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<dc:rights>Copyright 2026. The Business Economic &#45; All Rights Reserved.</dc:rights>

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<title>Jeff Bezos’s Physical AI Startup Prometheus Raises $12B at $41B Valuation</title>
<link>https://thebusinesseconomic.com/jeff-bezoss-physical-ai-startup-prometheus-raises-12b-at-41b-valuation</link>
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<description><![CDATA[ Prometheus, the physical AI startup co-founded by Jeff Bezos and former Verily co-founder Vik Bajaj, has raised $12 billion at a $41 billion valuation from investors including JPMorgan Chase, Goldman Sachs, and BlackRock, bringing total funding to more than $18 billion since the company launched late last year. The company is building what it describes […] ]]></description>
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<pubDate>Sun, 14 Jun 2026 21:30:42 +0000</pubDate>
<dc:creator>Tomas Kauer - News Writer and Moderator</dc:creator>
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<title>United Professionals 50™ Launches Global Search for the World&amp;apos;s Top Digital &amp;amp; Innovation Professionals</title>
<link>https://thebusinesseconomic.com/united-professionals-50-launches-global-search-for-the-worlds-top-digital-innovation-professionals</link>
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<description><![CDATA[ A Worldwide Recognition Program Celebrating Visionaries, Innovators, AI Leaders, Entrepreneurs, Creators, and Digital Pioneers Shaping the Future ]]></description>
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<pubDate>Sun, 14 Jun 2026 19:45:49 +0000</pubDate>
<dc:creator>Tomas Kauer - News Writer and Moderator</dc:creator>
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<title>Where to find green small business grants</title>
<link>https://thebusinesseconomic.com/where-to-find-green-small-business-grants</link>
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<description><![CDATA[ By Anna Jordan on Small Business UK - Advice and Ideas for UK Small Businesses and SMEs


If you fancy making your business and its operations that bit greener, these eco business grants will help you get there
The post Where to find green small business grants appeared first on Small Business UK. ]]></description>
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<pubDate>Sun, 14 Jun 2026 14:00:16 +0000</pubDate>
<dc:creator>Business Economic Syndicated News</dc:creator>
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<title>How to get a business loan in 5 steps</title>
<link>https://thebusinesseconomic.com/how-to-get-a-business-loan-in-5-steps</link>
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<description><![CDATA[ By Tim Adler on Small Business UK - Advice and Ideas for UK Small Businesses and SMEs


Follow this 5-step plan if you want to secure a loan for your small business. There is a wealth of high-street banks and alternative SME lenders to choose from
The post How to get a business loan in 5 steps appeared first on Small Business UK. ]]></description>
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<pubDate>Sun, 14 Jun 2026 14:00:15 +0000</pubDate>
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<media:keywords>How, get, business, loan, steps</media:keywords>
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<title>What documents do you need when applying for a business loan?</title>
<link>https://thebusinesseconomic.com/what-documents-do-you-need-when-applying-for-a-business-loan</link>
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<description><![CDATA[ By Adam Parker on Small Business UK - Advice and Ideas for UK Small Businesses and SMEs


Different lenders require different business loan documents. Get prepared with this business loan checklist
The post What documents do you need when applying for a business loan? appeared first on Small Business UK. ]]></description>
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<pubDate>Sun, 14 Jun 2026 14:00:14 +0000</pubDate>
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<title>The Big Switch Off guide: What you need to know</title>
<link>https://thebusinesseconomic.com/the-big-switch-off-guide-what-you-need-to-know</link>
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<description><![CDATA[ By Henry Williams on Small Business UK - Advice and Ideas for UK Small Businesses and SMEs


The post The Big Switch Off guide: What you need to know appeared first on Small Business UK. ]]></description>
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<pubDate>Sun, 14 Jun 2026 14:00:13 +0000</pubDate>
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<title>Running your small business – essential guide</title>
<link>https://thebusinesseconomic.com/running-your-small-business-essential-guide</link>
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<description><![CDATA[ By Henry Williams on Small Business UK - Advice and Ideas for UK Small Businesses and SMEs


Running a small business is never easy but this checklist will help you stay on top of day-to-day operations
The post Running your small business – essential guide appeared first on Small Business UK. ]]></description>
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<pubDate>Sun, 14 Jun 2026 14:00:12 +0000</pubDate>
<dc:creator>Business Economic Syndicated News</dc:creator>
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<title>Xebia: Why AI agents fail without the right data foundation</title>
<link>https://thebusinesseconomic.com/xebia-why-ai-agents-fail-without-the-right-data-foundation</link>
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<description><![CDATA[ If your remit is to help your organisation add AI agents to accelerate its processes, you have to start at the foundation – and that means making your data available for AI consumption. Agentic AI scales on data strength, as Niels Zeilemaker, global CTO at Xebia, explains. “If you don’t think about that, you can […]
The post Xebia: Why AI agents fail without the right data foundation appeared first on AI News. ]]></description>
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<pubDate>Sun, 14 Jun 2026 14:00:08 +0000</pubDate>
<dc:creator>Tomas Kauer - News Writer and Moderator</dc:creator>
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<title>Visa ChatGPT integration enables AI agent retail purchasing</title>
<link>https://thebusinesseconomic.com/visa-chatgpt-integration-enables-ai-agent-retail-purchasing</link>
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<description><![CDATA[ Visa has linked its payment infrastructure to ChatGPT, enabling AI agents to recommend retail products and execute financial transactions. The deployment removes human intervention from the final stages of the retail funnel. Autonomous agents will now process user prompts, evaluate merchant catalogues, and complete the checkout process using Visa’s payment rails at any supporting merchant. […]
The post Visa ChatGPT integration enables AI agent retail purchasing appeared first on AI News. ]]></description>
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<pubDate>Sun, 14 Jun 2026 14:00:07 +0000</pubDate>
<dc:creator>Tomas Kauer - News Writer and Moderator</dc:creator>
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<title>Coinbase for Agents: Automating portfolio trading with AI</title>
<link>https://thebusinesseconomic.com/coinbase-for-agents-automating-portfolio-trading-with-ai</link>
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<description><![CDATA[ Coinbase for Agents connects AI to financial execution channels to automate trading and payments directly from user portfolios. Large language models process vast quantities of data but lack direct integration with active financial portfolios. Individuals frequently employ these models to evaluate market developments or research investment opportunities. These software tools possess the capacity for complex […]
The post Coinbase for Agents: Automating portfolio trading with AI appeared first on AI News. ]]></description>
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<pubDate>Sun, 14 Jun 2026 14:00:06 +0000</pubDate>
<dc:creator>Tomas Kauer - News Writer and Moderator</dc:creator>
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<title>How Fashion Becomes  — on Personal Style Harmony</title>
<link>https://thebusinesseconomic.com/how-fashion-becomes-on-personal-style-harmony</link>
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<description><![CDATA[ NOUBI SAYS:  In dealing with your particular style,  your body is dependent on your personality just as any part of your body is dependent on the rest of your clothing. The relationship of your personality, body, and clothing must be in harmony as a whole for the best result.   Because we tend to read clothing messages only as a harmonious whole according to what we know as our standard. ]]></description>
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<pubDate>Sun, 14 Jun 2026 14:00:05 +0000</pubDate>
<dc:creator>Noubi Says -  By Noubikko</dc:creator>
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<title>The Power of Image in a Split Second</title>
<link>https://thebusinesseconomic.com/the-power-of-image-in-a-split-second</link>
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<description><![CDATA[ “Whether it’s fair or not, clothing has become the first clue absorbed by the eye before the brain begins to judge,” says Noubikko. “Everything else—intellect, personality, attitude—comes second.” ]]></description>
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<pubDate>Sun, 14 Jun 2026 14:00:05 +0000</pubDate>
<dc:creator>Noubi Says -  By Noubikko</dc:creator>
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<title>“The Art of Presence” — as a Strategy for Success</title>
<link>https://thebusinesseconomic.com/the-art-of-presence-as-a-strategy-for-success</link>
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<description><![CDATA[ In a world where first impressions are formed in seconds, Noubikko introduces a powerful new visual and editorial concept: “The Art of Presence: Dressing for the Interview.” More than a style guide, it is a philosophy—one that positions personal presentation as a decisive advantage in a competitive professional landscape. ]]></description>
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<pubDate>Sun, 14 Jun 2026 14:00:04 +0000</pubDate>
<dc:creator>Noubi Says -  By Noubikko</dc:creator>
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<title>How To Dress With POWER, AND INTENTION</title>
<link>https://thebusinesseconomic.com/how-to-dress-with-power-and-intention</link>
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<description><![CDATA[ In a world driven by first impressions and instant judgments, clothing has become more than style—it is identity, influence, and opportunity. The message is clear and urgent: if you are not intentionally shaping how you present yourself, the world will decide for you. ]]></description>
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<pubDate>Sun, 14 Jun 2026 14:00:04 +0000</pubDate>
<dc:creator>Noubi Says -  By Noubikko</dc:creator>
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<title>Empower Confidence Through Smart Camouflage</title>
<link>https://thebusinesseconomic.com/empower-confidence-through-smart-camouflage</link>
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<description><![CDATA[ At the heart of the philosophy is a simple yet transformative truth: every individual is a blend of strengths and imperfections. Rather than striving for unattainable ideals, Noubikko emphasizes the art of highlighting one’s best features while subtly minimizing perceived flaws through thoughtful wardrobe choices. ]]></description>
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<pubDate>Sun, 14 Jun 2026 14:00:04 +0000</pubDate>
<dc:creator>Noubi Says -  By Noubikko</dc:creator>
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<title> Not Just Interior Design. It&amp;apos;s Fashion for Your Space</title>
<link>https://thebusinesseconomic.com/not-just-interior-design-its-fashion-for-your-space</link>
<guid>https://thebusinesseconomic.com/not-just-interior-design-its-fashion-for-your-space</guid>
<description><![CDATA[ When you choose Noubikko Interiors, you’re not just decorating a room — You’re dressing it in confidence, luxury, and timeless elegance. ]]></description>
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<pubDate>Sun, 14 Jun 2026 14:00:04 +0000</pubDate>
<dc:creator>Noubi Says -  By Noubikko</dc:creator>
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<title>Feng Shui&#45;Inspired Interiors in Its Maximum Format</title>
<link>https://thebusinesseconomic.com/feng-shui-inspired-interiors-in-its-maximum-format</link>
<guid>https://thebusinesseconomic.com/feng-shui-inspired-interiors-in-its-maximum-format</guid>
<description><![CDATA[ Noubikko’s Secret is exposed:  Feng Shui Integration That Reflects the Modern Lifestyle ]]></description>
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<pubDate>Sun, 14 Jun 2026 14:00:04 +0000</pubDate>
<dc:creator>Noubi Says -  By Noubikko</dc:creator>
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<title>Guide to Effortless Style and Smart Living</title>
<link>https://thebusinesseconomic.com/guide-to-effortless-style-and-smart-living</link>
<guid>https://thebusinesseconomic.com/guide-to-effortless-style-and-smart-living</guid>
<description><![CDATA[ Investing in a cohesive basic wardrobe is more cost-effective and impactful than accumulating disconnected statement pieces. By curating essentials that work together, individuals can reduce expenses while elevating their overall image. ]]></description>
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<dc:creator>Noubi Says -  By Noubikko</dc:creator>
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<title>Carrying a Bag Is Brilliantly Useful</title>
<link>https://thebusinesseconomic.com/carrying-a-bag-is-brilliantly-useful</link>
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<dc:creator>Noubi Says -  By Noubikko</dc:creator>
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<title>Difference Between a Stylish Man and a Fashion Victim</title>
<link>https://thebusinesseconomic.com/difference-between-a-stylish-man-and-a-fashion-victim</link>
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<description><![CDATA[ There is a very thin line between looking stylish and looking like you lost a bet with a designer. Modern fashion is dangerous that way. ]]></description>
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<dc:creator>Noubi Says -  By Noubikko</dc:creator>
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<title>Meta’s months&#45;old AI unit is a soul&#45;crushing gulag, say the engineers stuck inside it</title>
<link>https://thebusinesseconomic.com/metas-months-old-ai-unit-is-a-soul-crushing-gulag-say-the-engineers-stuck-inside-it</link>
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<description><![CDATA[ A new report suggests the unit, which employs 6,500 people, is on the verge of revolt. ]]></description>
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<pubDate>Sat, 13 Jun 2026 14:00:08 +0000</pubDate>
<dc:creator>Tomas Kauer - News Writer and Moderator</dc:creator>
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<title>SpaceX IPO: Live updates on everything you need to know</title>
<link>https://thebusinesseconomic.com/spacex-ipo-live-updates-on-everything-you-need-to-know</link>
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<description><![CDATA[ TechCrunch has followed SpaceX&#039;s start, struggles, and successes from the early days. And we&#039;re here for what happens next too. This package of SpaceX IPO coverage includes who stands to win (and maybe some who won&#039;t), pre-IPO deals, and what&#039;s tucked inside its S-1 registration document. ]]></description>
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<pubDate>Sat, 13 Jun 2026 14:00:08 +0000</pubDate>
<dc:creator>Tomas Kauer - News Writer and Moderator</dc:creator>
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<title>Anthropic’s safety warnings may have just backfired — the government has pulled the plug on its most powerful AI</title>
<link>https://thebusinesseconomic.com/anthropics-safety-warnings-may-have-just-backfired-the-government-has-pulled-the-plug-on-its-most-powerful-ai</link>
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<description><![CDATA[ Anthropic isn&#039;t hiding its frustration. &quot;We disagree that the finding of a narrow potential jailbreak should be cause for recalling a commercial model deployed to hundreds of millions of people,&quot; the company wrote in a blog post. ]]></description>
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<pubDate>Sat, 13 Jun 2026 14:00:08 +0000</pubDate>
<dc:creator>Tomas Kauer - News Writer and Moderator</dc:creator>
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<title>Andrew Yang thinks the next big startup opportunity is lowering the cost of living</title>
<link>https://thebusinesseconomic.com/andrew-yang-thinks-the-next-big-startup-opportunity-is-lowering-the-cost-of-living</link>
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<description><![CDATA[ Andrew Yang made a list of everything Americans overpay for — housing, food, wireless — and thinks the next startup gold rush is giving that money back. ]]></description>
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<dc:creator>Tomas Kauer - News Writer and Moderator</dc:creator>
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<title>The FBI built its own replica small town to simulate real&#45;world cyberattacks</title>
<link>https://thebusinesseconomic.com/the-fbi-built-its-own-replica-small-town-to-simulate-real-world-cyberattacks</link>
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<description><![CDATA[ Hidden inside a building in Alabama, the FBI has created its own small town as a dedicated cyber training ground for simulating cyberattacks. ]]></description>
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<pubDate>Sat, 13 Jun 2026 14:00:07 +0000</pubDate>
<dc:creator>Tomas Kauer - News Writer and Moderator</dc:creator>
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<title>Jamie Dimon says remote work breeds ‘rope&#45;a&#45;dope politics’ and stunts young workers’ growth</title>
<link>https://thebusinesseconomic.com/jamie-dimon-says-remote-work-breeds-rope-a-dope-politics-and-stunts-young-workers-growth</link>
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<description><![CDATA[ Jamie Dimon said younger workers are not fully engaged if they work remotely, adding they won’t be as well-developed because remote work doesn’t foster learning on the job. ]]></description>
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<dc:creator>Tomas Kauer</dc:creator>
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<title>CEO of $20 billion AI firm Perplexity says the secret to success is ‘sleeping with that fear’ that your competitor will steal your idea</title>
<link>https://thebusinesseconomic.com/ceo-of-20-billion-ai-firm-perplexity-says-the-secret-to-success-is-sleeping-with-that-fear-that-your-competitor-will-steal-your-idea</link>
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<description><![CDATA[ Rather than letting that pressure paralyze him, Aravind Srinivas, the cofounder and CEO of Perplexity, uses it as fuel. ]]></description>
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<title>Melinda French Gates’ advice to new IPO millionaires: ‘Give half your money away’</title>
<link>https://thebusinesseconomic.com/melinda-french-gates-advice-to-new-ipo-millionaires-give-half-your-money-away</link>
<guid>https://thebusinesseconomic.com/melinda-french-gates-advice-to-new-ipo-millionaires-give-half-your-money-away</guid>
<description><![CDATA[ SpaceX, OpenAI, and Anthropic IPOs are about to mint a new generation of millionaires and billionaires—who will have to decide what to do with their money. ]]></description>
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<dc:creator>Tomas Kauer</dc:creator>
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<title>America just committed $1.2 trillion to fix its infrastructure. We’re still flying blind</title>
<link>https://thebusinesseconomic.com/america-just-committed-12-trillion-to-fix-its-infrastructure-were-still-flying-blind</link>
<guid>https://thebusinesseconomic.com/america-just-committed-12-trillion-to-fix-its-infrastructure-were-still-flying-blind</guid>
<description><![CDATA[ A data center secretly drained 29 million gallons from a drought-stricken Georgia county. Digital twins could have caught it in real time. ]]></description>
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<dc:creator>Tomas Kauer</dc:creator>
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<title>I spent 8 years flood&#45;proofing a city. Capital markets are running out of time to take El Niño seriously</title>
<link>https://thebusinesseconomic.com/i-spent-8-years-flood-proofing-a-city-capital-markets-are-running-out-of-time-to-take-el-nino-seriously</link>
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<description><![CDATA[ Federal forecasters put the odds of a strong El Niño this winter at two in three. The bigger story isn&#039;t the weather. ]]></description>
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<title>First 7 Seconds: How Men Are Judged Before They Speak</title>
<link>https://thebusinesseconomic.com/first-7-seconds-how-men-are-judged-before-they-speak</link>
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<description><![CDATA[ A man walks into a room. Before he says a single word, before he introduces himself and before anyone knows his job, education, or bank account, the judging has already started. ]]></description>
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<pubDate>Fri, 12 Jun 2026 14:00:08 +0000</pubDate>
<dc:creator>Business Economic Syndicated News</dc:creator>
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<title>Gentleman’s Guide to Wearing White Without Looking Flashy</title>
<link>https://thebusinesseconomic.com/gentlemans-guide-to-wearing-white-without-looking-flashy</link>
<guid>https://thebusinesseconomic.com/gentlemans-guide-to-wearing-white-without-looking-flashy</guid>
<description><![CDATA[ Wearing white as a man is dangerous. Done correctly, it looks elegant, expensive, relaxed, and effortlessly sophisticated. Done incorrectly… ]]></description>
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<title>Jeff Bezos’s Prometheus raises $12B to build an ‘artificial general engineer’ for the physical world</title>
<link>https://thebusinesseconomic.com/jeff-bezoss-prometheus-raises-12b-to-build-an-artificial-general-engineer-for-the-physical-world</link>
<guid>https://thebusinesseconomic.com/jeff-bezoss-prometheus-raises-12b-to-build-an-artificial-general-engineer-for-the-physical-world</guid>
<description><![CDATA[ The new round values the physical AI startup that aims to automate heavy engineering and drug design at $41 billion. ]]></description>
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<title>Theker just raised $85M to build the factory robot that doesn’t specialize in anything</title>
<link>https://thebusinesseconomic.com/theker-just-raised-85m-to-build-the-factory-robot-that-doesnt-specialize-in-anything</link>
<guid>https://thebusinesseconomic.com/theker-just-raised-85m-to-build-the-factory-robot-that-doesnt-specialize-in-anything</guid>
<description><![CDATA[ Unlike humanoid robots designed around a fixed form — think Boston Dynamics — Theker&#039;s machines are built to be reconfigured. ]]></description>
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<title>Cheaper, faster, and culturally aware, Avataar’s video AI is built for India’s scale</title>
<link>https://thebusinesseconomic.com/cheaper-faster-and-culturally-aware-avataars-video-ai-is-built-for-indias-scale</link>
<guid>https://thebusinesseconomic.com/cheaper-faster-and-culturally-aware-avataars-video-ai-is-built-for-indias-scale</guid>
<description><![CDATA[ Avataar AI&#039;s distilled video model is priced at $0.005 for every second of generation ]]></description>
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<title>Equal AI raises $30M to screen calls so Indians don’t have to</title>
<link>https://thebusinesseconomic.com/equal-ai-raises-30m-to-screen-calls-so-indians-dont-have-to</link>
<guid>https://thebusinesseconomic.com/equal-ai-raises-30m-to-screen-calls-so-indians-dont-have-to</guid>
<description><![CDATA[ Equal AI said that its AI-powered call assistant now has over a million monthly active users. ]]></description>
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<title>US surveillance law to expire for first time after lawmakers reject Trump’s controversial pick to lead spy agencies</title>
<link>https://thebusinesseconomic.com/us-surveillance-law-to-expire-for-first-time-after-lawmakers-reject-trumps-controversial-pick-to-lead-spy-agencies</link>
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<description><![CDATA[ The spy law known as Section 702, which authorizes the NSA and FBI&#039;s warrantless surveillance, will all but certainly expire on Friday for the first time. ]]></description>
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<title>My business is not my baby, and yours shouldn’t be either</title>
<link>https://thebusinesseconomic.com/my-business-is-not-my-baby-and-yours-shouldnt-be-either</link>
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<description><![CDATA[ People often ask me if my business is my baby. The answer is always no.



My business is my passion, one of my greatest achievements, and my livelihood—but it’s not a child.



The reason that my business isn’t my baby is the same reason I don’t call my team a family. It’s the kind of thing founders say to imply a close relationship. It’s usually said with good intentions, but “family” is deeper than just a word. 



Family dynamics tend to be closely linked to guilt, duty, and expectations that are rarely stated outright. When you leave the company, that can be considered betrayal. Furthermore, therapy exists largely because of family—over 50% of therapy clients report that their reasons for engaging in therapy are related to family conflicts. Work shouldn’t come with the same emotional burden.



Work should be the place where your team chooses personal and professional development, creating a life that works for them, and their life goals. This is easier said than done when your team becomes familial.



Something one member of my team said helped me compartmentalize this, “I work for this company, but I am the CEO of my own life. I make decisions based on my value as a person.”



This is the mindset that drives growth, personally and professionally.



Career tenures have also changed. It has been reported that Gen Z will have five careers and 15 employers during their working years. We do not need to evoke the loyalty and lifetime commitment of “family” in today’s fluctuating career market.



THE SPORTS TEAM ANALOGY 



Media giant Netflix defines its company culture as a professional sports team, emphasizing high performance over unconditional loyalty.



Netflix says, “Professional sports teams, on the other hand, focus on performance and picking the right person for every position, even when that means swapping out someone they love for a better player.”



Great teams support each other because achieving shared goals requires everyone working together.



I think that the “baby” trope—particularly when relating to women entrepreneurs—is interesting. I think it lets founders off the hook.



Already, women aren’t taken as seriously as men as entrepreneurs, and that’s without an infantilizing metaphor shaping their approach to business. The fact that 42% of women entrepreneurs have been perceived as emotional versus rational in the workplace supports this point.



If your business is your baby, it’s a challenge to be “rational.” You can’t properly delegate or step back. You definitely can’t build something that runs without you, because you’re emotionally attached in a way that makes hard decisions even harder.



SCALE TO SELL



When you treat your business like an asset, it’s easier to make decisions based on facts, figures, and a desire to grow. It becomes more strategic than personal. This allowed me to prepare my business for sale.



Scaling wasn’t just about growth for growth’s sake, in my case. It was about identifying structural gaps in my industry (influencer marketing) and building around those gaps. It became clear there was a disconnect between creator agencies and media buying as the creator economy matured. Creator agencies were producing high-performing assets, but rarely saw how they translated into paid media performance. At the same time, media agencies were under pressure to prove that creator-led ads could outperform traditional brand assets—and increasingly, the data showed that they did.



Leaning into that insight allowed us to scale more effectively, prioritizing operational clarity. 



This operational clarity also required discipline. With limited access to venture funding (a common reality for female-founded businesses), you build differently. Profitability is foundational. That constraint forces better decision-making early on: what to invest in, what to prioritize, and what truly moves you forward. That creates a more resilient and efficient business over time, and makes it far easier for an acquirer to understand and value.



Preparing a business for sale is an extension of this mindset. It requires founders to shift from owner-operator to asset manager. Your focus diverts to systems, predictability, and scalability. This transition is often hindered by emotional attachment, particularly the instinct to treat the business as something deeply personal. That’s the “baby” syndrome. 



That emotional stagnation carries a cost. Delaying a sale in pursuit of incremental growth can mean missing the moment when the business is most valuable.



Letting go of that perfectionism and emotional attachment is also what enables scale in the first place. Growth is rarely linear. The willingness to test, learn, and build in public is what allows a business to evolve enough to reach that point of exit.



Ultimately, scaling with the intention to sell isn’t about detachment for its own sake. It’s about building something robust enough to plug into a larger ecosystem, accelerate further, and create more opportunity for the team that built it.



CREATE A HEALTHIER TEAM



Steering away from the business-as-a-baby mentality is positive for the team you employ. The benefit is a professional setting that respects boundaries. This deters work from bleeding into personal life, avoids demands for duty outside of the established job description, and provides transparent growth opportunities through clear career paths and performance metrics.



This structured environment significantly reduces the potential for employee burnout, as workloads are manageable and expectations are clear. Crucially, it prevents codependency and nurtures a culture of independence and professional accountability.



My goal was never to build a business to coddle it; it was to keep pushing it forward. To challenge and shape an industry.



Jennifer Quigley-Jones is founder of Digital Voices (now part of PMG). ]]></description>
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<title>A major U.S. travel rule change starts July 1—and it comes with a $750 price tag</title>
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<description><![CDATA[ Tourists may soon be able to fast-track their U.S. visas—if they’re willing to pay an extra $750.



Beginning July 1, a pilot program will offer travelers the option to skip ahead of other applicants when applying for a B-1 or B-2 nonimmigrant visa.



The new paid track will allow applicants to secure an interview appointment, a requirement for visa approval, within 10 business days. Normally, interview appointments are handed out on a first-availability basis, which can range from weeks to months out.



While the $750 payment will secure an appointment quickly, it does not change the requirements for eligibility and does not guarantee a visa. These expedited appointments will be available at consulates and embassies to be determined by the State Department’s Bureau of Consular Affairs.



“Applicants who opt to pay for an expedited appointment will still be subject to all standard visa eligibility and processing requirements, including any administrative processing deemed necessary,” the State Department said in a temporary final rule (TFR) published in the Federal Register.



There are currently three ways applicants may apply for an expedited appointment, each requiring intervention from consular and mission staff. The Referral process allows a U.S. government official on a diplomatic mission to vouch for an applicant. The Priority Appointment Request allows consular staff to request an earlier date for an applicant, at their discretion. Individuals may also apply for an Applicant-Requested Expedite Request, where applicants under extreme circumstances can apply for an earlier date, determined by a consular manager.



“The new service to be implemented on a limited basis . . . will create a fee-based mechanism for applicants to obtain an expedited interview appointment that will reduce the strain on consular resources by bypassing both the requirement for the applicant to justify his or her need for an expedited interview appointment and the requirement that consular staff review each expedited request,” the TFR added.



The $750 is an optional fee to be added to the visa application process, which already carries a $185 fee. For those who opt in, the total visa application process will come out at $935.



The pilot program will end on Dec. 31, and will then be reviewed for potential revisions or continuation.



This is not the first time the government has experimented with premium processing fees. Notably, in 2023, the Department of Homeland Security rolled out premium processing for F-1 students applying for optional practical training (OPT) and STEM OPT, a work authorization for students who studied in the U.S.



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<title>Knicks make record&#45;breaking comeback from 29 points down, beating Spurs 107&#45;106</title>
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<description><![CDATA[ A record-breaking comeback, capped off by what could go down as a legendary play.The long road back to the top of the NBA is almost complete for the New York Knicks, and the step they took Wednesday night was unforgettable.The Knicks came from 29 points down and moved to the brink of their first championship since 1973 by beating the San Antonio Spurs 107-106 in Game 4 of the finals on OG Anunoby’s tip-in with 1.2 seconds remaining.“That has to be the most iconic shot in the history of New York basketball,” Knicks coach Mike Brown said.It’s certainly high on the list — as high as Anunoby leaped when Jalen Brunson’s long 3-point shot bounced off the front of the rim, with his right hand stretching high to softly flick it in.“Right hand from God,” Knicks center Karl-Anthony Towns said.The Knicks, who have just two titles in their 80-year history and hadn’t even been to the NBA Finals since 1999, have a 3-1 lead and three chances to win the best-of-seven series — starting with Game 5 on Saturday night in San Antonio.It looked impossible early, when the Spurs rolled to a 27-point halftime lead. But Brunson helped bring the Knicks back with 36 points and Anunoby finished with 33.



The Knicks weathered a playoff storm



No team had come from more than 24 points down in a finals game, when Boston did it against the Lakers in 2008, since the NBA began keeping detailed play-by-play for all four quarters in 1997. The Spurs led 81-52 in the third quarter.“We’re a resilient group. We’ve been through a lot,” Anunoby said. “We’ve come back plenty of times when we’re behind. Just staying with it, weathering the storm, not being too down or angry or frustrated.”The only bigger comeback on record in any playoff game was 31 points by the Los Angeles Clippers against Golden State in Game 2 of a first-round series in 2019.“You look at it when you’re down 29 of, ‘OK, let’s get it to 20.’ There’s three minutes left in the third quarter, we’re down 18, you’re thinking, ‘Let’s get it to 10,” forward Josh Hart said.“In the fourth quarter, you’re like, this is winning time. Anything can happen.”And it did.



The Spurs started out awesome but then were awful



The Knicks had their 13-game winning streak snapped in Game 3 and seemed headed for a second straight defeat throughout the first half, when Victor Wembanyama and the Spurs opened the biggest halftime lead by a visiting team in the finals.But the young Spurs, who made 11 of their first 16 3-pointers, went cold in the second half, going 3 for 17 behind the arc as the Knicks outscored them 58-30.“We got on our heels — we missed some shots,” Spurs coach Mitch Johnson said. “It’s disappointing, to say the least.”Delirious fans inside Madison Square Garden sang along to Journey’s “Don’t Stop Believin&#039;” a few minutes after watching something that seemed almost impossible.Wembanyama had 24 points and 13 rebounds but shot just 9 for 25 from the field.Road teams had won the first three games, only the second time that had happened in the finals. San Antonio was well on its way to making it 4 for 4.



Knicks scrap watch party and fans have nothing to cheer early



President Donald Trump wasn’t at this game — Taylor Swift was — but the same restrictions remained around Madison Square Garden as when he attended Game 3. That angered the Knicks, who decided not to go forward with plans to hold an outdoor watch party outside the arena.Inside the building in the first half, there wasn’t much for the hosts to be happy about, either.But the Knicks gave themselves a chance by limiting the Spurs to 14 points on 4-for-20 shooting in the third quarter, using a 13-0 run to get back in it and cutting it to 90-75 heading to the fourth.These Knicks, who erased a 22-point deficit in the fourth quarter against Cleveland in Game 1 of the Eastern Conference finals, just don’t quit. Even when the comeback seemed for naught when Stephon Castle was fouled after the Knicks had taken the lead and made two free throws to put San Antonio back ahead with 30 seconds left, the Knicks had one more rally in them.Dylan Harper scored 21 points and De’Aaron Fox and Devin Vassell each had 18 for the Spurs, who will try to regroup and send the series back to New York for Game 6 next Tuesday. Only one team — Cleveland in 2016 — has recovered from a 3-1 deficit in the finals.“I think it began before (the fourth quarter),” Wembanyama said of the Spurs’ collapse. “I can’t really explain it right now. I don’t know. … We clearly weren’t the most hungry in the second half.”Fans booed Wembanyama when he came on to the floor to warm up about an hour before the game and the Knicks tried to get rough with him, with Mitchell Robinson called for a flagrant foul for hitting him above the shoulders and Jose Alvarado reviewed for one after going below the belt.Wembanyama — who was also called for a flagrant — stood up OK against the Knicks but will regret the two free throws he missed with 1:47 left and San Antonio leading 104-103.The Spurs broke to a 12-2 lead, giving them a double-digit advantage in the first quarter of all four games. They kept pouring it on and led 41-22 after one, then extended it to 57-32 when Julian Champagnie’s 3-pointer made them 11 for 16 behind the arc.







AP NBA: https://apnews.com/hub/NBA



—Brian Mahoney, AP Basketball Writer ]]></description>
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<title>‘Extreme concern’: 2 big reasons why the SpaceX IPO is worrying some stock market watchers</title>
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<description><![CDATA[ SpaceX’s initial public offering is just one day away, and it is widely expected to be the largest on record. 



At its IPO price, SpaceX is expected to be valued at around $1.75 trillion—a staggering sum that would put it firmly in the rankings of the world’s most valuable companies. The IPO may also help make SpaceX founder Elon Musk the world’s first trillionaire. 



But as the company’s stock listing nears, several lingering concerns about the offering have been expressed by market watchers, from analysts to lawmakers. Here are two of the most prominent.



Valuation concerns



SpaceX’s IPO price is expected to be $135 per share. That puts the company’s total valuation at around $1.75 trillion, an astonishingly high sum for any company. 



At that valuation, it would instantly make SpaceX the world’s eighth most valuable public company, just behind Broadcom, which currently has a market cap of $1.77 trillion, and just ahead of Saudi Aramco, which currently has a market cap of around $1.74 trillion.



The thing is, many industry analysts and retail investors have expressed concern over this sky-high valuation. The main reason for these concerns is that while most other companies in the trillion-dollar club have firm profitability behind them quarter after quarter, SpaceX reported a net loss of around $4.9 billion last quarter. 



Only one of its divisions, Starlink, generates a profit. As the Motley Fool noted, the company as a whole is “deeply unprofitable.”



In other words, many analysts and investors feel that SpaceX’s IPO valuation prices in a lot of faith that the company will succeed on several fronts in the years ahead. However, as with all things in life, whether that actually pans out is uncertain. 



Some high-profile analysts have argued that SpaceX’s IPO is highly overvalued. This includes analysts at Morningstar, who have said that SpaceX actually has a much smaller fair market value of around $780 billion, notes CNBC.



If this analysis is right, and more investors come to realize after the IPO that SpaceX may be overvalued, it could send the shares sinking. That’s why Morningstar has said it thinks “investors will have opportunities to buy the stock at more attractive levels after the IPO.”



Governance concerns



When a company goes public, its shareholders, ostensibly, get to make some decisions about how the company is run. Shareholders exercise these decisions through their voting rights, which are conferred through the shares they own.



SpaceX, like many public companies, offers two classes of shares: Class A and Class B. Class A shares are the type that mom-and-pop retail investors can buy, and Class B shares are reserved for SpaceX insiders and bigwig investors like Musk.



And when it comes to governance, this dual-class structure takes away a lot of power from individual investors. That’s because, as noted by the Wall Street Journal, SpaceX’s Class A shares confer only one vote apiece on their owners. But Class B shares confer 10 votes apiece. 



As the WSJ notes, “Musk holds around 94% of Class B shares.” This makes it nearly impossible for retail investors to take action against Musk if they decide they do not like how he is running the company. 



For example, if retail investors were ever to decide they want SpaceX to have a different CEO, Musk could almost certainly defeat their motion through his Class B voting rights alone.



Elizabeth Warren urges SEC to delay SpaceX IPO



While retail investors and industry analysts have been among the most vocal in raising the above concerns about SpaceX’s IPO, yesterday a powerful lawmaker also reasserted her longstanding concerns about SpaceX’s public offering. 



On June 9, Senator Elizabeth Warren of Massachusetts sent a letter to Paul Atkins, chairman of the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC), urging the agency to delay the SpaceX IPO. 



According to Warren, a ranking member on the Senate’s banking committee, the IPO “appears to present significant risks to ordinary investors and their retirement savings – while carrying enormous advantages for SpaceX insiders, including senior Trump Administration officials.”



Warren said her “extreme concern” revolved around the company’s valuation, its governance, and also a concern that “major stock market indexes are being rigged in a way that would force millions of investors in passive index funds . . . to invest in SpaceX and face exposure to SpaceX’s significant risks with no choice in the matter.”



The SEC declined to comment. SpaceX did not immediately reply to a request for comment.



With the company’s first public trading day less than 24 hours away, it seems doubtful that the SEC will put a halt to SpaceX’s IPO. SpaceX is expected to begin trading on the Nasdaq under the ticker SPCX tomorrow.



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The company’s shares (NYSE: ORCL) dropped over 10% during premarket, following Wednesday evening’s earnings report. At publication, shares were about 9% down. 



With $19.18 billion in revenue, Oracle beat Wall Street’s $19.10 billion estimate, according to a consensus cited by CNBC. Similarly, the company reported $2.03 adjusted earnings per share, up from a predicted $1.96 per share. 



However, Oracle missed Wall Street’s estimates for its Cloud revenue. At $9.91 billion, it made up 52% of the company’s overall quarterly revenue and was a 47% increase YOY. Analysts had expected $9.97 billion.



Debt and equity financing



Oracle also announced plans to raise about $40 billion in debt and equity financing in fiscal 2027. About $20 billion of that comes from a previously disclosed at-the-market equity issuance. 



It follows $48 billion raised in fiscal 2026 between the two avenues—a number the company doesn’t plan to further increase this year. 



“Importantly, these investments are being driven by committed customer demand, reflected in our record RPO [remaining performance obligations], giving us confidence in our long-term outlook as well as strong returns on the capital we’re deploying,” Oracle CFO Hilary Maxson said in a post-earnings call. “This demand is allowing us to garner customer prepayments and bring your own hardware at similar or better margins than the rest of our contracts.”



Oracle’s RPO were up 363% YOY at $638 billion. The company credited the growth to “large scale AI contracts where the customer prepaid Oracle for the purchase of the GPUs, or the customer bought and supplied the GPUs to Oracle.”



“The prepaid and customer supplied hardware portions of our large AI contracts now total $75 billion,” Oracle further stated in its earnings report. “This substantially reduces the amount of capital Oracle must raise to build out our AI datacenters.” 



Broader AI bubble fears have some analysts worried



Yet, some investors still see risk in overfunding AI, with some analysts recently warning that the AI bubble could burst. 



Current trends are reminiscent of those during the dot-com bubble and subsequent market collapse in the early 2000s. 



At the end of May, the S&amp;P 500 closed at a record high, but it was fueled by only 20 stocks hitting all time highs—13 of which were AI-related. Michael Hartnett at Bank of America pointed out that only 20 stocks also hit a high when the dot-com bubble was at its highest in March 2000, CNBC reports.  ]]></description>
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<title>Top 6 social media platforms for your small business</title>
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Social media can help businesses expand their reach and gain leads
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<title>Small firms have to report profit and loss from 2028</title>
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<description><![CDATA[ By Anna Jordan on Small Business UK - Advice and Ideas for UK Small Businesses and SMEs


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<title>150 UK small business grants to apply for right now</title>
<link>https://thebusinesseconomic.com/150-uk-small-business-grants-to-apply-for-right-now</link>
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UPDATED JUNE 2026: In need of some funding for your small business? These grants should give you a boost, wherever you&#039;re based in the UK
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<title>How to write a marketing plan</title>
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<description><![CDATA[ By Ben Lobel on Small Business UK - Advice and Ideas for UK Small Businesses and SMEs


This guide offers practical advice on developing and writing a marketing plan using simple English
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<title>Disclosure requirements for business owners – what to do now</title>
<link>https://thebusinesseconomic.com/disclosure-requirements-for-business-owners-what-to-do-now</link>
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<description><![CDATA[ By Dan Wilton on Small Business UK - Advice and Ideas for UK Small Businesses and SMEs


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<title>What is Extended Producer Responsibility?</title>
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<description><![CDATA[ By Tim Adler on Small Business UK - Advice and Ideas for UK Small Businesses and SMEs


Extended Producer Responsibility puts the responsibility for recycling packaging materials back onto the manufacturer or importer. It costs UK businesses extra in compliance fees
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<title>Aviva deploys AI to stop £230M in sophisticated insurance fraud</title>
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<title>Autonomous AI Data Loss in DevOps: Building Efficient Defenses</title>
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<description><![CDATA[ Autonomous AI agents are altering the speed at which software is shipped. Unfortunately, they are also shrinking the time it takes for a mistake to become a catastrophe, creating a dangerous blind spot in many security strategies. The threat no longer comes just from external ransomware or malicious insiders. It comes from authorized, internal tools. […]
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<description><![CDATA[ “We’ve all had that moment where you search for something you know is there, but it just won’t show up.” Apple’s Stacey Ford, vice president of OS Program Management, was talking about Spotlight at WWDC 2026, but she could have been describing the company’s AI ambitions.  On Monday at Apple Park, the thing that wouldn’t […]
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<title>Zepto’s IPO filing reveals fast growth, bigger losses, and a valuation question nobody’s answered yet</title>
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<description><![CDATA[ Zepto&#039;s advertising revenue jumped 151%, outpacing the company&#039;s 104% growth in operating revenue. ]]></description>
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<title>Exclusive: The startup that’s dressing up crypto for Wall Street raises $175 million in a round led by a16z crypto, Paradigm, and Ribbit Capital</title>
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<title>Merlin CTO: autonomy can rebuild the foundation of aviation — and national security</title>
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<title>Current price of oil as of June 9, 2026</title>
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<description><![CDATA[ When oil prices change, it affects your energy costs—and even the price of everyday items. Here’s why. ]]></description>
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<title>Corporate America has been draining the world’s water. Matt Damon’s new campaign asks Gap, Starbucks, and Amazon to help give it back</title>
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<description><![CDATA[ Matt Damon teamed up with Water.org and companies like Starbucks, Gap and Amazon to donate portions of their profit to the organization. ]]></description>
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<title>China builds 85% of the world’s humanoids robots for cheap at scale, but finding buyers is tricky</title>
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<description><![CDATA[ While there&#039;s a viable commercial path forward in industry and logistics, experts say demand for humanoids lags building capacity. ]]></description>
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<title>Notion restores access to Anthropic after service disruption</title>
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<title>Is this the dawn of the Tokenpocalypse?</title>
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<description><![CDATA[ We&#039;re likely to see more price increases as the big AI companies plan to go public. ]]></description>
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<title>Uber, Wayve and Waymo are headed towards a robotaxi showdown in London</title>
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<description><![CDATA[ Uber customers in the UK can now join an interest list to increase their chances of being matched with a Wayve robotaxi. ]]></description>
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<title>Massachusetts votes to pass new privacy rights bill that bans sale of precise location data</title>
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<description><![CDATA[ The bill is expected to blanket ban companies and startups from selling people&#039;s precise location data across the state. ]]></description>
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<title>Eventbrite and Vimeo owner Bending Spoons files to go public</title>
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<description><![CDATA[ Bending Spoons say its app caters to a user base of over 500 million monthly active users. ]]></description>
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<title>Layoffs don’t have to feel inhumane</title>
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<description><![CDATA[ Most leaders approach layoffs as a messaging problem. What do we say? How do we say it? How do we avoid panic, legal risk, or reputational damage?



But that framing misses what’s actually at stake.



Layoffs are moments when employees decide whether leadership can still be trusted. And in 2026, that evaluation is nearly immediate.



There’s no version of layoffs that feels good. But there’s a meaningful difference between a necessary business decision handled with clarity and care and an avoidable breach of trust created by how it’s done.



The better question isn’t whether there’s a “right” way to lay people off. It’s whether leaders are willing to reduce the harm that’s within their control.



What employees are really reacting to



When layoffs happen, employees aren’t reacting only to the outcome. They’re reacting to the experience.



The timing. The language. The degree to which they feel treated like a person or a cost line.



In working with leadership teams across tech, civic, and social impact organizations, one pattern shows up consistently. People are more resilient than most leaders assume. Hard news can be processed. Disorientation is harder to shake.



That disorientation often comes from avoidable choices. An email at 6 a.m. that severs access immediately. A one-to-many webinar where individuals can’t ask questions or even see one another. Vague explanations that don’t give people enough context to make sense of what just happened.



These choices don’t affect just the people leaving. They reshape how the people who remain show up at work. Employees stay, but with less trust, less willingness to fully invest, and a more self-protective stance.



The layoff is one outcome. The cultural erosion that follows among people who weren’t let go is often the more lasting one.



The biggest mistake leaders make is waiting for certainty



Many leaders delay communication because they want to get it right. They wait for full clarity before saying anything.



When leaders go quiet, teams don’t. The vacuum fills with speculation.



Leaders often believe they’re protecting their teams by holding back difficult information. In practice, they’re eroding credibility. When the news finally lands, people don’t feel protected. They feel blindsided.



This isn’t about oversharing before decisions are finalized. It’s about giving people enough to orient themselves.



A simple structure works in most situations: Say what you know, say what you don’t yet know, say what happens next. Teams can handle uncertainty. What they can’t handle is not knowing where they stand.



This is especially important in the lead-up to a layoff. The organizations that handle these moments best aren’t the ones with the cleanest announcement. They’re the ones that have already built a baseline of trust through earlier, more candid communication.



That often looks like progressive transparency:



Early: “Our current trajectory isn’t sustainable. Here’s what we’re tracking.”



Midpoint: “We’re exploring cost reductions, including the possibility of layoffs.”



Preannouncement: “Decisions are being finalized. Here’s how we’ll communicate and support people.”



By the time the final message arrives, it isn’t a shock. It’s a continuation.



Reduce the harm you can control



Layoffs are often treated as binary. Either you do them or you don’t.



A more useful frame: You may not always be able to prevent layoffs, but you have significant control over how harmful they are.



What makes layoffs especially destabilizing is how many of the worst execution choices mirror the conditions of trauma: sudden, isolating, outside anyone’s control, and devoid of meaning. People receive abrupt notifications, lose access instantly, and are left to process the moment alone, with little clarity about why it happened or what comes next.



That pattern creates more damage than the decision itself requires.



A more thoughtful approach asks different questions. How do we reduce unnecessary shock? How do we preserve dignity and agency? How do we allow people to process this in community rather than alone?



In practice, small choices matter. Offering live Q&amp;A instead of one-directional broadcasts. Equipping managers with clear talking points so their conversations are grounded and consistent. Allowing time for acknowledgment and closure rather than immediate disconnection.



None of this makes the layoff easier. But it changes how people carry it.



Where communication breaks down most



If there’s a single failure point, it’s this: Leaders soften the message to make it more comfortable for themselves.



That shows up as vague language, unclear reasoning, or attributing decisions to external forces rather than leadership choices.



Phrases like “the market decided” or “the environment forced us” create distance at exactly the moment when employees are looking for ownership.



People don’t expect to like the decision. They do expect it to make sense.



That requires clarity about what’s happening, specificity about why, and honesty about the tradeoffs. Saying “we’re eliminating approximately X roles, representing Y percent of our workforce” is more grounding than broad statements about restructuring. Explaining that the company overhired in a specific area, or is shifting away from a particular product line, gives people something to understand even if they disagree.



Softening the message doesn’t land as kindness. It reads as evasion, and people lose trust in everything that comes after.



The work isn’t over after the announcement



Many organizations treat layoffs as a single communication event. They’re the beginning of a longer trust cycle.



After layoffs, the people who remain are asking real questions. What does this say about leadership? Can I trust what I hear next? Is this a place worth fully investing in?



Teams struggle not just because of the layoff itself, but because of what follows: silence, a lack of acknowledgment, a quick return to business as usual without naming what just happened.



Leaders who navigate this well do three things. They acknowledge the emotional reality: It’s normal for people to feel grief, anger, or even guilt. They connect the decision to a clear path forward, explaining what the company now is and what it’s building toward. And they reestablish expectations for candor, making clear this isn’t the moment for everyone to go quiet.



Without that reset, teams default to caution. And once that happens, it’s difficult to recover engagement.



So is there a ‘right’ way?



No.



There’s no version of layoffs that people experience as positive.



But there’s a real difference between harm that’s inherent to a hard decision and harm that comes from handling it badly. The decision to cut roles is sometimes unavoidable. How those cuts are delivered is always a choice.



In a business environment where volatility is expected, that distinction matters.



Because layoffs don’t just communicate strategy. They communicate how a company treats people when it matters most. And that’s what employees remember.



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<title>The efficiency trap</title>
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<description><![CDATA[ When I became a mother, I closed my office door. Not dramatically—no manifesto, no announcement. I just needed to get more work done in less time, and open doors invite conversations that consume minutes I no longer had. Before my daughter was born, I was a tenure-track business school professor who kept that door ajar as a matter of professional faith. Hallway talk is where ideas happen, where goodwill accumulates, where careers get built. After she arrived, with daycare pickup hardwired into my schedule, I became a practitioner of what I would later hear a research participant describe as “ruthless efficiency.” I had no time to waste. No time to be nice, craft perfect emails, or linger in conversations. I had work to produce and a finite window in which to produce it.



What I didn’t consider, at the time, was what I was sacrificing.



Efficiency tends to be revered in modern working life. Minimize waste, maximize output. Do more with less, faster, with fewer resources. In my field of management and organizational behavior, efficiency is nearly universally coded as virtuous. It correlates with conscientiousness. It underlies organizational economics. Work-family researchers even identify it as a way that working parents can enrich their jobs: the focus, the concentration, and avoiding the squandering of a single precious minute.



But lately, I wonder whether we are confusing efficiency with ruthlessness—a kind of desperate short-termism that feels productive in the moment but can cost us over time. 



The Closed Door



After my kids were born, I turned my research to what academics politely call “me-search,” studying working mothers who had recently returned from maternity leave. Sifting through open-ended survey responses, I kept encountering the same pattern: women describing having to become “ruthlessly efficient” just to hold their professional lives together. They couldn’t stay late for happy hours or linger over lunch. Every interaction was triaged for necessity. One participant wrote: “I don’t socialize, like, at all.” Another: “I was more direct, spending less time trying to be nice . . . I didn’t have time for ‘making nice’ anymore.”



My co-authors and I had mixed reactions. The efficiency these women were developing was genuinely valuable as a transferable skill that organizations could benefit from, and one that was helping them stay in their jobs during a period known for its precarious effect on mothers’ career continuation. Another co-author and I wrote in HBR about it as an argument for why employers should better support working mothers: skills honed at home, under conditions of radical scarcity, can become competitive advantages at work.



But we also documented the tradeoffs, and they were not small. Work relationships thinned. Informal networks, the kind that don’t appear on organizational charts but can determine who gets promoted, frayed. One participant captured it plainly: “Time-wise I have had to become more efficient, but that has meant focusing on the tangible aspects of the job . . . I do what I need to do to keep my job. I don’t have time to do the things that might progress my career.”



The closed door was efficient, but also isolating. Women can produce more output, yet are simultaneously sacrificing future opportunities those hallway conversations might have produced. Benefits were visible and immediate, but costs were invisible and deferred. This asymmetry is the central mechanism of what I refer to as the efficiency trap. 



From Ruthless to Sustainable



We are living through a moment of unprecedented time pressure: always on, perpetually connected, chronically overworked. When you are drowning, you grab what’s floating. You don’t stop to ask what you might be releasing as you reach. This urgency is real, and I am not dismissing it. But it is precisely when the pressure is greatest that we are most likely to mistake ruthlessness for resourcefulness.



I want to propose a distinction that I think does matter: between sustainable efficiency and ruthless efficiency. Sustainable efficiency is what happens when you streamline a genuinely unnecessary process, cut busywork, or automate the tedious so that human attention can go where it is irreplaceable. It creates lasting value. Ruthless efficiency is what happens when you cut corners on relationships, skip the deliberation that protects against error, or sacrifice quality for speed. With ruthless efficiency, short-term gain wins without considering long-term loss. With sustainable efficiency, both are at least weighed.



There is also the question of slack. Since Frederick Winslow Taylor, organizations have pursued efficiency partly by eliminating idle time—the gaps, the wandering, the moments that don’t appear to produce anything. But for creative work, and for knowledge work, slack is not waste. It is the medium in which insight forms. The hallway conversations I stopped having when I closed my office door made me more efficient with my immediate tasks. They also cost me relationships, contextual knowledge, and social awareness of what was happening in my organization. These are things that don’t show up on a daily productivity ledger but matter enormously over a career.



The efficiency trap is not that efficiency is bad. The question is not whether to be efficient. It is what we are willing to sacrifice for it, and whether we are making that choice with our eyes open.



I still close my office door sometimes. The time-crunching pressures that first drove me to do it certainly haven’t disappeared. But I now try to ask myself the question I didn’t ask then: What am I actually trading for this? Not as an abstract philosophical exercise, but as a genuine reckoning with what the hallway conversation might have produced, what relationship I am not building, what capability I am not developing.



It’s not whether we pursue efficiency. It’s whether we are at least honest with ourselves about the price we’re paying.



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<title>How authoritarian governments twist AI safety to coerce tech companies to comply</title>
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<description><![CDATA[ When researchers founded Anthropic in 2021, they said the race to build powerful AI was moving too recklessly. They inserted detailed safety measures into their products and marketed their commitment to safety as the corporate quality that distinguished them from competitors—notably OpenAI, the rival company they had left. In March 2026 that reputation was tested when the Trump administration declared that Anthropic was a supply chain risk.



The company had refused to remove built-in safeguards that prohibited domestic surveillance and autonomous weapons from products it had supplied to the Pentagon. President Donald Trump ordered the federal government to stop using Anthropic and its large language model, Claude, labeling the company a national security risk. Within hours, OpenAI made a deal to be the Pentagon’s supplier instead.



Despite Anthropic’s apparent stand, during its clash with Trump, the company quietly scrapped the binding principles in its main safety policy. Several weeks earlier, Anthropic’s head of safeguards research had resigned, warning that “the world is in peril.” And a week after the Pentagon officially banned Claude, the U.S. military was still using the technology to select and target sites to bomb in Iran.



As a philosopher studying the rule of law and democracy, I’ve found that authoritarian governance of technology often does not involve direct censorship. Instead, it delegitimizes the intended protections, poisoning any external regulation and even voluntary self-regulation that deviates from the regime’s goals or values.



The Trump administration, which follows the authoritarian playbook, has argued that AI safety standards and user restrictions are ideological impositions rather than sound engineering decisions. The ”Preventing Woke AI” executive order of July 23, 2025, didn’t change what companies are allowed to do with their products. By attaching the “woke” label to basic ethics protections, the administration made those protections politically costly to maintain.



The Brennan Center, a legal policy and advocacy organization, has documented how AI ethics is being redefined through contract negotiations. In these cases, the government weaponizes terms such as biased to disqualify companies that maintain civil rights protections from competing for federal contracts.



The prisoner’s dilemma



A single U.S. Defense Department AI contract can be worth billions of dollars. It can also provide access to data no private company could otherwise have and unlock further government work. Companies that maintain the ethics guardrails risk ceding ground to competitors that don’t.



When OpenAI moved in to take the Pentagon work, CEO Sam Altman told his board of directors the move looked “opportunistic and sloppy.” But he said the company took it anyway, because admitting that an action looks bad is different from being willing to fall behind.



This situation reflects the classic prisoner’s dilemma. If Anthropic maintains safety provisions and OpenAI strips them away, OpenAI gets the contracts and the future advantage. If both companies maintain the provisions, digital protections might survive. But because neither company can be certain the other will hold the line—and because being left behind is not a good option—the rational choice is to discard safety measures.



These circumstances differ from a standard market race to the bottom in one key respect: The trap of having to strip away guardrails isn’t an accident of competition; it’s being maintained by the government through incentives.



Palantir didn’t wait to be caught in this trap. The data analytics company was founded by Peter Thiel and run by Alex Karp, who spent years denouncing “woke” Silicon Valley. Palantir built its business model around government surveillance and military data infrastructure. 



While Palantir has said it is committed to privacy and civil liberties, critics contend that the company is dismantling those protections. The company’s stock has surged under the Trump administration, its contracts have expanded, and it now has a front-row seat where AI policy is being written. Palantir solved the prisoner’s dilemma by defecting first.



It’s important to note that the dissolution of safety teams across the industry, such as OpenAI’s Superalignment team and Microsoft’s ethics unit, isn’t the result of anyone deciding to abandon safety. What I see in analyzing the different companies’ actions is a pattern: an accumulation of collective, incremental compromises that quietly reorient the definition of safety away from the public and toward the state. The resulting harm and risks fall on everyone whose lives are shaped by AI systems.



Redefining safety to serve the government



Across government contracts and policy documents, I have also observed that the original definition of AI-related safety has shifted from protecting the public toward making systems controllable for the state. The “anti-woke” framing accelerates this shift: Once ethics requirements are characterized as ideological rather than technical, removing them can be framed not as a safety reduction but as a correction.



This shift does not require bad faith from the companies. Safety teams are still doing rigorous work. The companies are not lying when they describe their safety commitments. Those commitments are now simply oriented toward the government rather than the public.



The case for stronger AI regulation assumes that a government constrains commercial entities on behalf of the public. But blacklisting a company for maintaining civil rights protections, and then banning the military deployment of its AI hours later, shows that the federal government in this instance enables the harm that regulation is meant to prevent.



Expanding regulatory authority over AI companies does not necessarily protect citizens. Safety regulations—intended to constrain corporate power—in authoritarian regimes become tools to coerce compliance.



Michael Gregory is an assistant professor of philosophy at Clemson University.



This article is republished from The Conversation under a Creative Commons license. Read the original article.
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<title>Forget eBay: This is the better way to get fast cash for an old phone</title>
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<description><![CDATA[ While sites like eBay can help you turn old gadgets into cash, they’re also kind of a hassle.



You’ve got to create a listing with photos and a description, figure out a competitive sale price, and pay for shipping. Selling locally on Facebook Marketplace, meanwhile, means dealing with flaky buyers and awkward meetup locations. You’d be forgiven for just leaving your old phones or tablets in a drawer instead.



Fortunately, there are easier ways to offload your used tech gear while still fetching fair prices in return.



This tip originally appeared in the free Cool Tools newsletter from The Intelligence. Get the next issue in your inbox and get ready to discover all sorts of awesome tech treasures!



Turn old gadgets into cash—without the headache



For an easier way to sell your old phones, tablets, game consoles, and other tech gear, check out SellCell​.



➜ SellCell helps you find the best buyback prices for your used gadgets.



⌚ It takes just a minute to see what your device is worth, with no registration required.



Instead of buying back your gadgets directly, SellCell looks up prices across dozens of buyback companies, then links to their respective websites to complete the deal.



✅ Let’s say, for instance, that you’ve got an old Galaxy S20 to sell. Type the phone’s name into SellCell’s search box and select your phone model. On the results page, make sure to select your phone’s condition and which carrier it’s tied to.



~sellcell-sell-old-phones-gadgets.pngSellCell shows you all the details for easy buybacks in a single streamlined spot.~



You’ll see a list of offers from various buyback sites, along with details on how you’ll get paid and how long you’ll have to ship out the phone. Selecting an offer will take you to the buyback site to complete the sale process. Most sites provide a free shipping label, though you’ll need to provide your own packaging.



☝️ Make sure to back up any important data and factory reset your phone before shipping it off. Also, don’t sell any phone that’s still on a payment plan from your wireless carrier.



Who’s it for?



If you’re sticking with a major carrier such as AT&amp;T, T-Mobile, or Verizon, you probably shouldn’t sell your old phone through SellCell when upgrading to new one. Those carriers tend to offer much better trade-in values in exchange for multi-year service agreements. In many cases, they’ll give you a new flagship phone for free.



Still, buyback sites can be useful if you have a cheaper prepaid wireless plan or don’t want to be stuck with your carrier long-term. They can also help you offload other gadgets, including tablets, smartwatches, and game consoles.



More comparison shopping



Before you complete a sale through SellCell, I also suggest checking trade-in values on Back Market​.



Back Market connects you directly to refurbishers that want to buy and resell used tech gear, and its offers aren’t indexed by SellCell. In some cases, it may offer better prices. (For instance, it’s currently buying Xbox One consoles for $50, while the highest offer through SellCell is $40.) I’ve personally used Back Market to sell an old console without issue.



Of course, you’ll likely get the most value by selling directly to other buyers on sites like eBay or Swappa​. But you’ll also spend way more time and deal with more headaches. Who wants to put in all that extra work?




SellCell is a website​ that you can access in any web browser.



It’s free to access with no subscriptions or registration.



Like many sites, SellCell users personal data for targeted ad purposes, but you don’t have to provide any data to use it. The site only collects your email address if you sign up for optional price alerts.




Treat yourself to all sorts of brain-boosting goodies like this with the free Cool Tools newsletter—starting with an instant introduction to an incredible audio app that’ll tune up your days in truly delightful ways. ]]></description>
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<title>Tony Awards 2026: How to watch Broadway’s biggest night with or without cable, including free options</title>
<link>https://thebusinesseconomic.com/tony-awards-2026-how-to-watch-broadways-biggest-night-with-or-without-cable-including-free-options</link>
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<description><![CDATA[ Stretch out those jazz hands and dust off those tap shoes. It’s time for the 79th Tony Awards, which will take place tonight, Sunday, June 7, at Radio City Music Hall in New York City.



Presented in partnership by the American Theatre Wing and the Broadway League, the event celebrates excellence in Broadway theater. Here’s everything you need to know before you time-step your way to the television set.



Where does the name “Tony” come from?



The Tony Awards have been around since 1947. The event was named in honor of the late actress, producer, and director Antoinette Perry. During World War II, she cofounded the Theatre Wing of Allied Relief, a way for theater artists to give back to the armed forces.



During the inaugural ceremony, Perry’s longtime collaborator and lover, Brock Pemberton, presented an award and called it a Tony. The nickname stuck and remains to this day.



Who is hosting the 2026 Tony Awards?



Audiences might be surprised to learn that pop star Pink is hosting this year’s Tony Awards. 



The “Raise Your Glass” singer has never performed on Broadway, but her songs are used in the hit shows Moulin Rouge and &amp; Juliet. She is a big theater fan and cannot wait to emcee the event.



Who’s nominated for a 2026 Tony Award?



Two new musicals tied for the most nominations this year. The Lost Boys and Schmigadoon! received 12 each. And Ragtime’s 11 nominations are nothing to be ashamed of either.



Death of a Salesman, Cats: The Jellicle Ball, and The Rocky Horror Show all received nine each.



Familiar Hollywood faces were also bitten by the theatrical bug. This year, Daniel Radcliffe, John Lithgow, Carrie Coon, and Rose Byrne are nominated in acting categories.



For a full list of nominees, click here.



Who is performing at the 2026 Tony Awards?



As is tradition, a number or medley from all the shows nominated for Best Musical and Best Revival of a Musical will be performed.



Additionally, this year marks big anniversaries for a couple of well-loved and long-running musicals. The Chicago revival is celebrating 30 years, and The Book of Mormon is celebrating 15 years.



Queen Latifah, Pink, Jesse Tyler Ferguson, Alex Newell, Julianne Hough, Whitney Leavitt, and Dylan Mulvaney will perform jazzy hits from Chicago.



The entire original cast of The Book of Mormon—including Nikki M. James, Josh Gad, Andrew Rannells, and Rory O’Malley—will reunite and spread the good word once again.



Are there any special lifetime achievement Tony Awards?



During the official pre-show, The Tony Awards: Act One, special Tony Awards for lifetime achievement will be presented to André Bishop, Jules Fisher, and James Lapine.



