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Zoom is giving away $150K to ‘solopreneurs’ with no strings attached—as 33 million workers ditch their 9-to-5 to become their own boss | Fortune
As AI threatens to wipe out jobs, the American dream—stable employment, a clear ladder to climb, and a company to…
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While the U.S. and Iran remain mired in a stalemate of ever-evolving ceasefires, the Strait of Hormuz energy chokepoint at…
The national debt is the same size as the economy. It’s a ‘disturbing warning and a call to action,’ watchdog says | Fortune
Six months before Election Day, America’s $39 trillion national debt has moved from an abstract fiscal concern to a dinner-table…
The debt crisis Congress has been ignoring could cost the average U.S. household $18,000 a year, according to a Brookings analysis | Fortune
An excellent new study from the non-partisan Brookings Institution provides an ultra-sobering view of the potential tax increase U.S. families…
The uncomfortable truth about AI and the American worker | Fortune
Surveys consistently show that workers dread artificial intelligence. They worry it will render their skills obsolete, hollow out their roles,…
‘The cost of compute is far beyond the costs of the employees’: Nvidia exec says right now AI is more expensive than paying human workers | Fortune
The recent tech layoffs would initially appear to indicate the great labor shift from human workers to AI may already…
DOJ uses White House correspondents’ dinner shooting to pressure preservations to drop lawsuit over Trump’s $400 million ballroom | Fortune
President Donald Trump’s Justice Department is using the shooting at the White House Correspondents’ Dinner on Saturday to try to pressure preservationists…
Trump says shooting by ‘would-be assassin’ points to need for White House ballroom as questions are raised about security at correspondents dinner | Fortune
President Donald Trump faced the risk of yet another potential assassination attempt on Saturday after a gunmen fired shots outside…
Even as businesses spend $4 million to cross Panama Canal, they say ‘it’s safer and less expensive’ than the Strait of Hormuz | Fortune
Businesses have doled out as much as $4 million for last-minute plans to move boats through the Panama Canal in recent weeks,…
Intel CEO Lip Bu Tan crushed Wall Street targets on his 1-year anniversary: We are embracing our ‘paranoid’ roots | Fortune
Intel has spent the last few years trying to reinvent itself and prove it’s still relevant in an AI-centric world…