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OpenAI increases its paid user base by 50% in three months

As ChatGPT approaches its third anniversary this fall, OpenAI announced that the chatbot has spurred a 50% increase in paid users since February.Read...

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Tomato, water, and beef: Here's what's been recalled this week

Maybe hold off on that hamburger: Beef and tomatoes have been recalled this week. Not to mention water.Read more...

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Amazon isn't slowing down on AI with a $10 billion data center in North Carolina

Amazon (AMZN) is almost doubling its investment in North Carolina, announcing $10 billion worth of AI infrastructure for Amazon Web Services’ supply...

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Trump hiring freeze is hurting inflation data collection: Report

The U.S. inflation rate in April was almost negligible: 0.2% month-over-month, or 2.3% annually the lowest since 2021. Good news, right?Read more...

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Russian institutions go in on Bitcoin-linked futures and bonds

Bitcoin bonds are about to be listed on the Moscow Stock Exchange.Read more...

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Trump sons disavow Trump-linked memecoin wallet

Even Donald Trump’s sons are finding their family’s crypto business a bit cryptic.Read more...

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Tesla chargers booted off the New Jersey Turnpike — and Musk cries 'corruption'

Sixty-four Tesla (TSLA) Superchargers will be removed from the New Jersey Turnpike, starting on Friday. Upon hearing the news, Elon Musk tweeted,...

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Tinder tests a controversial height filter as paid dating apps users keep dropping

Love is a lot less lucrative lately—if you’re the company that owns Tinder (MTCH), Hinge and OKCupid. Read more...

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Meta is going all-in on AI advertising

Meta (META) believes that the source of 97% of its revenue can be fully automated by AI: its ads.Read more...

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Elon Musk's Neuralink is getting more competition

A brain-computer interface (BCI), a fusion of man and machine, has sparked human imagination since the Industrial Revolution. This week, the small...

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The maker of Oreos is suing Aldi for copying its packaging

They may look like Oreos. The packaging uses the same colors as Oreos packaging. But the product seen on shelves of the Aldi supermarket chain are...

30.05.2025 1

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Taylor Swift buys her early work, puts bad blood behind her

“All the music I’ve ever made now belongs to me,” wrote Taylor Swift on her website on Friday.Read more...

30.05.2025 2

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Elon Musk's company town warns residents it might send them packing

Elon Musk wants to colonize Mars. He’s starting with a tiny Texan town of 500 people — 260 of whom work for SpaceX — and a recent memo suggests...

30.05.2025 1

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Trump gets asked about Wall Street's 'TACO Trade.' He doesn't like it

President Donald Trump would prefer not to talk about TACO — an acronym for “Trump Always Chickens Out,” a term coined by Robert Armstrong of...

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America's trade war could mean 7 million fewer jobs across the world, U.N. says

International growth is slowing, fewer new jobs will be created, and the global income gap is rising — largely because of elevated trade tension...

28.05.2025 3

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Trump's control over Truth Social could weaken as new shares are issued

The election of Donald Trump provided a big boost for Bitcoin, as the incoming president promised to make the U.S. “the crypto capital of the...

28.05.2025 3

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Elon Musk has to work 40 hours a week at Tesla, top investors say

Show up for work and do your job — that’s what 12 large pension funds, representing $950 billion in assets, told Tesla (TSLA) CEO Elon Musk in an...

28.05.2025 3

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SpaceX's Starship rocket went further in its latest test launch — but still spun out of control

Space X’s big ambitions came crashing back to Earth on Tuesday, when its Starship made what the company calls a “rapid unscheduled disassembly”...

28.05.2025 3

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China's BYD is sued over 'slave-like' labor conditions

One day after BYD (BYDDY) overtook Tesla’s (TSLA) market share in Europe, the Chinese EV maker and two of its contractors were sued by the Brazilian...

28.05.2025 3

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Anthropic's AI model could resort to blackmail out of a sense of 'self-preservation'

“This mission is too important for me to allow you to jeopardize it. I know that you and Frank were planning to disconnect me. And I’m afraid...

23.05.2025 7

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OnlyFans could soon be sold for billions of dollars, report says

OnlyFans, a website that’s been called the future of sex work, could soon be sold to L.A. investment firm Forest Road Company, according to a report...

23.05.2025 2

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JPMorgan Chase, Bank of America and others might launch their own crypto

Since cryptocurrency’s inception a major selling point was that it sidestepped the banking system. Now that President Donald Trump appears to be...

23.05.2025 3

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America is finally killing the penny

The U.S. Mint confirmed on Thursday that the current crop of one-cent coins will be the last ever produced. Read more...

