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Alexandra Tremayne-Pengelly

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Ken Griffin Says International Graduates Should Automatically Receive Visas

"I do not understand our unwillingness to embrace a path to citizenship for those who come here for their education."

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Bill Gates Says His Foundation Will Spend Down 99% of His Fortune and Close by 2045

"People will say a lot of things about me when I die, but I am determined that 'he died rich' will not be one of them."

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Can Warren Buffett’s Legacy Continue to Power Omaha?

Omaha locals say Warren Buffett's legacy won't go away anytime soon.

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Uber’s Business Model Remains Tariff-Proof, Says CEO Dara Khosrowshahi

Uber sidesteps tariff fallout as CEO Khosrowshahi signals steady consumer demand and limited exposure to macroeconomic volatility.

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CEO Jim Farley Says Ford Can Offset $1B in Tariff Costs

Ford CEO Jim Farley says the company will take a $1.5 billion tariff hit in 2025. Bill Pugliano/Getty Images Ford is about as American as it gets....

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Elon Musk’s Starship Launch Site Becomes Official City Run by SpaceX Employees

Elon Musk’s rocket launch site in Boca Chica has officially incorporated as Starbase, a company town run by SpaceX employees.

06.05.2025 6

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Business Leaders Sing Warren Buffett’s Praises After His Surprise Retirement

Billionaire investor Mark Cuban called Buffett "a legend and my investing hero" in an emailed statement to Observer.

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Tim Cook Says Tariffs Will Cost Apple at Least $900M in April-June Quarter

Tim Cook Says Tariffs Will Cost Apple at Least $900M in April-June Quarter

Apple CEO Tim Cook warned that tariffs will add $900 million in costs. Cooper Neill/Getty Images Apple (AAPL) CEO Tim Cook was peppered with...

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GM and Ford CEOs Say New Auto Tariffs Won’t Raise Prices—Yet

GM and Ford CEOs Say New Auto Tariffs Won’t Raise Prices—Yet

GM and Ford say they won’t pass those expenses onto consumers—at least not yet.

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Sam Altman’s Eyeball-Scanning Project Expands to 6 US Cities

Sam Altman’s Eyeball-Scanning Project Expands to 6 US Cities

World, a biometric data startup, is opening retail locations across six cities in the U.S.

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Mark Zuckerberg Touts A.I. Business Messaging as Future Revenue Focus

Mark Zuckerberg Touts A.I. Business Messaging as Future Revenue Focus

A.I.-powered business messaging "should be the next pillar of our business," said Mark Zuckerberg.

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Lyft CEO David Risher Says His Company Is Gaining Market Share Against Uber

Lyft CEO David Risher Says His Company Is Gaining Market Share Against Uber

"We're beginning to make some inroads against those other guys," Lyft CEO David Rishe said at a business event this week.

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Former Wealthfront CEO Adam Nash Aims to Simplify Philanthropy With A.I.

Former Wealthfront CEO Adam Nash Aims to Simplify Philanthropy With A.I.

Fintech veteran Adam Nash is bringing A.I. to Daffy in a bid to make philanthropy faster, easier and more accessible to everyday donors.

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Amazon CEO Andy Jassy Says RTO Mandate Is Reviving the Tech Giant’s Startup Culture

Amazon CEO Andy Jassy Says RTO Mandate Is Reviving the Tech Giant’s Startup Culture

Andy Jassy has worked at Amazon for 28 years. Noah Berger/Getty Images for Amazon Web Services Amazon (AMZN) CEO Andy Jassy has been vocal about...

29.04.2025 4

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Mark Carney Could Have Run Shopify—Instead, He’s Running Canada

Mark Carney Could Have Run Shopify—Instead, He’s Running Canada

Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney formerly led the Bank of Canada and Bank of England. Andrej Ivanov/AFP via Getty Images Mark Carney is...

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Warren Buffett Is Hosting a Book Auction to Help an Omaha Homeless Shelter

Warren Buffett Is Hosting a Book Auction to Help an Omaha Homeless Shelter

A new initiative from the billionaire investor is boosting fundraising for an Omaha-based homeless shelter.

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Google Faces Losing Temu and Shein Ad Revenue Due to China Tariffs

Google Faces Losing Temu and Shein Ad Revenue Due to China Tariffs

Google CEO Sundar Pichai praised the growth of his company’s A.I. products. Jakub Porzycki/NurPhoto via Getty Images While many companies grapple...

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Rivian’s Board Welcomes an A.I. CEO Amid Push to Autonomous Driving

Rivian’s Board Welcomes an A.I. CEO Amid Push to Autonomous Driving

Rivian adds Cohere CEO Aiden Gomez to its board as it expands into autonomous driving and manufacturing tech.

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Elon Musk Vows to Refocus on Tesla Amid Profit Plunge and Brand Fallout

Elon Musk Vows to Refocus on Tesla Amid Profit Plunge and Brand Fallout

Tesla stock shot up today after Musk said he will reduce his hours at DOGE and refocus on Tesla.

23.04.2025 2

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Former Commerce Secretary Wilbur Ross Discusses Tariffs in Trump Trade War 2.0: Q&A

Ross served as Secretary of Commerce during Trump's first term from 2017 to 2021.

22.04.2025 3

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Meta A.I. Chief Yann LeCun Applauds France’s Effort to Attract U.S. Scientists

France's attempt to recruit U.S.-based researchers is a "smart move," said Yann LeCun, who moved from France to the U.S. in 1988.

