Good morning. Earlier this week, I traveled to Target headquarters in Minneapolis to interview newly minted CEO Michael …
Israel said Sunday that Iran launched missiles at it in the first such bombardment since a fragile ceasefire took effect in early April, complicating mediation efforts for a deal to end the war. Iran’s state …
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23,000 cancelled flights and debris raining on Dubai hotels: The Iran war is jeopardizing the $12 trillion global travel industry
Over the weekend, missile debris rained over parts of Dubai’s Palm Jumeirah, a tree-shaped, man-made island home to …
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McDonald’s CEO did a burger taste test that became a cautionary tale for execs. But there’s a silver lining
But one small, hesitant bite was all it took to turn the launch into a viral punchline, and …
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Risk on! Global relief rally underway S&P 500 futures are flat this morning before the opening in New …
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Gen Z women are the new face of unemployment—and it’s not because they’re too choosy: Low grades and bad health are to blame, new research warns
Millions of workers are bracing for AI layoffs and restructurings. But a growing slice of Gen Z isn’t …
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The world’s largest tech gathering is talking about ‘accountability laundering’: Here’s why we should christen them Words of the Year
Summer Yue isn’t the most famous employee at Meta. The director of “superintelligence alignment and safety research” posts pictures of herself walking her dog on the beach and messages about …
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Palantir CEO’s rant about the Anthropic-Pentagon feud threatening his company was about a lot more than a dirty word
AI “seems much worse for the math people than the word people,” Peter Thiel tersely said in 2024. …
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Anthropic’s investors could be the key to ending its Pentagon standoff—but some investors have opposite views
In 2023, as Dario Amodei was fundraising for the company’s $750 million Series D round, an investor was …
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Meet Markwayne Mullin, the new multimillionaire head of DHS, who owns a cattle ranch in Oklahoma
After months of infighting over the Department of Homeland’s handling of ICE’s immigration crackdown, President Trump announced on …
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House votes 219-212 to halt Trump’s attacks on Iran. “Donald Trump is not a king,” says top Dem on Foreign Affairs Committee
It’s the second vote in as many days, after the Senate defeated a similar measure along party lines. Lawmakers are …
