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Why Singapore is the only Southeast Asian country in Pax Silica, the U.S.’s new AI ‘inner circle’

Singapore is “precisely the kind of ‘trusted node’ the U.S. is seeking to anchor AI-era supply chains,” says Ruben Durante, a professor at...

yesterday 10

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Angelica Ang

Orlando’s iconic swans are dead. Authorities suspect bird flu

The deaths of the swans at Lake Eola don't appear to be suspicious, Orlando City Commissioner Patty Sheehan said Monday on social media.

yesterday 3

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The Associated Press

Crackdown on anti-ICE TikToker backfires as judge throws out case for lack of access to lawyers in immigration detention

U.S. authorities say Carlitos Ricardo Parias is a Mexican citizen living in the country illegally. A judge dismissed the case with prejudice.

yesterday 4

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The Associated Press

Putin ally Alisher Usmanov agrees to pay $11.8 million fine to resolve German federal probe

The Uzbek-born Russian billionaire, who was reelected as president of the International Fencing Federation last year, has faced EU sanctions since...

yesterday 3

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The Associated Press

Ilhan Omar urges Americans not to blame the Somali community for the actions of a relative few as FBI investigation surges

Minnesota has been under the spotlight for years for Medicaid fraud, including a $300 million pandemic case involving the nonprofit Feeding Our...

yesterday 2

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The Associated Press

Wages are actually growing faster than inflation. Here’s why you don’t believe it

“I’m less convinced about this K-shaped recovery than other people are,” Harvard's Jason Furman says. But look at the bottom of the scale.

yesterday 2

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Sasha Rogelberg

Simon Sinek says not to worry about salaries during a job interview. Instead, ‘choose the job based on who you’re going to work for’

“Yes, I made less money than all of my friends in the short term,” Sinek said. But “I got an education and care from somebody who took me under...

yesterday 3

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Sydney Lake

AI adoption at scale is hard. Just look at India, which processes about 20 billion transactions every month 

The most valuable AI systems will not look dramatic. They will look ordinary. They will fade into routine decisions and familiar processes.

yesterday 10

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Shankar Maruwada

A vicious cycle beats a virtuous one: How Warren Buffett’s Geico fell behind Progressive in the auto insurance race

While Geico was investing in marketing and neglecting IT, its rival Progressive was investing in technology and gaining market share.

yesterday 4

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Adam Seessel

Mark Zuckerberg’s Meta is dropping over $2 billion for an AI startup—a rare example of a U.S. tech giant buying a platform founded in China

Silicon Valley's AI spending spree continues, but with a new geopolitical wrinkle.

yesterday 3

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Dave Smith

YouTuber’s viral ‘Somali daycare’ video spurs sweeping federal fraud probe in Minnesota as Walz defends oversight of $18 billion

Kash Patel and Kristi Noem are looking closely at Minnesota after an independent journalist's 40-minute video raised many views—and questions.

yesterday 3

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Nick Lichtenberg

This 22-year-old college dropout is making $700,000 a year from ‘AI slop’ videos that people sleep through

Gen Zer Adavia Davis dropped out of college after buying a Tesla Model 3 with Youtube money. His AI-generated videos now earn $60k a month

yesterday 3

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Eva Roytburg

American Airlines pilot’s pay stub shows surprisingly ‘elite money,’ with $458,000 in year-to-date compensation

A viral post of a Miami-based American Airlines captain’s paycheck puts pilot compensation at the center of a broader debate.

yesterday 3

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Ashley Lutz

Georgia’s ‘America First’ license plates, Washington’s $17 minimum wage and Hawaii’s climate change tourist tax: new laws are on the books

The first of the year brings a variety of new state laws, including some that appear to contain first-of-their-kind policies, programs or procedures.

yesterday 3

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David A. Lieb

Warren Buffett’s blind spot: Did the digital economy leave him behind?

