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Character AI will offer interactive ‘Stories’ to kids instead of open-ended chat thumbnail
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Character AI will offer interactive ‘Stories’ to kids instead of open-ended chat

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Onton raises $7.5M to expand its AI-powered shopping site beyond furniture thumbnail
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Onton raises $7.5M to expand its AI-powered shopping site beyond furniture

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Uber and WeRide’s robotaxi service in Abu Dhabi is officially driverless thumbnail
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Uber and WeRide’s robotaxi service in Abu Dhabi is officially driverless

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Why ‘hold forever’ investors are snapping up venture capital ‘zombies’ thumbnail
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Why ‘hold forever’ investors are snapping up venture capital ‘zombies’

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Stablecoin issuer Paxos to acquire wallet startup Fordefi for more than $100 million thumbnail
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Stablecoin issuer Paxos to acquire wallet startup Fordefi for more than $100 million

Paxos, the veteran stablecoin and blockchain infrastructure firm, is leaning further into DeFi. On Tuesday, the company announced that it had acquired Fordefi,...

The Deadhead who became a $38 billion CEO: What HubSpot founder Brian Halligan learned from Jerry Garcia and passed on to his MIT students thumbnail
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The Deadhead who became a $38 billion CEO: What HubSpot founder Brian Halligan learned from Jerry Garcia and passed on to his MIT students

On one hot June day in 1985, a 17-year-old Brian Halligan walked out to a Cape Cod road, scrawled “Saratoga Springs” on a...

The next competitive edge in business? A new skill partnership between humans, agents, and robots thumbnail
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The next competitive edge in business? A new skill partnership between humans, agents, and robots

Major new technologies have always changed how people work—and artificial intelligence may be the most powerful yet. Many worry this means mass job...

Citi CFO Mark Mason has the CEO qualities for his next chapter, says former American Express chief thumbnail
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Citi CFO Mark Mason has the CEO qualities for his next chapter, says former American Express chief

Good morning. Citigroup CFO Mark Mason will step down from his post in early March 2026, the bank announced on Nov. 20, marking...

Bitcoin plunges while gold rises, destroying the crypto ‘safe haven’ narrative thumbnail
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Bitcoin plunges while gold rises, destroying the crypto ‘safe haven’ narrative

After a brief five-day rally, Bitcoin once again continued its downward plunge, losing another 1% between 7 p.m. ET last night and 6...

The rich are fleeing and our charities may be left holding the bill thumbnail
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The rich are fleeing and our charities may be left holding the bill

When Britain’s adopted steel king Lakshmi Mittal, gala-favourite philanthropist and one of the country’s most visible billionaire residents, quietly announced he was shifting...