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America’s flatlining income growth is hitting Gen Z the hardest, throttling their shot at homeownership, JPMorgan report warns

“They're delaying home purchases because they need to climb further up their career ladder to be able to afford it all, and that career ladder is...

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Chanel’s CEO went to Microsoft HQ and asked ChatGPT to show her a picture of her company’s leadership. They were all men in suits

Leena Nair said more than 75% of her company’s employees are female.

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Elon Musk’s ‘polarizing and partisan actions’ may have cost Tesla more than 1 million U.S. EV sales, Yale study finds

“The easiest thing to say is, don’t antagonize your core customers,” Yale economist and study author Kenneth Gillingham said.

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Netflix and Amazon Prime are using AI algorithms that hide content from some users, media executive says

“The larger problem comes in distribution and the use of algo when content is being shown,” Reliance Industries media president Jyoti Deshpande said.

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WeRide CEO says autonomous driving can’t guarantee 100% safety—but could be 10x safer than human drivers within the decade

“Within 10 years, you will see the driving capabilities [of self-driving cars] on par with the best human drivers,” Tony Han said.

27.10.2025 7

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Microsoft is distancing itself from longtime partner OpenAI, shunning erotica chatbots: ‘Just not a service we’re going to provide,’ AI CEO says

Microsoft has invested $13 billion in OpenAI since 2019, though the AI startup has recently forged other partnerships.

24.10.2025 5

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Amazon will give its delivery drivers AI-powered smart glasses, promising to make the job safer, faster amid automation push

Recent reports citing Amazon’s internal documents found the company plans to automate 75% of its operations—translating to up to 600,000 potential...

23.10.2025 3

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As government shutdown persists, ICE agents are among the still-paid employees receiving ‘super checks’ including lost pay and overtime

Public finance expert Linda Bilmes says the “arbitrariness” of who gets paid and who doesn’t during shutdowns exposes the “dysfunction” of...

22.10.2025 3

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America’s cattle chief rips into Trump’s Argentine beef bailout, saying it ‘does nothing to lower grocery store prices’

National Cattlemen’s Beef Association CEO Colin Woodall said Trump’s idea to buy Argentine beef “only creates chaos at a critical time of the year.”

21.10.2025 20

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Air traffic controllers are becoming Uber drivers and restaurant servers on top of six-day airport shifts to make ends meet during government shutdown

Deemed essential workers, controllers are required to work during the shutdown, but will receive a $0 paycheck starting next week.

20.10.2025 2

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Mercedes F1 team CEO Toto Wolff’s experience with two Gen Z drivers made him realize the workplace stereotypes are ‘a bit unfair’

“I think it's about the human, about their personalities, about their strengths and weaknesses,” Wolff said.

18.10.2025 10

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Goldman Sachs says the demand for gold is not just hype, and predicts the U.S. could still see a repeat of a Nixon-era spike

From 1970 to 1980, the price of gold skyrocketed more than 2,300% because of the end of the gold standard, soaring inflation, and the oil crisis.

17.10.2025 2

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Apple’s Eddy Cue admits sports streaming fragmentation has gone too far: ‘If we want people to watch games… things need to be fixed’

NFL fans must pay more than $750 to watch all regular-season football games, which will air on 10 different platforms, one analysis found.

16.10.2025 3

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Reddit cofounder Alexis Ohanian says ‘so much of the internet is dead’—and the rise of bots and ‘quasi-AI, LinkedIn slop’ killed it

The investor predicted a new wave of “verifiably human” social media platforms is coming “because it’s all going down in the group chats now.”

16.10.2025 3

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Ulta Beauty CEO says when you get passed up for opportunities ‘you can either choose to be bitter or you can be better’

Kecia Steelman stepped into the chief executive role at Ulta 10 months ago after serving as chief operating officer.

15.10.2025 7

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‘It seems like they don’t care about us’: Rural America ruptured as coal miners protest lax rule enforcement linked to black lung

Miners on Tuesday are gathering outside the Labor Department building to protest the Trump administration’s response to black lung.

14.10.2025 3

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A sports bettor turned $15 into $140K from a 3-leg parlay. It’s the exception to the risky bet making sportsbooks billions

“The notion of a parlay in general is so statistically unlikely to happen that it is one of the surest fire ways for the sportsbooks to just make...

11.10.2025 10

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Columbia professor says ‘don’t be yourself’ in the workplace, actually. Here’s why authenticity is ‘overrated’

In the ongoing debate around balancing one’s personal and professional lives, Tomas Chamorro-Premuzic says “being yourself” isn’t a good...

