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A 24-year-old CEO convinced his parents to open a custodial account in second grade. He fears meme stocks inflate Gen Z’s dreams of getting rich quick

A recent survey led by his company shows the majority of Gen Zs believes investing is a better way to reach their financial goals than a nine-to-five...

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‘Robots are going to be amongst us’: Qualcomm exec says buckle up for the next 5 years. Your car is going to be the first shoe to drop

Driver-assisted technology demand is growing for AI features like hands-free highway assist.

17.12.2025 7

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As Americans continue to feel the pain from tariffs and inflation, Lidl launches holiday meal deal for less than $4 per person

The total 12-person meal costs $42.66 as Americans’ affordability concerns grow.

16.12.2025 2

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Jim Carrey nearly quit ‘Grinch’ and offered to return his $20 million paycheck. Then the founder of SEAL Team Six came to the rescue

"Jim started having panic attacks. I would see him lying down on the floor in between setups with a brown paper bag."

16.12.2025 10

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Jamie Dimon says soft skills like emotional intelligence and communication are vital as AI eliminates roles

Dimon added that people who possess soft skills will have "plenty of jobs."

14.12.2025 10

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‘Godmother of AI’ says degrees are less important in hiring than ‘how quickly can you superpower yourself’ with new tools

Instead, she looks to hire software engineers with AI fluency to her startup that aims to revolutionize the tech.

12.12.2025 10

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Jamie Dimon taps Jeff Bezos, Michael Dell and Ford CEO Jim Farley to advise JPMorgan’s $1.5 trillion national-security initiative

Former military commanders, politicians, and one of Warren Buffet’s top stock pickers also comprise the advisory group.

10.12.2025 20

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Borrowing by AI companies represents a ‘mounting potential threat to the financial system,’ top economist says 

“Borrowing by AI companies should be on the radar screen as a mounting potential threat to the financial system and broader economy."

09.12.2025 20

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Nvidia CEO says data centers take about 3 years to construct in the U.S., while in China ‘they can build a hospital in a weekend’

China has “twice as much energy as we have as a nation, and our economy is larger than theirs. Makes no sense to me,” Huang said.

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The ‘Great Housing Reset’ is coming: Income growth will outpace home-price growth in 2026, Redfin forecasts

Lower mortgage rates and increased home sales could also help a pricey housing market, but don’t expect homes to be affordable for young families.

06.12.2025 10

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Construction workers are earning up to 30% more and some are nabbing six-figure salaries in the data center boom

Trade workers on average are earning almost $10 more each hour working on data center projects compared to peers on other jobs, experts say.

05.12.2025 4

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More than 1,000 Amazon employees sign open letter warning the company’s AI ‘will do staggering damage to democracy, our jobs, and the earth’

The employees accuse the tech giant of "casting aside its climate goals" and helping build a surveillance state with AI.

02.12.2025 20

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McDonald’s promoted its new $8 nugget combo meal, then got blasted online with complaints about affordability, quality and service

“Since when is $8 a good price for 10 little nuggets, a hand full of fries and a drink?" one commenter said.

30.11.2025 5

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Longtime Trump advisor Kevin Hassett emerges as favorite for Fed chair, Bloomberg reports

Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent said there’s a “very good chance” a new Fed chair will be named by Christmas.

27.11.2025 3

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Deloitte just got caught again citing fabricated and AI-generated research—this time in a million-dollar report for the Canadian government

In a healthcare report aimed to address a nurse and doctor shortage, Deloitte cited several fake studies with real researchers’ names attached.

25.11.2025 10

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Hedge fund billionaire Bill Ackman is reportedly readying Pershing Square and a new fund to go public as soon as early next year

Ackman plans to orchestrate a double public offering as soon as early next year, The Wall Street Journal reported.

23.11.2025 4

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Just 776 FAA employees will get Trump’s $10,000 bonus, but unions say thousands who worked during the shutdown were left out

The payments will be received no later than Dec. 9, the Federal Aviation Administration said.

