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Trump on TikTok: ‘We’re gonna watch the security concerns’ and keep extending deadline until ‘things work out’

The president also called national security and privacy concerns related to TikTok and its Chinese parent company “highly overrated."

yesterday 8

The Associated Press

Former Twitter employees settle lawsuit where they claimed $500 million of unpaid severance

The terms of the settlement were not disclosed.

yesterday 6

The Associated Press

Unlike Jensen Huang, this CEO embraces work-life balance and is proud he takes vacations and coached his kids’ baseball team

With millions of PTO left on the table each year, Lactalis U.S. Yogurt CEO Bill Cassidy argues normalizing time off is a competitive advantage—not...

yesterday 6

Preston Fore

African Union endorses campaign to finally fix the maps that massively understate how big the continent really is

The widely used Mercator projection famously shows Greenland and Africa about the same size, but 14 Greenlands would easily fit inside the African...

yesterday 8

Mark Bancherau

Hall of fame jockey Ron Turcotte, the man who rode Secretariat to the Triple Crown, dies at 84

“The world may remember Ron as the famous jockey of Secretariat, but to us he was a wonderful husband, a loving father, grandfather, and a great...

yesterday 7

Stephen Whyno

‘OK, this is not your average bird’: Minnesota high school football team’s season delayed by nesting Osprey in floodlights

“When you see these large birds flying across your field with these humongous sticks, you start to ask questions like, ‘What is going on here...

yesterday 6

Mark Vancleave

Colleges have a new worry: ‘Ghost students’—AI powered fraud rings angling to get millions in financial aid

The DOE found $90 million had been disbursed to ineligible students, including $30 million that went to stolen identities of deceased individuals.

yesterday 10

Amanda Gerut

AI isn’t a job killer, it’s a job shifter. We’re one of the biggest employment agencies in the world and we can see where things are moving

We’ve been forecasting workforce trends for more than 70 years and AI is the cape, but humans are the superheroes.

yesterday 10

Becky Frankiewicz

18 months after becoming the first human implanted with Elon Musk’s brain chip, Neuralink ‘Participant 1’ Noland Arbaugh says his whole life has changed

Noland Arbaugh, who lost movement and sensation below his shoulders in 2016, became P1 at Neuralink in 2024 and it’s opened up a host of...

yesterday 10

Jessica Mathews

We built a $1 billion tech unicorn in Europe, living proof that our economy is just as dynamic as America’s. Success comes down to three core principles

The next billion-dollar story might not come from California. It could come from a city where the coffee is stronger and the buildings are older.

yesterday 1

Vidya Peters

I’m a CEO who was raised by a truck driver and a factory worker. The 2.7 billion shift-based workers around the world need tech that works for them

The question for us as innovators is: Are we building systems that protect that pride or chip away at it?

yesterday 1

Silvija Martincevic

The Fed is starting to worry about the housing market now

"A few participants noted a weakening in housing demand, with increased availability of homes for sale and falling house prices."

yesterday 0

Jason Ma

Russia is ‘teetering on the brink of a recession’ and headed for a disastrous harvest, while Putin’s other top source of cash plunges

"We also think there's a significant probability of Russia's economy slipping into a technical recession in the coming quarters."

yesterday 0

Jason Ma

BofA sees the replacement of people with process solving the ‘productivity paradox,’ because ‘a process is almost free and it’s replicable for eternity’

"I think people love this AI technology because it feels like sorcery," BofA's Savita Subramanian said. "The truth is it hasn't really changed the...

yesterday 0

Nick Lichtenberg

Trump halts work on an offshore wind project that’s 80% complete, citing unspecified ‘national security interests’

Revolution Wind was expected to be Rhode Island and Connecticut’s first commercial-scale offshore wind farm, capable of powering more than 350,000...

yesterday 0

Isabella Omalley

Why banks should leverage AI to serve more than the affluent—and build a financial system for everyone

Around one billion people still lack access to formal financial systems. AI can help close the gap—in part by allowing for collateral-free lending.

yesterday 0

Sopnendu Mohanty

A duty-free exemption is about to expire amid Trump’s trade war. So postal services across Europe will halt shipments to the U.S.

