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This Job Candidate Spoke Total Gibberish to His AI Interviewer and the Bot Did Not Like It: ‘This Is an Absolute Waste of My Time’

The viral TikTok clip shows an AI avatar start to seethe before she eventually ends the session with a prankster human candidate.

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Founders Spend Years Trying to Meet the Right People. This Exclusive Malibu Event Puts Them Face-to-Face in One Day.

At Founderland, a “Coachella for founders,” entrepreneurs trade the convention hall for a Malibu ranch with access to retailers and investors.

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The ‘Double Fill Up’ Is the Latest Hack Americans Are Using to Save Cash at the Gas Pump

With paychecks trailing inflation, consumers are getting creative about saving at the pump and the grocery store.

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Nvidia’s Jensen Huang Says There’s a ‘0% Chance’ AI Wipes Out Humanity by 2030

As AI insiders warn the technology could kill us all, the Nvidia CEO says he thinks these doom and gloom predictions are exaggerated.

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Google’s Next AI Data Center Might Be in Outer Space. The First Test Launches Next Week.

Project Suncatcher will send the company's custom chips into orbit to see if they can survive radiation and brutal temperatures.

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KFC’s New ‘Open House’ Location Is Now Serving Breakfast, Boba Tea and Fried Chicken Socks

A Dallas suburb is getting a finger-lickin' taste of KFC's future. If it works here, the whole chain could look and taste different.

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Meta’s AI Agent Tried to Shop on Amazon. Amazon Wasn’t Having It.

As companies race to build AI agents that can shop, browse and buy on your behalf, the walls between rival platforms are already going up.

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Samsung Is Roasting Apple’s New Foldable Phone Online: ‘Reheated Leftovers’

Samsung beat Apple to foldable phones by seven years — and it's not about to let anyone forget it.

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The Fed Raised Interest Rates for the First Time Since 2023 — Here’s What It Means for You

Rates rose for the first time in three years, and mortgages, car loans, credit cards and savings accounts will all feel it differently.

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The Average Manager Salary at This Fast Food Chain Is $200,000

The average fast-food manager doesn't stick around. But In-N-Out's have stayed for 15 years, and now the reason is pretty clear.

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Gen Z Founders Are Booming But 73% Admit That One Fear Is Holding Them Back — And It Has Nothing to Do With Money

Gen Z is starting businesses faster than any generation before them. So why is it so hard for them to ask for help?

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‘Jeopardy!’ Will Pay You $178,000 to Write Clues. But First, You Have to Survive This Test.

"I'll take clue writer for $178,000, Ken." More than 1,300 people applied for the job, and almost none of them got past the first round.

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OpenAI Says Its AI Just Solved a 90-Year-Old Math Problem — One Mathematician Calls It Theft

Controversy surrounds OpenAI's claim that it took 10,000 agents a weekend to solve one of math's six unsolved "million-dollar" problems.

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This Little League Coach’s Pep Talk to His Team Went Viral. It’s Also Great Business Advice.

Coach Edwards wasn't talking to founders when he said it. But his message about losing the right way applies well beyond the baseball diamond.

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Gen Z Is Fed Up With Fizzy Alcohol Drinks and Startups Are Cashing In: ‘No Bubbles, No Troubles’

Younger alcohol drinkers complain that bubbles make them feel bloated, so a new wave of brands is betting that flat is the future.

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James Dyson Spent 6 Years Building a $499 AI Toothbrush That Brushes and Flosses For You

The inventor behind the bagless vacuum has no idea if his maiden voyage into oral care will actually sell.

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Someone Stole 50,000 Cans of Pabst Blue Ribbon. Company Says: ‘You Have Exactly 18 Days and 44 Minutes’ to Return the Loot

The company issued an ultimatum to the beer bandits.

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This Mom Made $500 Just by Texting Her Friends Shopping Links — Here’s How to Turn Your Group Chat Into a Paycheck

Affiliate marketing used to be for influencers. Now regular people are cashing in just by sharing links with friends and family.

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Jack Daniel’s Is on the Rocks. Now the Family That’s Run It for 150 Years Is Turning on Each Other.

Two family heirs sent a letter accusing their own board of "rewarding failure." Meanwhile, a rival is circling with a hostile offer.

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Gen Z Can’t Afford to Buy a House, So They’re Putting Their Money in the Stock Market Instead

Retirement contributions are growing faster for Gen Z than any other generation.

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Where’s the Beef? Not on American Picnic Tables This Summer.

Beef has always been a summer staple. Now, for the first time in years, Americans are actually buying less of it

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Health Insurance Costs Hit a 15-Year High. Companies Are Changing How They Cover Employees.

More than 20,000 companies switched to HRAs this year alone, giving employees cash instead of a company-selected plan.

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Gen Z Turned This Food Craze Into a TikTok Obsession. Franchisors Are Cashing In.

Charcuterie boards are all over Instagram and TikTok, and franchise chains like Graze Craze are moving to seize the meat-and-cheese wave.

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A Man Asked His AI Assistant to Book a Gym Class. It Hacked the System Instead.

In the first known Australian autonomous cyber attack, an AI assistant hacked into a gym's booking system while trying to help a user.

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Batteries Powered By Rust? This Startup Raised $750 Million to Build Them.

Form Energy's iron-air batteries can keep running for 100 hours straight, far longer than standard lithium-ion batteries.

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This Popular Herb Is Part of a Billion-Dollar Industry Sold at Convenience Stores. Now Regulators Want to Ban It.