Warren Buffett posted pedestrian investment returns over the last years of his career, due largely to a failure to grasp the potential of Big Tech.

yesterday 3

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Adam Seessel

Buddhist monks peace-walking from Texas to DC persist even after being run over on highway outside Houston

A group of Buddhist monks is persevering in their walking trek across much of the U.S. to promote peace, even after two of its members were...

yesterday 3

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Nick Lichtenberg

The resistance is jazzy: Trump’s renaming of Kennedy Center continues to blow up in his face as musicians revolt

“The artists who are now canceling shows were booked by the previous far left leadership,” Richard Grenell wrote on X.

yesterday 4

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Nick Lichtenberg

Warren Buffett plans to keep coming to the office every day, despite stepping down as Berkshire CEO at 94 years old

If successor Greg Abel can’t find a productive use of the $382 billion cash that Berkshire is sitting on, there may be a push from investors.

yesterday 2

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Josh Funk

An AI super-bull who just backed the Nvidia-Groq deal warns of a data center bust: ‘We foresee a significant financial crisis’

Alex Davis says third-party data-center developers will eventually be jilted by the hyperscalers they serve, and face a subsequent debt crisis.

yesterday 2

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Eva Roytburg

No, the White House can’t defund the CFPB, judge says, just days before agency would run out of cash

At the heart of this case is whether budget bigwig Russell Vought can effectively shut down the agency and lay off all of the bureau's employees.

yesterday 2

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Ken Sweet

Meet the Teddy Roosevelt terrier, one of the American Kennel Club’s new dog breeds for 2026

Another is a toy dog from Cold War-era Russia. The third is a centuries-old French hunting hound.

yesterday 2

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Jennifer Peltz

The government paid $5 million instead of $50,000 to a Florida Democrat’s healthcare company. She claims innocence from fraud

According to the indictment, within two months of receiving the funds in 2021, more than $100,000 had been spent on a yellow diamond ring.

yesterday 2

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David Fischer

Travelers from London to Paris stranded as power problems, stuck train shut down Channel Tunnel

“I’m disgusted, disheartened,” said Sarah Omouri, a French traveler whose plans to celebrate the New Year in London were dashed.

yesterday 2

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Alex Turnbull

ChatGPT gets ‘anxiety’ from violent user inputs, so researchers are teaching the chatbot mindfulness techniques to ‘soothe’ it

A study on how to “calm down” chatbots could advance how AI is applied in mental health interventions, according to the authors.

yesterday 1

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Sasha Rogelberg

Tatiana Schlossberg, granddaughter of JFK and cousin of Health Secretary RFK Jr., dies of cancer at 35

Her death comes just weeks after she publicly revealed in The New Yorker that she had been diagnosed with acute myeloid leukemia.

yesterday 2

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Nick Lichtenberg

Exiting CEO left each employee at his family-owned company a $443,000 gift—but they have to stay 5 more years to get all of it

Some CEOs have been very generous when selling their companies, but there’s little to compare with what Fibrebond’s Graham Walker just did.

yesterday 3

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Nick Lichtenberg

Corporate board service isn’t charity. It’s risk capital

"How much is too much?" It's an easy question, and the wrong one.

yesterday 1

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Jane Sadowsky

‘Our beautiful Tatiana passed away this morning. She will always be in our hearts’: Kennedy family mourns yet another tragic death

Schlossberg had worked as a reporter covering climate change and the environment for The New York Times’ Science section.

yesterday 1

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Marc Levy

Meta claims ‘no continuing Chinese ownership interests in Manus AI’ after reported $2 billion deal to shore up in AI agent race

Manus, a Singapore-based platform with some Chinese roots, launched its first “general-purpose” AI agent earlier this year.

yesterday 10

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The Associated Press

‘I opened her door and the wind caught me, and I went flying’: The U.S. Arctic air surge is sweeping northerners off their feet

Nationwide, more than 115,000 customers were without power Tuesday morning, around a third of them in Michigan, according to Poweroutage.us.

yesterday 1

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Holly Ramer

Nvidia’s Groq bet shows that the economics of AI chip-building are still unsettled

Nvidia believes running AI models will be highly profitable, but its Groq deal reflects uncertainty over which chips and architectures will dominate.

yesterday 2

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Sharon Goldman

Homeland Security investigates Minnesota for apparent fraud costing taxpayers as much as $9 billion

A federal prosecutor alleged earlier in December that half or more of the roughly $18 billion in federal funds that supported 14 programs in...

