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Billionaire Larry Ellison helped Michigan nab America’s top quarterback—and ushered in the richest recruiting flip in college football history

Bryce Underwood, the consensus No. 1 overall high-school football player in 2025, will be the Wolverines' starting quarterback for the season opener.

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Sony sold Netflix the rights to ‘KPop Demon Hunters’ in a pandemic-era safety play—and now it’s Netflix’s biggest movie ever

“KPop Demon Hunters” is a potential billion-dollar franchise for Netflix, potentially what “Frozen” is for Disney. As for Sony … not so much.

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Will Smith’s self-inflicted PR nightmare won’t end after appearing to use AI-generated crowds to promote his rap comeback

Smith's image has taken a beating ever since he hit Chris Rock at the 2022 Academy Awards.

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The world’s youngest self-made billionaire says the secret to closing deals is exploiting investors’ greed and fear of missing out

Thomas Healy understands investor psychology: He's raised $750 million for his brainchild, Hyliion.

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Mark Zuckerberg gifted noise-canceling headphones to his Palo Alto neighbors because of the nonstop construction around his 11 homes

This isn’t the first time Zuckerberg has clashed with neighbors over real estate projects.

26.08.2025 1

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Nvidia’s new $3,500 AI ‘brain’ is poised to supercharge automation—and could give rise to what Jensen Huang calls the final phase of AI

Jetson Thor helps robots react in milliseconds, the difference between dropping or catching a package, or bumping a pallet and steering around it.

26.08.2025 2

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Kind’s billionaire founder says he still picks up pennies off the street because ‘ego is the only thing more powerful than greed’

Daniel Lubetzky's approach to humility was inspired by his grandfather, who was worked as a rancher in Mexico.

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Sam Altman says colleagues are glad he’s a dad now, because they think raising a child will help him make ‘better decisions for humanity’

The OpenAI CEO and his husband, Oliver Mulherin, welcomed a baby boy in February.

23.08.2025 2

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Sony will pass on tariff costs to U.S. consumers by hiking Playstation 5 prices

The PlayStation 5 is currently the most popular gaming console in America.

20.08.2025 1

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Experts say the market’s AI anxiety will ‘punish those chasing the froth’

"The crash is separating real AI revenues from companies that only have AI PowerPoints."

20.08.2025 6

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The symbolic reason why you’ll see triangles stamped all over Nvidia’s $920 million campus

Triangles, for Nvidia, represent both a nod to history, but also a crucial lesson learned.

19.08.2025 8

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Apple is quietly giving iPhones a nifty holographic effect—and it’s our best look yet at where the company is headed next

Apple is training people to expect depth and dimension everywhere.

19.08.2025 10

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Kumail Nanjiani says Elon Musk did not like HBO’s ‘Silicon Valley’: ‘He was like, all the parties I go to are much cooler than these parties’

In 2018, Musk vigorously denied he had attended a "sex party," saying he thought it was just a costume party.

18.08.2025 3

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Even if you can’t trust the data, these 13 warning signs will tell you the economy is in trouble

The telltale signs are rarely hidden.

18.08.2025 3

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Meta spends more guarding Mark Zuckerberg than Apple, Nvidia, Microsoft, Amazon, and Alphabet do for their own CEOs—combined

Zuckerberg is not exactly the most popular guy.

16.08.2025 30

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Apple accidentally leaked its own top-secret hardware in software code—and it looks like we’re getting a slew of products across 7 categories

Apple has a history of leaving breadcrumbs referencing future hardware in its code.

14.08.2025 2

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Is Perplexity the next Google?

Perplexity's AI web browser, Comet, is mighty impressive, but the company also made an audacious $34.5 billion unsolicited bid to buy Chrome off...

14.08.2025 6

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Perplexity’s $34.5 billion gambit for Google’s Chrome could change the AI wars overnight

The Department of Justice wants Google to be forced to sell Chrome. One industry rival valued it at upwards of $50 billion.

12.08.2025 3

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‘Sometimes the good guys don’t win’: Former Hulu VP mourns Disney’s shuttering of the iconic streaming app

“Lots of companies talk about caring about their customers, Hulu really did. In a visceral way,” wrote former SVP Ben Smith on LinkedIn.

12.08.2025 5

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Apple has a new AI problem—this time from Elon Musk, who’s threatening ‘legal action’ if it doesn’t knock ChatGPT off the top of its App Store

Musk is threatening 'legal action' if Apple doesn't knock ChatGPT off the top of its App Store.

12.08.2025 10

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Fame, fury, and flannel: How 39-year-old critic kingpin Anthony Fantano governs his YouTube empire

Other platforms are important, but "literally in terms of paying my bills, it's YouTube," Anthony Fantano tells Fortune.

12.08.2025 10

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Meta contractors say they can see Facebook users sharing private information with their AI chatbots

Meta has a mixed track record when it comes to data governance and its reliance on third-party contractors.

