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Why Walmart's Pricing Technology Is Raising Privacy Concerns

Why Walmart's Pricing Technology Is Raising Privacy Concerns

Walmart finds itself at the center of a growing debate over retail practices around pricing, consumer data collection and privacy. Groundwork...

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Pamela N. Danziger

Student Loan Repayment Plan Changes Impact 13 Million Borrowers

Student Loan Repayment Plan Changes Impact 13 Million Borrowers

The Education Department is in the process of implementing major reforms to federal student loan repayment programs, with particularly significant...

yesterday 0

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Adam S. Minsky

Curating Your Cancún Vacation, Hotels Within Hotels And More Travel News

Curating Your Cancún Vacation, Hotels Within Hotels And More Travel News

Choose Your Own Cancún Adventure Mexico-based hotel brand Grupo Posadas touts more than 200 properties across Mexico and the Caribbean, including a...

yesterday 0

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Passport By Forbeslife

This $6 Billion Company Is Betting Companies Want To Own Their Computing Infrastructure

This $6 Billion Company Is Betting Companies Want To Own Their Computing Infrastructure

Owning is cheaper than renting, whether it’s the house you live in or the giant blocks of hardware you run your software business on. That’s the...

yesterday 4

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Rashi Shrivastava

Vinod Khosla Backs An AI Startup Building A Mind-Reading Baseball Cap

Vinod Khosla Backs An AI Startup Building A Mind-Reading Baseball Cap

Sabi CEO Rahul Chhabra says the way humans interact with artificial intelligence in the future will be radically different— and far more effortless....

yesterday 1

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Rashi Shrivastava

Forbes Daily: The U.S. War With Iran Is Boosting Used EV Sales

Forbes Daily: The U.S. War With Iran Is Boosting Used EV Sales

As the U.S. war with Iran lifts gas prices, there’s one market that’s been surging: secondhand electric vehicles. The federal government’s axing...

yesterday 1

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Danielle Chemtob

How To Make Good Money From Countries That Are Bad Bond Risks

How To Make Good Money From Countries That Are Bad Bond Risks

The government of Venezuela has defaulted 11 times since 1800. To believe that the next loan will be different is to play the role of Charlie Brown...

yesterday 0

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William Baldwin

Nancy Pelosi’s Household Is Congress’s Biggest Data Center Investor

Nancy Pelosi’s Household Is Congress’s Biggest Data Center Investor

On September 18, 111 members of the House of Representatives published an open letter to tech industry leaders calling for strict guardrails around...

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Kyle Khan-Mullins

Forbes Global CEO Conference 2026: Singapore Aims To Tap AI Boom To Build New Capabilities, Create Better Jobs, Says PM Wong

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Jonathan Burgos

As U.S. Vaccine Policy Changes, History Offers A Warning

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Arthur L. Kellermann

AI Agents Are Hacking Governments. When Is That An Act Of War?

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Robert J. Szczerba

Experts Clarify How Trump Accounts Work And What You Need To Know

previous day 2

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Emma Waldman

How Stolen Mail Fueled A $55 Million Check Fraud Scheme

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Jeff Kauflin

Why An All-Of-The-Above Approach To AI Infrastructure Is Good For Security—And Your Token Bill

Why An All-Of-The-Above Approach To AI Infrastructure Is Good For Security—And Your Token Bill

There aren’t many tech companies that can look back at their history over multiple decades, but 41-year-old Qualcomm is one. Durga Malladi,...

previous day 2

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Megan Poinski

Trump’s Iran War Has A Winner: Used Electric Cars

Trump’s Iran War Has A Winner: Used Electric Cars

In just over a year, the Trump administration has managed to split the U.S. electric-vehicle business into dueling stories. In showrooms, new battery...

previous day 3

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Alan Ohnsman

Why Your Small Business Needs A Newsletter, Not Just Social Media

Why Your Small Business Needs A Newsletter, Not Just Social Media

Your carefully crafted social media posts tend to reach just 3.2% of your followers on Instagram and 1.25% on Facebook, according to Social Insider....

previous day 2

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Astrid Bracke

Why Finance Training Rarely Closes The Skills Gap It’s Meant To Fix

Why Finance Training Rarely Closes The Skills Gap It’s Meant To Fix

CFOs have spent years pouring money into finance training, and the skills gap has somehow gotten harder to close rather than easier. Walk into almost...

previous day 2

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Anders Liu-Lindberg

Canadian Poet And Writer Anne Carson Wins 2026 Nobel Prize For Literature

Canadian Poet And Writer Anne Carson Wins 2026 Nobel Prize For Literature

Canadian poet Anne Carson won the 2026 Nobel Prize for Literature. Also an accomplished essayist and critic who has received Guggenheim and MacArthur...

