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Home Depot’s $730 million tariff refund was largely offset by rising costs

Home Depot’s $730 million tariff refund was largely off...

Home Depot, Amazon, and Walmart are taking very different approaches to the tari...

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Even potato-chip tasters are temporary in the economy of 2026 — there’s nearly 57 million of these ‘disposable workers’

Even potato-chip tasters are temporary in the economy o...

MIT labor economist Paul Osterman tracks them in his new book, “Disposable Worke...

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Also’s $3,500 e-bike is a $1 billion Trojan horse for autonomous transportation

Also’s $3,500 e-bike is a $1 billion Trojan horse for a...

The Rivian spinoff just raised $150 million to build autonomous vehicles for mov...

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Unitree, famous for its dancing robots, surges by 460% on its trading debut, lifting valuation to $66 billion, far ahead of U.S. competitors

Unitree, famous for its dancing robots, surges by 460% ...

The Hangzhou-based startup, founded in 2016, has quickly become something akin t...

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Exclusive: Replit taps OpenAI’s low-cost Luna model for new ‘Free Mode’

Exclusive: Replit taps OpenAI’s low-cost Luna model for...

An 80% reduction in the cost of tokens for OpenAI's Luna allowed Replit to roll ...

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AI fears are fueling the ‘handmade’ branding trend

AI fears are fueling the ‘handmade’ branding trend

By now you’ve probably already noticed it in some of the brands you use daily—“h...

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I measured my brain during one of the hardest business trips of my year. Here’s what I learned about performance

I measured my brain during one of the hardest business ...

Last month, I traveled through three countries and multiple time zones, packing ...

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Leadership lessons from America’s fastest-growing private companies and news from the new Susan G. Komen CEO

Leadership lessons from America’s fastest-growing priva...

Hello and welcome to Modern CEO! I’m Stephanie Mehta, CEO and chief content offi...

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Are you invisible to AI? Here’s how to check

Are you invisible to AI? Here’s how to check

Since the onset of the internet, brands have been fighting to optimize their spo...

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A popular ice cream brand sold at Walmart and Kroger files for bankruptcy after ‘trade dress’ lawsuit

A popular ice cream brand sold at Walmart and Kroger fi...

A years-long lawsuit between two ice cream brands, Van Leeuwen Ice Cream and Reb...

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‘The great quantum migration’ is coming as more than $2 trillion in digital assets is at risk—nearly the entire value of the overall crypto market

‘The great quantum migration’ is coming as more than $2...

According to Quantus CEO Christoper Smith, digital assets are secured by ellipti...

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Before employers shift more healthcare costs to workers, they should ask hospitals a question

Before employers shift more healthcare costs to workers...

Healthcare is a growing operating expense and, per Mercer data, roughly three-qu...

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Nobel laureate Daron Acemoglu says AI and liberal democracy share the same crisis: ‘there is a tendency to escalate everything’

Nobel laureate Daron Acemoglu says AI and liberal democ...

"It's become sort of radical to hold two apparently conflicting ideas in your he...

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The ‘manosphere’ is actually a multibillion-dollar industry that sells courses and supplements to insecure Gen Z men, report finds

The ‘manosphere’ is actually a multibillion-dollar indu...

“In the very real moment of confusion…there is an industry of platforms, influen...

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AI is creating a new wave of philanthropists. The system they’re walking into is broken

AI is creating a new wave of philanthropists. The syste...

Sometime in the near future, a significant portion of the people building today'...

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The creative economy’s greatest competitive advantage

The creative economy’s greatest competitive advantage

Today, most of the conversations about the future of the creative industries hav...