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Catherina Gioino

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Chuck Norris never lost a fight, including the one against CBS for $30 million over Walker, Texas Ranger

The action legend, who died at 86, built a $70 million fortune from $10,000-a-film beginnings, fought CBS in court over Walker, Texas Ranger profits,...

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War, oil, and an unpaid TSA: The perfect storm of travel chaos feels like the pandemic all over again

Flights face new disruption as war, oil costs, and TSA pay issues hit travelers

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Pokémon Go players built a 30-billion-photo map that’s now training robots to deliver your pizza

How Niantic Spatial is turning a decade of 30 billion crowdsourced photos and data into the most precise urban navigation system delivery robots ever...

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Social media companies are scrambling to verify minors online. Congress just made it a lot more complicated

In 48 hours, lawmakers moved more aggressively than they have in nearly a decade, but will it pass a challenge in federal court?

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A gaming CEO asked ChatGPT how to avoid paying a $250 million bonus. It didn’t work

Krafton's AI-assisted scheme to oust the makers of Subnautica 2 just collapsed in court after a judge ruled the company had to reinstate the CEO and...

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Who is Joe Kent? Meet the Green Beret, MAGA loyalist, and former political candidate who quit over Iran

Joe Kent, a Green Beret Army special forces officer who ran for Congress, has a personal reason for his anti-interventionist views on the war between...

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As Meta removes privacy controls, TikTok explains why it never had any

Two of the world's most powerful platforms are making a deliberate bet that safety beats privacy—and experts say they're right.

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Musk says taxing every billionaire at 100% would barely make a dent in the national debt. Bernie says tax them 5% and you’re $3,000 richer

Elon Musk argues America's $38 trillion debt is too big for billionaire taxes to fix, but Bernie Sanders says a 5% tax could at least put $3,000 back...

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After 93 years and a 25-hour filibuster, Washington finally has an income tax, and billionaires are already packing their bags

Howard Schultz is heading to Miami. Jeff Bezos left in 2023. Now Washington's new 9.9% millionaires tax is testing whether the state's wealthiest...

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So, what happens during a gas crisis, anyway? Your older relatives have a reason to bring up what could come next

With gas prices up 11%, rationing being debated in California, and a dozen countries already restricting fuel, the 1970s playbook is back. Here's what...

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Microsoft’s IPO turns 40 today. If you invested $1,000 in Microsoft in 1986, you’d have $5.5 million today

Forty years after going public at $21 a share, Microsoft grew from a two-person software startup into a $3 trillion empire powering nearly every...

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The U.S. Mint just dropped the olive branch from the dime. What does that mean for the country?

The eagle turned to the olive branch to show the nation's preference for peace over war.

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‘I don’t know if we’re ready’: Governors from each party appalled at 100-year-old federal workforce strategy

"We have a workforce training system that was designed 100 years ago for a very different economy," Bill Haslam (R-TN) told Fortune.

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63% of U.S. entrepreneurs are planning to exit their businesses. A new UBS report explains why

Nobody's more optimistic than the Swiss, according to the UBS Global Entrepreneur Report.

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This Harvard dropout took a company public before 30. Now he’s raising $205M to fix the business side of medicine

Tim Hwang, who's also a former Obama campaign staffer, now has his sights set on a $10 billion valuation, and the numbers suggest he might not be...

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The worst housing market in years couldn’t stop single women from owning a record-breaking number of homes

Despite a brutal housing market, single women are outpacing single men nearly two to one and making bigger financial sacrifices than ever to get...

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Nobel laureate Joseph Stiglitz warns AI’s hunger for internet comments could degrade the world’s ‘information ecosystem’

AI will produce “garbage” that will fight with information from traditional media sources, and prediction markets are not safe from this...

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Joseph Stiglitz says buckle up before the great AI ‘reallocation’ era arrives

The short-term pain is real and we are not ready for it. The long-term picture, Stiglitz argues, is something else entirely.

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Chatbots are ‘constantly validating everything’ even when you’re suicidal. New research measures how dangerous AI psychosis really is

It's free, easy to use, doesn't have a stigma around it, and makes you feel better. Researchers and experts warn that's the problem with chatbots.

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Nobel laureate Joe Stiglitz says not only can AI take your job, it’ll make the ‘tech bro’ class richer while doing it

"Unfortunately, the tech bros, who are obviously advocates of this, are at the same time pushing for smaller government," Stiglitz told Fortune.

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Palantir CEO’s rant about the Anthropic-Pentagon feud threatening his company was about a lot more than a dirty word

Although he could have used other language, Palantir CEO Alex Karp's comments reflected a growing concern of who can dictate the terms of use for AI.

