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It’s Time To Buy Bonds—Here’s Why. And How.

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William Baldwin

Billionaire Trump Pal Phil Ruffin Is Ready To Sell The Aging Circus Circus Casino

Billionaire Trump Pal Phil Ruffin Is Ready To Sell The Aging Circus Circus Casino

P hil Ruffin plans to die at his desk in Las Vegas. On a Wednesday in December, the 89-year-old casino billionaire is sitting right where he plans...

yesterday 6

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Will Yakowicz

Forbes Daily: Supreme Court Could Rule On TikTok Case As Ban Looms

Forbes Daily: Supreme Court Could Rule On TikTok Case As Ban Looms

Good morning, The FDA has finally greenlit the popular nicotine pouches that are taking America by storm. The regulator allowed Zyn pouches, which...

yesterday 7

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Danielle Chemtob

Fresh Take: California’s Water Politics And A Major Misconception

Fresh Take: California’s Water Politics And A Major Misconception

A Super Scooper plane drops water on the Palisades Fire. Amid all the heartbreaking news about the Los Angeles wildfires, you might have also seen...

yesterday 20

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Chloe Sorvino

The Prototype: OpenAI And Retro Biosciences Made An AI Model For Bioengineering

The Prototype: OpenAI And Retro Biosciences Made An AI Model For Bioengineering

In this week’s edition of The Prototype, we look at a new AI model for bioengineering, this week’s dueling rocket launches, magnets, lasers and...

yesterday 10

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Alex Knapp

What Leaders Can Learn From Inaugurations On Managing Transitions

What Leaders Can Learn From Inaugurations On Managing Transitions

Business leaders can learn a lot from presidential inaugurations. Presidential inaugurations offer powerful lessons for leadership transitions. As...

yesterday 6

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Scott Hutcheson

The New Ivies: Why Smart Kids And Their Cost Conscious Parents Flock To SUNY Binghamton

The New Ivies: Why Smart Kids And Their Cost Conscious Parents Flock To SUNY Binghamton

For freshman Brady Ellicott, New York’s Binghamton University was her Goldilocks school—bigger than Lehigh University in Pennsylvania and smaller...

yesterday 5

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Emma Whitford

The Ultimate Guide To Super Bowl LIX, The World’s Most Powerful Passports And Other Travel News

The Ultimate Guide To Super Bowl LIX, The World’s Most Powerful Passports And Other Travel News

. If you’re still maintaining your New Year’s resolutions, congratulations—you’ve already made it past the second Friday in January, also...

yesterday 3

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Passport By Forbeslife

Bitcoin Will Adapt To The Technological Advances Of Quantum Computing

Bitcoin Will Adapt To The Technological Advances Of Quantum Computing

Quantum Computers and Bitcoin Google’s announcement about a technological advance in quantum computing created a lot of fear and uncertainty about...

yesterday 2

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Korok Ray

IRS Commissioner Danny Werfel Announces Departure

IRS Commissioner Danny Werfel Announces Departure

WASHINGTON, DC - FEBRUARY 15: IRS Commissioner Danny Werfel arrives to appear for a Committee on Ways and Means hearing at the Longworth House...

yesterday 1

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Kelly Phillips Erb

How Corporate Boards Should Think About DEI As Trump Takes Office

How Corporate Boards Should Think About DEI As Trump Takes Office

The future of DEI programs is a front-burner issue for corporate leaders. The board of directors may want to actively participate with management...

yesterday 2

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Michael Peregrine

How Women Are Penalized For ‘Masculine Energy.’ Plus: Is The Glass Cliff A Myth?

yesterday 2

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Maggie Mcgrath

Nearly Half Of Workers Will Consider A Job Change If Ordered Back To The Office, Survey Finds

yesterday 2

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Jack Kelly

What A TikTok Ban Could Mean For Food Trends, Explained

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Stephanie Gravalese

With TikTok Ban Set, American Tech Giants Can Monopolize Social Media Again

yesterday 10

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Cyrus Farivar

Plug Power Snags $1.7 Billion DOE Loan Guarantee For Hydrogen Plants

Plug Power Snags $1.7 Billion DOE Loan Guarantee For Hydrogen Plants

Plug Power hopes to use a new federal loan guarantee to scale up production of hydrogen made by splitting the elemental fuel from water with...

