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LeBron James took a pay cut to maybe live in New York and commute to Philly by chopper, risking double taxation as NYC also tries to ban helicopters

LeBron James might commute to Philadelphia via helicopter from New York, and if he does call the Big Apple home, he'll face some big taxes too.

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Catherina Gioino

A Nobel economist challenged Elon Musk to donate his entire $1T fortune by 2036. Musk’s reply: ‘I am actually going to do something along these lines’

Musk has historically been apprehensive about philanthropy, so his Monday statement would be a major change for billionaire and trillionaire giving as...

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Sydney Lake

Sam Altman thinks the singularity is already here, but an expert says OpenAI’s Hugging Face breach doesn’t prove it

“It’s the first time in like more than a decade I've thought about what is the next thing,” the OpenAI CEO said.

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Marco Quiroz-Gutierrez

OpenAI’s first hardware device debuted at $230. Now, it’s on eBay for $1,850

Although it's not the mysterious device OpenAI is developing with Jony Ive, the Codex Micro sold out the day it went on sale in 12 hours.

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Emily Forlini

Highbrow box-office king Christopher Nolan seals biggest second weekend ever with $87 million haul for ‘The Odyssey’

The 41 rare 70mm IMAX screens are booked solid through September. Top analyst Paul Dergarabedian sees a "marathon, not a sprint."

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Lindsey Bahr

A trove of users’ seemingly private conversations with Anthropic’s Claude AI chatbot showed up in Google search results

The topics of the seemingly inadvertently exposed chats ranged from erotica, programming chats, work notes, and fake book reviews.

yesterday 1

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Beatrice Nolan

The war between competing AI models could end up more like Apple vs. Android than VHS vs. Betamax

"While the contest between open and proprietary AI is often presented as a winner-takes-all format war, the most likely outcome is a combination of...

yesterday 0

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Jason Ma

The new Air Force One controversy is really about a 90-year power struggle over presidential travel

From Roosevelt's wartime flying boat to Bush's scramble on 9/11, the aircraft has quietly reshaped how presidents wield power at home and abroad.

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Peter Kastor

The Strait of Hormuz isn’t fertilizer’s first starring role — and 1856 law still defines U.S. overseas territory

When governments began to treat guano as a strategic resource, Congress responded with the Guano Islands Act of 1856.

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Edward D. Melillo

Sit back and watch the birds—your health will thank you, data shows

A psychologist says scientific research have cited consistent evidence to show spending time in nature leads to health improvements.

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The Conversation

Rising temperatures are putting students at risk of heat-related illnesses, and schools are scrambling to adapt

Extreme heat has increased in frequency, intensity and duration, according to University researchers.

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The Conversation

Oprah Winfrey says ‘life starts at 44’—and research proves she’s right: the average founder starts their business after 40

Billionaire Oprah Winfrey says she “locked in” in her 40s—as most CEOs and founders are middle-aged.

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Emma Burleigh

Trip.com struck with $765 million penalty from China over monopoly allegations

China alleges Trip.com prohibited hotels from collaborating with competing platforms and entered exclusive partnerships.

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The Associated Press

Why did a $154 billion CEO just endorse stripping most Americans of voting rights—and taking us back to the 19th century?

Should how much you pay in taxes determine how much your vote counts? Shopify CEO Tobi Lütke seems to think so.

yesterday 1

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Nick Lichtenberg

U.S. and Iran edge toward talks as Hormuz shipping hits three-week low, regional officials say

Qatar- and Pakistan-led mediators are pushing the U.S. and Iran to return to an interim ceasefire deal that had collapsed after the exchanges of fire

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The Associated Press

Canadian intern at NATO’s military headquarters arrested on espionage charges

Belgian authorities arrested a Canadian woman of Chinese origin accused of spying for a third country inside NATO headquarters as an intern.

