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OpenAI’s policy chief says AI companies ‘need to do a much better job’ talking about AI as industry leaders face personal attacks

OpenAI global policy chief Chris Lehane is warning industry leaders to tone down the rhetoric.

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Gen Z is carving a different path in the housing market by doing it alone

“Gen Zers are absolutely crushing it when we think about singles purchasing homes in this housing market compared to millennials at the same age."

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Yale asked a committee why people hate the Ivy League. Their 20 findings: A grades are meaningless and the admissions process is broken

The committee offered 20 recommendations, spanning everything from protecting free speech, supporting “open minds,” fixing admissions, and tamping...

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Trumpflation hits the World Cup: Fans face $80–$100 transit fares on top of $4,000-plus tickets

NJ Transit is modeling a 700% rail-fare surge to MetLife Stadium. Boston has already locked in 4x hikes. With $4,000 group-stage seats and $10,000...

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Another month, another record-high home price: March hits $408,800—the 33rd straight increase

The median existing home price rose 1.4% from a year ago even as sales fell 3.6%, the NAR reported. Experts say the market needs up to 500,000 more...

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Dirty Jobs host Mike Rowe is giving away $10 million to get Gen Z into trades—and says the skills gap has never been worse

The TV host’s foundation is doubling the amount of scholarship money it awards to people entering the trades, as he receives 10 times the average...

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After growing up on a dairy farm, this Peter Thiel–backed founder is using AI to save cattle ranching

Halter CEO Craig Piggott has helped bring AI to an industry seemingly far removed from modern technology: agriculture.

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The AI that found 27-year-old vulnerabilities no human ever caught before just forced an emergency meeting with every major Wall Street CEO

Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent and Fed chair Jerome Powell reportedly convened Wall Street leaders in an emergency meeting addressing Anthropic’s...

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The job market is so bad, workers now think they have worse odds of finding a role than during the pandemic

Data from the Federal Reserve Bank of New York shows that Americans are increasingly pessimistic about their job prospects.

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Gen Z doesn’t want your full-time job. They want several part-time roles, and it’s reshaping the entire workforce

The number of people working multiple jobs hit its highest level in more than a decade, with Gen Z leading the charge.

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Gen Z workers are so fearful AI will take their job they’re intentionally sabotaging their company’s AI rollout

Many employees are refusing to use AI tools, with some even admitting to tampering with performance reviews to make AI appear less effective.

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Top economist Mark Zandi says the indicator that has called every recession since WWII just signaled we’re already in one

The Vicious Cycle Index is a recession indicator that takes labor force participation changes into consideration. The top economist at Moody’s...

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Sam Altman’s big pitch to fix the big AI mess sounds like Jamie Dimon’s: a 4-day workweek and a big new tax on rich people like him

OpenAI Monday released a paper outlining policy proposals to regulate and tax corporate income from AI.

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‘Skunk at the party’: Jamie Dimon warns of recession risks amid ongoing wars—but also stagflation

The JPMorgan Chase CEO laid out the possibility of recessionary, and even stagflationary, forces stemming from ongoing wars.

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Jamie Dimon’s reality check for ambitious workers: ‘There’s going to be a grunt part to every part of a job. Get over it’

The JPMorgan CEO says workers should not simply “get a new job.” Instead, they should stick to one role.

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College grads in ‘AI-proof’ careers like psychology and education are seeing negative returns on their degrees

As AI reshapes white-collar work, new research shows that some of the most popular graduate degrees are actually leaving holders worse off...

04.04.2026 5

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A $10 billion ‘slush fund’ to pay TSA agents: Trump’s latest unilateral loophole, explained

Trump's executive order to pay TSA agents is likely drawing from a $10 billion fund that Congress didn't approve.

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Paul Krugman smacks down Trump speech with argument that $4 gas is ‘less than half’ of the Hormuz hit. Here’s what he’s talking about

Several other essential commodities cross the critical choke point, and a prolonged closure of the strait could injure American consumers.

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Jamie Dimon, office-work champion, vows his anti-remote culture ‘would crush you.’ The economy’s top talent begs to differ

JPMorgan’s CEO thinks in-person work makes companies more competitive. Most of the research says another thing about “the entitled non-complier.”

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‘Inflationary surge’: Fed economists warn AI hype is overheating the economy whether or not the technology ever delivers

Economists from the St. Louis Fed said AI could inflate prices today even without a payoff tomorrow.

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A Wall Street vet’s Walmart recession indicator just hit its highest point since 2008—and he says the fear ‘just keeps multiplying’

Jim Paulsen’s “Walmart Recession Signal” has tracked closely with downturns in real GDP growth and unemployment spikes.

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Marc Andreessen says AI layoffs are a farce—companies are 75% overstaffed and AI is the ‘silver-bullet excuse’ to clean house

The venture capitalist thinks companies are citing AI as an excuse to cut down workforces for alternative reasons.

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A man used AI to call 3,000 Irish bartenders to track the cost of Guinness. Now pubs are lowering their prices to compete

A 37-year-old leveraged voice AI and Anthropic’s Claude to create a consumer price index for a pint of Guinness across Ireland.

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A CEO trying to reindustrialize America says blue-collar pay is headed for ‘massive hyperinflation’ and kids should skip college to become welders

Hadrian CEO Chris Power said it’s time to tell your kids to ditch the four-year degree and enter the trades.

