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AI godfather Yann LeCun: Anthropic CEO deluded, doesn't understand cybersecurity
On Fortune’s radar today: AI ‘godfather’ Yann LeCun says Anthropic’s Dario Amodei is ‘deluded’ and ‘crazy.’ Diesel…
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AI 'godfather' LeCun has 'zero concerns' about human extinction
Yann LeCun, a Turing Award winner and AI pioneer, asserts that he has no concerns about artificial intelligence causing human extinction or significant rogue incidents. He attributes recent AI safety failures to poor…
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AI could make more companies worth hacking, Anthropic report suggests
As AI reduces the amount of expertise needed to conduct cyberattacks, it is widening the number of companies that…
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Data centers are swapping water for forever chemicals to keep AI cool
A new report indicates that major chemical producers are expanding PFAS production to meet rising demand from the AI…
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Sanders: "If AI is coming for workers, it should bring a 4-day workweek with it"
Bernie Sanders and Mark Takano have reintroduced the Thirty-Two Hour Workweek Act to lower the standard workweek for…
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Meta bet that AI would shrink its management ranks and is now rebuilding them
The move is reportedly voluntary and represents a notable shift for a company that has aggressively championed flatter…
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Nike exits the S&P 100 after 18 years and a $200B market-cap wipeout
One of the largest sports and athletic-wear companies of the modern day may be disappointing its namesake. Nike, the…
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Sam Altman addresses AI doomsday fears in new interview
Elon Musk’s p(doom) has hovered between 10% and 20%, while Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei’s has been slightly higher at…
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AI's profits are 'being funded by investors rather than earned from customers
“Is there an AI bubble?” is such a tired thought. Here’s something altogether more wired: The AI boom is paying off,…
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Former OpenAI exec Fidji Simo's company has analyzed 3,500 blood vials with AI
When Fidji Simo announced she was leaving her role as one of the most senior members of OpenAI’s leadership team after…
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AI's debt binge can't last, hidden borrowing reaches $1.65T
That means even more bond issuance is on the way after an already staggering debt orgy. The numbers paint a picture of…
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Anthropic launched an AI-run vending machine, stores and cafes within a year
What started as a modest experiment at Anthropic’s San Francisco office has become one of the more striking…
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Kalshi tiptoes back into canceled flight markets with JFK airport wager
In mid-July, Kalshi received approval from regulators to list a new type of event contract that would let anyone wager…
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OpenAI’s first hardware device debuted at $230. Now, it’s on eBay for $1,850
OpenAI’s foray into hardware has transfixed techies for more than a year, with speculation about the AI company’s…
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Sam Altman thinks the singularity is already here, but an expert says OpenAI’s Hugging Face breach doesn’t prove it
Sam Altman has spent years preparing the world for artificial intelligence that surpasses humans, a threshold known as…
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LeBron James took a pay cut to maybe live in New York and commute to Philly by chopper, risking double taxation as NYC also tries to ban helicopters
LeBron James is the NBA’s first and only active player to reach billionaire status. The Chosen One has four…
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A Nobel economist challenged Elon Musk to donate his entire $1T fortune by 2036. Musk’s reply: ‘I am actually going to do something along these lines’
The public has long questioned the world’s richest man, Elon Musk, about what he’s doing sitting on a trillion-dollar…
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Netanyahu blasts NYC Mayor Zohran Mamdani for ‘fomenting hate’ over ‘bogus’ Gaza war crimes charges
Israel’s Benjamin Netanyahu said he intends to be in New York in September to address the annual U.N. gathering of…
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Palantir spent $17.2 million flying its CEO Alex Karp around in 2025. It’s part of a private-jet boom sweeping the C-suite
You’ll probably never hear a plane-with-only-two-parachutes joke featuring a crying baby, a chatty grandma, and the…
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Elon Musk’s vision of a post-money future got mocked. Vinod Khosla warns it could become a dystopia instead
You want money for goods and services” — and once robots and AI generate more of both than any human could consume,…
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About half of Gen Z owe their friends more than $1,000, while nearly another half goes into debt to cover group expenses they expect to be repaid
The plans finally made it out of the group chat: one person covers the apartment rental, another covers dinner for two…
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A trove of users’ seemingly private conversations with Anthropic’s Claude AI chatbot showed up in Google search results
A trove of seemingly private conversations with Anthropic’s Claude chatbot turned up in public Google search results…
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AI cracks yet another century-old problem
On Sunday afternoon, while the rest of the world’s eyes were glued to the World Cup final, an AI model resolved a…
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The Strait of Hormuz isn’t fertilizer’s first starring role — and 1856 law still defines U.S. overseas territory
That history is about more than scientific innovation or agricultural progress. It also reveals the hidden costs of…
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Why did a $154 billion CEO just endorse stripping most Americans of voting rights—and taking us back to the 19th century?
