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‘It’s not a jailbreak’ — Research leading to U.S. export restrictions on top Anthropic models was for defense, cybersecurity CEO says

"It was Defense Oriented Prompting (DOP), capabilities defenders need."

yesterday 5

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Jason Ma

Trump says he’ll sign deal with Iran to reopen Hormuz Sunday

Trump also said Iran would not get any money in the deal, which was a key sticking point for Iran during negotiations mediated by Pakistan.

yesterday 0

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Arsalan Shahla

The real star of the UFC fight at the White House may be the Claw: a behemoth cage constructed for the Octagon

The mixed martial arts show on Sunday night that is streaming on Paramount is timed for Trump’s 80th birthday and the celebration of the nation’s...

yesterday 0

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Dan Gelston

Meet the lone star tick: the primary U.S. source of alpha-gal syndrome, which is a life-threatening meat allergy that’s on the rise

Regulators recently approved the first drug for the condition, and more therapies may be on the way.

yesterday 1

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Matthew Perrone

Trump to talk with allies at G7 summit in the coming week about removing mines from the Strait of Hormuz as deal to end Iran war nears

Britain and France, who are both members of the G7, have expressed interest in assisting with demining the critical waterway once the conflict is...

yesterday 0

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Munir Ahmed

More and more of Musk’s companies end up under the same roof. Here’s a look at his sprawling empire

He still holds the CEO role at several corporations today, in addition to other various executive titles or ownership stakes.

yesterday 9

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The Associated Press

A deal to the end the U.S.-Iran war could be finalized within 24 hours. Tehran wants to charge ships crossing Hormuz ‘for services rendered’

Pakistan is preparing for the electronic signing of the agreement, followed immediately by technical-level talks next week.

yesterday 8

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The Associated Press

I spent 8 years flood-proofing a city. Capital markets are running out of time to take El Niño seriously

Federal forecasters put the odds of a strong El Niño this winter at two in three. The bigger story isn't the weather.

yesterday 1

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Ravi s. bhalla

Workers start removing Trump’s name from the Kennedy Center, but there’s little on the venue’s schedule after a few upcoming events

After a day of legal maneuvers and thunderstorms, workers began the process in the early morning hours of removing the Republican president's name...

yesterday 1

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Steven Sloan

America just committed $1.2 trillion to fix its infrastructure. We’re still flying blind

A data center secretly drained 29 million gallons from a drought-stricken Georgia county. Digital twins could have caught it in real time.

yesterday 1

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Gregg herrin

AI is making promises your brand never made. Hotels are paying the price

When algorithms and recommendation engines set guest expectations, the brand gets the blame when reality falls short.

yesterday 1

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Teresa mackintosh

Gen Z fled San Francisco for Texas and Florida. Now they’re turning ‘welcomer cities’ into the next big tech towns

The next wave of the migration story is already underway, and it’s moving the innovation economy into unexpected territory.

yesterday 7

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Sydney Lake

Accenture cyber leads: why hiring more people won’t solve the cybersecurity talent gap

The workforce gap isn't a headcount problem — it's a capability problem. Here's what business leaders need to do before the next breach forces their...

yesterday 1

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Harpreet sidhu

Jamie Dimon says remote work breeds ‘rope-a-dope politics’ and stunts young workers’ growth

Jamie Dimon said younger workers are not fully engaged if they work remotely, adding they won’t be as well-developed because remote work doesn’t...

yesterday 9

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Marco Quiroz-Gutierrez

CEO of $20 billion AI firm Perplexity says the secret to success is ‘sleeping with that fear’ that your competitor will steal your idea

Rather than letting that pressure paralyze him, Aravind Srinivas, the cofounder and CEO of Perplexity, uses it as fuel.

yesterday 8

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Preston Fore

Melinda French Gates’ advice to new IPO millionaires: ‘Give half your money away’

SpaceX, OpenAI, and Anthropic IPOs are about to mint a new generation of millionaires and billionaires—who will have to decide what to do with their...

yesterday 10

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Emma Hinchliffe

The ‘AI superstar’ CEO behind a self-driving truck unicorn on why Gen Z is a better hiring bet than industry veterans

