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Elon Musk asked people to upload their medical data to X so his AI company could learn to interpret MRIs and CT scans

Health care experts are worried about Grok’s potential to breach patient privacy.

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‘What we call corruption’: Harvard economist and former Venezuelan minister says Trump’s oil profit motives have no place in Venezuela’s future

Ricardo Hausmann argued stable, democratic leadership in Venezuela can lead it back to economic prosperity.

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Trump already has open door to grow U.S. military presence in Greenland thanks to a little-known Cold War-era agreement between the U.S. and Denmark

“This agreement is very generous, it's very open,” one foreign policy expert said. “The U.S. would be able to achieve almost any security goal...

09.01.2026 6

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What is the McRib really made of? A federal class action lawsuit alleges McDonald’s is misleading customers

McDonald’s consumers’ outcry over the McRib allegedly not containing any rib meat all comes back to Americans’ affordability concerns.

06.01.2026 5

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Trump’s strike on Venezuela gives the U.S. 30% of the world’s oil reserves on paper and a $100 billion rebuilding job in reality

“I don't think any large U.S. major company is going to want to invest without a series of guarantees,” one historian of Venezuela said.

06.01.2026 7

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Experienced software developers assumed AI would save them a chunk of time. But in one experiment, their tasks took 20% longer

As more workers use AI, a recent study adds to growing evidence the tech doesn’t always deliver on promises of boosted productivity.

05.01.2026 10

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Starbucks CEO Brian Niccol says a Reddit thread about people interviewing at the company convinced him his ‘Back to Starbucks’ plan is working

“If you don't like customer service, you're probably not going to like working at Starbucks. We're in that transition of getting people to...

31.12.2025 5

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ChatGPT gets ‘anxiety’ from violent user inputs, so researchers are teaching the chatbot mindfulness techniques to ‘soothe’ it

A study on how to “calm down” chatbots could advance how AI is applied in mental health interventions, according to the authors.

31.12.2025 10

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Wages are actually growing faster than inflation. Here’s why you don’t believe it

“I’m less convinced about this K-shaped recovery than other people are,” Harvard's Jason Furman says. But look at the bottom of the scale.

30.12.2025 5

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OpenAI is hiring a ‘head of preparedness’ with a $550,000 salary to mitigate AI dangers that CEO Sam Altman warns will be ‘stressful’

The tech company’s search for a new safety executive comes amid growing concern over the risk of AI.

29.12.2025 10

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MacKenzie Scott’s close relationship with Toni Morrison long before Amazon put her on the path give more than $1 billion to HBCUs

Morrison, who was Scott’s mentor at Princeton University, once called the philanthropist “one of the best students I’ve ever had in my...

28.12.2025 10

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Feel Free customers say the kratom drink is making them sick. Toothless FDA rules on dietary supplements are helping it remain a bestseller

Botanic Tonics’ supplement drinks have taken convenience stores by storm—even as the company has battled allegations of misleading labeling.

28.12.2025 10

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Malcolm Gladwell tells young people if they want a STEM degree, ‘don’t go to Harvard.’ You may end up at the bottom of your class and drop out

It’s better to be a big fish in a little pond, Gladwell argues in his book David and Goliath.

27.12.2025 10

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‘Artificial stupidity’ made AI trading bots spontaneously form cartels when left unsupervised, Wharton study reveals

AI bots told to act as trading agents in simulated markets engaged in pervasive collusion, raising new questions about how financial regulators have...

26.12.2025 20

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The real AI revolution is going from the information era to the ‘intelligence era,’ Paypal senior VP says. That means your focus should be tokens

As companies transition from data retrieval to AI generating data on the spot, tokens are more important than ever.

25.12.2025 10

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Obama’s former top economic advisor says he feels ‘a tiny bit bad’ for Trump because gas prices are low, but consumer confidence is still plummeting 

“Consumers are just in this, whatever the highest price is, is the price they're going to focus on,” Harvard professor Jason Furman said.

24.12.2025 10

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Disgraced millennial Frank founder Charlie Javice hits JPMorgan with $74 million legal bill, including $530 in gummy bears and $347 ‘afternoon snack’

Javice was convicted of fraud after selling her financial aid start-up Frank to JPMorgan for $175 million in 2021.