The exemption, known as the “de minimis" exemption, allows packages worth less than $800 to come into the U.S. duty free.

yesterday 0

Demetris Nellas

Powell ‘holds the key’ to the next Fed rate move as divided policymakers will likely fail to reach a consensus again, JPMorgan says

Another contested meeting would mark further deviation from the Fed's traditional consensus-driven decision-making process.

yesterday 0

Jason Ma

Powell’s next independence challenge: How to do what Trump has been asking for while preserving credibility

Adam Posen, president of the Peterson Institute, said Powell's remarks translated to: "even if it pleases the president, we’re going to make the...

yesterday 0

Christopher Rugaber

‘Canada currently has the best trade deal with the United States’: Mark Carney backs down on many retaliatory tariffs

"While it’s different from what we had before, it's still better than that of any other country," the prime minister said.

yesterday 0

Rob Gillies

Frank Caprio, Rhode Island’s friendly and folksy municipal judge turned YouTube star, dies at 88

Caprio billed his courtroom as a place “where people and cases are met with kindness and compassion."

yesterday 0

Steve Leblanc

Trump’s Intel deal has already given the government a $1.9 billion gain on paper

The government is getting 433.3 million shares of non-voting stock priced at $20.47 apiece — a discount from Friday's closing price at $24.80.

yesterday 0

Michelle L. Price

‘Eating out is definitely really dangerous’: 17-year-old Californian with severe peanut allergy welcomes legislation on restaurant menu disclosures

“When dining out, obviously I always bring my EpiPens, and I’m really nervous all the time.”

yesterday 0

Terry Chea

Trump’s 19-year war on wind power is ‘weaponizing bureaucracy to undermine American energy production,’ critics say

Trump is tying wind and solar projects up in ever-increasing bureaucratic layers and reviews while expediting fossil fuels.

previous day 10

Jordan Blum

Former Siemens and Alcoa CEO Klaus Kleinfeld dismisses the idea of work-life separation: ‘You are one person’

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previous day 10

Diane Brady

Stop calling for ‘ambitious’ or ‘self-reliant’ workers in job ads—they’re on the list of words that’ll attract narcissists, research suggests

Job ads hunting for “ambitious” and “self-reliant” employees may be doing more harm than good. In offices already riddled with backstabbing and...

previous day 2

Orianna Rosa Royle

Kevin O’Leary flaunts his Louis Vuitton Labubu while hailing the resale market for collectibles—some of which are appreciating better than the S&P 500

O’Leary said some sports cards are potentially be worth millions and are an untapped alternative market.

previous day 4

Marco Quiroz-Gutierrez

China’s economic data is famously unreliable—and could be a warning if Trump meddles with the Bureau of Labor Statistics

Beijing “is really intolerant of economic instability, and so everything gets smoothed,” Derek Scissors of the American Enterprise Institute says...

previous day 4

Nicholas Gordon

Markets worldwide start going on a tear after Jerome Powell signals he’s open to a September rate cut

The S&P 500 looks like it will break a five-day losing streak.

previous day 2

Nick Lichtenberg

Gen Z want ‘secure’ jobs in healthcare—but this CEO left the industry after realizing he could make millions getting Americans to eat more fruit

A medical school grad walked away from a secure path in healthcare to build a $100 million snack company—now he hires without even looking at...

previous day 2

Preston Fore

Walmart’s CFO on competing for tech talent: ‘You’re helping shape the future of retail on a massive scale’

Amid soaring e-commerce sales and rising tech salaries, Walmart is focused on the long term.

previous day 2

Sheryl Estrada

Powell says ‘shifting balance of risks’ may warrant a sooner rate cut

The Federal Reserve chair gave prepared remarks at the Fed’s annual economic symposium in Jackson Hole, Wyoming.

previous day 3

Christopher Rugaber

Private equity dealmaking in aerospace and defense drops 32% in Q2, PitchBook says

PitchBook data shows a 32% year-over-year decline in aerospace and defense deal count, a drop the research platform links to tariffs and broader...

previous day 7

Allie Garfinkle

Microsoft AI CEO Suleyman is worried about ‘AI psychosis’ and AI that seems ‘conscious’

Forget doomsday scenarios of AI overthrowing humanity. Microsoft AI CEO Mustafa Suleyman fears the impact of AI that seems convincingly alive.

previous day 2

Beatrice Nolan

Dow soars over 700 points after Powell’s Jackson Hole speech, on track to blow past all-time high

Treasury yields tumbled in the bond market after the release of the text of Powell’s speech.

previous day 3

Stan Choe

Dreamworks cofounder Jeffrey Katzenberg joins Kimbal Musk’s drone entertainment company to create a ‘new canvas for storytelling’

