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Marco Quiroz-Gutierrez

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Jamie Dimon says the bigger your job gets, ‘the less you know—literally.’ The CEOs too insecure to admit it are the ones who get into trouble

The JPMorgan CEO says leaders get into trouble when their insecurity discourages employees from delivering bad news.

08.11.2026 10

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Elon Musk once said the Cybertruck would be Tesla’s ‘best product ever.’ Now he’s winding down production

Cybertruck sales fell 48% between 2024 and 2025, according to an estimate by Cox Automotive’s Kelley Blue Book.

06.11.2026 9

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In a contentious North Carolina House race, it was $59,000 against an incumbent’s $3 million warchest—and the challenger won

Democrats in several races overcame fundraising disadvantages to flip races in Republican strongholds.

06.11.2026 20

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Democrat wins will slow data center construction and force tech to the negotiating table after even Republican stronghold of Texas flips

Three Democratic governors elected Tuesday have promised to reexamine data center expansion.

04.11.2026 10

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North Carolina voters approve tax limits on income and property as cost of living tops voters’ worries

Opponents said a voter-approved constitutional amendment could result in limited tax relief for homeowners and big savings for corporations.

03.11.2026 9

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Republicans pitch 3.5% income tax cap as an affordability fix in North Carolina—but Gov. Josh Stein says it won’t put ‘more money in anyone’s pockets’

A proposed constitutional amendment, if it passes, wouldn’t immediately lower income taxes—but would cap the state income tax at 3.5%.

03.11.2026 10

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Cheap flights in Europe face a fuel cost reckoning as Ryanair’s CEO says fares could rise up to 20% next year because of the Iran war

Michael O’Leary warns that European airfares could rise as much as 20% in 2027 as the Iran war drives up fuel costs and forces airlines to cut...

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Mark Zuckerberg’s $170 million Miami mansion is just one piece of his sprawling real estate empire that includes a 196-year-old castle

The Meta CEO has spent years accumulating luxury properties, including a secretive ranch with an underground shelter, an Irish castle, and a Lake...

31.10.2026 20

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Fears over $828 billion AI capex spending spree help erase $1 trillion in market value

Five tech giants are set to spend as much as $828 billion this year on infrastructure as the AI race eats into cash flow and rattles Wall Street.

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Trump’s immigration policy is so harmful to talent that Anthropic mentioned it as a risk factor in its historic IPO

The company said its revenue per employee jumped about 371% in one year.

28.10.2026 20

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Elon Musk promised an AI epic to rival Christopher Nolan’s film. Viewers got a seven-minute glitch

The first installment of Grok’s “The Odyssey” reveals the persistent gap between generative video hype and cinematic reality.

27.10.2026 8

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Palantir CEO Alex Karp says neurodivergent workers will thrive in the AI era. An autistic psychologist says he has a point

Daniel Wendler, the psychologist, warned against putting neurodivergent people on a pedestal.

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Jamie Dimon poached Warren Buffett’s protégé to run a $10 billion fund—he says Buffett’s response was ‘at least he’s going to you’

Former Geico CEO Todd Combs had been at Berkshire since 2010.

24.10.2026 20

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Gen Z is treating the midterms like a market event. Boomers are treating them like weather

A survey finds 72% of Gen Z investors have changed their portfolios ahead of the midterms, versus 17% of boomers. Here’s what it means.

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The reporter who exposed Theranos loved the new Elizabeth Holmes documentary but says its ‘artistry’ shouldn’t obscure the fraud

Reporter John Carreyrou praised the documentary as a potential Oscar winner but says it shouldn't distract from Holmes’ previous actions.

20.10.2026 10

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‘An army of Claudes, with every one asking for my attention’: Anthropic calls human attention the bottleneck in the botsitting world to come

Eighty percent of Claude session delays result from agents waiting on human input, and the median Anthropic employee spends 20% more time in meetings...

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Anthropic’s Dario Amodei is steering a possible $2 trillion IPO—but he says up to 40% of his time goes to making sure company culture is good

Dario Amodei says constant communication and avoiding "corpo speak" keep Anthropic's 3,500 employees aligned as the AI race heats up.

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With U.S. debt above $40 trillion, the IMF chief warns that economic growth alone won’t solve the problem

Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent has said the U.S. can grow its way out of the debt.

16.10.2026 10

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Airlines raised fares as fuel costs surged, but Delta’s CEO says those higher ticket prices could be here to stay as long as demand holds up

Oil prices are more than 70% higher than they were a year ago.

12.10.2026 60

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Nvidia built a $5 trillion company while making employees pay for their own lunch—but they get far more lucrative perks like stock discounts

At the world’s most valuable company, lunch isn’t free—but a generous stock plan has been far more lucrative.

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As companies pour billions into Earth-based AI infrastructure, Google is taking the data center race off-planet

Google will conduct experiments with its satellite in space for a year.

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Mark Cuban on why AI is the wrong job-killer target: It’s the health care costs, stupid

“It’s far easier to blame AI than it is to blame health care costs,” the billionaire and founder of Cost Plus Drugs said. The math makes his point.

08.10.2026 20

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Sam Altman says the world should accept some ‘bad things’ happening with AI as the industry signs on to Trump’s voluntary safety pact

But Altman said “catastrophic risks” are not acceptable.

05.10.2026 20

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Meet Noah Shinn: The 23-year-old college dropout whose viral AI assistant is emerging as a new challenger to Mark Zuckerberg’s Meta

This week, Instinct raised an additional $1 billion in a Series C that shot his company's valuation up to $10 billion.

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Funflation is fueling hobbies as Americans spend more on fun at home to avoid going out

The rising cost of airfare, eating out, and gas has made Americans pickier about their spending.

