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‘We all chip in’: America’s $40 billion private jet boom is taking off, and taxpayers are helping billionaires foot the bill

Private flyers get tax breaks and taxpayer-funded airport projects while contributing relatively little to air traffic infrastructure

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‘A billion deaths’: Bill Gates warns about AI in the wrong hands, saying a kill switch and self-regulation won’t be enough

Gates used to be one of AI’s optimists, but now he calls it “the most dangerous thing humans have ever gone near”

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China has quietly got Trump by the soybeans

Trump and Xi have slashed tariffs on $30 billion worth of goods on each side, but not the soybeans that Iowa farmers depend on

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‘China has arrived’: From $1,000 Gucci sneakers to German cars, China is coming for the industries that made Europe rich

China learned from Europe's industrial giants, and now its factories are challenging them in cars, machinery and even luxury goods

27.09.2026 9

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How ‘Ozempic face’ is pushing Gen X, already the biggest Botox and filler consumers, to the facelift table a decade early

“I just started to feel like I was seeing more lines around my eyes or something, and thought I would just go check out this doctor," one Gen Xer...

25.09.2026 9

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Libraries are becoming a cost-of-living hack, and some are seeing a surge in sign-ups

Libraries are drawing in users with free streaming, local business discounts, and tech help as the cost of living bites

25.09.2026 9

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Gen Z can’t afford healthy groceries—so many college students are skipping meals altogether or eating less to pay the bills

As food prices climb, they’re cutting back on purchases and replacing traditional meals with snacks even as a majority want to eat healthier.

23.09.2026 9

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Mortgage rates are nearing 7%, delivering another blow to a housing market already losing buyers and facing stalled sales

Home sales have fallen to their lowest pace in more than a year and sellers are offering concessions to lure back buyers

22.09.2026 6

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$6 trillion a year in unpaid labor isn’t counted in GDP. Its absence from official stats distorts how we see growth, living standards and productivity

A new GAO report puts a price tag on unpaid household labor and shows why family income can look better on paper than it feels in real life

21.09.2026 6

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American, United and Southwest are all cutting ‘marginal routes’ as jet fuel prices spike

American, United and Southwest are trimming schedules as fuel surges, while travelers already face fares nearly a quarter higher than a year ago

18.09.2026 10

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Shopify CEO says employees’ ‘slop grenades’ are making more work for everyone else

He said AI is helping workers produce more output, but the quality of it is so bad that their colleagues have to spend more time fixing it

17.09.2026 10

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Nike bets on a millennial Arnault heir after bleeding $200 billion and being ousted from the S&P 100

Alexandre Arnault joins the board after helping revive heritage brands Rimowa and Tiffany as Nike fights to restore growth and cultural relevance

17.09.2026 10

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Gen Z is the most online generation but this Christmas, they want gifts to get them outside

Beyond physical gifts, Gen Z also wants shared, in-person experiences, with three in five saying a shared meal matters more than a present

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You’re going to pay more for health insurance in 2027 as employers see costs jumping for the fifth straight year

Health insurance costs are rising so fast they could eat into workers’ paychecks next year, according to a survey of 1,800 U.S. employers

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Faced with less compute and fewer tokens, Chinese AI labs are tightening the gap with the U.S. by just being more efficient

Federal agencies accused six Chinese AI companies of training on American models to do this, but analysts say it’s not the only explanation

13.09.2026 9

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OpenAI has paused its $200 ChatGPT sign-ups as ‘unprecedented’ demand for new model Astra strains its system

Even after expanding available compute 9.5-fold since 2023, OpenAI is pausing new Pro 20X accounts while it adds more capacity

11.09.2026 5

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Ryanair’s CEO warns travelers that cheap European flights may not last if oil remains above $100 a barrel into next year

Ryanair’s fuel hedge softened the Iran war’s blow, but it still cut its winter flight schedule and anticipates higher ticket costs

10.09.2026 10

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Wealthy parents are buying their kids $75,000 AI schooling with guardrails as schools grapple with a literacy crisis

Alpha School has AI tutor core subjects and afternoons devoted to life skills workshops as schools nationwide face historically low reading scores.

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DOJ expands beef price probe to eight retailers, including Walmart and Amazon, with inflation a key issue ahead of midterm elections

The new probe into retailers seems to build on the department’s antitrust investigation into meatpackers.

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AI wants electricity now. The electric grid needs years to catch up

Data center demand is surging, but utilities, electric transmission and grid connections can take years to meet the need

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Gloria Steinem, who fought for decades for women’s equality, dies at 92

The Ms. Magazine co-founder became one of the women’s movement’s most influential voices over six decades

03.09.2026 10

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Uber is cutting 3,300 jobs despite double-digit growth as it makes room for its robotaxi future

CEO Dara Khosrowshahi said the cuts will make Uber “faster and smarter” as it invests billions into autonomous vehicles

03.09.2026 10

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A new bill would tax AI tokens to fund jobs if the technology causes mass unemployment

Revenue from a proposed excise tax would fund housing construction, infrastructure, child care and elder care as automation spreads.

01.09.2026 10

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Meet the CEO whose century-old company never laid off employees through the Great Depression, the recession, or Covid

The company even mapped out employees' zip codes to help choose a location for a larger facility with more digestible commute times.