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Alan Ohnsman

Hong Kong-Listed ESR Group Forms Joint Venture With CloudHQ On $2 Billion Data Center In Japan

Hong Kong-Listed ESR Group Forms Joint Venture With CloudHQ On $2 Billion Data Center In Japan

getty ESR Group, Asia’s largest real estate fund manager by asset under management, has set up a joint venture with U.S. data center operator...

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Zinnia Lee

What To Expect From Cybersecurity Threats In 2025

What To Expect From Cybersecurity Threats In 2025

While AI is a technology, it can sometimes feel like it’s a race. Companies are under constant pressure to add AI applications to their...

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Megan Poinski

Forbes Daily: Biden Takes Aim At Big Tech In Final Days As President

Forbes Daily: Biden Takes Aim At Big Tech In Final Days As President

Good morning, Corporate training videos can be dull. But one British startup is betting it can use AI to change that. Synthesia’s AI avatars are...

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Danielle Chemtob

AI Kissing Apps Are Taking Deepfakes Mainstream

AI Kissing Apps Are Taking Deepfakes Mainstream

M eta and TikTok have run thousands of ads for apps that use AI to generate fake kissing videos of people, allowing users to upload photos of any...

previous day 7

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Rashi Shrivastava

Meta And Microsoft Are Cutting ‘Low Performers’

Meta And Microsoft Are Cutting ‘Low Performers’

In the volatile tech sector, major players like Meta and Microsoft are continuing their strategic workforce reductions, targeting "low performers"...

previous day 6

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Jack Kelly

3 Actions For Donald Trump To Take In His First 100 Days

3 Actions For Donald Trump To Take In His First 100 Days

Voters across the country, both Democrat and Republican, are concerned about economic opportunity, ... [ ] and want the next administration to take...

previous day 6

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Maria Flynn

This AI Avatar Startup Raised $180 Million To Make Corporate Videos Less Boring

This AI Avatar Startup Raised $180 Million To Make Corporate Videos Less Boring

Synthesia co-founder Victor Riparbelli just raised $180 million at a $2.1 billion to make his startups AI-generated video avatars more lifelike. As...

wednesday 10

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Iain Martin

How A Rough 2024 For Consumers Impacts Marketing

How A Rough 2024 For Consumers Impacts Marketing

It’s a new year, and many people were glad to say farewell to 2024. High prices, a bruising election, drawn-out and brutal overseas wars,...

wednesday 1

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Megan Poinski

Military Tech Investors Go Looking For A Trump Bump At Mar-a-Lago

Military Tech Investors Go Looking For A Trump Bump At Mar-a-Lago

O n a recent evening, Neil Keegan, a defense tech investor, held a pitch meeting, gathering limited partners to hear how his firm Marlinspike...

wednesday 9

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David Jeans

Singaporean Billionaire’s Ho Bee Land Sparks Bidding War For Australia’s AVJennings

Singaporean Billionaire’s Ho Bee Land Sparks Bidding War For Australia’s AVJennings

The Metropolis, one of the office buildings developed by Ho Bee Land in Singapore, houses the ... [ ] headquarters of the real estate company. Ho...

wednesday 10

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Jonathan Burgos

Nvidia Joins $4 Million Seed Round In Taiwan’s AI-Powered Simulation Startup MetAI

Nvidia Joins $4 Million Seed Round In Taiwan’s AI-Powered Simulation Startup MetAI

(From right to left) MetAI cofounders Daniel Yu, Renton Hsu and Dave Liu. MetAI Technology, a Taipei-based startup that makes 3D simulations for...

wednesday 8

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Zinnia Lee

Trump Hosted Republican Governors A Dinner At Mar-a-Lago

Trump Hosted Republican Governors A Dinner At Mar-a-Lago

Montana governor Greg Gianforte speaks to reporters during a news conference along with fellow Republican governors at Mar-a-Lago on Thursday....

wednesday 2

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Zach Everson

How Much Is TikTok Really Worth?

How Much Is TikTok Really Worth?

illustration by Yunjia Yuan for Forbes; photos by Andriy Onufriyenko/Getty Images The Supreme Court could rule on a potential TikTok ban in the...

wednesday 7

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Phoebe Liu

Trumpiverse: Ranking Trump’s Inner Circle

Trumpiverse: Ranking Trump’s Inner Circle

Marc Piasecki/Getty Images Alex Brandon/AP Alex Brandon/AP Hollie Adams/Bloomberg Anthony Behar/Sipa John Lamparski/Getty Images Dia...