06.08.2025 3

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OpenAI’s latest funding round was so popular early investors were reportedly miffed about getting smaller allocations to make room for new partners

OpenAI just scored another $8.3 billion thanks to new investors, including a $2.8 billion check from Marc Stad's Dragoneer Investment Group.

01.08.2025 5

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An ex-Apple engineer just raised $14 million for his own defense startup, which borrows a key strategy from Apple and Tesla

"Our adversaries are arming themselves with emerging technologies at a rapid industrial scale," says CEO Dimitrios Kottas.

30.07.2025 9

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A 29-year-old Google engineer was killed by a falling tree branch. Alphabet has one of the most generous employee death policies in Silicon Valley

Angela Lin was hiking in Yosemite National Park with her boyfriend and two friends when they heard a loud crack in the trees.

29.07.2025 7

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Meet the ex-Amazon exec who pitched Prime Day to Jeff Bezos—and turned the slowest shopping season into a $14.2 billion sales empire

You can thank Diego Piacentini, the architect of Prime Day, for one of the biggest online retail events of the year.

24.07.2025 6

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James Gunn said he thought his ‘career was over’ when Disney fired him: ‘I didn’t think I was gonna make another dime in this industry’

"This started out as the worst day of my life, but I actually think it's the best day of my life," Gunn recalled thinking on the day he was fired.

21.07.2025 10

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A James Beard Award-winning chef reveals how she overcame imposter syndrome in a male-dominated industry: ‘It takes humility’

Karyn Tomlinson got started cooking later in life compared to most other top chefs.

19.07.2025 10

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Brazil’s President Lula calls Trump’s 50% tariff threat over Bolsonaro’s trial ‘unacceptable blackmail’

Trump announced on July 9 his intention to slap steep tariffs on Brazil as punishment for what he termed a "witch hunt" against his far-right ally,...

18.07.2025 10

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Ex-Google CEO: ‘AI’s natural limit is electricity, not chips’

The annual amount of water AI is on pace to use by 2027 could serve the entire population of Canada for more than a year.

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The unlikely rise of Karyn Tomlinson, who traveled to France in her 20s to learn how to cook and just won the culinary world’s most prestigious award

At age 32, she moved to northern Sweden to apprentice at a mythic institution with 2 Michelin stars.

14.07.2025 3

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Former MMA champ Ben Askren says he lost 50 pounds in 45 days after contracting pneumonia and getting a double lung transplant: ‘I only died 4 times’

Jake Paul said he pledged to help pay Askren's medical bills because "none of these people, like Dana [White] or anyone, are stepping in."

11.07.2025 10

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Richard ‘Dick’ Eastland, Camp Mystic’s 74-year-old owner, died while leading campers to safety during the devastating floods

Eastland was the third generation of his family to manage Camp Mystic in Kerr County, Texas.

08.07.2025 5

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Apple is suing a former senior employee, alleging he stole trade secrets about the $3,500 Vision Pro before taking a job at Snap

Apple said Di Liu waited nearly two weeks to notify the company that he was resigning—"and even then, he did not disclose he was leaving for Snap."

02.07.2025 10

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Tyrese Haliburton was voted ‘most overrated’ by his own peers. The 25-year-old is now on the cusp of winning it all, outshining the biggest NBA stars

Haliburton has scored four clutch game-winning shots in the 2025 NBA Playoffs—one in each round.

12.06.2025 3

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Bill Atkinson won the respect of Steve Jobs by creating a high-level programming language in just 6 days

It was his second-ever project at Apple.

09.06.2025 6

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Elon Musk says Trump ‘is in the Epstein files. That is the real reason they have not been made public’

Musk called the information his "really big bomb."

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Elon Musk says ‘without me, Trump would have lost the election’

Musk's barb came in response to President Trump telling reporters Thursday that he's "very disappointed" in the world’s richest man.

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House Speaker Mike Johnson says Trump is ‘not delighted that Elon did a 180’ after the pair spent four months working closely together

Donald Trump and Elon Musk have a complex history.

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It’s not McDonald’s, or Starbucks. The world’s largest fast-food chain is an ice cream and boba shop—founded by a 21-year-old who borrowed money from his grandmother

Zhang Hongchao opened the first Mixue Ice Cream & Tea street stall while attending university.

02.06.2025 2

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Telegram’s CEO built two dominant social networks from scratch before 40 and has fathered more than 100 biological children. He’s also facing up to 10 years in prison

Pavel Durov co-founded VK when he was just 21, and launched Telegram when he was 28.

22.05.2025 3

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Headaches at Coinbase: A data breach, a $20 million ransom demand, and a federal investigation into ‘verified users’

The world's largest cryptocurrency exchange is facing challenges in the run-up to joining the S&P 500 next week.