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The Associated Press

Silicon Valley summit offers rare insight into humanoid robots—and China is the clear winner

China is leading in part due to government incentives for component production and robot adoption and a mandate last year “to have a humanoid...

previous day 8

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Matt Obrien

Zohran Mamdani’s moment of truth: These factors will make or break the NYC mayor-elect’s ambitious agenda

Mamdani, a 34-year-old democratic socialist, already faces intense scrutiny, even before taking office in one of the country's most scrutinized...

previous day 6

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Anthony Izaguirre

Florida congresswoman accused of stealing $5 million in COVID funds insists she’s innocent

Prosecutors said that within two months of receiving the funds in 2021, more than $100,000 had been spent on a 3-carat yellow diamond ring for the...

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David Fischer

Trump claims victory in drug-smuggling crackdown, but key details remain a mystery

“There was a major explosion in the dock area where they load the boats up with drugs," Trump said.

previous day 6

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Michelle L. Price

How to win your money resolutions in 2026: From emergency funds to savings goals

“New Year’s is a really good time to review and realign your financial goals overall,” said Erica Grundza, certified financial planner at...

previous day 10

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Adriana Morga

OpenAI is hiring a ‘head of preparedness’ with a $550,000 salary to mitigate AI dangers that CEO Sam Altman warns will be ‘stressful’

The tech company’s search for a new safety executive comes amid growing concern over the risk of AI.

previous day 10

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Sasha Rogelberg

$25,000 per month: the cost of Trump tariffs on small business importers, revealed

The Center for American Progress said the tariffs haven't been a Christmas gift for American business, more like a lump of coal.

previous day 10

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Nick Lichtenberg

No one’s happier about calls for a ‘backseat Fed’ than Fed insiders who were targeted by the White House this year

"How much can truly change under a single administration?" I asked one source. "Three years is a long time yet," came the response.

previous day 10

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Eleanor Pringle

Trump says he still might fire Powell as Fed chair pick looms

Trump added the Powell should resign and that he’d “love to fire him.”

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Josh Wingrove

Trump warns U.S. will ‘knock the hell out of’ Iran’s nuclear capabilities if it’s rebuilding them amid Israeli concerns about long-range missiles

"We'll knock them down. We'll knock the hell out of them. But hopefully that’s not happening.”

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Will Weissert

Gen Z could wave goodbye to résumés because most companies have turned to skills-based recruitment—and find it more effective, research shows

It might not be long until résumé are a thing of the past because most bosses are favoring skills-based hiring and reporting big results. 

previous day 10

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Orianna Rosa Royle

YouTube’s cofounder and former tech boss doesn’t want his kids to watch short videos, warning short-form content ‘equates to shorter attention spans’

Steve Chen said companies that distribute short-form video should add safeguards for kids.

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Marco Quiroz-Gutierrez

Every year, a billionaire CEO doles out $1,000 checks to local college grads—with a catch: They have to give half the money to charity

“The turmoil in our country has increased the need for caring, sharing and compassion,” Rob Hale said.

previous day 10

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Sydney Lake

‘We’ve gotten out of whack’ by fixating so much on Fed rates, but the loss of its independence will be punished, BofA CEO Brian Moynihan says

"There's too much fascination with the Fed," Moynihan said.

previous day 10

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Jason Ma

The world’s wealthiest families attribute these 7 key habits for success, according to JPMorgan

The secret to building serious wealth comes down starting with how often you pick up a book—a habit top minds like Bill Gates and Warren Buffett...

previous day 10

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Preston Fore

The Netflix-Paramount saga caps a 2025 turning point, S&P says: Cable TV is in the ‘decline stage,’ with a long, slow bleedout ahead

"These decisions signify a shift in the media industry as companies abandon cable networks in favor of streaming services."

previous day 10

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Nick Lichtenberg

The weakest labor market since 2011 has BofA asking, ‘Dude, where’s my job?’

"A lack of recovery in the jobs market and a slower U.S. economy are key risks to watch for 2026."

previous day 10

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Nick Lichtenberg

African millennials and Gen Z are quitting their big-city dreams to go make more money back on the farm

“A lot of my friends who graduated at the same time as me now work as motorcycle taxi drivers and barely make a living,” says 33-year-old Filly...

previous day 10

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Mark Banchereau