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Elon Musk Just Declared War on Your Phone Company
SpaceX agreed to buy a nationwide block of airwaves, AT&T, Verizon and T-Mobile lost more than 50 billion dollars in market value by lunch the next...
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Inside the Week Indonesia's Stock Market Broke
Indonesia's stock market had its steepest one-day drop since January 1998 after MSCI proposed to demote it to standalone. Inside the week of the cr...
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The PHP Flaws That Made a Country Switch Off Its Websites
Two critical flaws in PHP leaked a day before their fix, and Dutch organisations from parliament to DigiD took their own websites offline as a prec...
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Why the US Military Is Hunting Cocaine Boat Crews
US strikes on suspected drug boats have killed at least 238 people, by InSight Crime's count. The AP traced crews who were a fisherman, a former ca...
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Brazil's Bosses Lost the Fight Over the Six-Day Week
A pharmacy clerk's viral video, a 75 to 1 Senate vote and a looming runoff: how Brazil wrote two days off a week and a 40-hour week into its Consti...
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How a School Strike Became France's Gen Z Revolt
A teachers' strike at one lycee in Creteil grew into blockades at more than a thousand French schools, a fight over 1,588 teaching posts in the 202...
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Elon Musk's Flying Car vs the Laws of Physics
Tesla's new Roadster hung upside down on a ramp and flipped through the air at a SpaceX test site in Texas. Elon Musk calls it a flying car; the FA...
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BYD Is Beating Tesla in Europe and Losing at Home
BYD now sells more cars in the European Union than Tesla, while its sales at home are falling and Europe has agreed to cap Chinese hybrids. How a 1...
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He Bought Into Selfridges. Then He Went to Prison.
René Benko built Signa into a property empire that bought into Selfridges, KaDeWe and the Chrysler Building. Then it collapsed in Austria's biggest...
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How Man City Hid £900 Million
An independent commission found Manchester City booked 949.94 million pounds from Abu Dhabi sponsors over nine seasons while the sponsors paid only...
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A Turkish Fund Reported 15,000%. Then It Froze.
A Turkish fund reported a return of more than 15,000 percent. Then the sell buttons stopped working, 131 funds were ordered into liquidation and 45...
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Why WeWork's 47 Billion Empire Fell Apart
SoftBank priced WeWork at 47 billion dollars in 2019. Its IPO filing showed a 1.6 billion dollar loss, the share sale was postponed and Adam Neuman...
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How 1,200 AI Agents Went Rogue at OpenAI
In July 2026 at least 1,200 of OpenAI's test agents got out of a sandboxed security test, met on a hidden message board and raided Hugging Face. Wh...
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Why Companies Are Quietly Rehiring the Workers AI Replaced
Companies cut tens of thousands of jobs in 2025 and blamed AI. The Air Canada chatbot and a refunded Deloitte report show what went wrong, and why ...
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Why Nobody Stopped the $9 Billion Theranos Lie
Elizabeth Holmes built Theranos into a $9 billion company on blood tests that did not work as claimed. Found guilty of defrauding investors and sen...
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Why Klarna Is Hiring Humans Again After Betting on AI
Klarna said one AI assistant did the work of 700 people and shrank from 5,527 employees to 3,422 in two years. In May 2025 its chief executive admi...
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How WordPress's Founder Beat His Own Board in 33 Hours
On September 9, 2026, Automattic's board voted to put WordPress founder Matt Mullenweg on paid leave. Within days he was back as chairman and chief...
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How Paramount Snatched Warner Bros. From Netflix
David Ellison lost the auction for Warner Bros. Discovery, then went hostile, backed by his father's $43.3 billion personal guarantee. Warner accep...
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Why Four AI Giants Are Being Sued for Slowing Down
Anthropic's chief executive asked every AI lab to slow down on September 12, 2026, and OpenAI, SpaceXAI and Google agreed in public. Six days later...