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‘Usually everybody loves money’: Trump’s FDA chief to start giving bonuses for faster drug reviews

The FDA lost about 20% of its workforce after Trump took office last year. Now it wants to shrink approvals from as long as 29 months to as low as...

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Vinod Khosla thinks future presidential candidates should run on removing income tax for those making less than $100,000

The venture capitalist also wants to get rid of capital gains and treat all income as ordinary income to make up for the deficit.

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Palantir and other tech companies are stocking offices with tobacco products to increase worker productivity

Health experts offer a blunt warning on using tobacco products to increase productivity, saying the adverse health effects have been well documented.

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Ring CEO Jamie Siminoff believes if people had more doorbell cameras, we may have already ‘solved’ the Nancy Guthrie case

The CEO revealed a suspicious car was caught on a Ring camera two miles away from Guthrie’s home, and he thinks the doorbell camera is a good...

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Cities join Amazon in ending their partnership with license-plate reader Flock following public outcry. ‘Your privacy is totally fine,’ says Ring CEO

"It was a shame" that people reacted that way to Ring's Super Bowl ad, says Ring CEO Jamie Siminoff. The company won't use Flock, but the reaction...

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‘Could it kill someone?’ A Seoul woman allegedly used ChatGPT to carry out two murders in South Korean motels

After a South Korean woman allegedly used ChatGPT to plan two murders, questions arise into what guardrails are in place to stop people with homicidal...

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Social media companies are fighting the ‘age verification trap’ as collecting biometrics on kids violates privacy rights

Big Social is reaching its Big Tobacco moment as it regulations intensify and social media companies look to implement age verification methods on its...

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Trump’s FTC backs off social media regulation despite finding that nearly 20% of America’s children are online for 4 hours or more

Kids are so addicted, their "compulsive unlocking" mirrors the biological clock of a smoker.

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The Great Wealth Transfer is already happening as millennials hitting their ‘Peak 35’ are richer than ever

Millennials are now richer than their baby boomer counterparts at age 35 as more parents are having asset transfer conversations earlier before they...

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By Tesla’s own math, it reveals that its robotaxis are 4x worse at driving than humans, with redactions hiding even more details

By NHTSA standards, the Tesla Robotaxis are 8x worse than human drivers.

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‘Trump Accounts’ means kids can have $270,000 saved by age 18. Larry Fink says that’s twice as much as most adults have now

The Trump Accounts the president announced during the State of the Union can teach kids about the power of compound interest—an understanding their...

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Some Waymo riders are so lazy that gig workers are getting paid $24 to close the door for them

Waymo is partnering with DoorDash, paying gig workers up to $24 to drive to the site of an autonomous vehicle and close the door.

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Discord cuts ties with Peter Thiel-backed verification software after its code was found tied to U.S. surveillance efforts

Discord cut ties with its age-verification partner after exposed code fueled federal-reporting concerns, months after a breach hit 70,000 users.

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Scientists are pushing back on warnings that microplastics damage your health, saying people are just obese and calling some studies ‘a joke’

Some scientists are saying previous studies warning of the damage microplastics may cause are exaggerated and are false positives triggered by human...

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OpenAI changed its mission statement 6 times in 9 years. It finally removed the word “safely” as a core value when it restructured into a for-profit

It’s still committed to creating something that will benefit humanity. It’s unclear why it doesn’t want to do so “safely” anymore.

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Trump team livid about Dario Amodei’s principled stand to keep the Defense Department from using his AI tools for warlike purposes

Anthropic might lose its $200 million Defense Department contract after the company questioned how its AI model was used during the Maduro raid.

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Trump vows to release classified information on aliens after admonishing Obama for commenting on classified information about aliens

After accusing the former president of confirming aliens exist, President Donald Trump has announced he will be releasing government records related...

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Voter fury and the American energy ‘paradox’: Higher utility bills, record oil and gas production—and 45% of the world’s data centers

Electricity prices are soaring by as much as 267% in some areas of the U.S., and voters are noticing.

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Prince Andrew was just arrested over Epstein-related ‘misconduct.’ Here’s how low his net worth is—and how he’ll pay his legal fees

Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor reportedly never paid back his mother's estate, and his wealth is a fraction that of his brother, King Charles.

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Welcome to the ‘annoyance economy’: Americans are paying over $165 billion a year as companies waste their time to drive revenue

You were right all along: companies are intentionally putting you on hold longer so you just give up

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Fed governor lays out 3 AI scenarios, including one with a giant population of ‘unemployable’ workers

Federal Reserve Governor Michael Barr reveals how AI could actually help jobseekers by narrowing wage gaps and supercharging human productivity

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Why Zohran Mamdani is threatening to soak the middle class if he can’t tax the rich

New York City's mayor is warning of a 9.5% property tax hike if Gov. Kathy Hochul doesn’t raise income taxes on top earners.

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