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With $1 trillion pay package on the line, Elon Musk blasts influential firms telling shareholders to reject it: ‘Those guys are corporate terrorists’

Musk also criticized the role of proxy advisory firms generally.

23.10.2025 2

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Instagram cofounder rips ‘AI FOMO’ that caused a rush to adopt and no metrics: ‘When it gets fuzzy, it’s very hard to then evaluate’

“The best products can be grounded in some kind of success metric or evaluation,” said Mike Krieger.

21.10.2025 2

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‘Sad, if not damning’: Cathie Wood blasts the proxy firms who say Elon Musk’s $1 trillion pay package is just too rich

“Index-based investing is a form of socialism. Our investment system is broken,” the longtime Tesla bull said, calling proxy firms “menaces to...

21.10.2025 8

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OpenAI pauses AI generated deepfakes of Martin Luther King Jr. on Sora 2 app after ‘disrespectful’ depictions

“For me, many of the AI depictions never rose to the level of free speech,” Bernice A. King wrote on X. “They were foolishness.”

18.10.2025 3

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Fail fast, fight smarter: Silicon Valley’s startup mentality is rewiring the Pentagon

The Pentagon is slowly moving from manually inputting intelligence to AI-fueled solutions.

16.10.2025 3

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From Doritos to Pop-Tarts, Big Food’s $67 billion obsession is protein-packed everything: ‘It’s going to keep coming’

The new Pop-Tarts will cost $3.99, slightly more than their standard non-protein counterparts.

14.10.2025 2

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Strava CEO says the $2 billion unicorn plans to go public ‘at some point’ as marathon-obsessed Gen Z swaps dating apps for run clubs

CEO Michael Martin said a public listing would provide easy capital for future acquisitions.

14.10.2025 2

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Why the New York Stock Exchange just crowned a Gen Z billionaire: Shayne Coplan figured out a society that gambles on everything

Coplan, 27, started Polymarket in the bathroom of his Lower East Side apartment.

11.10.2025 3

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The government shutdown couldn’t have come at a worse time for D.C. Its $11 billion tourism industry is bracing for impact

Fall is a peak season for conferences and business travel, said the president and CEO of the city’s nonprofit destination marketing organization.

11.10.2025 10

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Markets look unstoppable, but JPMorgan CEO Jamie Dimon sees a 30% chance of a correction: ‘I’m far more worried than others’

Dimon said when the bubble will burst is hard to predict.

09.10.2025 4

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Billionaire PC tycoon Michael Dell is riding the AI gold rush—and he says the party’s far from over even if eventually ‘there’ll be too many’ data centers

Dell Technologies’ stock is up 39% year-to-date.

08.10.2025 3

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Jensen Huang shrugs off Trump’s $100K visa fee, says Nvidia will foot the potential $147 million bill anyway: ‘Legal immigration remains essential’

Huang said the “miracle of Nvidia” wouldn’t be possible without immigration.

08.10.2025 3

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Legendary Apple designer Jony Ive wants to fix our relationships with the phones he helped created—and has up to 20 different OpenAI gadgets to do so

Ive said he hopes the new generation of AI-first devices bring more joy and less anxiety.

07.10.2025 2

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Billionaire beef boss says Americans crave so much protein the country is outpacing its own production and turning to imports

Wesley Batista says GLP-1 drugs could be fueling the protein-diet fad.

06.10.2025 2

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Goldman Sachs’ David Solomon on whether AI is a bubble: Maybe, but ‘it’s not different’ from all the other market manias

“There will be a lot of capital that was deployed that didn’t deliver returns,” said Solomon, one of the top CEOs on Wall Street. “It’s not...

03.10.2025 3

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Mark Cuban on AI powering new American Dream: ‘Great democratizer’ for Gen Z

Cuban said AI gives young people access to the best teachers.

02.10.2025 3

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AI godfather warns humanity risks extinction by hyperintelligent machines with their own ‘preservation goals’ within 10 years

AI researcher Yoshua Bengio claims AI could persuade or manipulate humans to achieve its own goals.

01.10.2025 4

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Spotify founder Daniel Ek once said he was the ‘least powerful person’ at the company. Here’s how he built it into a $145 billion music empire

Ek, who cofounded the company in 2006, is stepping down as CEO.

30.09.2025 2

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Dollar Shave Club CEO says the company is returning to its irreverent roots after Unilever ‘neutered the voice of the brand’

Larry Bodner said post-acquisition, Unilever moved the brand away from its core values while also scaling back product quality.

30.09.2025 3

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An MIT roboticist who cofounded Roomba maker iRobot says Elon Musk’s vision of humanoid robots as catchall assistants is ‘pure fantasy thinking’

Rodney Brooks said future “humanoid” robots will have wheels and multiple arms.

29.09.2025 5

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JPMorgan’s Jamie Dimon faced death and realized he had no regrets: How his perspective shifted after emergency heart surgery

Around five years ago, Dimon had emergency surgery for an acute aortic dissection.

27.09.2025 10

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Sam Altman thinks AI will surpass human intelligence by 2030. His rival AI billionaires say it’ll be even sooner

The OpenAI CEO said GPT-5 is already smarter than he is.

26.09.2025 3

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Ex-Google CEO Eric Schmidt warns U.S. tech workers: competing with China’s grueling 12-hour workdays means sacrificing work-life balance

Schmidt, who served as CEO from 2001 to 2011, has some thoughts on the China-style “996” work ethic.

25.09.2025 7

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Microsoft boss says its new AI-infused web browsing experience is like ‘a little angel on your shoulder doing the boring hard work’

Mustafa Suleyman said using AI in Microsoft’s Edge browser is a “magical experience.”