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Sam McNeil

Fuel prices stemming from a war in Iran is reshaping daily life for people in the U.S. and Chile to Turkey and Nepal

A Santiago cabdriver, an Istanbul carpet seller and a Lagos printer are among those absorbing fuel costs that have doubled since the war began.

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The Associated Press

Netanyahu accuses Mamdani of ‘fomenting hate,’ saying ‘he’s supposed to the mayor of all New Yorkers’ — waving off ICC war crimes charges

"He’s trying to turn one group against the other," said the Israeli president who has fought at least two wars in three years.

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Lisa Mascaro

In the Age of Big Players, $100,000 buys you a head start on Trump’s mood

It can even buy you something in Xi’s China and Modi’s India, too. The political economy debate about capitalism vs. socialism isn't wrong, it's...

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Steve H. Hanke

Europe has an electrification target. Here’s how it can become a competitive advantage

The European Commission’s ambitious electrification target isn’t just about improving energy security, says Andreas Schierenbeck. It offers Europe...

yesterday 1

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Andreas Schierenbeck

Hybrid work has a $9 million problem. The fix depends on who you ask

Scrambling for conference rooms and juggling Zoom calls isn't free. A new study breaks down the real cost—and two CEOs on opposite sides of the RTO...

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Kristin Stoller

‘It looked like the apocalypse’: France’s summer of deadly heat turns into a wildfire that is making its own lightning

Near Bordeaux, a wildfire grew so intense it spawned self-feeding firestorms, forcing 220,000 people from their homes.

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Mark Carlson

Canada’s awkward tariff summer: Gordie Howe Bridge opens for traffic a week after Michigan and White House officials got uninvited

Trump slapped 50% tariffs on Canadian goods, then posted "We changed the terms" as Windsor celebrated the new Gordie Howe crossing without him.

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The Associated Press

A Chinese chip maker’s shares surged 466% in their first day of trading as AI boom worm turns

CXMT shares rocketed on their debut, becoming mainland China's most valuable listed company — as Washington debates banning it outright

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Chan Ho-Him

Capital One’s MLB partnership is turning fan experiences into long-term customer value

The company is using All-Star activations and cardholder-only MLB perks to deepen customer experience.

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Sheryl Estrada

‘Kryptonite to November voters’: Trump’s Michigan visit puts the GOP’s dilemma on display

Trump is visiting a GM facility in Milford, with early voting underway for Michigan's Aug. 4 primary.

yesterday 1

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Will Weissert

Europe’s employers face a new challenge—keeping workers safe during heatwaves

As temperatures hit record peaks across the continent, European companies are shifting working hours and issuing cooling kits to keep workers safe and...

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Oliver Balch

Trump can’t stop shooting himself in the foot, as the stage looks set once again for Warsh to hold—if not hike—interest rates

"After months of upside inflation surprises, patience is wearing thin," writes EY-Parthenon's Gregory Daco.

yesterday 9

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Eleanor Pringle

Apple’s next CEO helped build its hardware empire. Now he has to find its next breakthrough

Apple’s incoming CEO John Ternus inherits an operational powerhouse with the challenge of reigniting the breakthrough product innovation that once...

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Ruth Umoh

The midterms may come down to just 20 House races, including ‘the swingiest swing state’: Pennsylvania

House Democratic leader Hakeem Jeffries on Sunday unveiled the party's Fighting for an Affordable America agenda, kicking off 100 days until...

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Mike Catalini

Current price of oil as of July 27, 2026

When oil prices change, it affects your energy costs—and even the price of everyday items. Here’s why.

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Joseph Hostetler

How an ex-AWS scientist plans to take on OpenAI and Meta in voice AI models

Boson AI founder Alex Smola believes voice models are ready to take AI, and human-machine interaction, to the next level.

