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Jacqueline Munis

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‘Godmother of Silicon Valley’ Esther Wojcicki, mother of the YouTube and 23andMe CEOs, shares her secret to raising future leaders

Wojcicki takes inspiration from her daughters’ public failures and how they pivoted to turn mistakes into successful companies.

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Big Tech is spending $226,000 a day on lobbying Congress, advocacy group finds

Big Tech has nearly doubled its lobbying spending since 2020 as concerns grow about how social media and AI have reshaped Americans’ lives.

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Beef is becoming a luxury as prices stay at record highs. They likely won’t come down until 2028, says expert

Beef prices could increase as much as 18.3% this year due to high demand and higher production costs.

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Here’s what Warren Buffett, Sam Altman, Donald Trump, and everyone else has to say about Tim Cook stepping down

Trump called Cook by his pet name “Tim Apple” in a post congratulating the long-time Apple CEO, who will step down on Sept. 1.

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U.S. Energy Sec says gas prices have likely peaked, but won’t go below $3 until 2027. Trump says he’s ‘totally wrong’ about the timeline

The war could end in just a couple of weeks, says Energy Secretary Chris Wright, but it could take months for prices to go down.

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Billionaire Connie Ballmer just donated $80 million to support NPR after Trump cut $1.1 billion from public broadcasting

Ballmer and an anonymous donor gifted the network more than $110 million to support digital transformation and local stations.

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Spirit Airlines looked it was in the clear of reemerging from bankruptcy, but rising fuel costs threaten its exit

The budget-friendly airline had planned to exit its second bankruptcy by the summer. Now, it’s at risk of liquidation.

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Illinois is OpenAI and Anthropic’s latest battleground as the state tries to assess liability for catastrophes caused by AI

OpenAI is backing SB 3444, under which frontier AI developers would not be liable for the death or serious injury of 100 or more people or more than...

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Harvey’s 30-year-old CEO says failing is a ‘good way to learn’ and says ‘destroying your ego’ led him to an $11 billion success

Winston Weinberg says he learns from both his wins and losses to stay on top in a hyper-competitve AI startup market.

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Fed chair nominee Kevin Warsh is worth more than $100 million and has stakes in SpaceX and Polymarket

Ahead of Warsh’s confirmation hearing next week, he disclosed his financial holdings.

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Meet the Americans refusing to pay their taxes in protest of the Trump administration

From a Brooklyn freelancer who hasn't paid federal taxes since the Vietnam War to a new mom horrified by the Iran war, tax resisters say they'd rather...

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‘I’m not going to force you’: Duolingo CEO backs off from evaluating employees on their AI usage

Less than a year after announcing Duolingo’s AI-first policy, Luis von Ahn said that no longer applies to evaluating employee performance.

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‘Almost unmanageable’: Raising a child in the U.S. now costs more than $300,000

Costs are up 1.9% from a year ago, as rent prices have spiked across the country.

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Palantir CEO says AI ‘will destroy’ humanities jobs but there will be ‘more than enough jobs’ for people with vocational training

Alex Karp said he struggled to market his humanities skills to get his first job.

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First they went after medtech, then Kash Patel. Iranian hackers’ next target is likely ‘low-hanging fruit’ in water, energy, and tourism, experts say

While the attacks have little effect on military outcomes, disruption is the point, said CSIS senior fellow Nikita Shah.

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The world’s 500 richest people made more than a quarter trillion yesterday as volatile markets react to fragile Iran war ceasefire

Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg gained the most and added $12.8 billion to his net worth after Meta shares rose 6.5%.

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Meta just killed a dashboard that let employees compete to be the company’s No. 1 AI token user

The company’s employees could compare themselves to their colleagues and earn achievement titles like “Model Connoisseur” and “Cache Wizard”...

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‘You can never really catch up’: The Iran War is exacerbating already high grocery bills and it will only get worse if the war continues, experts say

Labor shortages, inflation, and energy costs were raising prices even before the war began, economists say.

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Bill Ackman’s $64 billion Universal Music play is part of his strategy to become the next Warren Buffett

Ackman, a self-described Buffett “devotee,” is following his idol’s playbook to access “permanent capital” by trying to jointly list his...

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A $400 million ballroom was just the beginning. Now, Trump plans to spend $174 million more on renovations

Nearly all of the funding comes from donors, the White House said.

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Meet a former VC who has a plan to prepare American students for an AI-disrupted future

For years, Ted Dintersmith has been sounding the alarm that American schools don’t adequately prepare children for the future. Artificial...

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Jack Dorsey and Roelof Botha think AI can make middle management obsolete

The Silicon Valley execs want companies to function as a "mini-artificial general intelligence,” and leave traditional corporate hierarchy behind.

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Warren Buffett revives his legendary charity lunch auction—this time with Stephen Curry. His last one raised $19 million

The proceeds will go to two Bay Area foundations, the social justice nonprofit GLIDE and the Currys’ Eat. Learn. Play.

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New top federal enforcer has his sights set on ending insider trading on prediction markets

“We will aggressively detect, investigate, and, where appropriate, prosecute insider trading in the prediction markets,” CFTC Director of...

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Sheryl Sandberg tapped a 25-year-old to run Lean In. Here’s her plan to close the AI gender gap

Women are falling behind men on AI — and Lean In's new CEO, at 25, tells Fortune that's an emergency her generation has to fix.

