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Peter Thiel and other tech billionaires are publicly shielding their children from the products that made them rich

As governments race to restrict minors’ social media use, the tech billionaires who built the platforms are imposing strict screen limits at home.

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Meta added a privacy-safety feature to its AI glasses but is reportedly testing a ‘super-sensing’ prototype

Meta's new feature disables its smart glasses' camera if users tamper with the LED recording light.

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Hybrid‑work expert Nicholas Bloom says World Cup chaos and pricey commutes are turning July into the summer of remote work

The economist who has spent two decades studying remote work said most employers are never going back to a fully in-office set up.

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Cathie Wood just bought the SpaceX dip again—and dumped Alibaba to do it

ARK rolled out of Chinese tech to add to Elon Musk's newly public rocket company, doubling down on a bet it says could be worth $3.1 trillion.

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Close to a million investors of the Trump memecoin lost a collective $3.8 billion, even as the president disclosed $636 million in earnings

The president launched the $TRUMP coin just before his inauguration last January.

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Trump’s request for a review of Folarin Balogun’s red card has become a global test of FIFA’s political neutrality

The U.S. striker’s red-card ban was suspended after President Trump personally asked FIFA president Gianni Infantino for a review.

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Shark Tank’s Kevin O’Leary says if he were 25 today, he’d chase these two booming opportunities in the world of AI

O'Leary says young entrepreneurs shouldn't chase flashy AI, they should instead try to build its backbone.

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Despite return-to-office-crackdowns, remote work is alive and well as the rate has barely changed over the last two years

Nearly 22% of U.S. workers still worked from home at least part of the time in 2025, just one percentage point less than in 2024.

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Michael Burry just shorted Caterpillar’s 172% AI rally. One analyst says his bet won’t even matter

The Big Short investor calls Caterpillar one of the market's most overvalued AI trades—but an analyst argues the rally reflects a real structural...

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As Big Tech showers employees with perks to win the talent war, Nvidia built a nearly $5 trillion company by making people pay for their own lunch

At the world’s most valuable company, lunch isn’t free—but a generous stock plan has been far more lucrative.

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America’s AI hunger has reached the Nashville Zoo and its endangered animals may be the ones to pay the price

Country star Brad Paisley helped drive more than 500,000 signatures to a petition by the zoo opposing the development.

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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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One in three Gen Zers is letting AI do their homebuying homework, but they still trust realtors with the closing process

More than half of prospective buyers prefer humans for legal or contractual advice.

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Red Lobster lost millions on its endless shrimp disaster. Shareholders say it was a ‘car crash’ designed to squeeze profits

The lawsuit accuses former controlling shareholder Thai Union of orchestrating the ploy to boost its seafood business.

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Meet Micron, the under-the-radar chipmaker that just reported a 346% sales surge and helped stop a global AI selloff

The company behind the memory chips powering AI started in a dentist's basement in Boise.

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Softbank CEO dismisses Elon Musk’s extraterrestrial data center idea in favor of maximizing Earth-side construction now: ‘He who strikes first wins’

Son’s Softbank committed $19 billion last year to the Stargate project that aims to build AI infrastructure in the U.S.

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Quantum computing stocks surge after Trump signed executive orders backing the sector

While the tech-heavy Nasdaq fell more than 2%, some quantum computing stocks surged by double digits.

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Sam Altman thinks AI will surpass human intelligence by 2030. His rival AI billionaires say it’ll be even sooner

The OpenAI CEO said GPT-5 is already smarter than he is.

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Cursor’s 25-year-old CEO is a former Google intern who just cemented 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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SpaceX went from three consecutive rocket explosions and near-bankruptcy in 2008 to the biggest IPO in history

Elon Musk once gave SpaceX less than a 10% chance of surviving.

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Jamie Dimon says remote work breeds ‘rope-a-dope politics’ and stunts young workers’ growth

Jamie Dimon said younger workers are not fully engaged if they work remotely, adding they won’t be as well-developed because remote work doesn’t...

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After backlash, Anthropic says its AI will now tell users when their request is being rejected or downgraded for national security concerns

Anthropic’s latest model previously downgraded certain user requests quietly and without warning.