23.12.2025 4

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‘It’s a cage match’: Beleaguered iRobot founder says the biggest reason why the Roomba-maker failed was because of growing Chinese competition

“The marketplace was not a level playing field,” Colin Angle said, noting China has incentives and discounts for consumers who buy domestic products.

22.12.2025 5

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Tesla’s chief designer accidentally smashed a $61K Cybertruck’s ‘armor glass’ window with a metal ball. Now he says it was a ‘great marketing moment’

CEO Elon Musk claimed more than 200,000 orders for the vehicle following its botched reveal in 2019.

20.12.2025 6

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Sam Altman says he’s ‘0%’ excited to be CEO of a public company as OpenAI drops hints about an IPO: ‘In some ways I think it’d be really annoying’

Reports of OpenAI’s plans to go public coincide with Altman declaring a “code red” for the company, something he said he plans to do multiple...

19.12.2025 5

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The CEO behind the world’s top sleep and meditation app says most leaders are operating at ‘about 20%’ without a ‘fully recharged’ battery

David Ko said most executives will say they’re good when you ask how they are. Some additional interrogation suggests the opposite is true.

19.12.2025 10

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Trump says $1,776 ‘warrior dividends’ were made possible partly by tariff revenue, which still lags $100 billion behind what the White House expected

The one-time check to military personnel will cost the administration $2.6 billion.

18.12.2025 3

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Rivian CEO says midprice EV sales are still 50% Tesla: ‘That’s not a reflection of a healthy market’

Lackluster demand for electric cars in the U.S. isn’t because Americans don’t want them, RJ Scaringe said. There’s just few good options.

18.12.2025 4

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Amazon’s ride-hailing exec wants to move people around in robotaxis: ‘If you’re with friends it’s dramatically more social’

According to Zoox cofounder Jesse Levinson, Amazon’s robotaxi subsidiary could have a “profoundly huge” market of people simply wanting to...

17.12.2025 3

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Gen Z’s reality check: Birkin resale prices slump as aspirational luxury takes a hit

Once touted as a better investment than gold, the prized Birken bag no longer has the same COVID-era appeal at auction, Bernstein data shows.

17.12.2025 6

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Ford is scrapping the all-electric F-150 Lightning and other big EVs amid a scramble to find a winning electric formula that will cost $19.5 billion

“The operating reality has changed, and we are redeploying capital into higher-return growth opportunities,” Ford CEO Jim Farley said.

16.12.2025 20

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‘We are now firmly back in a good is bad/bad is good regime’: Weak job data may lead to more rate cuts and boost stocks, Morgan Stanley economist says

Morgan Stanley’s top strategist Michael Wilson noted the labor market, more so than inflation, has become a crucial factor in determining future...

15.12.2025 2

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DOGE isn’t dead—it’s been absorbed into the bloodstream of the government, federal employees say

“It’s like taking the dust jacket off of the book and saying, ‘We’ve got rid of the book,’” one federal employee said.

12.12.2025 6

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For the first time since Trump’s tariff rollout, import tax revenue has fallen, threatening his lofty plans to slash the $38 trillion national debt

Earlier this month, Trump called the country’s mounting debt "peanuts" compared to the money he was bringing in from custom duties.

12.12.2025 4

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Sheryl Sandberg’s Lean In finds more women leaning out for the first time since the promotion survey began a decade ago: ‘Major moment of backsliding’

“This is my fourth decade in the workplace, and we are in a particularly troubling moment in terms of the rhetoric on women,” Sheryl Sandberg said.

10.12.2025 9

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Trump’s $12 billion farmer bailout is a ‘Band-Aid on a bigger wound’ the American agriculture industry is still reeling from

"At the end of the day, the farmers, they just want to conduct business, not necessarily have to get these packages," one agricultural economist said.

09.12.2025 3

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Baby boomers have now ‘gobbled up’ nearly one-third of America’s wealth share, and they’re leaving Gen Z and millennials behind

American septuagenarians hold more than $85 trillion in assets—by far the most of any generation.

09.12.2025 4

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Elon Musk says Tesla owners will soon be able to text while driving, despite it being illegal in nearly all 50 states

Safety experts say sending texts behind the wheel of a full self-driving Tesla would completely undermine the automated features the vehicle has in...

