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Cursor’s 25-year-old CEO is a former Google intern who just cemented a $60 billion deal with SpaceX

From Google intern at 18 to a billionaire at 25, Cursor CEO Michael Truell’s rise is one of Silicon Valley’s fastest.

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SpaceX went from three consecutive rocket explosions and near-bankruptcy in 2008 to the biggest IPO in history

Elon Musk once gave SpaceX less than a 10% chance of surviving.

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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...

13.06.2026 10

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After backlash, Anthropic says its AI will now tell users when their request is being rejected or downgraded for national security concerns

Anthropic’s latest model previously downgraded certain user requests quietly and without warning.

11.06.2026 10

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SpaceX’s record IPO has Wall Street torn between a Musk ‘holy grail’ and a $72-per-share leap of faith

Analysts disagree on whether SpaceX is worth what Musk is asking.

11.06.2026 10

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A ‘MAGA Warrior’ Texas ag chief is publicly blasting the USDA over a flesh-eating pest threatening America’s beef supply

The flesh-eating New World screwworm fly was found in Texas last week for the first time since 1966.

10.06.2026 10

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Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei spends 40% of his time on culture, not AI—including a biweekly ‘vision quest’ where he ditches ‘corpo speak’

Dario Amodei says constant communication and avoiding "corpo speak" keep Anthropic's 2,500 employees aligned as the AI race heats up.

07.06.2026 20

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As the World Cup draws millions to 11 U.S. cities, measles—not Ebola—may be the biggest concern

Measles may be the bigger threat partly because it is more contagious, and cases in the U.S. are already rising.

05.06.2026 9

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The Class of 2026: Meet the 12 companies making their Fortune 500 debut

From crypto companies to mattress makers, these companies made it in the list’s 72nd year.

05.06.2026 10

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AI CEOs from OpenAI, Anthropic, and Microsoft set aside their rivalry to warn Congress AI is making it too easy to design and create bioweapons

The signatories want Congress to mandate screening for synthetic DNA sales as AI makes creating a bioweapon easier.

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SpaceX may be the biggest IPO ever, but Morningstar says it is overvalued by half and the smart investors will wait out the hype and buy later

A top analyst says its IPO is overvalued and the best buying opportunity may come after insiders get the chance to sell.

03.06.2026 7

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Who is Chris Olah? The atheist Anthropic cofounder the Pope chose to sit beside him at the Vatican and tell the tech industry it can’t govern itself

The Anthropic cofounder is worth $8 billion and won a $100,000 Thiel Fellowship in 2012.

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Erin Brockovich, the activist who defeated a utility giant and inspired a Julia Roberts film, is pushing data centers to be more transparent

Brockovich's new data center tracking project has collected nearly 4,000 complaints nationwide.

01.06.2026 10

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CEOs blame AI for layoffs, but an MIT professor says it fits a long-running pattern to find a cover story. ‘They’ve been saying that for 20 years’

Companies like Wix, Snap, and Block have all recently pointed to AI to explain cuts.

31.05.2026 10

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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.

30.05.2026 20

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TIAA CEO Thasunda Brown Duckett is trying to fix America’s broken retirement system

After watching her father nearly miss out on a secure retirement, Duckett is pushing Americans to secure a guaranteed income for life.

30.05.2026 10

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A Google engineer is facing federal charges after allegedly using his employer’s confidential data to pocket $1.2 million on Polymarket

The DOJ alleges the engineer ignored a "Google Confidential" warning to get insider search data he later used for bets.

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The Harvard economist behind the Education Scorecard says the ‘Learning Recession’ is more than a COVID problem—it’s at least a decade old

Think all the backsliding in U.S. education is the result of remote school, masks and a year of social distancing? Not exactly, says Tom Kane.

28.05.2026 20

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The U.K.’s top spy says the window to stay ahead of China and Russia is narrowing and cybersecurity needs to become ‘10 times more urgent’

GCHQ director Anne Keast-Butler warned China is "a science and tech superpower" with advanced intelligence capabilities.

27.05.2026 10

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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.

25.05.2026 20

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SpaceX’s next-gen rocket is the key to its sky-high valuation, early investor says: ‘Starship also enables all kinds of frontier markets’

SpaceX’s launch business gives it "access to orbit," said Space Capital CEO Chad Anderson.

24.05.2026 20

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Walmart shoppers are filling their gas tanks with less than 10 gallons for the first time since 2022, and its CFO calls it ‘an indication of stress’

Gas is up 42% in a year and above $4 in all 50 states.

22.05.2026 10

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Meta laid off 10% of its workforce as Mark Zuckerberg warns that in the AI race ‘success isn’t a given’

Meta in the first quarter reported $56.31 billion in revenue, its biggest year-over-year increase in five years.

21.05.2026 10

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Vice President JD Vance rebuffs question about President Trump’s stock investments, says Trump is so wealthy he doesn’t trade stocks himself

Trump recently bought shares of Palantir, Dell, and Micron—all companies he has publicly praised.

21.05.2026 20

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A dating expert says ghosting and quiet quitting are the same problem at their core, and corporate life has more to learn from romance than it admits

Lakshmi Rengarajan, founder of How to Date Humans, says dating may be the best guide to fixing what's broken at work.

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DEI experts say the acronym may be radioactive, but the underlying business case is stronger than ever

Two former chief diversity officers say companies that abandon DEI under pressure are making a costly, long-term business mistake.

