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Dorsey’s Block cutting up to 10% of staff in efficiency push thumbnail
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Dorsey’s Block cutting up to 10% of staff in efficiency push

Jack Dorsey’s Block Inc. has been notifying hundreds of employees that their jobs may be eliminated during annual performance reviews as the payments...

The Super Bowl made scarcity its superpower thumbnail
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The Super Bowl made scarcity its superpower

What if you threw a party and only 125 million came? This year’s Super Bowl pits two low-wattage teams in a rematch from...

ICE protests, Bad Bunny flip script on Trump’s midterms playbook thumbnail
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ICE protests, Bad Bunny flip script on Trump’s midterms playbook

Republicans are increasingly nervous that President Donald Trump’s slipping support on immigration and the economy — two key issues that helped him win...

Malaysia’s economy minister sees 2026 as a year of ‘execution’ as Anwar administration tries to lock in policy gains thumbnail
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Malaysia’s economy minister sees 2026 as a year of ‘execution’ as Anwar administration tries to lock in policy gains

Malaysia sees 2026 as a year of “execution” and “discipline,” the country’s economy minister said, as the Anwar Ibrahim administration tries to rack...

We may be looking at the housing affordability crisis all wrong. Higher earners are driving home prices, not lack of supply, researchers say thumbnail
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We may be looking at the housing affordability crisis all wrong. Higher earners are driving home prices, not lack of supply, researchers say

Economists, lawmakers, and Wall Street have long preached the need to increase housing supply to improve affordability, but it may not be that...

Devon Energy CEO: ‘Stars align’ to acquire Coterra for nearly $26 billion as merger mania returns to the oilfield thumbnail
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Devon Energy CEO: ‘Stars align’ to acquire Coterra for nearly $26 billion as merger mania returns to the oilfield

U.S. shale producer Devon Energy will acquire Coterra Energy for nearly $26 billion in a combination that creates a domestic oil and gas...

Meet Matt Schlicht, the man behind AI’s latest Pandora’s box—a social network where AI agents talk to one another thumbnail
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Meet Matt Schlicht, the man behind AI’s latest Pandora’s box—a social network where AI agents talk to one another

Meet Matt Schlicht, a technologist living in a small town south of Los Angeles who has inadvertently cracked open a digital Pandora’s box....

Oracle said it was ‘highly confident in OpenAI’s ability to raise funds and meet its commitments.’ Cue the stock fall thumbnail
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Oracle said it was ‘highly confident in OpenAI’s ability to raise funds and meet its commitments.’ Cue the stock fall

Oracle opened the day higher on plans to raise $50 billion for AI infrastructure. It closed lower after reminding investors who that infrastructure...

Elon Musk’s SpaceX buys xAI in stunning deal valued at $1.25 trillion ahead of looming IPO thumbnail
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Elon Musk’s SpaceX buys xAI in stunning deal valued at $1.25 trillion ahead of looming IPO

Elon Musk’s rocket company SpaceX has acquired xAI, the artificial intelligence firm founded by Musk three years ago, in a massive, and unconventional,...

‘We are an n of 1’: Palantir hails ‘incredible’ earnings as stock rockets nearly 8% after hours thumbnail
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‘We are an n of 1’: Palantir hails ‘incredible’ earnings as stock rockets nearly 8% after hours

Palantir Technologies declared, “We are an n of 1” in the artificial intelligence software market on Monday, as the data analytics group reported yet another...