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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.

17.03.2026 4

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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.

16.03.2026 4

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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.

11.03.2026 10

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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.

09.03.2026 6

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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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Anthropic’s Claude overtakes ChatGPT in App Store as users boycott over OpenAI’s $200 million Pentagon contract

Protest campaigns across Reddit and X may have helped drive users away from OpenAI.

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YouTube’s cofounder and former tech boss doesn’t want his kids to watch short videos, warning short-form content ‘equates to shorter attention spans’

Steve Chen said companies that distribute short-form video should add safeguards for kids.

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Have good taste? It may just get you a job during the AI jobs apocalypse, says Sam Altman

Tech insiders argue judgment and discernment could give humans an edge over AI.

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Anthropic’s Dario Amodei says he spends up to 40% of his time on company culture, not products, because it’s the only thing that will win the AI race

Amodei said constant communication and avoiding “corpo speak” are key to his method.

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An MIT roboticist who cofounded bankrupt robot vacuum maker iRobot says Elon Musk’s vision of humanoid robot assistants is ‘pure fantasy thinking’

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

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Jamie Dimon says society should start preparing for AI job displacement: ‘Now’s the time to start thinking about’ it

Dimon backs AI at JPMorgan but also supports government action to prevent mass layoffs.

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Inside Miami’s Billionaire Bunker, a manmade 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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Sam Altman gets defensive about AI’s massive electricity usage: ‘It also takes a lot of energy to train a human’

Altman said data centers have moved past water-intensive cooling, but 56% globally still use evaporative systems.

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Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella says Bill Gates told him his big bet on OpenAI would be a flop: ‘Yeah, you’re going to burn this billion dollars’

Nadella said despite the risk, “it was not that hard to convince anyone.”

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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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Sam Altman and Dario Amodei refused to hold hands at an AI summit weeks after OpenAI and Anthropic clashed in a tense Super Bowl ad war

An uncomfortable photo op exposed how a one-time partnership has transformed into one of Silicon Valley’s most consequential AI feuds.

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Jake Paul says a chance meeting with Sam Altman at Trump’s inauguration led to an OpenAI investment and a crash course in ruthless 15-minute meetings

Paul said the OpenAI CEO showed him “time is the most valuable thing.”

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Anthropic was supposed to be a ‘safe’ alternative to OpenAI, but CEO Dario Amodei admits his company struggles to balance safety with profits

Anthropic’s CEO says intense commercial pressure is testing the company’s safety-first AI mission.

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A billionaire and an A-list actor found refuge in a 37-home Florida neighborhood with armed guards—proof that privacy is now the ultimate luxury

Most of the houses are about the size of two football fields, and sit on the edge of an artificial lake, giving each home its own bubble of privacy.

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Analog-obsessed Gen Zers are buying $40 app blockers to limit their social media use and take a break from the ‘slot machine in your pocket’

App-blocking devices like Bloom and Brick promise to improve focus and decrease compulsive phone checks by making social media harder to access.

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Mark Zuckerberg is joining Jeff Bezos in Miami’s billionaire bunker: Take a look inside his real-estate portfolio

The Meta CEO has spent years adding luxury properties, including a secretive ranch with an underground shelter and a Lake Tahoe mountain retreat.

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In the workforce, AI is having the opposite effect it was supposed to, UC Berkeley researchers warn

Nonstop productivity may come at the cost of rest and work quality, the study found.

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Panicked about losing GPT-4o, some ChatGPT users are building DIY versions. A psychologist explains why ‘feel-good hormones’ make it hard to let go

A frenzy of devoted GPT-4o fans are begging OpenAI not to pull the plug.

10.02.2026 10

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Netflix co-CEO Ted Sarandos argues its Warner Bros. deal won’t hurt consumers. If so, they can cancel with one click

Sarandos defended Netflix's Warner Bros. merger and argued customers hold the real power.

06.02.2026 9

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Pinterest cracks down on dissent, fires engineers for an internal layoff tool as AI shake-ups keep employees on edge and in line

The incident shows how layoffs and AI investment have given employers more leverage over workers.

05.02.2026 10

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Meet Walmart’s new CEO, John Furner: Once an hourly worker, today he takes charge of the top company in the Fortune 500

Furner said he learned the value of hard work from his grandfather, who was a farmer.

01.02.2026 7

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Ford CEO has 5,000 open mechanic jobs with up to 6-figure salaries from the shortage of manually skilled workers: ‘We are in trouble in our country’

“We do not have trade schools. We are not investing in educating a next generation of people,” Jim Farley said.

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As billionaires chase immortality, this startup cofounded by a Harvard genetics professor gets FDA approval for the first partial de-aging human trial

Life Biosciences will test its gene therapy designed to partially reset a cell’s age and potentially reverse vision loss in patients with glaucoma...

30.01.2026 9

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Here’s who topped the Fortune 500 in CEO pay last year—from Goldman’s David Solomon to Disney’s Bob Iger

Goldman’s David Solomon clinched the top position in early 2025 pay rankings.

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‘Country of geniuses in a data center’: Every AI cluster will have the brainpower of 50 million Nobel Prize winners, Anthropic CEO says

Dario Amodei, long an AI safety advocate, is excited and terrified by what’s coming from AI: It’s the “single most serious national security...

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TikTok users panic over the app’s ‘immigration data’ collection in its new privacy policy, but the wording isn’t new—here’s what it means

Experts say the phrasing has appeared in previous privacy policies and reflects legal requirements.

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Meet TikTok’s new U.S. CEO: Adam Presser, a Harvard business and law grad with an affinity for Chinese movies

"For three years in high school, I watched Chinese movies and had this incredibly eye-opening experience,” Presser said in a 2023 interview.

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A Danish app for helping consumers boycott U.S. products increased users by 1,400% as Trump resurrected the Greenland issue at Davos

The Made O'Meter app received 11,000 downloads in January across iOS and Android.

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