06.12.2025 3

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‘There is no Mamdani effect’: Manhattan luxury home sales surge after mayoral election, undercutting predictions of doom and escape to Florida

Signed contracts for Manhattan homes over $4 million skyrocketed 25%; “the idea that people would flee New York was overblown,” said realtor Donna...

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Bank of America predicts an ‘air pocket,’ not an AI bubble, fueled by mountains of debt piling up from the data center rush

“Is this 2000? Are we in a bubble? No,” BofA’s strategy chief Savita Subramanian said. “Will AI continue in unfettered leadership? No.”

04.12.2025 4

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Google CEO Sundar Pichai says we’re just a decade away from a new normal of extraterrestrial data centers

Google announced Project Suncatcher this month, with plans to launch prototype satellites to test AI hardware in 2027.

02.12.2025 10

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Ford workers told their CEO ‘none of the young people want to work here.’ So Jim Farley took a page out of the founder’s playbook

Ford founder Henry Ford decided in 1914 to more than double factory workers' wages to $5 a day, jump-starting the American middle class.

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Nobel laureate Paul Krugman says Bitcoin’s meltdown is deeply connected to Trump’s waning power: ‘Think of it as the unraveling of the Trump trade’

The Trump family, with ample crypto ventures, has lost an estimated $1 billion from the monthlong cryptocurrency free fall.

27.11.2025 20

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‘We want to trust what we’ve heard’: Farmers remain unsettled on trade, even after China’s biggest U.S. soybean purchase in two years

China’s U.S. soybean haul has exceeded 1 million metric tons this month. Trump wants China to buy 12 million tons by the end of the year.

22.11.2025 10

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Elon Musk says that in 10 to 20 years, work will be optional and money will be irrelevant thanks to AI and robotics

“It’ll be like playing sports or a video game or something like that,” the Tesla CEO said.

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‘If voters feel like things aren’t working, they fire their politicians’: K-shaped economy math shows why Trump’s base feels betrayed

The president’s approval ratings have reached their lowest since he took office in January.

16.11.2025 10

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Hooters CEO says private equity turned it into a ‘boys club hangout’—Now he’s plotting a family-friendly makeover

“It's a beach-theme restaurant,” Neil Kiefer said.

14.11.2025 9

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600 Paramount Skydance employees quit instead of returning to the office, and it cost the company $185 million, filings show

CEO David Ellison offered workers an ultimatum in September: Come back to work or find a new job.

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‘Envy and greed walk hand in hand’: Warren Buffett casts side eye on Elon Musk-sized pay packages in final send-off

The Berkshire Hathaway CEO wrote in his final annual shareholder letter that executives are taking note of each other’s exorbitant compensation...

11.11.2025 10

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Starbucks apologizes for $29.95 ‘Bearista’ chaos after many fans miss out and merch resells for up to $50,000 online

"The excitement for our merchandise exceeded even our biggest expectations," Starbucks said in a statement to Fortune.

07.11.2025 2

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McDonald’s and Cava earnings have one thing in common: The K-shaped economy has a vise grip on the lunchtime crowd

The restaurant chain CEOs noted that while young, lower-income consumers are pulling back, high-income earners are still hungry to spend.

06.11.2025 2

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‘Big Short’ investor Michael Burry follows up cryptic AI bubble warning warning with bearish stock activity on Nvidia and Palantir

“Sometimes, we see bubbles,” Burry said in a recent X post. “Sometimes, there is something to do about it. Sometimes, the only winning move is...

04.11.2025 5

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Both subprime and super prime loans are on the rise, signs of a K-shaped economy that is a ‘prescription for real trouble’

TransUnion found the share of subprime borrowers last quarter grew to 14.4%, the highest since 2019.

03.11.2025 4

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United and American Airlines beg Congress to end shutdown ahead of busy holiday season as air traffic controllers work overtime without pay

“It's putting stress on people. It's not fair to those people. It's also putting stress on the economy,” United Airlines CEO Scott Kirby said.

01.11.2025 4

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Chipotle CEO sounds alarm on the American economy: Gen Z and millennials are too burdened by unemployment and student loans to eat out

“We’re not losing them to the competition. We’re losing them to grocery and food at home,” Scott Boatwright said.

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