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Meta laid off 10% of its workforce as Mark Zuckerberg warns that in the AI race ‘success isn’t a given’

Meta in the first quarter reported $56.31 billion in revenue, its biggest year-over-year increase in five years.

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Vice President JD Vance rebuffs question about President Trump’s stock investments, says Trump is so wealthy he doesn’t trade stocks himself

Trump recently bought shares of Palantir, Dell, and Micron—all companies he has publicly praised.

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A dating expert says ghosting and quiet quitting are the same problem at their core, and corporate life has more to learn from romance than it admits

Lakshmi Rengarajan, founder of How to Date Humans, says dating may be the best guide to fixing what's broken at work.

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DEI experts say the acronym may be radioactive, but the underlying business case is stronger than ever

Two former chief diversity officers say companies that abandon DEI under pressure are making a costly, long-term business mistake.

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Ryanair’s CFO says the airline has plans for an ‘armageddon situation’ as the jet fuel crisis threatens weaker European airlines this winter

“Do we have plans for some kind of Armageddon situation? Of course, we do, but I don’t see that coming to pass,” said CFO Neil Sorahan.

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While Detroit blinked on EVs, the Iran war has handed Chinese automakers the opportunity of a lifetime

“As tragic as it is—war is tragic for anyone involved—it is probably one of the best things that could have happened to the Chinese EV...

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Zillow CEO doubles down on remote-work model: ‘There is talent everywhere in this country’

The real-estate company has seen a marked increase in recruitment because of its work-from-home policies.

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America’s productivity boom started before AI, and a Stanford economist who decoded the Great Resignation says working from home is the reason why

National data show “a clear post-2020 surge in productivity growth exactly when WFH ramped up,” said Stanford economist Nicholas Bloom.

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Claude is telling users to go to sleep mid-session and nobody, including Anthropic, seems to fully understand why it keeps doing it

A staff member at Anthropic called the behavior, a “bit of a character tic.”

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After nearly a year of delays, Trump Mobile’s CEO says the gold-plated Trump phone will begin shipping to buyers this week

“Those delays were worth it in our minds as we are delivering an amazing product,” said Trump Mobile CEO Pat O’Brien.

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Japanese snack giant resorts to black-and-white bags of potato chips as Iran War literally sucks color out of the world

Japan gets 70% of its total imports of naphtha, a petroleum-based material used in printing inks, from the Middle East.

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India brings back COVID-era work-from-home rules and asks farmers to halve fertilizer use as the Iran war chokes its oil lifeline

India is particularly exposed to the Iran oil shock as 50% of its crude oil imports pass through the Strait of Hormuz.

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AI godfather warns humanity risks extinction by hyperintelligent machines with their own ‘preservation goals’ within 10 years

AI researcher Yoshua Bengio claims AI could persuade or manipulate humans to achieve its own goals.

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Trump Mobile quietly rewrote its fine print to say the gold Trump phone may never be made, a year after taking $100 deposits

The terms and conditions said the preorder deposit gives people "a conditional opportunity" to buy the phone if the company makes it.

11.05.2026 5

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Shark Tank’s Kevin O’Leary wants to build a massive $100 billion data center in rural Utah. Residents are revolting

Kevin O'Leary suggested China is funding online misinformation against the Utah data center project.

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Companies are abandoning ‘peanut butter’ raises as pay-for-performance takes over the workplace in the AI era

Only 4% of employers still spread raises equally across the board, according to Mercer.

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Goldman Sachs’ tech boss says tracking individual AI usage isn’t useful. He just watches how fast his 12,000 engineers move from idea to production

Goldman Sachs built an in-house version of ChatGPT as it dives into AI headfirst.

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Anthropic grew 80-fold in a single quarter. Now it’s renting Elon Musk’s data center to cope

CEO Dario Amodei said he’s hoping eventually Anthropic will have a “more normal” expansion.

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eBay bans GameStop CEO’s account after he started listing store signs and old carpets to fund his $56 billion offer to buy the marketplace

Michael Burry dumped his GameStop shares over the eBay dealing, warning "never confuse debt for creativity.”

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The CEO behind Grand Theft Auto VI doesn’t play video games, but analysts say he has put $1.5 billion behind the biggest game launch of the decade

"I don't think being consumer-in-chief really helps a CEO be effective in this business," said Take-Two Interactive Software CEO Strauss Zelnick.

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After the FDA spent years rejecting over flavored vape products, Trump reportedly pressed his FDA commissioner to allow mango and blueberry flavors

“Flavors induce people, many of them children and young adults, to use a product that may result in a lifetime of addiction and other harms,” one...

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Coinbase didn’t just lay off 14% of its staff due to AI. It replaced managers with ‘player-coaches’ and turned its org chart upside down

“We are not just reducing headcount and cutting costs, we’re fundamentally changing how we operate,” CEO Brian Armstrong said.

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GameStop’s billionaire CEO is an entrepreneur without a college degree who cofounded Chewy. Now he has his sights set on buying eBay for $56 billion

Ryan Cohen was rejected by 100 investors before selling Chewy for $3.35 billion.

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Investors endorse Greg Abel—even as Berkshire crowd thins without Buffett as CEO. ‘This was definitely the meeting with the deepest insights’

Longtime investors say any concerns about the transition from Buffett to Abel are now put to rest.

