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Sleep tourism is now a $690 billion industry. Here's where Europe does it best

Reykjavik's near-silent nights, Vilnius's blackout-curtain hotels, Zürich's low light pollution — the cities multiple 2026 studies keep naming as...

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Colleen Cabili

Greece just became the world's best place to retire. Here's the full 2026 ranking

A 7% flat tax on foreign income, a $2,000-a-month budget for a couple, healthcare that rivals anywhere in Europe — why International Living's 35th...

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Colleen Cabili

The best — and most beloved — Disney songs of all time, ranked

From Circle of Life's opening roar to The Bare Necessities' laid-back bear wisdom, the ten greatest Disney songs of all time

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Ambia Staley

Broadcom's record $29.6 billion quarterly revenue failed to impress Wall Street

The chipmaker's semiconductor solutions segment more than doubled year over year, driven by custom AI accelerator demand

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Anthony Lopopolo

The coolcation trend is real. Here are 7 destinations driving the 16% airfare spike

Reykjavik's 11°C summers, Zermatt's alpine air, a Vietnamese hill town that jumped from fifth to second place in local bookings — the destinations...

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Colleen Cabili

The leadership problem companies keep treating from the outside

Leadership development may work best from the inside out, beginning with self-awareness, emotional regulation, and intentional behavior.

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Jake Cole

These 7 countries will pay you to relocate in 2026, and here's the actual catch

$25,000 in Switzerland, €84,000 in Ireland, $80,000 in startup funding in Chile — the real relocation incentives on offer, and the residency...

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Colleen Cabili

Ford's pickup production is hitting multi-year highs as U.S. sales slump drags on

Super Duty output reached a 20-year high in August, but F-Series sales remain down 10.9% this year following supplier fires

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Cris Tolomia

Google won't be forced to sell its ad exchange after judge rejects DOJ breakup bid

A federal judge in Virginia declined to order Google to sell AdX, handing the DOJ its second straight loss in efforts to break up the tech giant

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Cris Tolomia

Trump is meeting with airline and hotel CEOs to tout a World Cup travel boom

U.S. travel spending rose 6.2% in June, but overseas arrivals fell 7% in July as the industry works to sustain momentum

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Cris Tolomia

NY Fed president is warming to a rate hike ahead of September's critical meeting

Williams said there's "no clear science" on whether current policy is tight enough to bring inflation back to the Fed's 2% target

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Cris Tolomia

The best — and most influential — songs of the 2000s

From bedroom producers and garage rock to arena anthems, the ten best songs of the decade that put music on a hard drive

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Ambia Staley

Top 20 most viewed music videos on YouTube in 2026

The most viewed music videos on YouTube span reggaeton, K-pop and a decade-old novelty track about a candy mascot, each ranked with its exact view...

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Cris Tolomia

5 travel-size items that solve every hygiene emergency, per Consumer Reports

A sticky bathroom or greasy hair can ruin a good trip. Consumer Reports staffers shared their go-to fixes for travel messes

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Colleen Cabili

The 10 best karaoke songs ever made

From K-pop breakout singles to decades-old pop anthems that still get a full bar singing, the ten greatest karaoke songs ever ranked

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Ambia Staley

4 products to help you stay comfortable the entire trip: Consumer Reports

A cramped seat and stale airport water make travel harder. Consumer Reports staffers shared the gear that eases a long trip

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Colleen Cabili

5 U.S. states where your housing dollar goes furthest in 2026 — and 5 where it doesn't

The cheapest states to buy a house in 2026 stretch a budget the furthest, while five pricier markets show where it shrinks fastest

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Cris Tolomia

These are the 10 best love songs of all time

From 1960s soul ballads still anchoring wedding playlists to viral-era tracks that became cultural moments overnight, the greatest love songs ever

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Ambia Staley

8 portable tech essentials to pack for every trip: Consumer Reports

A dead phone battery can derail an entire day of travel. Consumer Reports staffers shared the tech they never leave home without

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Colleen Cabili

Meta has permanently disabled cameras on thousands of smart glasses over privacy light tampering

The company estimates less than 0.1% of all glasses sold were affected, but with 7 million units sold in 2025 alone, that puts the number in the...

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Cris Tolomia

Ford is recalling 148,000 Mustangs over a wiring defect that could cut power

The recall covers 2024–2026 Mustang models and stems from a wiring harness ground connection that may fracture

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Cris Tolomia

Palo Alto Networks CEO says there's a $1 trillion AI security gap

CEO Nikesh Arora says legacy security systems can't handle AI-speed attacks, calling it a long-term growth driver for the industry

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Cris Tolomia

Berkshire's CEO says rising Japanese bond yields aren't worrying its trading house partners

Greg Abel said none of the five Japanese trading firms Berkshire holds stakes in flagged rising yields as a fundamental problem

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Cris Tolomia

Ryanair is slashing its winter schedule to dodge soaring jet fuel costs

The budget carrier trimmed its fiscal 2027 passenger target by 2 million, saying the move could cut winter losses by up to €100 million

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Cris Tolomia

John Deere is launching an AI assistant to help farmers make sense of their field data

The tool, built into Deere's Operations Center mobile app, draws on field data to help guide decisions on fertilizer use and other choices

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Cris Tolomia

Berkshire Hathaway's CEO is warning of a data center backlash spreading across the U.S.

