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Mark Zuckerberg says the ‘most important thing’ he built at Harvard was a prank website: ‘Without Facemash I wouldn’t have met Priscilla’

"I’m going to get kicked out in three days, so we need to go on a date quickly," Zuckerberg told Priscilla Chan at the time.

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Apple is experiencing its biggest leadership shakeup since Steve Jobs died, with over half a dozen key executives headed for the exits

The exodus of top talent spans critical divisions from AI to design, legal affairs, environmental policy, and operations.

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Rich people are flooding dollar stores as Americans navigate a crushing affordability crisis

Dollar Tree says 60% of new customers in its most recent quarter earned $100,000 or more.

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You don’t need to have fun at work—take it from NBA head coach Joe Mazzulla: ‘Fun is a cop-out sometimes when things aren’t going well’

The famously intense Mazzulla was fielding a question about "fun" from a child reporter: "I struggle with that, to be honest with you."

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Meet Amar Subramanya, the 46-year-old Google and Microsoft veteran who will now steer Apple’s supremely important AI strategy

“We are pleased to welcome Amar to Craig’s leadership team and to bring his extraordinary AI expertise to Apple," CEO Tim Cook said in a statement.

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Harvard professor says leaders have a responsibility to be happy at work because it can affect your stock price

Arthur C. Brooks argues happier employees can actually boost your company's stock price.

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Read Warren Buffett’s annual Thanksgiving letter for 2025—his final one to shareholders

The 95-year-old Oracle of Omaha is stepping back from Berkshire Hathaway and ending his legendary annual shareholder letters.

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MIT report: AI can already replace nearly 12% of the U.S. workforce

The window to treat AI as a distant future issue is closing.

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The 4 best ways to avoid getting sick while traveling, according to an Olympic doctor

Dr. Jonathan Finnoff has spent years researching how to prevent illness among globe-trotting athletes, which have yielded strategies any flier can...

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Meet Ralph Lee Abraham, the CDC’s new second-in-command who believes the Affordable Care Act should be repealed and called vaccines ‘dangerous’

Abraham, 70, started his career in veterinary medicine.

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Nvidia’s CEO says it’s ‘insane’ to not use AI for every task possible: ‘I promise you, you will have work to do’

Jensen Huang said if AI does not yet work for a particular task, employees should “use it until it does ... because we have the power to do so."

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‘I’m not going back’: Billionaire Marc Benioff says he’s switching to Google’s Gemini 3 after using ‘ChatGPT every day for three years’

Despite Salesforce’s new deal with OpenAI, Benioff is now more excited about Google’s latest offering. “It feels like the world just changed, again.”

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How to know if you’re an A, B, or C player, according to an elite recruiter who’s interviewed over 50,000 executives

Contrary to conventional wisdom, Deepali Vyas does not believe C-players are the problem at most organizations, even though they are typically...

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The stock market’s ‘fear gauge’ spiked to its highest level since Trump’s ‘Liberation Day’ tariffs caused a global selloff

Tech valuations, interest rates, and geopolitical risks are creating a "perfect storm" of uncertainty.

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Home Depot blames its recent sales slump on a major funk in the housing market: ‘Our customers are homeowners’

The U.S. housing market is currently experiencing historic stagnation.

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Trump tells Scott Bessent to fix the Fed’s high interest rates or ‘I’m going to fire your ass’

The president also disclosed for the first time that Bessent has been advocating for Powell to remain as chair until his term expires in May.

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Gemini 3 and Antigravity, explained: Why Google’s latest AI releases are a big deal

Google's new AI model has big implications for search, coding, and everyday users.

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The iPhone Air can’t catch a break: The key designer behind the struggling ultrathin phone just left Apple for an AI startup

Abidur Chowdhury was a key designer on the iPhone Air. Apple even picked him to narrate the phone's introductory video.

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One man is responsible for the McDonald’s Dollar Menu, Pizza Hut’s stuffed crust, and Smashburger. Meet Tom Ryan

Ryan was a hitmaker everywhere he went, from Pizza Hut to Quiznos to McDonald's and beyond.

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Anthropic says it ‘disrupted’ what it calls ‘the first documented case of a large-scale AI cyberattack executed without substantial human intervention’

"Attackers used AI’s 'agentic' capabilities to an unprecedented degree—using AI not just as an advisor, but to execute the cyberattacks themselves."

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Russia’s first AI-powered robot walked on stage to triumphant music, took a few steps, and then immediately faceplanted

AIdol has some work to do before it can catch up to its western competition.

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Kim Kardashian’s Skims is now worth $5 billion after a massive $225 million funding round led by Goldman Sachs

Young people are obsessed with Kim K's shapewear line. Nearly 70% of Skims' customers are Gen Z or millennials.

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OpenAI says it plans to report stunning annual losses through 2028—and then turn wildly profitable just two years later

The company anticipates burning through roughly $9 billion this year on $13 billion in sales, a cash burn rate of approximately 70% of revenue.​

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Softbank dumps its entire Nvidia portfolio worth $5.8 billion as its CEO goes all-in on OpenAI to the tune of $30 billion

Masayoshi Son, the 68-year-old CEO of SoftBank, has a mixed track record when it comes to massive, high-stakes investments.

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Meet Zara Rahim, the 35-year-old with a stacked résumé who masterminded Zohran Mamdani’s winning mayoral campaign

She has worked for Barack Obama, Vogue, A24, Uber, Hillary Clinton, and Netflix.

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Mark Zuckerberg says ‘The Social Network’ nailed his wardrobe: ‘Every single shirt or fleece they had in that movie is a shirt or fleece that I own’

Zuckerberg even bought one of the shirts worn by actor Jesse Eisenberg, on auction, for over $4,000.