19.05.2026 10

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Ryanair’s CFO says the airline has plans for an ‘armageddon situation’ as the jet fuel crisis threatens weaker European airlines this winter

“Do we have plans for some kind of Armageddon situation? Of course, we do, but I don’t see that coming to pass,” said CFO Neil Sorahan.

18.05.2026 10

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While Detroit blinked on EVs, the Iran war has handed Chinese automakers the opportunity of a lifetime

“As tragic as it is—war is tragic for anyone involved—it is probably one of the best things that could have happened to the Chinese EV...

18.05.2026 20

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Zillow CEO doubles down on remote-work model: ‘There is talent everywhere in this country’

The real-estate company has seen a marked increase in recruitment because of its work-from-home policies.

17.05.2026 20

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America’s productivity boom started before AI, and a Stanford economist who decoded the Great Resignation says working from home is the reason why

National data show “a clear post-2020 surge in productivity growth exactly when WFH ramped up,” said Stanford economist Nicholas Bloom.

15.05.2026 10

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Claude is telling users to go to sleep mid-session and nobody, including Anthropic, seems to fully understand why it keeps doing it

A staff member at Anthropic called the behavior, a “bit of a character tic.”

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After nearly a year of delays, Trump Mobile’s CEO says the gold-plated Trump phone will begin shipping to buyers this week

“Those delays were worth it in our minds as we are delivering an amazing product,” said Trump Mobile CEO Pat O’Brien.

13.05.2026 10

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Japanese snack giant resorts to black-and-white bags of potato chips as Iran War literally sucks color out of the world

Japan gets 70% of its total imports of naphtha, a petroleum-based material used in printing inks, from the Middle East.

12.05.2026 10

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India brings back COVID-era work-from-home rules and asks farmers to halve fertilizer use as the Iran war chokes its oil lifeline

India is particularly exposed to the Iran oil shock as 50% of its crude oil imports pass through the Strait of Hormuz.

12.05.2026 10

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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.

12.05.2026 20

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Trump Mobile quietly rewrote its fine print to say the gold Trump phone may never be made, a year after taking $100 deposits

The terms and conditions said the preorder deposit gives people "a conditional opportunity" to buy the phone if the company makes it.

11.05.2026 10

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Shark Tank’s Kevin O’Leary wants to build a massive $100 billion data center in rural Utah. Residents are revolting

Kevin O'Leary suggested China is funding online misinformation against the Utah data center project.

11.05.2026 20

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Companies are abandoning ‘peanut butter’ raises as pay-for-performance takes over the workplace in the AI era

Only 4% of employers still spread raises equally across the board, according to Mercer.

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Goldman Sachs’ tech boss says tracking individual AI usage isn’t useful. He just watches how fast his 12,000 engineers move from idea to production

Goldman Sachs built an in-house version of ChatGPT as it dives into AI headfirst.

08.05.2026 10

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Anthropic grew 80-fold in a single quarter. Now it’s renting Elon Musk’s data center to cope

CEO Dario Amodei said he’s hoping eventually Anthropic will have a “more normal” expansion.

08.05.2026 10

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eBay bans GameStop CEO’s account after he started listing store signs and old carpets to fund his $56 billion offer to buy the marketplace

Michael Burry dumped his GameStop shares over the eBay dealing, warning "never confuse debt for creativity.”

07.05.2026 20

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The CEO behind Grand Theft Auto VI doesn’t play video games, but analysts say he has put $1.5 billion behind the biggest game launch of the decade

"I don't think being consumer-in-chief really helps a CEO be effective in this business," said Take-Two Interactive Software CEO Strauss Zelnick.

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After the FDA spent years rejecting over flavored vape products, Trump reportedly pressed his FDA commissioner to allow mango and blueberry flavors

“Flavors induce people, many of them children and young adults, to use a product that may result in a lifetime of addiction and other harms,” one...

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Coinbase didn’t just lay off 14% of its staff due to AI. It replaced managers with ‘player-coaches’ and turned its org chart upside down

“We are not just reducing headcount and cutting costs, we’re fundamentally changing how we operate,” CEO Brian Armstrong said.

05.05.2026 20

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GameStop’s billionaire CEO is an entrepreneur without a college degree who cofounded Chewy. Now he has his sights set on buying eBay for $56 billion

Ryan Cohen was rejected by 100 investors before selling Chewy for $3.35 billion.

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Investors endorse Greg Abel—even as Berkshire crowd thins without Buffett as CEO. ‘This was definitely the meeting with the deepest insights’

Longtime investors say any concerns about the transition from Buffett to Abel are now put to rest.

04.05.2026 10

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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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CEOs got an 11% pay raise in 2025. Workers got 0.5%

A new ITUC-Oxfam report covering 1,500 companies found CEO pay is outpacing worker wages by a factor of 20—and the gap is only getting wider.

01.05.2026 20

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Meta wants to spend more even after it lost $80 billion on the Metaverse and over 20 million users

Meta increased its capital spending by $10 billion because it “continued to underestimate,” its compute needs, said its CFO.

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Wind energy CEO says company must ‘adapt’ as Trump offers $2 billion to kill offshore wind projects

“My goal is to not let any windmill be built. They’re losers,” Trump said to oil executives in January.

30.04.2026 10

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