Bishop is best known for his tenure as the artistic director of Lincoln Center Theater, where he championed productions such as Tom Stoppard’s The Coast of Utopia and Craig Lucas and Adam Guettel’s The Light in the Piazza.



Fisher is a renowned lighting designer who works across multiple mediums. On Broadway, he illuminated the original productions of Hair, Jesus Christ Superstar, Pippin, and Ragtime, to name just a few. He has been nominated for 25 Tonys and taken home nine.



Lapine is a celebrated playwright and director with three Tonys already to his name. A frequent collaborator of both Stephen Sondheim and William Finn, this man helped bring works such as Sunday in the Park With George, Into the Woods, Falsettos, and The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee into the world.



How to tune in



The Tony Awards: Act One kicks things off at 6:35 p.m. ET on Pluto TV, a free streaming service. Actors Tituss Burgess and Laura Benanti will serve as hosts.



At 8 p.m. ET, head over to CBS or Paramount+ for the main event.



Please note that you must have a Paramount+ Premium subscription to watch live. Paramount+ Essential subscribers will have to wait a day and catch the replay on demand.



CBS is, of course, free for those with an over-the-air antenna and reception. 



The network is also included in many live-TV streaming services, such as YouTube TV, Hulu + Live TV, and Fubo. Be sure to check regional differences before committing to another monthly charge. ]]></description>
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<title>How E.ON uses SAP S/4HANA to modernise the grid with AI</title>
<link>https://thebusinesseconomic.com/how-eon-uses-sap-s4hana-to-modernise-the-grid-with-ai</link>
<guid>https://thebusinesseconomic.com/how-eon-uses-sap-s4hana-to-modernise-the-grid-with-ai</guid>
<description><![CDATA[ Standardising grid data through SAP S/4HANA allows E.ON to modernise infrastructure and execute AI deployments. The utility giant manages infrastructure across three distinct domains: energy grids, customer solutions, and energy infrastructure solutions. Maintaining operations across this scope requires continuous capital expenditure on IT hardware and software maintenance. Leadership initially questioned the business case supporting large-scale […]
The post How E.ON uses SAP S/4HANA to modernise the grid with AI appeared first on AI News. ]]></description>
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<pubDate>Sat, 06 Jun 2026 14:00:13 +0000</pubDate>
<dc:creator>Tomas Kauer - News Writer and Moderator</dc:creator>
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<title>Amazon brings AI shopping assistant to retailers with Kate Spade</title>
<link>https://thebusinesseconomic.com/amazon-brings-ai-shopping-assistant-to-retailers-with-kate-spade</link>
<guid>https://thebusinesseconomic.com/amazon-brings-ai-shopping-assistant-to-retailers-with-kate-spade</guid>
<description><![CDATA[ Amazon is offering its AI shopping technology to other retailers through a new Agentic Shopping Assistant built on AWS, with Kate Spade among the first brands to use it. The service allows retailers to build AI shopping assistants for their own websites and apps. Amazon said each deployment can be customised to a retailer’s catalogue, […]
The post Amazon brings AI shopping assistant to retailers with Kate Spade appeared first on AI News. ]]></description>
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<pubDate>Sat, 06 Jun 2026 14:00:12 +0000</pubDate>
<dc:creator>Tomas Kauer - News Writer and Moderator</dc:creator>
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<title>Scout from M’Soft is the agentic Autopilot that works across M365</title>
<link>https://thebusinesseconomic.com/scout-from-msoft-is-the-agentic-autopilot-that-works-across-m365</link>
<guid>https://thebusinesseconomic.com/scout-from-msoft-is-the-agentic-autopilot-that-works-across-m365</guid>
<description><![CDATA[ Microsoft has announced the wider testing of its new Autopilot feature at the Microsoft Build event this week, backed by a post on the company’s’ website. Autopilots are described as a new category of agents that can work autonomously on a user’s behalf. Microsoft says each Autopilot has its own identity, and so multiple agents […]
The post Scout from M’Soft is the agentic Autopilot that works across M365 appeared first on AI News. ]]></description>
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<pubDate>Sat, 06 Jun 2026 14:00:08 +0000</pubDate>
<dc:creator>Tomas Kauer - News Writer and Moderator</dc:creator>
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<title>Meta Business Agent drives AI&#45;powered conversational commerce</title>
<link>https://thebusinesseconomic.com/meta-business-agent-drives-ai-powered-conversational-commerce</link>
<guid>https://thebusinesseconomic.com/meta-business-agent-drives-ai-powered-conversational-commerce</guid>
<description><![CDATA[ Meta has launched Business Agent to automate conversational commerce workflows directly inside its messaging applications. The software allows global retail brands to execute transactions and field support tickets without human intervention. Deploying this architecture places agentic AI directly at the core of social commerce. Meta integrated these workflows natively into Instagram, Messenger, and soon WhatsApp. […]
The post Meta Business Agent drives AI-powered conversational commerce appeared first on AI News. ]]></description>
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<pubDate>Sat, 06 Jun 2026 14:00:07 +0000</pubDate>
<dc:creator>Tomas Kauer - News Writer and Moderator</dc:creator>
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<title>How C3 AI agents will automate predictive maintenance for Shell</title>
<link>https://thebusinesseconomic.com/how-c3-ai-agents-will-automate-predictive-maintenance-for-shell</link>
<guid>https://thebusinesseconomic.com/how-c3-ai-agents-will-automate-predictive-maintenance-for-shell</guid>
<description><![CDATA[ Shell will use agents from C3 AI to shift from basic anomaly detection towards fully-automated predictive maintenance. The global energy giant is building on their current use of the C3 AI Reliability Suite, which already keeps tabs on more than 30,000 crucial pieces of equipment across upstream and downstream operations. Shell now intends to lean […]
The post How C3 AI agents will automate predictive maintenance for Shell appeared first on AI News. ]]></description>
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<pubDate>Sat, 06 Jun 2026 14:00:06 +0000</pubDate>
<dc:creator>Tomas Kauer - News Writer and Moderator</dc:creator>
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<title>Airbnb’s Brian Chesky plans to launch a new AI lab</title>
<link>https://thebusinesseconomic.com/airbnbs-brian-chesky-plans-to-launch-a-new-ai-lab</link>
<guid>https://thebusinesseconomic.com/airbnbs-brian-chesky-plans-to-launch-a-new-ai-lab</guid>
<description><![CDATA[ The Airbnb CEO said last year it hasn&#039;t struck an LLM partnership because existing products weren&#039;t quite ready. ]]></description>
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<pubDate>Fri, 05 Jun 2026 14:00:09 +0000</pubDate>
<dc:creator>Tomas Kauer - News Writer and Moderator</dc:creator>
<media:keywords>Airbnb’s, Brian, Chesky, plans, launch, new, lab</media:keywords>
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<title>Ahead of its IPO, Anthropic’s Daniela Amodei shrugs off doubts about AI’s returns</title>
<link>https://thebusinesseconomic.com/ahead-of-its-ipo-anthropics-daniela-amodei-shrugs-off-doubts-about-ais-returns</link>
<guid>https://thebusinesseconomic.com/ahead-of-its-ipo-anthropics-daniela-amodei-shrugs-off-doubts-about-ais-returns</guid>
<description><![CDATA[ Anthropic has been growing at a breakneck pace. The company announced that annualized revenue crossed $47 billion in May, up dramatically from roughly $9 billion at the end of 2025. That trajectory faces a real test, though. ]]></description>
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<dc:creator>Tomas Kauer - News Writer and Moderator</dc:creator>
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<title>Founders Fund launches game show starring Sam Altman, Palmer Luckey, and other tech elites</title>
<link>https://thebusinesseconomic.com/founders-fund-launches-game-show-starring-sam-altman-palmer-luckey-and-other-tech-elites</link>
<guid>https://thebusinesseconomic.com/founders-fund-launches-game-show-starring-sam-altman-palmer-luckey-and-other-tech-elites</guid>
<description><![CDATA[ The debut episode, moderated by Founders Fund chief marketing officer Mike Solana, included a star-studded cast of current tech luminaries. ]]></description>
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<title>Mira Murati steps back into the spotlight, carefully</title>
<link>https://thebusinesseconomic.com/mira-murati-steps-back-into-the-spotlight-carefully</link>
<guid>https://thebusinesseconomic.com/mira-murati-steps-back-into-the-spotlight-carefully</guid>
<description><![CDATA[ In the current environment, remaining heads down has diminishing returns; at some point, you have to make some noise just to remind the market you exist. ]]></description>
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<dc:creator>Tomas Kauer - News Writer and Moderator</dc:creator>
<media:keywords>Mira, Murati, steps, back, into, the, spotlight, carefully</media:keywords>
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<title>AirTrunk commits $30B to build 5GW of AI data centers in India</title>
<link>https://thebusinesseconomic.com/airtrunk-commits-30b-to-build-5gw-of-ai-data-centers-in-india</link>
<guid>https://thebusinesseconomic.com/airtrunk-commits-30b-to-build-5gw-of-ai-data-centers-in-india</guid>
<description><![CDATA[ The Australian data center operator plans to set up 5GW of capacity in India. ]]></description>
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<dc:creator>Tomas Kauer - News Writer and Moderator</dc:creator>
<media:keywords>AirTrunk, commits, 30B, build, 5GW, data, centers, India</media:keywords>
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<title>Businesses are declaring war on AI slop. They are fighting a losing battle</title>
<link>https://thebusinesseconomic.com/businesses-are-declaring-war-on-ai-slop-they-are-fighting-a-losing-battle</link>
<guid>https://thebusinesseconomic.com/businesses-are-declaring-war-on-ai-slop-they-are-fighting-a-losing-battle</guid>
<description><![CDATA[ Efforts to wipe the web of AI slop has sparked a new technological arms race between the tools generating fake content and the tools trying to catch it ]]></description>
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<dc:creator>Tomas Kauer</dc:creator>
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<title>‘Human creativity is under fire’ says WPP </title>
<link>https://thebusinesseconomic.com/human-creativity-is-under-fire-sayswpp</link>
<guid>https://thebusinesseconomic.com/human-creativity-is-under-fire-sayswpp</guid>
<description><![CDATA[ At Cannes Lions, creativity is now seen as a key driver of growth, but leaders are struggling to protect it as idea production becomes cheaper and more automated ]]></description>
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<dc:creator>Tomas Kauer</dc:creator>
<media:keywords>‘Human, creativity, under, fire’, says WPP </media:keywords>
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<title>OpenAI CFO: Not knowing AI tools like Codex is now a dealbreaker for finance hires</title>
<link>https://thebusinesseconomic.com/openai-cfo-not-knowing-ai-tools-like-codex-is-now-a-dealbreaker-for-finance-hires</link>
<guid>https://thebusinesseconomic.com/openai-cfo-not-knowing-ai-tools-like-codex-is-now-a-dealbreaker-for-finance-hires</guid>
<description><![CDATA[ AI fluency is becoming the new baseline for finance talent. ]]></description>
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<dc:creator>Tomas Kauer</dc:creator>
<media:keywords>OpenAI, CFO:, Not, knowing, tools, like, Codex, now, dealbreaker, for, finance, hires</media:keywords>
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<title>What AI is actually good for</title>
<link>https://thebusinesseconomic.com/what-ai-is-actually-good-for</link>
<guid>https://thebusinesseconomic.com/what-ai-is-actually-good-for</guid>
<description><![CDATA[ AI can do far more than most people realize and far less than many assume. The hardest part isn&#039;t the technology. ]]></description>
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<title>Current price of oil as of June 5, 2026</title>
<link>https://thebusinesseconomic.com/current-price-of-oil-as-of-june-5-2026</link>
<guid>https://thebusinesseconomic.com/current-price-of-oil-as-of-june-5-2026</guid>
<description><![CDATA[ When oil prices change, it affects your energy costs—and even the price of everyday items. Here’s why. ]]></description>
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<pubDate>Fri, 05 Jun 2026 14:00:08 +0000</pubDate>
<dc:creator>Tomas Kauer</dc:creator>
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<title>Defense tech is flooded with money, but who’s built to last?</title>
<link>https://thebusinesseconomic.com/defense-tech-is-flooded-with-money-but-whos-built-to-last</link>
<guid>https://thebusinesseconomic.com/defense-tech-is-flooded-with-money-but-whos-built-to-last</guid>
<description><![CDATA[ Defense tech is red hot right now. Anduril and Mach Industries just doubled and quadrupled their valuations, respectively, and the U.S. government is proposing a 40% increase in defense budget. A wave of new startups is chasing those government contracts, but according to Ross Fubini, the venture investor who wrote Anduril’s first check, most of them will get lost in the Valley of Death between prototype contract […] ]]></description>
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<pubDate>Thu, 04 Jun 2026 14:00:04 +0000</pubDate>
<dc:creator>Business Economic Syndicated News</dc:creator>
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<title>Lovable signs multiyear deal with Google Cloud to up usage 5x, source says</title>
<link>https://thebusinesseconomic.com/lovable-signs-multiyear-deal-with-google-cloud-to-up-usage-5x-source-says</link>
<guid>https://thebusinesseconomic.com/lovable-signs-multiyear-deal-with-google-cloud-to-up-usage-5x-source-says</guid>
<description><![CDATA[ Lovable and Google signed an expanded multiyear deal that involves a 5x expansion of Lovable&#039;s footprint on Google Cloud, and expanded access to Anthropic Claude. ]]></description>
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<pubDate>Thu, 04 Jun 2026 14:00:03 +0000</pubDate>
<dc:creator>Business Economic Syndicated News</dc:creator>
<media:keywords>Lovable, signs, multiyear, deal, with, Google, Cloud, usage, 5x, source, says</media:keywords>
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<title>Quick commerce FirstClub doubles valuation to $255M in nine months</title>
<link>https://thebusinesseconomic.com/quick-commerce-firstclub-doubles-valuation-to-255m-in-nine-months</link>
<guid>https://thebusinesseconomic.com/quick-commerce-firstclub-doubles-valuation-to-255m-in-nine-months</guid>
<description><![CDATA[ The Bengaluru startup has crossed 1 million orders and reached a $50 million annualized GMV run rate within a year of launch. ]]></description>
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<media:keywords>Quick, commerce, FirstClub, doubles, valuation, 255M, nine, months</media:keywords>
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<title>Benchmark raises its first&#45;ever growth fund as part of $2B capital raise</title>
<link>https://thebusinesseconomic.com/benchmark-raises-its-first-ever-growth-fund-as-part-of-2b-capital-raise</link>
<guid>https://thebusinesseconomic.com/benchmark-raises-its-first-ever-growth-fund-as-part-of-2b-capital-raise</guid>
<description><![CDATA[ The legendary abandons its more than 20 year tradition of keeping its funds to about $425 million. ]]></description>
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<pubDate>Thu, 04 Jun 2026 14:00:03 +0000</pubDate>
<dc:creator>Business Economic Syndicated News</dc:creator>
<media:keywords>Benchmark, raises, its, first-ever, growth, fund, part, 2B, capital, raise</media:keywords>
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<title>Oura Ring 5 review: Thinner, lighter, better</title>
<link>https://thebusinesseconomic.com/oura-ring-5-review-thinner-lighter-better</link>
<guid>https://thebusinesseconomic.com/oura-ring-5-review-thinner-lighter-better</guid>
<description><![CDATA[ The Ring 5, which Oura describes as the world’s smallest smart ring, is 40% smaller than its predecessor and starts at $399. ]]></description>
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<pubDate>Thu, 04 Jun 2026 14:00:03 +0000</pubDate>
<dc:creator>Business Economic Syndicated News</dc:creator>
<media:keywords>Oura, Ring, review:, Thinner, lighter, better</media:keywords>
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<title>Can AI be humane? Aza Raskin says only if we change the race</title>
<link>https://thebusinesseconomic.com/can-ai-be-humane-aza-raskin-says-only-if-we-change-the-race</link>
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<description><![CDATA[ Aza Raskin, a cofounder of the Center for Humane Technology, has spent years sounding the alarm about where the race to build powerful AI is taking us. Just days after the center’s other cofounder visited the Vatican, Raskin unpacks the significance of Pope Leo XIV’s sweeping new encyclical on artificial intelligence, and exposes the incentive structures pushing Silicon Valley toward dangerous territory—while making the case that it’s not too late to change course. 



This is an abridged transcript of an interview from Rapid Response, hosted by the former editor-in-chief of Fast Company Bob Safian. From the team behind the Masters of Scale podcast, Rapid Response features candid conversations with today’s top business leaders navigating real-time challenges. Subscribe to Rapid Response wherever you get your podcasts to ensure you never miss an episode.







I have to start with the pope. Pope Leo recently released an AI pronouncement called Magnifica Humanitas, a title that sort of has echoes of humane technology. Did you talk with the Vatican at all about this encyclical?



We’ve been working behind the scenes, certainly talking with the Vatican. The week that the encyclical came out, Tristan Harris, my cofounder, was actually at the Vatican. And every time we’ve interacted with the Vatican, what we’ve discovered is that even though we come from obviously very different backgrounds, there’s something that’s preserved around how we both view life as sacred and being human as sacred, and that the current technological overreach into our humanity is threatening. And that’s not just AI. That’s social media. That’s the internet. There’s been a long string of technologies that has been encroaching on our humanity that we now have to fight to preserve.



It’s hard to know these days, and we’re still in the early days of AI: Is artificial intelligence an inherently inhuman technology? Can it be humane?



Well, it’s a great question, but fundamentally, if you do not face your demons, they raise your children. The question is not whether AI is good or bad, but whether the incentives governing the race to deploy AI are good or bad. Recently, Sam Altman was asked, “What about all the energy that it takes to train AI?” And do you know his response? He asked, “Do you know how many resources it takes to train a human intelligence, all the food and the energy and the water that goes into those 20 years?” And what he’s implicitly asking is, “Who deserves these scarce resources more? AI, which is about to give your country double-digit GDP growth and all technological and military and medical advances? Or humans, who are sort of flubbing around?” Just like we were able to predict the future with social media by understanding that a race to the bottom of the brain stem, just a knife fight for human attention, would obviously lead to a more polarized and hyperpartisan and outraged and sexualized population.



The race for AI is going to lead to an antihuman future because it sets up a race where humans always lose.



The public mood about AI here in the United States certainly has shifted from being sort of euphoric and open to being decidedly wary, but that doesn’t seem to be slowing things down very much.



No. Actually, I think of this as similar to COVID, when there was a split reality that Americans were living. On the one hand, the stock market was higher than it had ever been. And on the other hand, everyday people were really struggling to make ends meet. And that’s what we’re seeing again here. This is almost like capital lifting off from labor completely. AI is sort of like the full automation of capital just reinvesting into capital. People think, “Oh, AI is just this blinking cursor. I go to ChatGPT, I go to Claude, I type something, and it gives me something back.” But now AI can run in a loop. It can have all the powers that a corporation does, all the money that a corporation does. Is its intent to help you and your family flourish and have a livelihood? Or is the intent to follow market incentives, to dominate, to extract as much as possible?



Well, obviously it’s the second one, and that’s how you know this is an antihuman future, and why I think people are starting to wake up to the fact that this is not in their best interest. The most recent poll that I read is that if you ask what percentage of Americans think that fully unregulated, go-as-fast-as-possible AI is a good thing, that we should be doing that, which is what’s happening, it’s 5%. Only 5% of people actually think that. So how we’re progressing AI is already decidedly not popular.



My colleague Reid Hoffman, who you know.



Very well, yeah.



He leans into the possible with AI, has a podcast with that name. Why not be optimistic that our good side will win out?



Well, just to say, I’m also a builder, right? I founded this nonprofit, the Earth Species Project, building frontier AI to translate animal language. And so we’re making breakthroughs now in understanding the languages of crows. It turns out 70% of crow communication was unknown to science until we started analyzing it. So I want everyone who’s listening to hear that I’m not anti-AI. Actually, I love getting to use this technology. It’s just that I’ve been through a couple waves of technology and know that we always get distracted by the possible of technology, and we don’t want to think about the probable of technology.



How instructive is social media’s evolution to the risks of AI?



Social media is a great example because social media is essentially a baby AI. Where is AI in social media? It’s the thing that’s deciding which news feeds hit your eyeballs. And it’s a very baby AI. It can’t even make its own content. All it can do is rearrange human content. But the question to ask is, was it actually optimizing for human flourishing and connection and understanding, or was it optimizing for engagement and reactivity? Well, it’s the second one.



In the beginning, the feel of social media was, “Oh, we’re all going to be connected. It’s going to help the Arab Spring.” All of these things.



That’s right.



And then it became something a little different.



Exactly. And so that was the possible of the technology. Often, at the very beginning of a technology, it’s not yet captured by market incentives. So you get this beautiful glimpse of a future, and then it gets captured by the incentives. Pretty much everything we predicted starting in 2013 and 2014 has come true. We are now forced to live in a world that didn’t reckon with the race to the bottom of the brain stem modifying everything about our world, from politicians having to become performers to the most extreme voices getting amplified to the most depressed and anxious generation. This is not the world that I want to live in. And I think there’s a version of technology that can be liberated if we can clearly see the probable.



And as tech is industrialized, though, this kind of disappointment is inevitable.



I don’t think it’s inevitable, but it is certainly the 95% to 99% case. And I am very inspired by the film The Day After. I think Tristan and I both are. This film came out in 1982. It was the most watched television event in world history. And it painted a very visceral picture of what happens the day after global nuclear war. It was seen by 100 million Americans. Reagan watched it. He became depressed. He says in his biography that it sort of created a shared common knowledge where everyone knew that everyone else knew what would really happen. And it created the space for the Reykjavik accords and the beginning of deep de-proliferation for nuclear weapons. And this is after, mind you, Oppenheimer in 1962 said, “It’s too late. We’ve already started proliferation. Every country is going to get nuclear weapons. We’re going to blow ourselves up.”



And so it’s really important because whenever we say that something is inevitable, it’s like casting a spell. When you say it’s inevitable, it means there’s nothing to do, which means no one does anything. And so it becomes true. We have to be crystal clear on the difference between it’s very, very hard and it’s impossible. And everyone who says it’s inevitable, we’re just in this industrialized race and it’s going to turn out this way, well, the question to ask is, have we even tried? 



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<title>Bitcoin, XRP, and other crypto tokens are falling to fresh lows. Is SpaceX FOMO partly to blame?</title>
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<description><![CDATA[ Major cryptocurrencies including Bitcoin (BTC), XRP, and Ethereum (ETH) are having another bad day.



As of the time of this writing, those coins are down 3.3%, 1.9%, and 4.9%, respectively, over the past 24 hours. And that decline is just a continuation of a fall that has been going on for much of the past week. 



The thing is, events outside of the crypto market may be behind the most recent fall. Here’s how and why upcoming tech IPOs from companies like SpaceX may be driving crypto prices lower.



Crypto prices continue months of decline



Today’s early-morning decline in crypto values, unfortunately, is just par for the course lately. And it’s been that way for much of 2026.



Since the year began, nearly every major token has taken a significant beating. As of the time of this writing, year-to-date, Bitcoin has lost 23% of its value, XRP has lost 32%, Ethereum has lost 36%, BNB has lost 25%, and even meme coin Dogecoin has lost 19%.



Those steep losses are due to a variety of factors, including fears that geopolitical conflicts could sink the economy, uncertainty over the future of crypto regulation, and ongoing concerns that we may be in an AI bubble that could sink markets.



But what’s interesting is that some of crypto’s steepest losses have come in just the last five trading days. During that short timeframe, Bitcoin has declined 8.3%, XRP and Ethereum are down 6.5% each, and Doge is down 5.4%.



There’s also something else that has happened within that period, too: hype and expectations have risen for SpaceX’s imminent IPO. And that public offering may be one reason why crypto is seeing further declines this week.



The SpaceX effect on crypto



Back in May, Elon Musk’s SpaceX publicly filed for its long-anticipated initial public offering. 



The stock listing is expected to occur on or around June 12 and is widely expected to be the largest in history. Current valuations are putting SpaceX’s potential market cap at $1.75 trillion, with fans and followers of Musk believing the company’s future value may soar to the stars.



And SpaceX is just the beginning. 



Two other major tech IPOs are also expected this year. Those are from AI giants OpenAI and Anthropic. 



Both the ChatGPT maker and the Claude AI maker are expected to debut on the stock market between September and November of this year. And, like SpaceX, the hype surrounding these IPOs is off the charts.



All this tech IPO hype has led to a lot of FOMO. If these IPOs are going to mint hundreds of new millionaires and even billionaires, investors don’t want to miss out on that. But in order to invest in these companies, you need cash to buy the stocks first.



And that’s where cryptocurrencies—and this week’s fall in crypto come in. 



As noted by CNBC, the current selloff in crypto may have more to do with the SpaceX IPO than with the cryptocurrencies themselves. Investors may be liquidating their crypto assets in order to have cash ready to buy into the SpaceX IPO in a few weeks.



As the trading desk at digital asset and crypto trading firm QCP Capital told CNBC, “The broader issue is liquidity rotation. Crypto is facing competition for capital as equity markets continue to outperform, with both crypto-native investors and traditional asset managers being pulled toward stronger equity narratives.”



That equity market competition is only likely to continue as SpaceX’s IPO nears, and Anthropic’s and OpenAI’s IPOs follow months later.



Tech IPO hype worries analysts, too



It’s worth noting that pulling cash out of the digital token market and throwing it at SpaceX (or any company that goes public this year) doesn’t guarantee a healthy return on investment. 



Many industry watchers expect SpaceX’s IPO price to reflect a total company valuation of around $1.75 trillion. But many also think the valuation could be too high, given that the company doesn’t yet make a profit.



That’s why some analysts are cautioning investors not to jump into SpaceX’s IPO and instead to wait for the stock to reach a more reasonable price after its debut.



Analysts at Morningstar consider SpaceX “significantly overvalued,” CNBC reported on Tuesday, and noted that “investors will have opportunities to buy the stock at more attractive levels after the IPO.”



The investment research firm puts SpaceX’s fair value at around $780 billion, well below the $1.75 trillion touted by many. 



And if those analysts are right, SpaceX’s stock price could fall in the weeks after trading begins as investors realize the spaceflight company was way overvalued.



What this means is that for those who are pulling their money out of crypto to invest in SpaceX’s IPO, there’s no guarantee that they’ll come out ahead financially.



Disclosure: Morningstar was founded by Joe Mansueto, owner of Fast Company parent Mansueto Ventures. ]]></description>
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<title>The best Bukayo Saka documentary is also a WhatsApp ad</title>
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<description><![CDATA[ Bukayo Saka is having an epic year. In just this past month, the English soccer star led Arsenal to its first Premier League title in more than 20 years, then played in a Champions League final (where the team lost to Paris Saint-Germain on penalties). Next, he’ll lead England into the 2026 World Cup.



Now, a new documentary film directed by Emmy-award winner Robert Alexander shines another spotlight on the 24-year-old. Bukayo Saka: The Time is Now brings Saka together with another Arsenal great, club legend Thierry Henry, for a candid conversation about what it takes to perform at the highest level, the pressure, the resilience required, and making sure to still get joy from the game.







We also get a look inside a pivotal moment in Saka’s career, when a WhatsApp message from Henry helped shift his perspective following his missed penalty shot against Italy in the Euro 2020 final. Throughout the film, Henry acts as the Yoda to Saka’s young Jedi, breaking down his motivations, asking him tough questions, and providing the kind of perspective only someone who has already lived that life could. 



The new doc will be streaming on Disney+ in select international markets from June 5, and in the U.S. later this month, along with the ESPN App. The film will also air on Fox in the U.S. on June 7 at 1:30pm ET, and will be available on Fox One.



[Image: WhatsApp]



It’s also—and stop me if you’ve heard this one before—a WhatsApp commercial. The film is produced by the Meta-owned messaging app, and is just the brand’s latest masterclass in creating brand entertainment that is actually just entertainment. The story is real, the characters compelling, and the product just happens to sit naturally within it all. 



Here, the story catalyst is the fact that Henry and Saka first connected over WhatsApp. In 2023, for the award-winning film We Are Ayenda, it was the Afghan women’s soccer team’s use of WhatsApp to coordinate their escape from the Taliban. And last year’s The Seat, it was the Mercedes F1 team’s use of WhatsApp to discuss how they would replace legendary driver Lewis Hamilton. In each instance, all created with brand entertainment agency Modern Arts, WhatsApp played a real role and fit seamlessly into each film. 



[Bukayo Saka with former Arsenal player Thierry Henry. Image: WhatsApp]



Real stories, real impact



WhatsApp’s global head of brand Jennie Morel says that the goal for The Time is Now is to use the occasion of the World Cup to grow its user base in the U.S. by showing how a superstar like Saka actually uses the app in his real life. 



“Soccer is having such a big moment right now, we wanted to tell a story that really resonated with this fandom because we know that WhatsApp’s going to be so integral to their experience as they’re watching games and connecting with their fellow fans and group chats,” says Morel. “So it was really important for us to find a story that would be relevant to this time.”



When WhatsApp created The Seat, about Mercedes F1 replacing Hamilton with youngster Kimi Antonelli, many fans had no idea who Antonelli was. Fast-forward a year since the film’s release, and Antonelli sits atop the F1 rankings and the doc is still one of the top sports docs on Netflix. Morel says that telling stories like this gives them a much longer shelf life than traditional brand work. 



“I’d be remiss to say that we don’t experience the long tail effect of it,” says Morel. “It’s absolutely one of the reasons why we’ve decided to do this. It’s not about just telling this story at this moment in time, but being relevant to [Saka’s] career as he continues to grow.”



Last year, Modern Arts’ CEO Brooke Stite told me an evergreen insight into what works for brand entertainment: Every brand wants to tap into culture. But to tell stories people really want to hear, you need to find the stories in culture that authentically include your brand instead of trying to force-feed your brand into culture. It sounds so simple, and yet few brands can truly make it happen. 



Morel agrees and says that the key to this type of project is just how natural the brand fits within it. “When we identify our partners, whether it’s Giannis or Bukayo or Kimi, WhatsApp is an inherent part of their everyday lives, so it’s not forced, she says. “And that gives us the opportunity to resonate deeper with feelings.”



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<title>Warren Buffett explained that the greatest measure of success at the end of your life comes down to 1 word</title>
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<description><![CDATA[ We’ve been sold a narrow definition of success for a long time. Revenue targets, market share, titles, corner offices. Leaders climb the ladder, hit the numbers, and still feel like something’s missing. That’s because most of what we measure at work has very little to do with what actually matters in life.



Warren Buffett has a way of cutting through all of that noise.





When you get to my age, you’ll really measure your success in life by how many of the people you want to have love you actually do love you . . . that’s the ultimate test of how you have lived your life . . . the more you give love away, the more you get.





You might think a quote with the word “love” three times shows Buffett’s sentimental side. Maybe it does, but it’s also a hard truth. That one word should make every leader stop and take inventory.Because if Buffett is right, then a lot of high-performing leaders are failing at the one metric that actually lasts.



Bringing humanity back



Most leaders have been trained to separate performance from humanity. They think care will lower standards or accountability. They worry that showing empathy will make them look weak. So they default to control, pressure, and distance. And then they wonder why engagement drops, turnover rises, and trust disappears. I speak from experience, having reviewed exit interviews and engagement reports over the past 25 years.



Here’s the reality. People don’t give their best to leaders who don’t genuinely respect and care about them — about their well-being, their growth, and what makes them flourish on the job.



“Giving love away” in leadership may sound squishy, but it may just be your competitive advantage. And it’s far from just being cordial in morning huddles and handing out the occasional praise.



It’s about how you show up in the moments that matter.



It’s showing patience when someone is struggling instead of rushing to judgment.



It’s kindness that moves beyond words into action, especially when there’s nothing to gain.



It’s being trustworthy by doing the right thing repeatedly.



It’s checking in on your people without an agenda but because you care.



It’s giving credit freely, owning mistakes, and creating an environment where people feel safe to speak their truth, not just agree with you.These aren’t abstract ideals. They are evidence of how the world’s best leaders show up in very practical ways.



And here’s where Buffett’s insight hits hardest.



You can’t fake this



People know when they feel valued and when they are being managed like a resource. Over time, they decide how much of themselves they’re willing to give based on how they are treated.



Studies show that leaders who build trust and real connection see higher levels of discretionary effort, stronger collaboration, and better long-term performance. In other words, love, when practiced as intentional and practical care and respect, is not a liability. It’s a performance driver.



But it requires a shift. You have to move from seeing people as a means to an end to seeing them as the reason the end is even possible.



That’s a different mindset. And it shows up in small, daily behaviors that, over time, build something most leaders spend years trying to recover after they’ve lost it.



Trust.



Take the long view



Buffett’s quote is a long-term perspective. It forces today’s leaders to think about how they’ll be remembered. At the end of your career, people won’t talk about your quarterly numbers or your strategic pivots. They’ll talk about how you made them feel. Whether you saw them. Whether you helped them grow. Whether you stood by them when it was hard.



That’s the scorecard that sticks. So if you’re leading today, don’t wait until later in life to adopt Buffett’s definition of success. Bring it into your leadership now. Measure yourself not just by outcomes, but by relationships. Not just by results, but by the people who would choose to run through walls for you.



—Marcel Schwantes







This article originally appeared on Fast Company’s sister website, Inc.com. 



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<title>Google’s AI Overviews search feature will be impacted by a ‘world first’ rule in the UK. Here’s what will change</title>
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<description><![CDATA[ AI-generated summaries in Google search results take content from online publishers while reducing traffic to their websites—a tricky relationship that has been seemingly inevitable until now. 



Today, the UK Competition and Markets Authority (CMA) announced that publishers will no longer have to allow Google’s AI-generated tools to use their content in exchange for appearing in the search engine’s traditional links. 



“In a world first, publishers will now have effective tools to prevent their content being used to power AI features in search, such as AI Overviews,” the CMA stated in its announcement. “This will put publishers, like news organisations, in a stronger position to negotiate content deals with Google.” 



Publishers will also be able to stop Google from using their content for “fine-tuning” its AI models.



Plus, the search engine will have to use clear attribution and links in its AI-generated results.



The decision comes only a few weeks after Google announced sweeping changes, including an “intelligent AI-powered Search box” and Gemini 3.5 Flash-powered AI Mode. 



“Google has recently announced changes to its search business and the requirements we’ve introduced today are designed to respond to what Google is doing now and in the future,” Sarah Cardell, chief executive of the CMA, said in a statement. 



Google will have nine months to implement the required adjustments, which the CMA will oversee. The company must also submit compliance reports to the CMA every six months for at least the first year. 



For now, Google appears to be on board. 



Today, it announced “new controls and insights” following feedback from creators and publishers, alongside discussions with the CMA. 



These changes include testing a new toggle that permits publishers to remove their website from the company’s AI search tools—whether it be AI Overviews, AI Mode, or other features. 



“Sites that opt out will not receive traffic or impressions from our generative AI features,” Google stated in its announcement. “This control will not be used as a ranking signal for search results outside of these generative AI Search features.”



Google will also be rolling out impression metrics and data about which website pages are in AI responses and where in the world they’re being seen. 



Unsurprisingly, given the CMA’s mandate, Google will first test these features with a small number of U.K.-based website owners. 



How can the CMA force Google to make these changes?



Tech companies aren’t exactly known for taking suggestions without a fight. But, in this case, the CMA has real regulatory power over Google. 



In October 2025, the CMA designated Google’s general search engine and search advertising services with “strategic market status” (SMS). 



The CMA gives this status if it determines a company “has substantial and entrenched market power and a position of strategic significance in a digital activity.” 



The UK business regulator then has the power to take steps such as introducing interventions, protecting customers, and unlocking competition.  



This designation comes from the UK Digital Markets, Competition and Consumers (DMCC) Act, which went into effect on January 1, 2025. Shortly after, the CMA launched its investigation into Google Search.  ]]></description>
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Small firms are being caught out because of a payroll discrepancy picked up by HMRC. Here&#039;s how to avoid losing your sponsor licence
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<title>Do you need a business bank account? Which one is right for you?</title>
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Do you need a business bank account and what are the questions to ask when choosing one?
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<title>What do SMEs think is the best business bank account? – survey</title>
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<description><![CDATA[ By Tim Adler on Small Business UK - Advice and Ideas for UK Small Businesses and SMEs


The post What do SMEs think is the best business bank account? – survey appeared first on Small Business UK. ]]></description>
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<pubDate>Tue, 02 Jun 2026 14:00:16 +0000</pubDate>
<dc:creator>Business Economic Syndicated News</dc:creator>
<media:keywords>What, SMEs, think, the, best, business, bank, account, –, survey</media:keywords>
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<title>Benefits of switching to the right business bank account</title>
<link>https://thebusinesseconomic.com/benefits-of-switching-to-the-right-business-bank-account</link>
<guid>https://thebusinesseconomic.com/benefits-of-switching-to-the-right-business-bank-account</guid>
<description><![CDATA[ By Anna Jordan on Small Business UK - Advice and Ideas for UK Small Businesses and SMEs


In case you were in any doubt, here are five key benefits of switching your business bank account – and how to make the switch
The post Benefits of switching to the right business bank account appeared first on Small Business UK. ]]></description>
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<pubDate>Tue, 02 Jun 2026 14:00:14 +0000</pubDate>
<dc:creator>Business Economic Syndicated News</dc:creator>
<media:keywords>Benefits, switching, the, right, business, bank, account</media:keywords>
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<title>How much do business bank accounts cost? A guide to bank fees for small businesses</title>
<link>https://thebusinesseconomic.com/how-much-do-business-bank-accounts-cost-a-guide-to-bank-fees-for-small-businesses</link>
<guid>https://thebusinesseconomic.com/how-much-do-business-bank-accounts-cost-a-guide-to-bank-fees-for-small-businesses</guid>
<description><![CDATA[ By Nathaniel Dalby on Small Business UK - Advice and Ideas for UK Small Businesses and SMEs


With business bank accounts, it can be hard to keep track of fees. Here&#039;s everything you need to know about business bank account fees
The post How much do business bank accounts cost? A guide to bank fees for small businesses appeared first on Small Business UK. ]]></description>
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<pubDate>Tue, 02 Jun 2026 14:00:13 +0000</pubDate>
<dc:creator>Business Economic Syndicated News</dc:creator>
<media:keywords>How, much, business, bank, accounts, cost, guide, bank, fees, for, small, businesses</media:keywords>
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<title>EORI number: What it is and how to get or check one</title>
<link>https://thebusinesseconomic.com/eori-number-what-it-is-and-how-to-get-or-check-one</link>
<guid>https://thebusinesseconomic.com/eori-number-what-it-is-and-how-to-get-or-check-one</guid>
<description><![CDATA[ By Ben Lobel on Small Business UK - Advice and Ideas for UK Small Businesses and SMEs


In this guide, we&#039;ll take you through all you need to know about EORI numbers, who should register, how to apply and where to go for more help
The post EORI number: What it is and how to get or check one appeared first on Small Business UK. ]]></description>
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<pubDate>Tue, 02 Jun 2026 14:00:11 +0000</pubDate>
<dc:creator>Business Economic Syndicated News</dc:creator>
<media:keywords>EORI, number:, What, and, how, get, check, one</media:keywords>
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<title>Scaling safe enterprise AI with OpenAI governance frameworks</title>
<link>https://thebusinesseconomic.com/scaling-safe-enterprise-ai-with-openai-governance-frameworks</link>
<guid>https://thebusinesseconomic.com/scaling-safe-enterprise-ai-with-openai-governance-frameworks</guid>
<description><![CDATA[ OpenAI’s latest governance frameworks offer enterprise leaders a structured blueprint for scaling safe and compliant AI deployments globally. The adoption of large language models has steadily progressed towards requiring sustainable, commercial-grade architecture. OpenAI has released its Frontier Governance Framework (FGF), documenting how the organisation addresses systemic risk assessment and mitigation. The framework maps directly to […]
The post Scaling safe enterprise AI with OpenAI governance frameworks appeared first on AI News. ]]></description>
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<pubDate>Tue, 02 Jun 2026 14:00:08 +0000</pubDate>
<dc:creator>Tomas Kauer - News Writer and Moderator</dc:creator>
<media:keywords>Scaling, safe, enterprise, with, OpenAI, governance, frameworks</media:keywords>
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<title>AI in video game development: How artificial intelligence is reshaping the industry</title>
<link>https://thebusinesseconomic.com/ai-in-video-game-development-how-artificial-intelligence-is-reshaping-the-industry</link>
<guid>https://thebusinesseconomic.com/ai-in-video-game-development-how-artificial-intelligence-is-reshaping-the-industry</guid>
<description><![CDATA[ A Google Cloud survey found that 90% of developers are already integrating AI into their daily work, and on Steam, 7,818 titles disclosed AI use in 2025 alone, a 681% increase over the previous year. AI in video game development is not a side experiment. It is restructuring the pipeline from concept through launch, and […]
The post AI in video game development: How artificial intelligence is reshaping the industry appeared first on AI News. ]]></description>
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<pubDate>Tue, 02 Jun 2026 14:00:08 +0000</pubDate>
<dc:creator>Tomas Kauer - News Writer and Moderator</dc:creator>
<media:keywords>video, game, development:, How, artificial, intelligence, reshaping, the, industry</media:keywords>
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<title>The future of automated trading with the best forex robot reviews</title>
<link>https://thebusinesseconomic.com/the-future-of-automated-trading-with-the-best-forex-robot-reviews</link>
<guid>https://thebusinesseconomic.com/the-future-of-automated-trading-with-the-best-forex-robot-reviews</guid>
<description><![CDATA[ Automation is becoming a bigger part of how financial markets are approached, and forex trading is one area where this is becoming easier to notice. As the tech world improves, more traders are looking for ways to stay involved in the market without the need to sit in front of charts for hours at a […]
The post The future of automated trading with the best forex robot reviews appeared first on AI News. ]]></description>
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<pubDate>Tue, 02 Jun 2026 14:00:07 +0000</pubDate>
<dc:creator>Tomas Kauer - News Writer and Moderator</dc:creator>
<media:keywords>The, future, automated, trading, with, the, best, forex, robot, reviews</media:keywords>
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<title>GitHub Copilot users see token&#45;based price hikes</title>
<link>https://thebusinesseconomic.com/github-copilot-users-see-token-based-price-hikes</link>
<guid>https://thebusinesseconomic.com/github-copilot-users-see-token-based-price-hikes</guid>
<description><![CDATA[ Since its announcement in April this year, the proposed changes to billing methods on GitHub Copilot were a source of much speculation: how much more or less would a pay-a-you-use AI cost an organisation or individual compared to a flat-rate, monthly subscription? Just a day into the changeover to token-based billing for the LLM-based service, […]
The post GitHub Copilot users see token-based price hikes appeared first on AI News. ]]></description>
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<pubDate>Tue, 02 Jun 2026 14:00:06 +0000</pubDate>
<dc:creator>Tomas Kauer - News Writer and Moderator</dc:creator>
<media:keywords>GitHub, Copilot, users, see, token-based, price, hikes</media:keywords>
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<title>Master Your Image or Be Defined by It</title>
<link>https://thebusinesseconomic.com/master-your-image-or-be-defined-by-it</link>
<guid>https://thebusinesseconomic.com/master-your-image-or-be-defined-by-it</guid>
<description><![CDATA[ “Blame it on first impression,” Noubikko declares. “That single instant determines whether you are perceived as an opportunity or overlooked as noise.” ]]></description>
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<pubDate>Tue, 02 Jun 2026 14:00:04 +0000</pubDate>
<dc:creator>Noubi Says -  By Noubikko</dc:creator>
<media:keywords>Master, Your, Image, Defined</media:keywords>
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<title>“The Art of Presence” — Interview Dressing as a Strategy for Success</title>
<link>https://thebusinesseconomic.com/the-art-of-presence-interview-dressing-as-a-strategy-for-success</link>
<guid>https://thebusinesseconomic.com/the-art-of-presence-interview-dressing-as-a-strategy-for-success</guid>
<description><![CDATA[ In a world where first impressions are formed in seconds, Noubikko introduces a powerful new visual and editorial concept: “The Art of Presence: Dressing for the Interview.” More than a style guide, it is a philosophy—one that positions personal presentation as a decisive advantage in a competitive professional landscape. ]]></description>
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<pubDate>Tue, 02 Jun 2026 14:00:04 +0000</pubDate>
<dc:creator>Noubi Says -  By Noubikko</dc:creator>
<media:keywords>“The, Art, Presence”, —, Interview, Dressing, Strategy, for, Success</media:keywords>
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<title>How To Dress With PURPOSE, POWER, AND INTENTION</title>
<link>https://thebusinesseconomic.com/how-to-dress-with-purpose-power-and-intention</link>
<guid>https://thebusinesseconomic.com/how-to-dress-with-purpose-power-and-intention</guid>
<description><![CDATA[ In a world driven by first impressions and instant judgments, clothing has become more than style—it is identity, influence, and opportunity. The message is clear and urgent: if you are not intentionally shaping how you present yourself, the world will decide for you. ]]></description>
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<pubDate>Tue, 02 Jun 2026 14:00:04 +0000</pubDate>
<dc:creator>Noubi Says -  By Noubikko</dc:creator>
<media:keywords>How, Dress, With, PURPOSE, POWER, AND, INTENTION</media:keywords>
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<title>The Power of Personal Presentation in Everyday Life</title>
<link>https://thebusinesseconomic.com/the-power-of-personal-presentation-in-everyday-life</link>
<guid>https://thebusinesseconomic.com/the-power-of-personal-presentation-in-everyday-life</guid>
<description><![CDATA[ At the core of the message is a simple but striking idea: “You are what you wear.” According to Noubi Says, clothing functions as more than fabric—it is a visual language that communicates who a person is long before words are spoken. ]]></description>
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<pubDate>Tue, 02 Jun 2026 14:00:04 +0000</pubDate>
<dc:creator>Noubi Says -  By Noubikko</dc:creator>
<media:keywords>The, Power, Personal, Presentation, Everyday, Life</media:keywords>
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<title>Feng Shui&#45;Inspired Interiors Defined in Its Maximum Format</title>
<link>https://thebusinesseconomic.com/feng-shui-inspired-interiors-defined-in-its-maximum-format</link>
<guid>https://thebusinesseconomic.com/feng-shui-inspired-interiors-defined-in-its-maximum-format</guid>
<description><![CDATA[ Noubikko’s Secret is exposed:  Feng Shui Integration That Reflects the Modern Lifestyle ]]></description>
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<pubDate>Tue, 02 Jun 2026 14:00:04 +0000</pubDate>
<dc:creator>Noubi Says -  By Noubikko</dc:creator>
<media:keywords>Feng, Shui-Inspired, Interiors, Defined, Its, Maximum, Format</media:keywords>
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<title>Smart Luxury, Zen Peace, and Bold Beauty Come Alive</title>
<link>https://thebusinesseconomic.com/smart-luxury-zen-peace-and-bold-beauty-come-alive</link>
<guid>https://thebusinesseconomic.com/smart-luxury-zen-peace-and-bold-beauty-come-alive</guid>
<description><![CDATA[ In a world moving faster than ever, the home has become more than a place to live—it has become your sanctuary, your office, your creative studio, your statement, and your refuge. Today’s modern lifestyle demands more than furniture and decoration. It demands meaning, intelligence, beauty, and emotional peace. ]]></description>
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<pubDate>Tue, 02 Jun 2026 14:00:04 +0000</pubDate>
<dc:creator>Noubi Says -  By Noubikko</dc:creator>
<media:keywords>Smart, Luxury, Zen, Peace, and, Bold, Beauty, Come, Alive</media:keywords>
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<title>Smarter, More Conscious Fashion Choices</title>
<link>https://thebusinesseconomic.com/smarter-more-conscious-fashion-choices</link>
<guid>https://thebusinesseconomic.com/smarter-more-conscious-fashion-choices</guid>
<description><![CDATA[ Fashion philosophy advocate Noubi reminder on mindful clothing consumption, “On Buying Clothes,” emphasizing that fashion is not just about purchasing garments—but about making informed, intentional, and personal style decisions. ]]></description>
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<pubDate>Tue, 02 Jun 2026 14:00:04 +0000</pubDate>
<dc:creator>Noubi Says -  By Noubikko</dc:creator>
<media:keywords>Smarter, More, Conscious, Fashion, Choices</media:keywords>
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<title>Where Fashion, Luxury, and Modern Interiors Become One</title>
<link>https://thebusinesseconomic.com/where-fashion-luxury-and-modern-interiors-become-one</link>
<guid>https://thebusinesseconomic.com/where-fashion-luxury-and-modern-interiors-become-one</guid>
<description><![CDATA[ Noubikko Interiors is a bold design concept that combines the elegance of fashion design with the functionality of modern interiors to create spaces made for people who believe life should be lived beautifully. ]]></description>
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<pubDate>Tue, 02 Jun 2026 14:00:04 +0000</pubDate>
<dc:creator>Noubi Says -  By Noubikko</dc:creator>
<media:keywords>Where, Fashion, Luxury, and, Modern, Interiors, Become, One</media:keywords>
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<title>Where Fashion, and Modern Interiors Become One</title>
<link>https://thebusinesseconomic.com/where-fashion-and-modern-interiors-become-one</link>
<guid>https://thebusinesseconomic.com/where-fashion-and-modern-interiors-become-one</guid>
<description><![CDATA[ For the new generation, style has moved beyond wardrobes and into homes, studios, offices, lounges, and personal spaces. A well-designed interior now speaks as loudly as designer fashion. It reflects confidence, ambition, taste, and the quality of life a person chooses to embrace. ]]></description>
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<pubDate>Tue, 02 Jun 2026 14:00:04 +0000</pubDate>
<dc:creator>Noubi Says -  By Noubikko</dc:creator>
<media:keywords>Where, Fashion, and, Modern, Interiors, Become, One</media:keywords>
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<title>Your Exit Is Your Last Impression</title>
<link>https://thebusinesseconomic.com/your-exit-is-your-last-impression</link>
<guid>https://thebusinesseconomic.com/your-exit-is-your-last-impression</guid>
<description><![CDATA[ Why the way you leave matters more than the way you arrive ]]></description>
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<pubDate>Tue, 02 Jun 2026 14:00:04 +0000</pubDate>
<dc:creator>Noubi Says -  By Noubikko</dc:creator>
<media:keywords>Your, Exit, Your, Last, Impression</media:keywords>
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<title>How Mature Men Can Look More Attractive Than Younger Men</title>
<link>https://thebusinesseconomic.com/how-mature-men-can-look-more-attractive-than-younger-men</link>
<guid>https://thebusinesseconomic.com/how-mature-men-can-look-more-attractive-than-younger-men</guid>
<description><![CDATA[ There comes a moment in every man’s life when he looks in the mirror and notices something terrifying. A new wrinkle. A slower metabolism. A mysterious sound from the knees when standing up. And suddenly he thinks: “That’s it. The young guys are winning now.” ]]></description>
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<pubDate>Tue, 02 Jun 2026 14:00:04 +0000</pubDate>
<dc:creator>Noubi Says -  By Noubikko</dc:creator>
<media:keywords>How, Mature, Men, Can, Look, More, Attractive, Than, Younger, Men</media:keywords>
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<title>The Gentleman’s Travel Wardrobe</title>
<link>https://thebusinesseconomic.com/the-gentlemans-travel-wardrobe</link>
<guid>https://thebusinesseconomic.com/the-gentlemans-travel-wardrobe</guid>
<description><![CDATA[ There are two kinds of men at airports. The first man arrives looking calm, polished, and effortlessly sophisticated. He moves through the terminal with a fitted jacket, clean shoes, a proper travel bag, and the quiet confidence of someone who has never fought emotionally with a boarding pass. ]]></description>
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<pubDate>Tue, 02 Jun 2026 14:00:04 +0000</pubDate>
<dc:creator>Noubi Says -  By Noubikko</dc:creator>
<media:keywords>The, Gentleman’s, Travel, Wardrobe</media:keywords>
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<title>Why European Men Dress Differently</title>
<link>https://thebusinesseconomic.com/why-european-men-dress-differently</link>
<guid>https://thebusinesseconomic.com/why-european-men-dress-differently</guid>
<description><![CDATA[ Every man notices it eventually. You arrive in Europe thinking you dressed reasonably well. ]]></description>
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<pubDate>Tue, 02 Jun 2026 14:00:04 +0000</pubDate>
<dc:creator>Noubi Says -  By Noubikko</dc:creator>
<media:keywords>Why, European, Men, Dress, Differently</media:keywords>
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<title>Why Simplicity Makes a Man Look Wealthier</title>
<link>https://thebusinesseconomic.com/why-simplicity-makes-a-man-look-wealthier</link>
<guid>https://thebusinesseconomic.com/why-simplicity-makes-a-man-look-wealthier</guid>
<description><![CDATA[ There is a strange paradox in modern style. The more some men try to look rich, the less wealthy they actually appear. ]]></description>
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<pubDate>Tue, 02 Jun 2026 14:00:04 +0000</pubDate>
<dc:creator>Noubi Says -  By Noubikko</dc:creator>
<media:keywords>Why, Simplicity, Makes, Man, Look, Wealthier</media:keywords>
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<title>The Difference Between a Stylish Man and a Fashion Victim</title>
<link>https://thebusinesseconomic.com/the-difference-between-a-stylish-man-and-a-fashion-victim</link>
<guid>https://thebusinesseconomic.com/the-difference-between-a-stylish-man-and-a-fashion-victim</guid>
<description><![CDATA[ There is a very thin line between looking stylish and looking like you lost a bet with a designer. Modern fashion is dangerous that way. ]]></description>
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<pubDate>Tue, 02 Jun 2026 14:00:04 +0000</pubDate>
<dc:creator>Noubi Says -  By Noubikko</dc:creator>
<media:keywords>The, Difference, Between, Stylish, Man, and, Fashion, Victim</media:keywords>
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<title>‘This is fine’ artist KC Green reaches agreement with AI startup Artisan</title>
<link>https://thebusinesseconomic.com/this-is-fine-artist-kc-green-reaches-agreement-with-ai-startup-artisan</link>
<guid>https://thebusinesseconomic.com/this-is-fine-artist-kc-green-reaches-agreement-with-ai-startup-artisan</guid>
<description><![CDATA[ The startup has apparently taken down the ads using KC Green&#039;s &quot;This is fine&quot; meme. ]]></description>
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<pubDate>Mon, 01 Jun 2026 14:00:09 +0000</pubDate>
<dc:creator>Tomas Kauer - News Writer and Moderator</dc:creator>
<media:keywords>‘This, fine’, artist, Green, reaches, agreement, with, startup, Artisan</media:keywords>
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<title>Erin Brockovich takes aim at data center secrecy</title>
<link>https://thebusinesseconomic.com/erin-brockovich-takes-aim-at-data-center-secrecy</link>
<guid>https://thebusinesseconomic.com/erin-brockovich-takes-aim-at-data-center-secrecy</guid>
<description><![CDATA[ Environmental activist Erin Brockovich has a new mission. ]]></description>
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<pubDate>Mon, 01 Jun 2026 14:00:09 +0000</pubDate>
<dc:creator>Tomas Kauer - News Writer and Moderator</dc:creator>
<media:keywords>Erin, Brockovich, takes, aim, data, center, secrecy</media:keywords>
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<title>Unastella, a South Korean rocket startup that launched from home, raises $24M</title>
<link>https://thebusinesseconomic.com/unastella-a-south-korean-rocket-startup-that-launched-from-home-raises-24m</link>
<guid>https://thebusinesseconomic.com/unastella-a-south-korean-rocket-startup-that-launched-from-home-raises-24m</guid>
<description><![CDATA[ The Seoul-based rocket startup is developing its own launch vehicles and engines. ]]></description>
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<pubDate>Mon, 01 Jun 2026 14:00:09 +0000</pubDate>
<dc:creator>Tomas Kauer - News Writer and Moderator</dc:creator>
<media:keywords>Unastella, South, Korean, rocket, startup, that, launched, from, home, raises, 24M</media:keywords>
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<title>Strava declares war on scrapers ahead of IPO</title>
<link>https://thebusinesseconomic.com/strava-declares-war-on-scrapers-ahead-of-ipo</link>
<guid>https://thebusinesseconomic.com/strava-declares-war-on-scrapers-ahead-of-ipo</guid>
<description><![CDATA[ Strava will charge a flat monthly fee from developers to access its API ]]></description>
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<pubDate>Mon, 01 Jun 2026 14:00:09 +0000</pubDate>
<dc:creator>Tomas Kauer - News Writer and Moderator</dc:creator>
<media:keywords>Strava, declares, war, scrapers, ahead, IPO</media:keywords>
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<title>Current price of oil as of June 1, 2026</title>
<link>https://thebusinesseconomic.com/current-price-of-oil-as-of-june-1-2026</link>
<guid>https://thebusinesseconomic.com/current-price-of-oil-as-of-june-1-2026</guid>
<description><![CDATA[ When oil prices change, it affects your energy costs—and even the price of everyday items. Here’s why. ]]></description>
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<pubDate>Mon, 01 Jun 2026 14:00:09 +0000</pubDate>
<dc:creator>Tomas Kauer</dc:creator>
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<title>Exclusive: Economists have been teaching a broken proof for 50 years. AI just found it</title>
<link>https://thebusinesseconomic.com/exclusive-economists-have-been-teaching-a-broken-proof-for-50-years-ai-just-found-it</link>
<guid>https://thebusinesseconomic.com/exclusive-economists-have-been-teaching-a-broken-proof-for-50-years-ai-just-found-it</guid>
<description><![CDATA[ Axiom Math, a $1.6B AI unicorn, is building a formally verified library of economic theorems — and already found gaps in the foundations of antitrust law. ]]></description>
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<pubDate>Mon, 01 Jun 2026 14:00:09 +0000</pubDate>
<dc:creator>Tomas Kauer</dc:creator>
<media:keywords>Exclusive:, Economists, have, been, teaching, broken, proof, for, years., just, found</media:keywords>
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<title>Robots screening robots: Inside the AI arms race reshaping hiring</title>
<link>https://thebusinesseconomic.com/robots-screening-robots-inside-the-ai-arms-race-reshaping-hiring</link>
<guid>https://thebusinesseconomic.com/robots-screening-robots-inside-the-ai-arms-race-reshaping-hiring</guid>
<description><![CDATA[ HR is drowning in AI-assisted applications. Candidates can&#039;t break through. ]]></description>
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<pubDate>Mon, 01 Jun 2026 14:00:09 +0000</pubDate>
<dc:creator>Tomas Kauer</dc:creator>
<media:keywords>Robots, screening, robots:, Inside, the, arms, race, reshaping, hiring</media:keywords>
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<title>SpaceX’s $1.4 billion Bitcoin hoard is a strategic reserve—and an accounting headache</title>
<link>https://thebusinesseconomic.com/spacexs-14-billion-bitcoin-hoard-is-a-strategic-reserveand-an-accounting-headache</link>
<guid>https://thebusinesseconomic.com/spacexs-14-billion-bitcoin-hoard-is-a-strategic-reserveand-an-accounting-headache</guid>
<description><![CDATA[ “Marking $1.45 billion in Bitcoin to market each quarter can produce wild swings … that have nothing to do with rocket launches or satellite performance” ]]></description>
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<pubDate>Mon, 01 Jun 2026 14:00:09 +0000</pubDate>
<dc:creator>Tomas Kauer</dc:creator>
<media:keywords>SpaceX’s, 1.4, billion, Bitcoin, hoard, strategic, reserve—and, accounting, headache</media:keywords>
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<title>Ann Patchett opened a bookstore everyone said would fail. Now it’s a blueprint</title>
<link>https://thebusinesseconomic.com/ann-patchett-opened-a-bookstore-everyone-said-would-fail-now-its-a-blueprint</link>
<guid>https://thebusinesseconomic.com/ann-patchett-opened-a-bookstore-everyone-said-would-fail-now-its-a-blueprint</guid>
<description><![CDATA[ When Nashville lost its last indie bookstores in 2010, Patchett ignored the skeptics — and helped spark a movement that&#039;s more than doubled ABA membership. ]]></description>
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<dc:creator>Tomas Kauer</dc:creator>
<media:keywords>Ann, Patchett, opened, bookstore, everyone, said, would, fail., Now, it’s, blueprint</media:keywords>
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<title>The First 7 Seconds: How Men Are Judged Before They Speak</title>
<link>https://thebusinesseconomic.com/the-first-7-seconds-how-men-are-judged-before-they-speak</link>
<guid>https://thebusinesseconomic.com/the-first-7-seconds-how-men-are-judged-before-they-speak</guid>
<description><![CDATA[ A man walks into a room. Before he says a single word, before he introduces himself and before anyone knows his job, education, or bank account, the judging has already started. ]]></description>
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<pubDate>Sun, 31 May 2026 14:00:11 +0000</pubDate>
<dc:creator>Business Economic Syndicated News</dc:creator>
<media:keywords>The, First, Seconds:, How, Men, Are, Judged, Before, They, Speak</media:keywords>
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<title>The Gentleman’s Guide to Wearing White Without Looking Flashy</title>
<link>https://thebusinesseconomic.com/the-gentlemans-guide-to-wearing-white-without-looking-flashy</link>
<guid>https://thebusinesseconomic.com/the-gentlemans-guide-to-wearing-white-without-looking-flashy</guid>
<description><![CDATA[ Wearing white as a man is dangerous. Done correctly, it looks elegant, expensive, relaxed, and effortlessly sophisticated. Done incorrectly… ]]></description>
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<pubDate>Sun, 31 May 2026 14:00:11 +0000</pubDate>
<dc:creator>Business Economic Syndicated News</dc:creator>
<media:keywords>The, Gentleman’s, Guide, Wearing, White, Without, Looking, Flashy</media:keywords>
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<title>The Silent Power of a Well&#45;Fitted Black Jacket</title>
<link>https://thebusinesseconomic.com/the-silent-power-of-a-well-fitted-black-jacket</link>
<guid>https://thebusinesseconomic.com/the-silent-power-of-a-well-fitted-black-jacket</guid>
<description><![CDATA[ Every man has that one piece of clothing that changes everything.

Not the loud designer shirt. Not the “limited edition” sneakers he bought during an emotional online shopping episode at 2 a.m. Not the jacket covered in logos large enough to be seen from space.

No. It is usually something much simpler. ]]></description>
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<pubDate>Sun, 31 May 2026 14:00:11 +0000</pubDate>
<dc:creator>Business Economic Syndicated News</dc:creator>
<media:keywords>The, Silent, Power, Well-Fitted, Black, Jacket</media:keywords>
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<title>Tips of Executive on Vacation? Or Executive on Duty?</title>
<link>https://thebusinesseconomic.com/tips-of-executive-on-vacation-or-executive-on-duty</link>
<guid>https://thebusinesseconomic.com/tips-of-executive-on-vacation-or-executive-on-duty</guid>
<description><![CDATA[ There comes a dangerous moment in every executive’s life. You book what is supposed to be a relaxing holiday. Beautiful beach. Nice hotel. Sunset photos. A little peace.


