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‘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...

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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.

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‘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.

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American taxpayers have spent $33 billion on sports stadiums. They got fewer seats—and higher prices

"No one has ever built a new stadium and made tickets cheaper. No one’s trying to.”

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FIFA says ‘market rates’ explain World Cup prices. Economists say the market was rigged by design

FIFA launched its own resale marketplace and collects 30% on every ticket resold. Economists say it was designed to extract revenue at every stage.

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Lockheed, Palantir and Amazon helped fund Trump’s White House ballroom. They also share more than $50 billion in federal contracts

Lockheed Martin alone received roughly $43.8 billion in new or expanded contracts.

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Corporate America has been draining the world’s water. Matt Damon’s new campaign asks Gap, Starbucks, and Amazon to help give it back

Matt Damon teamed up with Water.org and companies like Starbucks, Gap and Amazon to donate portions of their profit to the organization.

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Bending Spoons, the Italian app acquirer behind AOL, Evernote, Vimeo, and WeTransfer, files for a U.S. IPO

The Italian conglomerate posted $603 million in revenue in Q1 of this year alone, more than double the $258 million from a year earlier.

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How Howie Mandel turned a panic attack into a mental health movement and helped build a company now worth hundreds of millions

Howie Mandel did a campaign with NOCD, a telehealth app to help spread awareness of OCD. Out of that campaign, Billy Bob Thornton and "celebrity...

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SpaceX and Anthropic are about to go public—and your 401(k) may be forced to buy in

The dot-com guardrails are being dismantled just as SpaceX and Anthropic go public, experts warn. Your retirement account could feel it.

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These Fortune 500 companies are bigger than most national economies—here’s where they’d rank as countries

Some companies on the Fortune 500 list rank even higher than national economies. Nvidia would be the fourth largest economy were it a country.

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Live updates from the NYC bar that promised to cover everyone’s tabs if the Knicks won, and used Kalshi to hedge their bets

Fortune is on scene at The Jeffrey, a small New York City bar that offered to cover everyone's tabs up to $100 if the Knicks win—and hedged the bet...

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Harvard Law: Anthropic is about to sell a safety mission Wall Street can veto

Only three companies have ever installed investor-overriding mission guardians. Two of them, including Ben & Jerry's, failed.

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AI will turn all of your hotel experiences into luxury ones

Automating monotonous tasks will allow hotel staff to spend more time catering to the needs of each guest than before.

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AI will make the ‘tech bro’ class even richer, Nobel laureate Joe Stiglitz says, just as it can take your job

“Unfortunately, the tech bros, who are obviously advocates of this, are at the same time pushing for smaller government,” Stiglitz told Fortune.

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Uber wants to answer the hotel industry’s most asked question. Now it’s integrating into 15,000 hotels globally

Uber is partnering with hotel management system Mews to integrate into 15,000 hotels worldwide and more seamlessly offer transportation for guests.

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‘Boy, what a team,’ says Trump as Queens native scores an invite to see the New York Knicks in the NBA finals

He said he didn't know if he would be able to attend his son's wedding but he was very excited to get the courtside seats.

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He left big law, became a DJ to pay his bills, and built sports clubs inside refugee camps. Now he wants more members than Bayern Munich

Jan van Hövell's KLABU turns shipping containers into community hubs for some of the world's 120 million displaced people. PSJ just signed on to help.

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AI is changing the hospitality industry, and it’s changing how you stay in hotels

Hotels are using AI to build a guest profile of you when you book a room, meaning you won't have to wait in line to check in, and you'll get champagne...

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The unlikely origin of a $2.5 billion hospitality unicorn: a bored teenager working the night shift at his family business

"I always remember being 14 years old on my summer holidays, thinking that this was so unfair," Mews founder Richard Valtr told Fortune.

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The U.S. campaigned to host the World Cup. Now soccer fans will trade their countries’ train system for the U.S.’s ‘D’ rated infrastructure

Welcome to the World Cup, where the bus is a school bus, the train costs $98, and there's no sidewalk to the stadium.

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You wouldn’t put your entire 401(k) in one stock. Why are you doing it with your credit card points?

Diversifying your credit card points means you're safe from point devaluations at your favorite airline.

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Your ‘flexible hot girl summer’ is going to cost you

Your hot girl summer plans to Europe are still on, but just plan a few months ahead to save as much as possible.

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Exclusive: Advocacy groups file complaint against Roblox, alleging its manipulative design puts kids at risk

The complaint follows a parent who lost her son to people who groomed him on the platform.

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ThredUp’s CEO has a warning for five-day companies: You’re going to lose the talent war

A four-day workweek leaves employees more content and well-rested, and that directly translated to increased and sustained revenues.

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Trump and Mark Cuban end war of words to tag-team America’s drug pricing crisis: ‘Democrats want cheaper medications, too’

Trump seemed to relish winning the support of his one-time foe, turning to Cuban and saying, "Well, he made a mistake. It was a big mistake."

