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The power has swung back to employers—and workers are paying for it in benefits, flexibility, and leverage

With unemployment at 4.3% and quits near a multiyear low, employees are absorbing cuts they would have walked out on three years ago.

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The Iran war’s fertilizer shock is hammering American farmers and 70% can’t afford what they need for this year’s growing season

Prices for the three main fertilizers used by farmers are all up double digits since the Iran war started.

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The Bezos-Musk space rivalry is shooting for the moon and the winner will not just dominate the cosmos—but the future of AI infrastructure

SpaceX and Blue Origin are racing to land on the moon, and both have filed plans to put AI satellites into orbit.

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The billionaire Anthropic cofounder who majored in literature says knowing how to ask the right questions beats knowing how to code

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

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Sam Altman’s attacker had a kill list of AI executives. Experts warn this is just the beginning

64% of Americans say they're nervous about products and services that use AI.

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A 93-year-old refused to sell her home to the Masters golf course that’s spent $280 million on expansion: ‘Money ain’t everything’

Elizabeth Thacker lived next to Augusta National Golf Club her entire adult life and refused to sell her home to the club despite multiple...

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AI promises to free workers from grunt work, but psychologists say those mindless tasks are exactly what our brains need to recover

Experts warn eliminating boring tasks with AI could drain our mental bandwidth.

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Amazon is still paying Jeff Bezos an $80,000 yearly salary—but $1.6 million for travel and security

Amazon's 2026 proxy confirms Bezos still earns the same $81,840 salary he's collected since 1998.

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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 technology in the classroom is turning out not to be the...

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Analysts warn the TACO trade won’t last forever after an Iran ceasefire wipes out weeks of losses in markets

The announced ceasefire led to a $1.5 trillion market rally Wednesday.

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Doritos prices jumped 50% in four years and PepsiCo waited until it lost billions to do anything about it

Frito-Lay’s pandemic-era price hikes cost PepsiCo $50 billion in market value.

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Billionaire NASA chief who’s been to space twice says critics of billionaire space travel are ‘outright wrong.’

Jared Isaacman spoke out as Artemis II became the first crewed lunar mission in more than 50 years.

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Delta’s CEO says AI’s biggest opportunity in aviation isn’t inside the plane—it’s air traffic control

Partly because of air traffic control issues, it takes longer to fly Atlanta to New York today than it did in the 1950s, Bastian said.

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JPMorgan has 300,000 employees, but Jamie Dimon says the bank wins by deploying small teams like Navy SEALs

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

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The World Cup is supposed to be an economic windfall. But ‘you’re seeing a lot of headwinds’ now

Fans from three qualifying nations are banned from entering the U.S while others face up to $15,000 bonds and pricey visa fees.

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Microsoft’s spending billions on AI—but even NASA astronauts can’t escape Outlook headaches

The Artemis II astronauts are using Microsoft Surface Pro devices, according to NASA.

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

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

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Warren Buffett says he stopped talking to Bill Gates over Epstein—and worries he could be called as a witness

“I don't want to be in the position where I know things,” Buffett said.

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Sycophantic AI tells users they’re right 49% more than humans do, and a Stanford study claims it’s making them worse people

The study found flattering AI makes people less likely to take responsibility for their actions and more likely to think they are right.

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Air Canada CEO to quit after furor over English-only message to families of LaGuardia crash victims

Michael Rousseau said he could not express himself adequately in French despite “many lessons over several years.”

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Elon Musk’s name alone is turning Nashville residents against his tunnel project, survey shows

The percentage of residents opposed to the Boring Company’s Music City Loop jumped from 35% to 51% when Musk’s name was mentioned.

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Mark Zuckerberg has cut 25,000 jobs at Meta since 2022. Here’s what that says about his leadership

Zuckerberg has swung from empathetic apologies to ruthless efficiency when it comes to layoffs.

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Cursor CEO warns vibe coding builds ‘shaky foundations’ and eventually ‘things start to crumble’

Cursor CEO Michael Truell draws a sharp line between AI-assisted coding and "vibe coding"—and warns that skipping the details leads to software that...

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‘Don’t leave’: the remote work guru who nailed the labor market during the Great Resignation offers job advice for 2026

“You don’t want to quit a job to find that what you thought would be easy – getting another job – turns out to be a massive struggle,” Nick...

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JPMorgan’s Jamie Dimon says remote work breeds ‘rope-a-dope politics’ and stunts young workers’ growth

Jamie Dimon said younger workers are not fully engaged if they work remotely, adding they won't be as well-developed because remote work doesn't...

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‘We’ve become like Europe’: Jamie Dimon warns China is beating the U.S. as he says Iran war means a ‘better chance’ of permanent Middle East peace

Dimon also spoke favorably about the Iran war, saying the largest countries in the region, including Saudi Arabia, the United Arab Emirates, and...