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Bill Ackman Is Betting on Car Rental Giant Hertz to be a Tariff Winner

Bill Ackman said Hertz’s fleet value is set to increase by over $1 billion thanks to Trump tariffs.

19.04.2025 2

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Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang Visits Beijing Amid Tightened Chip Export Control

Jensen Huang is balancing Nvidia’s growing U.S. manufacturing push with efforts to preserve key partnerships in China amid rising trade tensions.

18.04.2025 2

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LVMH and Hermes CFOs Say Luxury Titans Are Starting to Feel Tariff Pains

A Birkin bag is about to get even more expensive in the U.S.

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“Buy Now, Pay Later” Is Taking Over Coachella (and DoorDash)

"It's never been easier for consumers to go into debt for discretionary consumer purchases," a personal finance expert told Observer.

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Mark Zuckerberg Had a ‘Crazy Idea’ to Save Facebook’s Decline, Antitrust Case Reveals

In a bid to boost the app's popularity, Zuckerberg in 2022 proposed deleting everyone's Facebook friends.

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Google’s New A.I. Model Aims to Decipher Dolphin Language

Google's DolphinGemma LLM could help researchers finally communicate with dolphins.

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How Are the ‘Magnificent 7’ Companies Faring Amid Trump’s Tariffs?

To say it's been a tumultuous two weeks for the group of tech stocks dubbed the "Magnificent Seven" would be an understatement.

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Goldman Sachs CEO David Solomon Says Tariffs Could Spook International Clients

Solomon said Goldman's overseas clients "don't like the level of uncertainty" of the U.S. economy.

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Wall Street CEOs Speak Out on Tariffs and Recession Fears on Earnings Calls

Jamie Dimon, Larry Fink and Charles Scharf today used their first-quarter earnings to sound off on the turbulent market impacts of the Trump...

11.04.2025 2

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Amazon’s Starlink Rival, Project Kuiper, Is Finally Ready for Launch

Amazon’s satellite internet project is finally preparing for liftoff as it challenges SpaceX’s dominance in orbit.

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Christmas Is Either Cancelled or About to Get A Lot More Expensive

A $500 artificial tree will double in price to more than $1,000, an industry expert told Observer.

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How Will Tim Cook Navigate the 125% Tariff on China-Made iPhones?

Tim Cook managed to secure an exemption during Trump trade war 1.0. This time won't be that easy.

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A $10B Gene-Editing Startup Has (Sort of) Brought Back the Extinct Dire Wolf

Colossal has managed to breed after genetically engineering ancient dire wolf DNA into genomes of grey wolves, their closest living relatives.

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Wall Street Leaders Finally Turn on Trump’s Tariffs

"We are heading for a self-induced, economic nuclear winter," said Bill Ackman, a vocal Trump supporter.

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How America’s Largest Carmakers Respond to Trump’s Auto Tariffs—For Now

Auto experts say carmakers are preparing for both the tariffs staying and going away soon.

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OpenAI Eyes a Mysterious Startup Backed By Sam Altman and Former Apple Designer Jony Ive

The ChatGPT-maker is reportedly considering a $500 million bid for an A.I. personal device startup.

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Bill Gates Celebrates Microsoft’s 50th Anniversary With Its Original Source Code

"The code remains the coolest code I've ever written to this day," said Gates.

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OpenAI’s o3 Reasoning Models Are Extremely Expensive to Run

Testing OpenAI's o3 model may cost as much as $30,000 per task.

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Microsoft Turns 50: Where Are Its 12 Founding Employees Today?

Microsoft's earliest employees went on to become freelance journalists, volunteer firefighters and cattle ranch owners.

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Nike and Adidas Are Getting Trampled by Trump Tariffs Targeting Vietnam

Most footwear brands depend on Vietnam for between 40 percent and 90 percent of their sourcing.

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Meta’s A.I. Research Head Joelle Pineau Steps Down

Meta is losing one of its top A.I. researchers at a pivotal moment.

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Elon Musk Faces a ‘Fork-in-the-Road’ Moment as Tesla Delivery Plummets

Tesla delivered 13 percent fewer electric vehicles in the first quarter.

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Trump Tariffs Push for ‘American-Made’ Cars—But They Don’t Exist

"I don't envision a space where 100 percent of the parts for any vehicle are produced in the United States," said auto analyst Stephanie Brinley.

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Signal Sees a Surge in App Downloads after Signalgate

Global downloads of Signal in the past three months jumped by 300 percent compared to the same time period last year.

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5 Space Missions to Watch in April 2025: Polar Orbits, Space Weather and NASA’s Lucy

April will bring a flurry of space missions from the likes of NASA, SpaceX, Roscosmos and ULA.

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Is Tesla Truly Immune to Trump’s Auto Tariffs? Yes and No.

Tesla benefits from making its U.S. vehicles domestically. But the concept of a car made entirely with U.S. parts "is a fictional tale," said an...

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Former Citi CEO Sandy Weill Donates $50M to Unite Cancer Researchers

The billionaire financier's gift will bring four institutions together to bolster cancer research.

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Wikipedia Built the Internet’s Brain. Now Its Leaders Want Credit.

Wikipedia has always run on volunteer power and idealism. Now it’s running into A.I.’s bottomless appetite. In candid conversations with Observer,...

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JPMorgan Just Beat Big Tech to a Quantum Breakthrough

Lava lamps, lottery balls and mouse cursors have long stood in for real-world randomness. Now JPMorgan Chase, with a 56-qubit machine and a...

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