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Why your boss loves AI and you hate it: Corporate profits are capturing your extra productivity, and your salary isn’t thumbnail
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Why your boss loves AI and you hate it: Corporate profits are capturing your extra productivity, and your salary isn’t

“Those who do not learn history are doomed to repeat it.” So said George Santayana, the Spanish-American philosopher who was a star Harvard...

Trump crackdown drives 80% plunge in immigrant employment, reshaping labor market, Goldman says thumbnail
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Trump crackdown drives 80% plunge in immigrant employment, reshaping labor market, Goldman says

A sweeping crackdown on immigration in President Donald Trump’s second term, characterized by elevated deportations and strict new visa bans, has precipitated an...

Billionaire Trump supporter blocks sale of Texas warehouse for use as ICE jail thumbnail
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Billionaire Trump supporter blocks sale of Texas warehouse for use as ICE jail

Rumors of an ICE detention center in a town in Texas have prompted a declarative response from a billionaire Trump supporter. The centers...

Jesse Jackson turned down a pro baseball contract that paid 6x less than a white player. Here’s how segregation shaped him thumbnail
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Jesse Jackson turned down a pro baseball contract that paid 6x less than a white player. Here’s how segregation shaped him

Holding hands with other prominent Black leaders, the Rev. Jesse Jackson crossed the Edmund Pettus bridge in Selma, Alabama, on March 9, 2025,...

CEO hopefuls have a new rival for the top job: their own board directors thumbnail
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CEO hopefuls have a new rival for the top job: their own board directors

Appointing board directors as CEOs was once a “break glass in case of emergency” strategy reserved for scandal, illness, or sudden resignation. While...

Billionaire founder of Minecraft slams anyone advocating using AI to write code as ‘incompetent or evil’ thumbnail
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Billionaire founder of Minecraft slams anyone advocating using AI to write code as ‘incompetent or evil’

Few tools have reshaped day-to-day work in tech as quickly as generative AI; coding tasks that once took developers days—or weeks—can now be...

Matt Shumer’s viral blog about AI’s looming impact on knowledge workers is based on flawed assumptions thumbnail
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Matt Shumer’s viral blog about AI’s looming impact on knowledge workers is based on flawed assumptions

AI Influencer Matt Shumer penned a viral blog on X about AI’s potential to disrupt, and ultimately automate, almost all knowledge work that...

One of Wall Street’s most feared hedge fund managers on the decline of the dollar: Gold is ‘becoming the reserve asset’ thumbnail
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One of Wall Street’s most feared hedge fund managers on the decline of the dollar: Gold is ‘becoming the reserve asset’

Gold blasted past $5,300 per ounce last month as President Donald Trump’s hawkish foreign policy and tariff threats sent investors to safer assets....

Instagram boss reveals he’s paid $900K per year plus stock worth ‘tens of millions of dollars’ as he denies ‘addiction’ claims thumbnail
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Instagram boss reveals he’s paid $900K per year plus stock worth ‘tens of millions of dollars’ as he denies ‘addiction’ claims

Head of Instagram Adam Mosseri’s compensation came under fire during the landmark social media addiction trial against its parent company, Meta, and YouTube...

Crypto lender BlockFills suspends withdrawals for clients in latest blow to the blockchain sector thumbnail
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Crypto lender BlockFills suspends withdrawals for clients in latest blow to the blockchain sector

BlockFills, a crypto trading platform, will temporarily prohibit customers from depositing and withdrawing funds. It is the latest sign of trouble for the...