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The world’s highest-paid comedian says you must embrace rejection if you want to be successful: ‘It’s supposed to be hard’

"If things were easy, it would be stupid. It's supposed to be hard," Kevin Hart told Fortune.

09.05.2025 10

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Instacart boss Fidji Simo was the first member of her family to graduate from high school. Sam Altman just carved out a brand-new ‘CEO’ role for her at OpenAI

The Instacart CEO told Fortune the U.S. healthcare system is not well-suited to treat rare and complex diseases, which is a major opportunity for AI.

08.05.2025 6

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Amazon pours cold water on report saying it will show how tariffs affect each product’s price: ‘Never a consideration for the main Amazon site’

The White House originally called Amazon’s reported plan a “hostile and political act.”

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Kevin Hart says there’s one thing still worth splurging on in this uncertain economy, regardless of income level

With consumer confidence down and market volatility up, Americans are tightening their belts right now.

27.04.2025 10

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Kanye West joined Twitch. He didn’t last 10 minutes before getting banned

Ye almost immediately launched into a tirade about Jewish people and the LGBTQ community.

26.04.2025 3

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The Vatican asked Pope Francis funeral attendees to wear all black. Trump wore a blue suit

Former President Joe Biden and Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky also deviated from the norm.

26.04.2025 10

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Google says Chrome will suffer if it’s forced to sell the world’s most popular web browser

“I don’t think it could be recreated,” Chrome's general manager said about its success under Google.

26.04.2025 3

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Ousted Paramount CEO Bob Bakish received a golden parachute worth $69.3 million

Bakish earned $86.96 million in 2024, up from $31.3 million the year prior.

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Billionaire Larry Ellison helped Michigan nab America’s top quarterback—and ushered in the richest recruiting flip in college football history

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Sony sold Netflix the rights to ‘KPop Demon Hunters’ in a pandemic-era safety play—and now it’s Netflix’s biggest movie ever

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Will Smith’s self-inflicted PR nightmare won’t end after appearing to use AI-generated crowds to promote his rap comeback

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Mark Zuckerberg gifted noise-canceling headphones to his Palo Alto neighbors because of the nonstop construction around his 11 homes

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Nvidia’s new $3,500 AI ‘brain’ is poised to supercharge automation—and could give rise to what Jensen Huang calls the final phase of AI

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Kind’s billionaire founder says he still picks up pennies off the street because ‘ego is the only thing more powerful than greed’

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Sam Altman says colleagues are glad he’s a dad now, because they think raising a child will help him make ‘better decisions for humanity’

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Sony will pass on tariff costs to U.S. consumers by hiking Playstation 5 prices

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Experts say the market’s AI anxiety will ‘punish those chasing the froth’

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Apple is quietly giving iPhones a nifty holographic effect—and it’s our best look yet at where the company is headed next

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Kumail Nanjiani says Elon Musk did not like HBO’s ‘Silicon Valley’: ‘He was like, all the parties I go to are much cooler than these parties’

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Even if you can’t trust the data, these 13 warning signs will tell you the economy is in trouble

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Meta spends more guarding Mark Zuckerberg than Apple, Nvidia, Microsoft, Amazon, and Alphabet do for their own CEOs—combined

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Apple accidentally leaked its own top-secret hardware in software code—and it looks like we’re getting a slew of products across 7 categories

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Perplexity’s $34.5 billion gambit for Google’s Chrome could change the AI wars overnight

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Apple has a new AI problem—this time from Elon Musk, who’s threatening ‘legal action’ if it doesn’t knock ChatGPT off the top of its App Store

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Meta contractors say they can see Facebook users sharing private information with their AI chatbots

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OpenAI’s latest funding round was so popular early investors were reportedly miffed about getting smaller allocations to make room for new partners

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An ex-Apple engineer just raised $14 million for his own defense startup, which borrows a key strategy from Apple and Tesla

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A 29-year-old Google engineer was killed by a falling tree branch. Alphabet has one of the most generous employee death policies in Silicon Valley

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Meet the ex-Amazon exec who pitched Prime Day to Jeff Bezos—and turned the slowest shopping season into a $14.2 billion sales empire

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James Gunn said he thought his ‘career was over’ when Disney fired him: ‘I didn’t think I was gonna make another dime in this industry’

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A James Beard Award-winning chef reveals how she overcame imposter syndrome in a male-dominated industry: ‘It takes humility’

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The unlikely rise of Karyn Tomlinson, who traveled to France in her 20s to learn how to cook and just won the culinary world’s most prestigious award

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Former MMA champ Ben Askren says he lost 50 pounds in 45 days after contracting pneumonia and getting a double lung transplant: ‘I only died 4 times’

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Richard ‘Dick’ Eastland, Camp Mystic’s 74-year-old owner, died while leading campers to safety during the devastating floods

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Apple is suing a former senior employee, alleging he stole trade secrets about the $3,500 Vision Pro before taking a job at Snap

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