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Liking corporate BS may be a sign you’re bad at decision-making, Cornell expert finds

Anyone can fall for BS, cognitive psychologist Shane Littrell says, but you may not want people who can’t detect it to run your company.

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Most Americans would rather ditch social media than their beloved banking apps, Wells Fargo survey says

People are taking steps to feel more in control of their finances, Wells Fargo’s Emily Irwin explained.

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Elon Musk is escalating his feud with a Delaware judge over a ‘heart’ on a LinkedIn post

Musk’s lawyers allege that Chancellor Kathaleen McCormick reacted in support of a post celebrating the billionaire’s federal court loss in...

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The rise of ‘social offloading’—when AI replaces your boss’s empathy

AI isn’t the problem, says leadership expert Leena Rinne; it’s social connection and emotional intelligence instead.

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Macy’s just launched an AI-powered shopping assistant. Customers who use it spend nearly 400% more

The “Ask Macy’s” chatbot may help the company’s comeback and reverse declining sales.

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Washington and Silicon Valley have found their common enemy: China

Lawmakers and tech executives may not agree on how to regulate AI, but they agree who the enemy is.

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New college grad unemployment will spike to 35% in 2 years, senator warns, forcing ‘Dario, Sam’ to quit AI fear-mongering

“If you take Dario, Sam, you take all the evangelists. I think they are literally consciously pulling back on their predictions,” Mark Warner said.

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Billionaire OpenAI investor Vinod Khosla thinks 80% of jobs could vanish by 2030, and that ‘fear of AI’ put American politics in a chokehold

“The single biggest issue I believe in the 2028 presidential election will be fear of AI,” the Khosla Ventures founder said.

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Airlines are preparing for the worst as Iran war enters its fourth week. But demand is still strong, and travelers are willing to pay higher fares

Despite threats to the global jet fuel supply, airline demand is high as ever. Expect that to hit your wallet soon.

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Kalshi takes a page from Warren Buffett’s March Madness playbook by offering $1 billion for a perfect bracket

For less-than-perfect brackets, Kalshi is promising $1 million to the user who correctly guesses the most winners.

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Women are avoiding the very technology that threatens them most, as expert warns of a ‘two-tiered AI economy’ approaching

Women are more skeptical of AI. Their hesitation will make AI safer, says Harvard researcher Mara Bolis.

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Three Tennessee teenagers are suing Elon Musk’s xAI for creating sexually explicit images of them

The high schoolers are seeking class-action status in order to represent what the lawsuit says are thousands of victims like themselves who either are...

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Meet Mark Zuckerberg’s college roommate. He’s an Olympian-turned-VC exec who now invests in your favorite celebrity businesses

Building off his experience as an athlete, talent manager, and brand builder, Samyr Lainé has backed brands founded by Issa Rae, Kaley Cuoco, and...

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Nespresso’s Dua Lipa era marks a shift from George Clooney’s activism to Gen Z aspiration

For years, George Clooney gave Nespresso a polished image with an activist edge. Dua Lipa brings something different: younger, glossier, and built for...

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Today’s Bob Iger’s last day leading Disney. Here’s what comes next at the company worth $176 billion

Josh D’Amaro, who’s been with Disney for 28 years, takes over today, ending Iger’s nearly two decades tenure leading the company.

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“A bend in the trajectory”: U.S. data center development has hit snags because the power grid is approaching its limits to support them

An energy bottleneck is threatening Big Tech's massive data center ambitions, and it means those companies may need to break their huge capital...

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‘This is the way’: Elon Musk endorses Warren Buffett’s famed 5-minute plan to fix the national debt

The richest man in the world joins prominent financial leaders in supporting a plan to lower the deficit to 3% of GDP.

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Only 6 billionaires left California over its proposed wealth tax — but they took $27 billion in potential revenue with them

Larry Page and Sergey Brin alone account for $25 billion of that lost revenue — and billionaires are now funding a campaign to kill the tax entirely.

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Banning institutional investors from buying homes will backfire for many Americans, experts say

“Banning a small piece of the market does nothing to solve for the actual affordability challenges facing people who want to buy a house,” rental...

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Google and Tesla know electricity is expensive. They’re teaming up to bring you an alternative.

A new coalition of tech companies and energy distributors wants to work with regulators and lawmakers to improve electricity grid operations.

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Jensen Huang runs the world’s most valuable chip company. His bonus is $4 Million—if he’s lucky

For the eighth-richest person in the world, a $4 million bonus sounds like a lot—until you remember it's coming from a $4.5 trillion company—and...

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$683 billion in unpaid labor: How companies like Amazon, AARP, and Levi’s are easing the caregiving burden on women

A growing number of employers are offering paid leave, backup care, and emergency reimbursements—but experts say it's still not enough.

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Trump says the U.S. will open its first new oil refinery in nearly 50 years as the U.S. military avoids bombing Iran’s oil infrastructure

The refinery, which will be built in Brownsville, Texas, is backed by Indian energy group Reliance Industries.

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Polymarket taps Palantir AI to police sports betting before it’s too late

The move is a reversal of the company’s previous stance that the platform could self-police.

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Alphabet CEO Sundar Pichai’s new $692 million compensation package hinges on the success of two Google moonshots that aren’t making any money

Nearly half of Pichai’s compensation depends on robotaxi company Waymo and drone delivery service Wing. Both companies are part of Alphabet that...

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