You proudly tell everyone, &quot;This trip is for rest.&quot; ]]></description>
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<pubDate>Sun, 31 May 2026 14:00:11 +0000</pubDate>
<dc:creator>Business Economic Syndicated News</dc:creator>
<media:keywords>Tips, Executive, Vacation, Executive, Duty</media:keywords>
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<title>Why Expensive Men Rarely Look Loud</title>
<link>https://thebusinesseconomic.com/why-expensive-men-rarely-look-loud</link>
<guid>https://thebusinesseconomic.com/why-expensive-men-rarely-look-loud</guid>
<description><![CDATA[ There is a strange moment many men experience when they first enter a truly wealthy environment. They expect diamonds. They expect giant logos. They expect gold watches the size of frying pans. ]]></description>
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<dc:creator>Business Economic Syndicated News</dc:creator>
<media:keywords>Why, Expensive, Men, Rarely, Look, Loud</media:keywords>
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<title>London housing slump leaves Labour’s 1.5 million homes pledge looking out of reach</title>
<link>https://thebusinesseconomic.com/london-housing-slump-leaves-labours-15-million-homes-pledge-looking-out-of-reach</link>
<guid>https://thebusinesseconomic.com/london-housing-slump-leaves-labours-15-million-homes-pledge-looking-out-of-reach</guid>
<description><![CDATA[ 
London delivered just 7% of the 88,000 homes it needed last year, says JLL. With buyers squeezed and landlords leaving, Labour&#039;s 1.5m homes pledge is in trouble.
Read more: 
London housing slump leaves Labour’s 1.5 million homes pledge looking out of reach ]]></description>
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<dc:creator>Business Economic Syndicated News</dc:creator>
<media:keywords>London, housing, slump, leaves, Labour’s, 1.5, million, homes, pledge, looking, out, reach</media:keywords>
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<title>Temu hit with record €200m EU fine over unsafe baby toys and dodgy chargers</title>
<link>https://thebusinesseconomic.com/temu-hit-with-record-200m-eu-fine-over-unsafe-baby-toys-and-dodgy-chargers</link>
<guid>https://thebusinesseconomic.com/temu-hit-with-record-200m-eu-fine-over-unsafe-baby-toys-and-dodgy-chargers</guid>
<description><![CDATA[ 
Brussels has handed Temu a record €200m DSA fine after finding dangerous baby toys and faulty chargers on the Chinese marketplace. What it means for online sellers.
Read more: 
Temu hit with record €200m EU fine over unsafe baby toys and dodgy chargers ]]></description>
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<pubDate>Sun, 31 May 2026 14:00:08 +0000</pubDate>
<dc:creator>Business Economic Syndicated News</dc:creator>
<media:keywords>Temu, hit, with, record, €200m, fine, over, unsafe, baby, toys, and, dodgy, chargers</media:keywords>
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<title>Asda turns to Ocado in bid to fix its online grocery problem</title>
<link>https://thebusinesseconomic.com/asda-turns-to-ocado-in-bid-to-fix-its-online-grocery-problem</link>
<guid>https://thebusinesseconomic.com/asda-turns-to-ocado-in-bid-to-fix-its-online-grocery-problem</guid>
<description><![CDATA[ 
Asda has signed a long-term deal to roll out Ocado&#039;s Smart Platform across its website, app, in-store picking and last-mile delivery from 2027, as executive chairman Allan Leighton accelerates his turnaround of Britain&#039;s third-largest grocer.
Read more: 
Asda turns to Ocado in bid to fix its online grocery problem ]]></description>
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<pubDate>Sun, 31 May 2026 14:00:07 +0000</pubDate>
<dc:creator>Business Economic Syndicated News</dc:creator>
<media:keywords>Asda, turns, Ocado, bid, fix, its, online, grocery, problem</media:keywords>
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<title>Horner joins Oakley Capital to steer premium sports dealmaking</title>
<link>https://thebusinesseconomic.com/horner-joins-oakley-capital-to-steer-premium-sports-dealmaking</link>
<guid>https://thebusinesseconomic.com/horner-joins-oakley-capital-to-steer-premium-sports-dealmaking</guid>
<description><![CDATA[ 
Former Red Bull boss Christian Horner has been appointed as a sports investments advisor by private equity firm Oakley Capital, signalling fresh ambitions to scale its premium sports portfolio.
Read more: 
Horner joins Oakley Capital to steer premium sports dealmaking ]]></description>
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<pubDate>Sun, 31 May 2026 14:00:06 +0000</pubDate>
<dc:creator>Business Economic Syndicated News</dc:creator>
<media:keywords>Horner, joins, Oakley, Capital, steer, premium, sports, dealmaking</media:keywords>
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<title>UK firms need a sharper strategy to win in a changing American economy</title>
<link>https://thebusinesseconomic.com/uk-firms-need-a-sharper-strategy-to-win-in-a-changing-american-economy</link>
<guid>https://thebusinesseconomic.com/uk-firms-need-a-sharper-strategy-to-win-in-a-changing-american-economy</guid>
<description><![CDATA[ 
America is still growing, but British firms eyeing the US in 2026 need sharper regional targeting, disciplined pricing and a realistic view of cost, says Blick Rothenberg.
Read more: 
UK firms need a sharper strategy to win in a changing American economy ]]></description>
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<dc:creator>Business Economic Syndicated News</dc:creator>
<media:keywords>firms, need, sharper, strategy, win, changing, American, economy</media:keywords>
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<title>‘What a joke’: Github Copilot’s new token&#45;based billing spurs consternation among devs</title>
<link>https://thebusinesseconomic.com/what-a-joke-github-copilots-new-token-based-billing-spurs-consternation-among-devs</link>
<guid>https://thebusinesseconomic.com/what-a-joke-github-copilots-new-token-based-billing-spurs-consternation-among-devs</guid>
<description><![CDATA[ The golden age of Microsoft&#039;s Github Copilot appears to be at an end. ]]></description>
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<pubDate>Sun, 31 May 2026 14:00:04 +0000</pubDate>
<dc:creator>Business Economic Syndicated News</dc:creator>
<media:keywords>‘What, joke’:, Github, Copilot’s, new, token-based, billing, spurs, consternation, among, devs</media:keywords>
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<title>Snap alums unveil Ghost Angels fund</title>
<link>https://thebusinesseconomic.com/snap-alums-unveil-ghost-angels-fund</link>
<guid>https://thebusinesseconomic.com/snap-alums-unveil-ghost-angels-fund</guid>
<description><![CDATA[ A group of 20 Snap alumni has come together to launch a fund called Ghost Angels to back the next generation of social media. ]]></description>
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<dc:creator>Business Economic Syndicated News</dc:creator>
<media:keywords>Snap, alums, unveil, Ghost, Angels, fund</media:keywords>
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<title>This weekend’s two biggest movies were both directed by YouTubers</title>
<link>https://thebusinesseconomic.com/this-weekends-two-biggest-movies-were-both-directed-by-youtubers</link>
<guid>https://thebusinesseconomic.com/this-weekends-two-biggest-movies-were-both-directed-by-youtubers</guid>
<description><![CDATA[ The YouTube-to-prestige-horror pipeline is looking very strong. ]]></description>
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<title>SoftBank says it will invest up to €75 billion to build French data centers</title>
<link>https://thebusinesseconomic.com/softbank-says-it-will-invest-up-to-75-billion-to-build-french-data-centers</link>
<guid>https://thebusinesseconomic.com/softbank-says-it-will-invest-up-to-75-billion-to-build-french-data-centers</guid>
<description><![CDATA[ The goal, the firm said, is to develop and operate up to 5 gigawatts of additional data center capacity. ]]></description>
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<dc:creator>Business Economic Syndicated News</dc:creator>
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<title>What happens in Vega$: steroids, swimmers, and a billion&#45;dollar hustle</title>
<link>https://thebusinesseconomic.com/what-happens-in-vega-steroids-swimmers-and-a-billion-dollar-hustle</link>
<guid>https://thebusinesseconomic.com/what-happens-in-vega-steroids-swimmers-and-a-billion-dollar-hustle</guid>
<description><![CDATA[ The Enhanced Games — a singular sporting competition where a majority of the athletes were on performance enhancing drugs — may herald a new business model that the tech industry is ready to embrace. ]]></description>
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<dc:creator>Business Economic Syndicated News</dc:creator>
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<title>4 Ways To Make Your Next Business Meeting As Efficient As Possible</title>
<link>https://thebusinesseconomic.com/4-ways-to-make-your-next-business-meeting-as-efficient-as-possible</link>
<guid>https://thebusinesseconomic.com/4-ways-to-make-your-next-business-meeting-as-efficient-as-possible</guid>
<description><![CDATA[ Business meetings have a tendency to run over the time allotted and to run off track. That can cause employees to get bored and lose focus really quickly. Whether meeting with employees or clients, you need to know how to run those meetings more efficiently so that people don’t start to get bored. This ensures […]
The post 4 Ways To Make Your Next Business Meeting As Efficient As Possible appeared first on Fincyte. ]]></description>
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<pubDate>Sat, 30 May 2026 14:00:11 +0000</pubDate>
<dc:creator>Business Economic Syndicated News</dc:creator>
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<title>Science says you can indeed buy happiness—for as little as $30</title>
<link>https://thebusinesseconomic.com/science-says-you-can-indeed-buy-happinessfor-as-little-as-30</link>
<guid>https://thebusinesseconomic.com/science-says-you-can-indeed-buy-happinessfor-as-little-as-30</guid>
<description><![CDATA[ When I was about 8 years old, in response to the ubiquitous question of what I wanted to be when I grew up, I responded, “I want to be happy!”



The adults chuckled and my inquisitor did not ask any follow-up questions. But my mother later pulled me aside to tell me that being happy wasn’t always something we mere mortals had perfect control over.



Mom wanted to prepare me for the reality that happiness couldn’t be planned for or worked toward, like becoming a writer (my usual response to grownups asking about my future career goals). Happiness wasn’t something I could buy from a store, earn from an institution of higher education, or receive along with a corner office.



As wise as Mom’s counsel was, science has found that she wasn’t quite right. The recently published World Happiness Report, along with myriad other clinical studies, show that it’s entirely possible to plan, purchase, and implement greater daily happiness. You just have to know how to spend your time and money effectively.



Here’s what the science of happiness has to say about how to invest in greater daily contentment.



Increased light makes us happier



Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD) was first formally described in the mid-1980s, although anyone who feels the winter doldrums probably wondered why it took scientists so long to finally name this condition—and so aptly, too.



While SAD is usually diagnosed if you have the blahs during the colder part of the year, researchers believe that the shortened daylight hours and reduced access to sunlight during the winter have a chemical effect on the brain that can trigger depressive symptoms and increase the production of melatonin, a sleep-related hormone.



This is why light therapy lamps have long been prescribed to help reduce the depressive symptoms of SAD. Sitting close to a 2,500- to 10,000-lux bright light therapy lamp for at least 30 minutes every morning has proven to improve depression symptoms in SAD patients, boost the effectiveness of antidepressant medication, and aid sleep.



But bright light therapy lamps aren’t just for those of us who get the SADs, or just for the long, gray winter. Studies have found that these lamps are also effective for easing major depressive and perinatal depressive symptoms—along with the additional benefits of boosting medication effectiveness and making it easier to sleep.



How to invest in light



If you experience Seasonal Affective Disorder (or just become a hermit every year between New Year’s and Easter), you may want to consider investing in a light therapy box to help regulate your circadian rhythm during the dark days of winter—and beyond.



These light boxes cost anywhere from about $70 to a little over $200. While light therapy lamps range in brightness from 2,500 to 10,000 lux, the more lux the lamp delivers, the less time you need to spend in front of it. This means you’re better off purchasing a lamp that offers 10,000 lux because it will mean 30 minutes in the morning will be sufficient.



If you’re not sure if a therapy lamp is what you need, consider purchasing a sunrise alarm clock instead. You can purchase these alarm clocks for as little as $30 all the way up to $170.



Rather than blaring a loud noise to rouse you in the morning, these alarm clocks emit light to gently wake you at your specified time. The bright light signals to your brain that it’s time to wake up, and these kinds of alarm clocks can help better regulate your sleep/wake schedule, while also providing you with another source of light in the morning.



Social media amplifies your daily stress



It’s incredibly telling that the CEOs of major social media companies don’t allow their own children to use social media. Social media, despite its claim to bring people together, causes incredible stress.



In fact, the recently published World Happiness Report found that “life satisfaction is highest at low rates of social media use and lower at higher rates of use.”



Of course, as anyone who has taken a statistics class will remember, correlation doesn’t equal causation. The areas with high life satisfaction and low social media usage may be happy for some reason unrelated to ignoring the siren song of Instagram—while the folks who are less satisfied with life might be unhappy for a reason that has nothing to do with their multiple hours per day arguing with @urmom420 on the platform formerly known as Twitter.



However, a recent clinical study backs up the conclusion that social media is bad for your mental health. In this study, one group of participants reduced their social media screen time to less than two hours per day for three weeks, compared with a control group who continued using social media as they normally did.



The participants who reduced their social media time saw the following improvements compared with the control group:




They lowered depressive symptoms by 40%.



They increased well-being by 21%.



They decreased stress by 22%.



They improved sleep quality by 35%.




Just by reducing their social media use to under two hours per day for a three-week period, these participants greatly improved their daily quality of life.



How to invest in less daily stress



Reducing your social media usage is the kind of thing that feels like it should be easy. Jumping onto Facebook is entirely voluntary. Clicking on a TikTok is all your decision.



And yet, you’ll find yourself wasting precious hours on social media, wishing you knew how to quit YouTube.



There’s a reason it’s so difficult to turn it off. Like gambling, social media relies on intermittent reinforcement, where rewards are offered sporadically, keeping the user consistently refreshing (or betting) to try to get another hit of dopamine. So many of us find it necessary to bring in a different kind of reinforcement to keep ourselves from falling back into social media’s intermittent reinforcement.



Specifically, spending money on a social media blocker that allows you access only during preplanned times of day will ensure that you maintain the social media boundaries you need to reap the benefits of stepping away from these platforms.



There are a number of types of blockers, including apps that simply add friction when you attempt to navigate to a verboten platform, apps that lock down chosen platforms, and even a physical device that fully blocks all of your most distracting apps. Prices range from free to $60 for a one-time charge, to $7 per month to $30 to $100 per year, depending on which you choose.



Good sleep is the foundation for a good mood



It’s hardly groundbreaking to say that sleep and mood are intimately related. When someone is uncharacteristically grumpy, they will apologize by saying, “I got up on the wrong side of the bed.” And everyone has had the experience of snapping at an innocent bystander or kicking a door (it knows what it did . . . ) after a night of restless sleep.



What’s interesting about the connection between sleep and mood is not just that we all turn into the grouchiest versions of ourselves when we don’t get enough shuteye. Researchers have also found that poor sleep is also correlated with zero-sum beliefs about happiness.



Specifically, people who are sleep deprived are more likely to believe that happiness is finite, so that if one person is feeling happy, that means there is less happiness for others. Those who are sleep deprived also feel happiness in the moment increases the likelihood of less happiness in the future—as if enjoying a current moment of happiness will take away a future opportunity for joy.



But well-rested individuals do not share these kinds of zero-sum beliefs about happiness. Since they are not dealing with scarcity of rest, they do not assign a scarcity mindset to happiness, and they express greater levels of life satisfaction.



How to invest in an abundant good mood



Improving the quality of your sleep is one of the best and most effective ways of increasing your daily and overall happiness. And there are a number of investments that you can make to get better sleep starting tonight, including:




Upgrade your mattress: Americans don’t necessarily pay attention to their mattresses’ quality or lifespan. If you can’t remember when you purchased your mattress, if it sags in the middle, or if your back hurts more when you wake up than any other time of day, you may need a new one. While this can be an expensive purchase—up to $2,000 depending on the brand—there are excellent discount options available under $600 that can still improve your sleep quality compared with a worn-out mattress.



Hang blackout curtains: For as little as $30, you can make your bedroom fully dark, which can not only help improve your quality of sleep, but also offer health benefits.



Cool and quiet your room: A fan can offer two benefits to your bedroom: keeping the space cool, which promotes better sleep, and providing a kind of white noise that can help block outside sounds and lull you to sleep. There are even fans that produce specific white, pink, or brown noise to help you fall and stay asleep. Fans can cost anywhere from $35 to $200.




You can buy happiness—if you’re mindful with your purchases



Happiness may not be a singular goal one can attain like a degree or a profession, but that doesn’t mean it’s entirely out of our control. Science has discovered a number of predictable things that help make humans feel happy. These include daily access to sunlight (or a reasonable facsimile thereof), hard limits on our social media usage, and consistent quality sleep.



Investing in a light therapy lamp or sunrise alarm clock, a social media blocker, a mattress, blackout curtains, and a fan or white noise machine could create a measurable difference in your sense of daily contentment.



All it takes is a commitment to using these purchases to embrace the scientifically proven behavioral changes.



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<title>Zillow downgrades its home price forecast across 400&#45;plus housing markets—see the data</title>
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<description><![CDATA[ Want more housing market stories from Lance Lambert’s ResiClub in your inbox? Subscribe to the ResiClub newsletter.



Zillow economists just published their updated 12-month forecast, projecting that U.S. home prices—as measured by the Zillow Home Value Index—will shift down 0.1% from April 2026 to April 2027.



That’s a tiny downward revision from its 12-month national forecast published in April (+0.1%) and its 12-month national forecast published in March (+0.5%).



U.S. home prices, as measured by the Zillow Home Value Index, are currently up 0.7% year over year. Zillow’s latest 12-month outlook (-0.1%) expects national home prices to remain near that subdued pace. As long as national home price growth remains below U.S. wage growth (currently up 3.6%), underlying fundamentals should continue to improve. If that trend continues—and mortgage rates don’t spike—national housing affordability should also continue to gradually improve.







While Zillow’s national home price forecast isn’t negative—it isn’t exactly bullish either. It’s calling for a soft national housing market in 2026, one where national housing affordability may improve slightly as U.S. income growth outpaces U.S. home price growth.



What type of regional variation does Zillow anticipate over the next 12 months?







Among the 300 largest U.S. metro-area housing markets, Zillow forecast the biggest home price increase from April 2026 to April 2027 to occur in these 15 metros:




Syracuse, New York → 4.8% 



Rockford, Illinois → 4.5% 



Atlantic City, New Jersey →  4.1%



Utica, New York →  4.0%



Rochester, New York → 3.9%



Binghamton, New York → 3.6% 



Pottsville, Pennsylvania → 3.3% 



Knoxville, Tennessee→ 3.2% 



Norwich, Connecticut → 3.2% 



Erie, Pennsylvania → 3.1 



Morristown, Tennessee → 3.1%



Janesville, Wisconsin → 3.0% 



Buffalo → 2.9% 



Youngstown, Ohio → 2.9% 



Kingston, New York → 2.9%




Among the 300 largest U.S. metro-area housing markets, Zillow forecast the biggest home price decline from April 2026 to April 2027 to occur in these 15 metros:




Houma, Louisiana → -6.7%



Lake Charles, Louisiana → -5.8% 



Austin → -5.4%



New Orleans → -4.4% 



Alexandria, Louisiana → -4.1% 



Chico, California → -3.5% 



Vallejo, California → -3.4%



Beaumont, Texas → -3.4% 



Lafayette, Louisiana → -3.3% 



Punta Gorda, Florida → -3.2% 



San Francisco → -3.1% 



Santa Rosa, California → -3.0% 



Denver → -2.8% 



San Antonio → -2.8% 



Shreveport, Louisiana → -2.8%




My quick take: Based on my own analysis, I believe Zillow is too bearish on the New Orleans metro-area housing market—which is showing signs of mild tightening after passing through a correction—and also too bearish on pockets of the Bay Area, especially San Francisco proper, which has benefited from AI boom spillover (although pockets of Oakland remain weak).







Below is what the current year-over-year rate of home price change looks like for single-family and condo home prices. The Sunbelt, in particular Southwest Florida, is currently the epicenter of housing market softness over the past year.






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<title>May full moon: A rare blue ‘micromoon’ will appear in the sky tonight. Here’s the best time to see it</title>
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<description><![CDATA[ The rarity of events and celebrations such as milestone birthdays and cosmic happenings makes them special.



The phrase “once in a blue moon” exists because it is not an everyday occurrence. This year, May has not one but two full moons lighting up the night sky, the second of which is going down tonight, in the early morning hours of Sunday, May 31.



Illumination reaches its peak at 4:45 a.m. ET.



But this is also considered a micromoon. Here’s everything you need to know before you stargaze.



What is a blue moon?



This has nothing to do with color. There are two ways to define a blue moon. The first is when a second full moon occurs in the same calendar month. This happens about once every 30 months. Tonight is the night for May 2026, as the first full moon took place on May 1.



The second definition deals in quarters. A typical astronomical season contains three full moons. Every two to three years, a fourth sneaks in, causing the third full moon to be considered a blue moon.



When will the next blue moon occur?



If you miss this one, you will have to wait until May 20, 2027, for a seasonal blue moon, according to Royal Museums Greenwich.



The next calendar blue moon won’t happen again until December 2028.



Can 2 blue moons happen in the same year?



Metaphorical lightning—or in this case, two blue moons—can strike twice in the same year, but it is rare. 



According to The Old Farmer’s Almanac, in 2018, both January and March had a blue moon. February had no full moons. This won’t happen again until 2037.



What is a micromoon?



Although this blue moon is considered “micro,” the naked eye won’t be able to tell much difference in size. According to National Geographic, it will only look about 10% to 15% smaller in diameter and a bit dimmer.



The natural satellite orbits the Earth in an elliptical pattern, making it appear bigger and brighter or smaller and dimmer, depending on where it is on that journey.



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<description><![CDATA[ This article is republished with permission from Laser Wars, a newsletter about military laser weapons and other futuristic defense technology.



The U.S. military is pushing to demonstrate high-energy laser weapons engineered for fielding at scale in the next two years, according to the U.S. Defense Department’s top science and technology official.



Testifying before the Senate Armed Services Committee’s Emerging Threats and Capabilities Subcommittee on May 19, the undersecretary of defense for research and engineering, Emil Michael, told lawmakers that the science of laser weapons “is largely done.” He said the Pentagon is focused on addressing the engineering challenges that come with transforming exquisite prototypes into mass-producible capabilities—the “scaled” element of the department’s “scaled directed energy” critical technology area.



“We now have a suite of directed energy products that go from low end to high end, and now we have to scale production of those,” Michael said.



When questioned by Sen. Gary Peters, D-Mich., about the three-year timeline for fielding laser weapons at scale that defense officials previously publicized in March, Michael stated that President Donald Trump’s planned “Golden Dome for America“ domestic missile shield would accelerate those research and development efforts due to the initiative’s “big reliance” on directed energy. He added, “Our experience in Iran has also doubled our interest in these systems.”



“A lot of the money allocated to Golden Dome is going to go to the fundamental engineering of these systems so that we can make them cheaper, smaller, and more proliferated,” Michael said. “And because the commitment was made to the president that we’re going to have a demonstration that includes directed energy in our Golden Dome architecture, there’s a lot of energy going into that.”



The directed energy demonstration is expected to occur during the summer of 2028, Michael said, part of a series of Golden Dome-related events.



“There’s never been more effort in the department on this particular capability,” Michael said. “There [are] several companies that are emerging that have developed it, and several companies that are taking what they’ve already built and making it cheaper and better.”



Michael’s comments effectively tie the future of U.S. military laser weapons to a presidential priority with serious money and a hard deadline behind it. The Pentagon’s fiscal year 2027 budget request contains $452 million in proposed R&amp;D spending for the “development, integration, and assessment” of directed energy weapons in support of Golden Dome alone, more than triple the $142 million enacted under the One Big Beautiful Bill Act reconciliation package Trump signed into law in July 2025. In addition, the U.S. Army and U.S. Navy together have laid out plans to spent $675.9 million over the next five years on a containerized 150-300 kilowatt Joint Laser Weapon System (JWLS) as part of the military’s broader Golden Dome architecture. In addition, Michael’s mention of Iran as having “doubled” the Pentagon’s interest in directed energy adds an operational urgency that budget numbers alone don’t capture.



But there’s a problem with Michael’s declaration that the science of laser weapons is “largely done” and the engineering is what remains: Engineering is exactly what has sunk U.S. military programs in the past. Building effective laser weapons means ensuring they can be operated and maintained across a range of tactical environments by soldiers who aren’t laser specialists. Consider the Army’s 50 kW Stryker-mounted Directed Energy Maneuver-Short Range Air Defense (DE M-SHORAD), which the service determined was “not mature enough” to become a program of record after rocky operational testing in the Middle East in 2024 exposed issues with the system’s heat dissipation and reliability in its vehicle-mounted configuration. (Robert Rasch, a retired Army lieutenant general, summed up the problem with real-world directed energy weapon deployments in August 2025: “We can’t get by with the thought of having clean rooms out in combat.”)



The Pentagon has been burning drones out of the sky with lasers since 1973, but it has yet to consistently translate demonstrators into battle-ready weapons that American service members can actually rely on outside a controlled environment.



Indeed, the last decade has proven a graveyard of promising laser weapon programs. Beyond DE M-SHORAD, the Army has also abandoned its 300 kW Indirect Fire Protection Capability-High Energy Laser project after downshifting from an eventual program of record to a single testbed that will inform future JLWS efforts. The Navy’s 60 kW High Energy Laser with Integrated Optical Dazzler and Surveillance system, which only recently began testing at full power and successfully engaged drone targets aboard the Arleigh Burke-class guided missile destroyer USS Preble after years of delays, has effectively disappeared from the service’s fiscal year 2027 budget request outside a handful of sustainment dollars. The Marine Corps returned its five much-hyped Compact Laser Weapon System units to Boeing without a replacement program in sight. The Air Force spent years testing Raytheon’s High-Energy Laser Weapon System before abandoning it without a program of record.



These failures share a common pattern diagnosed in a detailed 2023 Government Accountability Office report: promising laser weapons advanced through prototyping without ever securing formal transition partners or drafting agreements that would bind developers and the acquisition community to shared requirements, timelines, and funding responsibilities, dooming them to obsolescence simply because the bureaucratic will to fight for them across budget cycles and shifting service priorities didn’t exist. In his posture statement to the House Armed Services Committee in April, Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth called it “institutional inertia.” While Michael pointed to the Pentagon’s Joint Interagency Task Force 401 counterdrone group as a demand signal aggregator alongside and Golden Dome as a political forcing function, neither of those things solves the transition problem on its own.



Two efforts—likely Michael’s “suite of directed energy products that go from low-end to high-end”—will serve as the clearest early indicators of whether the Pentagon’s engineering confidence is warranted. The first is the Enduring High Energy Laser (E-HEL), the Army’s modular 30 kW system explicitly envisioned as the service’s first directed energy program of record—and it appears to be moving faster than almost any laser effort before it. Based on Army documents, E-HEL’s design philosophy looks like a direct response to DE M-SHORAD’s shortcomings, with the system decoupled from a specific vehicle platform and built for soldier-performable sustainment using line-replaceable units. The service plans to “produce and rapidly field” 24 E-HEL systems over a five-year period, with the first prototype expected no later than the second quarter of fiscal year 2026 and initial procurement units slated for delivery by the end of fiscal year 2027. If this timeline holds, E-HEL would mark the first time the U.S. military service has successfully transitioned a laser weapon to a genuine program of record.



The second is the aforementioned JLWS, the Joint Laser Weapon System. The Navy plans on awarding $31.7 million in contracts for the development of a Joint Beam Control System—a critical component “capable of supporting” a 300-500 kW laser weapon system, according to the Navy’s fiscal year 2027 budget request—as soon as the fourth quarter of 2026, with another $30 million in contracts for the procurement and testing of containerized hardware expected by March 2027. That timeline makes a Golden Dome demonstration in the summer of 2028 plausible, but it also means whatever system appears will likely be an early-stage weapon rather than a mature one. The current JLWS R&amp;D roadmap runs through fiscal year 2031, and while a successful demonstration in two years would be a genuine milestone, it would still represent the early stages of a fielding process.



Whether the U.S. defense industrial base is ready to answer either program’s call remains an open question. Manufacturing expansions from defense contractors like Huntington Ingalls Industries, AV, IPG Photonics, and nLight are encouraging signs, but the industrial building blocks for laser weapons—from specialized optics with 12-to-18-month lead times to critical materials and rare earth elements sourced from Chinese-dominated supply chains—do not yet appear in place to enable the production systems at the scale Michael is describing.



The development of laser weapons has been defined for decades by a seemingly inescapable cycle of enthusiasm and disappointment. Ellen Pawlikowski, a retired Air Force general and former program manager for the service’s YAL-1 Airborne Laser effort, perfectly captured the longstanding Pentagon consensus around directed energy in an interview for the 2018 book Lasers, Death Rays, and the Long, Strange Quest for the Ultimate Weapon: “I’m tough on laser people these days. It’s because they have a reputation of overpromising and underdelivering.”



With institutional support at a historic high, the Golden Dome-driven demonstration planned for summer 2028 may end up proving a moment of truth for the engineering challenges that have imperiled laser weapon programs past—or, at worst, yet another setback for the U.S. military’s long pursuit of directed energy.



This article is republished with permission from Laser Wars, a newsletter about military laser weapons and other futuristic defense technology.



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<description><![CDATA[ Decision time is near for millions of federal student loan borrowers who will need to pick a new repayment plan starting July 1.



Due to the Big Beautiful Bill Act passed in July 2025, repayment plans for student loans will look different, requiring borrowers to choose from just two options: a Repayment Assistance Plan and a Tiered Standard Plan. For those who do not choose in time, the government will make a decision for them.



Among those affected are the roughly 7 million loan holders enrolled in Saving for a Valuable Education (SAVE), the Biden-era repayment program. The income-driven plan offered one of the most affordable options for individuals.



SAVE holders have already been in a complicated situation since 2024, when they were placed in a nearly two-year, interest-free forbearance due to Republican-led legal battles. Starting July 1, those enrolled in SAVE will receive notice from federal loan servicers with further instructions and deadlines on how to take action.



But it’s not just SAVE enrollees affected, as other repayment plans will also be phased out.



What are the new student loan payment plans?



The Repayment Assistance Plan, or RAP, is an income-driven option first offered in the ’90s in an effort to make repayments affordable for individuals. These plans tend to cap monthly payments based on an individual’s income level, canceling remaining debt after two decades of payment.



RAP determines payments based on adjusted gross income, with payments ranging from 1% to 10% (higher earners pay a higher percentage), with a mandatory $10 minimum.



Perks for the plan include $50 off per dependent on their monthly bills, as well as giving individuals credit on the timeline for the Public Service Loan Forgiveness program.



The tiered plan will fix a borrower’s debt into payments spread across four time frames. Those with a loan below $25,000 will have to repay the loan within 10 years; the repayment time is longer for higher loan amounts.


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<title>12 of the best digital banking platforms for small business</title>
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Considering a digital banking platform over one of the traditional stalwarts? We&#039;ve picked out 12 of the best for your perusal
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<title>Top social media tips for small businesses</title>
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<description><![CDATA[ By Ben Lobel on Small Business UK - Advice and Ideas for UK Small Businesses and SMEs


Here, we reveal social media tips to help you succeed
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<title>How to start a dog walking business</title>
<link>https://thebusinesseconomic.com/how-to-start-a-dog-walking-business</link>
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<description><![CDATA[ By Anna Jordan on Small Business UK - Advice and Ideas for UK Small Businesses and SMEs


For those who love pooches and want to set up a dog walking business, check out this guide to learn more about how to do it
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<title>Reddit: An Overlooked Marketing Tool</title>
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<title>Co&#45;ownership of commercial property – what you should do if you can’t agree on what happens to it</title>
<link>https://thebusinesseconomic.com/co-ownership-of-commercial-property-what-you-should-do-if-you-cant-agree-on-what-happens-to-it</link>
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<description><![CDATA[ By Katarina Morgan on Small Business UK - Advice and Ideas for UK Small Businesses and SMEs


Know where you stand on co-ownership commercial property disputes before you go down the litigation route, says Katarina Morgan
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<title>Exploring the Benefits of AI Bots for Forex Trading in Forex Markets</title>
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<description><![CDATA[ The foreign exchange market is really moving away from pure intuition and toward a space shaped by speed, data and precision. By using automated systems in your routine, you can approach volatility with a level of discipline that manual trading often struggles to maintain. Every entry and exit can be based on clear rules, not […]
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<title>Google folds Display Ads into AI&#45;first Demand Gen platform</title>
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<description><![CDATA[ Google is folding Display Ads into its AI-powered Demand Gen platform, marking the end of a long-standing digital advertising model. The Google Display Network (GDN) has been a staple of the open internet for almost twenty years. Marketers previously relied on its predictable framework to target placements, bid on audiences, and A/B test static creative […]
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<title>NBA plans AI system for automatic out&#45;of&#45;bounds calls</title>
<link>https://thebusinesseconomic.com/nba-plans-ai-system-for-automatic-out-of-bounds-calls</link>
<guid>https://thebusinesseconomic.com/nba-plans-ai-system-for-automatic-out-of-bounds-calls</guid>
<description><![CDATA[ NBA Commissioner Adam Silver said the league plans to introduce an automated system for certain officiating decisions, including out-of-bounds calls. The system would use AI and cameras placed around the court to determine possession. Silver compared the approach to Hawk-Eye, the tracking technology used for line calls in tennis. Disputed call preceded Silver’s comments Silver’s […]
The post NBA plans AI system for automatic out-of-bounds calls appeared first on AI News. ]]></description>
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<pubDate>Fri, 29 May 2026 14:00:07 +0000</pubDate>
<dc:creator>Tomas Kauer - News Writer and Moderator</dc:creator>
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<title>Google Pay preps for AI agents with Universal Commerce Protocol</title>
<link>https://thebusinesseconomic.com/google-pay-preps-for-ai-agents-with-universal-commerce-protocol</link>
<guid>https://thebusinesseconomic.com/google-pay-preps-for-ai-agents-with-universal-commerce-protocol</guid>
<description><![CDATA[ Google Pay is overhauling its payment infrastructure for an impending wave of transactions from AI agents. The latest updates introduce the Universal Commerce Protocol and a new server architecture, positioning Google Pay as a central clearinghouse for purchases executed by autonomous agents rather than human users. AI agents – designed to perform tasks like booking […]
The post Google Pay preps for AI agents with Universal Commerce Protocol appeared first on AI News. ]]></description>
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<pubDate>Fri, 29 May 2026 14:00:06 +0000</pubDate>
<dc:creator>Tomas Kauer - News Writer and Moderator</dc:creator>
<media:keywords>Google, Pay, preps, for, agents, with, Universal, Commerce, Protocol</media:keywords>
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<title>Anthropic releases Claude Opus 4.8</title>
<link>https://thebusinesseconomic.com/anthropic-releases-claude-opus-48</link>
<guid>https://thebusinesseconomic.com/anthropic-releases-claude-opus-48</guid>
<description><![CDATA[ Anthropic has released Claude Opus 4.8, an upgrade to Claude Opus 4.7 that the company says brings improved results for coding, agent work, reasoning, and knowledge work. The platform can be used through claude.ai, Claude Code and the Claude API, with the API name claude-opus-4-8. The company has also altered some of the details of […]
The post Anthropic releases Claude Opus 4.8 appeared first on AI News. ]]></description>
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<pubDate>Fri, 29 May 2026 14:00:05 +0000</pubDate>
<dc:creator>Tomas Kauer - News Writer and Moderator</dc:creator>
<media:keywords>Anthropic, releases, Claude, Opus, 4.8</media:keywords>
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<title>Why Google’s AI can’t spell Google (or anything else)</title>
<link>https://thebusinesseconomic.com/why-googles-ai-cant-spell-google-or-anything-else</link>
<guid>https://thebusinesseconomic.com/why-googles-ai-cant-spell-google-or-anything-else</guid>
<description><![CDATA[ Google is embarrassing itself, again. ]]></description>
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<pubDate>Thu, 28 May 2026 14:00:08 +0000</pubDate>
<dc:creator>Tomas Kauer - News Writer and Moderator</dc:creator>
<media:keywords>Why, Google’s, can’t, spell, Google, or, anything, else</media:keywords>
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<title>Google engineer charged with insider trading after making $1.2M on Polymarket</title>
<link>https://thebusinesseconomic.com/google-engineer-charged-with-insider-trading-after-making-12m-on-polymarket</link>
<guid>https://thebusinesseconomic.com/google-engineer-charged-with-insider-trading-after-making-12m-on-polymarket</guid>
<description><![CDATA[ According to the complaint, a Google engineer risked over $2.7 million on wagers related to Google&#039;s 2025 Year in Search campaign. ]]></description>
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<pubDate>Thu, 28 May 2026 14:00:08 +0000</pubDate>
<dc:creator>Tomas Kauer - News Writer and Moderator</dc:creator>
<media:keywords>Google, engineer, charged, with, insider, trading, after, making, 1.2M, Polymarket</media:keywords>
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<title>Vertu wants CEOs to run companies from an AI foldable starting at $6,880</title>
<link>https://thebusinesseconomic.com/vertu-wants-ceos-to-run-companies-from-an-ai-foldable-starting-at-6880</link>
<guid>https://thebusinesseconomic.com/vertu-wants-ceos-to-run-companies-from-an-ai-foldable-starting-at-6880</guid>
<description><![CDATA[ Built on top of the open-source Hermes project, Vertu&#039;s new foldable combines AI-agent workflows, enterprise integrations, and ultra-premium luxury finishes. ]]></description>
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<pubDate>Thu, 28 May 2026 14:00:08 +0000</pubDate>
<dc:creator>Tomas Kauer - News Writer and Moderator</dc:creator>
<media:keywords>Vertu, wants, CEOs, run, companies, from, foldable, starting, 6, 880</media:keywords>
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<title>Oura unveils its Ring 5 with a thinner, lighter design starting at $399</title>
<link>https://thebusinesseconomic.com/oura-unveils-its-ring-5-with-a-thinner-lighter-design-starting-at-399</link>
<guid>https://thebusinesseconomic.com/oura-unveils-its-ring-5-with-a-thinner-lighter-design-starting-at-399</guid>
<description><![CDATA[ The ring is 40% smaller than its predecessor, and comes with more accurate sensing, enhanced battery life, and more. ]]></description>
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<pubDate>Thu, 28 May 2026 14:00:08 +0000</pubDate>
<dc:creator>Tomas Kauer - News Writer and Moderator</dc:creator>
<media:keywords>Oura, unveils, its, Ring, with, thinner, lighter, design, starting, 399</media:keywords>
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<title>Has the hunt for AI compute uncovered the next Cerebras?</title>
<link>https://thebusinesseconomic.com/has-the-hunt-for-ai-compute-uncovered-the-next-cerebras</link>
<guid>https://thebusinesseconomic.com/has-the-hunt-for-ai-compute-uncovered-the-next-cerebras</guid>
<description><![CDATA[ General Compute is betting SambaNova will be the next breakout chipmaker. ]]></description>
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<pubDate>Thu, 28 May 2026 14:00:07 +0000</pubDate>
<dc:creator>Tomas Kauer - News Writer and Moderator</dc:creator>
<media:keywords>Has, the, hunt, for, compute, uncovered, the, next, Cerebras</media:keywords>
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<title>Independent book stores are growing as people look for community in local spaces</title>
<link>https://thebusinesseconomic.com/independent-book-stores-are-growing-as-people-look-for-community-in-local-spaces</link>
<guid>https://thebusinesseconomic.com/independent-book-stores-are-growing-as-people-look-for-community-in-local-spaces</guid>
<description><![CDATA[ “We’re hoping people whose curiosity is piqued by the new Barnes and Noble will walk down the street,” a book store owner said, “and pop into our bookstore.” ]]></description>
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<pubDate>Thu, 28 May 2026 14:00:07 +0000</pubDate>
<dc:creator>Tomas Kauer</dc:creator>
<media:keywords>Independent, book, stores, are, growing, people, look, for, community, local, spaces</media:keywords>
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<title>We gave our 5,000 employees a week to do nothing but learn AI. We learned the biggest blockers are human ones </title>
<link>https://thebusinesseconomic.com/we-gave-our-5000-employees-a-week-to-do-nothing-but-learn-ai-we-learned-the-biggest-blockers-are-human-ones</link>
<guid>https://thebusinesseconomic.com/we-gave-our-5000-employees-a-week-to-do-nothing-but-learn-ai-we-learned-the-biggest-blockers-are-human-ones</guid>
<description><![CDATA[ You can be AI fluent, sure, but can you communicate that to others?  ]]></description>
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<pubDate>Thu, 28 May 2026 14:00:07 +0000</pubDate>
<dc:creator>Tomas Kauer</dc:creator>
<media:keywords>gave, our, 5, 000, employees, week, nothing, but, learn, AI., learned, the, biggest, blockers, are, human, ones </media:keywords>
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<title>Wendy’s U.S. President: the CEO burger battles exposed a truth every brand leader needs to hear</title>
<link>https://thebusinesseconomic.com/wendys-us-president-the-ceo-burger-battles-exposed-a-truth-every-brand-leader-needs-to-hear</link>
<guid>https://thebusinesseconomic.com/wendys-us-president-the-ceo-burger-battles-exposed-a-truth-every-brand-leader-needs-to-hear</guid>
<description><![CDATA[ The viral fast-food CEO feuds of 2025 were really a masterclass in what separates brand standards from brand aspirations. ]]></description>
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<pubDate>Thu, 28 May 2026 14:00:07 +0000</pubDate>
<dc:creator>Tomas Kauer</dc:creator>
<media:keywords>Wendy’s, U.S., President:, the, CEO, burger, battles, exposed, truth, every, brand, leader, needs, hear</media:keywords>
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<title>Current price of oil as of May 28, 2026</title>
<link>https://thebusinesseconomic.com/current-price-of-oil-as-of-may-28-2026</link>
<guid>https://thebusinesseconomic.com/current-price-of-oil-as-of-may-28-2026</guid>
<description><![CDATA[ When oil prices change, it affects your energy costs—and even the price of everyday items. Here’s why. ]]></description>
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<pubDate>Thu, 28 May 2026 14:00:07 +0000</pubDate>
<dc:creator>Tomas Kauer</dc:creator>
<media:keywords>Current, price, oil, May, 28, 2026</media:keywords>
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<title>Inflation hit the highest level in almost three years as the Fed releases the first inflation report under new chair Kevin Warsh</title>
<link>https://thebusinesseconomic.com/inflation-hit-the-highest-level-in-almost-three-years-as-the-fed-releases-the-first-inflation-report-under-new-chair-kevin-warsh</link>
<guid>https://thebusinesseconomic.com/inflation-hit-the-highest-level-in-almost-three-years-as-the-fed-releases-the-first-inflation-report-under-new-chair-kevin-warsh</guid>
<description><![CDATA[ Inflation jumped to 3.8% in April, the highest since May 2023. Core inflation rose to 3.3%, the highest core number since November 2023. ]]></description>
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<pubDate>Thu, 28 May 2026 14:00:07 +0000</pubDate>
<dc:creator>Tomas Kauer</dc:creator>
<media:keywords>Inflation, hit, the, highest, level, almost, three, years, the, Fed, releases, the, first, inflation, report, under, new, chair, Kevin, Warsh</media:keywords>
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<title>Noubikko Interiors Redefines: Where Fashion, and Modern Interiors Become One</title>
<link>https://thebusinesseconomic.com/noubikko-interiors-redefines-where-fashion-and-modern-interiors-become-one</link>
<guid>https://thebusinesseconomic.com/noubikko-interiors-redefines-where-fashion-and-modern-interiors-become-one</guid>
<description><![CDATA[ For the new generation, style has moved beyond wardrobes and into homes, studios, offices, lounges, and personal spaces. A well-designed interior now speaks as loudly as designer fashion. It reflects confidence, ambition, taste, and the quality of life a person chooses to embrace. ]]></description>
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<pubDate>Wed, 27 May 2026 14:00:11 +0000</pubDate>
<dc:creator>Business Economic Syndicated News</dc:creator>
<media:keywords>Noubikko, Interiors, Redefines:, Where, Fashion, and, Modern, Interiors, Become, One</media:keywords>
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<title>ISA shake&#45;up risks unwinding a decade of simplification, warns Charles Stanley</title>
<link>https://thebusinesseconomic.com/isa-shake-up-risks-unwinding-a-decade-of-simplification-warns-charles-stanley</link>
<guid>https://thebusinesseconomic.com/isa-shake-up-risks-unwinding-a-decade-of-simplification-warns-charles-stanley</guid>
<description><![CDATA[ 
From April 2027 the cash ISA allowance falls to £12,000 for under-65s and a 22% charge will hit interest on cash in stocks &amp; shares ISAs. Charles Stanley’s Rob Morgan warns the reforms risk reversing the 2014 simplification and deterring cautious savers.
Read more: 
ISA shake-up risks unwinding a decade of simplification, warns Charles Stanley ]]></description>
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<pubDate>Wed, 27 May 2026 14:00:09 +0000</pubDate>
<dc:creator>Business Economic Syndicated News</dc:creator>
<media:keywords>ISA, shake-up, risks, unwinding, decade, simplification, warns, Charles, Stanley</media:keywords>
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<title>Gordon Brothers swoops on Radley as Poundland owner adds British handbag label to its turnaround portfolio</title>
<link>https://thebusinesseconomic.com/gordon-brothers-swoops-on-radley-as-poundland-owner-adds-british-handbag-label-to-its-turnaround-portfolio</link>
<guid>https://thebusinesseconomic.com/gordon-brothers-swoops-on-radley-as-poundland-owner-adds-british-handbag-label-to-its-turnaround-portfolio</guid>
<description><![CDATA[ 
Poundland owner Gordon Brothers has bought British handbag brand Radley through a pre-pack administration, rescuing the label but axing 42 jobs and leaving 21 UK stores out of the deal.
Read more: 
Gordon Brothers swoops on Radley as Poundland owner adds British handbag label to its turnaround portfolio ]]></description>
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<pubDate>Wed, 27 May 2026 14:00:09 +0000</pubDate>
<dc:creator>Business Economic Syndicated News</dc:creator>
<media:keywords>Gordon, Brothers, swoops, Radley, Poundland, owner, adds, British, handbag, label, its, turnaround, portfolio</media:keywords>
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<title>Amazon’s UK tax bill tops £1.3bn as employer NI hike and £30bn sales drive the total higher</title>
<link>https://thebusinesseconomic.com/amazons-uk-tax-bill-tops-13bn-as-employer-ni-hike-and-30bn-sales-drive-the-total-higher</link>
<guid>https://thebusinesseconomic.com/amazons-uk-tax-bill-tops-13bn-as-employer-ni-hike-and-30bn-sales-drive-the-total-higher</guid>
<description><![CDATA[ 
Amazon&#039;s UK tax bill jumps 20% to more than £1.3bn after the employer national insurance rise and stronger sales — but campaigners want a clearer breakdown.
Read more: 
Amazon’s UK tax bill tops £1.3bn as employer NI hike and £30bn sales drive the total higher ]]></description>
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<pubDate>Wed, 27 May 2026 14:00:08 +0000</pubDate>
<dc:creator>Business Economic Syndicated News</dc:creator>
<media:keywords>Amazon’s, tax, bill, tops, £1.3bn, employer, hike, and, £30bn, sales, drive, the, total, higher</media:keywords>
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<title>Samsung chip workers pocket £300,000 windfalls as AI memory boom rewrites the rule book</title>
<link>https://thebusinesseconomic.com/samsung-chip-workers-pocket-300000-windfalls-as-ai-memory-boom-rewrites-the-rule-book</link>
<guid>https://thebusinesseconomic.com/samsung-chip-workers-pocket-300000-windfalls-as-ai-memory-boom-rewrites-the-rule-book</guid>
<description><![CDATA[ 
Samsung&#039;s 78,000 semiconductor workers are in line for bonuses of up to £300,000 after a landmark profit-share deal, as the AI memory chip supercycle reshapes the global tech industry.
Read more: 
Samsung chip workers pocket £300,000 windfalls as AI memory boom rewrites the rule book ]]></description>
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<pubDate>Wed, 27 May 2026 14:00:07 +0000</pubDate>
<dc:creator>Business Economic Syndicated News</dc:creator>
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<title>Half of graduates would refuse a student loan today, treasury inquiry warns</title>
<link>https://thebusinesseconomic.com/half-of-graduates-would-refuse-a-student-loan-today-treasury-inquiry-warns</link>
<guid>https://thebusinesseconomic.com/half-of-graduates-would-refuse-a-student-loan-today-treasury-inquiry-warns</guid>
<description><![CDATA[ 
A landmark Treasury Committee survey of more than 52,000 borrowers exposes the scale of disillusionment with the student finance system — and the knock-on effect on home ownership, family formation and the wider UK economy.
Read more: 
Half of graduates would refuse a student loan today, treasury inquiry warns ]]></description>
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<pubDate>Wed, 27 May 2026 14:00:07 +0000</pubDate>
<dc:creator>Business Economic Syndicated News</dc:creator>
<media:keywords>Half, graduates, would, refuse, student, loan, today, treasury, inquiry, warns</media:keywords>
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<title>Tech CEOs are apparently suffering from AI psychosis</title>
<link>https://thebusinesseconomic.com/tech-ceos-are-apparently-suffering-from-ai-psychosis</link>
<guid>https://thebusinesseconomic.com/tech-ceos-are-apparently-suffering-from-ai-psychosis</guid>
<description><![CDATA[ &quot;CEOs are uniquely prone to AI psychosis,&quot; Box CEO Aaron Levie opines. Maybe that explains the almost religious belief in AI productivity gains. ]]></description>
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<pubDate>Wed, 27 May 2026 14:00:05 +0000</pubDate>
<dc:creator>Business Economic Syndicated News</dc:creator>
<media:keywords>Tech, CEOs, are, apparently, suffering, from, psychosis</media:keywords>
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<title>Robinhood now lets your AI agents trade stocks</title>
<link>https://thebusinesseconomic.com/robinhood-now-lets-your-ai-agents-trade-stocks</link>
<guid>https://thebusinesseconomic.com/robinhood-now-lets-your-ai-agents-trade-stocks</guid>
<description><![CDATA[ Robinhood will let users create a separate account with pre-loaded balance that an agent use to trade ]]></description>
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<pubDate>Wed, 27 May 2026 14:00:05 +0000</pubDate>
<dc:creator>Business Economic Syndicated News</dc:creator>
<media:keywords>Robinhood, now, lets, your, agents, trade, stocks</media:keywords>
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<title>YouTube will now automatically label AI videos</title>
<link>https://thebusinesseconomic.com/youtube-will-now-automatically-label-ai-videos</link>
<guid>https://thebusinesseconomic.com/youtube-will-now-automatically-label-ai-videos</guid>
<description><![CDATA[ YouTube will now automatically label videos that use significant photorealistic AI, instead of relying solely on creators to disclose AI-generated content themselves. It&#039;s also making AI labels more prominent. ]]></description>
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<pubDate>Wed, 27 May 2026 14:00:04 +0000</pubDate>
<dc:creator>Business Economic Syndicated News</dc:creator>
<media:keywords>YouTube, will, now, automatically, label, videos</media:keywords>
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<title>ClickHouse triples anualized revenue to $250M, charting a path toward an IPO</title>
<link>https://thebusinesseconomic.com/clickhouse-triples-anualized-revenue-to-250m-charting-a-path-toward-an-ipo</link>
<guid>https://thebusinesseconomic.com/clickhouse-triples-anualized-revenue-to-250m-charting-a-path-toward-an-ipo</guid>
<description><![CDATA[ The database provider is eyeing a public debut within the next few years. ]]></description>
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<pubDate>Wed, 27 May 2026 14:00:04 +0000</pubDate>
<dc:creator>Business Economic Syndicated News</dc:creator>
<media:keywords>ClickHouse, triples, anualized, revenue, 250M, charting, path, toward, IPO</media:keywords>
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<title>China is increasingly keeping its best AI talent to itself</title>
<link>https://thebusinesseconomic.com/china-is-increasingly-keeping-its-best-ai-talent-to-itself</link>
<guid>https://thebusinesseconomic.com/china-is-increasingly-keeping-its-best-ai-talent-to-itself</guid>
<description><![CDATA[ China&#039;s AI boom is producing world-class talent, and Beijing is increasingly reluctant to let them go elsewhere. ]]></description>
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<pubDate>Wed, 27 May 2026 14:00:04 +0000</pubDate>
<dc:creator>Business Economic Syndicated News</dc:creator>
<media:keywords>China, increasingly, keeping, its, best, talent, itself</media:keywords>
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<title>These AI bots want to help fans navigate World Cup host cities </title>
<link>https://thebusinesseconomic.com/these-ai-bots-wanttohelp-fans-navigate-world-cup-host-cities</link>
<guid>https://thebusinesseconomic.com/these-ai-bots-wanttohelp-fans-navigate-world-cup-host-cities</guid>
<description><![CDATA[ When soccer fans head to the FIFA World Cup starting in June, they’ll have a new option for finding things to do, places to stay, and ways to get around in various host cities: artificial intelligence. 



Some visitors will likely turn to general-purpose AI tools like ChatGPT and Claude, with recent studies finding they’ve become popular travel-planning tools despite the risk they’ll present outdated or false information. But multiple host cities are also deploying specially developed AI assistants and virtual concierges they say will deliver curated, relevant, and up-to-date facts and guidance for visitors. 



Frisco, Texas—home to Toyota Stadium, which is serving as a World Cup base camp for Sweden’s national team—has worked with the AI travel planning service GuideGeek on an AI assistant called Frankie that can answer questions about hotels, restaurants, shopping, and activities in the Dallas-area city. The bot launched last year after a couple of months of work, ensuring it could give correct and comprehensive answers based on data sources like the official Visit Frisco tourism website, says Cori Powers, director of marketing and communications for Visit Frisco. 



“We really wanted to ensure that it was conversational and fun and would make trip planning to Frisco convenient,” says Powers. 



Recently, Powers says, the bot has seen a rise of questions about World Cup planning, along with other questions related to summer vacations. Noting the questions users ask Frankie has helped the organization add relevant copy to its website—which in turn feeds back into Frankie—and social media channels. 



“One of the biggest values for the tourism boards is identifying where those content gaps are,” says Greg Oates, director of AI advocacy at GuideGeek and its parent organization, Matador Network. “If a tourism board has seen that a lot of people are asking about something specific and it’s not being answered in the website, then they can update that content or expand on that.” 



For better or worse, GuideGeek’s city-specific bots are designed to steer off-topic questions back to their sponsoring cities, which means Frankie reflects even some questions about the greater Dallas area back to answers about Frisco itself. But the bots also have features that ordinary tourism websites don’t, including the conversational interface, map integrations to highlight relevant sites, and the ability to serve up relevant images. Additionally, GuideGeek bots, which serve more than 30 locations and brands around the world from Aruba to Manitoba, can answer questions in dozens of languages.  



“If you’re coming from somewhere and English isn’t your native language, you just talk to GuideGeek in whatever your language might be,” Oates says. “GuideGeek understands that [and] will respond in kind.” 



Already, Visit Frisco has seen a burst of queries in languages like Spanish, German, and Mandarin. 



And GuideGeek’s multilingual capability has also proven useful in New York City, where NYC Tourism + Conventions has deployed two GuideGeek-powered bots: Ellis, targeting business event planners, and Libby, aimed at tourists and travelers visiting the city. The tourism organization deployed Libby last year, motivated in part by the World Cup, and the fact that while its website is only available in five languages, GuideGeek’s AI can support more than 60. Libby, which is available through the Tourism + Conventions website and through WhatsApp, quickly proved popular, says Nancy Mammana, chief marketing officer at NYC Tourism + Conventions. 



“When we launched it in June, it really started to catch fire quickly, and it’s become a very important channel for us,” she says. “We’ve seen over 45,000 conversations happen with the tool in 68 languages from 178 countries, and over 122,000 queries, which is great.” 



Libby, which is advertised with QR code-embedded marketing material throughout the city, has even been embraced by locals for some events, like Restaurant Week, Mammana says.  



It also won’t be the only AI bot available to help navigate the New York area around the World Cup, which in addition to potentially heavy crowds will see changes to normal transit patterns, along with special deals at restaurants and exhibits at area museums. An “Official NYNJ World Cup Concierge” will also be available with the backing of the official FIFA World Cup New York New Jersey host committee, built with a company called Neurun that got its start building AI guides for running events like marathons. 



The AI concierge, which will be accessible through the host committee website and other websites that embed its web page widget with host committee approval, is designed to be a single “official source of truth” for the World Cup events, says Bruce Revman, cohost city manager of the FIFA World Cup 26 New York New Jersey host committee. That means that it will have access to up-to-date transit info, highlighted through an integration with Google Maps, along with other verified information about what’s going on in the area during the World Cup events. Users will also be able to ask for general New York City information, like opening hours at area attractions, or use the tool to locate places to watch World Cup games and find special deals available during the tournament, Revman says.  



In addition to testing its AI concierges by hand, Neurun deploys additional AI agents that pose questions of the bots and grade and record their answers, says Neurun’s cofounder and CEO, Cade Netscher. 



“It’ll record the activity that it does, so we can watch it, ask different questions, see what happens, make sure it looks appropriate,” he says. “And then we can fill in the gaps.” 



Like Libby, the concierge is likely to have uses beyond the World Cup. Revman says it’s expected to be promoted around events like Sail 4th 250, a celebration of the country’s 250th anniversary this July focusing on tall ships. 



And while AI travel planning tools are sometimes criticized for taking the human element out of vacationing, replacing personal research and expert advice with computer-generated itineraries and fact sheets, Revman emphasizes that questions will be based on official information derived from human expertise, whether users are asking about security protocols, sightseeing options, or travel logistics.  



“It’s been a fun time, working with the host committee and their partners in this,” says Netscher. “You see AI headlines—everyone’s terrified of AI replacing human connection and everything—and we think with this technology we can leverage AI to enhance human connection.”  ]]></description>
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<title>Meet the online superfans who turned their Stan Twitter experience into full&#45;time social media jobs</title>
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<description><![CDATA[ Katelyn Ide was thirteen when she first logged onto Twitter from a small town in Connecticut and discovered Justin Bieber’s fervent online fandom. Like most fans, she wasn’t content to just hang back and idolize from a distance, but to actively participate any way she could. She ran multiple fan accounts, mastering engagement back when Twitter allowed only 140 characters. Her “finish the lyric” tweets and song prompts circulated widely enough that she accumulated nearly 20,000 followers. “It became my whole personality,” she told me.



What Ide didn’t realize at the time was that she was gaining valuable skills for a future career. Now 28, she works as Head of Social Strategy and Talent at Sweety High, a Gen Z–focused digital media company, in a role shaped almost entirely by the years she spent as a rabidly online Belieber. Although she initially left that experience off her résumé after graduating college, she eventually sent a direct message from her Bieber fan account to a prospective employer explaining why her fandom background made her uniquely qualified for the job. Within ten minutes, she received a reply; within days, she was hired. “I truly owe my career to my Justin Bieber fan account,” she said.



For almost as long as it has existed, fandom has occupied a culturally diminished space: misunderstood, ridiculed, and shadowed by the old Victorian association between female intensity and hysteria. For much of the 20th and early 21st centuries, the fangirl was imagined as excessive rather than skilled, someone wasting time and energy on trivial pursuits.



Yet employers have belatedly begun to recognize that many of the skills now prized in the digital economy were first developed inside fan communities, where intense attachment to artists incidentally produced real expertise through participatory fandom. Fans built graphics kits and analytic dashboards before they knew those terms existed. Those who learned to trend hashtags for Taylor Swift, coordinate streaming campaigns for BTS, or run update accounts for Justin Bieber and One Direction were, in effect, apprenticing themselves in the logistics of online attention long before employers learned to value their skills.



Employers Are Finally Taking Fangirls Seriously



As more of Gen Z enters the workforce, fans are realizing that fandom has created entry points into the entertainment industry for those otherwise shut out by money or geography. “Instead of relying solely on formal routes like university or structured internships, you can actively create your own opportunities through participation,” says Issy Aldridge, a marketing executive whose adolescence spent writing One Direction fan fiction on Tumblr was an unconventional proving ground for her job. “Running fan accounts, contributing to blogs, organising projects, moderating communities, or even volunteering as a fan rep at concerts all develop real, transferable skills.”



Last May, Aldridge co-developed That Fangirl Life, a resource aimed at converting fan experience into employment. Its career guides encourage users to frame time spent running fan accounts in professionalized language and even suggest citing “viral tweets” or engagement statistics in interviews, demonstrating how deeply skilled fandom has always been. 



In the year since That Fangirl Life launched, Aldridge has been working to develop the site’s first success story, amid a broader shift she’s noticed, where fans are more confidently asserting their fandom practice as professionally useful skills.  “If someone’s running a fan account—creating content, posting regularly, overseeing a community and actively engaging with them—why couldn’t they pursue a career within social media management?”



It’s a question Aldrige says employers—particularly in the music industry—are also beginning to ask themselves.  “Some of the major labels are starting to hire roles dedicated to fan engagement, often requiring lived experience within a subculture like fandom,” including Universal Music Group, which recently hired a ‘Fans Insight Strategist’ to help drive a deeper understanding of fan behavior to inform marketing, artist development, and commercial decision-making.



Recently, media company Vocal Media’s CEO posted on LinkedIn asking for people who used to run One Direction stan or update accounts, because he noticed the top candidates they were hiring had this as a common thread. HBO recently hired someone who was making mega viral Heated Rivalry edits.



While many fans today follow a stan-to-staff pipeline, Nicole Santero, Senior Director of Marketing &amp; Communications at BES, a company that trains leaders to build schools, represents the inverse. A longtime professional who later began a Ph.D. studying BTS and its ARMY fanbase, her professional work had been “mostly local and regional.” Through her involvement with BTS ARMY and her widely followed account @ResearchBTS, she began observing the dynamics of a genuinely global digital community. “A lot of things I learned from ARMY I was able to bring into more national-level work,” she said. “Design, engagement, content cycles, community trust. That translates directly.” 



In ARMY, Santero found an intergenerational, interprofessional cross-pollination between pre-employed youths and older, successful professionals—including lawyers, educators, marketers, and researchers—who brought their expertise directly into fandom. “They’re creating content, leading conversations, modeling professional-level work in a fan context,” says Santero. Meanwhile, “younger fans are learning from them in real time, picking up skills in content creation, community organizing, and platform strategy simply by participating.”



Fans’ Most Valuable Skill Is Sincerity And Intuition 



Despite its enormous value for companies, Santero resists describing fandom as labor. Fans, she argues, are not primarily motivated by productivity or careerism, and imposing that framework risks muddying one of the few remaining spaces fueled by pure affection rather than transaction.



Still, there’s always been potential for an asymmetry here that’s difficult to ignore. Artists and corporations have long benefited materially from fan activity without compensating it. When I interviewed deadmau5 several years ago, he referred to fans who sent him stems and remix material as engaging in an informal kind of “internship,” as he incorporated their contributions into his own music without payment.



