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Dropbox’s Drew Houston on His AI Pivot and the 1 Thing He Absolutely Will Not Change

08.05.2025 3

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Tech’s Uber Patriots Frame AI Competition With China as a Battle of Civilizational Proportions 

03.05.2025 20

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Lucy Guo’s Startup, Passes, Calls Child Pornography Lawsuit ‘Defamatory’ and Seeks Dismissal

29.04.2025 5

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Crypto Companies Spent Big on Donald Trump’s Inauguration

24.04.2025 3

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Meet the Alpha Male Sales Bros Influencing Your Sales Team

24.04.2025 3

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OpenSea’s Devin Finzer Wants to Help Regulate Crypto. Like Many in the Industry, He’s Light on Specifics 

18.04.2025 6

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Leaked Scale AI Dashboard Offers New Details Into Projects for Meta, Google, and X.ai 

16.04.2025 20

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CEOs Are Telling Their Employees to Embrace AI–or Become Irrelevant

12.04.2025 7

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7 Defense Tech Companies to Keep on Your Radar in 2025

09.04.2025 5

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Lucy Guo Doesn’t Shy Away From Controversy. It Finds Her

27.03.2025 8

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23andMe Just Declared Bankruptcy. It Joins a Host of SPACs That Have Gone Splat

26.03.2025 4

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JD Vance Tells Room of Tech Leaders That ‘Our Great American Industrial Comeback” Is Near

20.03.2025 40

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Crypto Exchanges Kraken and Gemini Plan to Go Public Under Trump’s Deregulatory Agenda 

15.03.2025 5

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Investigation Into Scale AI Also Targets Its HR Partners HireArt and Upwork 

13.03.2025 20

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Who Is Lovette Dobson and Why Does Her Name Appear on More Than 70,000 Business Filings?

07.03.2025 10

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Class-Action Complaint Alleges the Startup Passes Distributes Illicit Content

05.03.2025 20

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Meet the Company Talking Big About Using AI to Render Private Wealth Managers Obsolete 

01.03.2025 7

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Y Combinator Takes Heat for Helping Launch a Startup That Spies on Factory Workers 

28.02.2025 4

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Current and Former Scale AI Contractors Allege Wage Theft in Letter to U.S. Senators

26.02.2025 50

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The Tesla Takedown Has Begun. A National Protest Movement Seeks to Strike a Blow to Elon Musk’s Net Worth 

22.02.2025 70

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Shoes, Teddy Bears, Diaper Changing Pads, and Candles: Why AI Product Integrations Are Getting Out of Control 

14.02.2025 8

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‘It’s Pure Chaos.’ Government Contractors Chart an Uncertain Path After Trump’s Sweeping Anti-DEI Orders

09.02.2025 5

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Companies Are Avoiding the ‘DEI’ Acronym–Even If They’re Not Pulling Back on Diversity Initiatives 

05.02.2025 6

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Doubling Lifespans and Superintelligence: AI CEOs Are Saying Some Wild Stuff. Is Any of It True?

29.01.2025 10

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Bluesky’s Bot Problem Is a Byproduct of Its Success. Users Are Not Amused.

20.01.2025 50

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Wildfires in L.A.: Where Small-Business Owners Can Find Aid, Even If Insurers Are Squeezed 

17.01.2025 4

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Small Businesses and Homeowners in My Hometown Are Grappling With California’s Broken Insurance Market

14.01.2025 4

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The Five Most Anticipated IPOs of 2025

After a turgid 2024, the market looks to come roaring back in 2025. BY SAM BLUM, SENIOR WRITER @SAMMBLUM Photo: Getty Images Investors, analysts...

27.12.2024 10

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Lawsuit Calls Scale AI ‘the Sordid Underbelly of the Generative AI Industry’

CEO Alexandr Wang is named in the suit, which cites emotional distress for contractors who worked on a self-harm-prevention project for Meta. BY...

12.12.2024 50

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The ‘War on Crypto’ Helped Get Trump Elected, According to Ripple’s Brad Garlinghouse

In an interview on ’60 Minutes’ over the weekend, the CEO reflected on the aftermath of the crypto industry lobbying blitz that splurged heavily on...