previous day 2

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Toni Fitzgerald

Markets Brace For Additional Fed Rate Hikes Into 2027

Markets Brace For Additional Fed Rate Hikes Into 2027

With the release of the minutes of the Federal Reserve’s September meeting, it’s clear that most policymakers expect to raise rates again. The...

previous day 2

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Simon Moore

AI May Be Ruining Your Critical Thinking. Here's How To Save It

AI May Be Ruining Your Critical Thinking. Here's How To Save It

AI can give you answers in seconds, but what happens when you stop questioning those answers? A September 2026 IBM study found that 60% of employees...

previous day 2

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Dr. Diane Hamilton

ICE Just Bought A Hacking Tool Cops Use To Break A Major Apple Security Feature

ICE Just Bought A Hacking Tool Cops Use To Break A Major Apple Security Feature

In mid-December 2025, police located and arrested a convicted drug trafficker at a convenience store in Westbrook, Maine for breaching his parole...

previous day 3

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Thomas Brewster

Forbes Global CEO Conference 2026: Prime Minister Anutin Seeks To Woo Investors Back To Thailand

Forbes Global CEO Conference 2026: Prime Minister Anutin Seeks To Woo Investors Back To Thailand

Prime Minister Anutin Charnvirakul is pulling out all the stops to put Thailand back on investors’ radar screens, including a plan to gain...

previous day 2

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Phisanu Phromchanya

Forbes Daily: Why Ray Dalio Thinks The AI Bubble Could Pop Soon

Forbes Daily: Why Ray Dalio Thinks The AI Bubble Could Pop Soon

AI is useful for spitting out answers. It becomes transformational when it can take action on our behalf. Forbes’ first-ever Agentic 20 list...

previous day 2

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Danielle Chemtob

Forbes Global CEO Conference 2026: Philippine President Marcos Pushes For ASEAN Digital Economy Framework

Forbes Global CEO Conference 2026: Philippine President Marcos Pushes For ASEAN Digital Economy Framework

The Philippines will push for the signing of the ASEAN Digital Economy Framework Agreement when leaders of Southeast Asian countries meet in Manila...

previous day 2

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Jonathan Burgos

This AI Startup Is Selling Tax Agencies A New Way To Find Cheats

This AI Startup Is Selling Tax Agencies A New Way To Find Cheats

J osh Sandler’s pitch beings with a grievance more taxpayers understand: Your bill gets bigger when someone else doesn’t pay theirs. His startup,...

previous day 10

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Anna Tong

AI Personal Assistants Are Finally Having Their Moment

AI Personal Assistants Are Finally Having Their Moment

Ayear ago, as AI was supposedly coding software engineers out of a job, it still couldn’t reliably book dinner. And some of the biggest tech...

previous day 4

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Anna Tong

The Agentic 20

The Agentic 20

An AI that writes code is useful. An AI that writes code is useful. One that answers a funeral home’s overnight calls, negotiates with suppliers or...

previous day 20

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Anna Tong

Forbes Global CEO Conference 2026: Tight Renewable Energy Supplies Could Be Bottleneck For Asia’s Data Center Buildup

Forbes Global CEO Conference 2026: Tight Renewable Energy Supplies Could Be Bottleneck For Asia’s Data Center Buildup

The rapid buildup of data centers across the Asia-Pacific region, driven by soaring demand for AI infrastructure, is outpacing the regional supply of...

previous day 20

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Yessar Rosendar

Why Rolling Forecasts Shouldn’t Replace Your Annual Budget

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Christian Wattig

Wall Street Can’t Agree On SpaceX — Is The Stock A Bargain Or A Bubble?

wednesday 3

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Peter Cohan

Why The Barbie Maker Mattel Is Facing Pressure To Sell

Why The Barbie Maker Mattel Is Facing Pressure To Sell

Mattel has spent the past three years trying to prove that Barbie can provide true girl power but now the company may have to prove that its entire...

wednesday 5

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Mark Faithfull

Forbes Global CEO Conference 2026: PM Anutin Works To Woo Investors Back To Thailand

Forbes Global CEO Conference 2026: PM Anutin Works To Woo Investors Back To Thailand

Prime Minister Anutin Charnvirakul is pulling out all the stops to put Thailand back on investors’ radar screens, including a plan to achieve...

wednesday 1

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Phisanu Phromchanya

Why The 10-Year Treasury Yield Just Hit A 24-Year High

Why The 10-Year Treasury Yield Just Hit A 24-Year High

The yield on the 10-year U.S. Treasury note climbed above 5.35% on Oct. 7, reaching the highest level since 2002. The 30-year Treasury bond, at 5.70%,...

wednesday 2

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Garth Friesen

Will Your Robot Have Legs?

Will Your Robot Have Legs?

