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MacKenzie Scott Donates $50M to Nonprofit Boosting Native Student Scholarships

MacKenzie Scott Donates $50M to Nonprofit Boosting Native Student Scholarships

Native Forward receives a $50 million gift from MacKenzie Scott, one of the largest-ever donations to a Native nonprofit, aimed at boosting...

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Sam Altman’s OpenAI Is Officially the World’s Most Valuable Startup at $500B

Sam Altman’s OpenAI Is Officially the World’s Most Valuable Startup at $500B

OpenAI is now the world’s most valuable startup at $500 billion, surpassing Elon Musk’s SpaceX following a major secondary share sale.

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EV Credit Rush Gave Tesla a Much-Needed Boost—But Challenges Loom

EV Credit Rush Gave Tesla a Much-Needed Boost—But Challenges Loom

Tesla posts record deliveries as U.S. tax credits expire, but long-term risks persist.

02.10.2025 3

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How Will the Government Shutdown Impact the Fed’s Next Rate-Cut Decision?

How Will the Government Shutdown Impact the Fed’s Next Rate-Cut Decision?

With key economic data releases stalled, the shutdown complicates the Fed’s next rate-cut decision amid high inflation and a softening labor market.

02.10.2025 4

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Jeff Bezos-Backed Startup Receives $300M Seed Round to Build an A.I. Scientist

Jeff Bezos-Backed Startup Receives $300M Seed Round to Build an A.I. Scientist

Backed by top investors, Periodic Labs aims to create an A.I. scientist by combining machine learning with real-world experiments in the physical...

01.10.2025 5

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Spotify Hops Aboard the Co-CEO Trend as Founder Daniel Ek Steps Back

Spotify Hops Aboard the Co-CEO Trend as Founder Daniel Ek Steps Back

Spotify embraces a co-CEO model as Daniel Ek transitions to executive chairman, splitting leadership between Gustav Söderström and Alex Norström.

30.09.2025 3

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This German A.I. Startup Is Nearing $4B Valuation and Winning Over Silicon Valley

This German A.I. Startup Is Nearing $4B Valuation and Winning Over Silicon Valley

The Freiburg, Germany-based startup is making waves across Silicon Valley thanks to its offerings in A.I. image generation and editing.

30.09.2025 4

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Former Apple Designer Jony Ive’s Latest Work Is a $4,800 Lantern for Sailors

Former Apple Designer Jony Ive’s Latest Work Is a $4,800 Lantern for Sailors

Jony Ive’s design firm LoveFrom debuts a limited-run $4,800 lantern made for sailors, showcasing durability, style and Ive’s lifelong passion.

29.09.2025 2

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Walmart Heir Rob Walton Donates $115M to ASU to Establish Conservation School

Walmart Heir Rob Walton Donates $115M to ASU to Establish Conservation School

The Walmart heir’s record-breaking gift will establish the Rob Walton School of Conservation Futures at ASU.

27.09.2025 6

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MIT Study Finds Chatbot Love Is Real—and It’s Often Unintentional

MIT Study Finds Chatbot Love Is Real—and It’s Often Unintentional

Chatbot romances are no longer sci-fi. MIT researchers say the growing trend poses risks like grief, dependency and loneliness that need safeguards.

26.09.2025 3

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MLB Will Adopt Robot Umpires in 2026 While Preserving Human Element

MLB Will Adopt Robot Umpires in 2026 While Preserving Human Element

Baseball embraces robo umps with a new challenge system, balancing technology with tradition to improve accuracy and cut disputes.

25.09.2025 3

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MacKenzie Scott Donates $70M to Strengthen Historically Black Colleges

MacKenzie Scott Donates $70M to Strengthen Historically Black Colleges

MacKenzie Scott’s latest gift gives UNCF’s $1 billion campaign a powerful lift toward long-term stability for HBCUs.

25.09.2025 2

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Philanthropist John Kluge Jr. Turns Pandemic Epiphany Into Net-Zero Meadery With Global Mission

Philanthropist John Kluge Jr. Turns Pandemic Epiphany Into Net-Zero Meadery With Global Mission

Virginia philanthropist John Kluge’s Thistlerock Meadery leads a global push to protect pollinators and biodiversity through honey wine.

25.09.2025 3

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Canadian A.I. Startup Cohere Reaches $7B Valuation After Raising Another $100M

Canadian A.I. Startup Cohere Reaches $7B Valuation After Raising Another $100M

The Toronto-based A.I. firm is betting on enterprise and government demand to fuel growth.