Natalie Held, a cultural and content strategist and contributor to That Fangirl Life, says fandom labor is complicated because most fans never expect to be paid, since their work is motivated by passion and community rather than professional ambition. Still, she argues, that doesn’t diminish its value or justify industries benefiting from it for free. 



When she entered the professional world and realized she was now being paid for the same skills she had developed organically in fandom—audience mobilization, trend analysis, rapid-response content—it changed how she understood her past experience. At the same time, she sees something bittersweet in fandom’s professionalization, since fan communities were built on genuine emotional investment rather than metrics or performance targets. “The best work I do now still comes from that fan mentality,” she says, “leading with authenticity and emotional intelligence, not just strategy.”



Like many others, Held grew up stanning One Direction, developing an intense devotion that still shapes her professional work today. After first entering fandom spaces on Twitter in 2012, she took from that experience relevant skills she’d apply at one of her first jobs at Meta, including similar pattern recognition she’d learned as a fan trying to identify trends on Instagram. Now, in her role as cultural and content strategist, she says her job still, in many ways, resembles the fandom she was trained on, as she helps develop a clear brand voice, and mobilizes audiences. 



“Companies are realizing that the person who ran a 100,000-follower update account has more applicable experience than someone with a traditional marketing degree but no feel for what actually moves people online,” says Held. 



That instinctive ‘feel’ might ultimately be the most important value fandom produces. While any company can buy analytic tools, or commission surveys, or hire consultants to try and explain what younger audiences might want, what they’ll never be able to reverse-engineer is the deeply internalized and passionate understanding of online culture by those who spent years really living it. Stans understand how attention moves online, but most importantly, they understand why. They also know when young audiences are being pandered to, and when brands are speaking in an unconvincing, passé voice.



Brands have recently adopted the tone and vernacular of fandom. And brands from Duolingo to Wendy’s have campy, meme-referencing  fanspeak into their brand voice, drawing attention online by posting brainrot and, in Wendy’s case, referring to itself as an “Ice Spice fan account”.(Sir, this is a Wendy’s).



“Ten to fifteen years ago, social media still felt so new and companies were still figuring out where it even fit, or if it was something they should take seriously,” says Santero. “Now it’s central to how most organizations operate, and employers are starting to understand that people who are genuinely embedded in these spaces bring something you can’t really teach.”



During album releases and award campaigns, ARMY coordinates across languages and time zones, tracking streaming data in real time, placing birthday billboards across the globe, and raising funds for charities advocated for by BTS. “I’ve personally had corporate reps and even politically affiliated groups reach out to me asking for insights on how they could get ARMY’s attention or earn their support,” says Santero. “My answer is always some version of: it’s not that simple.”



The difficulty is that fandom’s power can’t be separated from the deep sincerity that produced it in the first place. And now, there’s an irony that fandom became professionally valuable precisely because it was never designed to be professional. The stan-to-staff pipeline works because fans spent years learning how people behave online when they actually care.



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<title>Ferrari Luce: Stock market reacts to the Italian luxury sports carmaker’s first EV, codesigned by Jony Ive</title>
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<description><![CDATA[ It’s an exciting week for Ferrari, but you wouldn’t know that by looking at its stock.



On Monday, the Italian luxury carmaker unveiled the Luce, its first foray into electric cars and a moment five years in the making. 



The Luce has four electric engines and a 122 kWh battery, and takes about 2.5 seconds to reach 60 mph. It’s the company’s first five-seater car. 



The Ferrari EV was designed by Jony Ive and Marc Newson at the creative collective LoveFrom.



Ive was previously the chief design officer at Apple, working at the company for 27 years. 



Fast Company’s global design editor, Mark Wilson, got a peek at the interiors in February (minus the rest of the car) and called it the closest version of an “Apple car” the world will ever see. 



[Photo: Ferrari]



But the Luce’s appearance is leaving many people put off, with the external design, especially, appearing less like a Ferrari and more like any generic EV—albeit one that costs 550,000 euros ($640,000).



The EV is being widely panned by social media users. 



“The one thing I somewhat understand is that it’s clearly bound by EV packaging rather than trying to fit the traditional shapes of ICE [Internal Combustion Engine] cars,” one Reddit thread with hundreds of comments points out. “That’s just not the right approach for Ferrari.” 



Another user put it more bluntly: “What a sad day to have eyes.”



Meanwhile, Anthony Dick, an auto analyst at Oddo BHF, told CNBC that the Luce is “the furthest deviation from the brand’s ethos we’ve ever seen.” 



U.S.-listed shares of Ferrari NV (NYSE: RACE) fell more than 6% in premarket trading on Tuesday morning after the car made its debut. The stock is down more than 6% year to date and roughly 27% over the last 12 months.  



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<title>Screens are saturating U.S. classrooms, fueling a backlash on school&#45;issued devices  </title>
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<description><![CDATA[ Just a few years ago, America’s public schools were rushing to get every child a laptop. Anna Soffer, a Los Angeles middle school teacher, remembers it well: “The idea was that technology is the future, so we need to put tech in every child’s hands.”Now, the conversation has flipped. After pouring billions of dollars into laptops, tablets and learning apps, many schools are facing a digital reckoning. Classrooms have become saturated with screens, and a growing number of parents, teachers, and school districts are saying it is time to scale back.“The Chromebook is just a world of distraction,” says Soffer, who teaches sixth grade English and history. She favors pen-and-paper assignments but is required to use laptops and online apps for certain activities. “Every day, I’m battling, ‘Who would you rather listen to, Ms. Soffer or Minecraft?&#039;”The Los Angeles Unified School District (LAUSD), where Soffer teaches, recently became the first major school district to say it will stop giving devices to its youngest students. It is part of a new screen-time policy taking effect in the fall across the country’s second-largest school system.A sweeping resolution passed last month by the Los Angeles school board requires the district to eliminate devices until second grade, set daily and weekly screen limits for all higher grades, block YouTube on school devices, and ban the use of devices at lunch and recess in elementary and middle school. The district will also audit its education technology contracts, which the teachers union says amount to $1.6 billion.The Los Angeles crackdown is adding momentum to calls for reform emerging around the country. In many cases, parents lobbied a few years ago for school cellphone bans, which have now become the norm. Realizing phones weren’t the only classroom distraction, they pivoted to a new target: school-issued devices.The campaign for change is becoming a public policy issue. At least 14 states have proposed laws to limit screen time in schools, according to Ballotpedia. The federal government issued an advisory last week warning that excessive screen use among youths is becoming a growing public health concern.



Parents say school-issued devices undermine screen limits at home



In Los Angeles, concerned parents last year formed a group, Schools Beyond Screens, and pressured the district by speaking out at school board meetings, on social media, and in private talks with administrators. Many are frustrated by trying to curb screen time at home, only to have screens mandated by school.As a mother of three, Katie Pace does everything in her power to limit screens. There is one family iPad and one television at home, no screen time during the week, and no screens allowed in bedrooms. Her eighth-grade daughter, Clementine, does not have a phone.But as soon as Clementine gets on the Wi-Fi-enabled school bus, her day takes a turn for the digital.For the 30-minute ride to school, Clementine watches YouTube videos on her school Chromebook.In Spanish class, assignments are on the app Duolingo, but many students use Google Translate for answers, Clementine said. Often, kids are playing games on their phones, which are supposed to be locked away. In algebra, Clementine writes with her finger on a touch screen to solve equations. In history, quizzes, tests, and writing assignments are on the computer.Almost all homework is online. Until recently, Clementine would come home and read a book, her mother said, but not anymore. On her daughter’s device history, Pace sees she spends hours a day streaming music, making Spotify playlists, and watching makeup tutorials and cat videos on YouTube.“It makes me furious,” said Pace, a member of Schools Beyond Screens. “My daughter went to middle school and was sent home with a screen addiction in her backpack.”



The pandemic supercharged student access to devices



A push to put a device in every child’s hand and close the “digital divide” started over a decade ago but it accelerated during the COVID-19 pandemic.Overnight, education shifted online in March 2020. Schools raced to get kids the devices needed to connect to school. When the 2021-2022 school year started, 96% of U.S. public schools reported they had given digital devices to students who needed them, according to the National Center for Education Statistics.Many schools switched funding away from textbooks, workbooks, and paper printouts to digital alternatives. Educational technology, or edtech, exploded into a multibillion dollar industry.“During the pandemic, getting kids devices was a lifeline. Now, it’s time that we reset,” said Nick Melvoin, the LAUSD school board member who drafted the new resolution.Melvoin estimates that few Los Angeles classrooms are using screens effectively in ways that benefit learning. Too often, he said, teachers are replacing instruction with online apps and using screens “as a crutch.”



Some schools are introducing new limits



The challenge, educators say, is that technology has become so entwined with learning, especially for older students, that unplugging from screens at school is complicated.In the affluent Philadelphia suburb of Lower Merion, parents launched a petition campaign for the right to opt their children out of digital devices during school, citing questions about edtech’s benefits. The district has said that opting out is not possible.“If there’s really no evidence that it helps, and in fact there’s evidence that it’s harmful, what are we doing? Test scores are at their lowest point,” said Alex Bird Becker, one of the founders of the group PA Unplugged.Other schools are finding that it makes financial sense to stop sending a device home with every child.Fresno Unified School District, the third largest in California, is spending $4 million a year to repair and replace laptops. Partly to cut costs, the district has told its 40,000 elementary school students to return their take-home laptops and will shift computer access to in-class only in the fall, said its spokesperson, A.J. Kato.The Simi Valley Unified School District, near Los Angeles, stopped sending devices home for its younger students this year partly because of costly repairs, but also because they were being used for “inappropriate Google searches” and video games, according to a memo to parents. The district now stores the devices in carts at school.A group of parents in Arlington, Virginia, gathered on a recent Saturday night to share their children’s struggles with screen addictions and other side effects of school-issued devices.“None of us are Luddites. I know that technology adds value, but I also don’t want my son on YouTube all the time,” said LuAnn Oliver, who hosted the group in her living room. Her sixth-grade son struggles to keep track of online assignments and resist the temptation the iPad offers for video games. “We get reports on websites he’s visited. He’s visiting a game site in nearly every class.”The Arlington School District has stopped giving iPads out before first grade and is setting new limits in elementary school, but students in sixth to 12th grades will still be required to have school-issued devices.Another mother, Jenny Sullivan, said she has noticed her fourth-grade son capitalizing random letters and not getting corrected because there is so little work on paper. She also worries about social implications: Her sixth grader doesn’t want to go to the afterschool program because everyone is on their iPad. “I’d rather be home,” he tells his mother.After a three-hour gathering, the parents made a plan to approach the school in the fall with a unified request to “opt out of technology and opt in to textbooks and paper.”“Ten years from now,” said one of the mothers, Kristina Jackson, “I can’t imagine us looking back with any other reaction than: How could we have been so naive that we just handed these devices to our kids?”







Associated Press writer Sharon Lurye contributed to this report.







The Associated Press’s education coverage receives financial support from multiple private foundations. AP is solely responsible for all content. Find AP’s standards for working with philanthropies, a list of supporters and funded coverage areas at AP.org.



—Jocelyn Gecker, AP Education Writer



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<title>Guzman y Gomez store closings: Full list of doomed locations as Chipotle rival faces lawsuit over U.S. pullout</title>
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<description><![CDATA[ Fans of the Mexican casual food chain Guzman y Gomez were surprised to learn last week that the Australia-based competitor to Chipotle Mexican Grill had abruptly closed all of its U.S. locations.



And the chain’s customers weren’t the only ones surprised by the news. Now, some of its former employees are suing the company over the unexpected closures. Here’s what you need to know.



What’s happened?



On May 21, Guzman y Gomez, a chain of Mexican fast-casual restaurants based in Australia, abruptly announced that it was closing all of its U.S. locations.



According to the company’s Australian website, Guzman y Gomez was founded in Sydney in 2006 with the aim of bringing more authentic Mexican cuisine to Australia. 



Since then, the company has expanded into other countries in the Asia-Pacific region, including Singapore and Japan. It now has over 260 restaurants globally.



Until recently, those restaurants included some in America. But as of May 22, the chain’s U.S. locations have now shuttered. 



A visit to the company’s U.S. website states that “Effective from May 22nd, GYG USA restaurants will cease trading.”



“After six years of burritos and big dreams in Chicagoland, we’ve made the difficult decision to close our US restaurants,” the website reads. “To every guest who came through our doors – you chose us, and we never took that for granted. To our team – thank you. Your passion and your purpose built something special.”



Fast Company has reached out to Guzman y Gomez for comment.



Which Guzman y Gomez locations have closed?



While the company’s website no longer lists the chain’s former U.S. locations, the Chicago Tribune reports that the first Guzman y Gomez store in the U.S. opened in Naperville, Illinois, in 2020. 



The chain then opened another seven stores in the state, where all its U.S. locations were based.



Guzman y Gomez’s eight U.S. locations were in the following cities:




Buffalo Grove, Illinois



Chicago, Illinois



Crystal Lake, Illinois



Deerfield, Illinois



Des Plaines, Illinois



Evanston, Illinois



Naperville, Illinois



Schaumburg, Illinois




Additionally, the Chicago Tribune reported that Guzman y Gomez had planned to open three more locations in Illinois in 2026, but those plans have been abandoned following the company’s exit from the U.S. market.



Why did Guzman y Gomez close its US stores?



It is notoriously hard for international food chains to operate in the U.S. market. Not only is the American marketplace crowded with U.S.-based rivals, but in recent years, even U.S.-based chains have struggled with declining foot traffic and rising costs as inflationary pressure bites consumers and businesses alike.



Mexican restaurants and fast food chains are also abundant in America, unlike in other parts of the world where Guzman y Gomez operates. 



This means that Guzman y Gomez already had an uphill battle in a country where, for instance, Chipotle Mexican Grill already dominates, with more than 4,000 locations.



On May 21, Guzman y Gomez’s co-CEO, Steven Marks, explained the abrupt U.S. pullout on a call with investors, telling them that the chain’s poor U.S. sales didn’t justify keeping the stores open any longer.



“This means ceasing to trade at our restaurants from today and proceeding with an orderly wind up of our operations in the U.S.,” the Tribune quoted Marks as saying “Notwithstanding the progress made by the team, the financial performance of the U.S. has simply not been acceptable.”



He added: “Starting with suburban drive-thrus has made it difficult to build brands in the U.S. Chicago has also been difficult. What is important is that we make changes when we need to.”



How have Guzman y Gomez’s employees responded?



The abrupt closures of Guzman y Gomez’s U.S. stores weren’t only a shock to its customers. Its U.S. store employees were also reportedly blindsided by the move. As noted by the Guardian, some of those employees have now launched a class action lawsuit over the closures that resulted in their job losses.



Workers were allegedly only informed about the closures on May 21 via an internal company message board. That’s the same day Marks made comments about the closures to analysts.



The class action lawsuit alleges that federal and state laws required Guzman y Gomez to give 60 days’ notice before mass layoffs—something the company allegedly did not do. The plaintiffs are now seeking 60 days’ pay and benefits.



A spokesperson for Guzman y Gomez told the Guardian that the company “is aware of legal action filed in the United States and we are confident we have met all of our legal obligations to our US employees,” adding it was “not in a position to provide further comment on this matter.”



How has Guzman y Gomez’s stock price reacted?



Guzman y Gomez does not trade on U.S. markets, but it is a publicly listed company in Australia, where it trades on the Australian Securities Exchange under the ticker GYG.AX.



Immediately after the company announced its U.S. withdrawal on May 21, its shares surged around 11%. This stock price boost likely reflects investor approval of the company’s decision to exit the notoriously challenging U.S. market.



However, despite this stock price jump, Guzman y Gomez’s shares have struggled for much of the past several years. Year to date, the company’s stock price has fallen more than 10%. 



And looking back even further, things are worse for the company’s share price. Over the past 12 months, Guzman y Gomez shares have been down more than 35%. ]]></description>
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<title>Small business savings account comparison</title>
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We&#039;ve rounded up some of the best small business savings offerings around, bringing you easy access, fixed and notice accounts   
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<title>10 card payment machines ideal for small business</title>
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<description><![CDATA[ By Tim Adler on Small Business UK - Advice and Ideas for UK Small Businesses and SMEs


Including Square, the SumUp Air and Zettle 2, we break down the fees and functions of the best card payment machines for UK small businesses
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<title>Musk and Zuckerberg convinced Trump to scrap AI executive order</title>
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<description><![CDATA[ The ceremony was scheduled. The CEOs were on the guest list. And then it wasn’t happening. On Thursday, US President Donald Trump scrapped a planned AI executive order, which had already been delayed multiple times, citing concerns that it might erode America’s competitive edge over China. “We’re leading China, we’re leading everybody, and I don’t […]
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<title>OpenAI opens Singapore AI lab as IMDA updates AI framework</title>
<link>https://thebusinesseconomic.com/openai-opens-singapore-ai-lab-as-imda-updates-ai-framework</link>
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<pubDate>Mon, 25 May 2026 14:00:07 +0000</pubDate>
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<title>China’s AI just mapped its entire renewable energy grid. Here’s why the rest of the world should pay attention</title>
<link>https://thebusinesseconomic.com/chinas-ai-just-mapped-its-entire-renewable-energy-grid-heres-why-the-rest-of-the-world-should-pay-attention</link>
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<description><![CDATA[ Every major economy is staring at the same problem right now. Artificial intelligence is consuming electricity at a pace that grids were never designed to handle. In the US, capacity market prices in PJM, the country’s largest grid operator, have risen more than tenfold in two years, with data-centre growth identified as a primary driver. […]
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<title>Style Is Not What You Wear &#45; It Is Who You Are</title>
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<title>Nuclear startup Deep Fission says it’s going public, again, and I have questions</title>
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<description><![CDATA[ Deep Fission is seeking an IPO that could raise $157 million, though investors may have trouble buying the nuclear startup&#039;s story. ]]></description>
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<pubDate>Sun, 24 May 2026 14:00:09 +0000</pubDate>
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<title>Ferrari is using IBM’s AI to create F1 superfans</title>
<link>https://thebusinesseconomic.com/ferrari-is-using-ibms-ai-to-create-f1-superfans</link>
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<description><![CDATA[ IBM and Scuderia Ferrari HP take TechCrunch inside how they are redefining the fan experience. ]]></description>
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<dc:creator>Tomas Kauer - News Writer and Moderator</dc:creator>
<media:keywords>Ferrari, using, IBM’s, create, superfans</media:keywords>
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<title>These special phone and app features can help protect you from spyware</title>
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<description><![CDATA[ Apple, Meta, and Google offer special security modes that provide your devices more secure against targeted spyware attacks. Here are how those modes work, what they do, and how to switch them on. ]]></description>
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<title>SolarSquare in talks to raise up to $60M as India’s rooftop solar market draws major VC interest</title>
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<description><![CDATA[ SolarSquare could be valued at up to $500 million in the financing expected to close next month. ]]></description>
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<title>The Dreamie alarm clock got me to stop using my phone in bed</title>
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<description><![CDATA[ What sets Dreamie apart from all of the other fancy alarm clocks is laughably simple: It can play podcasts. ]]></description>
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<title>Inside the ‘stealth wealth’ playbook: How Silicon Valley’s elite buy multimillion&#45;dollar mansions without leaving a paper trail</title>
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<guid>https://thebusinesseconomic.com/inside-the-stealth-wealth-playbook-how-silicon-valleys-elite-buy-multimillion-dollar-mansions-without-leaving-a-paper-trail</guid>
<description><![CDATA[ The ultrawealthy now treat visibility as a liability and they&#039;re paying to disappear from luxury real estate records. ]]></description>
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<title>BofA says you’ll be 10x more productive with AI. Ignore the 0.1% result so far</title>
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<guid>https://thebusinesseconomic.com/bofa-says-youll-be-10x-more-productive-with-ai-ignore-the-01-result-so-far</guid>
<description><![CDATA[ The bank sees a productivity boom and an implementation gap. Here&#039;s the argument for why it will close — and why the bubble may pop before that. ]]></description>
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<pubDate>Sun, 24 May 2026 14:00:09 +0000</pubDate>
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<title>Uber CEO says rideshare ‘freed up’ his son from having to get a driver’s license—and he’s one of many Gen Zers who aren’t willing to drive</title>
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<description><![CDATA[ “This drives me crazy. My son is over 18,” Dara Khosrowshahi said on a podcast. “I’m still trying to get my son to get his driver’s license.” ]]></description>
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<title>40 is the new 50: Millennial jobseekers are giving their resumes a facelift by hiding years of experience to land jobs</title>
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<description><![CDATA[ Suzy Welch has some advice for people struggling to get hired. ]]></description>
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<dc:creator>Tomas Kauer</dc:creator>
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<title>SpaceX’s next&#45;gen rocket is the key to its sky&#45;high valuation, early investor says: ‘Starship also enables all kinds of frontier markets’</title>
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<description><![CDATA[ SpaceX’s launch business gives it &quot;access to orbit,&quot; said Space Capital CEO Chad Anderson. ]]></description>
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<title>Blame the system, not the school leavers for youth unemployment, says Amazon’s UK boss</title>
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<guid>https://thebusinesseconomic.com/blame-the-system-not-the-school-leavers-for-youth-unemployment-says-amazons-uk-boss</guid>
<description><![CDATA[ 
Amazon UK chief John Boumphrey tells employers to stop blaming young people for record NEET numbers and calls for compulsory work experience for over-16s.
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<title>Labour eyes £1bn VAT raid on airport charges in stealth blow to family holidays</title>
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<guid>https://thebusinesseconomic.com/labour-eyes-1bn-vat-raid-on-airport-charges-in-stealth-blow-to-family-holidays</guid>
<description><![CDATA[ 
HMRC drafts plans to slap 20% VAT on airport landing fees, adding £1bn to airline costs and pushing up the price of UK family holidays — even as Reeves cuts VAT on days out.
Read more: 
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<title>Jaguar Land Rover eyes American tie&#45;up with Stellantis to sidestep Trump tariffs</title>
<link>https://thebusinesseconomic.com/jaguar-land-rover-eyes-american-tie-up-with-stellantis-to-sidestep-trump-tariffs</link>
<guid>https://thebusinesseconomic.com/jaguar-land-rover-eyes-american-tie-up-with-stellantis-to-sidestep-trump-tariffs</guid>
<description><![CDATA[ 
Jaguar Land Rover signs a memorandum of understanding with Stellantis to explore building Range Rovers and Defenders in the US, sidestepping President Trump&#039;s tariff cap on British-made cars.
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<pubDate>Sat, 23 May 2026 14:00:07 +0000</pubDate>
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<title>April borrowing surges to £24.3bn as debt interest bill breaks month record</title>
<link>https://thebusinesseconomic.com/april-borrowing-surges-to-243bn-as-debt-interest-bill-breaks-month-record</link>
<guid>https://thebusinesseconomic.com/april-borrowing-surges-to-243bn-as-debt-interest-bill-breaks-month-record</guid>
<description><![CDATA[ 
UK public sector borrowing climbed to £24.3bn in April 2026, overshooting the OBR forecast, as Treasury debt interest payments hit a record £10.3bn for the month.
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<pubDate>Sat, 23 May 2026 14:00:06 +0000</pubDate>
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<title>Morrisons to shut 100 convenience stores as supermarket blames Labour’s ‘policy choices’ for rising costs</title>
<link>https://thebusinesseconomic.com/morrisons-to-shut-100-convenience-stores-as-supermarket-blames-labours-policy-choices-for-rising-costs</link>
<guid>https://thebusinesseconomic.com/morrisons-to-shut-100-convenience-stores-as-supermarket-blames-labours-policy-choices-for-rising-costs</guid>
<description><![CDATA[ 
Morrisons is closing 100 loss-making convenience stores, putting hundreds of jobs at risk, and has blamed Labour&#039;s &quot;policy choices&quot; for the rising costs eroding profitability.
Read more: 
Morrisons to shut 100 convenience stores as supermarket blames Labour’s ‘policy choices’ for rising costs ]]></description>
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<pubDate>Sat, 23 May 2026 14:00:05 +0000</pubDate>
<dc:creator>Business Economic Syndicated News</dc:creator>
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<title>Blue Origin cleared to fly New Glenn mega&#45;rocket after April mishap</title>
<link>https://thebusinesseconomic.com/blue-origin-cleared-to-fly-new-glenn-mega-rocket-after-april-mishap</link>
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<description><![CDATA[ Jeff Bezos&#039; rocket company confirmed an engine failure led to the loss of an AST SpaceMobile satellite last month, but offered little detail. ]]></description>
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<title>SpaceX launches Starship V3 for the first time, but loses booster on return</title>
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<title>AI is being used to resurrect the voices of dead pilots</title>
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<description><![CDATA[ People used AI on a spectrogram image of cockpit recordings to reconstruct them, forcing the NTSB to temporarily block access to its docket system. ]]></description>
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<title>Peec, one of Berlin’s rising startups, more than doubled annualized revenue in months to $10M, sources say</title>
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<description><![CDATA[ Peec, which helps brands track their presence in AI searches, offers proof of a key trend among European startups. ]]></description>
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<title>Elon Musk has given up on solar power (on Earth)</title>
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<title>The LA28 typography is made of 4 custom fonts</title>
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<description><![CDATA[ The last time Los Angeles hosted the Olympic Games, designers had a relatively simple typographic system. It used the italic sans-serif Univers 66 as its logotype along with a blocky stencil-style “LA84” mark that appeared on venue and urban signage. More than 40 years later, the 2028 Los Angeles Games will use an entire bespoke four-font book.



The typeface of the 2028 Games brand and design system developed by Koto Studios is called LA28, and it’s inspired by strip mall signage and hand-painted street lettering across L.A. The typeface comes in four distinct styles, Display, Sans, Serif, and Super, and together they represent a much more eclectic approach to typography than we’re used to seeing from Olympics-related design.



“Each one has a distinct personality and purpose within the system,” Geoff Engelhardt, head of brand design for LA28, tells Fast Company. The goal with the fonts is to capture the feeling of Los Angeles rather than produce a literal depiction of it, he says. “We wanted the typography to feel like it could only belong to Los Angeles.”



LA28 Display is inspired by the block lettering of L.A.’s original city street signs, and it’s meant for things like numerals, captions, and wayfinding. 



[Image: LA28]



LA28 Sans is designed for clarity, legibility, and accessibility for text-heavy use cases.



[Image: LA28]



Then there’s LA28 Super, which is just the opposite. A charismatic, stylized, calligraphy-style font, Super is reserved for expressive moments and large-scale impact, as in graphic collateral that previews the brand, showing a billboard that reads “Bienvenidos” (“Welcome” in Spanish). Its letterforms mix sharp angles and shapes with smooth curves and distinctive flairs.



[Image: LA28]



LA28 Serif is a counterpart to Sans, a serif workhouse font for heavy copy. Both are ADA compliant, meaning they meet the accessibility requirements of the Americans With Disabilities Act.



[Image: LA28]



Together the fonts create a typographic system that’s more complicated than we’ve seen for Games of decades past. But it fits the wider approach organizers have employed to form the visual identity of LA28, taking inspiration from the diversity of the city.



“There’s a whole visual culture living on the streets of Los Angeles, in the storefronts, the hand-lettered murals, the block lettering on original street signs, and we wanted to honor that rather than import something that felt foreign to the city,” says Ric Edwards, VP of brand design and executive design director for LA28.



The 1984 Los Angeles Olympics used a vibrant color palette expressed through assets like a recurring confetti pattern and venue staging. The broader look and color palette of the 2028 Games is an updated homage called Superbloom, drawn from Southern California flora and the city’s official flower, the Bird of Paradise. That same sense of expressiveness is being brought to the 2028 Games customizable logo, which replaces the A in LA28 with other graphics, and in the multi-font typography.



[Image: LA28]



Past Olympics often branded themselves in a universal style built on grids; a unified, cohesive visual language; and sans-serif typefaces like Helvetica. That style was singular and could be ported over to the visual brand or logos of any other Games anywhere. Designers for forthcoming Olympics are taking a more experimental route. 



While the 2002 Salt Lake City Games used the sans-serif Frutiger as its type family, the 2034 Utah Games released a logo with a distinctive typeface that built its letterform from natural shapes and Utah topography. In California, it’s about typography that’s capable of representing a city as dynamic and diverse as Los Angeles.



“It’s asking us to embrace the idea of variety as utopia,” says Charles Nix, senior executive creative director at Monotype. 



“We’re living in a time of incredible typographic plenty. There’s so much variety typographically now that it’s never been like this in the history of typography,” he says. “It seems almost rational in a way that people would embrace that typographic variety and want to express it.”



To apply a four-font brand in a unified way, the LA28 type family is designed with a clear hierarchy. Each font has a distinct personality and purpose within the system. Organizers say they think of it less like a style guide and more like a musical composition, with the fonts as visual frequencies that can be mixed and layered but are always in harmony.


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<title>New oral drug shows success in reversing hair loss</title>
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<description><![CDATA[ Hair loss has long confounded the pharmaceutical industry, but there’s hope on the horizon. Veradermics has announced success in its late-stage clinical trial with a drug to reverse hair loss. 



The biopharmaceutical company has become a leading player in the hair loss field, and its new drug could be a major new development. According to Veradermics, VDPHL01, an orally administered, extended-release minoxidil formulation, has met key points and high goals for its latest trial. Seventy-nine percent of once-daily patients and 86 percent of twice-daily patients reported improvement in hair coverage. 



“Dermatology has been treating hair loss with a drug borrowed from cardiology, in a formulation never intended for our patients, at doses we arrived at informally,” said Michael Gold, study trial investigator. “VDPHL01 is the first oral minoxidil formulation developed specifically for pattern hair loss, and now the first to generate positive Phase 3 results of efficacy and safety.” 



Veradermics gathered roughly 500 men with mild to moderate hair loss for their double-blind, placebo-controlled trial. The study saw hair growth was detectable by month two and a total improvement of between 30 and 33 hairs per square centimeter at month six. 



Growing hope



The drug made by Veradermics is an extended-release version of minoxidil, a proven drug treatment that can be readily found over the counter to treat hair loss. Major brands like Hims, Rogaine, and Pfizer have been leading names in the treatment of male pattern baldness. Most of these oral minoxidil tablets, though, come with a warning about cardiovascular issues. Oral tablets can also cause lightheadedness, palpitations, swelling, nausea, and vomiting.   



Veradermics noted that if approved, VDPHL01 would become the first FDA-approved non-hormonal oral treatment in the U.S., particularly one without cardiovascular side effects.



“These Phase 2/3 clinical study results support our belief that Veradermics’ novel formulation in VDPHL01 can optimize oral minoxidil for significant hair growth while minimizing side effects and cardiac risk,” said Reid Waldman, chief executive officer of Veradermics. “We are optimistic that these results represent a defining milestone for the hair loss community, our company, and investors as we advance this foundational, non-hormonal treatment approach to the clinic for the millions of people with pattern hair loss.” 



—Moses Jeanfrancois







This article originally appeared on Fast Company’s sister website, Inc.com. 



Inc. is the voice of the American entrepreneur. We inspire, inform, and document the most fascinating people in business: the risk-takers, the innovators, and the ultra-driven go-getters that represent the most dynamic force in the American economy. ]]></description>
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<title>Demis Hassabis isn’t shying away from AI’s biggest questions</title>
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<description><![CDATA[ Hello again, and welcome back to Fast Company’s Plugged In.For a decade, Google’s I/O developer conferences have told one consistent story: The AI age is here, and Google aims to lead it. The company’s progress can be measured by the AI-infused product announcements it makes during the show’s keynote. On Tuesday, CEO Sundar Pichai and other executives packed I/O 2026’s three-hour presentation so tightly with news—spanning Google Search, the Gemini app, Google Docs, Gmail, YouTube, Android, and beyond—that it threatened to explode.For one of those presenters, Google DeepMind CEO Demis Hassabis, this year’s announcements are part of a long arc of personal history dating back to his childhood fascination with teaching machines to think. In 2010, that quest led to Hassabis, Shane Legg, and Mustafa Suleyman cofounding the artificial intelligence research lab DeepMind, which Google acquired in 2014 and merged with another research arm, Google Brain, in 2023. The journey will continue as Google DeepMind pursues the goal of achieving Artificial General Intelligence—AI that’s at least on par with human thinking across an array of domains.Even among the technologists most responsible for AI’s achievements to date, opinions on when AGI might be a reality vary wildly. Google Brain’s cofounder, Andrew Ng, thinks it’s decades away. But Hassabis believes we’re already on the cusp. “2030 is when I expect it to arrive, either plus or minus a year,” he says.Regardless of how much work lies ahead, AI has already reached a critical juncture simply by being a part of everyday life. Its increasing presence in Google products will make its promise and pitfalls more tangible to billions of people. When I caught up with Hassabis this week, he spoke exuberantly about the products and features unveiled at I/O. But he was at least as energized when talking about the problems AI can cause, and what Google is doing to mitigate them. And he underlines that advancing the science of AI remains “my main passion.”“It’s complicated, because you’ve also got the most voracious competition in tech history going on,” he told me. “I won’t pretend that it’s easy. But I think we get that balance right better than anyone else.”By definition, every new AI feature that Google comes up with builds on technologies that were once research breakthroughs—often originating years ago at DeepMind or Google Brain. When I ask Hassabis about Gemini Spark, Google’s new AI agent, he points out that DeepMind’s earliest research involved agentic AI, in the form of game-playing algorithms. “AlphaGo was an agent,” he says. “Even our original Atari work . . . they were agents. Maybe we were a bit ahead of our time.”The Gemini Spark agent’s features include Daily Brief, a summary of your current doings.Over the last year or so, agents have emerged from the lab. Yet they still haven’t gone entirely mainstream. Running the best-known one, OpenClaw, requires considerable technical aptitude, a willingness to risk things going awry, and—many enthusiasts conclude—a budget big enough to dedicate a Mac Mini to the job. By contrast, Gemini Spark runs 24/7 in the cloud, connects only to apps you expressly authorize, and, for now, just works with other Google services.“The sweet spot is to help everyone with these agents, not [just] people who are very technical,” says Hassabis. “But also to make sure it’s actually secure, reliable, and robust, and you have full control over what it has access to. One of the main issues with OpenClaw is it’s just very insecure. I wouldn’t recommend it for any real work. I haven’t used it for any of my real stuff, because it might leak everything.”Spark is rolling out first to users who subscribe to Google’s high-end $100/month AI Ultra plan. Bringing it to the masses will involve its “adapting to the average person, adapting their workflows to this type of agentic assistance,” says Hassabis. “It’s probably going to play out over the rest of the year, would be my guess.”Asked which of I/O’s myriad announcements he’s particularly excited about, Hassabis singles out Gemini Omni Flash, a new AI model that lets users feed in text, images, video, and audio as part of their prompts. It will debut in the Gemini app, Google Flow video editor, and YouTube Shorts, where it will output video. Eventually, it will also be able to generate other forms of media.“What people are going to be able to do is experiment between different modalities,” says Hassabis. “‘Here’s a video input, here’s a music output, here’s an image input. Give me a video output.’ I just want people to be incredibly creative with it.”Google’s Gemini models are increasingly capable of generating convincingly realistic imagery, though Hassabis wants to make it easy to determine that they’re AI creations. [Animation: Google]Of course, existing tools such as Google’s own Nano Banana have already shown that AI media generation’s being amazing and readily accessible has its downsides. People can easily make stuff that looks real, but isn’t. Perhaps worse, media that’s legit could come under suspicion for being AI fakery.Google has been working on ways to bring transparency to a piece of media’s origin for years. In 2023, it introduced SynthID, an identification technology for AI-generated content; since then, it’s watermarked over 60 years of video and 100 billion images. The company has also championed C2PA Content Credentials, a standard for tracking whether imagery was created with a camera or AI and how it’s been modified.Now Google is making it easier to determine an image’s provenance by building these technologies into widely-used experiences such as the Gemini app, Android’s Circle to Search, and Google Search’s AI Mode. The flurry of I/O news even included an announcement from OpenAI: It’s throwing its support behind SynthID by adding support for it to ChatGPT, Codex, and its API.The Gemini app can now give a rundown of a piece of media’s provenance. [Animation: Google]“I think it’s great that the whole industry is coalescing around watermarking that is robust,” says Hassabis. “That’s what was needed, really, to then go the next step, which is having sites automatically identify [content authenticity]. Or you can imagine even browsers eventually doing that, so there’s almost no effort in terms of verifying something.”After waxing enthusiastic about SynthID, Hassabis segues to cybersecurity. Is Google wrestling with the same kinds of sobering issues as Anthropic is around AI’s ability to find and exploit software vulnerabilities? (The latter decided its Claude Mythos LLM was too dangerous to release just yet.) “Definitely,” he says. He points out that Google is in a pretty good position to help developers secure their apps in the AI era, thanks to assets such as its CodeMender agent and the Wiz cybersecurity platform, the company’s largest-ever acquisition.But Hassabis adds that preventing AI from giving superpowers to bad-guy hackers is only one urgent task, and not necessarily the most sobering one. Over the next year or year and a half, he predicts, AI could accelerate chemical, biological, radiological, and nuclear (CBRN) threats. “I’m thinking a lot about what sorts of tools, monitoring systems, and other things all the frontier labs should really be working on and implementing,” he says. One such area is chain of thought monitoring, which lets researchers deconstruct a model’s thought process and look for signs that it’s engaging in deceptive behavior.“There’s a lot that we’re sort of in the foothills of now,” says Hassabis. “Models that are super capable, which is great. And they’re agentic, also great. But that means there are more challenges and risks associated with them.”Above all, Hassabis is motivated by AI’s potential to be, as he put it in a voiceover at the start of the I/O keynote, “the ultimate tool to solve all the world’s most complex scientific problems.” Along with running Google DeepMind, he pulls double duty as CEO of Isomorphic Labs, a spin-off devoted to commercializing its AlphaFold protein stricture prediction AI for use in drug discovery. (Hassabis and John Jumper, Distinguished Scientist at Google DeepMind, shared the 2024 Nobel Prize in Chemistry for AlphaFold’s creation.) Last week, Isomorphic announced that it had raised $2.1 billion in new funding. “You can take that as a huge vote of confidence in the progress we’re making over there,” Hassabis says.As AlphaFold edges closer to real-world impact, other Google DeepMind research projects of similar long-term ambition are coming along in earlier stages of development. For instance, the company is collaborating with the U.K. government to build an automated science lab that will use the Gemini LLM and robotics to investigate areas such as superconducting materials and nuclear fusion.Hassabis cherishes the part of his job that involves allocating sufficient resources for such efforts. “Obviously, there’s never enough compute for the ideas that you have,” he says. “But I think we’ve done that historically very well at DeepMind, originally, and now Google DeepMind—just protecting blue-sky research.” Even during I/O week, with its profusion of evidence that Google knows how to productize AI, his mind is racing ahead to what’s next.You’ve been reading Plugged In, Fast Company’s weekly tech newsletter from me, global technology editor Harry McCracken. If a friend or colleague forwarded this edition to you—or if you’re reading it on fastcompany.com—you can check out previous issues and sign up to get it yourself every Friday morning. I love hearing from you: Ping me at hmccracken@fastcompany.com with your feedback and ideas for future newsletters. I’m also on Bluesky, Mastodon, and Threads, and you can follow Plugged In on Flipboard.More top tech stories from Fast CompanyThe OpenAI lawsuit became a master class in what not to put in writing
As private messages from Elon Musk, Greg Brockman, and other tech leaders spilled into public view, the trial underscored a growing reality of corporate life: nothing stays private forever. Read More →The era of ‘good enough’ AI has arrived
As frontier AI models get pricier, cheaper and locally hosted alternatives are becoming powerful enough for most users. Read More →San Jose mayor Matt Mahan wants to prove he’s not just another ‘Silicon Valley guy.’ Will Californians buy it?
Meet the billionaire-backed, pro-AI mayor vying to be California’s next governor. Read More →This beautiful, biophilic phone case is on a mission to reduce your screen time
Want to keep your terrarium alive? You’ll have to put your screen down. Read More →SpaceX’s biggest business risk? Politics
The company’s pre-IPO filing acknowledges the many levers of government that could supercharge, or stall, its ambitions. Read More →LinkedIn declares war on AI slop
The job networking site plans to target low-quality AI posts that distract its users from finding value on the platform. Read More → ]]></description>
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<title>Social Security checks might get bigger than expected next year. But there’s bad news, too</title>
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<description><![CDATA[ The Social Security cost-of-living adjustment (COLA) for next year could reach 3.9%, according to a new report.



The latest monthly prediction from The Senior Citizens League (TSCL) is its highest yet this year—notably higher than the 2.8% increase that it had predicted during its three previous cycles. That previous figure would have kept the COLA flat from 2025. 



The Social Security Administration (SSA) will announce the official 2027 COLA increase in October. At 3.9%, the average benefits check would rise from $2,081.16 to $2,162.33—an $81.17 jump.



The nonprofit TSCL stresses that even a 3.9% jump might not offset inflation’s effect on essentials like housing, groceries, and Medicare. 



“For retirees living on fixed incomes, the costs that matter most, especially healthcare, housing, utilities, and insurance, continue to rise faster than prices in the rest of the economy, silently wrenching seniors dry,” TSCL executive director Shannon Benton said in a statement.



Social Security beneficiaries are increasingly being squeezed



Earlier this year, the TSCL found that 57.6% of American seniors had skipped a healthcare service or product in the last 12 months to save money. 



Dental, vision, and hearing services were most commonly cut—Medicare Part B doesn’t offer any coverage toward these areas of care. 



Benton continued: “Many seniors are telling us the same thing: As inflation picks back up, life still does not feel affordable. The average senior already lives on much less than younger Americans, according to the Census Bureau, and our supporters constantly tell us they feel like they’re falling farther and farther behind.”



How was the COLA prediction calculated? 



The TSCL uses a statistical model to make monthly COLA predictions. 



The model pulls from the Consumer Price Index (CPI), the Federal Reserve interest rate, and the national unemployment rate. 



Current COLA predictions vary. For instance, independent Social Security and Medicare policy analyst Mary Johnson has predicted a 4.2% rise, CNBC reports. Last month, she had predicted a 3.2% COLA, but increased the number based on April’s CPI data. ]]></description>
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<title>IRS is ‘forever barred’ from examining Trump. What to know about the immunity deal that’s shocking experts</title>
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<description><![CDATA[ Remember Donald Trump’s response in the 2016 presidential debate, when Hillary Clinton blasted him for paying virtually no federal taxes?“That makes me smart,” Trump said.By that logic, Trump is looking smarter than ever now.On Tuesday, the Internal Revenue Service agreed to drop all pending probes of Trump over whether he’s paid his fair share of taxes, to settle a lawsuit brought by the president over a leak of his tax returns. That could include, assuming it was ongoing, a long-standing audit into a technique Trump reportedly used to avoid paying taxes years ago that could have hit him with an estimated $100 million bill if the IRS found wrongdoing.Trump has repeatedly denied he did anything wrong and has blasted the IRS investigation as politically motivated, without providing proof.Details of IRS audits are not public and the merits of each side’s arguments are impossible to tell. But the way the president’s case against his own government’s IRS was resolved is highly unusual, experts say.Trump sued the IRS, a federal agency within his administration, putting him in the unusual position of challenging an agency overseen by the executive branch he leads — a rare move, experts say, and possibly unprecedented. Then that agency decided, in another unusual move, to grant him immunity.



The immunity deal



Under the settlement to resolve Trump’s $10 billion lawsuit over the 2018 leak of his tax returns to The New York Times, the U.S. is “forever barred and precluded” from examining or prosecuting Trump, his sons and the Trump Organization’s current tax filings, according to a one-page document released Tuesday. That was quietly added to an original settlement establishing a $1.8 billion fund to compensate people whom Trump thinks were improperly investigated by the government.Tax experts say this grant of immunity is shocking in the breadth of protection it offers the president and could undermine confidence in the fairness of the tax system.“This is an unprecedented remedy,” said former IRS Commissioner Daniel Werfel, noting that Trump should be treated like every other American. “People expect the same tax rules and enforcement framework to apply to everybody.”



That $100 million bill



The IRS probe revolved around whether Trump doubled-dipped in cutting his taxes, according to a 2024 report by The New York Times and ProPublica — specifically whether he used the same losses from his Chicago skyscraper to cut them twice in future filings, a big no-no.The report said Trump could owe more than $100 million, including penalties, if he were to lose the audit battle.Now the Justice Department has moved to “wipe his slate clean,” said tax expert Brandon DeBot, calling that an “extraordinary action” in the message it sends to the country.“The president and his affiliates might not pay the taxes they should,” said DeBot, policy director at New York University’s Tax Law Center. “This is giving the president and his affiliates completely different set of rules than everyday taxpayers.”



Cutting taxes to zero



The immunity is especially useful to Trump. His company includes hundreds of separate businesses, making his tax returns complicated. He also has a reputation for aggressively cutting his taxes, which some experts find suspicious — and at least in one case deemed now illegal.After his Atlantic City casinos collapsed under heavy debt in the mid-1990s, for instance, Trump claimed about $1 billion in losses to cut his tax bill, even though lenders had forgiven hundreds of millions of dollars he owed. Trump argued the debt was never technically forgiven because he had exchanged equity in the bankrupt casino business for it — a tax maneuver Congress later barred as an abusive tax loophole.Through that technique and other tax shelters and deductions, Trump was able pay just $750 in federal taxes in 2016 and 2017, and zero in 2020, according to a congressional investigation after his first term.



How the IRS has treated other presidents



Despite hinting that he may now release his tax returns, Trump has previously refused to do so, saying he can’t while undergoing an IRS audit — but there is no law barring him from doing that. In fact, presidents for decades have done so voluntarily and all have had their returns audited as a matter of IRS policy.That policy began in the late 1970s in a post-Watergate crackdown on presidential abuses after Richard Nixon was found to have claimed dubious deductions — including a donation of his personal papers — that led to big underpayments. One year while president, he paid only hundreds of dollars.When asked about his tax maneuvers, Nixon famously retorted, “I am not a crook.” He later agreed to the IRS findings, and paid hundreds of thousands of dollars in back taxes.



Court challenges



Trump’s settlement with the IRS refers only to existing audits, not future examinations, so the president and his family are not off the hook for any alleged abuses in future tax returns.Parts of the settlement are being challenged in court.The compensation fund is being attacked by police officers who helped defend the U.S. Capitol from Trump’s supporters on Jan. 6, 2021. They have sued to block anyone — including the rioters — from receiving payouts.Some law experts expect the tax immunity will be challenged in court, too.“This is the president trying to play every role in the system, acting as plaintiff, defendant, and his own judge and jury to extract extraordinary windfalls,” said New York University’s DeBot, adding that giving broad immunity “stretches beyond what DOJ actually has authority to do.”







Hussein reported from Washington.



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<title>3 Zoom scams you need to avoid</title>
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<title>Best UK small business accounting software</title>
<link>https://thebusinesseconomic.com/best-uk-small-business-accounting-software</link>
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<description><![CDATA[ By Tim Adler on Small Business UK - Advice and Ideas for UK Small Businesses and SMEs


With accounting software, even the smallest business can easily manage expenses, create and send invoices and keep on top of taxes 
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<title>How to get a business grant from the council</title>
<link>https://thebusinesseconomic.com/how-to-get-a-business-grant-from-the-council</link>
<guid>https://thebusinesseconomic.com/how-to-get-a-business-grant-from-the-council</guid>
<description><![CDATA[ By Ben Lobel on Small Business UK - Advice and Ideas for UK Small Businesses and SMEs


Here, we&#039;re bringing you a list of council business grants that are available for your small business
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<title>Cheapest card payment machines</title>
<link>https://thebusinesseconomic.com/cheapest-card-payment-machines</link>
<guid>https://thebusinesseconomic.com/cheapest-card-payment-machines</guid>
<description><![CDATA[ By Anna Jordan on Small Business UK - Advice and Ideas for UK Small Businesses and SMEs
We show you the cheapest card machines that are available on the market by transaction fee
The post Cheapest card payment machines appeared first on Small Business UK. ]]></description>
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<pubDate>Thu, 21 May 2026 14:00:14 +0000</pubDate>
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<title>How AI is changing data subject access requests for SMEs</title>
<link>https://thebusinesseconomic.com/how-ai-is-changing-data-subject-access-requests-for-smes</link>
<guid>https://thebusinesseconomic.com/how-ai-is-changing-data-subject-access-requests-for-smes</guid>
<description><![CDATA[ By Douglas McLachlan on Small Business UK - Advice and Ideas for UK Small Businesses and SMEs


With the ease of producing letters with generative AI, SMEs might find themselves with more data subject access requests. Here&#039;s what to do
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<title>AI is a matter of power, infrastructure and security: TechEx North America</title>
<link>https://thebusinesseconomic.com/ai-is-a-matter-of-power-infrastructure-and-security-techex-north-america</link>
<guid>https://thebusinesseconomic.com/ai-is-a-matter-of-power-infrastructure-and-security-techex-north-america</guid>
<description><![CDATA[ Although visitors to an event like TechEx North America will always want to see the cutting edge front and centre stage, the nuance and detail brought to the show by the speakers and exhibitors mean that it’s sometimes the smaller considerations that need to play big – at least, in the minds of enterprise decision-makers. […]
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<pubDate>Thu, 21 May 2026 14:00:09 +0000</pubDate>
<dc:creator>Tomas Kauer - News Writer and Moderator</dc:creator>
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<title>The Nvidia H200 China deal survived the Trump&#45;Xi summit–just not in the way anyone expected</title>
<link>https://thebusinesseconomic.com/the-nvidia-h200-china-deal-survived-the-trump-xi-summitjust-not-in-the-way-anyone-expected</link>
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<description><![CDATA[ President Trump flew to Beijing, brought Jensen Huang along at the last minute, and left two days later, telling reporters that “something could happen” on chip exports. Nothing did. Not a single Nvidia H200 has shipped to China since Trump first authorised the sales in December 2025, and US Trade Representative Jamieson Greer told Bloomberg that semiconductor controls were […]
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<title>Enterprise AI roadblocks and roadmaps, security and physical AI: Day two at TechEx</title>
<link>https://thebusinesseconomic.com/enterprise-ai-roadblocks-and-roadmaps-security-and-physical-ai-day-two-at-techex</link>
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<description><![CDATA[ Day two of TechEx North America has been more of a deeper, critical examination of AI in the enterprise, but with a optimistic bent. The AI and Big Data programme opened with reference to what was termed the “AI graveyard” – that is, AI projects that seem to perform well in pilot, but don’t seem […]
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<title>Alibaba is designing AI chips around agents, and that changes what the race is actually about</title>
<link>https://thebusinesseconomic.com/alibaba-is-designing-ai-chips-around-agents-and-that-changes-what-the-race-is-actually-about</link>
<guid>https://thebusinesseconomic.com/alibaba-is-designing-ai-chips-around-agents-and-that-changes-what-the-race-is-actually-about</guid>
<description><![CDATA[ Alibaba has unveiled a new AI processor built specifically for AI agents, pairing the chip announcement with a multi-year silicon roadmap and a new large language model, signalling that the company is building an integrated AI stack rather than just filling a gap left by US export controls. The Zhenwu M890, developed by Alibaba’s semiconductor […]
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<pubDate>Thu, 21 May 2026 14:00:06 +0000</pubDate>
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<title>Nvidia’s Vera chip is the US$200 billion bet Jensen Huang doesn’t want you to overlook</title>
<link>https://thebusinesseconomic.com/nvidias-vera-chip-is-the-us200-billion-bet-jensen-huang-doesnt-want-you-to-overlook</link>
<guid>https://thebusinesseconomic.com/nvidias-vera-chip-is-the-us200-billion-bet-jensen-huang-doesnt-want-you-to-overlook</guid>
<description><![CDATA[ The Nvidia Vera chip is rarely the headline when earnings beat estimates, but it should be. When Nvidia reported Q1 revenue of US$81.62 billion on Wednesday, beating analyst estimates of US$78.86 billion, and guided Q2 at US$91 billion–well above Wall Street’s US$86.84 billion forecast–the numbers did what Nvidia numbers always do: dominate the room.  But […]
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<pubDate>Thu, 21 May 2026 14:00:05 +0000</pubDate>
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<title>Google just declared itself a contender in AI design at IO 2026</title>
<link>https://thebusinesseconomic.com/google-just-declared-itself-a-contender-in-ai-design-at-io-2026</link>
<guid>https://thebusinesseconomic.com/google-just-declared-itself-a-contender-in-ai-design-at-io-2026</guid>
<description><![CDATA[ Google says it&#039;s designed the app to be accessible to everyone, from teachers to small business owners. ]]></description>
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<pubDate>Wed, 20 May 2026 14:00:10 +0000</pubDate>
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<media:keywords>Google, just, declared, itself, contender, design, 2026</media:keywords>
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<title>‘Ask YouTube’ brings AI&#45;powered conversational search to video, adds Gemini Omni to Shorts</title>
<link>https://thebusinesseconomic.com/ask-youtube-brings-ai-powered-conversational-search-to-video-adds-gemini-omni-to-shorts</link>
<guid>https://thebusinesseconomic.com/ask-youtube-brings-ai-powered-conversational-search-to-video-adds-gemini-omni-to-shorts</guid>
<description><![CDATA[ Google is completely revamping its search experience, and that doesn&#039;t stop at YouTube. ]]></description>
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<title>Figma adds an AI assistant to its collaborative canvas</title>
<link>https://thebusinesseconomic.com/figma-adds-an-ai-assistant-to-its-collaborative-canvas</link>
<guid>https://thebusinesseconomic.com/figma-adds-an-ai-assistant-to-its-collaborative-canvas</guid>
<description><![CDATA[ Figma&#039;s new AI assistant will be first available on Figma Design ]]></description>
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<pubDate>Wed, 20 May 2026 14:00:10 +0000</pubDate>
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<title>Quartermaster is building a maritime hive mind</title>
<link>https://thebusinesseconomic.com/quartermaster-is-building-a-maritime-hive-mind</link>
<guid>https://thebusinesseconomic.com/quartermaster-is-building-a-maritime-hive-mind</guid>
<description><![CDATA[ The Arlington, Virginia-based startup has raised $42 million to equip ships with sensors that blow the current AIS tech out of the water. ]]></description>
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<title>GitHub says hackers stole data from thousands of internal repositories</title>
<link>https://thebusinesseconomic.com/github-says-hackers-stole-data-from-thousands-of-internal-repositories</link>
<guid>https://thebusinesseconomic.com/github-says-hackers-stole-data-from-thousands-of-internal-repositories</guid>
<description><![CDATA[ The code hosting giant GitHub said it was investigating a breach, but said there was no evidence of customer data theft. ]]></description>
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<dc:creator>Tomas Kauer - News Writer and Moderator</dc:creator>
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<title>Exclusive: Circle cofounder raises $30 million for Series A ‘AI&#45;native bank’ Catena Labs</title>
<link>https://thebusinesseconomic.com/exclusive-circle-cofounder-raises-30-million-for-series-a-ai-native-bank-catena-labs</link>
<guid>https://thebusinesseconomic.com/exclusive-circle-cofounder-raises-30-million-for-series-a-ai-native-bank-catena-labs</guid>
<description><![CDATA[ Sean Neville’s startup aims to build banking tools especially designed for AI agents. ]]></description>
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<dc:creator>Tomas Kauer</dc:creator>
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<title>U.S. national debt officially hits $39 trillion—adding approximately $5 billion a day since October</title>
<link>https://thebusinesseconomic.com/us-national-debt-officially-hits-39-trillionadding-approximately-5-billion-a-day-since-october</link>
<guid>https://thebusinesseconomic.com/us-national-debt-officially-hits-39-trillionadding-approximately-5-billion-a-day-since-october</guid>
<description><![CDATA[ According to Treasury data, updated retrospectively for May 18, the debt landed at $39,008,999,901,378.68. ]]></description>
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<dc:creator>Tomas Kauer</dc:creator>
<media:keywords>U.S., national, debt, officially, hits, 39, trillion—adding, approximately, billion, day, since, October</media:keywords>
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<title>The 50&#45;year&#45;old law that governed every software company just broke. Here’s what replaces it</title>
<link>https://thebusinesseconomic.com/the-50-year-old-law-that-governed-every-software-company-just-broke-heres-what-replaces-it</link>
<guid>https://thebusinesseconomic.com/the-50-year-old-law-that-governed-every-software-company-just-broke-heres-what-replaces-it</guid>
<description><![CDATA[ AI removed engineering as a bottleneck. That changes everything. ]]></description>
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<dc:creator>Tomas Kauer</dc:creator>
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<title>The definitive guide to trade wars just dropped. Its authors have one message for Washington: Study your enemy</title>
<link>https://thebusinesseconomic.com/the-definitive-guide-to-trade-wars-just-dropped-its-authors-have-one-message-for-washington-study-your-enemy</link>
<guid>https://thebusinesseconomic.com/the-definitive-guide-to-trade-wars-just-dropped-its-authors-have-one-message-for-washington-study-your-enemy</guid>
<description><![CDATA[ Soumaya Keynes and Chad Bown spent years podcasting about trade before this book. They think the U.S. needs to get comfortable with unAmerican economics. ]]></description>
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<pubDate>Wed, 20 May 2026 14:00:09 +0000</pubDate>
<dc:creator>Tomas Kauer</dc:creator>
<media:keywords>The, definitive, guide, trade, wars, just, dropped., Its, authors, have, one, message, for, Washington:, Study, your, enemy</media:keywords>
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<title>Current price of oil as of May 20, 2026</title>
<link>https://thebusinesseconomic.com/current-price-of-oil-as-of-may-20-2026</link>
<guid>https://thebusinesseconomic.com/current-price-of-oil-as-of-may-20-2026</guid>
<description><![CDATA[ When oil prices change, it affects your energy costs—and even the price of everyday items. Here’s why. ]]></description>
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<pubDate>Wed, 20 May 2026 14:00:09 +0000</pubDate>
<dc:creator>Tomas Kauer</dc:creator>
<media:keywords>Current, price, oil, May, 20, 2026</media:keywords>
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<title>Standard Chartered to swap 7,800 back&#45;office jobs for AI as UK labour market wobbles</title>
<link>https://thebusinesseconomic.com/standard-chartered-to-swap-7800-back-office-jobs-for-ai-as-uk-labour-market-wobbles</link>
<guid>https://thebusinesseconomic.com/standard-chartered-to-swap-7800-back-office-jobs-for-ai-as-uk-labour-market-wobbles</guid>
<description><![CDATA[ 
Standard Chartered will axe almost 7,800 back-office roles by 2030, swapping ‘lower-value human capital’ for AI, as UK unemployment climbs to 5% and payrolls slide.
Read more: 
Standard Chartered to swap 7,800 back-office jobs for AI as UK labour market wobbles ]]></description>
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<pubDate>Tue, 19 May 2026 14:00:12 +0000</pubDate>
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<title>ICO Warns SMEs: one month to comply with new Data Complaints Law</title>
<link>https://thebusinesseconomic.com/ico-warns-smes-one-month-to-comply-with-new-data-complaints-law</link>
<guid>https://thebusinesseconomic.com/ico-warns-smes-one-month-to-comply-with-new-data-complaints-law</guid>
<description><![CDATA[ 
UK businesses have just four weeks to put a statutory data protection complaints process in place before the Data (Use and Access) Act 2025 takes effect on 19 June 2026. Here&#039;s what SMEs must do.
Read more: 
ICO Warns SMEs: one month to comply with new Data Complaints Law ]]></description>
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<pubDate>Tue, 19 May 2026 14:00:11 +0000</pubDate>
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<title>Greene King pulls the plug on supermarket strategy with sale of Old Speckled Hen to Spain’s Damm</title>
<link>https://thebusinesseconomic.com/greene-king-pulls-the-plug-on-supermarket-strategy-with-sale-of-old-speckled-hen-to-spains-damm</link>
<guid>https://thebusinesseconomic.com/greene-king-pulls-the-plug-on-supermarket-strategy-with-sale-of-old-speckled-hen-to-spains-damm</guid>
<description><![CDATA[ 
Greene King has sold Old Speckled Hen to Estrella Damm owner Damm UK as it retreats from supermarkets and refocuses on its pubs. Inside the deal and what it means for British brewing.
Read more: 
Greene King pulls the plug on supermarket strategy with sale of Old Speckled Hen to Spain’s Damm ]]></description>
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<dc:creator>Business Economic Syndicated News</dc:creator>
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<title>The ’43 club’: why Britain’s typical entrepreneur has barely aged a day in 25 years</title>
<link>https://thebusinesseconomic.com/the-43-club-why-britains-typical-entrepreneur-has-barely-aged-a-day-in-25-years</link>
<guid>https://thebusinesseconomic.com/the-43-club-why-britains-typical-entrepreneur-has-barely-aged-a-day-in-25-years</guid>
<description><![CDATA[ 
New analysis of 9.2 million UK director appointments shows the average age of a British founder has stayed at 43 for more than two decades, defying recessions, Brexit and the rise of teenage tech stars.
Read more: 
The ’43 club’: why Britain’s typical entrepreneur has barely aged a day in 25 years ]]></description>
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<title>Rooftop solar pioneers sought as CPRE opens nominations for Centenary Award</title>
<link>https://thebusinesseconomic.com/rooftop-solar-pioneers-sought-as-cpre-opens-nominations-for-centenary-award</link>
<guid>https://thebusinesseconomic.com/rooftop-solar-pioneers-sought-as-cpre-opens-nominations-for-centenary-award</guid>
<description><![CDATA[ 
CPRE has opened nominations for its Best Rooftop Solar Solution award, recognising SMEs, community groups and innovators delivering clean energy. Entries close 30 June 2026.
Read more: 
Rooftop solar pioneers sought as CPRE opens nominations for Centenary Award ]]></description>
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<title>SandboxAQ brings its drug discovery models to Claude — no PhD in computing required</title>
<link>https://thebusinesseconomic.com/sandboxaq-brings-its-drug-discovery-models-to-claude-no-phd-in-computing-required</link>
<guid>https://thebusinesseconomic.com/sandboxaq-brings-its-drug-discovery-models-to-claude-no-phd-in-computing-required</guid>
<description><![CDATA[ Other venture-backed companies like Chai Discovery and Isomorphic Labs have raced to build better models. SandboxAQ is betting that access is the bigger obstacle and that Claude solves it. ]]></description>
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<pubDate>Tue, 19 May 2026 14:00:08 +0000</pubDate>
<dc:creator>Business Economic Syndicated News</dc:creator>
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<title>OSHA probing worker death at SpaceX’s Starbase site</title>
<link>https://thebusinesseconomic.com/osha-probing-worker-death-at-spacexs-starbase-site</link>
<guid>https://thebusinesseconomic.com/osha-probing-worker-death-at-spacexs-starbase-site</guid>
<description><![CDATA[ The death is the latest worker safety issue at the Starbase facility, which has a higher injury rate than all other SpaceX sites. ]]></description>
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<dc:creator>Business Economic Syndicated News</dc:creator>
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<title>Theo Baker spent four years investigating Stanford. Before he leaves, here’s what he found.</title>
<link>https://thebusinesseconomic.com/theo-baker-spent-four-years-investigating-stanford-before-he-leaves-heres-what-he-found</link>
<guid>https://thebusinesseconomic.com/theo-baker-spent-four-years-investigating-stanford-before-he-leaves-heres-what-he-found</guid>
<description><![CDATA[ &quot;There&#039;s a common refrain among [young] people in this world that it&#039;s easier to raise money for a startup right now than to get an internship. Which is remarkable, right?&quot; ]]></description>
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<title>Solar to dominate energy by 2035, but AI data centers will keep fossil fuels in business</title>
<link>https://thebusinesseconomic.com/solar-to-dominate-energy-by-2035-but-ai-data-centers-will-keep-fossil-fuels-in-business</link>
<guid>https://thebusinesseconomic.com/solar-to-dominate-energy-by-2035-but-ai-data-centers-will-keep-fossil-fuels-in-business</guid>
<description><![CDATA[ Costs for solar panels are expected to drop another 30% in the coming decade, helping the tech cement its lead in energy markets. ]]></description>
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<pubDate>Tue, 19 May 2026 14:00:07 +0000</pubDate>
<dc:creator>Business Economic Syndicated News</dc:creator>
<media:keywords>Solar, dominate, energy, 2035, but, data, centers, will, keep, fossil, fuels, business</media:keywords>
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<title>Stilta raises $10.5M from a16z and YC to help companies rediscover the patents they forgot they had</title>
<link>https://thebusinesseconomic.com/stilta-raises-105m-from-a16z-and-yc-to-help-companies-rediscover-the-patents-they-forgot-they-had</link>
<guid>https://thebusinesseconomic.com/stilta-raises-105m-from-a16z-and-yc-to-help-companies-rediscover-the-patents-they-forgot-they-had</guid>
<description><![CDATA[ Stilta announced Tuesday a $10 million seed round led by Andreessen Horowitz. Other investors in the round include YC and operators from companies like OpenAI, Legora, and Lovable.  ]]></description>
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<dc:creator>Business Economic Syndicated News</dc:creator>
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<title>TIPS: Widening UPPER TORSO</title>
<link>https://thebusinesseconomic.com/tips-widening-upper-torso</link>
<guid>https://thebusinesseconomic.com/tips-widening-upper-torso</guid>
<description><![CDATA[ NOUBI SAYS: Find tops that float away from the body and soften the waistline while balancing your proportions. Choose bottoms with a higher waistband to elongate the legs and harmonize a longer torso. The goal is not to change your body. The goal is to guide the eye beautifully.

