When I was 22, I sat across from a 21-year-old Mark Zuckerberg as he convinced me to join …
A Spanish football club at the center of a prediction market controversy has denied placing a nearly $600,000 bet on Kalshi to hedge against the financial hit of dropping to a lower tier in …
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Amazon buys Fauna Robotics, maker of the Sprout humanoid robot that can dance, pick up toys, and go on a stroll
Amazon has acquired Fauna Robotics, just under two months after the startup introduced a humanoid robot called Sprout designed …
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Dow futures fall 300 points as Wall Street braces for potential U.S. ground assault on Iran and Houthi attacks that could slash oil supplies further
Investors are looking past President Donald Trump’s attempts to talk oil prices down as reports signal an increasing …
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ICE agents called in to help ease airport security lines may not be leaving anytime soon, even after Trump ordered pay for TSA officers
Even after President Donald Trump ordered emergency pay for Transportation Security Administration agents to ease long security lines, major U.S. airports …
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Parts of Tehran lost electrical power after missile strikes on Sunday as Iran and its proxies lobbed attacks …
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Asia is getting wealthier, older—and potentially sicker, as rates of non-communicable disease rise across Southeast Asia. Yet governments …
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Yahoo CEO Jim Lanzone on ‘the white whale of turnarounds’ and turning to AI—licensed from Anthropic
Internet trailblazer Yahoo is exploring technology’s next frontier with Scout, an answer engine powered by artificial intelligence. Scout …
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The Iran and Ukraine wars are converging as combatants increasingly overlap, but ‘we are still not at a true world war’
Russia’s war on Ukraine began four years before the U.S.-Israel war on Iran did, but the battle lines …
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Global economy takes gut punch from war in Iran, with nobody untouched the longer it goes on
U.S. and Israeli attacks on Iran have driven up prices, darkened the outlook for the world economy, sent …
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Russia was expecting a windfall from soaring oil prices, but relentless Ukrainian drone attacks are devastating nearly half its export capacity
The U.S. war on Iran set up Russia’s economy for a major rescue after oil prices soared after …
