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In the affordability crisis, 37% of parents are counting on financial help from the Bank of Baby Boomers and can’t wait for the Great Wealth Transfer

The cost of childcare has led many families to turn to their parents before the Great Wealth Transfer.

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‘It’s so corrosive to democracy’: Over 50 federal prosecutors speak out against Trump’s $100,000 a month ‘insider trading’ scheme

"We're in an environment where we all want to be looking to the founders, right?"

24.09.2026 10

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Meta plans to spend $145 billion this year, more than every military budget except the U.S., China and Russia

The $145 billion is roughly a 101% markup from the company’s capex from 2025.

24.09.2026 20

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The 10-year Treasury yield just hit 5% for the first time since 2007 — is a 1970s-style ‘stagflation’ on the return?

From the pandemic to the war in Iran, the bond market has been on quite a ride to the 5% benchmark.

22.09.2026 4

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‘They must be doing it for ulterior reasons’: Jensen Huang says AI leaders are ‘irresponsible’ for scaring the public with ‘doomsday narratives’

The Nvidia CEO says “there is a 0% chance” of AI doomsday—and the AI pioneers may have their own motives for pushing AI slowdown.

21.09.2026 10

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Even in the era of NIL, college sports are stacked against student athletes—now lack of transparency is holding them back from a ‘fair market’

Without collective bargaining agreements like in pro sports, college athletes are left to navigate NIL blindly.

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Snap is betting $3.5 billion on AR glasses that businesses can use as CEO Evan Spiegel sees a post-smartphone era

Snap CEO Evan Spiegel says the era of the smartphone is coming to an end—with smart glasses being the future.

18.09.2026 10

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Data centers are swapping water for forever chemicals to keep AI cool

A new ChemSec report finds most of the world's largest PFAS producers are expanding output to meet demand from AI data centers.

18.09.2026 20

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Shrinkflation is coming for pro sports: The cost of watching the NFL jumped 28.6%—and attending a game 72%—since 2015

To watch all the football action this season, you will need to open your wallet more—for less.

15.09.2026 9

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Trump is freeing Irish whiskey from tariffs while tightening the screws on Canadian booze

Trump cut Ireland a parting gift—after the country allowed its golf tournament to be hosted at the U.S. president’s resort.

14.09.2026 7

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‘Combine your passion with an investment strategy’: Meet the venture capital using 500,000 Pokémon and trading cards as a hedge against a debt crisis

Peter Levin thinks collectibles and trading cards are here to stay in the alternative asset market.

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Students are using AI in school and test scores are down, but the OECD finds that those who use it once or twice a week perform similarly to nonusers

But using AI almost everyday can create a negative feedback loop.

11.09.2026 6

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It’s not just food: The plastic packaging your food comes in may carry cancer-linked chemicals, and most go untested

The government is replacing harmful chemicals in your food packaging—but they may be unknowingly making it worse.

10.09.2026 8

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Meet the data center capital of Europe as Google joins Microsoft and TikTok in betting over $30.2 billion on Finland

Major “hyperscalers” are making their way across the pond to build foundations in Europe’s newest data center host.

10.09.2026 20

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Men are larp-ing as NFL players to score dates and cash—one made $1.3 million before the FBI arrested him

False professional sports stories have become a new scamming model in the age of larp-ing culture.

05.09.2026 9

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‘Feeding the beast’: Meta faces allegations of using its ‘perv glasses’ to train AI in new lawsuit

The tech giant faces a new privacy lawsuit weeks after agreeing to the largest child-safety settlement of its kind.

04.09.2026 7

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As wildfires and floods batter national parks, a developer says it’s negotiating for a piece of Yosemite

The national park will trade roughly 700 feet of its land for less than two acres, according to the developer involved.

04.09.2026 20

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Clippers fined $30 million as owner Steve Ballmer is suspended for a year following NBA investigation on behind-the-curtain deal

A near-year-long investigation has amounted to a heavy blow to the LA franchise and its owner for an alleged circumvention of league rules.

