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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.

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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.

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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."

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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.

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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.

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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?"

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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."

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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.

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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.

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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."

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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."

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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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How to Fax Without Paper

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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.

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Farmer says ‘we’re in a very dire situation’ ahead of harvest—with zero soybean orders from China, historically the largest buyer

Caleb Ragland says his pleas to the Trump administration have fallen on deaf ears.

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Cash-strapped American tourists are rejecting Las Vegas maximalism and fueling a rise in ‘calmcations’ to escape economic anxiety

Americans might find what they're looking for by simply traveling north.

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YouTube star MrBeast reportedly wants to make a phone company—problem is, half of his core demographic doesn’t pay for their own phone bills

Roughly 73% of Gen Z's phone bills are paid by their parents.

05.09.2025 3

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Meet all 33 Silicon Valley power players at Trump’s high-profile tech dinner — and Elon Musk’s explanation for why he wasn’t there

From Gates to Zuckerberg, Trump hosted dozens of Silicon Valley icons in the newly renovated Rose Garden.

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Costco just gave bargain hunters a powerful reason to upgrade to its $130 Executive Membership

“VIP Hours” can be a compelling draw for serious shoppers.

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Salesforce CEO Marc Benioff hails Tesla’s Optimus robot as a ‘productivity game-changer’ in video showing what it can and can’t do

Elon Musk previously said Optimus will be central to Tesla's future as it expands from cars to AI and robotics.

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Frustrated Wall Street analysts want Apple to buy Perplexity. It’s reportedly planning to beef up Siri to beat it instead

Apple has historically preferred organic growth to large strategic acquisitions.

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Ray Dalio says ‘most people are silent’ because they’re afraid to talk about what’s really happening with the U.S. economy

Bridgewater's billionaire founder sees dangerous 1930s parallels as government intervention increases and debt reaches World War II levels.

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Trump says the video of garbage bags dropped out of a White House window was AI-generated, ironically adding, people ‘blame AI’ to cover up bad things

Despite the president’s denial, the video remains authentic, according to multiple officials.

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Millionaire CEO who went viral for snatching hat from boy at tennis match says he made a ‘huge mistake’ after ‘first come, first served’ comment

The CEO’s company, Drogbruk, was flooded with negative reviews after last week’s incident at the U.S. Open.

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Peter Thiel is hosting 4 private sold-out lectures about the Antichrist at a club in San Francisco

The Palantir co-founder will explore how Christian theology intersects with modern technology in four private lectures merging faith and business.

02.09.2025 4

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How Accenture CEO Julie Sweet communicated a major restructuring to 770,000 employees across 120 countries without ever sending a memo

Sweet's unconventional approach offers a blueprint for leaders steering their companies through AI-driven change.

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All 7 new products we’re expecting Apple to announce at its ‘Awe Dropping’ September event

Apple's September 9 event features major hardware updates including the ultra-thin iPhone 17 Air and health-monitoring devices across product lines.

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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.

27.08.2025 3

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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.

26.08.2025 3

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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 2

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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."

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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