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Putin is the real winner in Trump’s Iran war as it puts Russian oil back on the map

Washington's attempt to stabilize oil markets may be fueling the one economy it spent years trying to cripple.

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AI may be helping more people start their own businesses, but without many employees

The cofounders of one startup said they are bringing in $1 million per month with 13 employees thanks to AI.

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Tariffs were already squeezing small businesses. Now the Iran conflict is pushing them to the brink as rising oil prices boost shipping costs

Thin margins and limited reserves leave small businesses uniquely exposed.

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Mark Cuban reads 1,000 emails a day—now he’s using a Mac Mini to fight the AI-generated flood threatening his clean inbox obsession

A flood of AI-generated emails forced the billionaire to turn to his own AI to manage his inbox.

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Nvidia’s CEO says AI adoption will be gradual, but when it does hit, we may all end up making robot clothing

Jobs that consist entirely of routine tasks are most at risk of AI disruption, Huang said.

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The CEO of Patreon blasts AI companies for the ‘bogus excuse’ they’re using to not pay artists

Jack Conte says AI firms' fair use claims fall apart when you look at their Disney and Warner deals.

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Delta CEO slams Washington over unpaid TSA agents, says front-line workers are being used as ‘political chips’

More than 300 agents have quit since the partial shutdown began Feb. 14, according to the Department of Homeland Security.

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McDonald’s newest $3 value menu is sounding an alarm about America’s K-shaped economy

The fast food giant's affordability push comes as lower-income consumers pull back on spending.

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Elon Musk admits xAI ‘wasn’t built right’ as only 2 co-founders remain and its biggest AI bet stalls out

Nine of xAI's 11 original co-founders, not including Musk, have left the company.

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Sheryl Sandberg says Silicon Valley’s hypermasculine rhetoric is ‘terrible’—contributing to ‘one of the worst’ corporate climates she’s ever seen

The former Meta COO is pushing back on the tech bro culture—including remarks made by her ex-boss Mark Zuckerberg—that has stalled women's...

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BlackRock’s Larry Fink predicts AI bankruptcies: ‘That’s capitalism’

Competition among AI's biggest spenders will produce winners and losers—and that's a good thing, he said.

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Jamie Dimon just turned 70. Here’s how a brush with death reshaped the JPMorgan CEO’s outlook and made him realize he had no regrets

Dimon had emergency surgery for an acute aortic dissection around six years ago.

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‘What a waste of money’: Shark Tank star Kevin O’Leary urges couples to ditch the extravagant wedding and do this instead

The investor says dropping big money on a honeymoon vacation is also "really stupid.”

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Google’s AI overviews are 44% more likely to trash your brand than ChatGPT

A new study of hundreds of millions of AI prompts finds negative brand content is no longer buried on page 10—it's now sometimes the first thing...

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Bill Ackman is a self-described ‘Buffett devotee’—and wants his $28 billion Pershing empire to be the ‘modern-day’ Berkshire

Taking Pershing Square public may be his boldest step yet toward emulating Buffett’s playbook.

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‘It’s so impossible to live with’: Former Goldman Sachs CEO Blankfein says the Iran war won’t last long

Blankfein said the economic toll makes a long conflict unsustainable.

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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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Billionaire Peter Diamandis offers $3.5 million to filmmakers who portray AI as the hero—not the villain

Diamandis wants to replace Terminator and make optimistic sci-fi cool again with a new generation of films.

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Ring is one of the largest companies ever to come out of Shark Tank. Its CEO says he prepared for his pitch like an Olympic athlete

Jamie Siminoff’s Olympic-level prep turned a rejected offer into a $1 billion exit.

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Silicon Valley investor Vinod Khosla predicts education will be free, and the future of college ‘is a real question’

The billionaire VC says AI raises questions about how we value expertise.

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Shark Tank’s Kevin O’Leary says if he were 25 today, he’d chase these two booming opportunities in the world of AI

O'Leary says young entrepreneurs shouldn't chase flashy AI, they should instead try to build its backbone.

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Warren Buffett’s successor is all-in on the company: He will spend his entire after-tax salary of $15M buying Berkshire Hathaway stock

Berkshire is also resuming share buybacks, despite Buffett’s previous aversion.

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Viral deepfake ad casts Musk, Bezos, and Altman as corpulent overlords powering AI on human sweat. Its creator says the best jokes tell the truth

The viral AI ad imagines laid-off workers pedaling bikes to power the technology that replaced them.

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Jamie Dimon says Trump’s $5 billion JPMorgan lawsuit has ‘no merit,’ but admits he’d be angry about debanking too

The JPMorgan CEO blamed regulatory pressure for forcing banks to close controversial accounts.

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