Greg Abel told CNBC that Berkshire will serve hyperscalers only if doing so doesn't raise costs for its existing utility customers

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Cris Tolomia

Apple stock is becoming investors' go-to hedge as the AI trade wobbles

Apple's 30-day correlation to the Nasdaq-100 hit its most inverse level since 2005, according to a CNBC analysis

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Cris Tolomia

CrowdStrike and Nvidia are launching a new AI system built specifically for cyber defense

The SafeMind system pairs an offensive model that finds attack paths with a defensive model that closes them, running in a continuous loop

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Cris Tolomia

SpaceX is building its own gas turbine blade factory to power AI faster

Elon Musk says making blades and vanes in-house could bring natural gas turbines online up to 18 months faster

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Cris Tolomia

Anthropic is replacing a controversial data retention policy after pushback from enterprise customers

The company says its new Enterprise Frontier Safeguards system lets businesses store and control their own data while Anthropic runs automated safety...

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Cris Tolomia

Apple's new CEO John Ternus will take home a $58 million pay package

Ternus will earn a $3 million annual salary and a $55 million stock award target, while Tim Cook's new chairman role is valued at $47 million

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Meta's $18 billion settlement could clear the way for a wave of new AI products, analysts say

Meta will book a $10 billion legal charge in Q3 as analysts flag the timing against up to $145 billion in capital expenditure this year

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Cris Tolomia

Google is readying a coding-focused AI model to narrow the gap with Anthropic and OpenAI

Gemini 3.8 Flash, known internally as "Skimaki," is expected to release Wednesday, according to the Wall Street Journal

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Cris Tolomia

Palo Alto Networks topped earnings expectations but its stock kept falling

The cybersecurity company posted $3.41 billion in revenue and $1.02 adjusted EPS, both above estimates, but its stock fell in after-hours trading

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Cris Tolomia

Record oil flowed through the Strait of Hormuz on Monday, Wright tells CNBC

More than 17 million barrels moved through the strait on Monday, Wright told CNBC, surpassing pre-war levels when bypass pipelines are counted

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Cris Tolomia

U.S. private sector added just 38,000 jobs in August, missing expectations

The gain was the smallest since January and fell short of the 47,000 consensus estimate, with most hiring concentrated in education and health...

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Cris Tolomia

UnitedHealthcare is dropping prior approval requirements for 1,700 treatments in October

The nation's largest health insurer said the change, taking effect Oct. 1, is part of a commitment to cut prior authorization volume by 30% by...

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Cris Tolomia

MongoDB stock sank after beating earnings but signaling slower growth ahead

The database company topped revenue and profit estimates for its fiscal second quarter, but Atlas revenue grew at the same pace for a third straight...

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Cris Tolomia

OpenAI's Astra model is cleared for release after hitting its highest cybersecurity risk threshold

The company said Astra is the first model it has designated "Critical" under its Preparedness Framework, capable of finding and exploiting unknown...

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Cris Tolomia

Novartis stock surged after its oral multiple sclerosis pill passed two late-stage trials

The oral drug remibrutinib cut relapse rates in patients with relapsing multiple sclerosis, beating a rival treatment in both studies

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Cris Tolomia

Berkshire's CEO explained its $37 billion Google stake, calling the tech giant a key AI player

Greg Abel told CNBC that visibility into how Berkshire's portfolio companies use AI drove the conglomerate's growing bet on Google

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Cris Tolomia

Global bond yields are surging to multi-decade highs as inflation fears mount

The 10-year U.S. Treasury yield rose to 4.81% on Wednesday as Middle East conflict drives oil prices higher and rate hike bets grow

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Cris Tolomia

PwC sees $31.6 trillion in data center spending through 2050 as AI drives demand

Annual data center capital expenditure is projected to more than double from $800 billion this year to $1.8 trillion by 2050, driven by recurring chip...

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Cris Tolomia

Uber is slashing 3,300 jobs in a company-wide management overhaul

The cuts represent 10% of Uber's global workforce and will reduce the number of managers by 20%

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Cris Tolomia

Wall Street braces for more losses as yields hit 2-year high

Stock futures dipped Wednesday as bond yields rose globally and oil prices topped $90 a barrel, fanning inflation fears

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Cris Tolomia

Anthropic is making its most powerful AI coding model cheaper to run

The new model cuts cache read prices by 75%, with savings reaching up to 45% for complex agentic coding tasks

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Cris Tolomia

Chevron is committing $7 billion to more than double its Venezuela oil output

The oil major plans to raise its Venezuela output to 600,000 barrels per day from around 280,000 bpd currently

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Cris Tolomia

Top fall weekend getaways for a family escape

Plan a memorable fall weekend getaway with these destinations, from colorful Reno-Tahoe and historic Charleston to Boston, Maine and upstate New York

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Haley Chamberlain

AI is learning from social media’s mistakes

OpenAI’s new ChatGPT safeguards for teens echo the changes Meta agreed to make, but chatbots pose a harder problem

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Jackie Snow