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A decade after the ‘Godfather of AI’ said radiologists were obsolete, their salaries are up to $571K and demand is growing fast

"As long as AI doesn't make this quantum leap of becoming sort of AGI,” most jobs are going to be reasonably safe, said one economist.

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CEOs got an 11% pay raise in 2025. Workers got 0.5%

A new ITUC-Oxfam report covering 1,500 companies found CEO pay is outpacing worker wages by a factor of 20—and the gap is only getting wider.

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Meta wants to spend more even after it lost $80 billion on the Metaverse and over 20 million users

Meta increased its capital spending by $10 billion because it “continued to underestimate,” its compute needs, said its CFO.

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Wind energy CEO says company must ‘adapt’ as Trump offers $2 billion to kill offshore wind projects

“My goal is to not let any windmill be built. They’re losers,” Trump said to oil executives in January.

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Jamie Dimon says bureaucracy sinks companies and the solution may be getting rid of the ‘jerks’ who don’t want to solve it

The JPMorgan CEO added that bureaucracy, complacency, and arrogance will take down a company faster than any outside competitor.

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GM expects $500 million in Trump’s tariff refunds—just a fraction of the $3.1 billion in tariffs it paid last year

The automaker booked the $500 million as a first-quarter accounting gain even though it hasn't received the money yet.

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Sam Altman apologizes to Canadian town where OpenAI failed to alert police about a mass shooter

OpenAI employees reportedly debated whether to flag the Tumbler Ridge shooter to authorities but decided not to.

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Reed Hastings says AI will drive a return back to humanities: ‘I’d be doubling down on emotional skills’

Reed Hastings donated $50 million to his alma mater Bowdoin College to fund a program integrating AI and the humanities.

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Elon Musk says saving for retirement is irrelevant because AI is going to create a world of abundance: ‘It won’t matter’

Musk said a "supersonic tsunami" of AI and robotics will bring about a world of zero scarcity.

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A Mark Cuban-backed AI startup is helping families turn conversations with their elderly relatives into lasting memories

“AI in our company is being used to get people to do things that they've always wanted to do but haven't been able to, and to make that experience...

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This is a ‘come to Jesus moment’: Ford CEO says American carmakers are battling a perfect storm

If Ford "doesn't put its chips on the right number," it may not survive, said Farley.

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Americans are buying more used clothes, but the real story is who’s buying what: Luxury resale is booming and so is discount

"We’re seeing that growth isn't uniform, and it really is concentrated, seemingly, at the high and low ends of the market when it comes to clothes."

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A group of users leaked Anthropic’s AI model Mythos by reportedly guessing where it was located

An expert says if a group of folks in an online forum was able to figure it out, then it's already in China's hands.

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Cursor’s 25-year-old CEO is a former Google intern who just inked a $60 billion deal with SpaceX

From Google intern at 18 to a billionaire at 25, Cursor CEO Michael Truell’s rise is one of Silicon Valley’s fastest.

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Steve Jobs called Tim Cook ‘not a product person,’ but still hand-picked him to run Apple and turn it into a $4 trillion tech giant

Tim Cook steps down having grown Apple's market cap from about $350 billion to $4 trillion.

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Palantir published a mini manifesto calling some cultures ‘harmful and middling’ and said Silicon Valley has ‘a moral debt’ to the U.S.

The manifesto was based on a book co-authored by CEO Alex Karp.

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Ford CEO says Tesla doesn’t have an ‘updated vehicle,’ and now he’s pivoting to catch up with his real competitor: China’s BYD

Ford CEO Jim Farley drove a Chinese EV for six months and liked it so much he didn’t want to give it back. Now he’s overhauling Ford.

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The most politically charged World Cup ever puts the U.S. and Iran on a collision course while America co-hosts with neighbors it has tariffed

"We're in pretty unique territory," said one historian.

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The $6 billion Vatican Bank was beset by scandals, disastrous investments—and ties to the Mafia. How Pope Francis tried to fix it

The Vatican Bank has been plagued for years by financial scandals.

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The power has swung back to employers—and workers are paying for it in benefits, flexibility, and leverage

With unemployment at 4.3% and quits near a multiyear low, employees are absorbing cuts they would have walked out on three years ago.

17.04.2026 10

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The Iran war’s fertilizer shock is hammering American farmers and 70% can’t afford what they need for this year’s growing season

Prices for the three main fertilizers used by farmers are all up double digits since the Iran war started.

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The Bezos-Musk space rivalry is shooting for the moon and the winner will not just dominate the cosmos—but the future of AI infrastructure

SpaceX and Blue Origin are racing to land on the moon, and both have filed plans to put AI satellites into orbit.

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The billionaire Anthropic cofounder who majored in literature says knowing how to ask the right questions beats knowing how to code

Anthropic’s liberal-arts-educated cofounder says “rote programming” is best avoided.

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Sam Altman’s attacker had a kill list of AI executives. Experts warn this is just the beginning

64% of Americans say they're nervous about products and services that use AI.

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A 93-year-old refused to sell her home to the Masters golf course that’s spent $280 million on expansion: ‘Money ain’t everything’

Elizabeth Thacker lived next to Augusta National Golf Club her entire adult life and refused to sell her home to the club despite multiple...

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AI promises to free workers from grunt work, but psychologists say those mindless tasks are exactly what our brains need to recover

Experts warn eliminating boring tasks with AI could drain our mental bandwidth.

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