When proportions look right, everything looks right. ]]></description>
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<pubDate>Mon, 18 May 2026 20:08:42 +0000</pubDate>
<dc:creator>Noubi Says -  By Noubikko</dc:creator>
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<title>TIPS: If you are SHORT and BULKY</title>
<link>https://thebusinesseconomic.com/tips-if-you-are-short-and-bulky</link>
<guid>https://thebusinesseconomic.com/tips-if-you-are-short-and-bulky</guid>
<description><![CDATA[ Being shorter with a fuller build is not a problem—it is simply a styling opportunity. The right clothing can lengthen your frame, streamline your silhouette, and make you look polished, balanced, and confident.

The wrong clothing can make you look shorter, wider, and as if your wardrobe is working against you.

So let us put your clothes on your side. ]]></description>
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<pubDate>Mon, 18 May 2026 20:08:42 +0000</pubDate>
<dc:creator>Noubi Says -  By Noubikko</dc:creator>
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<title>TIPS: If you are SHORT and THIN</title>
<link>https://thebusinesseconomic.com/tips-if-you-are-short-and-thin</link>
<guid>https://thebusinesseconomic.com/tips-if-you-are-short-and-thin</guid>
<description><![CDATA[ NOUBI SAYS:

Camouflage is your best friend.

A straight, slim line from head to toe helps you appear taller and stronger. Be creative. Use vertical details, smooth color flow, and clean shapes.

Height is helpful.
But style is unforgettable. ]]></description>
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<pubDate>Mon, 18 May 2026 20:08:42 +0000</pubDate>
<dc:creator>Noubi Says -  By Noubikko</dc:creator>
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<title>TIPS: If you are TALL and BULKY</title>
<link>https://thebusinesseconomic.com/tips-if-you-are-tall-and-bulky</link>
<guid>https://thebusinesseconomic.com/tips-if-you-are-tall-and-bulky</guid>
<description><![CDATA[ Being tall with a fuller or broader frame is not a disadvantage—it is a presence. Height naturally commands attention, and with the right styling, you can project confidence, elegance, and authority. The secret is not to hide your build, but to refine proportions, create clean lines, and dress with intention. ]]></description>
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<dc:creator>Noubi Says -  By Noubikko</dc:creator>
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<title>TIPS: If you are TALL and THIN</title>
<link>https://thebusinesseconomic.com/tips-if-you-are-tall-and-thin</link>
<guid>https://thebusinesseconomic.com/tips-if-you-are-tall-and-thin</guid>
<description><![CDATA[ NOUBI SAYS:

If you are tall and thin, you are lucky.

You are the envy of many, the dream of some, and the favorite sketch of many designers.

But remember:

Even the best frame still needs the right picture. ]]></description>
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<dc:creator>Noubi Says -  By Noubikko</dc:creator>
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<title>Choosing your Pants</title>
<link>https://thebusinesseconomic.com/choosing-your-pants</link>
<guid>https://thebusinesseconomic.com/choosing-your-pants</guid>
<description><![CDATA[ Choosing pants is not vanity.
It is self-defense.
The right pair can improve your shape, mood, confidence, and day.
The wrong pair can ruin lunch.
Choose accordingly. ]]></description>
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<pubDate>Mon, 18 May 2026 20:08:42 +0000</pubDate>
<dc:creator>Noubi Says -  By Noubikko</dc:creator>
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<title>TIPS: for the LEGS</title>
<link>https://thebusinesseconomic.com/tips-for-the-legs</link>
<guid>https://thebusinesseconomic.com/tips-for-the-legs</guid>
<description><![CDATA[ Legs come in every style edition—long, short, slim, strong, curvy, athletic, elegant, dramatic, and occasionally stubborn. Some people love their legs. Others negotiate with them daily in front of a mirror.

Here is the truth: most leg “problems” are styling problems. ]]></description>
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<pubDate>Mon, 18 May 2026 20:08:42 +0000</pubDate>
<dc:creator>Noubi Says -  By Noubikko</dc:creator>
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<title>TIPS: for the THIGH</title>
<link>https://thebusinesseconomic.com/tips-for-the-thigh</link>
<guid>https://thebusinesseconomic.com/tips-for-the-thigh</guid>
<description><![CDATA[ NOUBI SAYS:  You can conceal big thighs by emphasizing the upper body, shoulders, and face. Focus the eye away from the eye-catcher. Jewelry and louder color are also good for bringing the upper body into focus. ]]></description>
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<dc:creator>Noubi Says -  By Noubikko</dc:creator>
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<title>TIPS: for a FLAT REAR END</title>
<link>https://thebusinesseconomic.com/tips-for-a-flat-rear-end</link>
<guid>https://thebusinesseconomic.com/tips-for-a-flat-rear-end</guid>
<description><![CDATA[ NOUBI SAYS:   Your rear end defines the silhouette of your clothing that defines the contour of your body.  You need to focus on clothing camouflage to get the desired look. ]]></description>
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<pubDate>Mon, 18 May 2026 20:08:42 +0000</pubDate>
<dc:creator>Noubi Says -  By Noubikko</dc:creator>
<media:keywords>TIPS:, for, FLAT, REAR, END</media:keywords>
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<title>Tips of Hem Length</title>
<link>https://thebusinesseconomic.com/tips-of-hem-length</link>
<guid>https://thebusinesseconomic.com/tips-of-hem-length</guid>
<description><![CDATA[ NOUBI SAYS:   
Hem length is not a tiny detail.
It is the difference between polished and puzzling.
Get the length right, and the whole outfit rises with it.
Because in fashion, inches are often louder than words. ]]></description>
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<pubDate>Mon, 18 May 2026 20:08:42 +0000</pubDate>
<dc:creator>Noubi Says -  By Noubikko</dc:creator>
<media:keywords>Tips, Hem, Length</media:keywords>
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<title>On Wearing Hats</title>
<link>https://thebusinesseconomic.com/on-wearing-hats</link>
<guid>https://thebusinesseconomic.com/on-wearing-hats</guid>
<description><![CDATA[ NOUBI SAYS:  Hats are the most delicate accessory to wear because their trend is reduced to limited popularity. Today, that means saying &quot;Look, I&#039;m different&quot; or &quot;I&#039;m dignified&quot; or &quot;I&#039;m distinctive”.  Hats can look great on everyone only if you make sure you know the difference between different styles. A cocktail hat is different from a funeral hat, and a daytime hat to a sports hat. ]]></description>
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<pubDate>Mon, 18 May 2026 20:08:42 +0000</pubDate>
<dc:creator>Noubi Says -  By Noubikko</dc:creator>
<media:keywords>Wearing, Hats</media:keywords>
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<title>Tips On Wearing Belts</title>
<link>https://thebusinesseconomic.com/tips-on-wearing-belts</link>
<guid>https://thebusinesseconomic.com/tips-on-wearing-belts</guid>
<description><![CDATA[ NOUBI SAYS:  Belts can transform you into a flattering ensemble. The accent of a belt acts as a focal point of an outfit. The Belt can create a good silhouette of your body and can make an outfit flow.  It can also carry you through the four seasons.  ]]></description>
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<pubDate>Mon, 18 May 2026 20:08:42 +0000</pubDate>
<dc:creator>Noubi Says -  By Noubikko</dc:creator>
<media:keywords>Tips, Wearing, Belts</media:keywords>
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<title>On Wearing Gloves</title>
<link>https://thebusinesseconomic.com/on-wearing-gloves</link>
<guid>https://thebusinesseconomic.com/on-wearing-gloves</guid>
<description><![CDATA[ NOUBI SAYS :   My personal opinion unless you really need to use it or you are somewhere in the UK, shy away from it.  In today&#039;s dressing, gloves fell out of favor as a fashion item. ]]></description>
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<pubDate>Mon, 18 May 2026 20:08:42 +0000</pubDate>
<dc:creator>Noubi Says -  By Noubikko</dc:creator>
<media:keywords>Wearing, Gloves</media:keywords>
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<title>Styling with Scarves</title>
<link>https://thebusinesseconomic.com/styling-with-scarves</link>
<guid>https://thebusinesseconomic.com/styling-with-scarves</guid>
<description><![CDATA[ NOUBI SAYS

Scarves are playful, elegant, and endlessly useful. They can change your look in a flash, revive a simple outfit, and add personality with almost no effort. Learn to wear them well, and one scarf can do the work of an entire wardrobe accessory collection. ]]></description>
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<pubDate>Mon, 18 May 2026 20:08:42 +0000</pubDate>
<dc:creator>Noubi Says -  By Noubikko</dc:creator>
<media:keywords>Styling, with, Scarves</media:keywords>
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<title>Choosing Your Bag</title>
<link>https://thebusinesseconomic.com/choosing-your-bag</link>
<guid>https://thebusinesseconomic.com/choosing-your-bag</guid>
<description><![CDATA[ NOUBI SAYS

A handbag is not just something you carry—it is something that carries your style. Choose bags with intelligence, proportion, and purpose, and even the simplest outfit can look complete, fashionable, and expensive. ]]></description>
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<pubDate>Mon, 18 May 2026 20:08:42 +0000</pubDate>
<dc:creator>Noubi Says -  By Noubikko</dc:creator>
<media:keywords>Choosing, Your, Bag</media:keywords>
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<title>On Wearing a Jewelry</title>
<link>https://thebusinesseconomic.com/on-wearing-a-jewelry</link>
<guid>https://thebusinesseconomic.com/on-wearing-a-jewelry</guid>
<description><![CDATA[ NOUBI SAYS

Jewelry is not just decoration—it is strategy. The right piece can make ordinary clothing look expensive, highlight your beauty, and express confidence without saying a word. Wear jewelry not to impress others, but to complete yourself. ]]></description>
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<pubDate>Mon, 18 May 2026 20:08:42 +0000</pubDate>
<dc:creator>Noubi Says -  By Noubikko</dc:creator>
<media:keywords>Wearing, Jewelry</media:keywords>
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<title>Choosing Eyeglass Frames</title>
<link>https://thebusinesseconomic.com/choosing-eyeglass-frames</link>
<guid>https://thebusinesseconomic.com/choosing-eyeglass-frames</guid>
<description><![CDATA[ NOUBI SAYS

Eyeglasses should never be seen as a limitation. They are one of the smartest accessories in fashion. The right pair can sharpen your image, flatter your features, and make people remember your face with style and confidence. ]]></description>
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<pubDate>Mon, 18 May 2026 20:08:42 +0000</pubDate>
<dc:creator>Noubi Says -  By Noubikko</dc:creator>
<media:keywords>Choosing, Eyeglass, Frames</media:keywords>
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<title>The Secret of Fashion Accessory</title>
<link>https://thebusinesseconomic.com/the-secret-of-fashion-accessory</link>
<guid>https://thebusinesseconomic.com/the-secret-of-fashion-accessory</guid>
<description><![CDATA[ It is not quantity that impresses. It is quality.

Cheap accessories often fade, peel, crack, tarnish, bend, or embarrass you in public. Quality pieces stay handsome, dependable, and elegant for years.

That is why quality is never expensive—it is often cheaper in the long run. ]]></description>
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<pubDate>Mon, 18 May 2026 20:08:42 +0000</pubDate>
<dc:creator>Noubi Says -  By Noubikko</dc:creator>
<media:keywords>The, Secret, Fashion, Accessory</media:keywords>
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<title>Tips on Fabric Care</title>
<link>https://thebusinesseconomic.com/tips-on-fabric-care</link>
<guid>https://thebusinesseconomic.com/tips-on-fabric-care</guid>
<description><![CDATA[ NOUBI SAYS:  Clothing is your personality&#039;s investment. Clothes will last for a long time if they are given proper care. They will look fresh and new if they are given the proper treatment that they deserve. Make sure that you read their care instruction before washing or cleaning. ]]></description>
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<pubDate>Mon, 18 May 2026 20:08:42 +0000</pubDate>
<dc:creator>Noubi Says -  By Noubikko</dc:creator>
<media:keywords>Tips, Fabric, Care</media:keywords>
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<title>Physical AI Conference Comes to San Jose as Robotics &amp;amp; Autonomous AI Go Mainstream </title>
<link>https://thebusinesseconomic.com/physical-ai-conference-comes-to-san-jose-as-robotics-autonomous-ai-go-mainstream</link>
<guid>https://thebusinesseconomic.com/physical-ai-conference-comes-to-san-jose-as-robotics-autonomous-ai-go-mainstream</guid>
<description><![CDATA[ The Physical AI Conference shaping the future of robotics, autonomous systems and real-world AI deployment lands in Silicon Valley this May, bringing together the engineers, builders and AI pioneers turning intelligence into physical action.  Physical AI Expo North America will take place on May 18–19, 2026 at the San Jose McEnery Convention Center, uniting global AI innovators, robotics leaders, […]
The post Physical AI Conference Comes to San Jose as Robotics &amp; Autonomous AI Go Mainstream  appeared first on AI News. ]]></description>
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<pubDate>Mon, 18 May 2026 19:48:24 +0000</pubDate>
<dc:creator>Tomas Kauer - News Writer and Moderator</dc:creator>
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<description><![CDATA[ Real estate products depend on integrations, data flows, and compliance layers that rarely appear in marketing pages. A vendor may look strong on reviews about general software development and struggle once MLS feeds, payment systems, and document workflows enter the build. In short, among top real estate app development companies in the US for 2026 […]
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<title>Physical AI moves closer to factory floors as companies test humanoid robots</title>
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<description><![CDATA[ British technology company Humanoid will deploy humanoid robots at factories operated by German industrial supplier Schaeffler, Reuters reported. The two companies’ agreement covers an estimated 1,000 to 2,000 robots in Schaeffler’s global manufacturing sites by 2032, according to a Humanoid spokesperson. The companies have not disclosed the contract value. The first deployment is scheduled between […]
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<title>Deloitte: Scale ‘autonomous intelligence’ for real growth</title>
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<description><![CDATA[ Enterprise leaders must progress past generative applications and scale “autonomous intelligence” to capture real growth. Generating text or summarising internal communications offers localised productivity improvements, yet these abilities rarely alter the core cost or revenue structure of a large organisation. Enterprises are now focused on deploying systems capable of independent execution. Leaders are demanding applications […]
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<title>Amazon launches Alexa for Shopping as Rufus moves behind the scenes</title>
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<description><![CDATA[ Amazon has introduced Alexa for Shopping, combining its Rufus shopping chatbot with Alexa+ across its app, website, and Echo Show devices. The assistant can answer product questions, compare items, track prices, and support shopping reminders. It can also handle scheduled shopping actions and eligible automated purchases. The company said Alexa for Shopping combines Rufus’ product […]
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<title>Mozilla’s Mark Surman on 3 ways CEOs can build trust in AI</title>
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<description><![CDATA[ Hello and welcome to Modern CEO! I’m Stephanie Mehta, CEO and chief content officer of Mansueto Ventures. Each week this newsletter explores inclusive approaches to leadership drawn from conversations with executives and entrepreneurs, and from the pages of Inc. and Fast Company. If you received this newsletter from a friend, you can sign up to get it yourself every Monday morning. 







Modern CEO has reported on disparate levels of enthusiasm for AI between corporate leaders and the general public. More worrying, there’s an emerging trust gap in the workplace, with only 27% of workers in the U.S. saying they “trust their employers to use AI responsibly,” according to one survey.  



It’s not too late for CEOs to win employees’ trust on AI, says Mark Surman, president of Mozilla, known for its Firefox web browser and its long-standing support of open-source technologies. Indeed, Surman’s advice for CEOs is drawn from open-source principles and Mozilla’s experiences seeking to build a more trustworthy internet. Here’s his counsel. 



1. Empower your team.  



“If you want to do right by your employees, have them be involved in how you reshape and rebuild the company,” Surman says. “Give them ways to create and learn and have agency over how [AI] is used.”  



Surman discourages companies from thinking of AI strictly as a productivity tool or a way to track workers’ keystrokes so machines can take over their tasks. (Indeed, research suggests that if employees know they are being mined for their data, they may withhold information.) Surman commends the efforts of Karim Lakhani, a Harvard Business School professor whose research suggests that AI-human collaboration can be potent and will require companies to reimagine the way organizations are structured and led.  



2. Build the right guardrails. 



In the same way that the internet brought new safety issues that required cybersecurity experts, AI governance is becoming a specialty. Mozilla Ventures has invested in AI governance companies such as Fiddler AI and Credo AI, which Surman feels are leading the way in helping companies and nonprofits with oversight and control of their agents. 



“The CEO totally has to be on top of modernizing safety and security” in the age of AI, he says. “You can lean on people who are really experienced at building the guardrails and rules for how AI should work at your company.” 



3. Be worthy of trust.  



“The consequences of being untrustworthy and ignoring accountability are through the roof,” Surman says. While he is excited about the creativity that responsible AI can unleash, he also acknowledges that AI can create slop and error-filled content that will erode trust in brands and institutions: “If trust isn’t something that you think about as a company, you are going to struggle in a world where people are more skeptical than ever about whether something is reliable.” 



Get your most pressing AI questions answered



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Read more: CEOs and founders love AI  




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<title>How the Spotify mafia took over Sweden’s tech scene</title>
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<description><![CDATA[ When Daniel Ek and Martin Lorentzon founded Spotify in April 2006, they were two Stockholm entrepreneurs with a prototype so skeletal that Per Roman, the cofounder of investors Bullhound Capital, who would later back the company, says his first look at it was “world-changing,” despite there barely being a product to look at.



Two decades and 300 million subscribers later, Spotify has become a defining force in the Swedish tech scene: a company whose alumni have gone on to found, fund, or run many of the most ambitious startups Stockholm has produced, in much the same way Silicon Valley’s PayPal Mafia shaped the U.S. tech ecosystem. It’s one of several tentpole companies, alongside Skype, Klarna, and King, that have had an outsized impact on Sweden.



Ex-Spotify engineers and operators now run venture firms backing the next wave of Swedish startups, including Lovable. Last month, Patrik Torstensson, one of Spotify’s most senior engineers during its growth years, was announced as Lovable’s new head of engineering, another addition to an alumni network that includes the founders of Tictail (acquired by Shopify), Soundtrack, Lifesum, Kovant, and Homer.



But Spotify’s influence on Stockholm extends beyond headcount. The company helped instill a culture of ambition and a growing confidence that the Swedish capital can produce globally dominant consumer technology companies, and that failure, should it come, won’t be fatal.



Fast Company spoke with several Spotify alumni who have since gone on to found companies of their own and further expand Stockholm’s startup ecosystem.



Henrik Torstensson, partner, Alliance VC



Henrik Torstensson joined Spotify in May 2010 as head of premium sales, when the company had around 300,000 paying subscribers. By the time he left three years later to cofound the wellness app Lifesum, that figure had grown to 6 million.



He points to Spotify’s willingness, beginning around 2010, to hire commercial operators from top American companies—early Google ad sales staff, Facebook partnership leads—as the moment Stockholm’s talent pool truly leveled up. “You got a really good mix of very ambitious, very good, mostly Swedish engineers and product people with a commercial acceleration which would have taken much longer,” says Torstensson, who now invests in the Nordics’ next big startups at Alliance VC.



Ali Sarrafi, cofounder and CEO, Kovant



Ali Sarrafi arrived at Spotify just as it was launching its first iPhone app, working on the data and machine-learning team, and stayed through the company’s IPO. During that time, headcount ballooned from around 100 employees to roughly 3,000, growth so relentless that engineers on his team complained about spending too much time interviewing candidates. “We didn’t really think much of it back then, because we were in the midst of it,” he says.



Sarrafi later left to build an industrial AI startup before founding Kovant, which sells autonomous agents to manufacturing firms grappling with what it estimates is a $3 trillion annual global efficiency gap. The cultural blueprint he learned at Spotify still shapes his company. “Best ideas, best facts, always win, not the person who’s the boss,” he says.



Wilhelm Lundborg, founder, Homer; partner, Greens Ventures



Wilhelm Lundborg has toured many of the biggest names in Stockholm tech: Spray, a Yahoo-like portal, in the late 1990s; Skype in the 2000s; Spotify from fewer than 100 employees to 3,500; then Tictail, which Shopify acquired; and now Homer, an AI-driven home-management app. He is also a limited partner in Greens Ventures, a venture fund made up mostly of ex-Spotify employees backing companies such as Lovable, Tandem Health, and Sana.



Lundborg argues that the Jante law, a Scandinavian cultural convention discouraging people from standing out, is fading in Stockholm. “I’m prepared to call that dead,” he says. “Everybody’s super excited and super happy and celebrates the successes of each other.”



Ola Sars, cofounder and CEO, Soundtrack



Ola Sars never worked at Spotify, but his company likely would not exist without it. A five-time music startup founder, Sars led the launch of Beats Music in Los Angeles before returning to Stockholm burnt out and convinced there was a business-to-business opportunity Spotify wasn’t pursuing. In a secretive Stockholm bar, he pitched the idea to Spotify executives, who backed it.



In 2014, the two sides jointly funded Soundtrack, which is now licensed in 75 countries with more than 50 million tracks and around 110,000 paying business customers spending roughly $30 per month. Spotify still holds a stake in the company. Sars says he values the village-like feel of Stockholm tech over what he sees as the Bay Area’s cutthroat culture. “My neighbors are C-levels at Spotify, and I can always ask Daniel or Martin or Alex what they think,” he says. “We’re not competing about shops here—we’re competing outside of Sweden.”



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<title>Nine founder red flags that are keeping VCs from investing in your AI company</title>
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<description><![CDATA[ AI may be attracting billions in venture capital, but money is not flowing to every founder with a chatbot demo and a slick deck. In fact, as AI makes building a great product faster and more accessible, founder behavior, judgment, and credibility become even more important. In a crowded market where every pitch claims “category-defining AI,” red flags can surface fast.



Founders must recognize that most investors are not just underwriting your product. They are underwriting you as a person for the next seven to ten years. If they sense weak leadership, poor decision-making, or shaky ethics early on, the meeting or any next steps is often over before diligence even begins.



Here are the top founder red flags VCs most commonly spot, and why they can kill your chances of raising capital as an AI company.



1. You’re Building a Thin Wrapper, Not a Real Business



One of the fastest-growing concerns among investors is founders who simply place a user interface on top of third-party models and call it innovation. If your entire product depends on another company’s API, with no proprietary data, workflow integration, or defensible moat, VCs may see it as temporary value.



Investors increasingly are moving away from “thin AI wrappers” and generic productivity tools because switching costs are low and it’s easy to launch copycats that can do what you do, but perhaps better. VCs want to know what remains valuable when the next model or release drops.



If your moat is “we use GPT too,” expect skepticism and pushback. 



2. You Claim There Are No Competitors



Nothing damages credibility faster than telling investors you have no competition. I’ve heard too many founders share this with me. 



Every startup has competition: incumbents, internal workflows, spreadsheets, agencies, or customer inertia. Founders who insist they are alone in the market often signal naivety, weak market research, or ego.



Investors are especially turned off when founders cannot articulate what could threaten their business. Strong founders understand risks. Weak founders deny they exist. 



Smart founders frame competition honestly by explaining who exists, why customers still struggle, and why now is the moment to win and scale at large.



3. You Treat Fundraising Like a Chore



Many founders talk about fundraising like it distracts from the “real work” of building. But for venture-backed startups, raising capital is part of the job.



Strong founders learn to value the process. Pitching sharpens the vision, investor questions test assumptions, and relationship-building can open doors long after the round closes.



VCs want founders who understand that fundraising is not separate from building the company. It is part of building the company.



4. Your Numbers Feel Inflated or Misleading



Metrics manipulation is one of the quickest ways to lose trust with an investor. That can mean overstating revenue, using vanity metrics in place of retention, redefining “active users,” or presenting aggressive projections with little evidence. Investors know early-stage metrics are imperfect. What they cannot tolerate is dishonesty.



Misrepresenting numbers is an immediate deal-breaker for some investors. Once trust is broken, every other claim becomes suspect. 



Be clear and transparent. A flawed metric explained honestly is better than a perfect metric nobody believes.



5. You’re Defensive Instead of Coachable



The best founders are confident enough to be challenged. VCs often test how founders respond to pushback. Do you get curious and thoughtful, or argumentative and combative? Do you treat every question as an attack?



Investors know they will disagree with founders many times after investing. If you become defensive in a first meeting, they imagine years of friction ahead and won’t want to move forward.



Coachability does not mean agreeing with everything. It means listening, reasoning clearly, and showing a learning mindset.



6. The Founding Team Dynamic Feels Off



Investors study founder chemistry closely. Tension, disrespect, unclear roles, or one founder constantly interrupting another can sink confidence quickly.



Visible imbalance between business and technical cofounders is a major warning sign. If one founder dominates every answer or speaks for the other’s domain, investors worry about future conflict and decision bottlenecks. 



7. You Don’t Understand the Economics of AI



Many founders underestimate the operational realities of AI businesses: inference costs, margins, data labeling expenses, enterprise sales cycles, compliance, and churn.



VCs increasingly want founders who understand not just what AI can do, but what AI costs to run and scale. If your revenue model ignores compute spend or assumes infinite gross margins, it suggests superficial thinking.



AI startups are not funded because they use AI. They are funded because they can build durable economics around it.



8. Your Vision Is Huge, but Your Execution Is Vague



Saying you will “transform healthcare,” “reinvent legal work,” or “disrupt finance” is easy. Explaining your first expansion, customer acquisition motion, and adoption path is harder.



Investors often reject founders whose vision is massive but whose go-to-market plan lacks clarity. Grandiosity without sequencing feels immature.



The best founders think big and execute narrowly. They know exactly which customer pain point they solve first.



9. You Lack Self-Awareness



Perhaps the most underrated red flag is a founder who lacks realism. If you insist everything is going perfectly, dismiss concerns, or believe intelligence alone guarantees success, investors may walk away. 



Startups are brutally hard. Strong founders know what they do not know. Self-awareness signals maturity, resilience, and leadership. Delusion signals future pain and potentially a sinking ship for an investor.



VCs don’t expect perfection from founders. We do, however, expect honesty, clarity, adaptability, and evidence that you can navigate chaos. For AI founders, that means more than flashy demos or buzzwords. It means proving you understand your customers, your economics, your competition, and yourself.



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<title>SpaceX IPO: Stock listing date nears as Elon Musk’s rocket company prepares for historic market debut</title>
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<description><![CDATA[ Investors might soon get a closer look at the financial details behind Elon Musk’s SpaceX.



The rocket and satellite company, whose forthcoming initial public offering (IPO) is among the most-anticipated stock listings in years, could make its paperwork with the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) public as soon as this week, according to Bloomberg and other media outlets.



Once its prospectus is public, anyone will be able to peruse closely guarded business metrics, such as its historic revenue and profit, as well as SpaceX’s plans for future growth and its assessment of the broader marketplace in which it operates.



The “risk factors” section of the document should be especially fascinating, as SpaceX has a stated goal of “establishing a self-sufficient city on Mars.” 



SpaceX filed preliminary confidential paperwork with the SEC in early April. According to a report from the Wall Street Journal, it is aiming for a listing date of June 12.



Fast Company reached out to SpaceX for comment. 



Largest IPO in history 



According to reporting from the Financial Times, which cited people familiar with its confidential S-1 filing, SpaceX is seeking to raise roughly $75 billion for a valuation of $1.75 trillion. 



That would make it the biggest market debut of all time, beating out Saudi Aramco, which raised $29 billion for its IPO in 2019.



SpaceX is also proposing to hand enormous voting power to Musk, CEO and board chair, who will own a “supermajority of class B stock,” the FT further reports, a structure that could essentially prevent the billionaire from ever being fired.



Over the years, SpaceX has all but cornered the market for commercial rocket launches, while its Starlink internet business has more than 10,000 satellites in orbit. More recently, Musk merged SpaceX with xAI, his artificial intelligence company, which owns the X social media platform and the Grok chatbot.



SpaceX is planning to list its shares on the Nasdaq, Reuters reported. ]]></description>
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<title>AI won’t optimize your company. It will force you to rebuild it </title>
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<description><![CDATA[ For the past two years, companies have been asking the wrong question: how do we use AI in our processes? 



That question made sense at the beginning. When large language models first appeared, the instinct was natural: take what already exists, from workflows to functions, decision chains, etc., and try to accelerate them. Add copilots. Add assistants. Add automation layers. Improve productivity. 



But as we’ve seen, that approach doesn’t scale. As I’ve argued in previous pieces, enterprise AI hasn’t failed because the technology doesn’t work. It has failed because we tried to place it in the wrong layer. Large language models were never designed to run a company, and embedding them into existing processes doesn’t change that structural mismatch. 






Now that the initial enthusiasm has collided with reality, a different question is starting to emerge, quietly, but unmistakably: what if the problem is not how to use AI in our processes, but that our processes were never designed for AI in the first place? 



The return of an old idea (this time for real) 



In the 1990s, business process reengineering (BPR) promised something radical: redesign companies around information systems instead of layering technology on top of existing workflows. The idea was compelling, but the execution was uneven. Many initiatives became expensive reorganizations with limited long-term impact, partly because the underlying systems were still rigid, fragmented, and unable to adapt in real time. 



This time is different. 



Back then, systems were passive. They stored information, enforced rules, and supported decisions made by humans. Today, systems are becoming active: they can generate, evaluate, coordinate, and increasingly, act. That shift changes the equation entirely. It means we are no longer just digitizing processes: we are redefining what a process is. 



McKinsey’s latest research on AI adoption reinforces this point: while usage is widespread, real impact correlates strongly with workflow redesign, not just tool deployment. Organizations that rethink how work is done, not just how it is assisted, are the ones seeing measurable gains.



In other words, the original promise of BPR is resurfacing, but now the technology can finally support it. 



Why most processes are incompatible with AI 



The uncomfortable truth is that most enterprise processes today are not just inefficient. They are structurally incompatible with the kind of systems AI is becoming. 



They are: 




Fragmented: spread across tools, teams, and data silos 



Sequential: built around handoffs and delays 



Context-poor: dependent on individuals to reconstruct state



Decision-latent: optimized for review, not action 



Human-centric by design: assuming that cognition, memory, and coordination are scarce 




These characteristics made sense in a world where humans were the limiting factor. They don’t make sense in a world where systems can maintain context, apply constraints, and operate continuously. 



Deloitte captures this tension clearly in its recent analysis of agentic AI: many organizations are trying to automate processes designed for humans instead of rethinking the work itself. The result is predictable: complexity increases, but outcomes don’t improve proportionally. 



That’s not a tooling problem: that’s a design problem. 



AI doesn’t optimize processes: it exposes them 



One of the most consistent patterns across enterprise AI initiatives is this: the more you try to apply AI to an existing process, the more visible that process’s limitations become. 



What was previously hidden behind human effort becomes explicit: 




missing data 



inconsistent rules 



unclear ownership 



duplicated work 



delayed feedback loops 




In that sense, AI behaves less like an optimization layer and more like a diagnostic tool. It reveals the gap between how a company thinks it operates and how it actually operates. 



This is why so many pilots stall. Not because the model fails, but because the process it is inserted into cannot absorb what the model produces. As MIT Sloan has argued, the challenge is not simply adopting AI, but redesigning organizations so that they can actually use it effectively. 



And that leads to a much more uncomfortable conclusion: the limiting factor is no longer the technology. It’s the company. 



From processes to systems 



If the previous phase of enterprise AI was about adding intelligence to tasks. The next one will be about redesigning systems so that intelligence is embedded from the start. 



That shift changes everything. Instead of asking: 




“How do we automate this step?” 




Companies will have to ask: 




“Why does this step exist at all?” 



“What would this process look like if it were designed around continuous context?” 



“Where should decisions actually happen?” 



“What constraints should be enforced automatically?” 




These are not incremental improvements. They are structural questions. And they point toward a different kind of organization: one where processes are no longer static sequences of actions, but dynamic systems that maintain state, integrate data, operate under constraints, and continuously adapt based on outcomes. The same characteristics that define the systems described in my previous article. 



The companies that move first will look very different 



This is where the shift becomes visible. The companies that successfully redesign their processes around these principles will not just be faster or more efficient. They will operate differently: 




decisions will happen closer to data 



coordination will require fewer handoffs 



feedback loops will shorten dramatically 



execution will become more continuous 



roles will evolve around systems, not tasks 




Microsoft’s Work Trend Index already hints at this transition, describing organizations moving toward more dynamic, outcome-driven structures where humans and AI collaborate around goals rather than functions. 



From the outside, these companies may not look dramatically different at first. But internally, their operating logic will have shifted. And that shift compounds. 



This is not optional 



It’s tempting to think of this as an opportunity. It is, it may well be. But it’s also something else: a constraint. 



Because once some companies begin to operate this way, the others are not competing against better tools. They are competing against a different kind of system. 



A system that: 




learns faster 



adapts continuously 



coordinates more efficiently 



executes with fewer delays 




That is not something you can match by adding another copilot or deploying another model. It requires redesign. 



The next phase of enterprise AI is organizational 



If the first phase of AI in the enterprise was about experimentation, and the second about realization, the next one will be about transformation. 



Not transformation driven by models, but by structure. We are not moving from “worse AI” to “better AI,” we are moving from companies built for humans, to companies that must operate with machines as part of their core logic. And that requires something many organizations have avoided for decades: rebuilding how they actually work. 



The real question 



So the question is no longer “how do we use AI?” It is: “are we willing to redesign our company so that AI can actually work?” Because if the answer is no, the outcome is already clear: 



AI will not fail. Your processes will. 



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<title>Looking to switch? Compare green business energy suppliers</title>
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<description><![CDATA[ By James Earnshaw on Small Business UK - Advice and Ideas for UK Small Businesses and SMEs


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<title>Essential energy&#45;saving tips for small businesses</title>
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<title>Best Business Bank Account and Business Account platforms</title>
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<description><![CDATA[ By Lucy Wayment on Small Business UK - Advice and Ideas for UK Small Businesses and SMEs


Make the right decision about your small business bank account, whether you&#039;re just starting out as a sole trader or you&#039;re more established
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<title>Would you hire the lawyer who just got sanctioned for using AI?</title>
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<title>Top Chef’s Tom Colicchio got a 15x return on a tech company most Americans have never heard of. He thinks his own industry is broken</title>
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<title>I’ve been studying Big Tech for a long time. What just happened with Anthropic and the Pentagon terrifies me</title>
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<title>‘You’re not a hero, you’re a liability’: Shark Tank’s Kevin O’Leary warns Gen Z founders to stop glorifying hustle culture</title>
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<description><![CDATA[ The millionaire said eating well, getting sleep, and exercising, not overworking, will help founders “optimize.” ]]></description>
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<title>Microsoft AI chief gives it 18 months—for all white&#45;collar work to be automated by AI</title>
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<title>The Truth: Your Exit Is Your Last Impression</title>
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<title>Lidl ropes in Olio and Neighbourly in landmark surplus food trial that could rescue 11.9 million meals a year</title>
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<title>Treasury orders review into bank branch closures as small firms count the cost</title>
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The Treasury has ordered an independent review into the impact of 6,700 UK bank branch closures, paving the way for tougher rules on face-to-face banking for small firms and consumers.
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<title>JCB chairman Lord Bamford warns ministers face public revolt over £333bn welfare bill</title>
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JCB chairman Lord Bamford warns ministers risk a public revolt over Britain&#039;s £333bn welfare bill, accusing Westminster of &quot;conning&quot; taxpayers with payouts of up to £60,000 a year.
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<title>UK business chiefs unite to combat workplace antisemitism as Met chief warns jews ‘not safe’ in London</title>
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Forty UK business organisations led by the BCC and CBI sign a joint letter pledging zero tolerance of workplace antisemitism, as Met chief Sir Mark Rowley warns MPs that Jews are ‘not currently safe’ in London.
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<title>What the jury will actually decide in the case of Elon Musk vs. Sam Altman</title>
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<description><![CDATA[ Here&#039;s what the biggest tech court case of the year is all about. ]]></description>
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<title>Indian Uber rival Rapido raises $240M at $3B valuation</title>
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<title>Osaurus brings both local and cloud AI models to your Mac</title>
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<title>Meridian Ventures launched $35M fund to back MBA&#45;deferred founders</title>
<link>https://thebusinesseconomic.com/meridian-ventures-launched-35m-fund-to-back-mba-deferred-founders</link>
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<description><![CDATA[ Meridian Ventures, the venture firm founded by Devon Gethers and Karlton Haney, announced on Friday the raise of a $35 million second fund to back pre-seed and seed-stage companies founded by those who have deferred MBAs. ]]></description>
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<title>Even GoPro is pivoting to defense</title>
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<description><![CDATA[ The action camera maker, like so many other companies these days, is looking to defense applications as it evaluates a possible sale. ]]></description>
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<title>The day I stopped following the male idea of power</title>
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<description><![CDATA[ “Who are your enemies?”



I was asked this interview question throughout my entire career. And I’d always come up blank. Every time. No enemies.



And when I failed to produce an impressive enemy list, the reaction was always the same: How can you claim to be competent if you haven’t made powerful enemies?



I came to understand this enemy thing was rooted in the male idea of power. That men tend to see winning and power like this: For me to win, you need to lose.



I came to realize that this advice to be powerful enough to have enemies was basically an invitation to turn into an aggressive bully to advance my career.



But here’s the catch. I was bullied as a kid. And it was awful. So, early on, I decided that I was never going to choose to be like the bullies who hurt me. And if that was not good for my career, so be it. I would find another way.



I often wondered if I was limiting my career by being too nice. And worried if I was supposed to feel powerful? Am I supposed to act powerful even if I don’t feel powerful? Am I doing the job of a leader wrong because I don’t feel powerful?



Even when I was in my biggest roles, where I had actual power at my fingertips — thousands of employees under my watch, millions of dollars of budget to manage, billions of dollars of revenue to keep growing — I never felt personally powerful. Mostly, I personally felt crushing responsibility.



I felt insecure about the power thing for years. 



The VP Bully



Then one day, what I needed to do about this idea of acting powerful like the men became very clear to me.



I was at a client’s office on Long Island. Sitting in a small conference room were the VP of technology, who was a large, dominant type, and one of his direct reports, whom I’ll call Seth. The VP told me, “The reason we are having this problem is that Seth makes stupid mistakes. He’s not good at his job. No one listens to Seth. He screws everything up.”



Seth looked small and mortified. I was cringing and heartbroken for him. I knew what it felt like to be bullied like this. “Little Patty,” who had been bullied herself, could feel her childhood insecurities and fears bubble up watching this VP berate Seth.



I had worked with Seth on prior occasions. Seth knew a hundred times more than this VP. The problem was not Seth. This VP was a bully.



But then a really weird, creepy thing happened a bit later, when the VP walked me out, and we ran into his boss in the lobby: this bully instantly became a cowering suck up to his boss. I was appalled. He needed to abuse Seth to feel powerful, but he was afraid to be powerful with his boss.



Watching this scenario, a new thought started to brew: Wait a minute, if I am still the same insecure little kid on the inside, probably so is this jerk.



And once I saw it, I couldn’t unsee it.



Forever after leaving that lobby, whenever I see a big, scary man acting like a powerful bully, I see the hurt little boy, as plain as day. I want to reach over, gently squeeze his forearm, and say, “Aw, did somebody steal your ball? Did your father yell at you for crying about it? Poor thing.”



A better way



Seeing the big bullies as fragile little boys was my first step toward understanding that there was a better way to show up as a leader than “powerful.” And with this insight, when I got bullied at work, I could mostly just step aside and let the aggression roll by instead of being crushed by it.



My mom had given me the key to keeping my self-esteem intact with bullies all those years ago. And I have used her advice for the entirety of my career and life: Bullies need to make you feel worse than they feel on the inside. It’s always about them. It’s never about you.



Once I saw these men as their own little version of Kevin or Harold, struggling with their own insecurities, I was no longer worried that they were innately gifted with a kind of power that I didn’t have access to. It made me stop worrying once and for all about feeling or even acting powerful. It just didn’t matter.



I chose to be a leader who was first and foremost kind and respectful to people. People are not productive when they are self-protecting. I focused on making people feel safe. My teams executed on our commitments. We grew the business. My organizations got more capable over time because I invested in and cared about the people.



For me, real power is not personally owned. The aggressive, bullying version of personal power is just insecurity masquerading as strength. Sharing power with others so you can get big, amazing things done together is true power. That was the sort of power I chose to cultivate and the kind of leader I chose to be.



Do aggressive bullies get ahead? Yes, of course they do. But I learned it’s not the only option. You can make a different choice. I made a different choice.



I chose not to model the idea of power that was being shown to me by the men. You might say I chose to stay “too nice”. And you know what? It did not limit my career. If anything, it accelerated it.



I was able to build a highly capable team of people who were productive and motivated because I chose to make them feel powerful. And the idea of being or acting powerful personally didn’t confuse me anymore.



I had no interest in the win-lose version of power. I just let the men duke it out among themselves, and I created my own path forward that was true to my belief that kindness and strength can go hand in hand. Because making people feel respected and safe makes them wildly productive. And on the enemies thing, I just think, if I can win and you can win, why is that not better?



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<title>Soccer superstar Messi is bigger than ever thanks Lowe’s 10&#45;foot inflatable  statue</title>
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<description><![CDATA[ Dozens of brands are using the 2026 FIFA World Cup as a chance to cash in on themed ads, products, and brand collaborations. But the home goods giant Lowe’s is doing something unique: debuting a 10-foot-tall inflatable of Lionel Messi for fans to put in their front yards.



Lowe’s is running a series of activations for the world’s biggest soccer moment, all of which center on its limited-edition, $99 Messi inflatable, made in collaboration with Messi himself. The inflatable, which will start to pop up in a 20-foot version around several U.S. host cities in mid-May, will be available online to Lowe’s rewards members starting on May 18, followed by a limited release in select stores on May 20.



[Photo: Lowe’s]



According to Jen Wilson, Lowe’s chief marketing officer, the company is planning to release only about 5,200 inflatable Messis—and it expects them all to sell out.



The reason for Wilson’s confidence is twofold: First, she says, while plenty of brands will be planning their own activations for the World Cup, not many others could even attempt a product in this niche. And, second, the move is backed up by company data that yard decor—especially personalized decor—is becoming more popular among consumers, even outside of the typical holiday windows. It’s a trend that, oddly enough, might just trace all the way back to a giant skeleton that stole the internet’s heart in 2020. 



[Photo: Lowe’s]



What in the world is going on with yard decor?



Over the past few years, I’ve been noticing a trend in my Chicago neighborhood. Outside the typical festive months of October through January, I’m seeing more and more holiday decorations left out in people’s yards and stylized for each new season. Oftentimes, that takes the form of a giant skeleton dressed up in a personalized outfit or performing some kind of goofy stunt.



There’s a very real subculture to back this up, and it all stems from a giant Home Depot decoration. In 2020, Home Depot released a 12-foot-tall skeleton decoration that almost instantly went viral, earning the internet moniker “Skelly.” In the years since then, Skelly has become the only Halloween product that Home Depot brings back year after year, consistently selling out to its legion of fans. 



Skelly has amassed a cult-like following, and, in turn, inspired a small but committed group of decorators to keep their skeleton decor up year-round, giving them customized outfits and accessories for events like back to school and arranging them in silly poses like a staged flag football game.



Skelly’s popularity seems to point to a broader shift in how Americans view their yard space. Wilson says that Lowe’s also saw consumers’ interest in out-of-the-box yard decor spike starting back in 2020—and the trend has only grown since then.



“For us it was really this explosion of both all things mini and all things giant,” Wilson says. She believes Lowe’s was one of the first companies experimenting with products like mini buckets or mini toolboxes, which have become huge fan favorites. On the other end of the spectrum, like Home Depot, Lowe’s has begun investing in new giant animatronics, including its popular 10-foot Abominable Snowman, 8-foot Skelly-esque skeleton, and 12-foot-tall Immortal Nightwalker.



Outside of the holidays, the brand has noticed and capitalized on year-round yard trends, like the “porch goose,” a TikTok-viral concept wherein customers buy a concrete goose and dress it up seasonally—just like some Home Depot fans with their beloved Skellies. 



“We do absolutely see a rising trend in outdoor decor and consumers either keeping outdoor decor up longer or participating in trends like the porch goose,” Wilson says. “It’s all really interconnected to expressing your own sense of style and culture and just being a part of something.” 



She attributes the rising consumer interest in these novelty products to something she describes as “similar to the lipstick effect,” or the idea that consumers will increase spending on small luxuries during moments of economic strain. 



“People still want indulgences, even if there’s a pressured economy,” Wilson says. “A larger-than-life item in their front yard is something that just makes them feel joyous, and that’s what people are looking for.”



With the Messi inflatable, Lowe’s is betting that the same theory will apply to World Cup fans who are watching the games from their homes, but want a way to let their whole neighborhood know that they’re part of a larger moment. 



[Photo: Lowe’s]



The Skelly of soccer



Given Lowe’s “affordable indulgences” decor theory, one of the in-house design team’s key considerations when building the inflatable Messi was cost. 



“We wanted it to be under $100, particularly as people are paying attention to their wallets and obviously the rising costs of gas,” Wilson says. “When we know that the consumer is super focused on essentials, if they’re going to make this splurge, we want to make sure that it’s affordable. We typically look at engineering most of our gigantic items somewhere in the under-$300 range.”



That price constraint helped Wilson’s team to determine the actual height of the inflatable, opting for 10 feet rather than 15 or 20 in order to conserve materials and lower costs. Then, to get every detail just right, the team went directly to Messi to determine how the inflatable should look: each aspect, from the length of his hair to his beard, tattoos, and the look of his arms and legs, was given Messi’s final approval. 



“We just wanted it to feel authentic and for him to be proud if he was driving down a neighborhood in Miami and saw himself outside of a home,” Wilson says. “He loved where we landed, and we’re thrilled.” ]]></description>
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<title>Cerebras Systems IPO: Stock price will be closely watched today as AI chipmaker goes public on the Nasdaq</title>
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<description><![CDATA[ Today is an important day in the 2026 IPO landscape: Cerebras Systems Inc. is making its much-anticipated market debut.



While not a household name like Nvidia, Intel, or TSMC, Cerebras is a chipmaker that is rapidly becoming a critical player in the AI semiconductor space. 



And investors will be casting a keen eye on how its stock performs in the early days of trading, looking for hints about how other, even more anticipated AI-related listings may play out later this year. 



Here’s what you need to know about Cerebras and its initial public offering: 



What is Cerebras Systems?



Cerebras Systems is an AI semiconductor company headquartered in Sunnyvale, California. It was founded in 2015 by Andrew Feldman, Gary Lauterbach, Michael James, Sean Lie, and Jean-Philippe Fricker. Feldman is the company’s CEO.



The company specializes in making the largest—quite literally—computer chips in the world, chips that are optimized for running AI tasks.



While most computer chips are made from large wafers that are then divided to make smaller, individual chips, a single Cerebras chip is the entire wafer.



As Fast Company previously reported when it named Cerebras one of the most innovative AI companies of 2026, the large size of its chips means they can perform AI tasks much more quickly—up to 70 times faster than the GPUs that many AI systems run on today.



“The large square chip packs a lot of processing power and memory on one piece of silicon, so almost no time is wasted routing data between separate chips,” Fast Company’s Mark Sullivan previously noted. “That makes it highly effective at processing data from commercial AI applications that require massive throughput and very fast response times.”



Cerebras’s customers include pharmaceutical companies like AstraZeneca and GlaxoSmithKline, as well as tech firms like G42, IBM, Meta, Mistral, Notion, and Perplexity. 



Most recently, Cerebras inked a $20 billion deal with ChatGPT maker OpenAI.



When is Cerebras Systems’ IPO?



Cerebras Systems priced its shares on Wednesday. It is expected to list on Thursday, May 14, 2026.



What is Cerebras Systems’ stock ticker?



Cerebras Systems’ shares will trade under the stock ticker “CBRS.” The stock will trade on the Nasdaq Global Select Market.



What is the IPO share price of CBRS?



The initial public offering price for CBRS shares is $185 per share. This final IPO price is remarkably higher than the IPO share price Cerebras said it would pursue just a few weeks earlier.



On May 4, the company announced it would initiate the road show for its upcoming IPO. At that time, Cerebras said that the initial public offering price was expected to be between $115 to $125 per share.



While it is not uncommon for a company to tweak its IPO price in the days leading up to the actual IPO, the final $185 IPO share price is around 60% higher than the low end of the original range. 



This suggests that demand for shares was much greater than initially anticipated.



How many CBRS shares are available in its IPO?



Upon its IPO listing, Cerebras Systems made 30 million shares of its Class A common stock available. 



The company’s underwriters, which include Morgan Stanley, Citigroup, Barclays, and UBS Investment Bank, also have a 30-day option to buy an additional 4.5 million shares.



How much did Cerebras Systems raise in its IPO?



Selling 30 million shares at $185 each means Cerebras raised $5.5 billion in its IPO.



As noted by CNBC, that makes this offering one of the largest U.S. tech IPOs in recent memory. It puts Cerebras above the $3.8 billion that Snowflake raised in its 2020 IPO, and behind the roughly $8 billion Uber raised in its 2019 IPO.



How much is Cerebras Systems worth?



At its IPO price, Cerebras is now valued at around $56.4 billion, according to CNBC.



2026 is shaping up to be the year of AI IPOs



Given all the hype and hope around AI, it’s little surprise Cerebras’s IPO shares went for significantly higher than the company had originally forecast. And the successful IPO also bodes well for other AI companies that are likely to go public this year.



Two of the most anticipated AI-related IPOs of 2026 include Claude maker Anthropic and ChatGPT maker OpenAI. Current rumblings point to Anthropic debuting first, followed by OpenAI by the end of the year.



Of course, AI companies aren’t the only tech firms expected to go public in 2026. Another big tech company that will likely IPO this year, perhaps as soon as this summer, is Elon Musk’s SpaceX.



Taken all together, 2026 could be one of the biggest years on record when it comes to the total valuation of all tech IPOs scheduled to go public. ]]></description>
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<title>Cisco layoffs today: Tech giant slashes thousands of jobs as CEO touts record revenue and urgent focus on AI</title>
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<description><![CDATA[ On Wednesday, Cisco Systems announced impressive quarterly earnings alongside nearly 4,000 job cuts.



The dichotomy stemmed from the hardware and networking company’s embrace of a rapidly growing trend in tech: openly admitting that layoffs are due to AI adoption rather than poor performance. 



“The companies that will win in the AI era will be those with focus, urgency, and the discipline to continuously shift investment toward the areas where demand and long-term value creation are strongest,” Cisco CEO Chuck Robbins told employees in a publicly shared email. “I’m confident Cisco will be one of those winners. This means making hard decisions—about where we invest, how we’re organized, and how our cost structure reflects the opportunity in front of us.”



With his announcement, Robbins follows in the footsteps of tech leaders including Block CEO Jack Dorsey and Snap CEO Evan Spiegel, who made similar moves this year. 



Robbins emphasized that the company will further invest in employees’ AI use throughout their jobs. 



Meanwhile, employees will start getting notifications if they’ve been laid off on Thursday. Cisco says the job cuts make up less than 5% of its total workforce. 



Shares of Cisco Systems Inc. (Nasdaq: CSCO) were up more than 16% on Thursday morning. The stock had already been trading at record highs this month. 



How did Cisco perform during its third quarter? 



Cisco reported $15.8 billion in revenue for the quarter ending on April 25. That figure represents a 12% jump year-over-year (YOY) and beats Wall Street’s predicted $15.56 billion, according to consensus estimates cited by CNBC.



The company also surpassed expectations of $1.04 earnings per share with $1.06 adjusted.  



In a post-earnings call, Robbins highlighted AI-centric business with companies like Nexus and Nvidia, as well as a significant increase in revenue from AI. For instance, this quarter, Cisco shared plans to expand its secure AI factory with Nvidia. 



Cisco’s product revenue rose 17%, something Robbins attributes to “robust demand for our AI infrastructure and campus networking solutions.”



Cisco expects its revenue to reach $16.7 billion to $16.9 billion in quarter four and $62.8 billion to $63 billion for fiscal year 2026. In comparison, it saw $56.7 billion in revenue for fiscal year 2025.  ]]></description>
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<title>The 2026 FIFA World Cup final will have this star&#45;studded halftime show at MetLife Stadium</title>
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<description><![CDATA[ The World Cup final will feature a star-studded halftime show headlined by Madonna, Shakira and boy-band BTS.FIFA has announced that, for the first time, the final at the MetLife Stadium in New Jersey on July 19 will include a Super Bowl-style concert.The governing body said the show would support the FIFA Global Citizen Education Fund, which is raising $100 million to help children access education and soccer.FIFA president Gianni Infantino said it would bring together “music and football on the biggest stage in sport for a very special cause.”“Every child should have the opportunity to dream, and together we can help make that possible,” he posted on Instagram.The show will be curated by Coldplay’s Chris Martin.The Super Bowl is famed for its halftime show — attracting the world’s biggest stars for spectacular performances. This year featured Puerto Rican artist Bad Bunny.Previous headliners included Michael Jackson, Paul McCartney, the Rolling Stones, Madonna, Prince, Bruce Springsteen and Rhianna.But halftime shows are not so commonplace in soccer, with events such as the Champions League final featuring a pre-match concert. This year will see the Killers headline European club soccer’s biggest game between Paris Saint-Germain and Arsenal in Budapest.FIFA describes its halftime show as “a singular moment at the intersection of sport, culture and purpose, broadcast live around the world.”This year’s World Cup is co-hosted by the United States, Canada and Mexico and runs through June and July.







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<title>The importance of choosing the right web hosting company for small businesses</title>
<link>https://thebusinesseconomic.com/the-importance-of-choosing-the-right-web-hosting-company-for-small-businesses</link>
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<description><![CDATA[ By Ben Lobel on Small Business UK - Advice and Ideas for UK Small Businesses and SMEs


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<title>Best challenger bank for a business account</title>
<link>https://thebusinesseconomic.com/best-challenger-bank-for-a-business-account</link>
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<description><![CDATA[ By James Earnshaw on Small Business UK - Advice and Ideas for UK Small Businesses and SMEs


Considering a challenger bank over a traditional High Street bank for your business bank account? Check out our review of the top ten providers   
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<title>Getting and setting up a business domain name</title>
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<description><![CDATA[ By Anna Jordan on Small Business UK - Advice and Ideas for UK Small Businesses and SMEs


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<title>Choosing the right web hosting provider for your small business</title>
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<title>Best AI website builders</title>
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<description><![CDATA[ By Anna Jordan on Small Business UK - Advice and Ideas for UK Small Businesses and SMEs


Check out the best AI website builders and learn about how they can support you and your business, even if you have no technical knowledge
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<title>Former Tesla exec and Heron Power CEO Drew Baglino has founded a heat pump startup</title>
<link>https://thebusinesseconomic.com/former-tesla-exec-and-heron-power-ceo-drew-baglino-has-founded-a-heat-pump-startup</link>
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<description><![CDATA[ Sadi Thermal Machines is Drew Baglino&#039;s second startup since leaving Tesla in 2024. ]]></description>
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<title>Kevin Hartz’s A* just closed its third fund with $450M</title>
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<description><![CDATA[ The firm takes a generalist approach, backing companies across categories such as AI applications, fintech, healthcare, and security. The average check size for this fund will be between $3 million and $5 million, with the aim to back at least 30 startups. ]]></description>
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<title>Medicare’s new payment model is built for AI, and most of the tech world has no idea</title>
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<description><![CDATA[ There is no governmental mechanism to pay for an AI agent that monitors a patient between visits, calls to check in, coordinates a housing referral, or makes sure someone picks up their medication. ACCESS creates that mechanism for the first time. ]]></description>
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<title>Adaption aims big with AutoScientist, an AI tool that helps models train themselves</title>
<link>https://thebusinesseconomic.com/adaption-aims-big-with-autoscientist-an-ai-tool-that-helps-models-train-themselves</link>
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<description><![CDATA[ Adaption&#039;s new AutoScientist tool is designed to let models adapt to specific capabilities quickly through an automated approach to conventional fine-tuning. ]]></description>
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<title>Poppy debuts a proactive AI assistant to help organize your digital life</title>
<link>https://thebusinesseconomic.com/poppy-debuts-a-proactive-ai-assistant-to-help-organize-your-digital-life</link>
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<pubDate>Wed, 13 May 2026 14:00:02 +0000</pubDate>
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<title>SAP CEO: the AI race is being fought in the wrong place </title>
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<description><![CDATA[ Smarter models mean nothing without operational context — and the real AI battleground is inside your ERP system, not on a chatbot interface. ]]></description>
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<title>Current price of oil as of May 12, 2026</title>
<link>https://thebusinesseconomic.com/current-price-of-oil-as-of-may-12-2026</link>
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<description><![CDATA[ When oil prices change, it affects your energy costs—and even the price of everyday items. Here’s why. ]]></description>
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<title>Girls say AI is a smarter tutor, a funnier comedian, and has better better taste than their parents, new Girl Scouts survey finds</title>
<link>https://thebusinesseconomic.com/girls-say-ai-is-a-smarter-tutor-a-funnier-comedian-and-has-better-better-taste-than-their-parents-new-girl-scouts-survey-finds</link>
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<description><![CDATA[ Girls ages 5 to 13 are increasingly seeing AI as a friend. ]]></description>
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<title>Greenboard raises $15.5 million to keep compliance from slowing down business in the AI era</title>
<link>https://thebusinesseconomic.com/greenboard-raises-155-million-to-keep-compliance-from-slowing-down-business-in-the-ai-era</link>
<guid>https://thebusinesseconomic.com/greenboard-raises-155-million-to-keep-compliance-from-slowing-down-business-in-the-ai-era</guid>
<description><![CDATA[ Base10 led the Series A after leading the startup’s 2024 seed round ]]></description>
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<title>April inflation shoots 3.8% higher on surging prices from war in Iran</title>
<link>https://thebusinesseconomic.com/april-inflation-shoots-38-higher-on-surging-prices-from-war-in-iran</link>
<guid>https://thebusinesseconomic.com/april-inflation-shoots-38-higher-on-surging-prices-from-war-in-iran</guid>
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<title>Vauxhall turns to China’s Leapmotor in bid to keep British motoring affordable</title>
<link>https://thebusinesseconomic.com/vauxhall-turns-to-chinas-leapmotor-in-bid-to-keep-british-motoring-affordable</link>
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<title>ProcurePro lands $11m to drag construction’s $13 trillion supply chain out of the spreadsheet era</title>
<link>https://thebusinesseconomic.com/procurepro-lands-11m-to-drag-constructions-13-trillion-supply-chain-out-of-the-spreadsheet-era</link>
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Australian construction tech firm ProcurePro raises $11m at an $80m+ valuation, led by QIC Ventures, to scale its AI-driven procurement platform across the UK, Middle East and North America.
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<title>SME funded launches one&#45;stop finance platform to plug funding gap for britain’s builders and manufacturers</title>
<link>https://thebusinesseconomic.com/sme-funded-launches-one-stop-finance-platform-to-plug-funding-gap-for-britains-builders-and-manufacturers</link>
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New specialist lender SME Funded launches with access to 130+ lenders and its own capital, targeting underserved construction and manufacturing SMEs across the UK.
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<title>Eon swallows Ovo in £600m deal that crowns Germany’s biggest energy giant as Britain’s largest supplier</title>
<link>https://thebusinesseconomic.com/eon-swallows-ovo-in-600m-deal-that-crowns-germanys-biggest-energy-giant-as-britains-largest-supplier</link>
<guid>https://thebusinesseconomic.com/eon-swallows-ovo-in-600m-deal-that-crowns-germanys-biggest-energy-giant-as-britains-largest-supplier</guid>
<description><![CDATA[ 
Germany&#039;s Eon has agreed to acquire Ovo&#039;s retail arm in a deal valued at up to £600m, creating the UK&#039;s largest energy supplier with 9.6 million customers and overtaking Octopus Energy.
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Eon swallows Ovo in £600m deal that crowns Germany’s biggest energy giant as Britain’s largest supplier ]]></description>
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<title>OpenAI mints hundreds of overnight millionaires as staff cash out $6.6bn in share sale</title>
<link>https://thebusinesseconomic.com/openai-mints-hundreds-of-overnight-millionaires-as-staff-cash-out-66bn-in-share-sale</link>
<guid>https://thebusinesseconomic.com/openai-mints-hundreds-of-overnight-millionaires-as-staff-cash-out-66bn-in-share-sale</guid>
<description><![CDATA[ 
Around 600 OpenAI staff have shared a $6.6bn (£4.8bn) payout in a secondary share sale, with average proceeds of $11m and the largest sellers banking $30m apiece, as the ChatGPT maker eyes a 2027 IPO at a $1tn valuation.
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<title>Get ready for the whisper&#45;filled office of the future</title>
<link>https://thebusinesseconomic.com/get-ready-for-the-whisper-filled-office-of-the-future</link>
<guid>https://thebusinesseconomic.com/get-ready-for-the-whisper-filled-office-of-the-future</guid>
<description><![CDATA[ How will work setups change if we spend more and more time talking to our computers? ]]></description>
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<title>Korea’s biggest manufacturers back Config, the TSMC of robot data</title>
<link>https://thebusinesseconomic.com/koreas-biggest-manufacturers-back-config-the-tsmc-of-robot-data</link>
<guid>https://thebusinesseconomic.com/koreas-biggest-manufacturers-back-config-the-tsmc-of-robot-data</guid>
<description><![CDATA[ Samsung, Hyundai and LG just bet on the startup that wants to be robotics&#039; data backbone. ]]></description>
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<dc:creator>Business Economic Syndicated News</dc:creator>
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<title>Venmo’s biggest makeover in years comes at a very interesting time</title>
<link>https://thebusinesseconomic.com/venmos-biggest-makeover-in-years-comes-at-a-very-interesting-time</link>
<guid>https://thebusinesseconomic.com/venmos-biggest-makeover-in-years-comes-at-a-very-interesting-time</guid>
<description><![CDATA[ The timing is notable. PayPal, which owns Venmo, is restructuring to spin Venmo off as a standalone business unit — a move widely seen as laying the groundwork for a potential sale. Stripe has reportedly expressed interest in buying PayPal outright. ]]></description>
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<title>There aren’t enough rockets for space data centers. Cowboy Space raised $275 million to build them.</title>
<link>https://thebusinesseconomic.com/there-arent-enough-rockets-for-space-data-centers-cowboy-space-raised-275-million-to-build-them</link>
<guid>https://thebusinesseconomic.com/there-arent-enough-rockets-for-space-data-centers-cowboy-space-raised-275-million-to-build-them</guid>
<description><![CDATA[ Cowboy Space Corporation wants to put data centers in orbit. First, it has to build the rockets to get them there. ]]></description>
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<title>Discord launches Nitro Rewards, giving subscribers access to the base tier of Xbox Game Pass for no extra cost</title>
<link>https://thebusinesseconomic.com/discord-launches-nitro-rewards-giving-subscribers-access-to-the-base-tier-of-xbox-game-pass-for-no-extra-cost</link>
<guid>https://thebusinesseconomic.com/discord-launches-nitro-rewards-giving-subscribers-access-to-the-base-tier-of-xbox-game-pass-for-no-extra-cost</guid>
<description><![CDATA[ Discord&#039;s Nitro Rewards program will give Nitro subscribers access to Xbox Game Pass, and discounts from Logitech, SteelSeries, and other gaming brands. ]]></description>
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<title>5 Best Wyoming Registered Agents in 2026</title>
<link>https://thebusinesseconomic.com/5-best-wyoming-registered-agents-in-2026</link>
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<description><![CDATA[ If you are going to register a company in Wyoming, you will need to appoint a Wyoming registered agent. The Wyoming RA will act on your behalf and able to receive legal documents. There are thousands of companies register every year in Wyoming and all the companies have to appoint the Registered Agents in Wyoming. […]
The post 5 Best Wyoming Registered Agents in 2026 appeared first on Fincyte. ]]></description>
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<pubDate>Sun, 10 May 2026 14:00:15 +0000</pubDate>
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<title>How Blockchain Technology Can Transform The Finance Industry?</title>
<link>https://thebusinesseconomic.com/how-blockchain-technology-can-transform-the-finance-industry</link>
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<description><![CDATA[ A blockchain is a public ledger which holds all Bitcoin transactions which have ever taken place. This ledger is constantly growing as every day completed blocks are added to the blockchain. These blocks also come with a new set of recordings and are added to the blockchain in a linear and chronological order. Computers connected […]
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<title>How to stay calm on a hectic day</title>
<link>https://thebusinesseconomic.com/how-to-stay-calm-on-a-hectic-day</link>
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<description><![CDATA[ You are bound to have one of those crazy days (or weeks or months) where your calendar is jammed with meetings, there are looming deadlines, and an emergency has cropped up that absolutely needs to be dealt with right away. Having a few things that hit at the same time can actually be good for you, but eventually, it is going to cause you problems.