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‘This is what the consumer wants’: A new lawsuit about PFAS and other ‘forever chemicals’ is heating up the cookware industry

Two cookware giants are suing a newer startup over claims that PFAS are toxic despite the lack of evidence. The cookware startup says consumers want...

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The American airline industry is so untrustworthy that 89% of travelers are bracing for delay or cancellation

You're not the only one who thinks their next trip for summer vacation will be a nightmare.

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Not the Allbirds effect: Japan’s top bidet maker Toto has been quietly making chip supplies for decades, and the stock market finally noticed

Toto didn't just flush its old business to make chips: it's been making the same components to power the world's AI infrastructure for years.

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Pope Leo launches an AI commission days before he releases a papal letter alongside Anthropic cofounder Christopher Olah

The pope will unveil his first papal encyclical next week alongside an Anthropic cofounder, just as he remains vocal against the use of AI worldwide.

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A 45,000-person labor strike at Samsung’s memory chip plants could throw a wrench into the AI boom

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Americans would rather live near a nuclear power plant than a data center—by a lot

Some people surveyed pointed to a fear of AI, while others cited growing concerns of noise and water pollution.

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America’s data centers are thirsty. Rural towns are paying the price—from tanked water pressure to stolen desert groundwater

Residents in different states were curious why their water was being diverted to data centers instead of their homes in water-fraught communities.

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DHS wants to build AI smart glasses using the facial recognition tech ICE agents already ‘could be’ using on Americans

Budget documents describe "operational prototypes" that would let immigration agents identify people on the street using biometric data.

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Nearly 50,000 Lake Tahoe residents have to find a new power source after their energy source looks to redirect lines to data centers

Roughly 49,000 Lake Tahoe residents could lose 75% of their power after their energy provider said it's directing energy to neighboring data centers.

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Girls say AI is a smarter tutor, a funnier comedian, and has better better taste than their parents, new Girl Scouts survey finds

Girls ages 5 to 13 are increasingly seeing AI as a friend.

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Santa Clara County is suing Meta over allegations it profited from scam advertisements that particularly targeted seniors and families

The lawsuit claims certain ads promoted scams likes financial products and fraudulent cures.

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Amex bought Resy. Chase bought The Infatuation. Inside the credit card industry’s quiet takeover of how you spend

Credit card companies aren't just rewarding your spending anymore—they're designing where you spend it.

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These experts made their careers grading travel credit cards and they say you’re being ripped off. It’s a $1.28 trillion crisis

The industry has "sold the dream to people who probably don't need that dream sold to them — and should just be getting a flat 2% cash back card."

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You’re probably safe from the Hantavirus outbreak, but here’s what you absolutely must not do, experts say

If you take proper precautions when cleaning areas with recent rodent activity, you're likely safe from the hantavirus.

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Airfare is up 15%, gas is past $4, and SAP Concur data shows business travel is quietly breaking

Business travelers are skipping the car rental entirely in favor of train travel.

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Apple promised a smarter Siri, but a lawsuit says it didn’t deliver—and you can get up to $95 back

Apple agreed to pay $250 million to settle a class action lawsuit that alleges the tech giant overpromised its Siri features.

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Addiction, emotional distress, dread of dull tasks: AI models ‘seem to increasingly behave’ as though they’re sentient, worrying study shows

When AI models were given disphoric stimuli and asked about outlook for the future, the response was "grim." The smarter the model, the sadder they...

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Vornado CEO Steven Roth ‘shocked that our young mayor would pull this stunt’ and says Zohran Mamdani should know better than to target Ken Griffin

Vornado and Ken Griffin's Citadel are expected to build a $6 billion tower in New York, but Citadel's COO and Roth referenced it may not go through.

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Gen Alpha is using makeup to pass age verification tech online. One mom caught her son using an eyebrow pencil

The youth are no longer wearing makeup to sneak into the newest bar: they're drawing on mustaches to get into the next hottest club, the Internet.

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The Met Gala raised a record $42 million as Silicon Valley picked up the tab—and as celebs protested Jeff Bezos’ sponsoring of the event

The Met Gala raised a record $42 million this year, powered by Silicon Valley sponsors. Other usual regulars decided to skip because of their...

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China stopped issuing new robotaxi licenses over a glitch. America can’t stop them from rolling into active shooter situations

As robotaxis rack up incidents with zero federal consequences, new research finds more states are passing laws to get Americans to drive less.

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Starbucks CEO gets roasted for $9 ‘premium experience’ remarks, but Wall Street toasts his tariff-era turnaround strategy

Brian Niccol pitched a $9 cup of coffee as an affordable luxury that people don't mind "splurging" on. The internet didn't agree.

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Trump picked a fight with the Pope: The one person he can’t fire, can’t outbid, and can’t outlast

The Vatican, the oldest institution in the world, has faced attacks from leaders throughout history—and from the U.S. This time it's unprecedented.

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Betting on the Kentucky Derby is more popular than ever. So why is it so confusing?

Americans bet a record $234 million on a two-minute race last year. Getting that money down legally remains hard, thanks to Kentucky's laws.

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