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Scott Galloway says big government is actually a good thing—and he’s a product of it: ‘Taking bets on unremarkable people pays off’

Galloway credits UCLA for his success, despite an initial rejection. "California taxpayers and the regents of the University of California saved my...

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Meet Mira Nair, Zohran Mamdani’s 68-year-old mother who hit it big in Hollywood directing critical darlings like ‘Monsoon Wedding’

Nair is the first woman director to win the Venice Film Festival's top prize, and famously turned down WB's offer to direct the fourth Harry Potter...

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Former FBI special agent says he used a simple trick to get the best hotel rooms in the world—and it’s all about showing love to the front desk

According to licensed private investigator Tom Simon, "I've been doing this for 20 years and the rooms I get are majestic, man."

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Uber says ‘unpredictable’ issues involving ‘legal proceedings or governmental investigations’ took a $479 million bite out of its bottom line

Uber's stock is down roughly 7% as of Tuesday morning following the earnings release, despite having climbed about 46% year-to-date.

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This ETF is handily beating the S&P 500—and analysts say it could be one of the big winners of the AI boom

Analysts at Ned Davis Research recommend the fund as an “overweight” investment.

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Amazon says its AI shopping assistant Rufus is so effective it’s on pace to pull in an extra $10 billion in sales

Customers who engage with Rufus during their shopping journey are 60% more likely to complete a purchase compared to those who don't.

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Since ChatGPT launched, job openings have plunged 30% while the stock market has surged 70%—but one economist says the true culprit isn’t AI

It's been called "the scariest chart in the world."

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Bill Gates says a ‘doomsday outlook’ on climate is driving people to focus on the wrong things

"If given a choice between eradicating malaria and a tenth of a degree increase in warming, I'll let the temperature go up," Gates said.

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Tesla board chair begs shareholders to greenlight Elon Musk’s $1 trillion pay package, calling the upcoming vote a ‘critical inflection point’

Musk previously said he doesn't want to "build a robot army here and then [be] ousted because of some asinine recommendations from ISS and Glass...

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Billionaire ex-Google CEO says one deceptively simple weekend habit will help you level up at work

It's an approach he learned from his mentor, Silicon Valley legend Bill Campbell.

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Cambricon a.k.a. ‘China’s Nvidia’ says revenue spiked 14-fold last quarter. The ensuing stock frenzy made its CEO one of the world’s richest people

Chen Tianshi is the 40-year-old founder and CEO of Beijing-based Cambricon, an AI chip company that posted a monster earnings report last week.

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Corning CEO says Steve Jobs pressured him into making all the screens for the first iPhone: ‘Do you know what your biggest problem is? You’re afraid’

According to Wendell Weeks, Jobs said if Corning couldn't help Apple deliver on "the biggest product in history ... I'm going to eviscerate you."

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An American chess grandmaster is dead at 29, and players are in an uproar about it. Here’s what’s going on

Daniel Naroditsky, a chess prodigy, achieved the title of grandmaster when he was just 18 years old.

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Experts say the high failure rate in AI adoption isn’t a bug, but a feature: ‘Has anybody ever started to ride a bike on the first try?’

At Fortune's Most Powerful Women event, one thing was clear: We're still on the "jagged frontier" of AI adoption.

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Scott Galloway says don’t aspire to be a billionaire, because ‘it’s not going to get you anything.’ Here’s what to do with money instead of hoarding it

Galloway’s advice aligns with research from Nobel Prize–winning psychologist Daniel Kahneman, who examined the relationship between income and...

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The 3 magic phrases that will instantly make you more likable, according to a body language expert

Everyone thinks they’re sending the right signals—but Science of People founder Vanessa Van Edwards says your best intentions may never land...

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Ron Conway skewers Mark Benioff in board resignation after 25 years: ‘I now barely recognize the person I have so long admired’

"San Francisco does not need a federal invasion because you don’t like paying for extra security for Dreamforce," Conway said.

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Durability tester says Google’s new $1,800 foldable phone is the first smartphone to explode during his routine test—and he caught it all on camera

Zack Nelson from JerryRigEverything said he's never had a phone set off his fire alarm in the decade of durability testing smartphones.

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Top psychologist says all elite achievers have one thing in common—and it’s not an innate ability like brains or talent

Dr. Angela Duckworth’s research spans all ages, examining how both children and adults respond to extreme challenges.

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Land O’Lakes CEO says ‘we need more legal immigration’ to help American farmers because a lack of labor could trigger a ‘black swan event’

Only about a third of U.S. crop farmworkers are born in the U.S. The vast majority are undocumented immigrants.

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Robin Williams’ daughter says ‘stop sending me AI videos of Dad’ because it’s ‘disgusting’ and ‘not what he’d want’

Zelda Williams, 36, says AI allows for the "puppeteering" of dead celebrities like her late father.

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Meet John Ternus, the 50-year-old Apple executive and former swimming champ who’s rumored to succeed Tim Cook as CEO

Apple is in the midst of a major leadership shakeup, in which many senior executives are reportedly set to depart.

07.10.2025 3

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Scott Galloway says the key to landing jobs is be as social as possible: ‘70% of the time, the person they pick is someone with an internal advocate’

"You want to be placed in rooms of opportunities where you’re not physically there," the NYU Stern School of Business professor said.

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Entrepreneur says Goldman Sachs once gave him 39 separate interviews to land the job—and the decisive conversation was less than a minute

Goldman Sachs' acceptance rate for internships is less than 1%.

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