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Inflation and the price of your vacation: Where your dollar stretches more in 2025—and where it doesn’t

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It might surprise you to learn which parts of your vacation spending inflation has made more or less expensive over ...

OpenAI’s DeepResearch can complete 26% of ‘Humanity’s Last Exam’ — a benchmark for the frontier of human knowledge

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OpenAI’s o1 and DeepSeek’s R1 models, which previously sat atop the leaderboard, could only get through roughly 9% of the ...

Eric Schmidt warns west to focus on open-source AI in competition with China

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Former Google chief’s caution comes following Chinese start-up DeepSeek’s breakthrough

Super Micro’s finance chief — who is leaving as soon as the company can hire someone more experienced — said delinquent financial filings were ‘a distraction’ 

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Super Micro CEO Charles Liang refused to address the company’s delinquent financials but said he expects to reach $40 billion ...

Can Trump make bitcoin useful?

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The US president is embracing the cryptocurrency, exciting enthusiasts and concerning sceptics

Jupiter turns to active ETF to entice investors

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Move seeks to counter drift from more traditional active funds

EU weighs temporary gas price cap to counter diverging costs with US

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Proposal draws backlash from industry, warning it could damage ‘trust’

UK accountants push to end fees cap for ESG work from companies they audit

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Body says regulation shuts firms out of lucrative quality assurance business

Banks to lobby Reeves to clear path for hiring of top foreign talent

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Chancellor’s meeting with financial services groups expected to focus on visas, regulation and tax

The great climate disconnect

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New attempts to prolong the fossil fuel era have come at precisely the wrong time

Hong Kong’s latest bubble tea IPO mints another billionaire

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Guming Holdings’ $233 million HK IPO bolstered the value of the stake owned by its millennial founder, Yun’an Wang, to ...

Commonwealth Bank of Australia CEO sees weak private sector

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“Private sector growth is weak, immigration is starting to slow and geopolitical uncertainties remain.” Read More

China’s Ne Zha 2 becomes first movie to break $1 billion in a single market, overtaking Star Wars

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“I used to prefer Western animation, like Disney and Pixar. But now, Chinese animation is getting stronger,” one Chinese media ...

China’s tech stocks enter bull market after DeepSeek breakthrough

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Budget AI model triggers global reappraisal of Chinese technology companies

CATL files for Hong Kong listing that could raise $5 billion

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The long-awaited filing by CATL, as the world’s top electric-vehicle battery maker is known, comes amid a rally in Hong ...

Elon Musk’s OpenAI bid creates a legal maze and investor uncertainty—which is probably just what he wants

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Elon Musk’s $97.4 billion bid for OpenAI’s nonprofit assets has ignited a legal and financial showdown. Read More

Trump directs federal job cuts as Musk defends downsizing

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The reduction in force is the latest strategy Trump has employed — with the help of Musk — to reshape ...

Reeves faces having to cut spending or raise taxes as UK growth disappoints

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Chancellor’s headroom against her key budget rule has been wiped out, according to preliminary forecasts by watchdog

A 66-year-old teacher served a 14-year prison sentence in Russia for having medically prescribed marijuana. Now he’s coming home to his family

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“This has been the darkest and most painful period of our lives, but today, we begin to heal,” his family ...

Experts say these 2 common mistakes are ruining your sleep. Here are healthy habits to adopt instead

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An IKEA global sleep study found a shared desire for more rest. Here’s how to get it. Read More

How AI agents represent the next big shift in the workforce

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Organizations need a way to manage the digital workforce. Read More

3 leadership lessons that can help you raise successful kids, from an Ivy League business professor

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Research on what makes someone inspiring has led to three insights that are equally applicable to parenthood. Read More

Judge tells CDC, FDA to restore webpages and data removed after Trump’s executive order

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The judge concluded that the harm in this case ultimately trickles down to “everyday Americans” seeking doctors’ care. Read More

Steve Bannon pleads guilty to border wall scam that defrauded people out of millions

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The campaign, launched after Trump fired Bannon in 2018, raised over $20 million for a border wall that turned out ...

Does Trump’s penny plan make cents? How ditching the hated coin would affect consumers

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President Donald Trump promised to penny pinch the federal budget if re-elected. Turns out he meant that literally. Read More

Trader Joe’s is cracking down on egg hoarding—allowing only one carton per customer

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“We hope these limits will help to ensure that as many of our customers who need eggs are able to ...

The U.S. is battling its worst flu season in at least 28 years. Here are the latest symptoms and where cases are skyrocketing

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If you’re feeling under the weather but brushing it off as just a cold, you might consider taking a flu ...

Trump insists Palestinians are ‘going to be in love with’ America’s transformation of Gaza into a tourist destination: ‘We’re not going to buy anything. We’re going to have it’

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The president hosted Jordan’s King Abdullah II at the White House on Tuesday and renewed his insistence that Gaza could be ...

Sam Altman says former friend Elon Musk isn’t a happy guy: ‘Probably his whole life is from a position of insecurity’

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Musk is suing Altman and OpenAI because the company allegedly diverged from its nonprofit founding principles. Read More

JPMorgan Chase workers launch petition to halt 5 day back-to-office rule

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The petition comes as some bank workers push to form a union. Read More