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Since ChatGPT launched, job openings have plunged 30% while the stock market has surged 70%—but one economist says the true culprit isn’t AI

It's been called "the scariest chart in the world."

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Bill Gates says a ‘doomsday outlook’ on climate is driving people to focus on the wrong things

"If given a choice between eradicating malaria and a tenth of a degree increase in warming, I'll let the temperature go up," Gates said.

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Tesla board chair begs shareholders to greenlight Elon Musk’s $1 trillion pay package, calling the upcoming vote a ‘critical inflection point’

Musk previously said he doesn't want to "build a robot army here and then [be] ousted because of some asinine recommendations from ISS and Glass...

27.10.2025 7

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Billionaire ex-Google CEO says one deceptively simple weekend habit will help you level up at work

It's an approach he learned from his mentor, Silicon Valley legend Bill Campbell.

24.10.2025 2

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Cambricon a.k.a. ‘China’s Nvidia’ says revenue spiked 14-fold last quarter. The ensuing stock frenzy made its CEO one of the world’s richest people

Chen Tianshi is the 40-year-old founder and CEO of Beijing-based Cambricon, an AI chip company that posted a monster earnings report last week.

24.10.2025 10

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Corning CEO says Steve Jobs pressured him into making all the screens for the first iPhone: ‘Do you know what your biggest problem is? You’re afraid’

According to Wendell Weeks, Jobs said if Corning couldn't help Apple deliver on "the biggest product in history ... I'm going to eviscerate you."

23.10.2025 20

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An American chess grandmaster is dead at 29, and players are in an uproar about it. Here’s what’s going on

Daniel Naroditsky, a chess prodigy, achieved the title of grandmaster when he was just 18 years old.

22.10.2025 1

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Experts say the high failure rate in AI adoption isn’t a bug, but a feature: ‘Has anybody ever started to ride a bike on the first try?’

At Fortune's Most Powerful Women event, one thing was clear: We're still on the "jagged frontier" of AI adoption.

21.10.2025 10

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Scott Galloway says don’t aspire to be a billionaire, because ‘it’s not going to get you anything.’ Here’s what to do with money instead of hoarding it

Galloway’s advice aligns with research from Nobel Prize–winning psychologist Daniel Kahneman, who examined the relationship between income and...

20.10.2025 1

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The 3 magic phrases that will instantly make you more likable, according to a body language expert

Everyone thinks they’re sending the right signals—but Science of People founder Vanessa Van Edwards says your best intentions may never land...

18.10.2025 4

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Ron Conway skewers Mark Benioff in board resignation after 25 years: ‘I now barely recognize the person I have so long admired’

"San Francisco does not need a federal invasion because you don’t like paying for extra security for Dreamforce," Conway said.

17.10.2025 6

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Durability tester says Google’s new $1,800 foldable phone is the first smartphone to explode during his routine test—and he caught it all on camera

Zack Nelson from JerryRigEverything said he's never had a phone set off his fire alarm in the decade of durability testing smartphones.

16.10.2025 5

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Top psychologist says all elite achievers have one thing in common—and it’s not an innate ability like brains or talent

Dr. Angela Duckworth’s research spans all ages, examining how both children and adults respond to extreme challenges.

15.10.2025 7

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Land O’Lakes CEO says ‘we need more legal immigration’ to help American farmers because a lack of labor could trigger a ‘black swan event’

Only about a third of U.S. crop farmworkers are born in the U.S. The vast majority are undocumented immigrants.

14.10.2025 3

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Robin Williams’ daughter says ‘stop sending me AI videos of Dad’ because it’s ‘disgusting’ and ‘not what he’d want’

Zelda Williams, 36, says AI allows for the "puppeteering" of dead celebrities like her late father.

08.10.2025 3

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Meet John Ternus, the 50-year-old Apple executive and former swimming champ who’s rumored to succeed Tim Cook as CEO

Apple is in the midst of a major leadership shakeup, in which many senior executives are reportedly set to depart.