03.09.2026 7

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San Francisco Democrats break with their party over the billionaire tax—and reveal how deeply Prop 40 has split the left

The billionaire tax vote looms in November—and Democrats in California can’t agree on endorsing it.

02.09.2026 20

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Sony and Warner Music sue Anthropic over alleged theft of ‘tens of thousands’ of songs, including ‘I Am the Walrus’ and ‘Hallelujah’

The music publishers are seeking up to $150,000 per pirated song—and $25,000 for each removed copyright information.

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College sports and ‘amateurism’ become the new ‘professional’ as an NFL player fights to return to school

Pros going back to amateur sports? It’s not amateur in the first place, according to a sports historian.

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The $40 trillion national debt is growing while Social Security goes broke—because wealthy Boomers are collecting over $100k in benefits per year

Boomers are getting 265% returns from Social Security—and the “great wealth transfer” won’t save Gen Z.

27.08.2026 9

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SpaceX says it’s building its largest spaceport yet, committing $100 billion for a Louisiana site—adding to its list of billion-dollar expansion plans

Louisiana is getting a taste of Musk’s big ideas as they get a part of the CEO’s billions-of-dollar-plans to bring humanity to space.

27.08.2026 20

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A major German bank just let Claude and ChatGPT trade for customers. In one test, Claude beat human traders 76% of the time—but there’s a catch

Scalable Capital is rolling out an AI assistant program that lets users make trades, analyze portfolios, and set up savings plans with just a few...

26.08.2026 10

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Meta’s $17.1 billion settlement will be over 12-times larger than the second largest big tech privacy settlement in the past four years

The settlement is just 1.17% of Meta’s $1.46 trillion market cap.

26.08.2026 10

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‘This is obviously a very, very lucrative business for them’: Somali pirates are back—the Iran war is keeping the US too busy to stop them

Brett Erickson, a managing principal at Obsidian Risk Advisors, says Somali pirates have a lower risk of American retaliation because of resources in...

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FTC moves to make retailers disclose use of ‘personalized pricing’ as technology now enables broad consumer surveillance

The proposal would warn companies that failing to disclose that they are using personal data to set prices could violate the FTC Act’s prohibition...

24.08.2026 10

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Mark Walter’s sports empire offers a glimpse of the money machine behind private credit—and the plumbing keeping it together

Where did the money come from for Walter to buy the Dodgers, Lakers and Chelsea FC? And what does it have to do with insurance?

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Membership into Miami’s most exclusive club is something money can’t buy—and Jeff Bezos is among those standing outside, looking in

Amazon founder Jeff Bezos has three properties on Indian Creek, but he still doesn’t have a membership into the island’s country club.

21.08.2026 10

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Trump admits tariffs are a tax on America’s love for hamburgers and allows 300,000 metric tons of ground beef imports at ‘below current market prices’

“Tariffs are simply taxes on American consumers,” said economist Steve Hanke. Meanwhile, cattle groups are "disappointed" in the president's post.

21.08.2026 20

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‘Adding insult to injury’: Flight attendants accuse Google of creepy deal to access ‘confidential’ data for AI in Spirit Airlines transaction

Failing in today’s business world means being at the mercy of the AI training frenzy.

21.08.2026 20

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Eric Schmidt is reportedly at odds with Google cofounder Sergey Brin over how a $100 million campaign against California’s billionaire tax is spent

The former Google CEO is disgruntled with the use of his funding for other measures that are not focused on California's Proposition 40.

21.08.2026 10

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With the national debt nearing $40 trillion, Bank of America has a warning for bond investors

Bank of America strategist Michael Hartnett warns against investing in bonds as the U.S. continues to run large deficits.

18.08.2026 10

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OpenAI data center deal with Nvidia comes in $145 billion lower than reported—signaling concerns of artificial demand for chips

Circular financing concerns revolve around the chip-maker's investment into OpenAI's data center lease.