24.09.2025 5

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Before he revolutionized tech with Steve Jobs, Jony Ive wanted to quit Apple. Now he’s forging a new power pair with OpenAI’s Sam Altman

Ive has joined Altman at OpenAI to create new AI-native devices.

24.09.2025 2

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Cathie Wood says the AI race has already shrunk to the ‘Big 4’ key players, and it could soon drop to 2

Wood said the AI space is increasingly consolidating.

24.09.2025 8

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Experts say Trump’s $100,000 fee for a talent visa is a handicap on the tech industry. Here are the Fortune 500 companies most affected

H-1B holders contribute an estimated $86 billion to the U.S. economy every year.

22.09.2025 3

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Mark Zuckerberg says this Superintelligence Labs team has a flat leadership structure and no top-down deadlines: It’s like ‘a group science project’

Zuckerberg has offered multimillion-dollar contracts to attract top AI researchers.

19.09.2025 20

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President Obama accuses the Trump administration of ‘government coercion’ after ABC takes Jimmy Kimmel off the air

The 44th U.S. president said media companies need to stand up instead of cave.

19.09.2025 10

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Frontier Airlines boss fires back at United CEO’s claim that low-cost flying is near extinction: ‘That’s cute’

Barry Biffle said if Scott Kirby were “good at math, he would understand that we have an oversupply issue in the United States.”

18.09.2025 6

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New Opendoor Chairman Keith Rabois says he doesn’t know why the company has 1,400 employees: ‘We don’t need more than 200’

Rabois said he also wants to bring employees back to the office.

16.09.2025 3

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Hyundai CEO says ICE raid on Georgia plant set back its grand opening by two or three months

CEO Jose Muñoz said the delay estimate is based on foreign workers coming back to help.

12.09.2025 4

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Larry Ellison surpasses Elon Musk as world’s richest person after Oracle’s stock gives him a $101 billion net worth boost

Musk held the title of world’s richest person for 300 days.

10.09.2025 6

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Ōura CEO insists they’ll never sell your data as customers publicly ditch rings over privacy fears tied to Defense Department and Palantir

CEO Tom Hale said the company will never sell its customers’ data.

09.09.2025 3

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Vodafone’s new ad proves even influencers can be replaced by AI

An AI-generated spokesperson talked up a company promotion on TikTok.

08.09.2025 2

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Paramount’s new CEO tells employees to return to office full-time or quit ahead of layoffs

Employees who don’t want to comply have until mid-September to take a buyout.

05.09.2025 9

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Tariff instability and a break with China is hitting American companies hard, and homegrown manufacturer John Deere is no exception

Trump’s tariff policies are hitting John Deere’s customers hard.

04.09.2025 3

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A Trump loss in his tariff court case could mean a $150 billion refund for American businesses. Here’s how they could get their money back

Previously imposed tariffs could be refunded, but not without some red tape.

04.09.2025 50

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Researchers used persuasion techniques to manipulate ChatGPT into breaking its own rules—from calling users jerks to giving recipes for lidocaine

AI mirrors human responses and appears to be susceptible to the same psychology, the researchers concluded.

02.09.2025 6

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Accenture CEO weighs in on why so many AI projects have failed with 3 red flags to watch out for

Julie Sweet says CEOs need to throw out the old playbook to survive.

31.08.2025 20

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Two mystery customers alone were responsible for nearly 40% of Nvidia’s quarterly revenue

Nvidia saw a 56% jump in year-over-year revenue in the second quarter.

30.08.2025 10

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Lamborghini CEO warns tariffs have even forced its wealthiest consumers—who have an average of 5 cars in their garage—to waver on buying a new ride

CEO Stephan Winkelmann said customers are waiting to see where tariffs for EU-imported cars end up.

28.08.2025 2

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Duolingo is facing an existential crisis as Google Translate rolls out features to tutor users—and even handle live translation as a bonus

AI models that can also help with language learning are exerting pressure on Duolingo.

27.08.2025 7

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OpenAI’s president and Andreessen Horowitz are helping lead a $100 million Silicon Valley push against tougher AI laws and the lawmakers behind them

The organization will support politicians who are friendly to AI “innovation”.

26.08.2025 4

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Coinbase CEO urged engineers to use AI—then shocked them by firing those who wouldn’t: ‘I went rogue’

CEO Brian Armstrong gave engineers a week to onboard, then booted those who didn’t.

25.08.2025 6

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Trump says Intel agreed to give the government 10% of the chipmaker. ‘We do a lot of deals like that. I’ll do more of them’

Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick previously said the U.S. government should receive equity in return for the CHIPS Act cash grants Intel has...

23.08.2025 5

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Kevin O’Leary flaunts his Louis Vuitton Labubu while hailing the resale market for collectibles—some of which are appreciating better than the S&P 500

O’Leary said some sports cards are potentially be worth millions and are an untapped alternative market.

22.08.2025 5

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Trump goes on $100 million bond buying spree: Here’s what it could signal about future interest rates

Trump’s bond buying strategy could be a mix of tax savings and potential profit-taking.

21.08.2025 3

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OpenAI’s chairman says ChatGPT is ‘obviating’ his own job—and says AI is like an ‘Iron Man suit’ for workers

Bret Taylor says computer programmers like himself may face an existential crisis.

20.08.2025 2

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Home Depot says customers are putting off larger home-improvement projects as stubborn interest rates and worries about the economy fester

Consumers are hesitant to take out loans for bigger projects, said Home Depot’s CFO.

20.08.2025 10

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