11.12.2024 10

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Despite Pops From Reddit and Astera Labs, the Sluggish IPO Market Dragged On in 2024

In going public, StubHub swung and missed, Reddit connected, but otherwise it was a whole lot of nothing. BY SAM BLUM, SENIOR WRITER @SAMMBLUM The...

04.12.2024 4

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With Kalshi, Tarek Mansour Is Betting on the Constant Chaos of American Life

With $1 billion wagered on the election, Kalshi is ready to take on natural disasters, Fed decisions, Trump’s cabinet, and much more. BY SAM BLUM,...

23.11.2024 50

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This 22-Year-Old Tech CEO Says an 80-Hour Workweek Is a Lifestyle Choice. It Earned Him Death Threats. And Job Seekers

‘Extraordinary outcomes have to have extraordinary effort,’ Daksh Gupta tells Inc. BY SAM BLUM, SENIOR WRITER @SAMMBLUM Daksh Gupta. Photo:...

23.11.2024 70

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With DOGE, Elon Musk Wants to Bring His Brutal Managerial Style to the Federal Government. But He Doesn’t Own It. Yet.

Running the government like a corporation isn’t a new idea. It also doesn’t work. BY SAM BLUM, SENIOR WRITER @SAMMBLUM Elon Musk. Photos: Getty...

19.11.2024 10

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Scale AI Exec Michael Kratsios to Rejoin the Trump White House as Part of Its Transition Team

15.11.2024 10

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Scale AI Exec Michael Kratsios to Rejoin the Trump White House as Part of Its Transition Team

14.11.2024 50

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Who Are Tech’s Winners and Losers Following Trump’s Triumph?

12.11.2024 60

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Can This Peer-to-Peer Therapy Startup Disrupt the Telehealth Business?

The cost of mental health care is too high and there is a dearth of practitioners. Some companies are touting the potential of peer therapists. BY...

09.11.2024 50

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Entrepreneurs Including Mark Cuban and Elon Musk Congratulated Trump on His Decisive Win, While Others Licked Their Wounds

08.11.2024 40

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Presidential Betting Markets Are a Real-Time Experiment for Regulators—and It Could End Poorly

Billions have been wagered on the presidential election on platforms such as Kalshi and Polymarket. The bets are comically bullish on Trump. Are...

01.11.2024 5

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How This PE-Backed Company Grew EBITDA by More Than 10X in 5 Years

VSS Capital Partners helped GreenSlate become the go-to payroll software provider for film and TV productions. BY SAM BLUM, SENIOR WRITER @SAMMBLUM...

30.10.2024 7

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Ex-Gravity Payments CEO Dan Price Faces Rape Charge in California

30.10.2024 50

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Mark Cuban Says Crypto Is ‘Waiting for Its Instagram Moment.’ But Hasn’t Its Mainstream Arrival Already Come and Gone?

24.10.2024 60

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How Sweetgreen and Ghia Redefined Fast-Casual Dining and Beverages for the Health-Obsessed

19.10.2024 30

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This 23-Year-Old AI Entrepreneur Has a Brazen Plan to Eliminate Boring Jobs. Why It Might Work

Jaspar Carmichael-Jack, the CEO of Artisan, wants his ‘AI employees’ to replace entry-level salespeople. Is this the tipping point? BY SAM BLUM,...

11.10.2024 40

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Hurricane Milton: How to Shore Up Supply Chains When Extreme Weather Events Become the New Normal

Extreme weather events—and supply chain disruptions—are only growing more common in the age of climate change. BY SAM BLUM, SENIOR WRITER @SAMMBLUM...

10.10.2024 60

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Adam Neumann’s Flow Is Picking up Where WeWork Left Off

Workflow is the co-working branch of his new co-living and lifestyle company, Flow. BY SAM BLUM, SENIOR WRITER @SAMMBLUM Adam Neumann....

04.10.2024 6

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Inside the Fertility Tech Gold Rush

27.09.2024 10

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Mystery Client Behind Scale AI's Small Biz Program Revealed as Google

Ignition Schools: Top 50 Institutions Revolutionizing Entrepreneurship Workplace Miscommunication Is Rampant. One Possible Solution? Using More...

25.09.2024 4

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Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella Says the Giant Investment in Generative AI Is Already Paying Off

21.09.2024 4

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