07.10.2025 3

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Scott Galloway says the key to landing jobs is be as social as possible: ‘70% of the time, the person they pick is someone with an internal advocate’

"You want to be placed in rooms of opportunities where you’re not physically there," the NYU Stern School of Business professor said.

07.10.2025 7

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Entrepreneur says Goldman Sachs once gave him 39 separate interviews to land the job—and the decisive conversation was less than a minute

Goldman Sachs' acceptance rate for internships is less than 1%.

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A small Jesuit school in Denver has quietly become a pipeline for powerful Republicans surrounding Trump

Erika Kirk and Lindsey Halligan, two conservative figures who have made headlines recently, both attended Regis University.

03.10.2025 10

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Meet Mira Murati, the 36-year-old tech prodigy who shot to fame at OpenAI and now runs a startup that’s a poaching target for Mark Zuckerberg

Murati enjoyed roles at Goldman Sachs and Tesla before making her name in artificial intelligence.

03.10.2025 10

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Netflix will pay you up to $700k per year—and let you work fully remote—if you can harness AI to make employees more productive

This will be a competitive position, to say the least.

02.10.2025 2

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Former Wall Street darling Charlie Javice says ‘I have remorse deeper than I knew possible’ in tearful apology to JPMorgan shareholders

The 33-year-old entrepreneur once made Forbes' 30 under 30 list. She was just sentenced to seven years in prison.

02.10.2025 20

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Hollywood erupts as talent agents circle ‘AI actor’ Tilly Norwood: ‘Not surprised the first major AI actor is a young woman they can fully control’

The entertainment industry recently grappled with AI during the four-month SAG-AFTRA strike in 2023.

01.10.2025 4

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Meet Lisa Monaco, the 57-year-old Microsoft executive Trump wants fired

The former deputy attorney general played a key role in several high-profile investigations that directly involved Trump.

29.09.2025 20

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David Marriott reveals the correct way to pronounce the popular hotel chain—and you’ve probably been doing it wrong

The Marriott empire traces back to 1927, when David's grandfather, J. Willard Marriott, opened a nine-stool A&W root beer stand in Washington, D.C.

29.09.2025 10

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Everyone’s wondering if, and when, the AI bubble will pop. Here’s what went down 25 years ago that ultimately burst the dot-com boom

Sam Altman and Mark Zuckerberg have acknowledged the parallels.

28.09.2025 6

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Sean Evans says progress doesn’t have to be fast to be meaningful: ‘Glaciers can change landscapes, but they don’t do it with their speed’

The 39-year-old spent years as a copywriter and freelancer before hitting it big with Hot Ones.

27.09.2025 7

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Apple CEO Tim Cook wore a 1-of-1 pair of custom Nike shoes during his Japan visit—with special hand embroidery made by a team of 15 women

The 64-year-old Apple boss is immersing himself in Japanese culture during his visit.

26.09.2025 4

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Leonardo DiCaprio says his first agent thought he’d never get hired in Hollywood because his name was ‘too ethnic’: ‘Your name is Lenny Williams’

DiCaprio's "One Battle After Another" co-star, Benicio Del Toro, said he received similar advice from his agent—to become “Benny Del.”

26.09.2025 3

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Amazon to pay $2.5 billion, one of the largest FTC settlements in history, to mitigate claims it tricked millions of people into signing up for Prime

The FTC said Amazon used "dark patterns" to trick consumers into auto-renewals, then created a complex cancellation internally dubbed "Iliad" after...

25.09.2025 3

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Meet Lindsey Halligan, the 36-year-old former Miss Colorado hopeful who only worked 3 federal cases before Trump promoted her to U.S. attorney

Halligan, who competed in the Miss Colorado USA pageant twice, will now lead one of the nation's most important federal prosecutor offices.

25.09.2025 10

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Apple admits some of its in-store chargers are scuffing the new iPhone 17 Pro, adding fuel to users’ durability concerns

Apple went for aluminum over titanium for this year's "Pro" iPhones, and this appears to be one of the trade-offs.