In particular, the researchers Yerkes and Dodson published a paper in 1908 (you read that right—over 110 years ago) talking about the optimal level of psychological energy called arousal. They suggested that when people have low levels of energy, they don’t get much done. That shouldn’t be surprising. As your arousal goes up, your performance goes up as well. Again, not so surprising. At some point, though, you reach an optimal level of energy, and beyond that, your performance starts to go down again. You panic, or at least have trouble concentrating. It is that inverted U-shape of the relationship between arousal and performance that is interesting.



And that brings us back to your hectic no-good very-bad day.



Having several meetings and a deadline can be good. It can raise your level of arousal to the point where you’re firing on all cylinders. When you find yourself over-aroused and slipping over the edge of the Yerkes-Dodson curve, it is time to calm down and get yourself back in the sweet spot.



Here are a few things you can do.



Lots of mindfulness exercises and meditation practices are designed to help calm you down when you are overly aroused. Find a practice that works for you. Breathing exercises are a great place to start. A simple process where you breathe in on a four count, hold for four, breathe out on a four count and hold for four is a nice exercise to calm yourself. Doing that for even three minutes can often help you get back to a point where you can focus.



Make sure you’re eating right. On really busy days, you may suck down an extra coffee or another caffeinated beverage and perhaps skip a meal to buy yourself some extra time. There’s nothing wrong with a cup of coffee in the morning, but extra caffeine will raise your arousal level. Try some water instead. Plus, keep some easy meals around your workspace so that when you’re tempted to skip lunch, you have good food close by.



A little physical activity helps as well. If you spend too much time sitting and locked into one position, you will add physical discomfort to the mental arousal, which can keep you too energized. Take a short walk. If you’re in a building with several stories, hop into the stairwell and walk a few flights of stairs. I used to work in a nine-story building and would walk the stairs at lunch time at least once. It didn’t take too long and reenergized me.



Keep a picture of your loved ones close by. When you need a little dose of calm, take a look at the people you care about. It is a great reminder that there is more to life than whatever is going on at work. That little dose of perspective can help you get back to the task at hand.



When the sun is out, there is nothing like five minutes of sunshine (as long as you’re wearing sunscreen). Feel the warmth of the sun, maybe a breeze. If it is way too hot out (and after 28 summers in Austin, Texas, I know there are times when the heat is unbearable), taking a look out a window for a few minutes can have a similar impact.



Finally, keep a few short tasks on your to-do list. When you feel like you’re slammed with lots of never-ending projects, find something you can finish in five to 10 minutes and knock it out. There’s a little joy to be had in crossing at least something off your list—even if you know you manufactured the opportunity. ]]></description>
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<title>How the rules of getting rich in the U.S. change with every era</title>
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<description><![CDATA[ Below, Joseph Moore shares five key insights from his new book, How to Get Rich in American History: 300 Years of Financial Advice That Worked (&amp; Didn’t).



Moore is a historian who spent more than a decade researching and testing out what Americans were told to do with their money for the past 300 years. His previous work appeared in such outlets as The New York Times and Oxford University Press.



What’s the big idea?



History doesn’t give us fixed rules for getting ahead financially. The “right” way keeps changing, so your best bet is to stay flexible, try a mix of strategies, and not get too excited every time someone claims they’ve cracked the code to wealth. We have an opportunity-rich landscape, but how best to mine it changes in every era.



Listen to the audio version of this Book Bite—read by Moore himself—in the Next Big Idea app, or buy the book.







1. It has never been easier to get ahead than it is today.



In 1676, 100 years before the Revolution, colonists burned the capital of Virginia to the ground because they felt that average people couldn’t get ahead anymore. In the 1800s, big speeches were given saying “the rungs of the ladder to success are sawed off.” Heck, in 1980, there were headlines proclaiming that the Baby Boomers could never afford to retire. How did that turn out?



The same goes for today. Of children born at the bottom, 6 in 10 rise out of poverty, and 4 in 10 become middle class, upper middle class, or rich; 1 in 10 goes all the way to the top. For the privileged born at the top, 64% fall out. Of the top 1%, 90% of their grandkids aren’t particularly wealthy. We may not have perfect mobility in America, but we have a lot more than we think.



Okay, so the Boomer generation was weirdly lucky. Fun historical fact: Working one job for 40 years while saving 10% in stocks would have failed to fund retirement in almost half of historical scenarios. Boomers tend to think that what worked for them must work for everyone. That isn’t historically true.



As for the Doomers—they may have to get ahead the same way most people did for most of time. In the 1700s, if you went broke you went to jail, and so did your entire family: wife and kids. They forgot to put that in Hamilton. 



In the 1870s, the average American owned just one and a half shirts. To afford the other half of that shirt, you had to work on average 60 hours per week. Insurance was in its infancy, so you couldn’t protect your house, spouse, or income. As late as the 1970s, when I was born, the median income was 30% lower than today. Nowadays, we work fewer hours for more money with less risk than ever before.



The first step was to take literal steps. In the 1800s, one in three Americans changed addresses every single year! Keep in mind that just getting to America took 30 days, and traveling across the country took the U.S. Army two months. Today, when it has never been easier to go where the opportunity is, only 1 in 10 Americans moves. You could, if you wanted, put everything you own in a U-Haul and be anywhere in the continental U.S. in less than 48 hours.



Americans are becoming increasingly risk-averse at the very moment the financial world is safer and more accessible than ever. Both sides of politics have a warped view of the past: that it was better “back then,” and that someone else is to blame. Anyone telling you it is harder today than ever before doesn’t know history.



2. What “always worked” was always changing.



In 1835, a runaway slave created money from nothing. Arriving in Michigan broke but determined, William Wells Brown caught a break when a landlord offered him space to start a barbershop—a fabulous idea, save for the fact he owned no scissors, had never cut hair, and everyone in town was short on cash to pay. 



Undeterred, the young man borrowed shears and printed money. He went to the local printer and had about $20 printed in small denominations ranging from 6 cents to 50 cents. He handed these out around town, essentially exchanging haircuts for food and lodging. Eventually, other people started trading the tokens too, and before long, Brown’s bucks were treated as money in Monroe, Michigan. 



Brown eventually was able to trade his tokens for real cash, and that is how he paid to get to freedom in New York. When he left, his money went to $0.



Money itself has changed dramatically. By 1863, there were around 10,000 unique currencies from more than 1,000 issuers. Coins from the Holy Roman Empire lingered in the U.S. for decades after its collapse, because money from a dead empire was better than money from no empire at all. Grandparents taught grandkids to never save money because, like Brown’s self-made funds, it could become worthless overnight. The trick was to spend as quickly as possible.



There was no golden era when everyone was debt-free, saved money, and invested wisely. What works financially is constantly changing. Much of what we consider timeless advice is quite young. Stocks for the long run? Stocks underperformed or were tied with bonds until World War II, making that “truth” younger than either of our last two presidents.



Real estate always goes up, right? But it doesn’t. Adjusted for inflation, houses in Atlanta, Dallas, and Pittsburgh cost the same in 1997 as they had in 1897. Home values in St. Louis did not recover their values until 2003. What has happened in real estate in our lifetimes is entirely new. Home prices going up is historically weird.



Most financial advice is like trying to steer the car by looking in the rearview mirror. That may tell you where the road was, but it doesn’t say much about where it is going.



3. Dual incomes were always normal.



In the 1890s, New York City policeman John Taylor put a small down payment on a brownstone. How could a beat cop afford a brownstone? The answer was his wife, Agnes. The historical record lists her with no occupation, but she was making money. 



To pay down their mortgage, Agnes treated the home as an income-producing property. She rented out the rooms in her home to 10 separate boarders at a time, managing their rent payments, laundry service, and meal preparation. She ran a 19th-century Airbnb. That is how they afforded their mortgage.



The historical record misses this because the money women made was usually classified as “domestic industry.” But for all American history, women’s earnings made up the difference between barely surviving and thriving: In total, they added 15% to 25% to families’ total take-home pay. Women churned butter, gathered eggs, wove hats to wake up early and sell at local markets. At some point in their lives, about half of women who owned a home rented out rooms for money.



Women were also investors in every era. Women were the most common lenders of mortgages in the 1700s. They owned 50% of the shares in AT&amp;T. Every women’s magazine had a financial beat writer, because women were active investors. Heck, Abigail Adams’s lifetime annualized returns were 18%, nearly identical to Warren Buffett’s.



Women’s income was so important that when the stay-at-home-wife movement got started it was men who were writing angry letters to the newspaper complaining that wives needed to be earning, not learning “at home like scholars.” Two-income families were normal for most of history. The view that women started working in the 1960s is just plain wrong.



And it has warped our dialogue about gender. Women working doesn’t undermine men’s economic roles because it never did in the past. Spouses saw themselves as both working to build a future together. Dual incomes powered most people’s pursuit of the American Dream. It still can, today.



4. Retirement happened long before Social Security.



“I wish I had a villa in Florida to retire to” is a sentence from a letter in 1830s Baltimore. By the early 1900s, one in three elderly people was retired, Coral Gables was bursting at the seams with old people, and the day the first Social Security check was cashed, nearly half of 65-year-olds were done working. How was that possible?



Rather than relying on a single government-run system, Americans used multiple strategies in their golden years. Paid-for farmland or rental houses were leased. Businesses were sold to junior partners. Annuities offered retirement plans from the insurance industry.



Some companies offered pensions, though not as many as we often think. Pensions typically covered around 15% of workers, and they never covered more than 40% of the workforce. Another strategy we’ve forgotten is state-run old-age insurance. By 1934, there were 30 of these. Alaska offered its own version of Social Security before it was even a state. The final strategy was raising good kids who would help Mom and Dad as they aged.



Social Security didn’t revolutionize retirement; it standardized it. Social Security, private annuities, pension plans, 401(k)s, rental real estate, paid-for homes, and kids who aren’t screwed up are a pretty potent combo. Most of our retirement anxiety is misplaced. If you combine just a few of these strategies, you will be just fine.



The average 401(k) balance, if it had to fund retirement alone, would run out in less than six years. Social Security offers a menial income, barely enough to survive. But when you combine these various strategies, the most typical scenario, using 150 years of market returns, is to die with more money than you started with. 



The lesson of history is to combine as many strategies as possible into one wonderful retirement. And never forget, your ancestors rarely lived to see so many free years. Worry less. Enjoy them more.



5. The next big thing is usually a bad idea.



Reading history distorts time. It makes everything seem fast. Everyone should have seen “it” coming, whatever “it” was: values that crashed (like tulips or Beanie Babies) and things that went boom (like Bitcoin or Nvidia). But reading history and living history are not the same.



Financial life moves at two speeds: Fast Time and Slow Time. Most of life is lived in Slow Time, but most financial history is written about Fast Time (when all assumptions change at once). The real role of such histories is to give the reader a thrill. It’s a murder movie where we scream at the screen, “Look behind you! It’s the subprime mortgage lender. Run away from the mortgage!”



Mistaking Slow Time for Fast Time changed my town forever and, as a bonus, inspired the Netflix hit series Schitt’s Creek. I live in Braselton, Georgia, a tiny town outside of Atlanta, once owned by superstar actress Kim Basinger. Depending on your generation, you know her as a Bond girl, Viki Vale, Eminem’s mom, or that old femdom in Fifty Shades Darker. She owned the town as an investment.



Her plan was to turn the empty mills into a tourist attraction and build a movie studio . . . in Georgia, in the ’90s. But building a dream happens in Slow Time. Taxes mount. Investors get anxious. Soon, you run out of cash. 



Basinger declared bankruptcy. Actor Eugene Levy found this story, and the rest was pandemic-era comedy gold starring himself as a failed businessman whose final remaining possession is a backwater town with a funny name.



But who gets the last laugh? Today, the fastest growing movie production studios in the world—bigger than New York and soon to overtake California—are in “Y’allywood,” a district just outside Metro Atlanta. The town Basinger bought is home to one of Atlanta’s largest tourist attractions, a winery and resort called Chateau Elan. They sell accessible French luxury on Georgia clay. It’s surrounded by mansions of pro athletes, famous rappers, and C-level reality stars. And it works. It’s profitable. You should visit.



Basinger, bless her heart, just didn’t understand that she couldn’t speed up time. Investing in the future is rarely as profitable as we think because the future rarely arrives tomorrow. It takes its time, and so should we.





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This article originally appeared in Next Big Idea Club magazine and is reprinted with permission.


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<description><![CDATA[ Nvidia has put its name behind a fledgling effort to put mini-data centers beside people’s homes in boxes that look like HVAC units. It’s a “power” play, considering that the main bottleneck to building out more data center capacity is not money or chips, but rather retrofitting the electrical grid to supply the power.



The idea, put forward by a California smart utility box company called Span, is to put the GPUs where the power has already been allocated—at the home. Span says the average household uses only about 42% of the electricity allotted to it, and rarely reaches peak usage. Span’s smart utility boxes detect that, and steer the extra available power over to the GPUs, which live inside a “node” that sits beside the house and looks something like an HVAC unit. The boxes contain 16 Nvidia GPUs, 4 AMD CPUs, 4 terabytes of memory, and a cooling system. When a large number of homes have these, the servers could be connected together in a network and work together on distributed computing jobs (workloads), Span says. 



In exchange for hosting a node, Span pays a big chunk of the homeowner’s electricity and broadband internet bills.



And there may even be advantages for putting the compute power closer to the end users that are using the chatbots or AI services, Span says. 



It’s a cool idea on paper, but it’s almost completely unproven in real-world use. Span has been prototyping the units but has yet to install any of them beside real homes. I asked Span VP Chris Lander if his company has done technical studies showing that its brand of distributed computing will be fast and robust enough to handle real AI workloads. “We’ve done a bunch of technical studies internally [and] a bunch of modeling for different kinds of workloads, both from the business point of view [and] the product point of view and from the technical architecture point of view,” he replies. 



The company is working with a homebuilder, Atlanta-based Pulte Homes, to build the nodes at new homes, but Pulte told CNBC that it’s so far put a Span unit next to exactly one home. “I will say that we’ve been collaborating with Pulte amongst others to test the latest proof of concept design, the latest prototype that we have,” Lander says. Span says it’ll have “upwards of 100” nodes of an advanced version of its prototype in a pilot project “later this year,” but isn’t saying when or where the pilot will be built.  



The main point of resistance to new data centers across the country is the risk that the facilities will result in higher electric bills for everyone in the area. Whether it’s a new central data center or a distributed data center, as Span proposes, that’s drawing more power from the grid, the risk of higher costs—perhaps because of transformers and other infrastructure running hotter and degrading more quickly—could arguably be the same. 



Lander disagrees. “We believe it’s actually going to be the opposite—that it’s actually going to give relief to customers, not just for those direct customers that are hosting, that we’re paying for their energy, but by allaying some of that additional CapEx spend that utilities would have to pay to build out [more] data centers,” he says. 



The existence of Span’s idea, which has gotten a good deal of attention in the press and on social media, is one of the first signs of the market finding ways to address the serious dearth of data center capacity needed to support the expected demand for artificial intelligence services. Data centers take time to build and often face political resistance, and the demand for AI compute is growing now. 



On the political side, crowdsourcing already-provisioned power from households in a community may be easier than talking a city council into issuing a permit for a data center. As Reddit user unicynicist put it: “It’s like Uber, but for turning your house into someone else’s unpermitted data center.”



Still, it says something that Nvidia allowed Span to include its brand in the press release, but the GPU maker’s involvement beyond that has been mostly consultation. “Nvidia’s been a thought partner, and they’ve been helping us from a business point of view to connect us with the right folks.” But Nvidia is not an investor and has so far not donated any GPUs to Span’s initiative.



And the chips are not cheap. In fact, the Span box contains some very expensive hardware. The chips and other technology could be worth $500,000 or more, based on available pricing information for the specific components. The risk of theft then becomes an issue. 



If the home-side server box concept proves out and produces a meaningful amount of compute resources, Nvidia could help Span find potential buyers. In fact, that effort is already underway. “We’ve had conversations with the breadth of potential compute offtakers, whether they’re hyperscalers, neoclouds, neoscalers, and AI service providers,” Lander says. ]]></description>
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<description><![CDATA[ You’re at the playground, making small talk with another mom while your kids dig in the sandbox. The conversation follows a predictable script: sleep schedules, daycare waitlists, whether your toddler will eat anything green. It’s pleasant enough, but you’ll forget about it by the time you pile your kids into the car for nap time.



But what you really wanted to ask is: What’s something about birth and postpartum that surprised you? What do you wish your partner understood? How did becoming a mother change your marriage?



Those are the conversations that actually matter, because they deepen relationships and allow mothers to pass their wisdom to one another. But they feel impossible to start without seeming intense or intrusive.



[Photo: Spread the Jelly]



Spread the Jelly, an 18-month-old media platform, wants to help. It has just launched a deck of cards called The Sticky Stuff, meant to prompt mothers to have deeper conversations faster. “Everything we’ve been doing is about like breaking people open, allowing people to be their messiest or their happiest selves at the same time,” says Amrit Tietz, who founded the company with Lauren Levinger in late 2024. 



The Sticky Stuff, which is available on the Spread the Jelly website for $45, joins a growing number of conversation cards that have entered the market, including therapist Esther Perel’s Where Should We Begin? cards that launched in 2021, Tales, which facilitates conversations with kids, and even the fast food chains Chick-fil-A, which gives out cards meant to prompt conversations around the meals.



“The popularity of the cards highlights how we desperately want to talk about deep issues,” says Nicholas Epley, a professor at the University of Chicago Booth School of Business who has been studying conversation for two decades.



[Photo: Spread the Jelly]



Modern Motherhood



The idea for Spread the Jelly’s conversation cards didn’t start with market research or a business plan. It started with two women in Los Angeles who desperately needed someone to talk to. Lauren Levinger had recently had her son when Amrit Tietz, pregnant and without mom friends in her life, reached out via social media. “From social media, you look like you’re doing motherhood pretty well,” Tietz wrote to her. “Can we connect?” 



When they finally sat down together months later, they were surprised by how good it felt to have an honest conversation. They quickly began to discuss the things that nobody talks about, from how lonely it can be to spend your days with a non-verbal human, to postpartum sexuality. “We realized how starved we were for community,” says Levinger.



This prompted them to launch Spread The Jelly, as an online magazine for radical honesty about modern motherhood. The conversation cards came later, as a natural extension of that mission. Tietz and Levinger began to build out a deck of questions, and tested them out with their partners, families, and friends. They ended up encompassing four different categories: foundation, identity, belonging, and intimacy. They included prompts like, “Describe your childhood in one sentence;” “Describe a moment you’re not proud of,” and “How do you show up for your loved ones?”



Levinger points out that everyday conversations at the dinner table have a way of becoming stagnant. The cards suddenly unlocked a way to venture into new territory with the people in our lives.



[Photo: Spread the Jelly]



Why Cards Work



Deeper conversations are scientifically proven to make us happier. Epley conducted these studies himself. In a 2021 research paper, he brought together thousands of people, pairing strangers up randomly to discuss questions like “Can you tell me about one of the last times you cried in front of another person?” “We typically don’t ask those kinds of questions,” Epley reflects. “We don’t probe into people’s lives like that because we don’t think it’s okay to do so.”



After these conversations, by a very large margin, participants said that they felt better, and they wished more of their conversations were as deep or deeper. The research foud that thing that holds people back is that they believe that other people don’t want to engage with these topics, so it would be intrusive and inappropriate to bring them up. 



“I’ve now done this with almost 5,000 people,” Epley says. “The results are very consistent. People wished they were having deeper conversations.”



A Skill You Can Learn



Conversation cards are having a moment now, but Epley argues that it has always been hard to have deep, meaningful conversations in everyday life: He cites a famous study from 1973 by psychologist Stanley Milgram, who found that nobody spoke to one another on the subway.



But there are now new dynamics at work now. There’s growing awareness about the loneliness epidemic in the United States, thanks to people like Vivek Murthy, the Surgeon General who has brought it to the public’s attention. “There cost of social isolation and disconnection is crystal clear,” he says.



Epley also points out that technology and phones have made it harder to connect to other people. While we feel like we have large networks of friends on social media, these connections are very weak and generally don’t involve profound conversations. “For much of human history, connecting with other people just happened in everyday life,” he says. “But now, when everybody on the train is on their phone, we have a lot more independence from strangers.”



The popularity of these card games suggests that people do want to connect more deeply. And Epley says that if they do become more common—and they people use them with their families at dinner time or with their friends at parties—they’ll become better at having deeper conversations in everyday life. “It is something you can practice and get better at,” he says. “You learn how to do it, what to ask, how to ask.”



For new mothers, the benefits could be profound. Postpartum depression and isolation are widespread. Many mothers spend their days physically with other adults—at playgrounds, in parent groups—making meaningless small talk and feeling alone. A deck of conversation cards won’t fix the loneliness epidemic. But they might buy the someone social permission to forge a deeper connection with an acquaintance.



For Tietz and Levinger, the cards are just one part of a larger mission. They want Spread the Jelly to be different from traditional parenting media, which tends to be very prescriptive about what motherhood should look like. Instead, they’re hoping to create a space where women can honestly share their diverse experiences. “There is no blueprint in parenting—everyone’s journey is so radically different,” says Tietz. “And I think people just want to feel less alone in whatever they’re experiencing.” ]]></description>
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<description><![CDATA[ When University of Pennsylvania student Crystal Yang was in high school, she and her friends were avid players of the trendy online game Wordle. One of Yang’s friends, however, is blind and was unable to join in. 



That inspired Yang, while still a high school student, to work with researchers at Texas A&amp;M University looking at conversational audio interface possibilities for the game. Soon, she founded a nonprofit called Audemy that has developed more than 50 audio-powered games accessible to blind and visually impaired players. The organization is now also at work on an accessible gaming console that will incorporate audio and tactile features and can function without Wi-Fi. 



AI has been important to much of Yang’s work, from coding to management. Over the years, AI has helped her learn to conduct user research and write a formal paper, plug in new game ideas to an existing template, and even use computer-aided design tools and evaluate potential components as Audemy prototypes the console. 



“It’s been a very helpful tool throughout, allowing me to champion the issues I’m passionate about, as well as continue using it to multiply my capabilities,” Yang says. 



Yang is one of 26 students and other young people recently awarded a $10,000 grant by OpenAI as part of a program called ChatGPT Futures, designed to showcase how a rising generation is using the technology for good. As OpenAI notes, the graduating class of 2026 is the first cohort of university students to have ChatGPT, which debuted to the public in fall 2022, available throughout nearly their entire college experience.



“What we’ve seen is that these students are using AI to build things that many wouldn’t have previously thought were possible,” says Leah Belsky, head of education at OpenAI. 



Other honorees of the program are using AI to build space robots to relieve astronauts of routine tasks; develop novel ways to spot disaster survivors through walls and debris using Wi-Fi signals; help older people avoid online scams; and let Latin American street vendors track their finances. Several are working on AI applications in science and medicine, including predicting the functions of proteins in the body; connecting people with local mental health resources; and optimizing drug production.



Ayush Noori, who holds bachelor’s and master’s degrees from Harvard University and is now pursuing a doctorate as a Rhodes Scholar at the University of Oxford, recently worked to develop a graph AI model called Proton that generates hypotheses around neurological disease. Noori says his work is motivated in part by his experiene caring for his late grandmother, who had a rare neurodegenerative disease. 



Already Proton has shown promise in suggesting candidate drugs for bipolar disorder and Alzheimer’s disease—results validated, respectively, by experiments on lab-grown brain tissue and an analysis of health records. 



“My mission is to develop AI systems that transform the understanding, diagnosis, and treatment of neurological disease and other currently unsolved medical conditions,” says Noori, who has training in both neuroscience and computer science. 



Belsky says she’s seen firsthand how AI tools like OpenAI’s ChatGPT and, more recently, its coding tool Codex can enable students to pursue ambitious tasks and projects, whether that involves building websites and apps or creating new businesses and nonprofits.



“AI is giving them confidence,” she says. “It’s giving them agency, and it’s giving them a sense that they can actually learn and do things that they didn’t previously think were possible.” 



OpenAI solicited entries for the program in March, calling for applications from students and recent graduates in the U.S. and Canada ages 18 to 25 who “leverage AI to expand their capacity” and “demonstrate agency” through their work, while holding “a bold, thoughtful vision for the future.” 



“Building a Future for Education”



The ChatGPT Futures awards come as critics increasingly worry that overreliance on AI can hamper rather than help education, with students becoming overly reliant on the technology rather than learning new skills on their own, avoiding the sometimes tedious, iterative processes that are critical to learning. And, of course, educators on both the K-12 and college levels have warned of students using AI to cheat on assignments, skipping opportunities for learning and engendering mistrust between students and faculty. 



But Belsky says that as she’s visited campuses she’s seen more examples of students using AI to pursue new initiatives. In some cases, she says, AI can help expand access to experiences previously limited to students involved in hacker spaces, entrepreneurial classes, and other facilities that haven’t been broadly available.



“Our hope is to work with the entire education ecosystem to start building a future for education, where schools and universities can intentionally work to unlock this type of agency for all students,” Belsky says. 



To be sure, AI hasn’t replaced the role of human collaboration in either education or entrepreneurship. Yang, for instance, is now managing a team of volunteer developers contributing to Audemy games—though AI has helped with the recruitment and onboarding process—and Noori’s papers on Proton and other AI health topics are the product of a lengthy list of human collaborators. Yang and Noori, along with a number of others being awarded, continue to pursue their formal education. 



The ChatGPT Futures honorees are set to visit OpenAI in June, where they’ll meet with employees, share their projects, and receive their awards, Belsky says. 



“We haven’t put a restriction on what they do with these awards,” she says. “But my hope is that they spend part of their efforts both advancing their projects and engaging others and inspiring them to build [projects] the way they have.” 


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<description><![CDATA[ How Colour Can Slim, Lift, Brighten, Impress—and Occasionally Betray You

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Before people notice the label, they notice the colour.

So if fabric is the body of clothing, colour is its personality. ]]></description>
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<pubDate>Sat, 09 May 2026 14:00:06 +0000</pubDate>
<dc:creator>Noubi Says -  By Noubikko</dc:creator>
<media:keywords>The, Effects, Color</media:keywords>
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<item>
<title>Getting the Right Fit</title>
<link>https://thebusinesseconomic.com/getting-the-right-fit</link>
<guid>https://thebusinesseconomic.com/getting-the-right-fit</guid>
<description><![CDATA[ NOUBI SAYS:

Whatever style you choose should not confuse innocent bystanders.

You cannot be ultra-haute couture queen today, mountain hiker tomorrow, retired pirate the next day, then corporate banker by Friday—unless that is your actual schedule.

Be consistent. Let people recognize your signature style before they need subtitles. ]]></description>
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<pubDate>Sat, 09 May 2026 14:00:06 +0000</pubDate>
<dc:creator>Noubi Says -  By Noubikko</dc:creator>
<media:keywords>Getting, the, Right, Fit</media:keywords>
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<item>
<title>Understanding the Mind of Designers</title>
<link>https://thebusinesseconomic.com/understanding-the-mind-of-designers</link>
<guid>https://thebusinesseconomic.com/understanding-the-mind-of-designers</guid>
<description><![CDATA[ NOUBI SAYS:  To understand fashion with clarity is to have knowledge of its construction. If you talk of construction, there must be a ‘tool’ to create the result just as an expert in any profession has. Fashion designers use fabrics but their tools are an illusion, color, line, scale, and form. Varying combinations of these tools determine what the design will look like in various figures. The designers never mix matches these elements at random and just hope for the best. Every finished product is a carefully created piece of art designed for a specific reason. ]]></description>
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<pubDate>Sat, 09 May 2026 14:00:06 +0000</pubDate>
<dc:creator>Noubi Says -  By Noubikko</dc:creator>
<media:keywords>Understanding, the, Mind, Designers</media:keywords>
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<item>
<title>First Impressions Last</title>
<link>https://thebusinesseconomic.com/first-impressions-last</link>
<guid>https://thebusinesseconomic.com/first-impressions-last</guid>
<description><![CDATA[ You may be intelligent, talented, kind, and exceptional.

But if your image introduces you poorly, people may take longer to discover it.

So let your appearance help your story—not delay it. ]]></description>
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<pubDate>Sat, 09 May 2026 14:00:06 +0000</pubDate>
<dc:creator>Noubi Says -  By Noubikko</dc:creator>
<media:keywords>First, Impressions, Last</media:keywords>
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<item>
<title>Dealing with Figure Flaws</title>
<link>https://thebusinesseconomic.com/dealing-with-figure-flaws</link>
<guid>https://thebusinesseconomic.com/dealing-with-figure-flaws</guid>
<description><![CDATA[ NOUBI SAYS:   We are all a combination of good and not-so-good traits. However, we can project our best figure points and camouflage the parts that we consider our worst figure points. ]]></description>
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<pubDate>Sat, 09 May 2026 14:00:06 +0000</pubDate>
<dc:creator>Noubi Says -  By Noubikko</dc:creator>
<media:keywords>Dealing, with, Figure, Flaws</media:keywords>
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<item>
<title>The Message of Clothing</title>
<link>https://thebusinesseconomic.com/the-message-of-clothing</link>
<guid>https://thebusinesseconomic.com/the-message-of-clothing</guid>
<description><![CDATA[ NOUBI SAYS:   You are what you wear.  Your clothing is like a gift wrapper. The actual gift represents your body but the wrapper represents your clothes. No matter how good-looking you are inside, if you fail to present yourself outside, your inside would be presumed like your outside. ]]></description>
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<pubDate>Sat, 09 May 2026 14:00:06 +0000</pubDate>
<dc:creator>Noubi Says -  By Noubikko</dc:creator>
<media:keywords>The, Message, Clothing</media:keywords>
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<item>
<title>The Effective Camouflage</title>
<link>https://thebusinesseconomic.com/the-effective-camouflage</link>
<guid>https://thebusinesseconomic.com/the-effective-camouflage</guid>
<description><![CDATA[ NOUBI SAYS:   ‘Understanding the effects of body camouflage means understanding the eye of the observer.’  Camouflage is one of the most important assets clothing allows because it is the easiest way to minimize body faults. ]]></description>
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<pubDate>Sat, 09 May 2026 14:00:06 +0000</pubDate>
<dc:creator>Noubi Says -  By Noubikko</dc:creator>
<media:keywords>The, Effective, Camouflage</media:keywords>
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<item>
<title>TIPS: for the ARMS</title>
<link>https://thebusinesseconomic.com/tips-for-the-arms</link>
<guid>https://thebusinesseconomic.com/tips-for-the-arms</guid>
<description><![CDATA[ Because Arms Wave, Hug, Point, Carry Bags, and Join Every Outfit

Many people worry about arms more than necessary. Relax. Arms are not the enemy—they are loyal employees doing hard work all day.

The secret is not to hide them in panic. The secret is to dress them wisely. ]]></description>
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<pubDate>Sat, 09 May 2026 14:00:06 +0000</pubDate>
<dc:creator>Noubi Says -  By Noubikko</dc:creator>
<media:keywords>TIPS:, for, the, ARMS</media:keywords>
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<item>
<title>TIPS: for the CHEST and BUST</title>
<link>https://thebusinesseconomic.com/tips-for-the-chest-and-bust</link>
<guid>https://thebusinesseconomic.com/tips-for-the-chest-and-bust</guid>
<description><![CDATA[ NOUBI SAYS:

In today’s image-conscious world, beauty is not only about the face—it is also about proportion, posture, grooming, and knowing how to dress wisely. Never underestimate the power of a professionally fitted bra. The correct cup size can dramatically improve how you look, how your clothes fall, and how confidently you carry yourself. ]]></description>
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<pubDate>Sat, 09 May 2026 14:00:06 +0000</pubDate>
<dc:creator>Noubi Says -  By Noubikko</dc:creator>
<media:keywords>TIPS:, for, the, CHEST, and, BUST</media:keywords>
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<title>Tips for the Hips</title>
<link>https://thebusinesseconomic.com/tips-for-the-hips</link>
<guid>https://thebusinesseconomic.com/tips-for-the-hips</guid>
<description><![CDATA[ Because Hips Don’t Lie… But Clothing Can Negotiate

Your hips are one of the most feminine and noticeable parts of the body. They affect movement, silhouette, posture, and how clothes fall on you. When you walk into a room, hips help create rhythm, shape, and presence.

So yes—hips deserve strategy, kindness, and good tailoring. ]]></description>
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<pubDate>Sat, 09 May 2026 14:00:06 +0000</pubDate>
<dc:creator>Noubi Says -  By Noubikko</dc:creator>
<media:keywords>Tips, for, the, Hips</media:keywords>
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<item>
<title>TIPS: for the STOMACH</title>
<link>https://thebusinesseconomic.com/tips-for-the-stomach</link>
<guid>https://thebusinesseconomic.com/tips-for-the-stomach</guid>
<description><![CDATA[ A well-dressed silhouette is all about balance, proportion, and choosing styles that work with your body—not against it. If you have a fuller midsection or protruding abdomen, the right clothing choices can create a smoother, slimmer, and more confident appearance instantly. ]]></description>
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<pubDate>Sat, 09 May 2026 14:00:06 +0000</pubDate>
<dc:creator>Noubi Says -  By Noubikko</dc:creator>
<media:keywords>TIPS:, for, the, STOMACH</media:keywords>
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<item>
<title>Looking into your Wardrobe</title>
<link>https://thebusinesseconomic.com/looking-into-your-wardrobe</link>
<guid>https://thebusinesseconomic.com/looking-into-your-wardrobe</guid>
<description><![CDATA[ NOUBI SAYS:  When you have your basic wardrobe it will cost you less to maintain them than buying many unrelated pieces for their own special uses. ]]></description>
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<pubDate>Sat, 09 May 2026 14:00:06 +0000</pubDate>
<dc:creator>Noubi Says -  By Noubikko</dc:creator>
<media:keywords>Looking, into, your, Wardrobe</media:keywords>
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<item>
<title>On Buying Clothes</title>
<link>https://thebusinesseconomic.com/on-buying-clothes</link>
<guid>https://thebusinesseconomic.com/on-buying-clothes</guid>
<description><![CDATA[ NOUBI SAYS:  It&#039;s easy enough just to buy clothes, but be aware of  &quot;sales talks&quot;, as well. Clothing is more than something you wear—it is a reflection of your personality, confidence, and lifestyle. The right outfit can highlight your best features, balance areas you may wish to downplay, and help you present yourself with style and poise. ]]></description>
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<pubDate>Sat, 09 May 2026 14:00:06 +0000</pubDate>
<dc:creator>Noubi Says -  By Noubikko</dc:creator>
<media:keywords>Buying, Clothes</media:keywords>
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<item>
<title>Color Effect in Fashion</title>
<link>https://thebusinesseconomic.com/color-effect-in-fashion</link>
<guid>https://thebusinesseconomic.com/color-effect-in-fashion</guid>
<description><![CDATA[ NOUBI SAYS:

Colour is not decoration—it is communication. People react to colour instantly and emotionally. The right shade can make you look vibrant, confident, successful, and unforgettable.

Dress in colours that celebrate your natural beauty, support your mood, and express the message you want the world to receive. ]]></description>
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<pubDate>Sat, 09 May 2026 14:00:06 +0000</pubDate>
<dc:creator>Noubi Says -  By Noubikko</dc:creator>
<media:keywords>Color, Effect, Fashion</media:keywords>
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<item>
<title>Creating a New You!</title>
<link>https://thebusinesseconomic.com/creating-a-new-you</link>
<guid>https://thebusinesseconomic.com/creating-a-new-you</guid>
<description><![CDATA[ NOUBI SAYS: Look good for others if you must—but feel good for yourself first.  Your new image is not created in one day—it is developed through choices, confidence, and consistency. When you discover the look that feels right for you, the world notices the difference. ]]></description>
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<pubDate>Sat, 09 May 2026 14:00:06 +0000</pubDate>
<dc:creator>Noubi Says -  By Noubikko</dc:creator>
<media:keywords>Creating, New, You</media:keywords>
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<item>
<title>TIPS: for the FACE</title>
<link>https://thebusinesseconomic.com/tips-for-the-face</link>
<guid>https://thebusinesseconomic.com/tips-for-the-face</guid>
<description><![CDATA[ NOUBI SAYS:

Your face is the center of your focal point, so maximize every advantage you have.

Use hair, makeup, jewelry, collars, and expression wisely. And remember:

The most beautiful feature on any face is joy. Everything else is just styling. ]]></description>
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<pubDate>Sat, 09 May 2026 14:00:06 +0000</pubDate>
<dc:creator>Noubi Says -  By Noubikko</dc:creator>
<media:keywords>TIPS:, for, the, FACE</media:keywords>
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<title>TIPS: for the NECK</title>
<link>https://thebusinesseconomic.com/tips-for-the-neck</link>
<guid>https://thebusinesseconomic.com/tips-for-the-neck</guid>
<description><![CDATA[ The neck is often forgotten in fashion—but it quietly affects balance, elegance, and first impressions. A well-dressed neckline can make you look taller, slimmer, softer, stronger, or more refined.

Think of the neck as the bridge between your face and outfit. If the bridge looks right, traffic flows beautifully. ]]></description>
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<pubDate>Sat, 09 May 2026 14:00:06 +0000</pubDate>
<dc:creator>Noubi Says -  By Noubikko</dc:creator>
<media:keywords>TIPS:, for, the, NECK</media:keywords>
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<item>
<title>Establishing Professional Image</title>
<link>https://thebusinesseconomic.com/establishing-professional-image</link>
<guid>https://thebusinesseconomic.com/establishing-professional-image</guid>
<description><![CDATA[ Clothing is not vanity—it is communication. It signals discipline, judgment, standards, self-respect, awareness, and readiness. The powerful and successful understand that style can project authority, confidence, trust, and influence—often before the first handshake. ]]></description>
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<pubDate>Sat, 09 May 2026 14:00:06 +0000</pubDate>
<dc:creator>Noubi Says -  By Noubikko</dc:creator>
<media:keywords>Establishing, Professional, Image</media:keywords>
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<item>
<title>Tips on Wearing Cosmetics</title>
<link>https://thebusinesseconomic.com/tips-on-wearing-cosmetics</link>
<guid>https://thebusinesseconomic.com/tips-on-wearing-cosmetics</guid>
<description><![CDATA[ NOUBI SAYS

Makeup is not about wearing more—it is about wearing what is right. The best cosmetic is one that enhances your beauty so naturally that people notice you before they notice the makeup. ]]></description>
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<pubDate>Sat, 09 May 2026 14:00:06 +0000</pubDate>
<dc:creator>Noubi Says -  By Noubikko</dc:creator>
<media:keywords>Tips, Wearing, Cosmetics</media:keywords>
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<item>
<title>Looking Good in a Job Interview</title>
<link>https://thebusinesseconomic.com/looking-good-in-a-job-interview</link>
<guid>https://thebusinesseconomic.com/looking-good-in-a-job-interview</guid>
<description><![CDATA[ NOUBI SAYS:  It has been proven that career training alone is not enough to assure success in life, but how you present yourself is often a deciding factor.  In a job interview, your clothing project who you are.  The moment you enter that room, the interviewer has already assessed 50% of you.  It would be very difficult to justify the remaining 50% if it contracts the first 50%. ]]></description>
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<pubDate>Sat, 09 May 2026 14:00:06 +0000</pubDate>
<dc:creator>Noubi Says -  By Noubikko</dc:creator>
<media:keywords>Looking, Good, Job, Interview</media:keywords>
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<item>
<title>Different  Fashion Styles</title>
<link>https://thebusinesseconomic.com/different-fashion-styles</link>
<guid>https://thebusinesseconomic.com/different-fashion-styles</guid>
<description><![CDATA[ NOUBI SAYS:

Understanding style categories requires awareness of what is current, what flatters you, and what message you want to send.

Fashion is the meeting point of your personality and today’s world.

Be creative. Be intentional. Be memorable.

The best-dressed person is not the trendiest one—it is the one who knows who they are. ]]></description>
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<pubDate>Sat, 09 May 2026 14:00:06 +0000</pubDate>
<dc:creator>Noubi Says -  By Noubikko</dc:creator>
<media:keywords>Different, Fashion, Styles</media:keywords>
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<item>
<title>Tips on Choosing your Shoes</title>
<link>https://thebusinesseconomic.com/tips-on-choosing-your-shoes</link>
<guid>https://thebusinesseconomic.com/tips-on-choosing-your-shoes</guid>
<description><![CDATA[ NOUBI SAYS

Shoes can draw the eye upward—so use them wisely. The right pair adds height, grace, and confidence. Walk in quality, walk in comfort, and every step becomes part of your style statement. ]]></description>
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<pubDate>Sat, 09 May 2026 14:00:06 +0000</pubDate>
<dc:creator>Noubi Says -  By Noubikko</dc:creator>
<media:keywords>Tips, Choosing, your, Shoes</media:keywords>
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<item>
<title>Fashion Tips On Stockings</title>
<link>https://thebusinesseconomic.com/fashion-tips-on-stockings</link>
<guid>https://thebusinesseconomic.com/fashion-tips-on-stockings</guid>
<description><![CDATA[ NOUBI SAYS

There are endless colors, finishes, and patterns to suit every skin tone and taste. Own more flesh-toned stockings than any other color—they blend beautifully with many shoes and outfits, making them one of fashion’s smartest investments. Elegant legs begin with thoughtful details. ]]></description>
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<pubDate>Sat, 09 May 2026 14:00:06 +0000</pubDate>
<dc:creator>Noubi Says -  By Noubikko</dc:creator>
<media:keywords>Fashion, Tips, Stockings</media:keywords>
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<item>
<title>Kinds of Fashion</title>
<link>https://thebusinesseconomic.com/kinds-of-fashion</link>
<guid>https://thebusinesseconomic.com/kinds-of-fashion</guid>
<description><![CDATA[ Fashion is more than clothing. It is identity, mood, message, confidence, and sometimes a warning sign.

What you wear tells people how you see yourself—even before you speak. That is why understanding the different kinds of fashion helps you dress smarter, shop wiser, and avoid paying luxury prices for confusion. ]]></description>
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<pubDate>Sat, 09 May 2026 14:00:06 +0000</pubDate>
<dc:creator>Noubi Says -  By Noubikko</dc:creator>
<media:keywords>Kinds, Fashion</media:keywords>
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<item>
<title>Factors Affecting Fashion</title>
<link>https://thebusinesseconomic.com/factors-affecting-fashion</link>
<guid>https://thebusinesseconomic.com/factors-affecting-fashion</guid>
<description><![CDATA[ NOUBI SAYS:  Fashion trends come and go, but personal style survives seasons, sales, and strange runway ideas.  Wear what fits your world, your body, your personality, and your reality. ]]></description>
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<pubDate>Sat, 09 May 2026 14:00:06 +0000</pubDate>
<dc:creator>Noubi Says -  By Noubikko</dc:creator>
<media:keywords>Factors, Affecting, Fashion</media:keywords>
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<item>
<title>TIPS: for the SHOULDERS</title>
<link>https://thebusinesseconomic.com/tips-for-the-shoulders</link>
<guid>https://thebusinesseconomic.com/tips-for-the-shoulders</guid>
<description><![CDATA[ NOUBI SAYS:

Your shoulders are the architectural frame of your wardrobe. Once the shoulder line looks right, the rest of your outfit often falls into place.

Dress to correct, enhance, and balance—not to hide. With the right cuts, fabrics, and proportions, shoulders of any shape can look elegant and powerful.

Strong style begins at the shoulders. ]]></description>
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<pubDate>Sat, 09 May 2026 14:00:06 +0000</pubDate>
<dc:creator>Noubi Says -  By Noubikko</dc:creator>
<media:keywords>TIPS:, for, the, SHOULDERS</media:keywords>
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<item>
<title>How to Choose a Permanent Makeup Artist</title>
<link>https://thebusinesseconomic.com/how-to-choose-a-permanent-makeup-artist</link>
<guid>https://thebusinesseconomic.com/how-to-choose-a-permanent-makeup-artist</guid>
<description><![CDATA[  ]]></description>
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<pubDate>Sat, 09 May 2026 14:00:06 +0000</pubDate>
<dc:creator>Noubi Says -  By Noubikko</dc:creator>
<media:keywords>How, Choose, Permanent, Makeup, Artist</media:keywords>
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<item>
<title>Cloudflare says AI made 1,100 jobs obsolete, even as revenue hit a record high</title>
<link>https://thebusinesseconomic.com/cloudflare-says-ai-made-1100-jobs-obsolete-even-as-revenue-hit-a-record-high</link>
<guid>https://thebusinesseconomic.com/cloudflare-says-ai-made-1100-jobs-obsolete-even-as-revenue-hit-a-record-high</guid>
<description><![CDATA[ Cloudflare announced its first large-scale layoff. CEO Matthew Prince says because of AI efficiency gains, the company doesn&#039;t need as many support roles. ]]></description>
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<pubDate>Sat, 09 May 2026 14:00:05 +0000</pubDate>
<dc:creator>Tomas Kauer - News Writer and Moderator</dc:creator>
<media:keywords>Cloudflare, says, made, 1, 100, jobs, obsolete, even, revenue, hit, record, high</media:keywords>
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<item>
<title>Intel’s comeback story is even wilder than it seems</title>
<link>https://thebusinesseconomic.com/intels-comeback-story-is-even-wilder-than-it-seems</link>
<guid>https://thebusinesseconomic.com/intels-comeback-story-is-even-wilder-than-it-seems</guid>
<description><![CDATA[ Intel&#039;s stock has risen a stunning 490% over the past year, a bet by Wall Street that may be running well ahead of the company&#039;s actual turnaround. ]]></description>
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<pubDate>Sat, 09 May 2026 14:00:05 +0000</pubDate>
<dc:creator>Tomas Kauer - News Writer and Moderator</dc:creator>
<media:keywords>Intel’s, comeback, story, even, wilder, than, seems</media:keywords>
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<title>Prime Video follows Netflix and Disney by adding a TikTok&#45;like ‘Clips’ feed in its app</title>
<link>https://thebusinesseconomic.com/prime-video-follows-netflix-and-disney-by-adding-a-tiktok-like-clips-feed-in-its-app</link>
<guid>https://thebusinesseconomic.com/prime-video-follows-netflix-and-disney-by-adding-a-tiktok-like-clips-feed-in-its-app</guid>
<description><![CDATA[ The Clips feed aims to enable discovery by offering users a scrollable feed with short snippets of shows and movies. ]]></description>
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<pubDate>Sat, 09 May 2026 14:00:04 +0000</pubDate>
<dc:creator>Tomas Kauer - News Writer and Moderator</dc:creator>
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<title>San Francisco’s housing market has lost its mind</title>
<link>https://thebusinesseconomic.com/san-franciscos-housing-market-has-lost-its-mind</link>
<guid>https://thebusinesseconomic.com/san-franciscos-housing-market-has-lost-its-mind</guid>
<description><![CDATA[ The invisible force behind all of this is no mystery to anyone paying attention to the city&#039;s tech economy. San Francisco is home to some of the most valuable private companies in the world, and their employees have been quietly accumulating — and, increasingly, cashing out — fortunes. ]]></description>
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<pubDate>Sat, 09 May 2026 14:00:04 +0000</pubDate>
<dc:creator>Tomas Kauer - News Writer and Moderator</dc:creator>
<media:keywords>San, Francisco’s, housing, market, has, lost, its, mind</media:keywords>
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<title>Laid&#45;off Oracle workers tried to negotiate better severance. Oracle said no. </title>
<link>https://thebusinesseconomic.com/laid-off-oracle-workers-tried-to-negotiate-better-severance-oracle-said-no</link>
<guid>https://thebusinesseconomic.com/laid-off-oracle-workers-tried-to-negotiate-better-severance-oracle-said-no</guid>
<description><![CDATA[ Some found out they didn&#039;t qualify for WARN Act protections like two-months notice because the company had classified them as remote workers. ]]></description>
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<pubDate>Sat, 09 May 2026 14:00:04 +0000</pubDate>
<dc:creator>Tomas Kauer - News Writer and Moderator</dc:creator>
<media:keywords>Laid-off, Oracle, workers, tried, negotiate, better, severance., Oracle, said, no. </media:keywords>
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<title>How playing golf alone can make you better at your job</title>
<link>https://thebusinesseconomic.com/how-playing-golf-alone-can-make-you-better-at-your-job</link>
<guid>https://thebusinesseconomic.com/how-playing-golf-alone-can-make-you-better-at-your-job</guid>
<description><![CDATA[ Former ESPN The Magazine editor Gary Belsky has a new book arguing that solo rounds deliver what group golf never can: focus, mental space, recalibration. ]]></description>
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<pubDate>Fri, 08 May 2026 14:00:14 +0000</pubDate>
<dc:creator>Tomas Kauer</dc:creator>
<media:keywords>How, playing, golf, alone, can, make, you, better, your, job</media:keywords>
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<title>New York is going to tax the wealthy’s second homes, but not tax wealth itself</title>
<link>https://thebusinesseconomic.com/new-york-is-going-to-tax-the-wealthys-second-homes-but-not-tax-wealth-itself</link>
<guid>https://thebusinesseconomic.com/new-york-is-going-to-tax-the-wealthys-second-homes-but-not-tax-wealth-itself</guid>
<description><![CDATA[ Gov. Kathy Hochul estimated the tax would bring in at least $500 million for the city annually. ]]></description>
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<pubDate>Fri, 08 May 2026 14:00:14 +0000</pubDate>
<dc:creator>Tomas Kauer</dc:creator>
<media:keywords>New, York, going, tax, the, wealthy’s, second, homes, but, not, tax, wealth, itself</media:keywords>
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<title>Current price of oil as of May 8, 2026</title>
<link>https://thebusinesseconomic.com/current-price-of-oil-as-of-may-8-2026</link>
<guid>https://thebusinesseconomic.com/current-price-of-oil-as-of-may-8-2026</guid>
<description><![CDATA[ When oil prices change, it affects your energy costs—and even the price of everyday items. Here’s why. ]]></description>
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<pubDate>Fri, 08 May 2026 14:00:14 +0000</pubDate>
<dc:creator>Tomas Kauer</dc:creator>
<media:keywords>Current, price, oil, May, 2026</media:keywords>
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<title>U.S. economy surprises with 115,000 new jobs created in April</title>
<link>https://thebusinesseconomic.com/us-economy-surprises-with-115000-new-jobs-created-in-april</link>
<guid>https://thebusinesseconomic.com/us-economy-surprises-with-115000-new-jobs-created-in-april</guid>
<description><![CDATA[ Hiring was better than the 65,000 forecasters had expected, though it decelerated from the 185,000 jobs created in March. ]]></description>
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<pubDate>Fri, 08 May 2026 14:00:14 +0000</pubDate>
<dc:creator>Tomas Kauer</dc:creator>
<media:keywords>U.S., economy, surprises, with, 115, 000, new, jobs, created, April</media:keywords>
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<title>Pentagon begins releasing new files on UFOs, telling public to draw their own conclusions</title>
<link>https://thebusinesseconomic.com/pentagon-begins-releasing-new-files-on-ufos-telling-public-to-draw-their-own-conclusions</link>
<guid>https://thebusinesseconomic.com/pentagon-begins-releasing-new-files-on-ufos-telling-public-to-draw-their-own-conclusions</guid>
<description><![CDATA[ “I would like to remind people that transparency won’t all happen at once, it will take some time,” Rep. Tim Burchett said in a statement. ]]></description>
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<pubDate>Fri, 08 May 2026 14:00:14 +0000</pubDate>
<dc:creator>Tomas Kauer</dc:creator>
<media:keywords>Pentagon, begins, releasing, new, files, UFOs, telling, public, draw, their, own, conclusions</media:keywords>
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<title>How to Create Team Goals that are Measurable</title>
<link>https://thebusinesseconomic.com/how-to-create-team-goals-that-are-measurable</link>
<guid>https://thebusinesseconomic.com/how-to-create-team-goals-that-are-measurable</guid>
<description><![CDATA[ It’s the New Year, and while many of us would like to start anew, the reality is that we’re still dealing with some 2022 baggage.  Talks of a recession have not quieted down, so how you start this year off can have a lasting impact on your business’s sustainability. In order to drive top performance […]
The post How to Create Team Goals that are Measurable appeared first on BenchmarkONE. ]]></description>
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<pubDate>Fri, 08 May 2026 14:00:12 +0000</pubDate>
<dc:creator>The Business Economic Syndicated News</dc:creator>
<media:keywords>How, Create, Team, Goals, that, are, Measurable</media:keywords>
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<title>42 Best Sales Prospecting Tools for Sales Teams in 2023</title>
<link>https://thebusinesseconomic.com/42-best-sales-prospecting-tools-for-sales-teams-in-2023</link>
<guid>https://thebusinesseconomic.com/42-best-sales-prospecting-tools-for-sales-teams-in-2023</guid>
<description><![CDATA[ Good prospecting leads to good business.  Prospecting is what brings you to the attention of your potential clients and keeps your sales pipeline full, leading to more business.  But it is not as easy as sending a simple message randomly to people. Most sales reps consider prospecting to be the toughest part of the sales […]
The post 42 Best Sales Prospecting Tools for Sales Teams in 2023 appeared first on BenchmarkONE. ]]></description>
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<pubDate>Fri, 08 May 2026 14:00:11 +0000</pubDate>
<dc:creator>The Business Economic Syndicated News</dc:creator>
<media:keywords>Best, Sales, Prospecting, Tools, for, Sales, Teams, 2023</media:keywords>
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<title>How to Build a Creative Agency from Scratch</title>
<link>https://thebusinesseconomic.com/how-to-build-a-creative-agency-from-scratch</link>
<guid>https://thebusinesseconomic.com/how-to-build-a-creative-agency-from-scratch</guid>
<description><![CDATA[ The creative industry in the United States is a multi-billion-dollar industry, and it seems everyone wants a piece of the pie. Since 2021, there has been a 12% increase in the number of creative agencies. If you’ve got your sights set on building your own business from scratch, you’re in luck. We’ve laid out everything […]
The post How to Build a Creative Agency from Scratch appeared first on BenchmarkONE. ]]></description>
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<pubDate>Fri, 08 May 2026 14:00:10 +0000</pubDate>
<dc:creator>The Business Economic Syndicated News</dc:creator>
<media:keywords>How, Build, Creative, Agency, from, Scratch</media:keywords>
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<title>6 Tips to Help You Thrive as a SaaS Salesperson During a Recession</title>
<link>https://thebusinesseconomic.com/6-tips-to-help-you-thrive-as-a-saas-salesperson-during-a-recession</link>
<guid>https://thebusinesseconomic.com/6-tips-to-help-you-thrive-as-a-saas-salesperson-during-a-recession</guid>
<description><![CDATA[ 6 Tips to Help You Thrive as a SaaS Salesperson During a Recession Did you know that during the economic downturn of 2020, caused by the pandemic, nearly 100,000 small businesses temporarily closed their doors and are now out of business? It’s a frightening statistic, but as a SaaS salesperson, there are specific strategies to […]
The post 6 Tips to Help You Thrive as a SaaS Salesperson During a Recession appeared first on BenchmarkONE. ]]></description>
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<pubDate>Fri, 08 May 2026 14:00:09 +0000</pubDate>
<dc:creator>The Business Economic Syndicated News</dc:creator>
<media:keywords>Tips, Help, You, Thrive, SaaS, Salesperson, During, Recession</media:keywords>
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<title>New Gmail and Yahoo Spam Prevention Requirements and How Email Marketers Can Prepare</title>
<link>https://thebusinesseconomic.com/new-gmail-and-yahoo-spam-prevention-requirements-and-how-email-marketers-can-prepare</link>
<guid>https://thebusinesseconomic.com/new-gmail-and-yahoo-spam-prevention-requirements-and-how-email-marketers-can-prepare</guid>
<description><![CDATA[ Ending up in the spam folder is every marketer’s nightmare. Not only does it mean your message didn’t make it to your recipient, but it could set you up for failure later on. The more your emails get marked as spam, the worse your email deliverability can get over time. Also, being seen as a […]
The post New Gmail and Yahoo Spam Prevention Requirements and How Email Marketers Can Prepare appeared first on BenchmarkONE. ]]></description>
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<pubDate>Fri, 08 May 2026 14:00:07 +0000</pubDate>
<dc:creator>The Business Economic Syndicated News</dc:creator>
<media:keywords>New, Gmail, and, Yahoo, Spam, Prevention, Requirements, and, How, Email, Marketers, Can, Prepare</media:keywords>
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<title>Amazon’s drones touch down in Darlington in UK delivery first</title>
<link>https://thebusinesseconomic.com/amazons-drones-touch-down-in-darlington-in-uk-delivery-first</link>
<guid>https://thebusinesseconomic.com/amazons-drones-touch-down-in-darlington-in-uk-delivery-first</guid>
<description><![CDATA[ 
Amazon has quietly opened a new front in the battle for ultra-fast delivery, becoming the first retailer in Britain to drop parcels by drone after a limited launch in Darlington, County Durham.
Read more: 
Amazon’s drones touch down in Darlington in UK delivery first ]]></description>
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<pubDate>Thu, 07 May 2026 14:00:08 +0000</pubDate>
<dc:creator>Business Economic Syndicated News</dc:creator>
<media:keywords>Amazon’s, drones, touch, down, Darlington, delivery, first</media:keywords>
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<title>TGJones owner Modella Capital to shut up to 150 former WHSmith high street shops</title>
<link>https://thebusinesseconomic.com/tgjones-owner-modella-capital-to-shut-up-to-150-former-whsmith-high-street-shops</link>
<guid>https://thebusinesseconomic.com/tgjones-owner-modella-capital-to-shut-up-to-150-former-whsmith-high-street-shops</guid>
<description><![CDATA[ 
Modella Capital is to close up to 150 of the 480 former WHSmith high street shops trading as TGJones, putting hundreds of jobs at risk in a fresh restructuring plan.
Read more: 
TGJones owner Modella Capital to shut up to 150 former WHSmith high street shops ]]></description>
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<pubDate>Thu, 07 May 2026 14:00:07 +0000</pubDate>
<dc:creator>Business Economic Syndicated News</dc:creator>
<media:keywords>TGJones, owner, Modella, Capital, shut, 150, former, WHSmith, high, street, shops</media:keywords>
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<title>The retired executives swapping the golf course for the boardroom – and charging next to nothing</title>
<link>https://thebusinesseconomic.com/the-retired-executives-swapping-the-golf-course-for-the-boardroom-and-charging-next-to-nothing</link>
<guid>https://thebusinesseconomic.com/the-retired-executives-swapping-the-golf-course-for-the-boardroom-and-charging-next-to-nothing</guid>
<description><![CDATA[ 
Meet Sapient Foundation, the band of retired British executives offering free or pay-what-you-can consultancy to cash-strapped SMEs and start-ups across the UK.
Read more: 
The retired executives swapping the golf course for the boardroom – and charging next to nothing ]]></description>
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<pubDate>Thu, 07 May 2026 14:00:06 +0000</pubDate>
<dc:creator>Business Economic Syndicated News</dc:creator>
<media:keywords>The, retired, executives, swapping, the, golf, course, for, the, boardroom, –, and, charging, next, nothing</media:keywords>
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<title>Retailers warn Reeves is creating a ‘jobless generation’ as hiring costs spiral</title>
<link>https://thebusinesseconomic.com/retailers-warn-reeves-is-creating-a-jobless-generation-as-hiring-costs-spiral</link>
<guid>https://thebusinesseconomic.com/retailers-warn-reeves-is-creating-a-jobless-generation-as-hiring-costs-spiral</guid>
<description><![CDATA[ 
The British Retail Consortium warns Britain is heading for a jobless generation, with £6.5bn in extra labour costs forcing retailers to freeze hiring and shut young people out of work. Read the full Business Matters analysis.
Read more: 
Retailers warn Reeves is creating a ‘jobless generation’ as hiring costs spiral ]]></description>
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<pubDate>Thu, 07 May 2026 14:00:06 +0000</pubDate>
<dc:creator>Business Economic Syndicated News</dc:creator>
<media:keywords>Retailers, warn, Reeves, creating, ‘jobless, generation’, hiring, costs, spiral</media:keywords>
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<title>Fertiliser shortages set to send global food prices soaring, warns Grosvenor chief</title>
<link>https://thebusinesseconomic.com/fertiliser-shortages-set-to-send-global-food-prices-soaring-warns-grosvenor-chief</link>
<guid>https://thebusinesseconomic.com/fertiliser-shortages-set-to-send-global-food-prices-soaring-warns-grosvenor-chief</guid>
<description><![CDATA[ 
Grosvenor Group&#039;s Mark Preston warns Iran war fertiliser shortages have pushed UK farm costs up 70% and will trigger a dramatic spike in global food prices next year.
Read more: 
Fertiliser shortages set to send global food prices soaring, warns Grosvenor chief ]]></description>
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<pubDate>Thu, 07 May 2026 14:00:05 +0000</pubDate>
<dc:creator>Business Economic Syndicated News</dc:creator>
<media:keywords>Fertiliser, shortages, set, send, global, food, prices, soaring, warns, Grosvenor, chief</media:keywords>
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<title>A 20&#45;minute pitch wins Indian startup Pronto backing from Lachy Groom</title>
<link>https://thebusinesseconomic.com/a-20-minute-pitch-wins-indian-startup-pronto-backing-from-lachy-groom</link>
<guid>https://thebusinesseconomic.com/a-20-minute-pitch-wins-indian-startup-pronto-backing-from-lachy-groom</guid>
<description><![CDATA[ The investment comes as Pronto scales to 26,000 daily bookings and the market heads toward a potential $18 billion size. ]]></description>
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<pubDate>Thu, 07 May 2026 14:00:04 +0000</pubDate>
<dc:creator>Business Economic Syndicated News</dc:creator>
<media:keywords>20-minute, pitch, wins, Indian, startup, Pronto, backing, from, Lachy, Groom</media:keywords>
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<title>Five architects of the AI economy explain where the wheels are coming off</title>
<link>https://thebusinesseconomic.com/five-architects-of-the-ai-economy-explain-where-the-wheels-are-coming-off</link>
<guid>https://thebusinesseconomic.com/five-architects-of-the-ai-economy-explain-where-the-wheels-are-coming-off</guid>
<description><![CDATA[ Earlier this week, five people who touch every layer of the AI supply chain sat down at the Milken Global Conference in Beverly Hills, where they talked with TechCrunch about everything from chip shortages to orbital data centers to the possibility that the whole architecture that undergirds the tech is wrong. ]]></description>
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<dc:creator>Business Economic Syndicated News</dc:creator>
<media:keywords>Five, architects, the, economy, explain, where, the, wheels, are, coming, off</media:keywords>
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<title>Spotify’s AI DJ now supports French, German, Italian and Brazilian Portuguese</title>
<link>https://thebusinesseconomic.com/spotifys-ai-dj-now-supports-french-german-italian-and-brazilian-portuguese</link>
<guid>https://thebusinesseconomic.com/spotifys-ai-dj-now-supports-french-german-italian-and-brazilian-portuguese</guid>
<description><![CDATA[ Spotify&#039;s AI DJ feature now supports French, German, Italian, and Brazilian Portuguese. ]]></description>
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<pubDate>Thu, 07 May 2026 14:00:03 +0000</pubDate>
<dc:creator>Business Economic Syndicated News</dc:creator>
<media:keywords>Spotify’s, now, supports, French, German, Italian, and, Brazilian, Portuguese</media:keywords>
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<title>Spotify wants to become the home for AI&#45;generated personal audio</title>
<link>https://thebusinesseconomic.com/spotify-wants-to-become-the-home-for-ai-generated-personal-audio</link>
<guid>https://thebusinesseconomic.com/spotify-wants-to-become-the-home-for-ai-generated-personal-audio</guid>
<description><![CDATA[ Users will be able to create a podcast from Codex or Claude Code and import it to Spotify ]]></description>
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<pubDate>Thu, 07 May 2026 14:00:03 +0000</pubDate>
<dc:creator>Business Economic Syndicated News</dc:creator>
<media:keywords>Spotify, wants, become, the, home, for, AI-generated, personal, audio</media:keywords>
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<title>China’s Moonshot AI raises $2B at $20B valuation as demand for open&#45;source AI skyrockets</title>
<link>https://thebusinesseconomic.com/chinas-moonshot-ai-raises-2b-at-20b-valuation-as-demand-for-open-source-ai-skyrockets</link>
<guid>https://thebusinesseconomic.com/chinas-moonshot-ai-raises-2b-at-20b-valuation-as-demand-for-open-source-ai-skyrockets</guid>
<description><![CDATA[ Moonshot&#039;s annualized recurring revenue topped $200 million in April, driven by rapid growth in paid subscriptions and API usage. ]]></description>
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<pubDate>Thu, 07 May 2026 14:00:03 +0000</pubDate>
<dc:creator>Business Economic Syndicated News</dc:creator>
<media:keywords>China’s, Moonshot, raises, 2B, 20B, valuation, demand, for, open-source, skyrockets</media:keywords>
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<title>The solopreneur’s guide to saying ‘no’</title>
<link>https://thebusinesseconomic.com/the-solopreneurs-guide-to-saying-no</link>
<guid>https://thebusinesseconomic.com/the-solopreneurs-guide-to-saying-no</guid>
<description><![CDATA[ Nearly every solopreneur starts their business saying “yes” to everything. After all, you’re trying to get clients and build a business. Revenue is unpredictable, and your brain treats every opportunity like it might be the last.



