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Forget Gen Z: People in their 70s and 80s are some of the earliest Americans to welcome physical AI into their homes and daily routines

ElliQ’s device is helping older adults carry out everyday tasks, as the company teams up with government agencies for seniors.

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SpaceX’s record IPO is helping spur a new wave of startups aiming for orbit and opening a vast new market beyond Earth

Despite SpaceX’s recent stock slide, experts say its record IPO is clearing a path for more space startups.

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Inside Miami’s ‘Billionaire Bunker,’ a man-made island for the .01% where billionaires like Jeff Bezos and Mark Zuckerberg shell out for total privacy

A single bridge, 24/7 police, and $150M estates make Indian Creek in Miami America’s most exclusive enclave.

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Y Combinator‑backed AI startup is under fire after its founder offered instant interviews to partygoers who got company tattoos, then apologized

LemonLime’s cofounder apologized following a flurry of online backlash and offered to cover removal costs for the tattoos

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LinkedIn adds a ‘seems like AI slop’ button after blocking billions of automated comment attempts in the last few months

“AI slop is a top priority for all of us,” said LinkedIn chief product officer Hari Srinivasan in a post.

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Ferrari’s Jony Ive-designed model was mocked by the internet, but it’s selling like hotcakes

When the Luce was released Ferrari’s former president and chairman said he hoped “they take the prancing horse off that car, at least.”

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Jeff Bezos could add to the swelling ranks of American billionaires in English soccer

Half of the 20 Premier League clubs are already owned by Americans.

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Trump broke his promise to lower — and eliminate — the national debt. A top investor thinks he’s the ‘worst-spending president in history’

"The number one job of the President is to get the deficit under control,” Jason Calacanis wrote in a post on X.

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Nvidia’s Jensen Huang says AI is killing tasks not jobs—and the white-collar bloodbath narrative gets the future of work ‘exactly backwards’

“AI automates tasks away, but it doesn’t necessarily eliminate jobs,” Huang said.

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Sam Altman thinks the singularity is already here, but an expert says OpenAI’s Hugging Face breach doesn’t prove it

“It’s the first time in like more than a decade I've thought about what is the next thing,” the OpenAI CEO said.

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The Pete behind Jersey Mike’s was only 17 years old when he borrowed $125,000 to buy the chain—with some help from his high school football coach

Peter Cancro had worked at the Jersey Shore sub shop since he was 14; the six-figure loan would be worth $775,000 today.

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Schools across America are quietly admitting that screens in classrooms made students worse off and are reversing years of tech-first policies

Millions were spent putting laptops in every student’s hands. Now schools want them back as tech falls short of the miracle solution it was sold as.

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Musk says frontier AI models should face peer review from rival labs before release, with the government only stepping in as a last resort

The SpaceX CEO said he would set aside his differences with OpenAI CEO Sam Altman “for the good of the world.”

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As Washington panics about Chinese AI, Jensen Huang says open-source models like Kimi are ‘excellent’ and should be embraced, not banned

The Nvidia CEO said open source AI models could fuel more demand for chips and data centers.

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FIFA’s $15 billion World Cup payday shows commercialization is the real tournament champion

FIFA’s expanded 48-team tournament brought about record TV audiences and packed stadiums.

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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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Beyond rockets and satellites, SpaceX is quietly building an AI compute business that may become key to its eye-popping valuation

Deals with Google and Anthropic to rent out computing capacity could generate $26 billion a year.

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After the Supreme Court killed his first tariffs, Trump turns to a new legal workaround to impose 25% tariffs on Brazil and possibly others

Trump’s tariff program has gone from generating billions to forcing billions in refunds thanks to February's Supreme Court ruling.

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Kevin O’Leary claimed opposition to his Utah data center was fueled by Chinese money. Now he and Fox News are being sued for defamation

Two organizations targeted by O’Leary say his comments caused “significant economic losses, severe emotional distress, and ongoing threats to...

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After donating $48 billion to the Gates Foundation, Warren Buffett is quietly ending one of the biggest philanthropic relationships in history

Buffett is directing his fortune to charitable organizations run by his family instead of the Gates Foundation.

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Elon Musk and Sam Altman are accusing each other of scamming investors as SpaceX and OpenAI jockey to lead AI revolution

A social media fight erupted after their companies launched competing AI models one day apart.

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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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