Raquel Urtasun, co-founder of autonomous truck startup Waabi, talks to Fortune about unicorn hiring in the AI age: “Fear can paralyze your ability...

yesterday 10

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Preston Fore

SpaceX CFO Bret Johnsen quietly engineered its historic IPO and became an overnight billionaire

Johnsen, SpaceX’s longest-tenured and only CFO, is now worth about $1.4 billion.

yesterday 10

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Sasha Rogelberg

Our budgeted $180 million year ended in the red after the Ukraine war. Here’s how we survived

A 30% sales crash on a ski trip was the first sign we were in trouble. Four years later, I'm in a new business in a new country.

yesterday 7

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Axel söderberg

How Elon Musk rewrote SpaceX’s story—and turned it into the greatest IPO debut in history

By convincing investors that AI will power his moonshot, SpaceX broke records in its trading debut.

yesterday 10

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Shawn Tully

Inside the race to rebuild America’s fuel supply chain for a ‘second nuclear age’

A ‘second nuclear age’ looms, but the industry faces a major uranium problem.

yesterday 10

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Jordan Blum

Anthropic disables Fable and Mythos AI models after U.S. government bars it from giving foreigners access

The directive would even bars Anthropic's own foreign employees from using Fable and Mythos. Anthropic called the government position "a...

previous day 1

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Jeremy Kahn, Bloomberg

Astronaut costumes, teenage crypto millionaires, and a $300 million bet: Scenes from the SpaceX IPO

From a prop trader who bet “a car” to an early investor sitting on $300 million, the sidewalk outside the Nasdaq represented everyone in the AI...

previous day 1

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Eva Roytburg

U.S. energy secretary says 7 million barrels of oil exiting Persian Gulf daily, but Chevron CEO rebuts the claim

Middle Eastern oil flows are rising, but U.S. crude stockpiles are still depleting.

previous day 2

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Jordan Blum

‘Buy a ticket for 60 bucks and resell it for $6,000’: NYC Mayor Mamdani criticized FIFA’s resale market, but his jersey drop created the same thing

The New York City mayor has been very vocal about FIFA's resale market and how ordinary, working class New Yorkers were priced out of a limited...

previous day 1

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Catherina gioino

Founders Fund, Andreessen Horowitz, Valor, and the biggest VC winners from SpaceX’s IPO

SpaceX’s IPO will crown a few select VC winners. But it’s only the beginning of Hot IPO Summer.

previous day 1

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Allie Garfinkle

AI can be a ‘secret sauce’ or a way of ‘democratizing mediocrity’—Here’s how business leaders are getting the best of the technology

AI tools can be the most effective and well-designed in the world, but two people can use the same tool and get to vastly different results.

previous day 2

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Amanda Gerut

AI shopping agents are coming. No one is ready for them

Lack of standards around fraud prevention, security, and returns hamper growth of AI agents, experts said at the Fortune Brainstorm Tech conference.

previous day 1

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Jeremy Kahn, Bloomberg

Florida’s insurance exodus is triggering a 2008-style chain reaction — with one critical difference

Can't get home insurance in Florida? Your neighbor's property value just became your problem too.

previous day 5

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The Conversation

Dan Sullivan could be kicked out of Alaska Senate primary — but not that Dan Sullivan

The case is opening free speech concerns, as the ACLU is unaware of any investigation of this particular kind ever happening in an election before.

previous day 0

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Becky Bohrer

With SpaceX IPO, Elon Musk is the world’s first trillionaire — but he mostly lives in a tiny home in south Texas. ‘There is no food in the fridge’

SpaceX raised $75 billion on Thursday in the largest IPO ever after offing more than 555 million shares at $135 a piece, valuing the company at over...

previous day 9

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Jason Ma

Victor Wembanyama nearly got egged by a rabid Knicks fan. Nobody filed a complaint with the NYPD

The confrontation followed a historic collapse by the Spurs, who now find themselves on the brink of elimination after blowing a 29-point lead.

previous day 10

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The Associated Press

Elon’s wealth: 1 trillion dollar bills would stretch 97 million miles, to the moon and back over 200x

If $1 trillion was divided among the entire population, each person would receive almost $122.

previous day 1

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Wyatte Grantham-Philips

Mortgage rate rises to 6.52% from 6.48%, near yearlong high

Rates have been mostly trending higher since the conflict between the U.S. and Iran began in late February.