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Japan doubled defense spending to counter China. Now it wants AI, underwater attack drones and government-owned weapons factories

Japan now aims to transform its defense capacity and is also adapting to Ukraine's style of warfare with drones

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South Korea may be getting too old to take advantage of its AI boom

Korea could keep getting richer from AI while elderly households become reluctant or unable to spend those gains

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A consultant who once railed against ‘the billionaire boys club’ is now leading opposition to California’s wealth tax

Ned Wigglesworth once blasted big donors for buying influence. Today, he’s helping lead a nine-figure campaign against Prop. 40

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‘Clearly, people hate data centers’: Sam Altman admits Americans hate what he’s wrought as his own data centers head quits

Seven in 10 Americans oppose an AI data center near them, even as OpenAI adds multi-gigawatt projects across the U.S

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‘It’s very objective’: Billionaire Marc Lore’s Wonder uses an AI algorithm to determine who gets promoted

Lore has spent his career turning messy business problems into math. At Wonder, he’s now applying that instinct to employees’ careers.

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The Trump administration proposes $103,000 fee for H1-B visas that DHS itself estimates would paralyze 76% of small businesses

The extra charge on H-1B visas is an effort to get companies to hire more Americans—but a Wharton economist says it could push jobs overseas instead

25.08.2026 10

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Harvard’s $699 startup bootcamp has professors who never sleep–but that’s because they’re AI clones

Founders can rehearse pitches, sales calls and board meetings repeatedly with avatars modeled on seven HBS faculty members

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‘I had no one to bird with who wasn’t 20 years older than me’: Meet the Gen Zers who transformed grandma’s hobby into an analog craze

“Bird watching, I think, used to be sort of a very, very niche thing, and now it is a cool thing,” eBird director Christopher Wood told Fortune....

23.08.2026 10

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Baby boomers look richer than ever—but many are retiring with record levels of debt

Decades of home-price gains made older Americans wealthy on paper. Debt and rising costs are making that wealth harder to live on

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Facing weary customers, Walmart will use its nearly $3 billion in tariff refunds to lower prices

Walmart passed on tariff-related costs last year and is now trying to lower prices as shares fell nearly 9% after its U.S. sales growth hit a six-year...

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Bill Ackman’s $400 million brain institute was inspired by his daughter—and built outside elite universities, which he says are losing talent

The billionaire investor said campus politics and funding cuts have made academia less attractive

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Meet the venture capital and crypto billionaires quietly bankrolling the fight against California’s wealth tax

Campaign finance records show at least four billionaires quietly funding the opposition—and the fight is only growing stronger

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Alibaba’s $2 billion gaming exit signals where Beijing wants its money

The e-commerce giant sells its gaming studio and pours $53 billion into AI as the US-China tech rivalry heats up

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The ‘Jamie premium’ nears $1 trillion as JP Morgan flirts with historic market valuation

CEO Jamie Dimon has spent two decades building JP Morgan into the lion of Wall Street. Its market cap was $138 billion when he took over

17.08.2026 20

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Talking to a bot might feel good in the moment, but a growing body of research suggests it won’t cure loneliness

Researchers, psychologists, and bioethicists agree: a good conversation with a bot still isn't the same as being known by another person

16.08.2026 10

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‘Multi-part case study on China’s media’ finds that AI models can’t hallucinate away Chinese censorship

New research suggests Chinese state media and authoritarian speech restrictions can shape the answers produced by leading U.S. AI models

13.08.2026 10

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Canva was the rare startup that grew fast and made money—then AI costs slashed its growth forecast by a third

An analyst said AI is breaking SaaS’s “secret sauce”, and Canva and its competitor, Figma, just became the latest proof

12.08.2026 10

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Sam Altman thinks working at Goldman Sachs ‘sounds unbelievably terrible now’ and admits he was ‘peer pressured’ into accepting an internship there

Two decades after his application to the bank, OpenAI is recruiting Wall Street veterans and teaching AI to do the work of junior bankers.

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Jamie Dimon warns dollar dominance depends on the military: ‘If we’re not the strongest military in 25 years…we won’t be the reserve currency either’

The JPMorgan CEO said U.S. military might will be the only thing keeping the world from being "very dangerous for us."

11.08.2026 10

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Zuckerberg’s vision for an AI assistant is far more intimate than ChatGPT: It watches him sleep, train and bake with his 8-year-old daughter

The “superintelligence” pitch comes amid an FTC inquiry into child chatbot safety and days after Meta disclosed a sharp drop in free cash flow

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Forget DeepSeek. China’s real ‘Sputnik moment’ is happening on campus as American universities lose their advantage

China's tech rise runs deeper than any single breakthrough. Its universities generate critical technology patents at 8x the U.S. rate

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Meta becomes third major AI lab after Anthropic and OpenAI to admit its agents have gone rogue—one day after Muse Code launch

Meta launched Muse Code to take on Anthropic and OpenAI—but the industry's most advanced AI agents are breaking the limits of their digital confines

06.08.2026 20

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Locked out of housing, Gen Z and Millennials are building wealth in the stock market instead as they reach record high $3.1 trillion in holdings

Experts warn brokerage accounts lack a mortgage's forced savings discipline and carry other risks

05.08.2026 10

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The U.S. is using euros, not dollars, to prop up the yen, and it may backfire: ‘This kind of twist…undercuts the efficacy of U.S. participation’

The unusual funding method backed a joint U.S.-Japan move that lifted the yen to 157 per dollar, but economists say it won't fix underlying issues

03.08.2026 10

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Wall Street’s hidden recruiting pipeline isn’t an Ivy League diploma—it’s the teammate who triples your odds of getting hired

A new study of more than 120,000 Ivy League graduates finds locker room ties, not diplomas, do the real gatekeeping into finance's top firms

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Bernard Arnault is denying a family rift—and any kind of real-life Succession. LVMH earnings tell a stranger story

The conglomerate's best-performing unit right now is run by an outsider, not an Arnault—does that mean anything for the succession race?

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