24.09.2025 2

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Uber CEO Dara Khosrowshahi Bets on Autonomous Cars to Revive Slowing EV Market

Uber CEO Dara Khosrowshahi Bets on Autonomous Cars to Revive Slowing EV Market

At the Concordia Summit, Uber CEO Dara Khosrowshahi pitched autonomy as the spark EVs need.

24.09.2025 3

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Oracle Appoints Co-CEOs to Replace Longtime Leader Safra Catz

Oracle Appoints Co-CEOs to Replace Longtime Leader Safra Catz

Oracle has appointed not just one, but two new CEOs to guide the software giant through the A.I. revolution.

23.09.2025 20

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Bill Gates Calls US Aid Cuts a ‘Paradox’ Amid Historic Global Health Progress

Bill Gates Calls US Aid Cuts a ‘Paradox’ Amid Historic Global Health Progress

Bill Gates says global health faces a paradox: historic breakthroughs risk being undone by U.S. aid cuts unless funding is sustained.

20.09.2025 10

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Sierra CEO Bret Taylor Predicts A.I. Agents Will Redefine Business Like the Internet

Sierra CEO Bret Taylor Predicts A.I. Agents Will Redefine Business Like the Internet

The former Salesforce and Facebook executive sees agentic A.I. as tech’s next big wave.

19.09.2025 20

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Expedia CEO Ariane Gorin Bets on Global Markets as US Travel Demand Slows

Expedia CEO Ariane Gorin Bets on Global Markets as US Travel Demand Slows

Expedia is ramping up investment outside America as the U.S. travel market cools.

19.09.2025 5

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Airbnb CEO Brian Chesky’s Turnaround Plan Takes a Page From Amazon’s Book

Airbnb CEO Brian Chesky’s Turnaround Plan Takes a Page From Amazon’s Book

Airbnb is doubling down on services, experiences, hotels and A.I. to accelerate growth.

18.09.2025 3

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Booking CEO Aims to Bring Back the Convenience of Travel Agents With the Help of A.I.

Booking CEO Aims to Bring Back the Convenience of Travel Agents With the Help of A.I.

Booking Holdings is using A.I. to revive the ease of travel agents with its "connected trip" strategy.

18.09.2025 5

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The $10B Startup Behind the Revived Dire Wolf Reports Another Breakthrough

The $10B Startup Behind the Revived Dire Wolf Reports Another Breakthrough

The $10 billion Texas startup says a breakthrough in pigeon germ cells brings the dodo closer to revival.

17.09.2025 2

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Elon Musk’s xAI Is Redefining Data Annotation—an Unglamorous But Vital Job in A.I.

Elon Musk’s xAI Is Redefining Data Annotation—an Unglamorous But Vital Job in A.I.

Data annotation—labeling text, images, and video for training—is central to A.I. Grok maker xAI is shifting from generalists to domain experts.

16.09.2025 4

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Spanx Founder Sara Blakley Creates Unicorn Companies by Targeting ‘Dying’ Industries

After Spanx reshaped shapewear, Blakely now wants to redefine what heels can feel like.

11.09.2025 20

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Melinda French Gates Pledges $100M to Advance Overlooked Women’s Health Research

The philanthropist is launching a $100 million effort to close long-standing gaps in women’s health research.

10.09.2025 3

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Startup Behind Goldman Sachs’ First ‘A.I. Employee’ Valued at $10B After Peter Thiel Funding

Peter Thiel led a $400 million round into the startup that develops the popular A.I. assistant Devin.

09.09.2025 2

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Apple’s iPhones Are Now Made in India—Is Tim Cook’s Tariff Headache Over?

Apple’s iPhone 17 debuts slimmer and India-made, reflecting its push to shift production from China and sidestep Trump’s tariffs.

09.09.2025 3

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Anthropic Is Hiring Researchers to Study A.I. Consciousness and Welfare

The startup looks for a new researcher to help explore the moral status of A.I.

09.09.2025 20

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Paris-Based Mistral AI Seeks $14B Valuation as Europe Charts Its Own A.I. Path

The French A.I. startup is less interested in chasing the AGI hype than in helping Europe build an independent A.I. ecosystem.

06.09.2025 10

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Elon Musk’s xAI Faces High Exec Turnover as CFO and Key Leaders Step Down

Elon Musk’s A.I. startup loses its CFO and other key executives as turnover mounts at the young company.

05.09.2025 3

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How a Tiny Caribbean Island Cashes in on the Global A.I. Boom

The Caribbean island of Anguilla generates record revenue from its ".ai" domain as A.I. firms register for web addresses en masse.