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SpaceX’s record IPO has Wall Street torn between a Musk ‘holy grail’ and a $72-per-share leap of faith

Analysts disagree on whether SpaceX is worth what Musk is asking.

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A ‘MAGA Warrior’ Texas ag chief is publicly blasting the USDA over a flesh-eating pest threatening America’s beef supply

The flesh-eating New World screwworm fly was found in Texas last week for the first time since 1966.

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Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei spends 40% of his time on culture, not AI—including a biweekly ‘vision quest’ where he ditches ‘corpo speak’

Dario Amodei says constant communication and avoiding "corpo speak" keep Anthropic's 2,500 employees aligned as the AI race heats up.

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As the World Cup draws millions to 11 U.S. cities, measles—not Ebola—may be the biggest concern

Measles may be the bigger threat partly because it is more contagious, and cases in the U.S. are already rising.

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The Class of 2026: Meet the 12 companies making their Fortune 500 debut

From crypto companies to mattress makers, these companies made it in the list’s 72nd year.

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AI CEOs from OpenAI, Anthropic, and Microsoft set aside their rivalry to warn Congress AI is making it too easy to design and create bioweapons

The signatories want Congress to mandate screening for synthetic DNA sales as AI makes creating a bioweapon easier.

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SpaceX may be the biggest IPO ever, but Morningstar says it is overvalued by half and the smart investors will wait out the hype and buy later

A top analyst says its IPO is overvalued and the best buying opportunity may come after insiders get the chance to sell.

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Who is Chris Olah? The atheist Anthropic cofounder the Pope chose to sit beside him at the Vatican and tell the tech industry it can’t govern itself

The Anthropic cofounder is worth $8 billion and won a $100,000 Thiel Fellowship in 2012.

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Erin Brockovich, the activist who defeated a utility giant and inspired a Julia Roberts film, is pushing data centers to be more transparent

Brockovich's new data center tracking project has collected nearly 4,000 complaints nationwide.

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CEOs blame AI for layoffs, but an MIT professor says it fits a long-running pattern to find a cover story. ‘They’ve been saying that for 20 years’

Companies like Wix, Snap, and Block have all recently pointed to AI to explain cuts.

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Ex–Google CEO Eric Schmidt warns U.S. tech workers: Competing with China’s grueling 12-hour workdays means sacrificing work-life balance

Schmidt, who served as CEO from 2001 to 2011, has some thoughts on the China-style “996” work ethic.

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TIAA CEO Thasunda Brown Duckett is trying to fix America’s broken retirement system

After watching her father nearly miss out on a secure retirement, Duckett is pushing Americans to secure a guaranteed income for life.

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A Google engineer is facing federal charges after allegedly using his employer’s confidential data to pocket $1.2 million on Polymarket

The DOJ alleges the engineer ignored a "Google Confidential" warning to get insider search data he later used for bets.

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The Harvard economist behind the Education Scorecard says the ‘Learning Recession’ is more than a COVID problem—it’s at least a decade old

Think all the backsliding in U.S. education is the result of remote school, masks and a year of social distancing? Not exactly, says Tom Kane.

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The U.K.’s top spy says the window to stay ahead of China and Russia is narrowing and cybersecurity needs to become ‘10 times more urgent’

GCHQ director Anne Keast-Butler warned China is "a science and tech superpower" with advanced intelligence capabilities.

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A billionaire and an A-list actor found refuge in a 37-home Florida neighborhood with armed guards—proof that privacy is now the ultimate luxury

Most of the houses are about the size of two football fields and sit on the edge of an artificial lake, giving each home its own bubble of privacy.

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SpaceX’s next-gen rocket is the key to its sky-high valuation, early investor says: ‘Starship also enables all kinds of frontier markets’

SpaceX’s launch business gives it "access to orbit," said Space Capital CEO Chad Anderson.

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Walmart shoppers are filling their gas tanks with less than 10 gallons for the first time since 2022, and its CFO calls it ‘an indication of stress’

Gas is up 42% in a year and above $4 in all 50 states.

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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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