09.10.2025 4

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‘Big Short’ investor Steve Eisman warns the U.S. economy is a ‘tale of two cities’ that ‘is not even growing 50 basis points outside of AI’

Eisman said if you erase AI infrastructure spending from projected U.S. GDP growth for 2025, the economic picture exposes a struggling consumer.

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‘Scary times’: Youtube’s biggest star MrBeast fears AI could impact ‘millions of creators’ after Sora launch

Content creators such as Casey Neistat have warned of the ramifications of Sora, which he called a “TikTok clone where every video is AI.”

07.10.2025 5

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Before the McLaren CEO got a $50 million payday from his team’s F1 championship, he was a high-school dropout who got his start on Wheel of Fortune

Zak Brown’s McLaren Racing Formula 1 team won its second consecutive Constructors’ Championship on Sunday.

06.10.2025 3

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Mark Cuban says Trump’s new drug platform could succeed if it forces pharma managers to change: ‘If that happens, Trump gets all the credit’

Cuban’s Cost Plus Drugs, which he founded in 2022, similarly provides direct-to-consumer discounted pharmaceuticals.

02.10.2025 10

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WNBA All-Star rips into league leadership over salaries, treatment of stars Caitlin Clark and Angel Reese—but above all ‘lack of accountability’

Napheesa Collier claimed the commissioner was indifferent to Clark's salary, saying she "should be grateful she makes 16 million off the court."

01.10.2025 3

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Leaked texts on Scott Bessent’s phone suggest the White House got played bailing out Argentina—and U.S. soybean farmers are the casualties

“This is highly unfortunate,” the text said. “Soy prices are dropping further because of it. This gives China more leverage on us.”

30.09.2025 3

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Ford CEO warns there’s a dearth of blue-collar workers able to construct AI data centers and operate factories: ‘Nothing to backfill the ambition’

Jim Farley has identified a crisis in the “essential economy” of overlooked blue-collar workers in the AI race.

29.09.2025 2

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Trump’s tariffs are bringing in serious revenue—and it’d be even higher if not for tariff dodgers costing the government $40 billion a year, Goldman Sachs says

Analysts have seen patterns in data indicating countries are taking action to evade the U.S.’s sweeping levies.

26.09.2025 4

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With rural America starting to see huge financial losses from tariff policies, Trump offers vague aid package to farmers in the heartland

“The farm economy is suffering while our competitors supplant the United States in the biggest soybean import market in the world,” one...

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‘The frustration is overwhelming’: Soybean farmers feel betrayed as Argentina blows a hole in rural America’s $47 billion soybean bonanza

China will reportedly buy at least 10 cargoes of Argentine soybeans, further jeopardizing the U.S. export market, even as Argentina gobbles up Trump...

25.09.2025 10

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‘I would beg the president’: Jamie Dimon, one of Wall Street’s top H-1B visa users, predicts ‘pushback’ because big employers need top expertise

JPMorgan economists warned Trump’s $100,000 H-1B fee will cost the U.S. labor market up to 5,500 work authorizations per month.

24.09.2025 3

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Samsung confirms it will begin showing you advertisements on your $1,800-plus refrigerator’s screen

The tech company has a history of customer blowback over inserting ads on the digital displays of home devices.

20.09.2025 5

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Anthropic data confirms Gen Z’s worst fears about AI: Businesses are leaning into automation, a massive threat to entry-level jobs

Dario Amodei, the CEO of the AI startup, said earlier this year that AI could wipe out nearly 50% of entry-level white-collar jobs. New data could...

17.09.2025 8

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OpenAI board chair doubles down on CEO Sam Altman’s belief we’re in an AI bubble: ‘A lot of people will lose a lot of money’

Sierra CEO Bret Taylor also said like the dotcom bubble, AI will “transform the economy” and create massive economic value.

15.09.2025 4

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Former Goldman Sachs CEO during 2008 crash says markets are ‘due’ for a crisis: ‘It doesn’t matter that you can’t see where it’s coming from’

“There's a lot of 1% risk, but it's not a 1% risk that something bad will happen,” Lloyd Blankfein said in a recent interview.

13.09.2025 4

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From borrowing her mom’s credit card to a $1.5 million net worth, WNBA star Paige Bueckers wasn’t prepared for ‘super fast’ NIL financial jump

The 23-year-old is partnering with Intuit for Higher Education, a program intended to instill college and graduate students with financial literacy...