05.09.2025 2

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Cohere Co-Founder Nick Frosst Criticizes Sam Altman’s AGI Predictions as Misleading

Cohere’s Nick Frosst says OpenAI’s AGI hype is “damaging,” urging focus on business-driven A.I. instead.

04.09.2025 3

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Hugo Larochelle Succeeds Yoshua Bengio to Lead Canada’s Top A.I. Lab: Interview

Hugo Larochelle, ex-Google A.I. researcher, succeeds Yoshua Bengio at Quebec's Mila A.I. Institute.

04.09.2025 3

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Meta’s Superintelligence Lab Faces Wave of Departures After High-Profile Hires

Several new hires and longtime staffers have left Meta’s Superintelligence Labs, raising questions about retention at Zuckerberg’s A.I. push.

03.09.2025 3

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A.I. Is Eroding the ‘Bottom Rungs’ of Career Ladders, Harvard Researchers Warn

A new Harvard study found that A.I. adoption has hurt junior hiring, especially in retail and trade, while senior jobs remain secure.

03.09.2025 3

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Warren Buffett, Now 95, Still Eats Like a 6-Year-Old

Buffett may be worth $149 billion, but his meals are humble: steak, hash browns, cherry Coke, McDonald’s and plenty of Dairy Queen.

30.08.2025 9

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Scientists Leaving Elon Musk’s X are Driving Growth on Bluesky: Study

With rising engagement and originality, Bluesky is fast becoming a go-to platform for science communication and scholarly exchange.

30.08.2025 5

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Nvidia Tops Wall Street Estimates, But China Tensions Cloud Its A.I. Chip Business

Nvidia beats estimates, but regulatory risks weigh on China chip sales.

28.08.2025 6

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SpaceX’s Starship Finally Breaks Its Losing Streak

After multiple test failures, SpaceX’s Starship rocket achieved a successful 10th flight.

28.08.2025 10

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A.I. Takes Biggest Toll on White-Collar Workers in Their 20s: Stanford Study

Recent data from Stanford reveals that generative A.I. is disproportionately displacing early-career employees in coding and service roles.

28.08.2025 8

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Perplexity’s Clash with New Publishers Continues Despite Revenue-Sharing Efforts

Japan’s leading newspapers join a growing wave of media lawsuits targeting A.I. firms.

27.08.2025 3

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Nvidia’s Newest Product Is a $3,500 ‘Robot Brain’

Huang says robotics is the next wave of A.I., as Nvidia rolls out its Jetson Thor kits to power humanoids, autonomous machines and more.

26.08.2025 3

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DreamWorks Co-Founder Jeffrey Katzenberg Backs a Musk-Led Drone Light Show Company

A Burning Man light show sparked a high-flying partnership between two unlikely figures.

25.08.2025 4

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Jerome Powell Signals Fed Policy Shift to Balance Inflation and Jobs Strains

Jerome Powell’s Jackson Hole speech pointed to a possible Fed policy shift as the jobs market weakens amid persistent inflation.

22.08.2025 2

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How Walmart, Target, Home Depot and Lowe’s Confront Tariff Pressures

Walmart, Target, Home Depot and Lowe’s earnings reveal how tariffs are raising costs, reshaping pricing and pressuring profits in 2025.

22.08.2025 2

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Jackson Hole Symposium: Why a Mountain Retreat Moves Global Markets Each Year

A once-academic forum in Jackson Hole is now a bellwether for monetary policy and markets.

22.08.2025 2

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Microsoft A.I. Chief Mustafa Suleyman Sounds Alarm on ‘Seemingly Conscious A.I.’

Microsoft’s Mustafa Suleyman urges caution as A.I. systems approach human-like consciousness and societal risks rise.

21.08.2025 20

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Longtime Target CEO Brian Cornell Steps Down Amid Tariff Woes and DEI Boycotts

Brian Cornell has been with Target since 2014. Photo by Jerry Holt/Star Tribune via Getty Images Brian Cornell, longtime CEO of Target, is stepping...

20.08.2025 4

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After Tension With Washington, Intel Is Suddenly a Hot Asset

SoftBank is investing $2 billion in Intel, giving it a 2 percent stake.

20.08.2025 8

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Bill Gates Launches $1M A.I. Competition to Tackle Alzheimer’s

This isn’t the first time Bill Gates has poured money into Alzheimer’s research. Arun Sankar/AFP via Getty Images More than 7 million Americans are...

19.08.2025 4

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