But when you work for yourself, every “yes” comes at a cost. Agreeing to one project means declining another—or giving up time you can’t get back. Defaulting to “yes” is how solopreneurs end up overcommitted, underpaid, and working on projects that don’t move their business forward. 



Saying no is a business skill and, like any skill, it gets sharper with practice.





Saying no to bad-fit clients



Not every client who reaches out is a good fit (you’ll quickly realize). Some will cost too much in their demands on your time and energy. The frustration isn’t worth the revenue they bring in. 



In the beginning, the red flags might be hard to spot. But eventually, you’ll learn that a client with a vague scope will morph into a project you can’t control. Or a project outside your core expertise will take twice as long. Or something about the initial conversation makes you feel like your working style won’t match the client’s.



Learning to trust your gut at the earliest stage—and to walk away before signing a contract—is one of the most protective decisions you can make for your business.



If you’re early in your solo career, you might not feel like you can afford to say no yet. That’s completely understandable. But you can start building the muscle now, even if it means being more selective about which red flags you’re willing to tolerate. Over time, client selection becomes more of a core business practice.



Saying no to protect your time



Then there are the smaller yeses—the ones that don’t look like much individually—compound fast. Clients ask for a “quick call” that runs 45 minutes. You agree to an unpaid collaboration for “exposure” that turns into a multi-week commitment. Or you absorb scope creep because it’s easier than pushing back.



Your time is what you’re trading. Every hour spent on low-value obligations is time not spent on billable work or building something for your business (or time spent on life outside of work).



A simple filter can help: Does this serve my priorities right now? What am I giving up to do it? If you can’t answer these questions clearly, that’s a sign to decline.



Saying no to shiny objects



Sometimes, the hardest “no” for many solopreneurs isn’t to a client or a calendar invite… it’s to their own ideas. They think of a new offer for clients or a new product they can create and immediately start building. 



My personal and near-constant brush with “shiny object syndrome” is trying new apps and tools. I’m an incessant tinkerer. But these cost time and are a distraction from other business priorities if I don’t rein myself in. 



The temptation is real, especially if your core work starts to feel routine or mundane. However, chasing every new idea dilutes your focus and splits your energy across too many things. 



Before committing to something new, you might ask yourself: will this move my business forward, or is it merely a distraction?



Saying no creates space



Saying no feels uncomfortable for nearly every solopreneur at some point. Every declined opportunity felt like a missed one. 



But with practice, you’ll start seeing things differently, especially if you can reclaim your time or focus on projects that excite you. Saying no is about trusting that better-aligned opportunities will come—and that you’ll have the bandwidth to take them on when they do. ]]></description>
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<title>We need a Switzerland for the agentic future</title>
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<description><![CDATA[ The conversation is changing. For the first time ever, the person or thing on the other side of an interaction isn’t always human. Every time I talk with other executives, the “agentic future” comes up. It’s a compelling idea: agents replacing old systems to actually solve problems for us without oversight. With more than a billion AI agents poised to handle everything from customer complaints to complex trades by 2029, the hurdle isn’t the tech itself. It’s whether we can actually trust it.



The reality is that most businesses are stuck in the pilot stage. Not for failure of imagination, but because we don’t have the right tools to move from a cool demo to a smart system that works safely at scale.



The old plumbing, or legacy infrastructure, wasn’t built for an agentic future. Workflows break easily. Data is trapped in silos. Trust is bolted on versus being built in. The result: As we deploy more agents, complexity will turn into chaos.



What’s missing is a trusted, neutral middle ground, a Switzerland for the modern tech stack.



As billions of these interactions happen, we need a layer that acts like a nervous system, connecting and coordinating every app and agent. Think of it as a conversational command center that fixes the trust gap by focusing on three things: identity, governance, and visibility.



IDENTITY: VERIFY WHO IS DOING WHAT



Let’s say you task an agent with purchasing an expensive driver that’ll add 20 yards off the tee, or in my case, one with AI to help me find the fairway more often. The retailer needs to know in real time that it was actually you who authorized the purchase, not some bad actor or rogue agent trying to improve their own handicap.



And as agents get more autonomy, the stakes get higher. A several hundred-dollar golf club purchased without approval is a nuisance. An unsanctioned bank transfer or a leaked confidential email is a disaster.



This goes far beyond the traditional machine-to-machine logins and identity tools we’ve used for years. Unlike traditional machines that follow a fixed script, agents use “reasoning” that is fluid and responds to each situation differently. They are built to work around problems and develop new skills. Expecting old school authentication, which is built for systems that react the same every time, to do the job against autonomous agents sets us up for disaster. 



Forget one-time logins. Identity in the agentic era has to be alive, dynamic, and real-time, constantly checking user intent and behavior against specific rules. That’s how you make interactions secure, whether you’re talking about a person or a bot.



GOVERNANCE: DEFINE WHAT IS HAPPENING



Agents are autonomous by design. They’re meant to go off and do things on their own. To do this accurately, they need clear, defined guardrails and policies that say what systems, applications, or data they have permission to access, and for how long.



Let’s revisit the agent buying your driver. Instead of sticking to your budget, it orders a custom TaylorMade for four times as much. Again, this sounds silly when it’s golf, but there’s absolutely no margin for error when agents are making calls on patient care or power grids.



Without strict access controls, scope creep can happen faster than you can say, “I didn’t authorize that.”Since agents from different companies have to work together across thousands of enterprise workflows, governance rules have to apply to everyone, regardless of the AI model they’re using. 



OBSERVABILITY: UNDERSTAND WHAT HAPPENED AND WHY



As agents start making decisions at the enterprise level, they create more liability. They’ll be roaming through sensitive networks and talking to your customers. We can’t let that be a black box. We have to be able to explain exactly what happened, why it happened, and who gave the green light.



Did that agent skirt its guardrails to spend $1,000 on your driver, or was a precise spend ceiling never initially established? Did it share private data on its own, or did someone on your team tell it to? Without a clear audit trail, businesses will be stuck in a loop with no way to improve.



It’s simple: You can’t manage what you can’t see. Without real observability, we lose accountability over agent behavior, which leads to waste, frustrated customers, and very real legal headaches. Nobody needs more of that.



ORCHESTRATE EVERY INTERACTION



We’re not just hosting conversations anymore; we’re managing a world of humans and AI. The way we run our businesses has to reflect that, starting now. Without continuous identity, governance, and observability, we’re heading for smarter, faster dysfunction. 



No one vendor will own the entire AI ecosystem. To close the trust gap, we need a neutral broker that doesn’t care what cloud, data warehouse, or model you use; a layer that acts as the agentic nervous system, regulating signals, making sure things are secure, and keeping us in control of every single interaction.



Khozema Shipchandler is the CEO of Twilio. ]]></description>
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<title>The towering sets for Broadway’s ‘The Lost Boys’ have audiences gasping. Here’s how the designer pulled it off</title>
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<description><![CDATA[ When you’re building sets for a musical that’s populated by flying vampires, you have to challenge yourself to think three-dimensionally.



But Dane Laffrey is used to challenging himself. 



Over the course of his decades-long career in theater, the Tony-winning scenic designer has been tasked with bringing to life some of the most memorable sets in recent Broadway history—from a sandy, 360-degree Caribbean archipelago for the 2017 revival of Once on This Island to the futuristic South Korea setting of 2024’s Maybe Happy Ending.       



Now Laffrey’s set designs are literally soaring to new heights—while also sinking to new depths—in The Lost Boys, a dynamic and at times acrobatic musical that opened last month at Broadway’s Palace Theatre. 



Dane Laffrey [Photo: Matthew Murphy]



Based on the 1980s movie about undead teenagers running amok in a California beach town, the musical demanded a head-spinning array of disparate locations: for starters, a seedy arcade, a washed-up boardwalk, a sunken-in mosh pit, a towering railroad trestle, and a postindustrial underground lair where the vampires claim their victims—complete with its own working elevator.



In the vast expanse of the Palace, one of the biggest houses on Broadway, Laffrey’s work astounds as it morphs into all these locations in service of the fast-paced story, sometimes offering the actors multiple levels on which to perform their action-packed sequences, and other times moving out of the way completely so they can take flight. 



You may find yourself anxiously holding your breath as you wait to see if everyone lands on cue, and fortunately, Laffrey’s Rubik’s Cube-like set pieces always slide into their proper place at just the right time. 



Taken in as a whole, the experience is at once intense and hard to describe, which is the point.     



“Hopefully, it feels boundless in a good way,” Laffrey tells Fast Company in an interview from his office in New York’s Hell’s Kitchen neighborhood. “One of the things we’ve tried to do is make the audience unaware of the boundaries of the space. You can’t quite tell where the theater begins and the set ends, or where anything goes, or quite how big anything is.”



[Photo: Matthew Murphy]



Laffrey approached The Lost Boys set design by viewing the story’s central location not just as a backdrop, but as an “important character” in its own right: the rustic old house where the Emerson family, fleeing an abusive patriarch, first arrive in the opening scene. 



“It’s a metaphor for the thing that everybody in the story is yearning for,” he says. “They’re yearning to belong. They’re yearning for a home.”



As the musical faithfully follows the main beats of the movie, the house had to be ready to accommodate key scenes, including quieter moments between the family and a major showdown that involves some effects-laden vampire hunting. That meant a house with multiple levels, rooms, and complex moving parts, Laffrey recalls thinking early on.  



That same house then also had to disappear—quickly. 



“We needed to be able to explode out onto the Santa Carla boardwalk, and have that feeling of scope and mystery and luridness, and find ourselves in the vampires’ lair, and do a lot of magic tricks, and the list goes on,” Laffrey says. “So the challenge of this show was figuring out how to hold all of those quite divergent visual ideas into one container.”



The Lost Boys was nominated for 12 Tony Awards this week, including best musical, with Laffrey picking up a nomination for his scenic design.



[Photo: Matthew Murphy]



Blood, sweat, and fangs



Adapting a movie into a musical always brings with it a delicate balance: how to honor the source material while also pushing it into a direction that justifies the singing and dancing. 



Pleasing the fans can be its own thing entirely, perhaps especially so with The Lost Boys. The movie is, if not quite a cult classic, certainly a Gen X touchstone with its share of pop-culture references. Kiefer Sutherland’s bleached mullet aside, there is also the famous scene of the gang hanging from a bridge—which is restaged brilliantly here.



Laffrey hadn’t seen the movie when he first joined the project, and he confesses that he waited as late in the process as possible to do so, in the interest of developing his own “visual point of view” about the story.    



“Being tabula rasa is an incredibly valuable place to find yourself artistically as a designer or visual artist,” he says. “I was able to confront The Lost Boys for the longest time just as a piece of theater, as it was being written.” 



The production comes about a year after Laffrey, along with George Reeve, took home the Tony Award for best musical scenic design for Maybe Happy Ending, the sleeper hit about two obsolete robots who fall in love. 



Side by side, the two shows are a study in contrasts, with Laffrey remarking how he tries not to repeat himself.



Indeed, the set pieces for Maybe Happy Ending are unabashedly sleek and modern, with bright colors and size-shifting rooms that underscore the intimacy of the storyline and complement its romantic undertones.



[Photo: Matthew Murphy]



The Lost Boys, meanwhile, is awash in brown and rust, a dreary cast-iron portrait of a town that’s long past its prime. “There is a lot of detail in there that hopefully flags that this is something that has some history to it, and some weight and some time on it,” Laffrey says. “And we’re sort of layering 1987 on top of that.”



In contrast to the immersive projections that won such acclaim in Maybe Happy Ending, the only screen we ever see in The Lost Boys is a tube TV set featuring a speech by Ronald Reagan.



“The needs of those shows couldn’t be more different,” Laffrey says.



One thing they share in common is director Michael Arden, Laffrey’s longtime collaborator. The two met in high school in Michigan and have been close friends for 25 years, he says—vital in a business that thrives on relationships. 



“The building blocks of a shared vocabulary are so valuable in making really dynamic art,” Laffrey says.



The Lost Boys marks Laffrey’s and Arden’s seventh Broadway show together. The pair also have a producing interest in the show through their production company, At Rise Creative. Laffrey says the company raised “several million dollars” for the project, though he declined to share a specific figure.



While creatives often serve as producers on movies, this arrangement is less common in theater, Laffrey points out. He says it’s a testament to what he and his producing partners see as the creative and commercial potential of the show.  



“As people who intend to make ambitious theater—which also becomes expensive theater—we want to be conscious of making expensive theater that is also sustainable theater,” he says.



They’ll have their work cut out for them. Profits can be ruthlessly elusive on Broadway, where most shows don’t recoup their full investments and many close under the weight of crushing operating costs and light attendance.



For now, the buzz is on their side. In addition to this week’s Tony nominations, The Lost Boys earned a wave of positive reviews when it opened last month, with Laffrey’s work in particular being praised in The New York Times, Deadline, The New Yorker, Variety, and elsewhere. 



The show is being cited as the one that finally broke Broadway’s notorious “vampire curse,” a reference to early-2000s musical flops such as Dance of the Vampires and Lestat.



But then maybe that’s because, in Laffrey’s mind at least, The Lost Boys is not really about vampires at all. 



“The vampires are a textural element in this world, but this is a story about lost people and a family that’s breaking apart,” he says. “There’s something universal and emotionally resonant about that. Those are the things you need for a musical to really work.” ]]></description>
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<title>Rare Earths Americas IPO: Stock price will be closely watched today as ‘exploration stage’ firm lists on NYSE</title>
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<description><![CDATA[ Rare Earths Americas is expected to make its New York Stock Exchange (NYSE) debut today. 



The company, which focuses on “heavy rare earths” projects in the United States and Brazil, will make its initial public offering at $19 per share. Here’s what you need to know about Rare Earths Americas’s IPO. 



What is Rare Earths Americas?



Calling itself an “exploration stage company,” Rare Earths Americas is a critical minerals company that is positioning itself as key to creating a rare earth supply independent of China. 



It plans to use the money raised in its IPO to fund land acquisition, drilling, and metallurgy, among other developments. 



The company is based in Manchester, Georgia, and also has a field office in Brazil.



Rare earth elements are the backbone of everything from cell phones to wind turbines. At the same time, their extraction is also devastating poor communities around the globe.



When is the IPO for Rare Earths Americas?



The company priced its shares on Tuesday. It expects to start trading today, Wednesday, May 6, and close the offer on Thursday, May 7. 



What is the stock ticker for Rare Earths Americas?



It will trade on the NYSE under the ticker REA.



What is the IPO share price of Rare Earths Americas?



The company’s share price is $19, the higher end of its marketed range. Rare Earths Americas initially estimated each share would be priced between $17 and $19 in its April 28 filing with the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC). According to Reuters, the company has a valuation of roughly $368.4 million at that price. 



How many Rare Earths Americas shares are available in its IPO?



Rare Earths Americas is offering 3.3 million common stock shares to the public. The company is also offering its underwriters 30 days to purchase another 499,999 shares. 



How much will Rare Earths Americas raise in its IPO?



The company expects to raise $63.3 million in its IPO. 



What else is there to know about Rare Earths Americas?



In its prospectus filed with the SEC, Rare Earths Americas listed a range of risk factors for potential investors. They include notable—and almost humorous—factors given that the company’s entire aim is wanting to work on rare earth projects. The risks include: 




We have no history of producing rare earth materials 



Mineral exploration is highly speculative and subject to an exceptionally high probability of failure



All of our business activities are now in the exploration stage and there can be no assurance that we will build successful business operations or ever produce minerals from any of our properties



Estimates that guide our development plans and anticipated financing needs with respect to our mineral projects may prove inaccurate or incomplete
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<title>China, ‘deeply distressed,’ calls for an end to the U.S.&#45;Iran war</title>
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<description><![CDATA[ China’s foreign minister on Wednesday called for a comprehensive ceasefire in the Iran war, in comments that could inject new energy into stalled efforts to end the two-month conflict between the United States and Iran.Wang Yi said his country was “deeply distressed” by the conflict. He spoke after meeting with Iranian Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi, who was visiting Beijing for the first time since the war with the U.S. and Israel started Feb. 28.China’s close economic and political ties to Tehran give it a unique position of influence. The Trump administration is pressing China to use that relationship to urge the Islamic Republic to open the Strait of Hormuz.The Chinese minister’s comments followed an earlier statement by U.S. President Donald Trump that he was pausing his short-lived U.S. effort to guide stranded commercial vessels out of the Strait of Hormuz in hopes that a deal could be finalized. A shaky ceasefire has been largely holding, despite exchanges of fire during the U.S. push to reopen the strait on Monday.Iran’s effective closure of the strait, a vital waterway through which major oil and gas supplies, fertilizer and other petroleum products passed before the war, has sent fuel prices skyrocketing, rattled the global economy and put enormous economic pressure on countries, including major powers like China.The spot price of Brent crude oil, the international standard, fell to around $100 per barrel Wednesday, easing significantly from big price jumps earlier in the week. The prices are still well above the roughly $70 a barrel that crude was selling for before the war began.



Trump also due to visit China



Araghchi’s visit to China comes ahead of a planned visit by Trump to Beijing for a high-profile summit May 14-15 with Chinese President Xi Jinping. The trip would be Trump’s first to China during his second term and the first by a U.S. president since Trump visited in 2017.“We believe that a comprehensive ceasefire is urgently needed, that a resumption of hostilities is not acceptable, and that it is particularly important to remain committed to dialogue and negotiations,” Wang said, according to a video of the meeting.The Chinese foreign minister said the conflict “has already lasted for more than two months. It has not only caused serious losses to the Iranian people, but also had a severe impact on regional and global peace. China is deeply distressed by this.”In a televised interview with Iran’s state media from Beijing, Araghchi said his visit included discussions of the Strait of Hormuz as well as Iran’s nuclear program and sanctions imposed on Tehran.Iran has attained “an elevated international standing” after the war, having proven its capabilities and strength, Araghchi said.U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio expressed hope that Beijing would reiterate the need for Iran to release its chokehold on the strait, which would deny its main leverage as Trump demands a major rollback of Tehran’s disputed nuclear program.“I hope the Chinese tell him what he needs to be told,” Rubio said during a White House briefing Tuesday. “And that is that what you are doing in the strait is causing you to be globally isolated. You’re the bad guy in this.”China’s Foreign Ministry spokesperson Lin Jian said Beijing has made clear that the relevant sides must act “with prudence” and resolve the conflict through dialogue in order to restore peace. He added that China has been actively promoting peace talks and will continue to do so.In a statement published on the ministry’s website about Wang’s meeting with Araghchi, the foreign ministry said China values Iran’s pledge not to pursue nuclear weapons while affirming its “legitimate right to the peaceful use of nuclear energy.”



Trump pauses effort to guide ships out of strait



Hundreds of merchant ships remain bottled up in the Persian Gulf. The U.S. said it had opened a safe shipping lane Monday and sunk six small Iranian boats that had threatened commercial ships in the strait. Only two merchant ships are known to have passed through the U.S.-guarded route.But Trump announced he was pausing the effort, dubbed Project Freedom, to see whether an agreement with Tehran on ending the war could be reached.In a social media post Tuesday, Trump said the move was based “on the request of Pakistan and other Countries, the tremendous Military Success that we have had during the Campaign against the Country of Iran and, additionally, the fact that Great Progress has been made toward a Complete and Final Agreement with Representatives of Iran.”Pakistan has been mediating between the U.S. and Iran, and had hosted peace talks between the two sides.On Wednesday, Pakistan’s Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif thanked Trump for what he described as a timely announcement of a pause in the effort to guide ships out of the strait.In a post on X, Sharif said Trump’s response to requests from Pakistan and other countries, particularly Saudi Arabia, would help advance regional peace, stability and reconciliation.“Pakistan remains firmly committed to supporting all efforts that promote restraint and a peaceful resolution of conflicts through dialogue and diplomacy,” Sharif said. “We are very hopeful that the current momentum will lead to a lasting agreement that secures durable peace and stability for the region and beyond.”







Becatoros reported from Athens, Greece. Munir Ahmed in Islamabad, Pakistan, Toqa Ezzidin in Cairo and Russ Bynum in Savannah, Georgia, contributed.



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With a steep rise in energy prices, we show you how to find the right energy supplier for your small business
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<title>As workers worry about AI, Nvidia’s Jensen Huang says AI is ‘creating an enormous number of jobs’</title>
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<description><![CDATA[ The Nvidia CEO seems to feel that claims of AI&#039;s job-killing potential have been greatly exaggerated. ]]></description>
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<title>Moment Energy raises $40M to meet ‘infinite demand for power’ with EV batteries</title>
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<description><![CDATA[ The startup has put a spin on repurposing EV batteries, CEO Edward Chiang told TechCrunch. ]]></description>
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<title>Coinbase to lay off 14% of staff as part of broader restructuring</title>
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<description><![CDATA[ The restructuring is aimed at addressing market volatility and increasing the use of AI tools to improve efficiency. ]]></description>
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<title>Amazon bets Nobel Prize&#45;based dehumidification can cut its energy use</title>
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<title>India’s first GenAI unicorn shifts to cloud services as AI model ambitions face reality</title>
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<description><![CDATA[ Krutrim&#039;s pivot to cloud after layoffs and limited product updates reflects the economic challenges of building AI models in India. ]]></description>
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<title>The crypto industry is obsessed with conferences. The vibe at them is changing</title>
<link>https://thebusinesseconomic.com/the-crypto-industry-is-obsessed-with-conferences-the-vibe-at-them-is-changing</link>
<guid>https://thebusinesseconomic.com/the-crypto-industry-is-obsessed-with-conferences-the-vibe-at-them-is-changing</guid>
<description><![CDATA[ There’s a new tone in the industry ahead of the Fortune Crypto 100, which will drop on June 11. ]]></description>
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<pubDate>Mon, 04 May 2026 14:00:07 +0000</pubDate>
<dc:creator>Tomas Kauer</dc:creator>
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<title>Exclusive: Stablecoin startup Rain is worth $1.95 billion and plans to issue cards with Mastercard in a push to woo institutional customers</title>
<link>https://thebusinesseconomic.com/exclusive-stablecoin-startup-rain-is-worth-195-billion-and-plans-to-issue-cards-with-mastercard-in-a-push-to-woo-institutional-customers</link>
<guid>https://thebusinesseconomic.com/exclusive-stablecoin-startup-rain-is-worth-195-billion-and-plans-to-issue-cards-with-mastercard-in-a-push-to-woo-institutional-customers</guid>
<description><![CDATA[ The company previously only worked with Visa to create stablecoin-backed cards. ]]></description>
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<dc:creator>Tomas Kauer</dc:creator>
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<title>Trump’s World Liberty Financial countersues crypto billionaire Justin Sun for defamation in response to allegations of fraud</title>
<link>https://thebusinesseconomic.com/trumps-world-liberty-financial-countersues-crypto-billionaire-justin-sun-for-defamation-in-response-to-allegations-of-fraud</link>
<guid>https://thebusinesseconomic.com/trumps-world-liberty-financial-countersues-crypto-billionaire-justin-sun-for-defamation-in-response-to-allegations-of-fraud</guid>
<description><![CDATA[ Justin Sun invested $75 million into a Trump-linked cryptocurrency but alleged the project wrongfully froze his tokens. ]]></description>
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<dc:creator>Tomas Kauer</dc:creator>
<media:keywords>Trump’s, World, Liberty, Financial, countersues, crypto, billionaire, Justin, Sun, for, defamation, response, allegations, fraud</media:keywords>
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<title>Nearly 4 in 10 job candidates have bailed on a hiring round because it required an AI interview</title>
<link>https://thebusinesseconomic.com/nearly-4-in-10-job-candidates-have-bailed-on-a-hiring-round-because-it-required-an-ai-interview</link>
<guid>https://thebusinesseconomic.com/nearly-4-in-10-job-candidates-have-bailed-on-a-hiring-round-because-it-required-an-ai-interview</guid>
<description><![CDATA[ Even if they go through with it, many are met with radio silence. ]]></description>
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<dc:creator>Tomas Kauer</dc:creator>
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<title>Current price of oil as of May 4, 2026</title>
<link>https://thebusinesseconomic.com/current-price-of-oil-as-of-may-4-2026</link>
<guid>https://thebusinesseconomic.com/current-price-of-oil-as-of-may-4-2026</guid>
<description><![CDATA[ When oil prices change, it affects your energy costs—and even the price of everyday items. Here’s why. ]]></description>
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<pubDate>Mon, 04 May 2026 14:00:07 +0000</pubDate>
<dc:creator>Tomas Kauer</dc:creator>
<media:keywords>Current, price, oil, May, 2026</media:keywords>
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<title>Britain’s green start&#45;ups face ‘triple squeeze’ as early&#45;stage funding crashes to five&#45;year low</title>
<link>https://thebusinesseconomic.com/britains-green-start-ups-face-triple-squeeze-as-early-stage-funding-crashes-to-five-year-low</link>
<guid>https://thebusinesseconomic.com/britains-green-start-ups-face-triple-squeeze-as-early-stage-funding-crashes-to-five-year-low</guid>
<description><![CDATA[ 
Early-stage funding for Britain&#039;s clean tech start-ups halved in 2025, hitting a five-year low. Cleantech for UK warns the innovation pipeline is at risk.
Read more: 
Britain’s green start-ups face ‘triple squeeze’ as early-stage funding crashes to five-year low ]]></description>
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<pubDate>Sun, 03 May 2026 14:00:14 +0000</pubDate>
<dc:creator>Business Economic Syndicated News</dc:creator>
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<title>Bristol leads UK innovation jobs boom as the regions close the gap on London</title>
<link>https://thebusinesseconomic.com/bristol-leads-uk-innovation-jobs-boom-as-the-regions-close-the-gap-on-london</link>
<guid>https://thebusinesseconomic.com/bristol-leads-uk-innovation-jobs-boom-as-the-regions-close-the-gap-on-london</guid>
<description><![CDATA[ 
New research lays bare a striking paradox: workforces at Britain&#039;s most innovative firms are growing fastest outside the south-east, yet eight in every ten venture pounds still pour into the so-called golden triangle.
Read more: 
Bristol leads UK innovation jobs boom as the regions close the gap on London ]]></description>
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<pubDate>Sun, 03 May 2026 14:00:13 +0000</pubDate>
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<title>Whisky tariffs lifted as Trump hails royal state visit</title>
<link>https://thebusinesseconomic.com/whisky-tariffs-lifted-as-trump-hails-royal-state-visit</link>
<guid>https://thebusinesseconomic.com/whisky-tariffs-lifted-as-trump-hails-royal-state-visit</guid>
<description><![CDATA[ 
Britain&#039;s distillers have been handed an unexpected fillip after Donald Trump announced the removal of all US tariffs and restrictions on whisky imports, a concession the president attributed directly to the influence of King Charles and Queen Camilla&#039;s four-day state visit to America.
Read more: 
Whisky tariffs lifted as Trump hails royal state visit ]]></description>
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<pubDate>Sun, 03 May 2026 14:00:12 +0000</pubDate>
<dc:creator>Business Economic Syndicated News</dc:creator>
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<title>Britain doesn’t have a start&#45;up problem, it has a stay&#45;at&#45;home problem</title>
<link>https://thebusinesseconomic.com/britain-doesnt-have-a-start-up-problem-it-has-a-stay-at-home-problem</link>
<guid>https://thebusinesseconomic.com/britain-doesnt-have-a-start-up-problem-it-has-a-stay-at-home-problem</guid>
<description><![CDATA[ 
Britain launches companies brilliantly. It just can’t keep them. Richard Alvin on why the next British unicorn will probably IPO in New York, and what to do before it does.
Read more: 
Britain doesn’t have a start-up problem, it has a stay-at-home problem ]]></description>
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<title>Last orders for British hospitality: Are Reeves and Starmer trying to kill the UK restaurant sector?</title>
<link>https://thebusinesseconomic.com/last-orders-for-british-hospitality-are-reeves-and-starmer-trying-to-kill-the-uk-restaurant-sector</link>
<guid>https://thebusinesseconomic.com/last-orders-for-british-hospitality-are-reeves-and-starmer-trying-to-kill-the-uk-restaurant-sector</guid>
<description><![CDATA[ 
From a £3.4 billion National Insurance hit to a refusal to cut hospitality VAT, the policies of Reeves and Starmer read like a hit job on Britain&#039;s high streets.
Read more: 
Last orders for British hospitality: Are Reeves and Starmer trying to kill the UK restaurant sector? ]]></description>
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<title>The best AI dictation apps, tested and ranked</title>
<link>https://thebusinesseconomic.com/the-best-ai-dictation-apps-tested-and-ranked</link>
<guid>https://thebusinesseconomic.com/the-best-ai-dictation-apps-tested-and-ranked</guid>
<description><![CDATA[ AI-powered dictation apps are useful for replying to emails, taking notes, and even coding through your voice ]]></description>
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<dc:creator>Business Economic Syndicated News</dc:creator>
<media:keywords>The, best, dictation, apps, tested, and, ranked</media:keywords>
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<title>Netflix delays Greta Gerwig’s ‘Narnia’ movie for big theatrical push in 2027</title>
<link>https://thebusinesseconomic.com/netflix-delays-greta-gerwigs-narnia-movie-for-big-theatrical-push-in-2027</link>
<guid>https://thebusinesseconomic.com/netflix-delays-greta-gerwigs-narnia-movie-for-big-theatrical-push-in-2027</guid>
<description><![CDATA[ &quot;The Magician&#039;s Nephew&quot; looks like a big next step in Netflix&#039;s thawing relationship with movie theaters. ]]></description>
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<title>Farewell, Jeeves: Ask.com shuts down</title>
<link>https://thebusinesseconomic.com/farewell-jeeves-askcom-shuts-down</link>
<guid>https://thebusinesseconomic.com/farewell-jeeves-askcom-shuts-down</guid>
<description><![CDATA[ Owner IAC says it&#039;s discontinuing its search business. ]]></description>
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<dc:creator>Business Economic Syndicated News</dc:creator>
<media:keywords>Farewell, Jeeves:, Ask.com, shuts, down</media:keywords>
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<title>AI&#45;generated actors and scripts are now ineligible for Oscars</title>
<link>https://thebusinesseconomic.com/ai-generated-actors-and-scripts-are-now-ineligible-for-oscars</link>
<guid>https://thebusinesseconomic.com/ai-generated-actors-and-scripts-are-now-ineligible-for-oscars</guid>
<description><![CDATA[ Bad news for Tilly Norwood. ]]></description>
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<pubDate>Sun, 03 May 2026 14:00:06 +0000</pubDate>
<dc:creator>Business Economic Syndicated News</dc:creator>
<media:keywords>AI-generated, actors, and, scripts, are, now, ineligible, for, Oscars</media:keywords>
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<title>This tiny, magnetic e&#45;reader could stop you from doomscrolling</title>
<link>https://thebusinesseconomic.com/this-tiny-magnetic-e-reader-could-stop-you-from-doomscrolling</link>
<guid>https://thebusinesseconomic.com/this-tiny-magnetic-e-reader-could-stop-you-from-doomscrolling</guid>
<description><![CDATA[ The Xteink X3 is a delightfully tiny, MagSafe-compatible e-ink reader that attaches to the back of your phone like a Pop Socket. ]]></description>
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<pubDate>Sun, 03 May 2026 14:00:03 +0000</pubDate>
<dc:creator>Business Economic Syndicated News</dc:creator>
<media:keywords>This, tiny, magnetic, e-reader, could, stop, you, from, doomscrolling</media:keywords>
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<title>This free website is like Wikipedia meets the CIA</title>
<link>https://thebusinesseconomic.com/this-free-website-is-like-wikipedia-meets-the-cia</link>
<guid>https://thebusinesseconomic.com/this-free-website-is-like-wikipedia-meets-the-cia</guid>
<description><![CDATA[ You may or may not have ever realized it, but for more than six decades, the CIA published an incredible resource called The World Factbook​. It was a free reference guide to all the countries on Earth, along with several non-state entities such as the European Union, and it was filled with all sorts of eye-opening info.



You might’ve noticed I’m referring to it in the past tense. That’s because after having maintained this project since 1962—first as a printed book and then in more recent years online—the CIA unceremoniously discontinued and deleted The World Factbook earlier this year.



But, as so often happens, the internet has come to the rescue. And now this one-of-a-kind resource and all the wisdom within it is available for anyone to tap into again.



This tip originally appeared in the free Cool Tools newsletter from The Intelligence. Get the next issue in your inbox and get ready to discover all sorts of awesome tech treasures!



Your free global field guide



On February 4, the CIA announced​ it was shutting down The World Factbook once and for all. Every single page was deleted simultaneously.



That’s the bad news. The good news: Someone’s already brought it back, and it’s available once more as a free online resource.



➜ The new version is called OpenFactBook​. It’s a community-maintained successor to the original from the CIA.



⌚ You can start browsing it right now, in a matter of seconds.



✅ The simplest way to use OpenFactBook is to pick a country and dive in. Every page starts with a few key statistics, a map, and a brief history. Then, you’ll find a plethora of revealing statistics.



OpenFactBook may look simple on the surface, but it’s filled with mountains of invaluable info.



? Part of the fun is discovering cool or unusual stats. For example: The highest elevation in Vatican City is the Vatican Gardens, which is 78 meters above sea level. The lowest: Saint Peter’s Square, at 19 meters. They use 0% of their land for agriculture.



But there’s so much more here than unexpected stats about microstates.



? One feature I love is the Compare Countries tool​, found in the top menu bar. You can use it to see a quick breakdown of multiple countries, which is great when you’re trying to get a feel for something like the relative size, population, or standard of living between different places.



The ability to perform detailed country comparisons is one of OpenFactBook’s finer features.



Basically, this is the same data the government long offered, only now it’s maintained by dedicated volunteers. The information combines data from the original guide with data from the World Bank Group and a service called REST Countries API.



And now it’ll always be available for anyone to access. All you need to know is where to find it.




OpenFactBook is a good old-fashioned website​—no downloads or installations required.



It’s free, with optional donations to support the hosting and data access expenses.



The site has no cookies, tracking, or personal data collection of any kind.




Treat yourself to all sorts of brain-boosting goodies like this with the free Cool Tools newsletter—starting with an instant introduction to an incredible audio app that’ll tune up your days in truly delightful ways.
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<title>Stop letting ChatGPT and other AI chatbots train on your data. Here’s why—and how</title>
<link>https://thebusinesseconomic.com/stop-letting-chatgpt-and-other-ai-chatbots-train-on-your-data-heres-whyand-how</link>
<guid>https://thebusinesseconomic.com/stop-letting-chatgpt-and-other-ai-chatbots-train-on-your-data-heres-whyand-how</guid>
<description><![CDATA[ When you interact with a chatbot, there’s a good chance that everything you say, and every prompt you give, isn’t just used to generate replies to your queries. Nearly every chatbot company on the planet also uses the information you provide to train its AI models. This can leave your privacy—and even your employer’s confidential information—exposed. But you can mitigate these privacy risks by telling chatbots not to use your data for training. Here’s how.



What is AI chatbot training?



In order for a chatbot to provide knowledgeable and (hopefully) accurate answers, the underlying large language model (LLM) that powers it needs to assimilate a massive amount of information, which it then uses to help answer your questions. This process of information assimilation is known as “training.”



The more information an LLM trains on, the more intelligent the LLM, ostensibly, gets. LLMs acquire training data from numerous sources, including public websites, social media platforms, encyclopedias, video-sharing sites like YouTube, and, unfortunately, sometimes even without permission from authors, novelists, artists, musicians, and other creatives.



But LLMs also get their training data from you, too. Every time you enter a prompt to give a chatbot information, that information is likely being used by the AI company to further train its models. And that can leave your privacy severely exposed.



Why you shouldn’t let AI chatbots train on your data



It’s generally a good idea not to allow LLMs to train on your data, especially if, in your interactions with a chatbot, you share a lot of sensitive information about yourself. If you talk to a chatbot about your physical or mental health, your finances, or your relationships, you should know that that data is, by default, usually used by the AI company to further train its LLM, which means your most intimate thoughts, worries, and concerns are becoming part of the model.



AI companies say they anonymize the information you provide before using it to train their models—but you really just have to take them at their word. Even if they do anonymize your information, that doesn’t mean a bad actor in the future couldn’t use some technique to link all the prompts about a particular health, relationship, legal, or financial issue back to you.



And if you are using an AI chatbot for work, you could be exposing your employer to legal and regulatory risks if the data you feed it contains confidential user or client information. Even if it doesn’t, you could inadvertently give away your employer’s corporate secrets, such as proprietary code or sales data. The chatbot may give you the answers you’re searching for, but it will also use all the data you give it to further train its models—and retain that data as part of itself.



How to prevent AI chatbots from training on your data



All this means that it’s a very good idea to prohibit a chatbot from training on your data. Doing so will not hinder the quality of the results the chatbot provides to you, but it will ensure, as best as possible, that the data you provide to it won’t be permanently absorbed into the bot’s underlying LLM.



The good news is that most reputable chatbots—including the four most popular ones: OpenAI’s ChatGPT, Google’s Gemini, Anthropic’s Claude, and Perplexity AI’s Perplexity—now offer ways you can opt out of having your data used for training. Here’s how to tell the big four chatbots to stop training on your data:




ChatGPT: Select your profile to access the chatbot’s settings. Select Data Controls. Select “Improve the model for everyone.” Toggle the “Improve the model for everyone” switch off.



Gemini: Go to the Gemini Apps Activity settings page. Select the button that says “On.” From the pop-up, select “Turn off.” Select “Got it” in the confirmation box that appears.



Claude: Select your profile to access the chatbot’s settings. Select the privacy menu. Toggle the “Help improve Claude” switch off.



Perplexity: Select your profile to access the chatbot’s settings. Select the Preferences menu. Toggle the “AI data retention” switch off.




Once you’ve done this, none of the big four AI giants should be able to use the prompts and other information you give their chatbots to further train their LLMs. However, since these firms haven’t provided independent auditors with access to their systems, you have to take the companies’ word that they will stop using your data to train their models.



Also note that even if AI companies agree not to use your data to train their models, they may retain information from your chats and other information you provide for legal or regulatory purposes for a set period of time.



And even with these anti-training orders in place, it’s still a good idea to thoroughly (and correctly) redact sensitive information from any documents before you upload them to an AI chatbot. To get even more privacy when interacting with popular chatbots, consider using proxies like Apple Intelligence on the iPhone or DuckDuckGo’s Duck.ai, which can help better obscure your digital footprint from AI giants. ]]></description>
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<title>This NASA astronaut has spent years shaping the future of spaceflight. Now he’s finally heading to orbit</title>
<link>https://thebusinesseconomic.com/this-nasa-astronaut-has-spent-years-shaping-the-future-of-spaceflight-now-hes-finally-heading-to-orbit</link>
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<description><![CDATA[ Anil Menon might have the world’s spaciest resume. After several years as a NASA flight surgeon, he became SpaceX’s medical director in 2018, where he authored research on the effects of space on the human body. In 2021, he was selected as a NASA astronaut and has spent the past several years training for his own journey to space. Along the way, he also supported his wife, Anna Menon, who traveled to space on a private mission in 2024 and was herself selected as a NASA astronaut last year.



Somewhere in the margins, Menon has also served as an Air Force Reserve member and emergency room doctor.



Now, he’s finally heading to space himself. This July, Menon will travel to Kazakhstan, where Russia’s space program conducts launches, and join two cosmonauts on the next mission to the International Space Station. He’ll fly aboard the storied Russian Soyuz crew vehicle, which has been used successfully for decades, and is expected to spend eight months aboard the station.



For years, NASA and Roscosmos, Russia’s space agency, have maintained the practice of placing astronauts and cosmonauts on one another’s missions. One side effect of that arrangement, and of the modern space age more broadly, is that Menon brings an unusually expansive perspective on life in space, with experience spanning NASA, Russia’s space program, and SpaceX, as well as a firsthand view of NASA’s distinct institutional role.



“NASA kind of bridges the gap between some of these different cultures and synthesizes it,” he says. “As we look at the moon, everyone is going to pursue that as well. I think that NASA is this great synergy for all of that.”



Fast Company spoke with Menon about his upcoming mission, the future of commercial space stations, and the biggest unanswered questions surrounding microgravity’s effects on the human body. This interview has been edited for clarity and length.



Can you talk a little bit about the differences between the Soyuz and the Crew Dragon?



The Soyuz was developed for some of the first space flights and it’s got this long heritage tracing back to what we consider the space race. They’ve tried to keep things that work and just keep them working for high-reliability reasons. Some of the computers and screen layouts are things that are push-button… They work. 



The same goes for engines and some of the seats and comfort level. Most of the astronauts during the early Russian space program were shorter in stature, so someone who’s 6’1’’ like me doesn’t fit as well, but I fit… It works, and that’s the interesting thing. The spacesuit has a rubber pressure seal, and you twist it … and then you put a band around it to seal it—two bands—and that’s how you create your seal. It isn’t a zipper. It isn’t some locking mechanism, but it works. And it’s always worked. 



SpaceX, born in this era, is really pushing the frontiers of engineering and developing things. You’ll see more touch displays. It’s automated procedure sequences….you hit a button, and you get that procedure popping up for you with a lot of data flowing in, as you’d see in a sci-fi movie. It also works, and it’s a different way to tackle the problem, and it’s got some advantages. 



The suits: you zip them around and put them on… They look really cool, and they work really well. There are different sorts of engines —[where] the rocket itself lands—which adds usability. I’d say it’s pushing the frontiers of where we want to go with things, which is uniquely cultural to us in terms of the way we look at things.



As a physician, what do you see as the biggest open questions about, like, the impact of space on the human body? We’ve done a lot of studies on through the International Space Station, but what open questions intrigue you as we think about going to the moon, and maybe Mars?



I’ll answer that in a nebulous way and a very specific way. The more general answer is that there’s just so much new stuff. We’ve been flying healthy astronauts to space for a long time. We are going to be flying—and we are starting to fly—the whole spread of humans to space. You know, on Inspiration 4, Hayley Arceneaux had an osteosarcoma [bone cancer].  How does that change things? So there’s just a lot of unknown. 



At this point in time, in medicine, it’s not often you see totally new diseases, but we’re seeing new things in space. I think in the future, we’ll continue to see new things, and that’s probably like the biggest thing. 



If I were to just pick a specific thing for a concrete example, we’re seeing clotting happen in space in unexpected ways. You take a really healthy person, put them in space, there’s three things that increase your chance of a clot: One is injury, and that’s when your body, like closes the wound—[and] that’s normal. The other is stasis, which means if you just keep blood in a static spot, it’s going to clot. The other is like some element of hypercoagulability. If you take oral contraceptives for women, it  makes you a little more prone to clotting. In space, what you’re getting is stasis on some level, so blood isn’t moving the same. You’re getting one cornerstone of that clotting triangle, and it just takes a little bit more to see something else. 



As you send more people up there, a lot of these diseases that are related to that [and] you’re just going to see more of them. That could be deep vein thrombosis, pulmonary embolism, strokes, things like that. We’ll have to figure out, like, what do we do about it? 



On the flip side, is there any promise or hope that there are health metrics that seem to improve in space compared to on Earth?



You always see this in sci-fi, but if you have disabilities on Earth, maybe that goes away in space, right? You don’t need your legs in space, and so you can do a lot of things that you couldn’t do on Earth, which opens up the doors for a lot of people for whom that’s an issue. And I watch enough sci-fi movies that I’m hoping that I get a mutant gene while I’m up there and have some new superpower. I’m just kidding!



We’re preparing for the next generation of commercial space stations that will eventually replace the ISS. What do you have in mind for what we could do differently or change? 



ISS is a great stepping stone to leverage to learn about our next step. I think the next step, a commercial space station, will also be a stepping stone to the future. So what are the things we do on ISS that we could do better on those would be really important science. Increase the throughput and make it easier for people to do science. On the ISS, that’s great, but you can always do things better. 



Letting people do real-time feedback on some of the science that they’re doing there. Experimenting with things that could open up the door to going to Mars and staying on the Moon. 



Looking at those things that kick off the orbital economy, like printing and developing those manufacturing processes. They want to make new chips up there, and that stimulates more jobs in space and doing stuff. Focusing on the high-yield things and then kicking them off are going to be transformative…Think about all the things that need to go into a data center that’s in space. Some of these future stations can lean into that and help carry out or fix that technology until it’s like something that you can just deliver and launch. ]]></description>
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<title>Housing market power divide: States where buyers can find the most, and least, inventory right now</title>
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<description><![CDATA[ Want more housing market stories from Lance Lambert’s ResiClub in your inbox? Subscribe to the ResiClub newsletter.



When assessing home price momentum, ResiClub believes it’s important to monitor active listings and months of supply. If active listings start to increase rapidly as homes remain on the market for longer periods, it may indicate pricing softness or weakness. Conversely, a rapid decline in active listings beyond seasonality could suggest a market where sellers are gaining power.



Since the national pandemic housing boom fizzled out in 2022, the power dynamic has slowly been shifting directionally from sellers to buyers. Of course, that shift has varied across the country.



Generally speaking, local housing markets where active inventory has jumped above pre-pandemic 2019 levels have experienced softer home price growth (or outright price declines) over the past 47 months. Conversely, local housing markets where active inventory remains far below pre-pandemic 2019 levels have, generally speaking, experienced, relatively speaking, more resilient home price growth over the past 47 months.



Where is national active inventory headed now?



While national active inventory is still up year over year, the pace of growth has slowed in recent months as softening has slowed.



National active listings are up 4.6% on a year-over-year basis from April 30, 2025, to April 30, 2026, according to Realtor.com’s inventory data. But if you go back 12 months, that year-over-year national inventory growth rate was much higher (+30.6%).



After a period in which leverage shifted more toward homebuyers, the supply-demand equilibrium in the nationally aggregated housing market has been more stable in recent months.



Nationally, we’re still below pre-pandemic 2019 inventory levels (-11.8% below April 2019) and some resale markets, in particular chunks of the Midwest and Northeast, still remain tightish, relatively speaking.







April inventory/active listings total, according to Realtor.com:




April 2017 -&gt; 1,198,424



April 2018 -&gt; 1,102,064



April 2019 -&gt; 1,137,198



April 2020 -&gt; 941,733



April 2021 -&gt; 435,663 (pandemic housing boom overheating)



April 2022 -&gt; 379,978 (pandemic housing boom overheating)



April 2023 -&gt; 562,966



April 2024 -&gt; 734,318



April 2025 -&gt; 959,251



April 2026 -&gt; 1,002,935




If we maintain the current year-over-year pace of inventory growth (+43,684 homes for sale), we’d have 1,046,619 active inventory come April 2027. (Note: That’s not a prediction—I’m just showing what the math looks like if that pace continues.)



Below is the year-over-year active inventory percentage change by state.







While active housing inventory is rising in most markets on a year-over-year basis, the pace of growth continues to decelerate across much of the country (see the side-by-side maps below). In fact, Florida—home to many of the weakest regional housing markets over the past two years—is now seeing active inventory edge down a little year over year (-12%).







Above, left: Year-over-year active inventory shift from April 2024 to April 2025



Above, right: Year-over-year active inventory shift from April 2025 to April 2026



And while active housing inventory is rising in most markets on a year-over-year basis, some markets still remain tightish.







As ResiClub has been documenting, both active resale and new homes for sale remain the most limited across huge swaths of the Midwest and Northeast. That’s where home sellers in the spring/summer are likely, relatively speaking, to have more power than their peers in many Southern markets.



Active inventory in April 2026 compared to pre-pandemic April 2019:




Southwest —&gt; +23%



West —&gt; +3%



Southeast —&gt; -2%



Midwest —&gt; -35%



Northeast —&gt; -50%




In contrast, active housing inventory for sale has neared or surpassed pre-pandemic 2019 levels in many parts of the Sunbelt and Mountain West, including metro area housing markets such as Punta Gorda, Florida, and Austin.



Many of these areas saw major price surges during the pandemic housing boom, with home prices getting stretched compared to local incomes. As pandemic-driven domestic migration slowed and mortgage rates rose, markets like Punta Gorda and Austin faced challenges, relying on local income levels to support frothy home prices.



This softening trend was accelerated further by an abundance of new home supply in the Sunbelt. Builders are often willing to lower prices or offer affordability incentives (if they have the margins to do so) to maintain sales in a shifted market, which also has a cooling effect on the resale market, with some buyers, who would have previously considered existing homes, opting for new homes with more favorable deals over the past couple years. That then puts some additional upward pressure on resale inventory.



Click here to view an interactive version of the map below.







At the end of April 2026, 12 states were above pre-pandemic 2019 active inventory levels: Alabama, Arizona, Colorado, Florida, Hawaii, Idaho, Nebraska, Nevada, North Carolina, Oklahoma, Oregon, Tennessee, Texas, Utah, and Washington. (The District of Columbia—which we left out of the table below—is also back above pre-pandemic 2019 active inventory levels.)









The big picture



Over the past several months, the post-boom softening has lost momentum, and inventory growth has decelerated on a year-over-year basis. That said, the nationally aggregated housing market remains soft. While home prices are declining in some parts of the Sunbelt, a large share of Northeast and Midwest markets are still eking out modest year-over-year gains. At the national level, home prices are essentially flat year over year.







Below is another version of the table; this one includes every month since January 2017.







If you’d like to examine the monthly state inventory figures further, use the interactive chart below.



Florida—which has been the epicenter of housing market weakness over the past two years, particularly in Southwest Florida—is no longer seeing the upward burst in inventory. Indeed, the intensity of Florida’s housing market correction is easing across many pockets of the state.



Click here to view a sortable version of the chart below.






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<title>Lululemon needs its ‘Gap’ moment</title>
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<description><![CDATA[ Heidi O’Neill is having a tough week. 



In late April, the Lululemon board announced it had ended its monthslong search to replace CEO Calvin McDonald, who left the company abruptly in 2025 after six years at the helm. As soon as the company announced that O’Neill, a 26-year Nike veteran, would be taking on the position, things got messy. Lululemon’s stock took a plunge, suggesting that investors didn’t think O’Neill was the right pick. And many analysts—including myself—argued that following the Nike playbook would not lead Lululemon out of its financial doldrums.



Then, Lululemon founder Chip Wilson weighed in. Wilson launched the company in 1998 as a yoga brand and left in 2005, but he has never stopped trying to stay involved, and he still wields considerable power at the company as its largest shareholder. He had made it clear that he didn’t approve of McDonald’s leadership, and in a LinkedIn post, he went after the board for choosing O’Neill, arguing they should be looking for “passionate, creative renegades who have a vision that will shake up the status quo.”



Wilson’s judgment is not always right. This is someone who once had to apologize for saying that women’s thighs rubbing together was responsible for the pilling on Lululemon leggings—a comment widely perceived to be body shaming. And last year he criticized Lululemon’s diversity, equity, and inclusion policies for welcoming customers “you don’t want . . . coming in.” But that doesn’t mean his instincts are always wrong.



What Lululemon needs right now is the kind of revitalization we’re seeing at Gap—and it’s worth paying attention to how that brand pulled it off. The legacy apparel brand, founded in 1969, had gone through several years of declining sales. But these days it’s having a moment.



Over the past two years, it has had hit marketing campaigns every season, tapping stars like Young Miko, Troye Sivan, and, most notably, Katseye. Zac Posen has created a high-fashion version of the Gap label called GapStudio, which has put red-carpet garments on the backs of celebrities like Timothée Chalamet and Anne Hathaway. The brand has also launched collaborations with Béis, Dôen, and, most recently, Victoria Beckham, all huge hits.



While this kind of turnaround is the stuff brands dream of, Mark Breitbard, president and CEO of the global Gap Brand, has made it clear that it’s the result of a lot of hard work. It has also required a deep knowledge of the brand. 



Breitbard is not a Gap outsider. Early in his career, from 2009 to 2013, he worked as the chief merchant at Old Navy and then Gap, and later came back in 2017 to run Banana Republic.



When he took on his current role in 2020, he inherited a mess. The brand had too many stores, many of them unprofitable. It also had too much inventory, which resulted in heavy discounting. The quality of clothing had declined. 



“The business was broken,” Breitbard told me recently. “We had to address each of these issues with discipline. It wasn’t fun, but it laid the foundation for us to bring the brand back into the center of culture.”



Product, he points out, is crucial. Despite its long history as a beloved maker of basics, Gap’s clothes had lost their luster. Breitbard, who is steeped in supply chains and merchandising, worked to improve the quality of the materials and fit. And consumers are responding. 



After the Katseye video, which featured retro denim styles, people rushed to Gap to buy ’90s-style jeans—and they weren’t disappointed. During Coachella, Gap created an activation focused on sweats, and people loved how cozy they were.



This is an important lesson for Lululemon. The brand has always been known for its unique fabrics, developed out of its internal design philosophy, which it calls “the science of feel.” It has had many blockbusters, including its proprietary buttery-soft Nulu fabric, which is in its famous Align pants, which have generated more than $1 billion for the company. Lululemon customers come to the brand for its high quality and reputation for innovation, and its new leader must be laser-focused on product.



Once this pillar is in place, it’s possible to bring the brand back into the cultural conversation. It’s notable that Breitbard didn’t start pushing out these creative campaigns for Gap five years ago; he waited until he believed the foundations of the business were in order. Only then did he turn his attention to launching some of the most exciting marketing campaigns we’ve seen recently.



When I interviewed him for Fast Company’s Most Innovative Companies podcast, Breitbard said he empowers his creative team to do what they do best. This includes Fabiola Torres, the CMO he brought on in May 2024.



“If we have amazing creatives, and we put them in a position where we can trust the creatives to keep pushing and driving, and not overburden them with bureaucracy, we will stay in this moment of heat,” he says.



This is exactly the kind of creativity Wilson is hoping for. And it’s unclear whether O’Neill is the right person for the task. In recent years, she has been focused on more technical parts of the business, which is not a bad thing, except she was responsible for helping Nike pivot toward a direct-to-consumer approach that has proved lacking for the company. And when it comes to creative, Nike’s heyday as an engine for brilliant advertising and marketing is long gone.



Gap proved that legacy brands can come roaring back—but only with the right leader at the helm. Whether O’Neill is that person for Lululemon remains to be seen. She’ll have plenty to prove, assuming the board doesn’t have second thoughts.