25.09.2025 10

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Trump slams Jimmy Kimmel’s return, says ‘we’re going to test ABC out on this’ because ‘last time I went after them, they gave me $16 million’

"The president of the United States made it very clear he wants to see me and the hundreds of people who work here fired from our jobs," Kimmel said...

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Duolingo’s CEO tells new hires his company is ‘allergic’ to toxic behavior—and not to ‘work yourself to death’

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Meet Erika Kirk, the 36-year-old CEO of Turning Point USA, who has three degrees, two kids, and a clothing brand

Erika Kirk has inherited one of the most influential conservative organizations in America after the assassination of her husband, Charlie Kirk.

23.09.2025 3

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Mark Zuckerberg says Meta ‘misspending a couple of hundred billion’ in the U.S. would be ‘unfortunate,’ but ‘the risk is higher on the other side’

Just weeks ago, Zuckerberg sat next to Trump at a White House dinner and pledged to invest $600 billion in the U.S. over the next four years.

23.09.2025 4

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Over 70% of H-1B visa holders are Indian citizens. Its government says Trump jacking the fee to $100,000 is ‘likely to have humanitarian consequences’

The founder of Greycroft Partners says "there is not a single company that I have invested in the last 10 years that could afford to pay this."

22.09.2025 3

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Howard Stern says he’s canceling Disney Plus ‘to say with the pocketbook that I do not support’ ABC yanking Jimmy Kimmel off the air

Stern had his own fair share of battles with the FCC over the years.

22.09.2025 2

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Starbucks CEO says the company is doubling down on protein and gluten-free options: ‘I believe our food needs to match the craft of our coffee’

The famed coffee chain is looking to capitalize on growing trends around health consciousness and fitness culture.

20.09.2025 10

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Billionaire Sara Blakely says she launched Spanx with just $5,000 from selling fax machines—and never took on a single investor: ‘I bet on myself’

"I sat down with myself and I was like, you wanna spend your five grand on a vacation? Or do you wanna try to bet on yourself?"

20.09.2025 10

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Suzy Welch says Gen Z and millennials are burnt out because older generations worked just as hard, but they ‘had hope’

"We believed that if you worked hard, you were rewarded for it," Welch said. "This is the disconnect."

19.09.2025 5

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Robert Redford said he worked at Yosemite National Park before making it in Hollywood, inspired by his first visit when he had ‘a mild case of polio’

Redford grew up to be a Hollywood icon, but his love of nature proved to play a big role in his career and legacy.

17.09.2025 4

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The ‘godfather of financial independence’ says young people should do two things to build wealth—and it’s nothing ‘silly’ like buying a house

"That's what I tell my daughter, and that's what she's doing," JL Collins said, adding she now has "f--k you money" as a result.

17.09.2025 7

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Billionaire who sold two companies to Coca-Cola says he tries to convince people not to become entrepreneurs: ‘Every single day, you can go bankrupt’

Mike Repole wants to remind every aspiring businessperson that most startups—over two-thirds of them—fail.

12.09.2025 5

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The ‘Godfather of Financial Independence’ says young people should do two things to build wealth—and it’s not buying a house, which is ‘silly’

"That's what I tell my daughter, and that's what she's doing," JL Collins said, adding her sound decision-making has given her "f--k you money."

12.09.2025 5

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Las Vegas mayor says the city is suffering from a serious drop in Canadian tourists: ‘We need you, and we miss you’

Shelley Berkley echoed worries from last month when she said traffic from Canada and Mexico has "gone from a faucet to a drip."

10.09.2025 20

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Here are the main features you’re sacrificing if you buy Apple’s new ultra-thin iPhone Air

It's the boldest iPhone design in years. But it doesn't come without some compromises.

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10.09.2025 4

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This is Apple’s first iPhone ‘Air’

It's Apple's thinnest phone ever.

09.09.2025 4

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An iPhone event unlike the others: Apple is betting the house on hardware to weather the AI storm

The iPhone 17 arrives at an unusual time for Apple.

09.09.2025 20

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