wednesday 7

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Joe Walsh

Forbes Daily: Capital One Accused Of ‘Cheating’ Customers Out Of $2B

Forbes Daily: Capital One Accused Of ‘Cheating’ Customers Out Of $2B

Good morning, It’s that time of year when it feels like everyone is getting sick, and one major culprit is gastroenteritis, aka the “stomach...

wednesday 1

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Danielle Chemtob

InnovationRx: A Flurry Of Deals And A Lot Of Uncertainty At The J.P. Morgan Healthcare Conference

InnovationRx: A Flurry Of Deals And A Lot Of Uncertainty At The J.P. Morgan Healthcare Conference

In this week’s edition of InnovationRx, we report from the scene of the year’s biggest healthcare conference, look at the vaccine pipeline for...

wednesday 9

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Alex Knapp

Billionaire Consunji Family’s Semirara Posts Record Coal Output Amid China Demand

Billionaire Consunji Family’s Semirara Posts Record Coal Output Amid China Demand

Miner with a handful of coal. Semirara Mining and Power—the coal miner of billionaire Isidro Consunji and his family’s DMCI Holdings—produced a...

wednesday 2

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Ian Sayson

Bolt’s $450 Million Raise Is Locked In Legal Battle. But This Investor Is Cashing Out

Bolt’s $450 Million Raise Is Locked In Legal Battle. But This Investor Is Cashing Out

A Delaware court has given the greenlight for payments startup Bolt to settle with investor Activant over a dispute involving a $30 million loan to...

wednesday 8

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Iain Martin

Military Drone Boat Startup Saronic In Talks To Raise $500 Million

Military Drone Boat Startup Saronic In Talks To Raise $500 Million

Saronic Saronic, a three-year-old startup that is aiming to make a fleet of autonomous boats for the U.S. Navy, is in talks to raise $500 million,...

wednesday 2

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David Jeans

How To Help Those Affected By The California Wildfires–And Maybe Get A Tax Break

How To Help Those Affected By The California Wildfires–And Maybe Get A Tax Break

ALTADENA, CALIFORNIA - JANUARY 09: Khaled Fouad (L) and Mimi Laine (R) embrace as they inspect a family member's property that was destroyed by...

wednesday 6

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Kelly Phillips Erb

How L.A. Fire Victims Can Get Help From The Tax Code

How L.A. Fire Victims Can Get Help From The Tax Code

A home burns during the Palisades Fire in Pacific Palisades, California, on January 8, 2025. (Photo by AGUSTIN PAULLIER/AFP via Getty Images) The...

wednesday 1

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Kelly Phillips Erb

Apple And Google Take Down Crypto Apps From Alleged $24 Billion Cyberscam Market Owner

Apple And Google Take Down Crypto Apps From Alleged $24 Billion Cyberscam Market Owner

Huione Group has been linked to cyber fraud, but it managed to get some of its crypto apps on Apple and Google marketplaces. (Photo by Jaap...

wednesday 5

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Thomas Brewster

Is RedNote Safe? Here’s What Millions Of TikTok Users Need To Know

Is RedNote Safe? Here’s What Millions Of TikTok Users Need To Know

With a possible TikTok ban looming, many U.S. users are flocking to a Chinese social media app ... [ ] RedNote. With a possible TikTok ban looming,...

wednesday 3

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Kate O&x27Flaherty

Brightline Raising $2.5 Billion Of Private Funds For Vegas-To-L.A. Bullet Train

Brightline Raising $2.5 Billion Of Private Funds For Vegas-To-L.A. Bullet Train

Brightline hopes to begin operating high-speed trains between Las Vegas and Los Angeles by 2028. Brightline West, billionaire investor Wes Eden’s...

wednesday 2

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Alan Ohnsman

Airbnb And Local Hotels Rally To Support Los Angeles Fire Victims

Airbnb And Local Hotels Rally To Support Los Angeles Fire Victims

Los Angeles, California, January 13, 2025. More than a week after a brush fire erupted in the Pacific Palisades on the morning of January 7, the...

wednesday 4

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Jennifer Leigh Parker

The Prompt: OpenAI Is Trying To Make ChatGPT A ‘Helpful AI Companion’

The Prompt: OpenAI Is Trying To Make ChatGPT A ‘Helpful AI Companion’

ChatGPT, which has 300 million weekly active users, will be able to send reminders and regular updates. Welcome back to The Prompt, ChatGPT will...