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AI training platform, QA, explain the AI skills gap and the effect it has on your business. Find out how their training courses can help
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Here&#039;s an easy-to-understand guide on the best free business bank accounts in the UK and what to consider before you sign up
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<title>The 8 best business savings accounts</title>
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If you have surplus funds, why not deposit your business revenue into a dedicated business savings account?
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<title>Sources: Anthropic potential $900B+ valuation round could happen within 2 weeks</title>
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<description><![CDATA[ Anthropic is asking investors to submit allocations for the AI company’s latest fundraise within the next 48 hours, according to sources familiar with the matter. ]]></description>
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<title>Y Combinator alum Skio sells for $105M cash, only raised $8M, founder says</title>
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<description><![CDATA[ Subscription billing fintech Skio sold to its competitor Recharge in what was a healthy exit, according to its founder and former CEO. ]]></description>
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<title>As Tim Cook steps down, Apple hit record sales — but a chip shortage looms</title>
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<description><![CDATA[ Users in India are embracing ChatGPT Images 2.0 for creative, personal visuals — from avatars to cinematic portraits. ]]></description>
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<title>People are finally using Reddit’s search</title>
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<description><![CDATA[ The company saw a 30% year-on-year jump in the number of people using search every week, CEO Steve Huffman said on Thursday. ]]></description>
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<title>Why your data infrastructure — not your AI model — will determine whether Agentic AI scales</title>
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<title>Trump&#45;tied public crypto company buys startup from one&#45;time ‘cannabis king’ who serves as current advisor in deal worth up to $43 million</title>
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<description><![CDATA[ The public company, AI Financial, struck a deal in August with a Trump family crypto outfit to stockpile $1.5 billion in Trump-linked cryptocurrency. ]]></description>
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<title>Current price of oil as of April 30, 2026</title>
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<description><![CDATA[ When oil prices change, it affects your energy costs—and even the price of everyday items. Here’s why. ]]></description>
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<title>How AstraZeneca’s 17,000 AI&#45;certified employees are helping it reach a ‘stretch goal’ of $80 billion in revenue</title>
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<description><![CDATA[ CFO Aradhana Sarin breaks down the building blocks behind the revenue target and reflects on a strong Q1.  ]]></description>
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<title>Are You Building a Future&#45;Ready Small Business? Choose Tech That Is Less Visible, Not More Complicated</title>
<link>https://thebusinesseconomic.com/are-you-building-a-future-ready-small-business-choose-tech-that-is-less-visible-not-more-complicated</link>
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<description><![CDATA[ 
You may have heard the joke: an older fish says to a younger fish, ‘The water’s nice today, huh?’ and the younger fish replies, ‘What the hell is water?’ It works because the things that shape our experience most are often the easiest to overlook.
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Are You Building a Future-Ready Small Business? Choose Tech That Is Less Visible, Not More Complicated ]]></description>
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<title>Britain braces for £35bn energy shock as Iran conflict pushes inflation back above 4%</title>
<link>https://thebusinesseconomic.com/britain-braces-for-35bn-energy-shock-as-iran-conflict-pushes-inflation-back-above-4</link>
<guid>https://thebusinesseconomic.com/britain-braces-for-35bn-energy-shock-as-iran-conflict-pushes-inflation-back-above-4</guid>
<description><![CDATA[ 
Niesr warns the UK economy will lose £35bn over two years as the Iran conflict pushes inflation above 4% and forces the Bank of England to raise interest rates. SMEs face a fresh squeeze.
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Britain braces for £35bn energy shock as Iran conflict pushes inflation back above 4% ]]></description>
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<title>Barclay Brothers swerve bankruptcy with eleventh&#45;hour creditor pact</title>
<link>https://thebusinesseconomic.com/barclay-brothers-swerve-bankruptcy-with-eleventh-hour-creditor-pact</link>
<guid>https://thebusinesseconomic.com/barclay-brothers-swerve-bankruptcy-with-eleventh-hour-creditor-pact</guid>
<description><![CDATA[ 
Aidan and Howard Barclay escape bankruptcy as HSBC withdraws its High Court petitions following an Individual Voluntary Arrangement with creditors over the collapse of the family&#039;s £143.5m logistics empire.
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<title>John Lewis dragged into High Court over click&#45;and&#45;collect rent at Brent Cross</title>
<link>https://thebusinesseconomic.com/john-lewis-dragged-into-high-court-over-click-and-collect-rent-at-brent-cross</link>
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<description><![CDATA[ 
John Lewis faces a High Court battle as Brent Cross landlords Hammerson and Standard Life argue a 1972 lease entitles them to a cut of click-and-collect sales.
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<title>JP Morgan reverses Brexit&#45;era Paris move as London beckons trading roles back</title>
<link>https://thebusinesseconomic.com/jp-morgan-reverses-brexit-era-paris-move-as-london-beckons-trading-roles-back</link>
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<description><![CDATA[ 
JP Morgan is shifting trading roles from Paris back to London after over-estimating EU staffing needs post-Brexit, as it presses ahead with its £10bn Canary Wharf tower.
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<title>Google Translate now lets you practice pronunciation</title>
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<description><![CDATA[ The feature is rolling out in the U.S. and India with support for English, Spanish, and Hindi. ]]></description>
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<title>Meet Shapes, the app bringing humans and AI into the same group chats</title>
<link>https://thebusinesseconomic.com/meet-shapes-the-app-bringing-humans-and-ai-into-the-same-group-chats</link>
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<description><![CDATA[ Think Discord chats, but with AI characters in addition to humans.  ]]></description>
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<title>BMW i Ventures has a new $300M fund and AI is riding shotgun</title>
<link>https://thebusinesseconomic.com/bmw-i-ventures-has-a-new-300m-fund-and-ai-is-riding-shotgun</link>
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<description><![CDATA[ BMW i Ventures is interested in startups working on agentic AI and physical AI, as well as industrial software, advanced materials, and manufacturing and supply chain technologies. ]]></description>
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<title>Firestorm Labs raises $82M to take drone factories into the field</title>
<link>https://thebusinesseconomic.com/firestorm-labs-raises-82m-to-take-drone-factories-into-the-field</link>
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<description><![CDATA[ A defense startup just raised $82 million to put drone factories inside shipping containers and bring manufacturing to the front lines. ]]></description>
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<title>Sri Lanka discloses another missing payment, days after hackers stole $2.5M from its finance ministry</title>
<link>https://thebusinesseconomic.com/sri-lanka-discloses-another-missing-payment-days-after-hackers-stole-25m-from-its-finance-ministry</link>
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<description><![CDATA[ The government of Sri Lanka has lost more than $3 million in two recent, separate cybersecurity incidents as the country continues to recover from its 2022 debt crisis. ]]></description>
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<title>Why people should work together for a cure</title>
<link>https://thebusinesseconomic.com/why-people-should-work-together-for-a-cure</link>
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<description><![CDATA[ 



Cancer has a way of touching lives without warning. Nearly everyone in our community has a story—someone they love, someone they’ve lost, or someone still fighting. At MG2, that shared reality is why Swing for the Cure to benefit the Fred Hutchinson Cancer Center has become so deeply meaningful to us. It isn’t just a charity event. It’s a collective response to something that has affected so many of us personally.



Swing for the Cure began as a golf tournament, but it quickly became much more. Driven by the loss of his first wife, Patricia, our former CEO Jerry Lee believed that no one should lose a friend, family member, or loved one to breast cancer. That conviction helped our firm shape the heart of the event from the very beginning. Jerry and his wife Charlene, herself a breast cancer survivor for more than 25 years, continue to inspire us through their resilience, optimism, and unwavering commitment to this mission.



What makes Swing for the Cure special is the common bond it creates. People come together not as job titles or companies, but as individuals with shared experiences and deeply personal reasons for being there. Some are survivors. Some are caregivers. Some are honoring those they’ve lost. That sense of connection transforms a day on the golf course into something far more powerful: a community united around a clear goal, which is to support research and move closer to a cure.



A SENSE OF PURPOSE MATTERS



Over the years, MG2 has intentionally worked to make Swing for the Cure bigger, deeper, and broader. What started as a standalone experience has grown into a purposeful annual gathering that reflects our values. We challenged ourselves to think beyond a traditional fundraiser and create something hopeful—an experience where people feel connected, motivated, and part of something meaningful. Clients, partners, and colleagues come together not out of obligation, but because they believe in what the event represents.



That sense of purpose matters. When people gather with intention and when they know why they’re there and what they’re working toward, then good things happen. Energy builds. Conversations deepen. Commitment follows. Swing for the Cure demonstrates that goodwill is not abstract; it’s something that grows when people are aligned around a shared cause. And goodwill, when cultivated thoughtfully, benefits everyone.



IMPACT FROM SHOWING UP CONSISTENTLY



For MG2, this commitment mirrors how we approach our work. Just as strong design is rooted in care, collaboration, and long-term thinking, meaningful community engagement requires the same. Swing for the Cure, going strong for almost a quarter century, has raised more than $2 million to date, and it reminds us that real impact comes from showing up consistently, staying focused on the goal, and inviting others to take part.



Last year was by far our biggest year. Our 2025 Swing for the Cure raised $250,000. Thanks to our close ties with Fred Hutch, we can choose the specific research we want to fund. That adds a personal touch to the entire experience.



This year we awarded the total amount raised to one radiation oncologist, whose upcoming trial will work to improve how physicians deliver concurrent radiation and chemotherapy and enhance outcomes for high-risk patients. Grants like this are important for the larger health community, and it’s an emotional moment for researchers—and for us—to push for cures.



When we come together with purpose, we can honor those we’ve lost, support those still fighting, and move closer to a future where fewer families face this journey alone.



Mitch Smith AIA, LEED AP, is the CEO and chairman of MG2, an affiliate of Colliers Engineering &amp; Design. ]]></description>
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<title>Otter wants AI agents to mine your meetings for institutional knowledge</title>
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<description><![CDATA[ Otter wants to turn your work meetings into institutional knowledge. 



The company is known for its audio transcription tool, which has evolved over the years to be able to join and transcribe online meetings in real time and answer questions about them via an AI chat tool. It’s now adding additional AI features to make it easier to integrate knowledge from those recorded meetings with other information, including integrations with other software like Google Drive, Jira, Salesforce, and Notion. Those will let Otter’s AI access live data from those apps, so it can pull data from an email or customer database as needed to best answer a follow-up question from a recorded meeting. 



Otter has also now added server functionality that lets other AI tools, including ChatGPT and Claude, connect to it via the popular model context protocol (MCP), so other AI agents can also access data from Otter with permission. Additionally, enhancements to the AI chat feature itself will make it easier for users to specify when to pull insight from particular meetings, from multiple meetings, and from other data sources to which they have access. 



[Photo: Otter]



The aim is to help unlock knowledge that’s primarily or exclusively shared in meetings and make it available to both human workers and AI agents, says Otter cofounder and CEO Sam Liang. One challenge for corporate knowledge bases, he says, is that information stored in written documents can lag behind reality.  



“People create documents, but documents become obsolete really fast,” he says, with the latest updates presented via meetings. 



But even when that’s known to be the case, and even as research repeatedly shows white-collar workers spend a big portion of their time attending meetings, information from those meetings often isn’t easy to access in a systematic way. Even AI-generated transcripts can end up stored in the accounts of individual users rather than broadly available. Otter has already developed what it calls channels—essentially groups of users who have shared access to meeting recordings and transcripts—and the company suggests its AI agents will be able to surface new insights from collections of meetings, like aggregating trends from multiple sales calls or departmental meetings. 



[Photo: Otter]



An improved Otter desktop client for Mac and Windows will also make it easier to record more meetings from a computer, Liang says, though he says many companies do prefer Otter’s AI agent which can conspicuously join calls on platforms like Zoom, giving everyone clear notice the meeting is being recorded. 



In general, broader recording of meetings and harnessing AI notes may raise privacy and legal concerns at some organizations. But Liang emphasizes that Otter’s channels allow companies to control who has access to meetings internally and that it gives organizations control over how long both audio and transcripts are retained. 



“We provide a data retention mechanism so that enterprises can decide how long they want to keep the audio recording,” he says, and users can also pause recording—and even eject Otter’s AI notetaker entirely—if they want some of a meeting to be off the record. 



The new Otter features come as a growing number of companies vie to become an organization’s central AI hub, with AI labs like OpenAI and Anthropic, workplace productivity businesses from Slack to Asana, and office software makers like Google and Microsoft all offering tools to command AI agents and regulate their access to corporate data. Otter also faces no shortage of competition in the meeting transcription market, with comedy website Clickhole noting earlier this month that “all the random AI programs on your computer are desperately fighting for permission to summarize your meeting” and even pasta sauce maker Prego looking to record household dinner table conversations. 



But Liang says Otter still has features that competitors don’t, like the ability for AI to cleanly separate opinions of different speakers in a meeting, and the option to set up custom templates for how meetings are summarized. Additionally, Liang says, Otter’s AI is optimized to be able to reliably answer questions using information from hundreds of meetings, letting users quickly analyze what took place in sales calls they didn’t personally conduct or get up to speed on what’s already been discussed about a particular project. 



“You get intelligence from hundreds or thousands [of] meetings, even though you didn’t attend them,” he says.  ]]></description>
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<title>You’re about to see a lot more alcohol on TikTok—and there’s a reason</title>
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<description><![CDATA[ When Malibu launched its “Get Ready With Malibu Pink” campaign this spring, the rum brand had all the necessary ingredients for a modern influencer campaign. Creator partnerships with Sabrina Brier and other influencers, on-trend “get ready with me” style videos, all centered on the debut of a new flavored rum with guava, coconut, and pineapple.



But there was also one element that was surprisingly new terrain for Malibu’s parent company Pernod Ricard: its first major campaign designed specifically for TikTok.



A platform once off-limits



Until very recently, alcohol brands like Malibu were completely absent from TikTok. But over the past two years, TikTok’s stronger age-gating protocols, which help guarantee to marketers like Malibu that the content they publish is only seen by legal-age users, have opened the platform for greater experimentation. The growing, cross-generational popularity of TikTok, with four in ten U.S. adults active on the platform and 80% over the age of 21, was also heralded as a key factor.



“It’s important for us to connect with Zillennials,” Caroline Begley, Pernod Ricard’s vice president of marketing, tells Fast Company of the importance of the microgeneration of younger millennials and older Gen Z. “Malibu has been around for decades, but it’s always important to introduce new consumers to the brand.”



The rush to catch up



Boozy TikTok campaigns have proliferated, including Grey Goose vodka’s “Devil Wears Prada 2” content starring supermodel Heidi Klum, Espolòn Tequila’s “Shot Kings Week” celebration with actor and comedian Ken Jeong, St-Germain liqueur’s spritz-making session with actress Sophie Turner, and a behind-the-scenes look at a commercial for the ready-to-drink brand -196 with content creator Pooja Tripathi.



From left: Heidi Klum, Ken Jeong, Sophie Turner [Photos: Bacardi Limited, Campari Group]



They are now playing catch-up to connect with the highly coveted Gen Z crowd that dominates the cultural conversation and trends on an app that’s already almost a decade old and generates more than $14 billion in U.S. advertising spending annually, according to data from market researcher eMarketer.



How the rules changed



Pernod Ricard and Bacardi were early adopters, launching limited pilots beginning in 2024. At the same time, TikTok was in active discussions with the Distilled Spirits Council of the United States (DISCUS), the liquor trade advocacy group responsible for setting the protocols for advertising across television, print media, out-of-home advertising, and social platforms including Facebook and Instagram.



Liquor brands were allowed to create their own TikTok branded accounts in July 2024, when paid ads were also authorized to target users above 25. Organic brand pages and content were fully “age gated” beginning in July 2025, according to DISCUS, and influencer-related alcohol content began to flow by early 2026. There are still a few restrictions, including most notably that TikTok Shop doesn’t permit the sale of alcohol.



[Photo: Campari Group]



“Social media companies have gotten really good at also identifying when somebody is misreporting their age using signal data,” says Courtney J. Armour, chief legal officer of DISCUS, in an interview with Fast Company. TikTok’s advertising policies for alcohol include never featuring people below the age of 25, avoiding the portrayal of excess drinking or intoxication, stating the alcoholic content level, and carrying a responsible drinking disclaimer.



One sticking point that was recently resolved involved user comments left on a brand’s TikTok page. DISCUS wanted more guardrails to ensure age verification before allowing brands to turn that feature on.



Learning TikTok’s language



While most liquor brands still have minuscule TikTok follower counts, they’re actively setting up pages and developing unique strategies for the platform that they say cannot mirror what works on Instagram.



“It’s more raw, it’s imperfect, and I think that’s what people gravitate to,” Ned Duggan, global CMO and president of Bacardi Global Brands, tells Fast Company. He adds that TikTok users are more motivated to discover new products and be entertained, while Instagram is more curated and polished. “TikTok is more like behind the scenes, whereas Instagram and other platforms are more front-of-stage,” he adds.



TikTok says that 42% of users have discovered a new alcohol brand on the platform. Users over the age of 21 are 1.6 times more likely to buy alcohol or try a new cocktail recipe versus those not using TikTok, the company says.



Speed, volume, and experimentation



Italian liquor maker Campari Group debuted on TikTok in June 2025 and has since rolled out several campaigns for brands including Espolòn Tequila, Wild Turkey bourbon, and the aperitif Aperol.



“When we jumped into TikTok, we quickly learned that it plays by a totally different set of rules than other platforms,” Brian Chang, Campari’s head of consumer marketing and ecommerce, tells Fast Company.



Karrueche Tran [Photo: Campari Group]



Liquor marketing executives have quickly learned the need for speed when it comes to effective TikTok storytelling. “We wanted to make a point where the zoom-in mouth effect will be the first few seconds that people would see on TikTok, so that they’re not consistently doomscrolling past the content,” says Chang, of the “Bring Your Own Courvoisier” content that began with a close-up of actress Karrueche Tran’s mouth.



Last year, Suntory piloted content centered on -196 with STEM-focused videos that explained how the company uses whole fruits that are frozen in liquid nitrogen, then crushed and infused into vodka. “The category as a whole lends itself, I think, to TikTok as a channel, given the Gen Z connectivity with RTDs,” Davin Nugent, president of global RTD at Suntory Global Spirits, tells Fast Company.



Turning views into sales



The benchmarks that Suntory is monitoring include ad recall, a marketing metric that measures how many consumers remember seeing an ad, as well as awareness, favorability, and, of course, sales. “If we have great campaigns, but we aren’t getting new purchase intent, then we’re just creating new work and making people smile,” says Nugent. “It has to result in an uptick in consumer purchases.”



[Photo: Suntory]



The ecommerce platform ReserveBar is one of the key players that helps enable brands like Bacardi and Campari to link campaigns to direct sales, as liquor manufacturers aren’t allowed to directly sell to consumers due to the three-tier system in the U.S. that mandates that alcohol flows from producers, to distributors and then retailers before reaching consumers. ReserveBar’s links are now allowed on TikTok and the brand set up its own organic handle a couple of months ago.



“There’s not a playbook, because everyone in the industry, we’re starting from scratch,” ReserveBar Chief Marketing Officer Kate Zaman tells Fast Company. But she says the industry can take some cues from lessons learned from non-alcoholic consumer product brands that have had more time to cultivate their TikTok strategies. Success on TikTok isn’t just about speed and cultural tie-ins; there’s also a thirst for volume.



“The pure amount of content that you really need to be successful on TikTok is much more than I think what you need on Meta,” says Zaman. ]]></description>
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<title>Bed Bath &amp;amp; Beyond to the moon? Why the retailer is getting a major stock boost today, despite a lack of profits</title>
<link>https://thebusinesseconomic.com/bed-bath-beyond-to-the-moon-why-the-retailer-is-getting-a-major-stock-boost-today-despite-a-lack-of-profits</link>
<guid>https://thebusinesseconomic.com/bed-bath-beyond-to-the-moon-why-the-retailer-is-getting-a-major-stock-boost-today-despite-a-lack-of-profits</guid>
<description><![CDATA[ Shares of Bed Bath &amp; Beyond Inc (NYSE: BBBY) are surging this morning, a day after the company reported its Q1 2026 results. 



Despite the company reporting a loss for the quarter, BBBY stock is significantly higher, as many investors see evidence that the once-iconic home goods retailer’s turnaround efforts are finally showing results. Here’s what you need to know.



What’s happened?



Yesterday, Bed Bath &amp; Beyond reported first-quarter results for its fiscal year 2026. 



While many will recognize the company due to its “Bed Bath &amp; Beyond” name, the firm actually owns several businesses under its corporate umbrella, including Bed Bath &amp; Beyond, Overstock, buybuy BABY, Kirkland’s, and Kirkland’s Home. It is also in the process of merging with The Container Store.



In the early 2000s, Bed Bath &amp; Beyond was a suburban staple, but in the decades that followed, the company struggled with declining foot traffic as customers shifted their buying habits online. 



The chain ultimately filed for bankruptcy in 2023, and its IP was bought by Overstock.com shortly after. 



In early August 2025, the retail partner of Overstock owner Beyond Inc announced that it was reopening the Bed Bath &amp; Beyond chain with a store in Nashville. 



Shortly after, Beyond Inc changed its name to Bed Bath &amp; Beyond Inc, going all-in on the brand as it worked to turn around its fortunes.



Now, it seems that the company’s initiative may be working. In its Q1 earnings report, Bed Bath &amp; Beyond announced that it had achieved its first “significant revenue growth in 19 quarters.” 



The revenue growth signaled “strong brand awareness among customers,” according to the company.



But it also appears to have motivated investors, who have poured money into the company’s shares this morning.



Bed Bath &amp; Beyond still didn’t make a profit



Announcing the company’s surprising Q1 revenue growth, which totaled $248 million, up 6.9% year-over-year, CEO Marcus Lemonis said that its results “show that the work we’ve been doing to stabilize and rebuild the business is taking hold.” 



“We delivered real year-over-year revenue growth, something we haven’t seen meaningfully in several years, while continuing to take costs out of the business and operate more efficiently,” Lemonis continued. “That combination matters.”



However, while the company is right to call out its revenue growth—and investors are clearly buoyed by the results—it’s important to note that Bed Bath &amp; Beyond still racked up losses for the quarter.



The company achieved a net revenue of $248 million, but it had a net loss of $16 million for the quarter. That equated to a loss per share of 24 cents. 



At the same time, losses marked a $24 million improvement over the same period a year ago.



More stores and a larger retail footprint



Despite the better-than-expected Q1 earnings, investors will now likely shift their focus to Bed Bath &amp; Beyond’s immediate future, which is expected to usher in a growing retail footprint for the company’s goods.



First up, Bed Bath &amp; Beyond Inc is expected to close its merger with The Container Store this summer. Once that happens, 30% of retail space in Container Store locations will be dedicated to selling Bed Bath &amp; Beyond’s wares, expanding the reach and awareness of the once-beloved, Millennial-nostalgic chain.



Additionally, the company will open a dozen combined Container Store and Bed Bath &amp; Beyond locations in California, further expanding its retail footprint, and in a state where the brand once had one of its most loyal customer bases.



Whether these moves will have a material impact on Bed Bath &amp; Beyond’s future earnings remains to be seen.



But as for today, the company’s stock price is surging, thanks to its Q1 results. As of this writing, BBBY stock is currently up nearly 24% to $6.63 in premarket trading. That is a high the company stock price has not seen since January.



As of yesterday’s close at $5.34 per share, BBBY stock had declined by about 2.2% since the year began. But with its nearly 24% jump this morning, the company’s stock price is now significantly in the green for 2026.



Over the past 12 months, as of yesterday’s close, BBBY shares had risen 30%. ]]></description>
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<title>How the Trump administration is responding to Iran’s proposal to end the war</title>
<link>https://thebusinesseconomic.com/how-the-trump-administration-is-responding-to-irans-proposal-to-end-the-war</link>
<guid>https://thebusinesseconomic.com/how-the-trump-administration-is-responding-to-irans-proposal-to-end-the-war</guid>
<description><![CDATA[ The Trump administration seemed unlikely Tuesday to accept Iran’s offer to end the war and reopen the Strait of Hormuz if the U.S. lifts its blockade on the country.The proposal would postpone discussions on the Islamic Republic’s nuclear program, something that U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio appeared to rule out in a Fox News interview Monday.“We have to ensure that any deal that is made, any agreement that is made, is one that definitively prevents them from sprinting towards a nuclear weapon at any point,” he said of the proposal, which was delivered to the U.S. by Pakistan.The White House said U.S. President Donald Trump’s national security team discussed the offer and Trump would address it later.The offer emerged Monday as Iran Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi visited Russia, which has long been a key backer of Tehran. It was unclear what, if any, assistance Moscow might offer now.Since the war began, at least 3,375 people have been killed in Iran and at least 2,521 people in Lebanon, where fighting between Israel and the Iran-backed Hezbollah militant group resumed two days after the Iran war started. Another 23 people have been killed in Israel and more than a dozen in Gulf Arab states. Sixteen Israeli soldiers in Lebanon, 13 U.S. service members in the region and six U.N. peacekeepers in southern Lebanon have been killed.



—Associated Press ]]></description>
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<title>How to Buy Clothes Without Regret, Drama, or Fake Labels</title>
<link>https://thebusinesseconomic.com/how-to-buy-clothes-without-regret-drama-or-fake-labels</link>
<guid>https://thebusinesseconomic.com/how-to-buy-clothes-without-regret-drama-or-fake-labels</guid>
<description><![CDATA[ Let’s be honest—some clothes look fabulous in the store, then become tragic after one wash. Others survive years, vacations, breakups, and buffet dinners.

The difference? Fabric quality, garment quality, and smart buying. ]]></description>
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<pubDate>Mon, 27 Apr 2026 14:00:05 +0000</pubDate>
<dc:creator>Noubi Says -  By Noubikko</dc:creator>
<media:keywords>How, Buy, Clothes, Without, Regret, Drama, Fake, Labels</media:keywords>
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<title>How Fashion Designing Work</title>
<link>https://thebusinesseconomic.com/how-fashion-designing-work-10562</link>
<guid>https://thebusinesseconomic.com/how-fashion-designing-work-10562</guid>
<description><![CDATA[ Fashion design works when illusion meets reality.

The designer creates the dream.
The ad sells the fantasy.
But you must make it work in daylight.

Choose clothing that flatters your body, respects your personality, and supports your real life.

Because the most stylish thing you can wear is not fashion—

It is good judgment. ]]></description>
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<dc:creator>Noubi Says -  By Noubikko</dc:creator>
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<title> It&amp;apos;s Not Just Interior Design. It&amp;apos;s Fashion for Your Space</title>
<link>https://thebusinesseconomic.com/its-not-just-interior-design-its-fashion-for-your-space</link>
<guid>https://thebusinesseconomic.com/its-not-just-interior-design-its-fashion-for-your-space</guid>
<description><![CDATA[ When you choose Noubikko Interiors, you’re not just decorating a room — You’re dressing it in confidence, luxury, and timeless elegance. ]]></description>
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<title>Signature Elegance From The Runway Into Your Living Space.</title>
<link>https://thebusinesseconomic.com/signature-elegance-from-the-runway-into-your-living-space</link>
<guid>https://thebusinesseconomic.com/signature-elegance-from-the-runway-into-your-living-space</guid>
<description><![CDATA[ Whether you&#039;re staging a penthouse, redesigning a boutique hotel, or simply elevating your private residence, Noubikko&#039;s visionary approach transforms ordinary spaces into catwalk-ready interiors. ]]></description>
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<dc:creator>Noubi Says -  By Noubikko</dc:creator>
<media:keywords>Signature, Elegance, From, The, Runway, Into, Your, Living, Space.</media:keywords>
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<title>Interior Design Tips Inspired by Fashion Designer</title>
<link>https://thebusinesseconomic.com/interior-design-tips-inspired-by-fashion-designer</link>
<guid>https://thebusinesseconomic.com/interior-design-tips-inspired-by-fashion-designer</guid>
<description><![CDATA[ Great interior design today goes beyond decoration—it creates identity, emotion, and lasting value. Drawing from a visionary approach to design-led development, here are practical interior design tips you can apply to elevate any space into something timeless and desirable. ]]></description>
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<dc:creator>Noubi Says -  By Noubikko</dc:creator>
<media:keywords>Interior, Design, Tips, Inspired, Fashion, Designer</media:keywords>
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<title>Feng Shui&#45;Inspired Interiors Define Interiors in Its Maximum Format</title>
<link>https://thebusinesseconomic.com/feng-shui-inspired-interiors-define-interiors-in-its-maximum-format</link>
<guid>https://thebusinesseconomic.com/feng-shui-inspired-interiors-define-interiors-in-its-maximum-format</guid>
<description><![CDATA[ Noubikko’s Secret is exposed:  Feng Shui Integration That Reflects the Modern Lifestyle ]]></description>
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<dc:creator>Noubi Says -  By Noubikko</dc:creator>
<media:keywords>Feng, Shui-Inspired, Interiors, Define, Interiors, Its, Maximum, Format</media:keywords>
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<title>Peaceful Luxury Is the New Status Symbol</title>
<link>https://thebusinesseconomic.com/peaceful-luxury-is-the-new-status-symbol</link>
<guid>https://thebusinesseconomic.com/peaceful-luxury-is-the-new-status-symbol</guid>
<description><![CDATA[ Today’s generation values wellness as much as wealth. ]]></description>
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<title>Noubi Says: Smart Luxury, Zen Peace, and Bold Beauty Come Alive</title>
<link>https://thebusinesseconomic.com/noubi-says-smart-luxury-zen-peace-and-bold-beauty-come-alive</link>
<guid>https://thebusinesseconomic.com/noubi-says-smart-luxury-zen-peace-and-bold-beauty-come-alive</guid>
<description><![CDATA[ In a world moving faster than ever, the home has become more than a place to live—it has become your sanctuary, your office, your creative studio, your statement, and your refuge. Today’s modern lifestyle demands more than furniture and decoration. It demands meaning, intelligence, beauty, and emotional peace. ]]></description>
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<dc:creator>Noubi Says -  By Noubikko</dc:creator>
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<title>Looking Into Your Wardrobe — A Guide to Effortless Style and Smart Living</title>
<link>https://thebusinesseconomic.com/looking-into-your-wardrobe-a-guide-to-effortless-style-and-smart-living</link>
<guid>https://thebusinesseconomic.com/looking-into-your-wardrobe-a-guide-to-effortless-style-and-smart-living</guid>
<description><![CDATA[ Investing in a cohesive basic wardrobe is more cost-effective and impactful than accumulating disconnected statement pieces. By curating essentials that work together, individuals can reduce expenses while elevating their overall image. ]]></description>
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<media:keywords>Looking, Into, Your, Wardrobe, —, Guide, Effortless, Style, and, Smart, Living</media:keywords>
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<title>Meta inks deal for solar power at night, beamed from space</title>
<link>https://thebusinesseconomic.com/meta-inks-deal-for-solar-power-at-night-beamed-from-space</link>
<guid>https://thebusinesseconomic.com/meta-inks-deal-for-solar-power-at-night-beamed-from-space</guid>
<description><![CDATA[ Overview Energy&#039;s first contract with Meta is a small step toward a future of space-based solar power. ]]></description>
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<pubDate>Mon, 27 Apr 2026 14:00:04 +0000</pubDate>
<dc:creator>Tomas Kauer - News Writer and Moderator</dc:creator>
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<title>Spotify’s next frontier: fitness content</title>
<link>https://thebusinesseconomic.com/spotifys-next-frontier-fitness-content</link>
<guid>https://thebusinesseconomic.com/spotifys-next-frontier-fitness-content</guid>
<description><![CDATA[ Spotify is adding fitness as its next major category, launching workout videos, playlists, and Peloton classes inside the app for free and Premium users. ]]></description>
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<pubDate>Mon, 27 Apr 2026 14:00:04 +0000</pubDate>
<dc:creator>Tomas Kauer - News Writer and Moderator</dc:creator>
<media:keywords>Spotify’s, next, frontier:, fitness, content</media:keywords>
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<title>Critical infrastructure giant Itron says it was hacked</title>
<link>https://thebusinesseconomic.com/critical-infrastructure-giant-itron-says-it-was-hacked</link>
<guid>https://thebusinesseconomic.com/critical-infrastructure-giant-itron-says-it-was-hacked</guid>
<description><![CDATA[ The American technology giant provides water and energy monitoring and utility meters to hundreds of millions of homes and businesses. ]]></description>
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<pubDate>Mon, 27 Apr 2026 14:00:04 +0000</pubDate>
<dc:creator>Tomas Kauer - News Writer and Moderator</dc:creator>
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<title>OpenAI could be making a phone with AI agents replacing apps</title>
<link>https://thebusinesseconomic.com/openai-could-be-making-a-phone-with-ai-agents-replacing-apps</link>
<guid>https://thebusinesseconomic.com/openai-could-be-making-a-phone-with-ai-agents-replacing-apps</guid>
<description><![CDATA[ The phone could go in mass production in 2028, an analyst says. ]]></description>
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<pubDate>Mon, 27 Apr 2026 14:00:04 +0000</pubDate>
<dc:creator>Tomas Kauer - News Writer and Moderator</dc:creator>
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<title>China vetoes Meta’s $2B Manus deal after months&#45;long probe</title>
<link>https://thebusinesseconomic.com/china-vetoes-metas-2b-manus-deal-after-months-long-probe</link>
<guid>https://thebusinesseconomic.com/china-vetoes-metas-2b-manus-deal-after-months-long-probe</guid>
<description><![CDATA[ China has ordered Meta to unwind its multibillion-dollar Manus acquisition, dealing a potential setback to Zuckerberg’s push into AI agents. ]]></description>
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<dc:creator>Tomas Kauer - News Writer and Moderator</dc:creator>
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<title>Trek spent over $300,000 closing women’s cycling’s prize&#45;money gap. Its CEO says the point is to make the checks obsolete</title>
<link>https://thebusinesseconomic.com/trek-spent-over-300000-closing-womens-cyclings-prize-money-gap-its-ceo-says-the-point-is-to-make-the-checks-obsolete</link>
<guid>https://thebusinesseconomic.com/trek-spent-over-300000-closing-womens-cyclings-prize-money-gap-its-ceo-says-the-point-is-to-make-the-checks-obsolete</guid>
<description><![CDATA[ Trek is topping off women’s cycling prize purses, and says its bill is shrinking as race organizers move toward equal pay. ]]></description>
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<pubDate>Sun, 26 Apr 2026 14:00:08 +0000</pubDate>
<dc:creator>Tomas Kauer</dc:creator>
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<title>Kalshi and Polymarket are racing to ban insider trading. The economist who built the theory behind prediction markets says it’s the whole point</title>
<link>https://thebusinesseconomic.com/kalshi-and-polymarket-are-racing-to-ban-insider-trading-the-economist-who-built-the-theory-behind-prediction-markets-says-its-the-whole-point</link>
<guid>https://thebusinesseconomic.com/kalshi-and-polymarket-are-racing-to-ban-insider-trading-the-economist-who-built-the-theory-behind-prediction-markets-says-its-the-whole-point</guid>
<description><![CDATA[ &quot;You want the most accurate prices. That&#039;s pretty clear. The purpose of the market is to inform decisions.&quot; ]]></description>
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<pubDate>Sun, 26 Apr 2026 14:00:08 +0000</pubDate>
<dc:creator>Tomas Kauer</dc:creator>
<media:keywords>Kalshi, and, Polymarket, are, racing, ban, insider, trading., The, economist, who, built, the, theory, behind, prediction, markets, says, it’s, the, whole, point</media:keywords>
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<title>AI is frying our brains — here’s what leaders need to do about It</title>
<link>https://thebusinesseconomic.com/ai-is-frying-our-brains-heres-what-leaders-need-to-do-about-it</link>
<guid>https://thebusinesseconomic.com/ai-is-frying-our-brains-heres-what-leaders-need-to-do-about-it</guid>
<description><![CDATA[ New research confirms AI isn&#039;t reducing cognitive load — it&#039;s multiplying it. Neuroscience explains what&#039;s causing &quot;brain drain&quot; and offers organizations ways to reverse it. ]]></description>
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<pubDate>Sun, 26 Apr 2026 14:00:08 +0000</pubDate>
<dc:creator>Tomas Kauer</dc:creator>
<media:keywords>frying, our, brains, —, here’s, what, leaders, need, about</media:keywords>
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<title>More than 90,000 tech workers have been laid off this year. But here’s why companies like Microsoft are offering voluntary buyouts instead</title>
<link>https://thebusinesseconomic.com/more-than-90000-tech-workers-have-been-laid-off-this-year-but-heres-why-companies-like-microsoft-are-offering-voluntary-buyouts-instead</link>
<guid>https://thebusinesseconomic.com/more-than-90000-tech-workers-have-been-laid-off-this-year-but-heres-why-companies-like-microsoft-are-offering-voluntary-buyouts-instead</guid>
<description><![CDATA[ Buyouts target specific kinds of employees, says employment lawyer Domenique Camacho Moran.  ]]></description>
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<pubDate>Sun, 26 Apr 2026 14:00:08 +0000</pubDate>
<dc:creator>Tomas Kauer</dc:creator>
<media:keywords>More, than, 90, 000, tech, workers, have, been, laid, off, this, year., But, here’s, why, companies, like, Microsoft, are, offering, voluntary, buyouts, instead</media:keywords>
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<title>Why the key to American drone dominance lies with blockchain</title>
<link>https://thebusinesseconomic.com/why-the-key-to-american-drone-dominance-lies-with-blockchain</link>
<guid>https://thebusinesseconomic.com/why-the-key-to-american-drone-dominance-lies-with-blockchain</guid>
<description><![CDATA[ The U.S. is at a pivotal moment when it comes to reclaiming its drone supply chain from China. ]]></description>
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<pubDate>Sun, 26 Apr 2026 14:00:08 +0000</pubDate>
<dc:creator>Tomas Kauer</dc:creator>
<media:keywords>Why, the, key, American, drone, dominance, lies, with, blockchain</media:keywords>
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<title>Carrying a Bag Is Not Only Fashionable—But Brilliantly Useful in Many Ways</title>
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<title>“On Buying Clothes”: Smarter, More Conscious Fashion Choices</title>
<link>https://thebusinesseconomic.com/on-buying-clothes-smarter-more-conscious-fashion-choices</link>
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<description><![CDATA[ Fashion philosophy advocate Noubi reminder on mindful clothing consumption, “On Buying Clothes,” emphasizing that fashion is not just about purchasing garments—but about making informed, intentional, and personal style decisions. ]]></description>
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<title>Smart Fashion Investments Over Cheap Purchases</title>
<link>https://thebusinesseconomic.com/smart-fashion-investments-over-cheap-purchases</link>
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<description><![CDATA[ In a world driven by discounts, fast fashion, and impulse shopping, Noubi Says releases a powerful reminder that the smartest clothing purchase is not always the cheapest one.  “On Buying Clothes,” Noubikko encourages consumers to focus on quality, durability, and long-term value rather than temporary low prices.

“Cheap clothing may save money today, but quality clothing often saves money tomorrow.” — Noubi Says ]]></description>
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<title>Living in Style: Where Fashion, Luxury, and Modern Interiors Become One</title>
<link>https://thebusinesseconomic.com/living-in-style-where-fashion-luxury-and-modern-interiors-become-one</link>
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<description><![CDATA[ Noubikko Interiors is a bold design concept that combines the elegance of fashion design with the functionality of modern interiors to create spaces made for people who believe life should be lived beautifully. ]]></description>
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<title>Noubikko Interiors Redefines Living in Style: Where Fashion, and Modern Interiors Become One</title>
<link>https://thebusinesseconomic.com/noubikko-interiors-redefines-living-in-style-where-fashion-and-modern-interiors-become-one</link>
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<description><![CDATA[ For the new generation, style has moved beyond wardrobes and into homes, studios, offices, lounges, and personal spaces. A well-designed interior now speaks as loudly as designer fashion. It reflects confidence, ambition, taste, and the quality of life a person chooses to embrace. ]]></description>
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<title>Tesla accelerates European comeback as EV sales surge past one&#45;in&#45;five milestone</title>
<link>https://thebusinesseconomic.com/tesla-accelerates-european-comeback-as-ev-sales-surge-past-one-in-five-milestone</link>
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Tesla sales jump 84% in Europe as electric vehicles now account for more than one in five new cars registered. Germany overtakes UK on EV penetration.
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<title>UK borrowing slips to four&#45;year low but Middle East tensions threaten Reeves’s fiscal plan</title>
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<description><![CDATA[ 
UK government borrowing dropped to £12.6bn in March, a four-year low, as debt interest payments tumbled. But economists warn the Middle East conflict could wipe out Rachel Reeves&#039;s fiscal headroom.
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<title>Employers hit with £28bn National Insurance Shock as rate rise bites harder than treasury forecast</title>
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Employers&#039; National Insurance Contributions have soared by £28bn in a single year, £4bn above the Government&#039;s own forecast, triggering redundancies in hospitality and retail and slowing hiring across the UK private sector.
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<title>L’Oréal banks on the ‘lipstick effect’ as anxious shoppers reach for affordable luxuries</title>
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<description><![CDATA[ 
The world&#039;s largest cosmetics group shrugs off the drag from the Iran war, posting forecast-beating first-quarter sales as European consumers treat themselves to small indulgences and China stirs back into life.
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<title>UK employers saddled with sharpest tax rise in developed world, OECD finds</title>
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<title>Two college kids raise a $5.1 million pre&#45;seed to build an AI social network in iMessage</title>
<link>https://thebusinesseconomic.com/two-college-kids-raise-a-51-million-pre-seed-to-build-an-ai-social-network-in-imessage</link>
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<description><![CDATA[ Series, a social networking app that&#039;s grown popular on college campuses, announced a $5.1 million pre-seed round from some big names in tech. ]]></description>
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<title>Cohere acquires, merges with Germany&#45;based startup to create a ‘transatlantic AI powerhouse’</title>
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<description><![CDATA[ Cohere, the Canada-based AI company that makes AI tools for businesses in regulated industries, announced Friday it would merge with Aleph Alpha, a German company that also builds AI systems for businesses and governments.  ]]></description>
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<title>Palantir is reportedly helping the IRS investigate financial crimes</title>
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<description><![CDATA[ The IRS has used Palantir&#039;s software since at least 2018, The Intercept reports. ]]></description>
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<title>Steve Ballmer blasts founder he backed who pleaded guilty to fraud: ‘I was duped and feel silly’</title>
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<description><![CDATA[ Steve Ballmer wrote a fiery letter in the sentencing of disgraced founder Joseph Sanberg documenting all the harm that&#039;s befalling him as an investor. ]]></description>
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<title>Lachy Groom to back India startup Pronto at a $200M valuation, sources say</title>
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<description><![CDATA[ This round, should it occur, would double the house-help startup&#039;s valuation in a matter of weeks. ]]></description>
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<title>Why brands should ignore Trump’s latest loyalty test</title>
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<description><![CDATA[ Earlier this week, in a live interview on CNBC’s Squawk Box, President Donald Trump was asked for his reaction to reports that Apple, Amazon, and some other companies had not filed refund requests for tariffs they paid over the past year—tariffs the Supreme Court has ruled unconstitutional. 



“I think it’s brilliant if they don’t do that,” Trump replied. “If they don’t do that, I’ll remember them.”



To be clear, this wasn’t negotiation posturing. This was the president openly signaling that companies who forfeit money to which they are entitled will be “remembered” for a symbolic display of loyalty. 



The government has collected a combined $166 billion or so from U.S. importers; an act the Supreme Court ruled an overstep of presidential power. The companies in question are in effect taking the administration’s side despite the court’s ruling. 



Left unspoken but clearly implied is that those who exercise their legal rights may find themselves remembered, too, but certainly not for being “brilliant.”



Given the Iran war, as well as the panoply of controversies and alleged scandals swirling around the administration, this incident was easy to miss. But it’s worth pausing over and paying attention to what companies affected by the illegal tariff scheme ultimately do.



The tariffs, imposed last year and affecting U.S. trade with practically every country on earth, were struck by way of a 6-to-3 Supreme Court ruling in February, resulting in the $166 billion forced refund. 



Despite this lack of ambiguity, it’s not hard to imagine why a company might at least ponder whether it’s worth trying to stay on the president’s good side.



The Trump administration has not been shy about involving itself in the actions of private commerce, taking an unusually active stance over mergers, regulation, even bailouts or direct ownership stakes.



Nevertheless, Trump’s not-so-veiled threat is one that companies should firmly resist. It amounts to betraying shareholders and customers alike. 



For starters, the board members and executives of publicly traded companies obviously have fiduciary obligations to their shareholders. Shrugging off millions (or even billions) of dollars in legally recoverable refunds does not square with those duties.



Moreover, it’s a bad look for a brand. Many companies passed along tariff costs through higher prices. Declining to pursue refunds in effect tells customers: We raised your prices because of costs we are now choosing not to recover, because the president said he’d be impressed if we didn’t.



As a contrast, consider Costco, which has been among those striking an aggressive stance on the refunds. In November 2025, well before the high court’s ruling, the discount club chain filed a federal lawsuit challenging the tariffs as unlawful, asking the courts to order full refunds including interest on all tariffs paid. 



Costco executives have told investors the company would in effect pass along the refunds to its customers through “lower prices and better values.” Admittedly, that sounds a bit vague, but the company has said it will be open about the process. 



And compared to speculation about ignoring the refunds to curry favor with the administration, Costco’s simple clarity about adhering to the rule of law practically sounds like a profile in courage.



Plenty of businesses have shown no hesitation about collecting refunds, particularly smaller enterprises. And shipping businesses FedEx, DHL, and UPS have all indicated they’ll be passing along refunds to customers who were billed to cover tariff fees.



For many others, the process will admittedly be more complex. The payout fund is designed to reimburse entities that paid directly to import the tariffed goods—not the end consumers who may have ultimately absorbed those costs in the form of higher prices. 



Unlike the case of shipping, there’s usually not a clean paper trail to quantify what an individual customer might be owed. (Class action lawsuits are already coming together to challenge how the money is being distributed.)



Still, this seems like a moment for companies to at least make clear their intent. The Costco response is a handy and straightforward example: Collect the refund and be vocal about returning value to customers. Treat this as an opportunity to demonstrate loyalty to shoppers. 



At the very least, signaling a greater interest in pleasing the administration than in pleasing your own shoppers seems like a shortsighted way to treat consumers, particularly in a moment when affordability is in the zeitgeist. “I’ll remember” cuts both ways.


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<title>Rising fuel costs are triggering flight cancellations. What to do if your trip is impacted</title>
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<description><![CDATA[ Airlines worldwide have begun canceling flights as the war in the Middle East strains jet fuel supplies and pushes up prices — but the disruption doesn’t end there.For travelers, it can mean having to navigate a confusing web of passenger protections that vary widely depending on where they’re flying.And the timing is amplifying the impact.“These pressures are arriving at a time when summer travel demand is ramping up, with major events such as the World Cup expected to put additional strain on airports,” said Eric Napoli, chief legal officer at AirHelp, a company that helps travelers secure compensation for flight disruptions and advocates for passenger rights.Here’s what to know if your flight is canceled.



Are these cancellations happening at the last minute?



In most cases, no. At least for now, fuel-related cuts are often being made days or weeks in advance. Lufthansa Group, for example, said this week it is cutting 20,000 short-haul flights across its network through October.That gives you more time to adjust plans than you’d typically get with weather-related disruptions, which tend to trigger last-minute cancellations.



My flight was canceled. What should I do first?



Check your airline’s app or website immediately for rebooking options. If you’re flying on a U.S. carrier, that’s often the fastest and easiest way to secure a new seat, according to Tyler Hosford, security director at International SOS, a global risk management and travel security company.Non-U.S. carriers tend to have fewer digital tools, Hosford said, so it’s worth trying multiple channels, including the airline’s customer service lines or airport desks.



Do I have the right to a refund or a new flight?



In most cases, yes. Airlines typically offer either a refund or a rebooking on the next available flight. The exact rules vary by country, but those are the baseline options you can expect.In the U.S., for example, if your flight is canceled and you choose not to travel, the airline must refund you, regardless of the reason. Airlines may offer travel credits instead, but you’re entitled to a full refund for airfare and any extras you didn’t use, such as baggage fees or seat upgrades.



Are passenger rights the same everywhere?



No, and protections vary widely by region — from the Montreal Convention, which governs airline liability across more than 140 countries, to specific consumer protection laws in the U.S., Canada, the European Union, the United Kingdom, Turkey and Brazil.Europe has some of the strongest protections, including compensation in certain cases. And they apply to any flight departing from an EU airport, regardless of the airline, as well as to passengers flying on an EU-based carrier into the EU — even if the journey starts outside Europe. The United Kingdom maintains a similar framework.The U.S. and Canada offer more limited protections. Policies vary widely across Asia, and in some cases travelers may need to rely more on airline policies than formal regulations.To get a clearer picture, experts recommend searching the name of the country you’re departing from and “passenger rights” before your trip.



What protections apply?



It depends.Airlines may cite fuel shortages or rising fuel costs as the reason for cancellations. But whether you’re entitled to compensation often comes down to if the disruption is considered within the airline’s control under local laws.Regardless of the cause, Napoli said, airlines in the European Union, for example, still have a “duty of care,” meaning they must provide “necessary support” to travelers, including rebooking.“While airlines are citing fuel shortages as a reason for upcoming cancellations, travelers need to know that this does not automatically waive their rights” under EU laws, Napoli said.



How can I prepare before a trip to avoid headaches?



A few steps can make disruptions easier to manage.Sign up for flight alerts to stay informed, and book directly with the airline when possible — it’s much easier to resolve issues with the carrier directly than through a third-party booking site.Knowing your options ahead of time and having a backup plan can make a significant difference if plans change.



What do I need for a claim or complaint?



Documentation is critical. Save everything: boarding passes, receipts, cancellation notices and any communication from the airline.Take screenshots of app or website updates and any communication taking place online, and jot down key details from phone calls.Napoli also recommends asking the airline for written confirmation of a flight disruption, including the stated reason.



Should I accept the first alternative flight the airline offers?



Not necessarily.Experts say one of the most common mistakes travelers make is taking the first option without checking alternatives. Look at other flights, routes or even nearby airports because you may find a faster or more convenient way to reach your destination.



Can I book a different flight myself?



Yes, but proceed carefully.If the airline’s rebooking option doesn’t meet your needs — especially if your new flight isn’t for several days — you can look for alternatives and request a refund instead.Just be aware you may need to pay any fare difference up front, and you might not be reimbursed later.



Any other tips to avoid getting stuck?



— Book flights earlier in the day so you have more rebooking options if something goes wrong.— Set up flight alerts through tracking apps such as Flighty to get early notice of cancellations or delays. In some cases, Hosford said, notifications arrive before the airline’s.— Consider nearby airports as backup options.— Be kind. Airline agents may be more willing to help when interactions stay calm and respectful.“Ultimately, the shortage is squeezing the entire system, from travelers to airlines, and is something to watch as the industry looks for any relief ahead of the summer travel season,” Napoli said.



—Rio Yamat, AP Airlines and Travel Writer ]]></description>
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<title>Tech layoffs update: Meta, Nike, Snap, and others join the growing list of companies slashing jobs in April 2026</title>
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<description><![CDATA[ April is shaping up to be yet another brutal month for job cuts in the technology sector. But the announcements may not have the immediate effect that many companies are hoping for. Here’s the latest on the situation.



Microsoft to offer buyouts to 7% of its US workforce



While Microsoft hasn’t announced another round of layoffs, the Windows giant is planning job reductions of another kind. 



As Fast Company reported yesterday, the Redmond, Washington, company is expected to offer buyouts to 7% of its U.S. workforce by the end of June. A buyout is when a company offers an employee a financial incentive to resign.



Buyout helps companies avoid being forced to choose which employees to let go, while still reducing their workforce and achieving their goal of lowering operational costs. 



An employee who accepts the buyout loses their job, but generally gets a significant financial incentive for the voluntary move. Buyouts typically target employees who are closer to retirement age.



As for the reason for the buyouts, it’s the same reason driving most of the tech industry’s recent layoffs: the drive to cut labor costs so more money can be spent on building out the huge data centers needed for AI training and services.



Meta to lay off 10% of its workforce



While Microsoft is giving some of its employees the option of voluntary buyouts, Meta isn’t providing its employees an option at all. 



Yesterday, the company told its employees that it will lay off about 8,000 of them—roughly 10% of its workforce—on May 20. An additional 6,000 currently open roles will not be filled.



Meta’s latest layoff comes after the company has committed $135 billion in capital expenditure to its latest round of AI initiatives. 



Much of that expenditure will go to building massive data centers that the company needs to run its AI systems. As Fast Company reported yesterday, Meta says the job cuts aim to boost efficiency while also offsetting its “heavy spending on artificial intelligence.”



Nike announces 1,400 tech job layoffs



Also yesterday, shoe giant Nike announced it was laying off around 2% of its workforce, or about 1,400 employees. While the company is primarily known as a maker of apparel and footwear, the job cuts will mostly hit Nike’s technology roles.



But while Nike’s job cuts will primarily target its tech workforce, the company is one of the few to not suggest that AI is behind the layoffs. 



Instead, Nike says the job cuts are part of its “Win Now” strategy, which aims to modernize its manufacturing, merge parts of its supply chain, and reshape its technology division.



Nike’s layoffs will reportedly impact employees globally, including in North America.



Snap to lay off 16% of its global workforce



The trifecta of tech job cuts announced yesterday aren’t the only ones in April. 



On April 14, Snapchat maker Snap Inc. announced it would cut 16% of its global workforce. As CNBC reported, that equates to about 1,000 jobs, while another 300 currently empty roles will remain unfilled.



The primary driver behind the job cuts is the desire to cut costs by leveraging AI instead of a human workforce. 



“We believe that rapid advancements in artificial intelligence enable our teams to reduce repetitive work, increase velocity, and better support our community, partners, and advertisers,” CEO Evan Spiegel wrote in a letter announcing the job cuts.



GoPro to reduce its workforce by 23%



Finally, earlier this month, on April 7, wearable camera maker GoPro announced that it planned to lay off 145 workers. But while that may seem small in comparison to the other companies on this list, it represents a staggering 23% of the company’s workforce.



According to the Wall Street Journal, GoPro’s job cuts come as the company struggles with profitability amid macroeconomic pressures, including increased memory costs as AI demand drives prices higher and tariffs add costs. 



The company reportedly hopes to reduce operating costs in order to help it return to profitability by the end of the year.



Company stock prices react to layoffs



While layoffs are devastating to the affected workers and their families, investors usually cheer the news of job cuts. 



That’s because reducing the workforce is usually the fastest way for a company to cut costs. It’s why share prices tend to increase after a company announces major job cuts.



But this time, investor response has been a mixed bag. 



Since GoPro, Inc. (Nasdaq: GPRO) announced its job cuts, the stock has climbed an impressive 73%. 



Likewise, Snap Inc. (NYSE: SNAP) stock rose immediately after it announced its job cuts. After the announcement, SNAP stock was up about 7%. However, as of yesterday’s close, the stock had given back some of those gains, now up only about 4.3% since the layoffs were announced.



But the other companies’ stock prices have hardly reacted.



Shares in Meta Platforms Inc. (Nasdaq: META) fell more than 2% yesterday, and are barely up half a percent in premarket trading this morning, as of the time of this writing. 



Shares in Microsoft Corporation (Nasdaq: MSFT) fell nearly 4% yesterday and are up only about 1.3% in premarket trading today.



Nike Inc (NYSE: NKE) shares fell nearly 2% yesterday and haven’t even recovered half of that this morning.



In other words, announcing major job cuts no longer seems guaranteed to get investors excited about a stock—and that’s something the tech giants are likely taking note of this morning. ]]></description>
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<title>NASA made a typeface using satellite images of the Earth</title>
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<description><![CDATA[ NASA is looking not to the stars but back to our planet for inspiration. 



In honor of Earth Day, NASA’s Kennedy Space Center shared an interactive digital tool turns satellite images of the planet’s landscapes into a typeface.  



“The planet can spell your name—literally,” the Kennedy Space Center’s X post says.



Using a feature called “Your Name in Landsat,” users can type in whichever word they choose into the generator’s textbox. The site will then generate the phrase using landscapes from Earth, like rivers, lakes, farmland, and more. When hovering over each “letter,” users can learn more about where the landscape is located and even its coordinates.



NASA first unveiled the tool in August of 2024 for Camp Landsat, a virtual summer camp the agency runs. The letters are part of an extensive record of satellite images from Landsat—the longest ongoing series of Earth observing missions—which spans more than 50 years. The Landsat mission was first launched on July 23, 1972 and has since successfully launched eight satellites that have photographed the planet.



The project has not only awarded earthlings with high-resolution imagery for fun visualizations like “Your Name in Landsat”; it has also provided valuable data for scientists and policy makers alike to make decisions regarding the environment and natural resources.



The images that feed into the word generator are part of the satellite program’s Alphabet Image Gallery, with images sourced from the NASA Earth Observatory, NASA Worldview, USGS EarthExplorer, and the ESA Sentinel Hub.



Some letters get more than one iteration depending on how complex and prevalent the shape is in nature. 



Take the “A” which has five different options, with landscapes ranging from Yukon Delta, in Alaska, to Lake Guakhmaz, in Azerbaijan.



The “G” in comparison, is somewhat rarer, with only one option currently available in the gallery: an image from Fonte Boa, a municipality in the Amazonas state of Brazil.



People love the tool. The social media post received over 22 million views and more than 1,300 people posted their creations in the comments. (Even brands like Xbox got in on the fun.) 



“I’m here for this,” one user replied.



Another added, “that’s cool as hell, are you kidding me.” 



Beyond serving as a delightful interactive feature, Your Name in Landsat is also a powerful visualization that reminds us of how vast the world is and why its natural landscapes are worth saving.



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<title>Officials charge a U.S. soldier for using intel on this $400K Polymarket bet</title>
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<description><![CDATA[ A U.S. special forces soldier involved in the military operation to capture Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro has been charged with using classified information about the mission to win more than $400,000 in an online betting market, federal officials announced Thursday.Gannon Ken Van Dyke was part of the operation to capture Maduro in January and used his access to classified information to make money on the prediction market site Polymarket, the federal prosecutor’s office in New York said.He has been charged by the Justice Department with unlawful use of confidential government information for personal gain, theft of nonpublic government information, commodities fraud, wire fraud and making an unlawful monetary transaction. He could face years in prison.Van Dyke, 38, was involved in the planning and execution of capturing Maduro for about a month beginning Dec. 8, 2025, according to the federal prosecutor’s office. Even though he signed nondisclosure agreements promising to not divulge “any classified or sensitive information” related to the operations, prosecutors say the Army soldier used this information to make a series of bets related to Maduro being out of power by Jan. 31, 2026.“This involved a U.S. soldier who allegedly took advantage of his position to profit off of a righteous military operation,” FBI Director Kash Patel said in a post to social media.A telephone number listed for Van Dyke in public records was not in service. There was not yet an attorney listed for him in court documents.Polymarket, one of the largest prediction markets in the world, said it had found someone trading on classified government information, alerted the U.S. Department of Justice and “cooperated with their investigation.”“Insider trading has no place on Polymarket,” the company said in a statement.



Second complaint filed against the soldier



The Commodity Futures Trading Commission, the federal agency that regulates prediction markets, announced Thursday it had filed a parallel complaint against Van Dyke.That complaint alleges that Van Dyke moved $35,000 from his personal bank account into a cryptocurrency exchange account on Dec. 26 — a little over a week before U.S. forces would fly into Caracas and seize Maduro.Van Dyke used more than $32,500 to make a series of bets on when Maduro might be removed from power, according to the complaint. He placed those bets between Dec. 30 and Jan. 2, with the vast majority occurring the night of Jan. 2 — just hours before the first missiles would fall on Caracas.In the early hours of Jan. 3, President Donald Trump posted on his social media platform a photo of the now-captured Venezuelan leader, wearing a gray sweatsuit, headphones and a blindfold.The bets Van Dyke made on Maduro leaving power resulted in “more than $404,000 of profits,” the complaint said. Bets on three other Venezuela-related contracts netted the solider more than $5,000, according to the document.“The defendant was entrusted with confidential information about U.S. operations and yet took action that endangered U.S. national security and put the lives of American service members in harm’s way,” said Michael Selig, the commission’s chairman.The massive profits from the well-timed bets aroused public attention days after the raid and brought bipartisan calls for stricter regulation of the markets where people can wager on just about anything.Officials allege that shortly after the operation, Van Dyke put most of the money he won in a foreign cryptocurrency vault and then into a new brokerage account. He also asked Polymarket to delete his account, saying he had lost access to his email associated with the account, according to the federal prosecutor’s office.Trump, when asked about the case Thursday, drew parallels between the embattled soldier and late professional baseball player Pete Rose, who was banned from the sport amid accusations that he placed bets on his own team.“The whole world, unfortunately, has become somewhat of a casino, and you look at what’s going on all over the world and Europe and every place, they’re doing these betting things,” Trump told reporters.The Trump administration has been a key ally of the growing prediction market industry in a critical legal fight with states seeking to ban the platforms. The president’s eldest son is an adviser for both Polymarket and its competitor Kalshi, and a Polymarket investor. Trump’s social media platform Truth Social is also launching its own cryptocurrency-based prediction market called Truth Predict.



Nearly two decades in the Army



Van Dyke joined the Army in 2008 and, in 2023, was promoted to the rank of master sergeant, the second-highest enlisted rank in the Army, according to the indictment. Federal prosecutors said he was part of the special forces community and was stationed at Fort Bragg near Fayetteville, North Carolina, but their indictment offered little other details about his military service.The document said Van Dyke was photographed following the raid on the deck of a ship “wearing U.S. military fatigues, and carrying a rifle, standing alongside three other individuals wearing U.S. military fatigues.”The Pentagon referred questions on the case to the Army and the Justice Department.Army officials declined to provide Van Dyke’s service record. Typically, the military services are reticent to offer details about members of the special forces and take measures to keep their identities secret.



Bets on geopolitical tensions draw scrutiny



The high-profile indictment comes as bipartisan lawmakers are considering legislation to ban prediction markets from allowing bets on war, assassinations or terrorist attacks.Earlier this month, The Associated Press reported that a group of new accounts on Polymarket made highly specific, well-timed bets on whether the U.S. and Iran would reach a ceasefire on April 7, resulting in hundreds of thousands of dollars in profits for the new customers. On the same day the AP published the report, the White House warned staff against using private information to trade on prediction markets.On Wednesday, Kalshi fined and suspended three congressional candidates who the company said wagered on the outcome of their own elections.—Hallie Golden, Konstantin Toropin and Hannah Schoenbaum, Associated Press ]]></description>
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<title>Is it worth opening a holiday let?</title>
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<description><![CDATA[ By Anna Jordan on Small Business UK - Advice and Ideas for UK Small Businesses and SMEs


Even with cheap flights and exotic destinations, holidays in the UK are still popular. If you&#039;re considering a holiday let, read on
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<title>Free advertising ideas for small businesses</title>
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<description><![CDATA[ By James Earnshaw on Small Business UK - Advice and Ideas for UK Small Businesses and SMEs


Discover free advertising ideas for your small business that can increase your revenue and brand awareness easily
The post Free advertising ideas for small businesses appeared first on Small Business UK. ]]></description>
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<title>Sales pipeline management from a small business perspective</title>
<link>https://thebusinesseconomic.com/sales-pipeline-management-from-a-small-business-perspective</link>
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<description><![CDATA[ By Anna Jordan on Small Business UK - Advice and Ideas for UK Small Businesses and SMEs


In this guide, you&#039;ll find out what a sales pipeline is, how to set one up and how to manage it – with tips from the experts
The post Sales pipeline management from a small business perspective appeared first on Small Business UK. ]]></description>
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<title>How to increase profits – without raising prices</title>
<link>https://thebusinesseconomic.com/how-to-increase-profits-without-raising-prices</link>
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<description><![CDATA[ By James Earnshaw on Small Business UK - Advice and Ideas for UK Small Businesses and SMEs


Profits aren&#039;t just linked to prices – find out how you could increase your profits by reducing costs and boosting revenue 
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<title>How Fashion and Style Work? — Perspective on Personal Style Harmony</title>
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<description><![CDATA[ NOUBI SAYS:  In dealing with your particular style,  your body is dependent on your personality just as any part of your body is dependent on the rest of your clothing. The relationship of your personality, body, and clothing must be in harmony as a whole for the best result.   Because we tend to read clothing messages only as a harmonious whole according to what we know as our standard. ]]></description>
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<title>First Impressions Last — The Power of Image in a Split Second</title>
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<description><![CDATA[ “Whether it’s fair or not, clothing has become the first clue absorbed by the eye before the brain begins to judge,” says Noubikko. “Everything else—intellect, personality, attitude—comes second.” ]]></description>
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<title>Bold Message: Master Your Image or Be Defined by It</title>
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<description><![CDATA[ “Blame it on first impression,” Noubikko declares. “That single instant determines whether you are perceived as an opportunity or overlooked as noise.” ]]></description>
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<title>“The Art of Presence” — Redefining Interview Dressing as a Strategy for Success</title>
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<description><![CDATA[ In a world where first impressions are formed in seconds, Noubikko introduces a powerful new visual and editorial concept: “The Art of Presence: Dressing for the Interview.” More than a style guide, it is a philosophy—one that positions personal presentation as a decisive advantage in a competitive professional landscape. ]]></description>
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