previous day 0

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Alex Veiga

Live updates from SpaceX IPO debut: SpaceX valuation now at over $2 trillion as stock climbs to $165 a share

After 24 years of anticipation, the SpaceX IPO finally debuted at just over $150 a share and is now hovering at around $165 a share.

previous day 1

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Catherina gioino

Walmart has a message for its 2.1 million workers: AI is going to improve your job, not take it: ‘Technology will power our future’

Walmart is already using AI to design clothes and coordinate trucks—but the $967 billion grocery chain says humans “will lead” the transformation.

previous day 1

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Emma Burleigh

Taylor Swift is youngest woman to make Songwriters Hall of Fame at 36, but blew out her voice cheering for the Knicks

"It was instinctual. No one taught me how to do it," she said through a raspy voice she attributed to Wednesday night's historic NBA game.

previous day 1

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Maria Sherman

Elon Musk, the trillionaire: pay packets go multi-planetary in SpaceX IPO

The largest IPO in history raised $75 billion Friday despite $8.7B in losses since 2025. Did your pension boost the "significantly overvalued" stock?

previous day 2

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Bernard Condon

Patagonia sues drag queen Pattie Gonia, seeking $1 for trademark infringement

Experts say legal fees could easily surpass $1 million. Patagonia says Pattie Gonia sells merchandise that confuses customers.

previous day 1

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Brittany Peterson

Upstate New York sticker mogul has a bronze Trump statue, MAGA hip-hop album and a presidential endorsement. The local machine wants the Marine

The fight for Elise Stefanik's old district is getting revealing in a very Trumpy corner of upstate New York.

previous day 1

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Michael Hill

After Trump cuts aircraft and warships, NATO’s top military officer refocuses Europe’s defense plans on ‘things that we can acquire quickly’

NATO’s supreme allied commander said the U.S. is still committed to "limited but critical" support as the Pentagon steps back to focus on China

previous day 9

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The Associated Press

Elon Musk’s wealth could double the economy of his native South Africa as world’s first trillionaire

Musk's new title arrives amid a wider acceleration for the richest of the rich whose level of wealth was once unfathomable

previous day 10

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The Associated Press

‘I gave SpaceX less than a 10% chance of succeeding’: Elon Musk addresses Nasdaq ahead of SpaceX IPO

Today could be one of the biggest days in stock market history. After 24 years of anticipation, the SpaceX IPO finally debuted on Friday.

previous day 2

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Catherina gioino

Ivanka called it captivating. Protesters call it destruction: What to know about the Kushner unrest in Albania

They Found Albania's Coastline on a Barefoot Hike. Now $4.6 Billion and a Prime Minister's Career Are on the Line.

previous day 2

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Zana cimili

Ex-Disney star Bridgit Mendler says being rejected hundreds of times by Hollywood gives her the same ‘traditional background’ as other space CEOs

Bridgit Mendler says her success is fueled by a “very high tolerance for risk”—thanks, in part, to her experience as a Disney Channel star.

previous day 2

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Preston Fore

Trump hosts World Cup on 80th birthday with the Strait of Hormuz still shut and oil above $90 per barrel

"His real challenge is that he’s looking for a victory lap and an exit ramp and those two things are not necessarily compatible."

previous day 10

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The Associated Press

Roche and Nestlé fear talent crunch as Switzerland puts population cap to the polls

The proposed 10 million person limit could ruin Switzerland’s reputation as a business hub and risks harming one of Europe’s strongest economies,...

previous day 1

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Sam forsdick

Current price of oil as of June 12, 2026

When oil prices change, it affects your energy costs—and even the price of everyday items. Here’s why.

previous day 2

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Joseph Hostetler

For SpaceX CFO Bret Johnsen, the challenge starts after the $75 billion IPO

Johnsen now faces the task of proving SpaceX can deliver on its promises as a public company.

previous day 10

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Sheryl Estrada

SpaceX’s first employee, Tom Mueller, thinks the historic IPO is just the beginning

Tom Mueller, CEO of Impulse Space, says investors are buying a vertically integrated vision for space-based computing, AI, and the next industrial...

previous day 1

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Lily Mae Lazarus