Kratom is legal, but largely unregulated. A surge in overdoses has led regulators in several states to move toward outright bans.

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El Pollo Loco’s Turnaround Plan Was Supposed to Take 3 Years. It’s Already Ahead of Schedule.

The chicken chain is beating Wall Street's expectations and expanding its menu to include items that appeal to younger consumers.

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A Top OpenAI Exec Just Jumped Ship to ‘Start Something New.’ He’s Not the First This Year.

Brad Lightcap's exit comes as the company tries to justify its $852 billion valuation ahead of an expected IPO.

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Uber Eats Owed This Restaurant Owner $40,000. It Took 8 Months and a News Story to Get Her Paid.

Joy Kim, owner of Seattle's Kyoto Teriyaki, says she followed every step Uber Eats asked of her. The company says it was a security issue.

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Wendy’s Fell to No. 3 in Burger Chains. Its New CEO Blames ‘Quality Degradation.’

Bob Wright, who turned around Potbelly, is facing declining sales at Wendy's. He says the fix starts with the food.

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Nvidia Is Close to a $500 Billion Deal to Build AI Infrastructure. Why Aren’t Some Investors Happy About It?

Nvidia, Blackstone, Goldman Sachs and other major firms are nearing a deal to fund AI infrastructure. Nvidia's stock dropped anyway.

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Waymo Has Nearly 4,000 Cars on the Road. One Just Drove Over an Exploding Firework.

Waymo calls these unscripted moments "edge cases." And they they keep happening.

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Mark Zuckerberg Just Published a 6,500-Word Essay on AI — Here Are the Crib Notes

The Meta CEO laid out his vision for open AI, government oversight and a new $1 billion fund for communities near data centers.

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The Apple Watch Hasn’t Changed Much Since 2018. Its Time Might Be Up.

As cheaper, screen-free competitors like Whoop and Oura gain more wrist share, Apple is considering redesigning its watch.

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Finding It Harder and Harder to Get a Restaurant Reservation? Some Diners Are Paying for Priority Access.

A boom in dealmaking among reservation apps, credit card companies and membership clubs is reshaping who gets a table and who doesn't.

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A Man Lived Inside a Billboard Above Sunset Boulevard for 24 Hours. Netflix Paid Him to Do It.

The stunt is a rare marketing play for a company that usually lets its algorithm do the work. But Netflix could use the buzz.

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He Watched His Dad Struggle to Find Care for His Grandmother. Now He and His Wife Run a Franchise Solving the Same Problem for Families.

Anthony and Angela Coleman turned a hard family experience into a CarePatrol franchise helping other families navigate senior care.

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Burger King Says There’s One Big Reason It’s Winning Back Customers — And It’s a Whopper

Same-store sales jumped 8.5% last quarter, just as arch rival McDonald's admits its own sales growth has stalled.

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Don’t Want to Pay a Lot of Taxes? Move Your Company to This Tiny Mediterranean Archipelago.

Malta is the smallest country in the EU, but it's become a big tax haven for U.S. companies.

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Four Top Google Scientists Are Leaving to Start Their Own AI Company. It Might Discover Things No Human Ever Could.

Discovery Loop wants to build AI that runs the experiments from idea to result, without a human in the loop

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A Judge Just Ordered Meta to Pay $567 Million and Change How It Treats Teen Accounts

Meta must pay $567 million that will go into a fund devoted to remedying a youth mental health crisis.

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Getting Eye Appointments Can Be a Hassle. This Founder Built a 90-Second Vision Test You Can Take at Major Stores

Eyebot co-founder and CEO Matthias Hofmann says growing demand for vision care and a shortage of optometrists create an opportunity to rethink routine...

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These College Kids Are Running a $12 Million Real Estate Fund. They Haven’t Made a Dollar From It.

At Indiana University, a group of undergraduates is managing real institutional money and pulling in returns most pros would envy.

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Baskin-Robbins and MUG Are Launching a Root Beer Float 114,100 Feet Into the Sky. Will the Stunt Settle a Years-Old Internet Debate?

Timed for National Root Beer Float Day, the stunt aims to break a world record while pushing new flavors and discounts at Baskin-Robbins.

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Shopify President Says We’re Entering a ‘Golden Age of Entrepreneurship.’ Here’s the Reason Why.

Platforms like ChatGPT and Gemini enable solopreneurs to thrive as AI reshapes how small businesses find customers.

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McDonald’s Profit Beat Expectations. But Its CEO Is Still Unhappy With How Sales Grew: ‘We Simply Didn’t Execute’

CEO Chris Kempczinski blamed inconsistent execution and a pullback in digital deals. The chain also named a new head of its US business.

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A SpaceX Rocket Just Crashed Into the Moon. Nobody’s Actually Seen It Happen Yet.

This wasn't the moonshot Elon Musk was hoping for.

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Apple Is So Overwhelmed With AI-Generated Bug Reports That It’s Turning Away Security Threats. One Big One Almost Slipped Through the Cracks.

Apple is so flooded with AI-generated bug reports that it capped how many researchers can submit. Some cybersecurity companies are concerned.

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Jeff Bezos Just Sold $4.1 Billion in Amazon Stock. Now Shares Are Down.

The sale came one day after Amazon shares hit an all-time high and pushed the company's market value above $3 trillion.

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SpaceX Stock Is Down Nearly 50% From Its High — Here’s Why It Could Get Worse Later This Week

Hundreds of millions of SpaceX shares that have been off-limits since the IPO become tradable for the first time. That's not great news.

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