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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.

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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.

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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%.

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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 3

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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...

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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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Your next oil change is becoming a bigger part of car dealers’ business as profits cool and service departments make up the difference

Dealers are chasing service revenue as pandemic-era profits from selling cars fall back to Earth.

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California’s billionaires just poured $40 million into blocking a wealth tax that threatens to force them to pay 5% of their net worth

Billionaires have amassed a nine-figure war chest to defeat Proposition 40 as polls show California voters are nearly split on the one-time tax.

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Computer science enrollment is plunging, but AI is taking over the rest of the college campus as it reshapes how students learn and work

Universities like Colby College are increasingly integrating AI into disciplines not related to computer science.

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Forget Gen Z: People in their 70s and 80s are some of the earliest Americans to welcome physical AI into their homes and daily routines

ElliQ’s device is helping older adults carry out everyday tasks, as the company teams up with government agencies for seniors.

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SpaceX’s record IPO is helping spur a new wave of startups aiming for orbit and opening a vast new market beyond Earth

Despite SpaceX’s recent stock slide, experts say its record IPO is clearing a path for more space startups.

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Inside Miami’s ‘Billionaire Bunker,’ a man-made island for the .01% where billionaires like Jeff Bezos and Mark Zuckerberg shell out for total privacy

A single bridge, 24/7 police, and $150M estates make Indian Creek in Miami America’s most exclusive enclave.

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Y Combinator‑backed AI startup is under fire after its founder offered instant interviews to partygoers who got company tattoos, then apologized

LemonLime’s cofounder apologized following a flurry of online backlash and offered to cover removal costs for the tattoos

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LinkedIn adds a ‘seems like AI slop’ button after blocking billions of automated comment attempts in the last few months

“AI slop is a top priority for all of us,” said LinkedIn chief product officer Hari Srinivasan in a post.

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Ferrari’s Jony Ive-designed model was mocked by the internet, but it’s selling like hotcakes

When the Luce was released Ferrari’s former president and chairman said he hoped “they take the prancing horse off that car, at least.”

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Jeff Bezos could add to the swelling ranks of American billionaires in English soccer

Half of the 20 Premier League clubs are already owned by Americans.

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Trump broke his promise to lower — and eliminate — the national debt. A top investor thinks he’s the ‘worst-spending president in history’

"The number one job of the President is to get the deficit under control,” Jason Calacanis wrote in a post on X.

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Nvidia’s Jensen Huang says AI is killing tasks not jobs—and the white-collar bloodbath narrative gets the future of work ‘exactly backwards’

“AI automates tasks away, but it doesn’t necessarily eliminate jobs,” Huang said.

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Sam Altman thinks the singularity is already here, but an expert says OpenAI’s Hugging Face breach doesn’t prove it

“It’s the first time in like more than a decade I've thought about what is the next thing,” the OpenAI CEO said.

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The Pete behind Jersey Mike’s was only 17 years old when he borrowed $125,000 to buy the chain—with some help from his high school football coach

Peter Cancro had worked at the Jersey Shore sub shop since he was 14; the six-figure loan would be worth $775,000 today.

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Schools across America are quietly admitting that screens in classrooms made students worse off and are reversing years of tech-first policies

Millions were spent putting laptops in every student’s hands. Now schools want them back as tech falls short of the miracle solution it was sold as.

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Musk says frontier AI models should face peer review from rival labs before release, with the government only stepping in as a last resort

The SpaceX CEO said he would set aside his differences with OpenAI CEO Sam Altman “for the good of the world.”

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As Washington panics about Chinese AI, Jensen Huang says open-source models like Kimi are ‘excellent’ and should be embraced, not banned

The Nvidia CEO said open source AI models could fuel more demand for chips and data centers.

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FIFA’s $15 billion World Cup payday shows commercialization is the real tournament champion

FIFA’s expanded 48-team tournament brought about record TV audiences and packed stadiums.

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A decade after the ‘Godfather of AI’ said radiologists were obsolete, their salaries are up to $571K and demand is growing fast

"As long as AI doesn't make this quantum leap of becoming sort of AGI,” most jobs are going to be reasonably safe, said one economist.

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Beyond rockets and satellites, SpaceX is quietly building an AI compute business that may become key to its eye-popping valuation

Deals with Google and Anthropic to rent out computing capacity could generate $26 billion a year.

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After the Supreme Court killed his first tariffs, Trump turns to a new legal workaround to impose 25% tariffs on Brazil and possibly others

Trump’s tariff program has gone from generating billions to forcing billions in refunds thanks to February's Supreme Court ruling.

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Kevin O’Leary claimed opposition to his Utah data center was fueled by Chinese money. Now he and Fox News are being sued for defamation

Two organizations targeted by O’Leary say his comments caused “significant economic losses, severe emotional distress, and ongoing threats to...

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After donating $48 billion to the Gates Foundation, Warren Buffett is quietly ending one of the biggest philanthropic relationships in history

Buffett is directing his fortune to charitable organizations run by his family instead of the Gates Foundation.

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Elon Musk and Sam Altman are accusing each other of scamming investors as SpaceX and OpenAI jockey to lead AI revolution

A social media fight erupted after their companies launched competing AI models one day apart.

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Peter Thiel and other tech billionaires 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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Meta added a privacy-safety feature to its AI glasses but is reportedly testing a ‘super-sensing’ prototype

Meta's new feature disables its smart glasses' camera if users tamper with the LED recording light.

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Hybrid‑work expert Nicholas Bloom says World Cup chaos and pricey commutes are turning July into the summer of remote work

The economist who has spent two decades studying remote work said most employers are never going back to a fully in-office set up.

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Cathie Wood just bought the SpaceX dip again—and dumped Alibaba to do it

ARK rolled out of Chinese tech to add to Elon Musk's newly public rocket company, doubling down on a bet it says could be worth $3.1 trillion.

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Close to a million investors of the Trump memecoin lost a collective $3.8 billion, even as the president disclosed $636 million in earnings

The president launched the $TRUMP coin just before his inauguration last January.

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