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‘A Lot of Blind People Have Been Left Out’: How This LEGO Superfan is Rewriting the Rules For Builders
Matthew Shifrin, a blind LEGO builder, has long advocated for accessibility.
By Sherin Shibu
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Lowe’s Is Spending $250 Million to Revive America’s Skilled Trades Workforce — Here’s Why
The home improvement company is investing heavily in skilled trades like plumbing, carpentry and electrical work.
By Sherin Shibu
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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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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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Here’s How Much Meta Pays Employees — Including a Role Earning $650,000
One of the most valuable tech companies in the world pays top dollar for its employees.
By Sherin Shibu
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Gen Z Is Increasingly Turning to This Field, Which Offers $75K Starting Pay and High Job Placement Rates
This field is making a quiet comeback, promising stability and steady demand.
By Sherin Shibu
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What the Landmark Meta-YouTube Ruling Means for the Next Era of Founder Responsibility
A jury verdict just cracked open the "platform vs. publisher" mantra, and founders should start treating recommendations as a measurable risk surface.
By Neel Somani
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Jack Dorsey Says His Employees Have Stopped Bringing Slide Decks to Meetings. Here’s What They Show Up With Instead.
Block's employees are using AI to create better meeting materials.
By Sherin Shibu
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How Much Do You Really Need to Retire? This Is the ‘Magic Number,’ According to Americans
The sweet spot for Americans to retire comfortably has risen by $200,000 from last year — and most people aren’t even close to it.
By Sherin Shibu
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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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A Growing Number of College Students Are Switching Majors — Here’s What’s Behind It
Nearly half of college students are actively rethinking their majors, and one in six has already made the switch.
By Sherin Shibu
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JPMorgan Chase CEO Jamie Dimon Claims the Bank’s In-Person Work Policy Allows It to ‘Crush’ Remote Competition
The bank reinstated a five-day, in-person workweek in early 2025, aligning with other corporate giants like Amazon and Dell.
By Sherin Shibu
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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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Former Goldman Sachs CEO Lloyd Blankfein Shares the Smartest Way to Use Your First $5,000 in Savings
His first instinct is to treat $5,000 as a foundation against worst-case scenarios.
By Sherin Shibu
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AI Startups Are Battling for Fresh Tech Talent, Offering Up to $400,000 Salaries and Big Bonus Packages to New Grads
Forget nap pods and slippers — startups are luring top talent with cash.
By Sherin Shibu
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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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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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A Cornell Instructor Is Using a Creative Old School Method to Combat AI Cheating in Class
Once a semester, a Cornell instructor has her students experience what it is like to write the old-fashioned way.
By Sherin Shibu
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Warren Buffett Is Partnering With an NBA Star to Revive a Two-Decades-Long Tradition
The billionaire spearheaded the initiative for over two decades, but stopped the practice in 2022.
By Sherin Shibu
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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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He’s LinkedIn’s First Puzzlemaster. Here’s How His Games Benefit Their Business — and Your Brain.
Puzzles are a way to drive up engagement on LinkedIn and keep users coming back for more.
By Sherin Shibu
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Netflix Cofounder Reed Hastings Learned An Unconventional Leadership Lesson From His First Boss, Who Washed Office Coffee Cups At 4:30 A.M.
Hastings thought the office janitor was washing his coffee cups every week, but it was actually his boss.
By Sherin Shibu
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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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Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang Never Has One-on-One Meetings With His 60 Direct Reports — Here’s Why
Huang’s leadership structure is intentionally extreme by traditional standards.
By Sherin Shibu