10.09.2025 4

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An Indiana lawyer named Mark Zuckerberg is suing Meta, saying his Facebook pages keep getting disabled because he was ‘impersonating a celebrity’

Despite Zuckerberg being locked out of his account for months at a time, Meta kept the $11,000 the lawyer spent on advertising for his firm, according...

05.09.2025 3

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As Trump pushes Supreme Court to uphold his tariffs, he signals trade deals will be defunct if he loses the case: ‘I guess we’d have to unwind them’

“If we don't win that case, our country is going to suffer so greatly, so greatly,” the president said on Wednesday.

04.09.2025 5

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McDonald’s CEO says Trump’s no tax on tips amplifies an ‘uneven playing field’ for its restaurants, which don’t get ‘customers to pay’ for labor

Chris Kempczinski raised concerns that restaurants paying tipped workers lower minimum wages were getting an extra boost from the White House’s new...

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As EV sales continue to plummet, Elon Musk says Optimus robots will make up 80% of Tesla’s value, despite production delays

Part four of Tesla’s “Master Plan” de-emphasizes its EV business, which is on pace for its second consecutive year of declining global sales.

02.09.2025 6

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Forget the golden age of fraud, the billionaire investor who shorted Enron warns we might be in the ‘diamond or platinum level’ amid the AI boom

“When it comes to financial fraud specifically, there’s no question we’re seeing more of it—especially riding the wave of the current...

30.08.2025 10

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Trump’s EV tax credit cuts are fueling a U.S. battery surplus that could lead to factory cancellations, ‘a poison pill for U.S. manufacturing hopes’

“If you believe—as many people do—that batteries are a key technology as the world moves towards more electrification, that's not a good...

29.08.2025 10

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Despite snubbing U.S. tourism and boycotting American goods, Canadians are pouring more into U.S. stocks than they have in over 35 years

“Buy Canadian programs seemingly don’t apply to investment portfolios,” said Warren Lovely, managing director of National Bank of Canada...

26.08.2025 3

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Doctors who used AI assistance in procedures became 20% worse at spotting abnormalities on their own, study finds, raising concern about overreliance

Endoscopists introduced to AI tools performed worse after no longer having access to those technologies, according to research published this month.

26.08.2025 10

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Elon Musk tried to court Mark Zuckerberg to help him finance xAI’s attempted $98 billion OpenAI takeover, court filing shows

Musk has taken up legal arms against Sam Altman’s OpenAI, not only trying to acquire it in a hostile takeover, but claim the startup breached its...

22.08.2025 3

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Airline customers are suing Delta and United, claiming millions of travelers paid extra for window seats only to be seated next to windowless walls

“They have quite literally sold customers a window seat without a window,” one lawyer representing the classes of airline passengers told Fortune.

21.08.2025 4

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Beyond snubbing Tinder, Bumble, and casual flings, more than half of Gen Z is spending $0 monthly on dating, BofA finds

Gen Z’s economic anxiety—as well as disinterest in casual dating—has led many young people to spend little to nothing on dates.

21.08.2025 10

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Workers are ‘job hugging’ in a stagnant labor market, but growing resentment means they could bail as soon as the next Great Resignation comes

More employees plan to stick around in their current jobs, despite growing economic concerns stoking resentment toward employers.

18.08.2025 4

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‘Godfather of AI’ says tech companies aren’t concerned with the AI endgame. They’re focused on short-term profits instead

“Researchers are interested in solving problems that have their curiosity. It's not like we start off with the same goal of, what's the future of...

15.08.2025 4

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Switzerland warns its companies that no, they can’t dodge Trump’s tariffs by routing goods through the tiny neighboring country of Liechtenstein

The two neighbors have had a century-long treaty allowing Liechtenstein to share Switzerland’s economic area and engage in free trade.

13.08.2025 10

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Ford’s $5 billion bet on the ‘Model T’ of EVs could cost the company ‘billions’ more if it fails, analysts warn—mounting losses from its Model E woes

Should the American auto brand fail to bring its lofty EV vision to life, “it could be terminal for the brand,” one analyst told Fortune.

12.08.2025 10

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Starbucks asks customers in South Korea to stop bringing printers and desktop computers into stores as workers transform cafes into remote offices

“You can just go and have a cup of coffee, work there—but people are taking it a little bit to the extreme nowadays,” one Korean studies...

11.08.2025 4

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