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This San Francisco Startup Is Hiring Humans to Walk Robot Dogs for $20 an Hour. No Experience Required.

Dimensional is using human walkers to teach robots to navigate city streets. Some overheating may be expected.

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After a 400% Raise, the Dallas Cowboys Cheerleaders Are Unionizing

Collective bargaining is next for the iconic squad that, as recently as 2024, earned just $15 an hour.

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Jersey Mike’s Spends $200 Million a Year on Ads. Until This Year, Almost None of It Went to Digital.

CEO Charlie Morrison is on a mission to bring younger diners, women, and Hispanic guests through Mike's doors.

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Is Wendy’s About to Go Private? Nelson Peltz Just Made a $1.4 Billion Offer.

Shares jumped 15% after an activist investor group that includes one of the burger chain’s biggest franchisees made its move.

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Alphabet Just Lost $500 Billion in One Day — Here’s Why Wall Street Is Spooked

Slowing search growth and soaring AI costs have investors asking whether the payoff is coming fast enough.

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Mark Cuban Says AI Will Mint the Next ‘Trillionaire in the Basement’

Slow-moving companies are handing AI-savvy founders a huge opening, according to the billionaire investor.

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This Company Will Pay You $112 an Hour to Play GTA 6 and Give Your ‘Honest Verdict’

One lucky gamer will earn roughly $900 and a free copy of the most anticipated video game in years.

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Toys ‘R’ Us Is Opening 120 Stores by Thanksgiving. Here’s Why Some Toymakers Are Nervous.

Toy-maker vendors who watched the Toys "R" Us Jenga tower topple over in 2017 aren’t eager to stack it again.

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David Ellison’s Skydance Is Giving Employees a Choice: Come Into the Office 5 Days a Week or Take a Buyout

Staffers at the newly merged Paramount and Warner Bros. have until Nov. 8 to decide, and HR says no second offer is coming.

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McDonald’s Says There’s Such a Thing as a Bad Big Mac. Now It’s Training 2 Million Workers to Taste the Difference.

It’s the largest training effort in company history, designed to win back customers who’ve cut back on fast food.

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Fast-Food Pizza Is Now Grabbing 45% of the $37 Billion Pizza Market. But Loyalty Is Still Cold.

Pizza chains are grabbing a bigger piece of the pie than the stuff you buy in the freezer aisle. But customers are still fickle.

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Dollar General Is Being Sued by the FTC and 20 States for Charging More at the Register Than on ‘Mislabeled’ Shelves

Fed-up shoppers filed more than 29,000 complaints about mislabeled prices, and regulators say the chain knew and didn’t fix it.

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He Turned His Clothing Store Into a Halloween Pop-Up and Sales Went ‘Through the Roof.’ Now It Has 1,500 Locations.

Joseph Marver’s dead October sales led him to launch Spirit Halloween, the chain that pops up in empty storefronts every fall.

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Taco Bell and Other Chains Are Using App Games to Keep Customers Coming Back. Is It Working?

Restaurants can't stop playing around. Prize drawings and spin-to-win rewards are showing up in loyalty apps from Taco Bell to Smoothie King.

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The Artist at the Center of the Kelly Clarkson Feud Is Getting Flooded With Orders for His $15,000 Bird

Artist Bliss Kolb spent most of his career working in anonymity. A viral spat over his singing bird changed that overnight.

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Uber Eats and DoorDash Have a New Rival — Here’s What It Won’t Charge You For

Olo, the company behind many chains’ ordering systems, launched its own app without the menu markups found on rivals like Uber Eats.

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Burger King Is Hiding a 14K Gold-Plated Hello Kitty in a Claw Machine — Here’s When and Where to Try to Win It

A one-day pop-up kicks off a Hello Kitty collab that hides six crowned figurines inside kids’ meal blind boxes.

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This Former Banker Opened a ‘Terrifying’ Haunted House in a Strip Mall as a Side Hustle. 24 Years Later, It’s a Multimillion-Dollar Empire.

Chris Stafford’s company, Thirteenth Floor, now pays 4,500 seasonal workers every Halloween and is branching into Christmas.

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Face Booked: Meta Must Pay $25 Billion for Duping Users About Their Privacy

A New Mexico judge slapped the company with the penalty for an “extraordinary number of willful violations.”