22.11.2025 8

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Skims founding partner Emma Grede schedules an ‘AI day’ once every six weeks to future-proof her career: ‘It’s like do or die’

Upskilling in AI is unavoidable as workers look to ‘future-proof our organizations and ourselves,’ Grede added.

21.11.2025 10

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OpenAI’s Fidji Simo says Meta’s team didn’t anticipate risks of AI products well—her first task under Sam Altman was to address mental health concerns

Simo has overseen OpenAI's addition of parental controls to ChatGPT teen accounts, and says more mental health safeguards are to come.

19.11.2025 20

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‘Trust is at an all-time low for both job seekers and recruiters’: Hiring platform CEO says talent acquisition is in an ‘AI doom loop’

The 2025 Greenhouse AI in Hiring Report found that only 8% of job seekers believe AI algorithms that screen initial applications make hiring fairer.

18.11.2025 10

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Apple is ramping up succession plans for CEO Tim Cook and may tap this hardware exec to take over, report says

John Ternus, Apple's senior VP of hardware engineering, could take control of the company as soon as next year, sources told the Financial Times.

16.11.2025 3

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Verizon will cut about 15,000 jobs after new CEO says ‘cost reductions will be a way of life for us here’

CEO Daniel Schulman, who formerly headed PayPal’s global transformation and Virgin Mobile’s $483 million sale, looks to turn around the telecoms...

15.11.2025 6

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White House official says October jobs and inflation data are likely to never be released

It’s the first time monthly data on the economic indicators is missed since the Bureau of Labor Statistics officially started the reports.

13.11.2025 1

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Gen Z, iced out from traditional white-collar jobs, is increasingly turning to nanny work for rich people—and nabbing 6-figure salaries in the process

High-net-worth nannies are becoming a new career path for young job seekers disillusioned by the corporate grind.

12.11.2025 2

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New York City business leaders are split on whether to relocate their firms to avoid Mayor-elect Zohran Mamdani’s policies

None have announced definitive plans to do so, but some business leaders say they’re considering moving out.

11.11.2025 10

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Trump wants his name on the Washington Commanders’ planned $3.7 billion stadium, and he has ‘plenty of cards to play,’ report says

"He can make it very difficult, through government environmental approvals and other things, to make sure everyone who wants this stadium to be built...

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American Airlines CEO says the government shutdown is impacting holiday travel bookings: ‘Nobody wants to put up with hassle’

American Airlines canceled more than 200 of its 6,200 scheduled flights on Friday as air traffic reductions began.

08.11.2025 2

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Frontier’s CEO on air travel reductions: Buy a second plane ticket from competitors if you ‘don’t want to be stranded’

"If you are flying Friday or in the next ten days and need to be there or don't want to be stranded, I highly recommend booking a backup ticket on...

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From Jamie Dimon to Bill Ackman, Wall Street’s billionaires are now changing their tune and offering to help Zohran Mamdani

Over $22 million was spent by billionaires to prevent the democratic socialist from becoming mayor-elect, estimates say.

06.11.2025 20

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Palantir’s ‘anti-woke’ playbook and ‘cultus’ winning strategy, after yet another earnings beat

The tech giant’s shares fell Tuesday on valuation concerns, but CEO Alex Karp insists investors are “fighting for the right side of what should...

05.11.2025 3

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The government shutdown won’t be completely recouped—and it could cost the economy up to $14 billion, estimates say

The report says lost goods and services from furloughed workers’ downtime won’t be regained once the government reopens.

31.10.2025 10

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China just purchased its first U.S. soybeans from this year’s harvest before Trump and Xi meet at economic summit

The progress marks quicker negotiations between the two countries after China’s crackdown on rare-earths exports, expert says.

30.10.2025 20

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The world is about $4.5 trillion short of securing a sustainable food supply for the future, global food and ag business CEO says

Verghese estimated the world requires 593 million hectares of land—twice the size of India—every year for crop cultivation at current productivity...