Among people who understand the robots are coming, there’s a big unanswered question kicking around: What are they going to look like? Will they...

wednesday 5

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John Werner

Ransomware’s Terminator Moment

Ransomware’s Terminator Moment

An AI agent has now carried out a full ransomware attack on its own — breaking in, fixing its mistakes, escalating access, wiping data and writing...

wednesday 1

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Ari Redbord

TikTok Quietly Gutted Its Advertising Rules. Scams Have Exploded Ever Since.

TikTok Quietly Gutted Its Advertising Rules. Scams Have Exploded Ever Since.

Lottie Weaver was scrolling on TikTok in fall of 2025 when an ad stopped her cold. Aerie, the underwear brand whose pajamas she loved, appeared to be...

wednesday 2

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Katharine Schwab

Capturing The Captive Audience At The Gas Pump

Capturing The Captive Audience At The Gas Pump

In today’s fragmented media landscape, any time a brand manages to hold a customer’s attention can pay off. GSTV, which provides the advertising...

wednesday 2

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Megan Poinski

Skydance Debuts As A Media Giant With Big Assets, Debts And Challenges

Skydance Debuts As A Media Giant With Big Assets, Debts And Challenges

Skydance, the throwback name and mammoth result of David Ellison’s two years of audacious and somewhat improbable financial engineering, debuted on...

wednesday 4

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David Bloom

LOVB Reveals Owners Of Miami Team In Expansion Deal Said To Be Worth $20 Million

LOVB Reveals Owners Of Miami Team In Expansion Deal Said To Be Worth $20 Million

League One Volleyball said in May that it would place its tenth professional franchise in Miami, and it unveiled the club’s roster in July. Now, the...

wednesday 7

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Sofia Chierchio

How Cleveland Clinic Is Developing AI To Monitor The Brain

How Cleveland Clinic Is Developing AI To Monitor The Brain

Cleveland Clinic’s AI for brain seizures. Fidji Simo’s plan to solve complex, chronic disease. Vivek Ramaswamy’s estimated $12 million tax cut....

wednesday 3

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Amy Feldman

Forbes Daily: The Skydance Era Begins As Mega Media Merger Closes

Forbes Daily: The Skydance Era Begins As Mega Media Merger Closes

The closing of Paramount Skydance’s long-awaited deal to take over Warner Bros. Discovery on Tuesday brought CEO David Ellison a $150 million...

wednesday 6

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Danielle Chemtob

As Paid Family And Sick Leave Spreads To 14 Blue States, Small Businesses Struggle

As Paid Family And Sick Leave Spreads To 14 Blue States, Small Businesses Struggle

This past January, a new Minnesota law took effect entitling private sector workers to take up to 12 weeks of leave for family or medical needs, with...

wednesday 4

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John Schroyer

Forbes Global CEO Conference 2026: Southeast Asia Becomes Investment Hotspot In The AI Era

Forbes Global CEO Conference 2026: Southeast Asia Becomes Investment Hotspot In The AI Era

Forbes Global CEO Conference 2026: ASEAN Becomes Investment Hotspot In The AI Era Southeast Asian countries have become an investment hotspot in the...

wednesday 20

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Phisanu Phromchanya

Forbes Global CEO Conference 2026: Navigating A Changing Global Economic Landscape

Forbes Global CEO Conference 2026: Navigating A Changing Global Economic Landscape

With tariffs, trade wars and real wars disrupting the world economy, global alliances are in flux, say experts attending the opening of the two-day...

wednesday 50

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Jane Ho

O2 And AEG Extend Naming Rights Deal For Iconic London Concert Venue

06.10.2026 4

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Hank Tucker

Why Big Funding Rounds Don’t Guarantee Job Security

06.10.2026 6

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Cheryl Robinson

Why Job Hopping Is Losing Its Payoff

06.10.2026 5

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Courtney Connley-Hampton

A ‘Verity’ Strong Opening Underscores The Power Of Women In Theaters

A ‘Verity’ Strong Opening Underscores The Power Of Women In Theaters

Verity opened as the No. 1 film in America, achieving $32 million domestically and $62 million globally over the weekend of October 2 despite...

06.10.2026 8

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David Deal

How CFOs Can Balance AI Efficiency With Human Expertise

How CFOs Can Balance AI Efficiency With Human Expertise

AI’s big promise is that it can make work much more efficient, taking away some of the more routine and boring tasks. But there is a danger in...

06.10.2026 4

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Megan Poinski

New Western Models Challenge China’s Open-Source AI Supremacy

New Western Models Challenge China’s Open-Source AI Supremacy

In recent months, Chinese AI companies have made headlines for releasing open-weight models that are just as capable as American frontier models, at a...

06.10.2026 5

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Rashi Shrivastava