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Snap CEO Evan Spiegel mocks Mark Zuckerberg on LinkedIn, says he’s ‘VP Product’ at Meta because of all the features Facebook and Instagram have replicated from his app

Instagram has made its own versions of the stories and face filters pioneered by Snapchat.

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Small towns are offering millions in tax breaks to land the mega gas station with a cult-like following and the ‘cleanest restrooms in America’

Buc-ee’s locations bring mile-long lines and $18 per hour paychecks to rural areas.

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Japan will loosen its grip on the country’s fiercely guarded rice stockpile as prices soar to their highest levels ever

The country last tapped the reserve following the 2011 Fukushima nuclear disaster.

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Despite Elon Musk’s close ties to Trump, Tesla’s CFO admits the president’s tariffs plan would impact ‘business and profitability’

The company works with Chinese manufacturers such as BYD and CATL for its car batteries.

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Starbucks is slashing 30% of its offerings because CEO Brian Niccol says its menu has become ‘overly complex’

Niccol said the company made progress on its “Back to Starbucks” plan in the first quarter.

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Donald Trump says he wants a bidding war for TikTok and wouldn’t mind if Microsoft won

Microsoft first tried to buy TikTok during Trump’s first term in 2020.

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Meta is reportedly scrambling ‘war rooms’ of engineers to figure out how DeepSeek’s AI is beating everyone else at a fraction of the price

The engineers will study how DeepSeek accomplished the feat and how Meta can benefit.

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President Trump shrugs off Elon Musk’s criticism of $500 billion Stargate plan: ‘He hates one of the people’

Musk’s shots at Stargate are the latest development in a yearslong feud with OpenAI CEO Sam Altman.

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Apple is facing a ‘fork in the road year’ on AI, but has one clear advantage, analysts say

Wedbush Securities analysts predicted about 20% of the world’s population will access AI through an Apple device over the coming years.

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Jamie Dimon calls Elon Musk the ‘Einstein’ of our time—said they reconciled and ‘hugged it out’

The pair have had a testy relationship for nearly a decade.

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JPMorgan and BlackRock C-suite departure surprises show why succession in finance is extra tricky, experts say

Getting on the CEO successor shortlist could bring opportunities on its own, expert says.

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‘Marketing apocalypse’ hits music industry as TikTok ban looms

In a fragmented music landscape, "TikTok served as sort of the one lightning rod where popularity could actually coalesce into a hit."

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TikTok’s fate is in Trump’s hands as the Supreme Court rules ban can move ahead

The ban is set to take effect on Sunday.

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The American ‘oligarchy’ Biden denounced as a threat to democracy gained $1.5 trillion in net worth during his term

Elon Musk’s wealth multiplied by about 4.5 during the past four years.

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TikTok’s CEO used to be Mark Zuckerberg’s intern—now he’s his fiercest competitor

Shou Zi Chew interned at Facebook during his time at Harvard Business School.

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Tesla CEO Elon Musk borrowed customers’ new Cybertrucks to provide Starlink internet in decimated California wildfire regions

Musk sent Starlink-equipped Cybertrucks to restore internet connectivity after criticizing the government’s response.

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All eyes are on State Farm’s next move as wildfires rip apart Los Angeles

State Farm announced it would end coverage for 72,000 homes and apartments in the state earlier this year.

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LA inferno could inflict a $150 billion economic wound, with a grueling 10-year recovery ahead

Higher material and labor costs as well as increased demand for contractors could slow the process, expert says.

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Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang just tanked quantum-computing stocks after saying their most exciting developments are more than a decade away

Shares in Rigetti Computing, Quantum Computing, IonQ, and D-Wave Quantum all fell more than 35%.

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Disgruntled Boeing investors take aim at $33 million pay for ex-CEO amid ongoing safety issues

Shareholders grill executives, as questions abound over Boeing's way forward.

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Nvidia’s value is now worth more than AMD, Arm, Broadcom, and Intel combined—and doubled

Nvidia’s market cap stood at $3.66 trillion as of Monday.

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Sam Altman says he’s losing money on OpenAI’s $200-per-month subscriptions — ‘people use it much more than we expected’

The company has projected a loss of $5 billion on revenue of $3.7 billion for 2024.

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PR experts say Elon Musk’s handling of the Tesla Cybertruck explosion in Las Vegas was a masterclass

Las Vegas Sheriff Kevin McMahill thanked Musk Wednesday for providing the authorities with information to aid the investigation.

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Here’s what you need to know about Turo, the app allegedly used to rent cars before the New Orleans attack and the Cybertruck explosion near a Las Vegas Trump Hotel

The Turo app is like Airbnb for renting vehicles.