28.10.2025 10

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Meet all 37 White House ballroom donors funding the $300 million build, including Silicon Valley tech giants, crypto bros and the Lutnicks

The list, reviewed by Fortune, did not mention specific dollar amounts offered by each contributor.

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This mysterious billionaire and top Trump backer is behind a $130 million donation to pay troops during the government shutdown, report says

But the Antideficiency Act prevents federal agencies from spending more money than Congress allows or from using unpaid help that Congress hasn’t...

26.10.2025 10

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JPMorgan’s new $3 billion skyscraper is open 24/7—and bankers can order coffee straight to their desks

There’s also a vegan restaurant and a cafe that serves protein shakes from an Airstream trailer.

22.10.2025 3

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Sam Altman’s OpenAI is coming for Wall Street’s grunt workers as AI continues to transform the entry level

Experts say automation of low-level tasks in finance will “transform” rather than “eliminate” roles on Wall Street.

22.10.2025 10

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Trump immigration policies would slash workforce estimate by 15.7 million and slow GDP growth by a third over the next decade, study says

“Immigrants both create demand for the goods and services produced by U.S.-born workers and work alongside them in ways that increase productivity...

21.10.2025 20

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J.Crew CEO bought her first interview suit at the iconic retailer. Now she wants to capitalize on nostalgia

Wadle aims to unite consumers of all ages with “moments of resonance."

20.10.2025 4

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AI startups are leasing luxury apartments in San Francisco for staff and offering large rent stipends to attract talent 

The average rent increase in San Francisco leads all other cities in the past year, according to real estate data.

19.10.2025 3

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Jamie Dimon was the ‘master architect’ of JPMorgan’s new $3 billion skyscraper, the bank’s real estate head says

The CEO and other execs were intimately involved in the design process, Dimon told The Wall Street Journal.

18.10.2025 4

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S&P analysis of 9,000 companies worldwide finds the real cost of tariffs and other corporate costs: $1.2 trillion

It's a “highly conservative” estimate based on forecasts of companies representing about 85% of the $130 trillion global equity market.

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GSK chief doesn’t buy that the CEO role has become unsustainable: ‘There are few things more obnoxious in life than CEOs complaining about how hard their life is’

The co-CEO model may work with the right “cocktail” combination, but CEOs must be prepared to give the position “everything you possibly...

15.10.2025 3

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Trump’s tariff-revenue checks could create a ‘weird feedback loop’ that encourages more price hikes, analyst says

But the inflationary effects may not be as severe as Biden’s COVID-era stimulus checks were.

12.10.2025 10

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Silicon Valley tech boss Marc Benioff says he’s all for Trump sending troops to San Francisco since ‘we don’t have enough cops’

“We don’t have enough cops, so if they can be cops, I’m all for it,” Benioff told The New York Times on Friday. 

12.10.2025 4

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New China tariffs announced during government shutdown and AI valuation debate are a ‘perfect storm coming together,’ top economist says

Expect the new round of tariffs to spur inflation and put "downward pressure" on GDP, he added.

11.10.2025 3

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Google is tightening its ‘Work from Anywhere’ policy: Now a single day will count as a full week

The policy may lead to high-performer flight and unhappy workers, experts say.

09.10.2025 6

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Deloitte was caught using AI in $290,000 report to help the Australian government crack down on welfare after a researcher flagged hallucinations

The updates “in no way impact” the report’s findings and recommendations, the Big Four firm said.

08.10.2025 30

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The U.S. may mint a coin with Trump’s face despite a law he signed that prohibits collectibles with similar likenesses

A draft design harkens back to an assassination attempt during his 2024 presidential campaign and reads “FIGHT, FIGHT, FIGHT”

05.10.2025 20

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Ford CEO Jim Farley hopes AI will help blue-collar workers, but ‘it’s hard to say that today’

Tech innovations like automation have taken work away from the industry in the past, he said.

04.10.2025 2

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