29.09.2026 20

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Shark Tank’s Kevin O’Leary doesn’t care if you work from your basement. He just wants to know if you can ‘execute’

Companies forcing workers back to the office are potentially giving up their best talent, he said.

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Trump made more than 1,100 trades in July alone—nearly 40 times Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent’s total for all of last year

Trump’s accounts logged 1,156 trades in July while Bessent disclosed just 29 transactions in 2025.

25.09.2026 50

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Multimillionaire author Bill Perkins says parents should give kids their inheritance in their 20s when it can transform their lives—not when they die

The “Die With Zero” author says waiting until death to pass down wealth means children often get the money long after it could have changed their...

23.09.2026 40

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After 40 investors rejected Jeff Bezos’ Amazon pitch, his parents offered $245,573 of their retirement savings

Bezos’ stepfather’s first question about the company was “What’s the internet?” the Amazon founder previously said.

22.09.2026 40

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Dating apps are trying to cure swiping fatigue with pickleball, trivia nights, and fewer chats

Tinder, Bumble, and Breeze are betting on real world events as paying user numbers dip.

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Anthropic billionaire cofounder Jack Clark studied literature, not code—and says liberal arts degrees will win in the AI age

Anthropic’s liberal-arts-educated cofounder says “rote programming” is best avoided.

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Scale AI and Passes founder Lucy Guo says AI is making people work harder, not less: ‘I worked a 26-hour day’

Guo was the world’s youngest self-made woman billionaire before being surpassed by Kalshi cofounder Luana Lopes Lara.

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Ed Sheeran asked Patriots owner Robert Kraft for $2 million aid donation after Macklemore was dropped from his tour for pro-Palestine comments

Kraft said his objection was to Macklemore’s rhetoric, not Palestinian aid, as Sheeran’s tour reels from a wave of artist exits.

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Elon Musk, the world’s richest man, says he’s living in an Airstream trailer to oversee xAI’s biggest expansion yet

Musk says he is living at xAI’s Memphis data center site, continuing a longtime habit of sleeping where he works.

15.09.2026 50

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AI is remaking the workforce faster than universities can decide how—or whether—to teach it

Some professors have banned it in the classroom while others have incorporated it into the curriculum.

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Jamie Dimon runs JPMorgan’s 300,000 employees—but says it beats rivals by fighting in Navy SEAL-sized teams

Decades-old research backs up the idea that individual effort decreases as group sizes increase.

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Binge watching and binge shopping come together: Amazon lets Prime viewers buy what characters wear and use, or the next closest thing

Amazon’s new Prime Video feature uses AI to help viewers shop for products that look like what they see on screen.

11.09.2026 30

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Scott Bessent dared the $32 trillion bond market with ‘I am the house now’ statement. It didn’t listen

After helping lift the yen, Bessent is finding the much larger Treasury market harder to tame as yields push toward 5%.

10.09.2026 30

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The pumpkin spice era is changing—if not over, as McDonald’s replaces the flavor for the first time in a decade

Pumpkin spice is losing its monopoly on fall as McDonald’s pivots to caramel apple. This is not another Gen Z versus millennial war.

08.09.2026 30

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Tech CEOs want the world to embrace AI, but protestors outside their G20 gathering show the industry’s growing popularity problem

As tech CEOs championed AI inside a G20 gathering in Chapel Hill, N.C., hundreds gathered outside to protest data centers and other issues.

05.09.2026 40

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Bitcoin is trading more like an ‘amplified version of gold’ again, but the four-year cycle theory threatens further declines

Some analysts warn the four-year cycle set to complete later this year could bring another slide.

04.09.2026 20

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Josh Kushner says Thrive would have stayed away from FIFA’s $4.2 billion World Cup deal if it had known what was coming

The billionaire investor says Thrive misread the politics of global soccer after a $4.2 billion FIFA deal triggered fierce backlash.

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Japan requires married couples to share a surname, so matchmakers are pairing singles who already have the same one to avoid changing it

A Japanese advocacy group helped organize the events to highlight a 128-year-old law that requires married couples to share the same surname.

03.09.2026 20

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The Pentagon is giving 3 million military and civilian workers access to ChatGPT and Grok through a secure AI platform built for ‘warfighter needs’

The rollout expands the Pentagon’s GenAI.mil platform beyond Gemini as it pushes AI deeper into everyday military work.

01.09.2026 30

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Young Kalshi users have traded an estimated $3.9B on sports and parlay-type contracts this year, exposing a loophole that lets them bet before age 21

Critics warn prediction markets let 18-year-olds make sports wagers while bypassing state betting age limits.

31.08.2026 30

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Tech billionaires and executives like Evan Spiegel and Peter Thiel are publicly shielding their children from the products that made them rich

As governments race to restrict minors’ social media use, the tech billionaires who built the platforms are imposing strict screen limits at home.

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OpenAI bans pro-Russia ChatGPT accounts used to spread pro-Kremlin content including an Israel-based think tank using real researchers’ names

OpenAI claims Russian users hid behind VPNs to push a think tank tied to an influence operation and spread pro-Russia content online.

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Elon Musk’s former X product chief Nikita Bier is charging venture-backed founders $15,000 for a 30-minute consulting call

Bier stepped down as head of product earlier this month.

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The tax escape map: Billionaires are bolting for Florida from the West Coast and taking some $29 billion in tax revenue with them

Driven partly by proposed wealth taxes, some of America’s richest people have poured hundreds of millions of dollars into waterfront Florida real...

23.08.2026 30

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CEO of viral backflipping robot company says robots are still years from ‘ChatGPT moment,’ even after investors sent his stock soaring 460%

CEO Wang Xingxing says humanoid robots still struggle to match humans and adapt to unfamiliar tasks.

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