Nova Sky Stories is also raising $50 million from various investors, including Katzenberg’s tech investment firm, WndrCo.

previous day 2

Alexei Oreskovic

Cracker Barrel’s first rebrand in nearly 50 years backfired. The company’s stock lost nearly $100 million after introducing a more minimalist look

The restaurant chain has gotten heat, accused of going too woke.

previous day 3

Sydney Lake

Winter is coming: U.S. will be most vulnerable to a recession late this year and early next as tariff and immigration fallout peak, top economist says

With the economy facing many threats, it wouldn’t take much to push it into recession, Mark Zandi warns.

previous day 3

Jason Ma

Ethereum brushes record high after Fed Chair says ‘balance of risks’ is shifting

Investors interpreted Jerome Powell’s remarks as evidence for September rate cuts.

previous day 2

Ben Weiss

Canva’s billionaire founders are minting overnight millionaires with employee share sale

Past and present “Canvanauts” will be able to sell up to $3 million of their vested equity, an internal email says.

previous day 2

Nino Paoli

Trump says Intel agreed to give the government 10% of the chipmaker. ‘We do a lot of deals like that. I’ll do more of them’

Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick previously said the U.S. government should receive equity in return for the CHIPS Act cash grants Intel has...

previous day 1

Marco Quiroz-Gutierrez

Sam Altman says colleagues are glad he’s a dad now, because they think raising a child will help him make ‘better decisions for humanity’

The OpenAI CEO and his husband, Oliver Mulherin, welcomed a baby boy in February.

previous day 1

Dave Smith

Warren Buffett and top CEOs say a college degree doesn’t matter. Here’s what really counts in hiring

Business acumen isn’t always learned in school. Just look at Bill Gates.

previous day 1

Ashley Lutz

Elon Musk tried to court Mark Zuckerberg to help him finance xAI’s attempted $98 billion OpenAI takeover, court filing shows

Musk has taken up legal arms against Sam Altman’s OpenAI, not only trying to acquire it in a hostile takeover, but claim the startup breached its...

previous day 1

Sasha Rogelberg

Ex-Applebee’s exec was told she’d never be CEO—she bought the chain and fired her naysayer: ‘We don’t need two of us, so I’m gonna have to let you go’

Multimillionaire baby boomer Julia Stewart grew IHOP’s business and got back at her former employer after being denied the top role. Spanx’s and...

previous day 2

Emma Burleigh

Why does an independent Fed matter? Just look at Ronald Reagan’s economy with Paul Volcker hiking rates to nearly 20%

Independent central banks can more easily take unpopular steps to fight inflation, such as raise interest rates, which makes borrowing more expensive.

previous day 1

Christopher Rugaber

Thousands of private user conversations with Elon Musk’s Grok AI chatbot have exposed on Google Search

More than 370,000 Grok chats have been indexed by search engines, exposing sensitive queries that include intimate medical and psychological...

previous day 1

Beatrice Nolan

Powell’s ‘unusual’ Jackson Hole remarks reveal he’s boxed in by Trump’s tariffs and deportations, risking a 1970s-style mistake, economist Slok says

If inflation starts climbing again after a rate cut, “the Fed will have to reverse course—and in the worst case, start hiking again,” Slok said.

previous day 1

Eva Roytburg

AI recruiters could be the unlikely solution to career catfishing, with job seekers admitting they’d rather interview with a bot

Bosses are at the mercy of catfishing: But new research suggests that respite may be on the way, thanks to AI,

previous day 2

Jessica Coacci

This Gen Zer washed his college basketball team’s dirty clothes to prove his passion—now he’s one of the youngest interns ever at the NBA

Mocked as ‘mop boy,’ Daniel Sung turned a year of college basketball grunt work into a dream NBA internship, LinkedIn fame, and multiple startup...