The proposal would invert the founding American principle of “no taxation without representation” into something…
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Canadian intern at NATO’s military headquarters arrested on espionage charges
Authorities then detained “a Canadian citizen of Chinese origin” on Friday, a day after raiding the suspect’s home and…
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U.S. and Iran edge toward talks as Hormuz shipping hits three-week low, regional officials say
Mediators have achieved progress in getting the United States and Iran back to negotiations, regional officials said…
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Canada’s awkward tariff summer: Gordie Howe Bridge opens for traffic a week after Michigan and White House officials got uninvited
U.S. and Michigan representatives were uninvited from Friday’s gathering after President Donald Trump suddenly…
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‘It looked like the apocalypse’: France’s summer of deadly heat turns into a wildfire that is making its own lightning
A raging wildfire in southwest France forced the evacuation of 55,000 people overnight Sunday, bringing the total…
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Capital One’s MLB partnership is turning fan experiences into long-term customer value
Sports sponsorships have evolved far beyond logo placement. The festival atmosphere—complete with food vendors, player…
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Small businesses immediately sue Trump over new tariff regime
Trump’s tariffs are headed to court — again.Recommended Video Two lawsuits filed by small businesses are challenging…
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After Trump launched war on Iran, hiked inflation through tariffs, Johnson labels election ‘common sense vs. communism’
“I only know a dysfunctional Congress,” said Rep. The Democrat said it’s best to campaign on his own record delivering…
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Apple’s next CEO helped build its hardware empire. Now he has to find its next breakthrough
Incoming CEO John Ternus spent years building the credentials that could put him at the helm of Apple: engineering…
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Europe’s employers face a new challenge—keeping workers safe during heatwaves
Crippling droughts in Africa’s Sahel region, flash floods in Southeast Asia, sweeping bushfires in Australia, melting…
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How an ex-AWS scientist plans to take on OpenAI and Meta in voice AI models
A former distinguished scientist at Amazon and a leading machine learning researcher, he launched Boson after…
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Current price of oil as of July 27, 2026
Eastern Time today, oil sold for $90.43 per barrel (using Brent as the benchmark, which we’ll get into momentarily).…
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StubHub CEO Eric Baker is under scrutiny for enabling mass scalpers on his ticket reselling platform
In today’s CEO Daily: StubHub CEO Eric Baker’s hedge fund ties are raising questions The big leadership story: Trump…
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One-third of Seattle’s downtown is empty: Here’s how America’s boomtown turned into one of the toughest places to find a job
A decade ago, Seattle was the poster child of American tech prosperity. The story of Seattle’s reversal unfolds in…
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Greenhouse CEO says job seekers are paying $20 to apply for every job on the hiring platform and spamming bosses—he calls it the AI doom loop
Tired of shooting résumés into the void and getting ghosted, many have started paying for AI tools that blast their…
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New York City women are making up to $30,000 per month by renting out their closets to strangers
When Kat Friday, a revenue operations employee at financial technology firm Marqeta, first came across Pickle on…
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Amazon and Microsoft are spending $400 billion on AI—and investors are low on patience
The horse race between Amazon and Microsoft’s cloud computing businesses has gone through various phases over its…
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Money usually wins elections. Billionaires have already poured $433 million into the 2026 midterms—and 80% of it is going to Republicans
The group found the 50 biggest-spending billionaire families had funneled $344.3 million, or about 79%, to Republican…
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China is using the steel playbook on AI — and America’s tech billionaires are standing in the blast zone
In both eras, the winners controlled the infrastructure layer — mines, mills and railroads then; chips, clouds, AI…
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AI and the ‘skinny hamburger, fat bun’ problem — why the future of work needs to look more like a pizza
George Leimer recognized it immediately.Recommended Video On a recent call with the Yahoo Finance product chief, I…
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Kospi index and U.S. stock futures jump as new Hormuz talks send oil prices plunging amid Iran war pause while Wall Street awaits Fed meeting
Investors were bullish on Sunday evening as the U.S. and Iran continued to halt their attacks on each other, providing…
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U.S. appeals court upholds block on Trump’s order to create a federal list of eligible voters and limit mail-in ballots only to people on that list
A federal appeals court has upheld a ruling that in nearly half of U.S. states halted President Donald Trump’s…
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U.S. troops killed recently were moved from the Iran war death toll to ‘overseas operations’ after the Pentagon claimed ‘temporary data disruptions’
The Defense Casualty Analysis System, which Pentagon officials have repeatedly pointed to as the definitive source on…
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China’s Moonshot, Z.AI, and DeepSeek are challenging U.S. AI labs—and beating them on cost
Moonshot AI’s latest model didn’t just live up to the hype—it raised the stakes. On July 16, Moonshot debuted Kimi K3,…
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Mideast oil may soon have no way out amid ‘everything everywhere all at once’ wars, but the crisis in refined products is even worse
Fighting across the oil-producing world is catching up with energy markets, which could soon be choked off by multiple…
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Traders are getting a new tool to wager on the biggest U.S. stocks
Investors will soon have another way to bet on the hottest stocks from Nvidia Corp. to SpaceX, without trading a…
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