14.01.2025 3

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Rashi Shrivastava

Senator Ed Markey Introduces Bill To Delay TikTok Ban Deadline

Senator Ed Markey Introduces Bill To Delay TikTok Ban Deadline

Senator Ed Markey (D-Mass.) (Photo by Samuel Corum/Getty Images) Senator Ed Markey is fighting to stop a potential TikTok ban in the United States....

14.01.2025 10

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Jack Kelly

Looking Back At Biden’s Influence On Business Finances

Looking Back At Biden’s Influence On Business Finances

A week from today will be Donald Trump’s first full day in his second term as president. He brings to the Oval Office policy proposals that could...

14.01.2025 6

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Megan Poinski

3 Overused Corporate Buzzwords That Have Lost Their Meaning

3 Overused Corporate Buzzwords That Have Lost Their Meaning

Words hold weight when trying to convey a message. Make it a habit to stop using jargon that no ... [ ] longer means anything. Language plays a...

14.01.2025 4

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Cheryl Robinson

Why You Should Cut These 5 Toxic Relationships To Thrive

Why You Should Cut These 5 Toxic Relationships To Thrive

Certain relationships prevent you from growth. As we step into 2025, it is natural to focus on new goals, refreshed priorities and...

14.01.2025 4

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David Nour

Inside $250 Billion EQT’s Plan To Dominate Asian And European Private Equity

Inside $250 Billion EQT’s Plan To Dominate Asian And European Private Equity

Erika Gerdemark/Bloomberg C onni Jonsson grew up on a farm in rural Sweden milking cows and working the fields, expecting that he would study...

14.01.2025 10

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Hank Tucker

Forbes Daily: Why Apple Continues To Support DEI Policy Amid Backlash

Forbes Daily: Why Apple Continues To Support DEI Policy Amid Backlash

Good morning, Up-and-coming X rival Bluesky was always meant to usher in a new social media model allowing users to control their own data. And one...

14.01.2025 5

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Danielle Chemtob

Moderna May Have The Best Shot At A Vaccine For Stomach Flu

Moderna May Have The Best Shot At A Vaccine For Stomach Flu

There's no approved norovirus vaccine yet, but several companies are working on it. Every year, somewhere between 19 and 21 million Americans come...

14.01.2025 2

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Alex Knapp

The Wiretap: At $24 Billion In Sales, The Biggest Illicit Marketplace Ever Is On Telegram

The Wiretap: At $24 Billion In Sales, The Biggest Illicit Marketplace Ever Is On Telegram

The Wiretap is your weekly digest of cybersecurity, internet privacy and surveillance news. To get it in your inbox, subscribe here . Photo by...

14.01.2025 1

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Thomas Brewster

New Year, New (Higher) Wages

New Year, New (Higher) Wages

This is a published version of Forbes’ Careers Newsletter. Click here to subscribe and get it in your inbox every Tuesday. Workers in 21 states...

14.01.2025 1

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Maria Gracia Santillana Linares

What Could Happen If TikTok Is Banned In The U.S.?

What Could Happen If TikTok Is Banned In The U.S.?

TikTok's potential ban could drastically change the social media landscape in the U.S. In a move that could reshape the American social media...

14.01.2025 7

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Esat Dedezade

Why TikTok Users Are Turning To Rednote Ahead Of Imminent U.S. Ban

Why TikTok Users Are Turning To Rednote Ahead Of Imminent U.S. Ban

TikTok users are migrating to Xiaohongshu, known as RedNote in English. (Photo by Jaap Arriens/NurPhoto via Getty Images) The clock is ticking for...

14.01.2025 8

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Dani Di Placido

What The TikTok Ban Means For Your Business

What The TikTok Ban Means For Your Business

What the TikTok ban means for your business The Jan. 19 deadline puts 7 million U.S. small businesses in a tough spot. ByteDance must sell TikTok...

14.01.2025 1

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Jodie Cook

Tycoon Lin Yung Ling’s Gamuda Wins $1.8 Billion Rail Project In Penang

Tycoon Lin Yung Ling’s Gamuda Wins $1.8 Billion Rail Project In Penang

Beautiful Sunset and Sunrise in George Town, a key tourist attraction in Penang, Malaysia A unit of Gamuda—a construction company cofounded by...

13.01.2025 7

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Jonathan Burgos

As The Fires Rage, California’s Governor And A Billionaire Couple Get The Blame

As The Fires Rage, California’s Governor And A Billionaire Couple Get The Blame

F or water to reach the cliffside Los Angeles neighborhood of the Pacific Palisades, water is sent down from the mountains of Northern California to...

13.01.2025 5

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Chloe Sorvino