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Mercedes-Benz is yanking 400 jobs out of Michigan — and 'doubling down' on Georgia

German carmaker Mercedes-Benz (MBGAF) announced plans Thursday to consolidate its U.S. operations by moving 500 jobs to Sandy Springs, Georgia —...

23.05.2025 6

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A Google founder gave away $700 million worth of Alphabet stock

Google (GOOGL) co-founder Sergey Brin gave away almost $700 million, in the form of 4.1 million Alphabet shares, to an undisclosed charity on...

22.05.2025 3

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Tech giants Nvidia, OpenAI and others join forces for massive UAE Stargate AI data center

A group of global tech giants gathered in Abu Dhabi to pose for a photo as anAI supergroup, including OpenAI’s Sam Altman, Oracle’s (ORCL) Larry...

22.05.2025 2

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Walmart is cutting about 1,500 corporate jobs

Walmart (WMT) is eliminating roughly 1,500 jobs, the Wall Street Journal reported, in what CEO John Furner described as “opportunities to remove...

22.05.2025 2

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Boeing gets a break as 737 production speeds up and safety improves

In the first five months of 2025, Boeing (BA) is bouncing back from a truly miserable 2024 that included the resignation of CEO David Calhoun and a...

21.05.2025 5

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DOJ nabs Armenian crime org on charges including $83 million in Amazon cargo thefts

Competing members of Armenian-American organized crime groups have been charged with attempted murder, kidnapping, fraud, and more than $83 million in...

21.05.2025 3

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Google's Gemini AI is coming to Volvo cars

Google (GOOGL) is bringing its Gemini AI to Volvo cars. Google parent Alphabet and the Swedish carmaker, two companies that have collaborated for...

21.05.2025 4

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JPMorgan Chase wants bosses to 'resist' hiring and use AI

JPMorgan Chase (JPM) hired 60,000 people in the last five years, increasing its workforce by 23%. It looks like that’s about to grind to a half.Read...

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AI is storming workplaces — and barely making a difference, study says

Surely, the billions of dollars invested in AI chatbots will increase productivity and put economic performance into hyperdrive, right? Read more...

19.05.2025 5

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23andMe just got bought out of bankruptcy

23andMe (ME) will have a second life. Read more...

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Mark Cuban is leaving Shark Tank — and making a $750 million return to sports

Mark Cuban is best known for turning around the fortunes of the Dallas Mavericks from worst to first, after he bought the team in 2000. After selling...

17.05.2025 7

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Verizon dumped DEI. Then regulators cleared its $20 billion Frontier deal

Three hours after Verizon (VZ) announced it was shuttering all of its diversity, equity and inclusion (DEI) programs, the Federal Communications...

16.05.2025 4

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Microsoft says it would sell Office without Teams to get Europe off its back

You might not need to be a Teams player anymore, if you choose not to, based on Microsoft’s (MSFT) offer to the European Commission to unbundle...

16.05.2025 3

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Meta wants a judge to dismiss the FTC's antitrust case against it

Meta (META) has filed a motion for judgment to wrap up its antitrust trial, claiming it doesn’t want to spend more of anyone’s time or money....

16.05.2025 7

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Higher prices, falling incomes: A Fed governor says the tariff pain isn't over yet

The trade war agreement won’t be enough to avoid price hikes, a Federal Reserve governor said Monday.Read more...

12.05.2025 3

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The Trump family's crypto company is going public

American Bitcoin, a new crypto mining operation started by Eric Trump, Donald Trump Jr., and data-center operator Hut 8, is merging with Gryphon...

12.05.2025 2

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What recession? Memorial Day travel is set to break records, AAA says

The U.S. travel business may be in for some good news, for a change: AAA forecasts that a record number of Americans have plans for domestic travel...

12.05.2025 3

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A key Tesla supplier is slashing jobs

Japanese electronics giant Panasonic, Tesla’s (TSLA) original battery supplier and one of its largest, announced today that it will lay off almost...

09.05.2025 2

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Mark Zuckerberg wants you to have more friends — but AI friends

Meta’s (META) Mark Zuckerberg built his career on the idea that you have friends. Now he’s concerned that you don’t have enough, so he’d like...

08.05.2025 3

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Cisco has joined the quantum computing race

Cisco Systems (CSCO) became the latest tech company to announce a new quantum computing chip, following similar announcements in recent months from...

07.05.2025 3

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Google's Waymo is getting ready to put a lot more robotaxis on the street

Waymo (GOOGL), the self-driving car division of Google parent Alphabet, is preparing to scale up its manufacturing facility in the Phoenix suburb of...

06.05.2025 5

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UPS and the post office are both slashing staff

Consumers using “snail mail” will have about 30,000 fewer people handling their letters and packages this year. Both UPS (UPS) and the U.S. Postal...

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