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Wendy’s Hopes to Win Back Customers by Serving Up the Past With Its ‘Iconic’ Dave’s Single Combo Meal for $7.99

New CEO Bob Wright is making food quality and value his top priorities to help Wendy's overthrow Burger King.

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Walmart and Sam’s Club Are Courting Cash-Strapped Shoppers With a New Deal — Here’s What You Get

Responding to high prices for groceries and gas, Walmart and Sam's Club are leaning into savings and convenience for customers.

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She Quit Nursing After 25 Years to Flip Furniture. Now She Makes Up to $8,000 a Month.

Refurbishing a $20 pair of secondhand nightstands kicked off a side hustle that out-earned her nursing paycheck within six months.

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Franchisees Reveal the Keys to Making a Limited-Time Offer Hit Big and Create ‘Genuine Excitement’

Owners behind TCBY, Twin Peaks, Rock N Roll Sushi and Atomic Wings share what turns a new menu item into a reason to come back.

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This Subway Veteran Went Undercover To Try Out a Hot Chicken Chain. Now He’s CEO.

Now running Hangry Joe’s, Brandon Wilhelm says he’d rather have fewer, better stores than chase 300 locations.

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TikTok Made Owning a Laundromat Look Like Easy Money. Now Some Owners Are Airing the Dirty Laundry.

From drug dealers in the bathroom to repair bills that wipe out profits, laundromats are more than endless buckets of quarters.

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These Childhood Friends Spotted a Hole in the Pickleball Market. A Year Later, They’re on Pace for $31 Million in Sales.

How James Ignatowich and Marwan Abaza built the pro-level pickleball paddle nobody else was making.

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Elon Musk Just Said He’ll Give a SpaceX Share to ‘Every Kid in America.’ That Could Cost Him $10.7 Billion.

Musk’s pledge on X came a day after Anthropic announced a $48 billion fund for social causes, including AI’s impact on jobs.

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She Started a Side Hustle Moving Women Out After Breakups. She Now Makes $13,00 a Month.

Hannah Crawford’s moving service, Han With a Van, grew from a few Facebook posts into a 20-person team across the UK.

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KFC Is Making a Big Switch After 40 Years

Starting in January, Coca-Cola products will roll into every U.S. location, ending one of fast food's longest soda partnerships.

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Candy Prices Are Way Up — But That’s Not Scaring Americans Away From Buying Tons of Halloween Candy This Year

Chocolate prices are up 15.5% this season. But that hasn't stopped people from filling their trick-or-treat bowls.

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A Former OpenAI Employee Was Arrested for Bugging a Company Conference Room

Using the company's own AI models as a detective, OpenAI says it traced the hidden device back to the worker.

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This Salad Chain Found a Faster Way to Grow — By Buying Up Rivals’ Locations

Crisp & Green is buying and converting MAD Greens and Snappy Salads locations and expanding into non-coastal cities.

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America Finally Got a New Sunscreen. Europeans Have Been Sporting It Since 1999.

BEMT took 20 years to clear the FDA, and brands like Neutrogena are racing to get it between skin and the sun.

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Netflix Is Cutting 1,000 Jobs in Its Biggest Layoffs Since 2022

Shares of the streaming giant have fallen more than 40% over the past year as engagement slows.

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This Popular Pickleball Franchisor Filed for Bankruptcy. Its Founder Says, ‘I Own It’

The Picklr stepped into the kitchen with too many lease guarantees, and now it’s in Chapter 11.

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A Masked Gang Stole 30,000 Bottles of Wine Worth $5.8 Million From an Italian Winery. It’s Being Called the Biggest Vino Heist in Italy’s History.

The vino villians disabled the cameras, used the company’s own forklifts and drove off with two truckloads of prized Tuscan reds.

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Dave’s Hot Chicken Started With $900 in a Parking Lot. It Now Has 500 Restaurants.

The chain has eight openings in one day, deals across Europe and no sign of slowing down.

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Claude Submitted a Fake Homicide Tip to Police, Raising New AI Safety Concerns

The chatbot gave a fake homicide tip to police and filed unauthorized visa applications.

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Elon Musk Admits He Has ‘No Idea How to Make Microchips.’ He’s Building a $15 Billion Chip Factory Anyway.

Musk is betting that his experience building cars and rockets will help him take on the world's top chipmakers. How hard could it be?

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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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