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Warren Buffett’s Berkshire Hathaway is buying up shares of a lagging 1990s dot-com darling

Berkshire invested $74 million in domain name and internet infrastructure company VeriSign this month.

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Former Yahoo CEO Marissa Mayer was Google’s first female engineer—only because she tried to delete a recruiter email and accidentally opened it instead

Mayer's career can be boiled down to a single wrong keystroke.

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LinkedIn cofounder Reid Hoffman says he needed security after Elon Musk formed a ’conviction with no evidence’ that he was close with Jeffrey Epstein

The pair worked together at PayPal.

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Fed officials advocate for ‘caution’ and slower rate cuts next year as Trump prepares to take office

Experts say Trump’s potential policies, including his tariff proposals, could do much to impact the economy and the Fed’s trajectory.

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Marc Benioff warns excessive AI spending is a ‘race to the bottom’ and he plans to take advantage of it

Benioff has previously warned that AI is overhyped.

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Goldman Sachs discriminated against male employee for taking paternity leave, tribunal rules

“What happened to me would not happen to a woman at Goldman Sachs,” according to an exec seeking $5 million in compensation.

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Google’s breakthrough Willow chip means we’ll get useful quantum computers sooner than some people feared

Experts caution that revolutionary quantum computing is still likely years away.

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Man arrested in shooting of UnitedHealthcare CEO reportedly carrying ‘manifesto’ critical of insurance profits

The man was arrested in Pennsylvania after being identified by a McDonald’s employee.

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Former Treasury Secretary Larry Summers says Trump’s idea to create a national Bitcoin reserve is ’crazy’

President-elect Trump proposed creating a strategic Bitcoin reserve, in part to beat out China.

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Tokyo is turning to a 4-day work week in a desperate attempt to help Japan shed its unwanted title of ‘world’s oldest population’

Tokyo earlier this year introduced a government-sponsored dating app to help people find partners.

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Fortune partners with Accenture on AI tool to help analyze and visualize the Fortune 500: ‘You can’t ask a spreadsheet a question’

Fortune’s incoming CEO, Anastasia Nyrkovskaya, said the tool will draw on decades of proprietary data.

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Protecting a billionaire CEO costs millions. Here’s how the world’s biggest companies measure up

In the aftermath of the UnitedHealthcare CEO's killing, security is top of mind for major companies.

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Job seekers are using application tricks to outsmart AI gatekeepers—but their workaround may be backfiring

The so-called “white-font” hack and other workarounds have been called into question by HR leaders

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Bitcoin just hit $100,000, but how did it get here?

The cryptocurrency has had a wild decade-long journey to its new high.

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Influencers behind viral ‘Birds Aren’t Real’ phenomenon resurrect the defunct Enron brand and are using it to sell t-shirts

The original Enron collapsed 23 years ago.

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A current Apple employee is suing the company, alleging it spies on employees’ private lives through their personal devices

“For Apple’s employees, the Apple ecosystem is not a walled garden. It is a prison yard,” the lawsuit reads.

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Elon Musk is ratcheting up his attacks on his old partner Sam Altman, calling him ‘Swindly Sam’ and OpenAI a ‘market-paralyzing gorgon’

Altman’s tense relationship with Musk could complicate his and his company's access to Trump’s administration.

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Banks don’t want to inspect your home office, so they’re forcing hundreds of employees to come in five days a week

Renewed rules for workplace inspections every few years are being blamed for mass return-to-office efforts.

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Crypto entrepreneur Justin Sun buys $6 million banana—and plans to eat it unless Elon Musk wants to send it to space

Sun outbid six others for the iconic work.

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Ark’s Cathie Wood lets retail investors bet on Elon Musk’s private startups and potentially  profit from his proximity to Trump

The fund has 15% exposure to Musk’s private companies.

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Rene Magritte painting ‘Empire of Light’ nets auction record of $121 million at Christie’s in New York

"Empire of Light" was part of the private collection of Mica Ertegun, an interior designer who fled communist Romania to settle in the U.S. where...

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Here’s how escalating Russia tensions could impact markets and supply chains, according to experts

The conflict could affect natural resources used in the production of semiconductors.

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Biden’s Commerce Department rushes to finalize $6.6 billion in chip subsidies to TSMC before Trump takes over

Only about 10% of the world’s semiconductors are manufactured in the U.S.

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Trump killing the EV tax credit would hurt Tesla but be catastrophic for Elon Musk’s competition, analysts say

Musk seems to favor pulling up the ladder that he used to climb the auto industry.

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Nelson Peltz Says he connected Elon Musk with Donald Trump — ‘I was a matchmaker’

Trump has joked that Musk won’t leave.

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Trump calls for investigation into possible ‘illegal’ rumors saying he wants to sell his Trump Media shares

Trump’s shares in the company are worth about $3.5 billion.

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