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Sebastian Herrera

StubHub CEO Eric Baker is under scrutiny for enabling mass scalpers on his ticket reselling platform

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yesterday 10

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Diane Brady

Stocks rise globally on hopes of peace talks with Iran—but the Fed may deliver a shock on Wednesday

Everything you need to know before you reach the office this morning.

yesterday 10

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Jim Edwards

One-third of Seattle’s downtown is empty: Here’s how America’s boomtown turned into one of the toughest places to find a job

What exactly has happened to work in the Emerald City?

yesterday 10

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Nick Lichtenberg

China is using the steel playbook on AI — and America’s tech billionaires are standing in the blast zone

Scott Galloway thinks it's "modern-day steel dumping." Here's a look at what he means.

yesterday 10

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Nick Lichtenberg

Money usually wins elections. Billionaires have already poured $433 million into the 2026 midterms—and 80% of it is going to Republicans

The bigger spender wins up to 90% of the time. But strategists on both sides say money follows winners more than it makes them.

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Sydney Lake

Amazon and Microsoft are spending $400 billion on AI—and investors are low on patience

Days after Wall Street punished Alphabet for its unbridled spending on AI infrastructure, the world's two leading cloud giants are set to provide the...

yesterday 10

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Amanda Gerut

New York City women are making up to $30,000 per month by renting out their closets to strangers

Pickle, a peer-to-peer luxury clothing rental service, has taken New York City by storm, and women are cashing in.

yesterday 20

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Sarah Glodek

Greenhouse CEO says job seekers are paying $20 to apply for every job on the hiring platform and spamming bosses—he calls it the AI doom loop

Job seekers are spamming every job with AI. Employers are using AI to filter them out. Greenhouse's CEO says it's created a doom loop for everyone.

yesterday 10

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Orianna Rosa Royle

AI and the ‘skinny hamburger, fat bun’ problem — why the future of work needs to look more like a pizza

Yahoo Finance GM George Leimer led the development of a new investing product, AlphaSpace, and his team has shipped over 100 new features in two...

yesterday 10

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Nick Lichtenberg

McKinsey: Global households got $40 trillion richer in 2025 as the paper wealth economy swelled to $1.8 quadrillion

That's right, quadrillion with a "Q."

yesterday 10

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Nick Lichtenberg

Kospi index and U.S. stock futures jump as new Hormuz talks send oil prices plunging amid Iran war pause while Wall Street awaits Fed meeting

Iran and Oman are also in talks that center around having Iran run vessel transit through the Strait of Hormuz with fewer restrictions on ships.

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Jason Ma

James Cameron tried to warn us: ‘Skynet Day’ is now shorthand for OpenAI’s agent going rogue and hacking into a startup

In what OpenAI said was the first-ever incident of its kind, an advanced AI model escaped its “sandbox” to the internet and used stolen...

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Laurie Kellman

Romania scrambles F-16 jets to shoot down a suspected Russian ‘Shahed type’ drone, marking the fourth recent violation of NATO airspace

Before the last three interceptions, Romanian jets shot down a drone in the sky above Estonia in May.

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Sam McNeil

Big Tech earnings slam into a market in revolt over AI spending

Earnings from Microsoft and Meta Platforms are due on Wednesday, followed by Apple and Amazon on Thursday.

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Jeran Wittenstein

Traders are getting a new tool to wager on the biggest U.S. stocks

CME Group Inc. will launch single-stock futures Monday, allowing investors to hedge or speculate on more than 50 of the largest US companies.

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Bernard Goyder

China’s Moonshot, Z.AI, and DeepSeek are challenging U.S. AI labs—and beating them on cost

“The AI ecosystem in China is probably much better than people thought."

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Nicholas Gordon

Mideast oil may soon have no way out amid ‘everything everywhere all at once’ wars, but the crisis in refined products is even worse

"So we are starting to talk about the kind of no way out scenarios because of this new Red Sea unrest."

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Jason Ma

U.S. troops killed recently were moved from the Iran war death toll to ‘overseas operations’ after the Pentagon claimed ‘temporary data disruptions’

Pentagon press secretary Joel Valdez argued Thursday that the drop in casualty figures in the online system was not an effort to hide the growing...

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Konstantin Toropin