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Oct 23, 2026

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DeepSeek Just Raised $15 Billion Two Days After a US Government Ban

Washington told its federal agencies to rip out a Chinese AI model over security fears. Forty-eight hours later, the lab behind it was swimming in fresh cash. So who, exactly, just got squeezed, and what does it mean for your AI bill?

Oct 23, 2026

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Major Banks Have Started AI Job Cuts and Even Coders Aren't Safe

For ten years, everyone said the safest career bet was learning to code. One of Britain's biggest banks has just complicated that advice. Here's who's exposed, who's spinning, and which small businesses might quietly come out ahead.

Oct 23, 2026

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How New Mexico Turned 26 Facebook Statements Into a $25 Billion Penalty for Meta

Twenty-six sentences. One state, one very ambitious calculator. And a bill that would make even Silicon Valley wince, plus a legal question that could turn every corporate press release into a ticking liability.

Oct 22, 2026

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OpenAI's Greg Brockman Wants AI Safeguards Yet His $25 Million Backs Candidates Who Oppose Them

One of AI's most prominent safety signatories turns out to be one of its biggest political spenders. The hypocrisy row is the noisy part. The real fight is over who writes the rulebook, and your business will be playing by it.

Oct 22, 2026

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Kalshi's Billionaire CEO Says Sports Trading Isn't Gambling and the Supreme Court May Decide

Is a punt on Sunday's game a gamble or a financial derivative? One billionaire founder insists the law couldn't be clearer. Forty states, plus Washington, D.C., beg to differ, and nine Supreme Court justices may soon get the final word.

Oct 22, 2026

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The CFO of $157 Billion ServiceNow Says 14-Hour Days Make You a Worse Boss

A Fortune 500 finance chief just said the quiet part out loud about bosses who never switch off. Those late-night emails are teaching your team something. It's probably not the lesson you had in mind.

Oct 22, 2026

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ChatGPT Ads Hit 89 Countries as OpenAI Builds Its Case for an IPO

OpenAI has found a way to make money from the hundreds of millions of people who never pay it a penny. The rollout is moving faster than anyone expected. And somewhere in Mountain View, Google's ad team just went very quiet.

Oct 21, 2026

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GM’s Battery Boss Says His Best Performer Missed Almost Every Target

One of Detroit’s oldest names now wants its scorecards covered in red. Its battery chief is backing a chemistry most of the industry calls a long shot. Is this bold reinvention, or a very expensive way to stall?

Oct 21, 2026

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United’s $32 Million CEO Just Called for a National Wealth Tax

One airline boss just said the quiet part about inequality out loud. The catch? His own payslip is doing a lot of the talking. Courage, hypocrisy, or a warning sign every founder should be reading closely?

Oct 21, 2026

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Amazon Is Hiring a Record 300,000 Holiday Workers as Rivals Pull Back

While most retailers are quietly shrinking their festive hiring, one giant is doing the exact opposite. The numbers are big, the pay is pointed and the perks are new. Here's what it means for everyone chasing the same workers.

Oct 21, 2026

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One Google Power Failure Froze Lloyds, HSBC and Revolut in a Single Morning

Rival banks rarely agree on anything. On Tuesday morning, they all went quiet at exactly the same moment. Here's what one London power failure reveals about the fuse box your business probably shares with them.

Oct 20, 2026

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Two-Year-Old British Startup Nscale Lands $45 Billion Anthropic Compute Deal

A company younger than most phone contracts has just signed one of the biggest AI infrastructure deals going. The client is a frontier lab and the sums are eye-watering. The catch is hiding in the timing.

Oct 20, 2026

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Nvidia Loses Just 3.7% of Its Staff While the Rest of Tech Loses 21.9%

One chipmaker has a staff retention rate the rest of tech would kill for. Is it the culture, or the share price doing the heavy lifting? We weighed both, and found lessons for firms without Nvidia money.

Oct 20, 2026

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John Overdeck’s $6.2 Billion Divorce Could Tip Control of Two Sigma to His Feuding Co-Founder

A New Jersey divorce is about far more than who keeps the house. It could reshape who runs an $80bn quant fund, and outside investors are watching closely. Founders, your shareholder agreement deserves a nervous second look.

Oct 20, 2026

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Elon Musk Answers Anthropic’s 20% Equity Pledge With SpaceX Shares for Every American Child

One AI lab built a fund. One rocket billionaire wants to send every American kid a share of his company. Both say they're sharing the spoils of the tech boom, but neither has shown us all the paperwork yet.

Oct 19, 2026

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World Bank Says Small AI on Mobile Phones Could Turn Centuries of Growth Into Decades

Silicon Valley’s AI plan is to build bigger. The World Bank’s is to build smaller, cheaper and offline. One of them may have misread where the next billion users actually are, and the answer isn’t obvious.

Oct 19, 2026

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Lego Is Chasing Adult F1 Fans and Gamers as Revenue Jumps 21%

The world’s favourite toy company has found a new target customer, and they’re old enough to hire a car. Its revenue just jumped 21% on the back of it. The question is whose fans Lego is really building for.

Oct 19, 2026

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Ford Wants Fun Cars Back in Europe and Needs Renault and Geely to Build Them

Ford wants Europe to fall back in love with its cars, and it's promising rally-inspired fun to do it. The catch is who's actually building them. And the first ones won't land until 2028, which in car years is basically forever.

Oct 19, 2026

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Microsoft Just Walked Away From Nscale Ahead of Its $3 Billion IPO

A data centre in Essex just lost its star tenant. The culprit isn't a boardroom bust-up. It's a plug socket that may not work until the 2030s, and that could matter for every British business betting on AI.

Oct 18, 2026

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Trump's Student Loan Caps Could Push Future Doctors Into Private Debt and Bankruptcy

Washington just trimmed the bill it's willing to pay for med school. Someone else is happy to cover the difference, for a price. A former bankruptcy judge thinks she already knows how this story ends, and it isn't pretty.