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A New Restaurant Rule Is Spreading Across 11 States — And Customers Love It
Bars and restaurants are banning phones to bring back real conversation. The policy is surprisingly popular.
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This Major US City Will Pay You $15,000 to Move There
The "Make Detroit Home" program offers cash incentives to entrepreneurs, creatives, and small business owners willing to relocate.
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Blue-Collar Careers Were Supposed to Be AI-Proof. So Why Is Hiring Down 40 Percent?
For years, career advisers pointed young workers toward the trades as an AI-proof path to middle-class wages. The labor market had other plans.
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Anthropic Warns Its New AI Could Enable ‘Weapons We Can’t Even Envision.’ Skeptics Aren’t Buying It.
The company says Claude Mythos could exploit critical infrastructure like power grids. Critics say it's all a big marketing ploy.
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Disney Is Planning to Lay Off 1,000 Employees Under Its New CEO. Who’s On the Chopping Block?
The entertainment giant will cut positions primarily in its newly consolidated marketing department as CEO Josh D'Amaro begins restructuring.
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Delta Will Spend $2 Billion Extra in Fuel Costs — But Still Expects a $1 Billion Profit. Here’s How.
The airline's strategy involves three key moves to offset the Iran war-driven fuel spike, and CEO Ed Bastian says it's already working.
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Apple Is Launching an ‘Ultra’ Line of Products With New Capabilities — and Much Higher Price Tags
The company is building a foldable iPhone, touchscreen MacBook and AI-powered AirPods, according to Bloomberg.
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A Nutella Jar Went Viral on NASA’s Artemis II Mission — and the Company Didn’t Pay a Cent
It was one small step for man, but a giant leap for Nutella, as an unexpected appearance on Artemis II caused the internet to go crazy.
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Intel Just Signed On to Elon Musk’s Massive AI Chip Project — Here’s What They’ll Be Building
The partnership aims to produce 1 terawatt per year of compute power across two massive chip factories in Texas.
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This $500,000 Corporate Retreat to Honduras Went Horribly Wrong. ‘We Had to Eat a Dead Tarantula’
Plex flew 120 employees to a tropical paradise for team building. What followed was a comedy of errors and the CEO hospitalized with E. coli.
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The ‘Sneaky’ Ways Companies Are Making You Pay More — Without Raising Prices
As fuel prices spike and supply chain costs surge, businesses are finding creative ways to offset the pain — and not all of them are obvious to customers.
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App Store Submissions Have Surged 84%. Now Apple Is Declaring War on Vibe Coding.
Tools that allow anyone to build apps without coding skills is straining Apple's review infrastructure.
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The Upper Middle Class Used to Be an Exclusive Club. Now Its Membership Is Booming.
The upper middle class has tripled since 1979, and it's transforming what businesses sell and who they sell to.
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Sam Altman Says AI Will Soon Cause Widespread Job Loss. His Solution Is ‘Robot Taxes’ and Wealth Sharing.
His 13-page plan proposes a national fund seeded by AI companies that pays citizens directly, four-day workweeks at full pay and taxes on AI.
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People ‘Hate’ AI Customer Service Chatbots. Here’s Why Companies Keep Using Them Anyway.
Nearly one in five consumers who've used AI for customer service saw no benefit — a failure rate four times higher than AI use in general.
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Gen Z Is Bringing the Mall Back From the Dead. Here’s How ‘Mallmaxxing’ Is Reshaping Retail.
Online brands like Edikted and Princess Polly are opening brick-and-mortar stores, fueled by teens who film social media videos there.
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Elon Musk Has a Strange Requirement for Banks Working on SpaceX’s IPO
If banks want a piece of one of the largest IPOs in history, they have to buy subscriptions to Grok, his controversial AI chatbot.
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Mt. Everest Climbers Thought They Were Being Rescued. They Were Actually Being Scammed for $20 Million.
Guides poisoned terrified tourists, engineered fake helicopter evacuations and fabricated medical records in an extensive fraud.
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Anthropic Accidentally Leaked Its Own Claude Code. Now the Company Is Scrambling to Contain the Damage.
The AI company issued over 8,000 copyright takedown requests after accidentally exposing proprietary instructions for how Claude works.
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Job Seekers Are Getting Ghosted in Record Numbers. One Person Got a Rejection Letter 11 Months After Applying.
A new report shows 53% of candidates were ignored by companies in the past year, hitting a three-year high as AI tools overwhelm recruiters.
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There’s Something on the Moon That Earth Desperately Needs — And It Could Be Worth Trillions
NASA's Artemis missions are laying groundwork for lunar colonies to mine helium-3 that could power fusion reactors and quantum computers.
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OpenAI Just Raised a Record-Breaking $122 Billion to Build an ‘AI Superapp.’ Here’s What That Means.
The AI company pulled in $122B, making its valuation $852 billion as it generates $2 billion in revenue per month.
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Oracle’s Stock Has Plummeted 25%. Now It’s Cutting Thousands of Jobs.
The tech company is dealing with a plummeting stock price, and analysts say the mass layoffs could free up $10 billion in cash.
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Elon Musk Just Filed for Space X IPO That Could Make Him the World’s First Trillionaire
The confidential filing tees up a June blockbuster that could make SpaceX one of the most valuable companies ever — and Musk a 13-zero hero.
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It Took Thieves 3 Minutes to Steal $10 Million in Art. Here’s Why Museum Heists Are Becoming More Common.
Thieves broke into the Magnani-Rocca Foundation outside Parma, Italy, and made off with works by Renoir, Cézanne and Matisse.
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Many Employees Are Complaining That Work Has Been ‘Stripped of Fun’ — Here’s Why
Something has shifted in American office culture, and employees say work has never felt harder and less enjoyable.
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People Are Charging $1,200 to Stand in Historically Long TSA Lines for Fed-Up Travelers
Airport security lines have gotten so bad that a new cottage industry has emerged around trying to avoid them.
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Thieves Break Off 400,000 Pieces of KitKat Bars in a Major Heist. Nestlé’s Reaction Was Surprising.
Twelve tons of chocolate bars vanished after leaving a factory in Italy, but Nestlé had a good sense of humor about it.
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Air Canada’s CEO Will Resign After Making One Critical Mistake Following a Fatal Crash
Michael Rousseau released a condolence video after a fatal runway collision that was almost entirely in English.
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Pharma Giant Eli Lilly Is Paying $2.75 Billion for Drugs Designed by AI – Here’s What It Gets Them
The company says using AI cuts years off of research time.
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