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Trump on TikTok: ‘We’re gonna watch the security concerns’ and keep extending deadline until ‘things work out’

The Associated Press

Former Twitter employees settle lawsuit where they claimed $500 million of unpaid severance

The Associated Press

Unlike Jensen Huang, this CEO embraces work-life balance and is proud he takes vacations and coached his kids’ baseball team

Preston Fore

African Union endorses campaign to finally fix the maps that massively understate how big the continent really is

Mark Bancherau

Hall of fame jockey Ron Turcotte, the man who rode Secretariat to the Triple Crown, dies at 84

Stephen Whyno

‘OK, this is not your average bird’: Minnesota high school football team’s season delayed by nesting Osprey in floodlights

Mark Vancleave

Colleges have a new worry: ‘Ghost students’—AI powered fraud rings angling to get millions in financial aid

Amanda Gerut

AI isn’t a job killer, it’s a job shifter. We’re one of the biggest employment agencies in the world and we can see where things are moving

Becky Frankiewicz

18 months after becoming the first human implanted with Elon Musk’s brain chip, Neuralink ‘Participant 1’ Noland Arbaugh says his whole life has changed

Jessica Mathews

We built a $1 billion tech unicorn in Europe, living proof that our economy is just as dynamic as America’s. Success comes down to three core principles

Vidya Peters

I’m a CEO who was raised by a truck driver and a factory worker. The 2.7 billion shift-based workers around the world need tech that works for them

Silvija Martincevic

The Fed is starting to worry about the housing market now

Jason Ma

Russia is ‘teetering on the brink of a recession’ and headed for a disastrous harvest, while Putin’s other top source of cash plunges

Jason Ma

BofA sees the replacement of people with process solving the ‘productivity paradox,’ because ‘a process is almost free and it’s replicable for eternity’

Nick Lichtenberg

Trump halts work on an offshore wind project that’s 80% complete, citing unspecified ‘national security interests’

Isabella Omalley

Why banks should leverage AI to serve more than the affluent—and build a financial system for everyone

Sopnendu Mohanty

A duty-free exemption is about to expire amid Trump’s trade war. So postal services across Europe will halt shipments to the U.S.

Demetris Nellas

Powell ‘holds the key’ to the next Fed rate move as divided policymakers will likely fail to reach a consensus again, JPMorgan says

Jason Ma

Powell’s next independence challenge: How to do what Trump has been asking for while preserving credibility

Christopher Rugaber

‘Canada currently has the best trade deal with the United States’: Mark Carney backs down on many retaliatory tariffs

Rob Gillies

Frank Caprio, Rhode Island’s friendly and folksy municipal judge turned YouTube star, dies at 88

Steve Leblanc

Trump’s Intel deal has already given the government a $1.9 billion gain on paper

Michelle L. Price

‘Eating out is definitely really dangerous’: 17-year-old Californian with severe peanut allergy welcomes legislation on restaurant menu disclosures

Terry Chea

Trump’s 19-year war on wind power is ‘weaponizing bureaucracy to undermine American energy production,’ critics say

Jordan Blum

Former Siemens and Alcoa CEO Klaus Kleinfeld dismisses the idea of work-life separation: ‘You are one person’

Diane Brady

Stop calling for ‘ambitious’ or ‘self-reliant’ workers in job ads—they’re on the list of words that’ll attract narcissists, research suggests

Orianna Rosa Royle

Kevin O’Leary flaunts his Louis Vuitton Labubu while hailing the resale market for collectibles—some of which are appreciating better than the S&P 500

Marco Quiroz-Gutierrez

China’s economic data is famously unreliable—and could be a warning if Trump meddles with the Bureau of Labor Statistics

Nicholas Gordon

Markets worldwide start going on a tear after Jerome Powell signals he’s open to a September rate cut

Nick Lichtenberg

Gen Z want ‘secure’ jobs in healthcare—but this CEO left the industry after realizing he could make millions getting Americans to eat more fruit

Preston Fore

Walmart’s CFO on competing for tech talent: ‘You’re helping shape the future of retail on a massive scale’

Sheryl Estrada

Powell says ‘shifting balance of risks’ may warrant a sooner rate cut

Christopher Rugaber

Private equity dealmaking in aerospace and defense drops 32% in Q2, PitchBook says

Allie Garfinkle

Microsoft AI CEO Suleyman is worried about ‘AI psychosis’ and AI that seems ‘conscious’

Beatrice Nolan

Dow soars over 700 points after Powell’s Jackson Hole speech, on track to blow past all-time high

Stan Choe

Dreamworks cofounder Jeffrey Katzenberg joins Kimbal Musk’s drone entertainment company to create a ‘new canvas for storytelling’

Alexei Oreskovic

Cracker Barrel’s first rebrand in nearly 50 years backfired. The company’s stock lost nearly $100 million after introducing a more minimalist look

Sydney Lake

Winter is coming: U.S. will be most vulnerable to a recession late this year and early next as tariff and immigration fallout peak, top economist says

Jason Ma

Ethereum brushes record high after Fed Chair says ‘balance of risks’ is shifting