calder

Why the ‘holidaze’ is actually a good thing

Why the ‘holidaze’ is actually a good thing

Anyone who claims they haven’t felt the seductive pull of social plans interrupting their focus at work isn’t being completely honest.  It’s...

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Charlie Obrien

Why ambition is misunderstood—and how to reclaim it

Amina AlTai is an executive coach, leadership trainer, and chronic illness advocate. She has partnered with companies such as Google, Snap, Outdoor...

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Next Big Idea Club

Why AI coaching works (and often works better) 

What happens when you try to teach a machine how to think like you?  That’s the question I found myself grappling with when I partnered with a...

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Lisa Bodell

He went undercover to catch art thieves. Now he’s using tech to stop forgeries

In many ways, the case that sent Daniel Elie Bouaziz to prison in 2023 for money laundering felt like just another chapter in Ronnie Walker’s...

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Max Ufberg

Verizon raises annual profit forecast over premium plans and tax reform

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Reuters

How to watch Shark Week 2025 and why Discovery’s franchise continues to have teeth after all these years

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Shannon Cudd

Number of housing markets with falling home prices jumps sharply to 109—up from 31 in January

Want more housing market stories from Lance Lambert’s ResiClub  in your inbox? Subscribe to the ResiClub newsletter. National home prices rose 0.2%...

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