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‘Only idiot startup founders stay in Cali’: Mark Cuban rips billionaire tax—and opens a rift inside the Democratic Party

The business mogul fired shots at the Democratic economic patriot over concerns of taxing young startup companies out of California.

17.08.2026 20

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‘The great quantum migration’ is coming as more than $2 trillion in digital assets is at risk—nearly the entire value of the overall crypto market

According to Quantus CEO Christoper Smith, digital assets are secured by elliptic-curve cryptography that is vulnerable to quantum computing.

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People are going to extreme lengths to stop themselves from being filmed through Meta’s ‘pervert glasses’

Methods include singing copyrighted songs to downloading scanner apps, but an attorney said not all of these will be foolproof.

14.08.2026 10

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‘It will inherit your thoughts’: Musk tells SpaceX employees they’ll be Grok’s ‘parents’ as AI trains on company data

In an all-hands, the SpaceX CEO revealed he wants his employees to be the foundation for his AI agent’s knowledge. “It will be trained on you.”

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A San Francisco ‘tech prankster’ got 50 Waymos ordered onto the same street, exposing robotaxis’ cyber/airbag problem

California requires autonomous vehicle manufacturers to demonstrate they can safely monitor, update and maintain fleets while complying with cyber...

13.08.2026 20

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Universities are buying and selling property for data centers, prompting concerns about an AI brain drain

The George Washington University recently sold its Virginia campus to Amazon, and The University of Michigan proposed a new $1.2 billion data center...

12.08.2026 30

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France hits unsolicited telemarketers with $87,000 fine per call, following similar provisions in other European nations

The Netherlands, Germany and other countries have employed policies to restrict unsolicited telemarketers for years.

11.08.2026 10

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Everything’s bigger in Texas: Musk’s planned $16.8 billion chip factory is five times bigger than the world’s current largest building

SpaceX and Tesla’s planned Terafab would span more than 100 million square feet and will assist humanity’s space colonization—according to Elon Musk.

10.08.2026 20

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Kalshi cracks down on insider trading as Trump family looks to increase prediction market presence

Prediction markets are becoming intertwined with the government, and Kalshi is trying to prove it’s policing insider trading.

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Google quietly discontinues its Earth AI feature a day after its rollout after users made no-no images

Google’s “Nano Banana” AI allowed users to generate any images they wanted from Google Earth—and Google didn’t measure the consequences.

07.08.2026 10

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After months of a public back and forth over Mamdani’s pied-a-terre tax, Ken Griffin isn’t ready to give up on New York after all

The Citadel CEO is staying put, and both his hedge fund and market maker will remain anchor tenants in a new $4.5 billion skyscraper.

05.08.2026 20

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‘This is insider trading by definition’: Trump sells $100,000 monthly subscription service to Wall Street to further monetize the presidency

Wall Street firms will get information milliseconds faster than the general public—and Trump will directly benefit.

04.08.2026 20

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‘People can go from zero to 100’: How Gen Z is raking in $260,000 per month on a livestream auction app

Cofounders Abhinavan Thanendran and Neil Shah started as “work buddies.” Now they are leading a $50 million-plus startup.

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Mark Cuban’s Las Vegas A’s investment is his ‘Sports 2.0’ Dallas Mavericks playbook all over again — with one key change

“The new model of baseball—or basketball, football—is teams becoming media companies and transcending a local marketplace," Rashaun Williams...

31.07.2026 10

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Fast-food execs keep pushing for more AI systems, but fail to see the big picture: Customers still want humans

The fast food industry’s automation push carried a simple promise: Robots would flip burgers, AI would take drive-thru orders, and labor costs would...

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‘It is okay not to be okay’: NFL legend Terrell Davis joins growing roster of athletes partnering with big pharma to raise health awareness

The hall-of-famer has partnered with Teva to raise awareness on Tardive Dyskinesia, a chronic movement disorder. He’s in good company with Serena &...

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