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Catherina Gioino

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Exclusive: The doctors and education experts who studied AI’s impact on the young call for a 5-year moratorium in schools

"If a local children's hospital told parents, 'We've got this new drug, it has potential, just trust us,' people would be horrified."

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Elizabeth Warren on her proposal to bring back IRS Direct File: ‘For just one day of bombing Iran, we could pay for 20 years’

“For years, giant tax prep companies like TurboTax and H&R Block have rigged our system so they can cash in on your hard-earned dollars."

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How a free tax filing system from the government went from 296,000 users to zero in just one year

A wildly popular IRS pilot let hundreds of thousands file taxes for free. After two decades and $103 million in lobbying, H&R Block and Intuit helped...

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Exclusive: Jeremy Renner bets on the tech that could have saved his life faster: ‘There’s 150 people that are responsible for me not dying’

Renner says he hates AI himself, but then again, he's an actor. "When AI is used as a tool ... this is the most powerful, most magnificent tool."

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Americans are credit-card-maxing tax season with sign-up bonuses while half the country relies on their refund to catch up on bills

If you’ve been eyeing a credit card sign-up bonus, tax day might be the perfect opportunity for you to open a new credit card.

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Man’s best friend may soon live a little longer thanks to a new pill promising to extend your pup’s lifespan

This is the first drug to win FDA backing for canine lifespan extension, and if it works, it could rewrite the rulebook for human longevity science...

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‘It’s 13 minutes of things that have to go right’: Artemis II splashes down despite faulty heat shield

The crew aboard the Artemis II mission had only 13 minutes to get their angle and speed correctly in order to enter the earth's atmosphere.

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The Navy confirmed an ‘abundant amount’ of Uncrustables when the Artemis II crew lands. Smucker’s just offered them a lifetime supply

The crew aboard the Artemis II requested Uncrustables upon their return to earth. The Smucker's brand just offered them a lifetime supply.

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Inflation goes up by a whopping monthly rate of nearly 1%—and it’s hitting you at the grocery store and gas station

Energy was the hardest-hit category but that didn't spare consumer goods like coffee.

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Nutella jumps on the best product placement money can’t buy: a trip to the far side of the moon

The chocolate-hazelnut spread has reached where no other spread has gone before. Now the company is eating up the free product placement along the...

09.04.2026 1

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China is going after fake expert influencers, and the FTC’s new five-year plan seems to lay the same groundwork

China issued new regulation banning people without proper credentials from offering any tips related to health, finance or education online. The FTC...

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Small businesses are ‘doing fine.’ That’s a problem for the U.S. Chamber of Commerce

Small business owners are feeling uneasy about the Iran war. They're doing just fine, but that's not good considering all of the tax incentives...

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‘No one’s raising their hand’: Japan’s labor crisis is making the case for robots taking the jobs you don’t want

Japan is looking to become the dominant source of robotics by 2040, expedited by an aging population and a growing need for labor.

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Delta started sharing profits with its 100,000 employees two decades ago. CEO Ed Bastian says shareholders love it

At first, Delta shareholders couldn't believe Ed Bastian was going to create a profit-sharing scheme. Now, Bastian said, they'll be the first to stop...

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‘No one is saying, ‘I want more cancer with my candy”: Why Peeps are a ‘food chemical success story’ despite RFK Jr’s campaign to destroy their dyes

Peeps, that holiday candy tradition of bunnies and chicks that get eaten or are left to stale, are at the center of a food dye battle with MAHA.

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Your neighbor just got a home security system, but should you be worried? ‘It’s inherently a little creepy’ says surveillance expert

SimpliSafe CEO Hilary Schneider says the home security system industry needs to answer the question of who owns your footage.

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Travel guru Rick Steves is happy to pay more taxes

The travel icon and millionaire welcomed Washington's new 9.9% income tax on earnings over $1 million.

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Internet Watch Foundation finds 260-fold increase in AI-generated CSAM in just one year, and ‘it’s the tip of the iceberg’

One in 17 young people have personally experienced deepfake imagery abuse, and one in eight know a victim.

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Bernie Sanders calls out Bezos, Musk, Bloomberg and Buffett in billionaire tax push: ‘The richest people in America have never ever had it so good’

The Vermont senator had some harsh words to say to billionaires who aren't paying their fair share of taxes.

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AI ‘slop’ is flooding YouTube Kids—and more than 200 groups and experts are calling for a ban

Fairplay, the group that led a coalition of 200 organizations in writing a letter to YouTube and Google, said it found only 5% of all videos on...

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The more women earn, the more housework they do: inside the paradox a Wharton economist calls ‘an existential problem for men’

"I think it is an existential problem for men to learn to step into new roles and to actually pull their weight at home," Corinne Low told Fortune.

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The beauty counter is now on your For You page as Ulta Beauty joins TikTok Shop, betting on the platform reshaping how America consumes

The move, announced alongside an 11.8% sales jump, arrives as TikTok's future in the U.S. is secured and as the platform reshapes how Americans shop...

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Wealth taxes on billionaires and $30 minimum wages are part of the same plan, advocate says. ‘They should pay their fair share’

A new UC Berkeley poll shows most voters across party lines support taxing billionaires, just as a $30 minimum wage movement gains steam across the...

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The stay-at-home boyfriend is now an economic trend as more women than men go to work

Women now hold more jobs than men in America, for the third time ever. A Federal Reserve economist says this time, it's not reversing.

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Meta promised it wouldn’t spy on you with its AI smart glasses. A lawsuit says humans are watching you, actually

A bombshell investigation into Meta’s AI training pipeline found overseas contractors watching footage from the smart glasses.

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Americans want kids shielded from the internet. They don’t trust websites or the government to do anything about it

Nine in 10 Americans support age verification laws online. Almost as many say those laws aren't working, and they know because they've gotten around...

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A toddler needed a life-saving flight, and the insurer said no. Then Mark Cuban called

Stella McMahon, 16 months old and fighting T-cell leukemia, needed a medical plane to Cincinnati for a federally funded study. Her insurer said no.

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‘I didn’t want anybody shooting me’: Five Guys CEO gave away $1.5 million bonus to employees over botched BOGO burger birthday celebration

Jerry Murrell joked he was going to use the $1.5 million on a fur coat for his wife, but it seemed like his employees deserved it a little more.

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Americans spend $146 billion and 11.6 billion hours doing their taxes, and most of it is just filling out paperwork

There are more than 10,000 forms you have to sort through to file your taxes, and the fear of going to jail over a mistake has never been higher.

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‘AI killed the cover letter.’ This Wharton economist says the hiring ritual’s days are numbered

Let's be honest: You didn't spend hours researching and writing your cover letter. You used AI, and that's fine, because AI is going to read it...

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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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