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Trump moves to shield farmers rattled by tariffs and war. But the U.S. is already doling out $10B to near-millionaires and even billionaire farmers

A recent Cato Institute post outlined how the federal crop insurance program bolsters wealthy farmers.

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Gen Z will give up $5,000 in pay to log off at 5—but still expects a corner office

"It's the want versus the reality of what it takes to actually accomplish it,” KPMG's Derek Thomas told Fortune about Gen Z's attitude to success.

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How a war in the Middle East is hiking your mortgage rate in America

The 30-year fixed mortgage rate rose to 6.43% last week, its highest level since last October.

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From ‘Hard Knock Life’ to $2.8 billion, Jay-Z calls billionaire hate ‘a cop-out’ even as 1 in 5 Americans say it’s ‘morally wrong’ to be that rich

The billionaire rapper said he doesn’t believe money changes a person’s ethics: “Morality is not defined by a dollar amount.”

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The median first-time homebuyer is now 40. Zillow’s CEO says don’t expect that to change anytime soon

Zillow CEO Jeremy Wacksman said supply-side constraints will keep housing unaffordable in the near term.

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The job market is so bad that ‘reverse recruiters’ are charging $1,500 a month just to help people look for jobs

Reverse Recruiting Agency helps job seekers reduce what is often a six-month endeavor of applying for jobs in today’s labor market.

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CFOs admit privately that AI layoffs will be 9x higher this year—and still a fraction of ‘doomsday’ predictions

A survey conducted by Duke in partnership with the Federal Reserve Banks of Atlanta and Richmond sheds fresh light on the AI jobs wipeout.

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Nearly three in five Americans think AI will push homeownership even further out of reach

Not only to Americans have to contend with increased home costs, but they now have to deal with the fear of losing their jobs thanks to AI.

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The Iran oil crisis is the worst energy shock ever recorded. World leaders aren’t ready, says IEA chief

IEA executive director Fatih Birol broke a three-week silence with a fresh warning, raising fresh alarms over the deepening global energy crisis.

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A man let ChatGPT sell his home. It beat every agent’s estimate by $100K—and closed in 5 days

The technology assisted with everything from marketing and pricing to suggesting which walls to repaint.

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Gen Z can’t afford a house. Some parents are choosing to fund their down payments over their college funds

Nearly three-quarters of parents are considering helping their kids buy a home amid the most dire market for first-time homebuyers.

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Gen Z’s straight‑A boom is quietly shrinking their paychecks

Grade inflation offers short-term gains, but poorer future test scores, lower graduation rates, and lower annual earnings, a new study finds.

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‘A month ago, no one would have believed this’: June Fed rate hike odds just surpassed rate cut odds as stagflation fears grow

The Atlanta Fed’s Market Probability Tracker places the odds of a rate hike at about 15% within the next three months.

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Fortune 500 firm updates AI price tag to $4.5 trillion, estimating 93% of jobs vulnerable to disruption

Cognizant looked again at its 2023 estimates about AI job loss—and doubled its projections.

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Jensen Huang just painted the most bold image of AI’s future: 7.5 million agents, 75,000 humans—100 AI workers for every person

The Nvidia CEO said AI agents would work around the clock so human workers don’t have to keep up with them.

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The dictionaries are suing OpenAI for ‘massive’ copyright infringement, and say ChatGPT is starving publishers of revenue

The lawsuit alleges the AI giant produces responses to prompts that are identical to copyrighted material.

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Nvidia’s Jensen Huang thinks $1 trillion won’t be enough to meet AI demand—and he’s paying engineers in AI tokens worth half their salary to prove it

The Nvidia CEO said the company is powering the “largest buildout of human history” as AI investments skyrocket.

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Robot dogs priced at $300,000 a piece are now guarding some of the country’s biggest data centers

AI companies are turning to quadruped robots, better known as “robot dogs” for security solutions to protect their vast data centers.

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Peter Thiel is actively convincing billionaires to abandon The Giving Pledge — and it’s working

In an interview with The New York Times, the PayPal cofounder called it an "Epstein-adjacent Boomer club" — and says he's talked people into quitting.

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Gen Z is dating less. The result is one of the most unprepared workforces

Young workers are finding it hard to navigate difficult situations in the office, from talking to the boss and showing up on time.

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Ex-presidential candidate Andrew Yang says it’s time to ‘stop taxing labor’ and make AI foot the bill instead

Andrew Yang said on CNBC the U.S. shouldn’t tax something like labor in the age of AI.

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Oil and fertilizer prices are climbing. Your grocery bill may follow

The spike in crude oil and fertilizer prices could raise food prices within the coming months.

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Trump might get away with his new tariffs: The law he’s relying on survived over 3,600 legal challenges, and even Biden used it

“Challenging whatever the administration does here is going to be much more difficult than the IEEPA case,” international trade expert Timothy...

12.03.2026 7

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Top economist says Iran war could trigger an economic ‘butterfly effect’—and keep inflation elevated for years

"Much like we saw in the wake of the pandemic," KPMG's Diane Swonk said, "those changes could trigger a longer-lasting bout of inflation."

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The $38.9 trillion national debt is costing you thousands of extra dollars per year on your mortgage. Here’s how it adds up

“The consistent pattern of deficit spending that has been the norm in the United States for many years has driven up costs for families."

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Iran is reportedly laying mines in the Strait of Hormuz—Trump threatens to hit back ’20 times harder’

Trump threatened Iran with "military consequences at a level never seen before" after U.S. intelligence found indications the country may be preparing...

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