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Democrats push FTC to investigate Trump Mobile

Elizabeth Warren and other Democrat lawmakers have written an open letter to the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) asking for an investigation into alleged "false advertising and deceptive practices" fro...

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I raised $500,000 at 21 by selling a share of my future earnings. It's how I solved having great ideas but no capital.

Kirill Avery is the CEO and founder of Alien. Courtesy of Kirill Avery Kirill Avery sold a percentage of his future earnings to fund startups like Alien and Human. He used a SAFE agreement to raise $5...

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One thing that might get workers to embrace AI? The 4-day workweek.

Working fewer days might help create buy-in among workers for adopting AI, authors of a book on the four-day workweek suggest. Drew Angerer/Getty Images Adopting a four-day workweek could boost employ...

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Tesla's Cybertruck is falling far short of Elon Musk's ambitious sales targets

Tesla CEO Elon Musk unveils the Cybertruck at an event in 2019. FREDERIC J. BROWN/AFP via Getty Images Things are not looking great for Elon Musk's Cybertruck. Tesla sold just over 20,000 of the "...

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Trump and Mid-Atlantic governors want tech companies to pay for new power plants

An Amazon Web Services data center in Ashburn, Virginia, US, on Tuesday, Oct. 28, 2025. | Photo: Getty Images The Trump administration and a bipartisan group of governors are pressuring the PJM Interc...

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Asus now claims it’s not dropping the RTX 5070 Ti amid memory shortages

The GPU market is turning into a mess again. Asus told Hardware Unboxed earlier this week that it was winding down production of its RTX 5070 Ti, but the PC maker is now walking back that claim and bl...

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Student-loan borrowers behind on payments are getting a major break, the US education secretary says

Education Sec. Linda McMahon said that wage garnishments for defaulted student-loan borrowers are on pause. Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images Education Sec. Linda McMahon said that wage garnishments for d...

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JPMorgan's CFO warns cutting credit card interest could make the business not worth being in

JPMorgan Chase CEO Jamie Dimon. Noam Galai/Getty Images America's biggest bank by assets, JPMorgan Chase, reported fourth-quarter earnings on Tuesday. CFO Jeremy Barnum discussed how reduced interest ...

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The US ended 2025 with steady but elevated inflation in December

The Bureau of Labor Statistics published the December consumer price index data. Myung J. Chun/Los Angeles Times via Getty Images The inflation rate remained at 2.7% in December, matching expectations...

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Read Jerome Powell's letter to senators following his testimony about renovations to the Fed building

Jerome Powell, a particularly mild-mannered speaker, slammed recent attempts to intimidate his department. Li Yuanqing/Xinhua via Getty Images The DOJ is probing Jerome Powell over his congressional t...

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How Semafor turned Washington into a profit center

Semafor CEO Justin Smith says his company hosted close to 100 events in 2025. His ambition is to build a Washington, DC-based event that's supposed to rivals the annual Davos gathering in Switzerland....

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Meta is closing its VR workplace app amid Reality Labs layoffs

Meta has made the decision to discontinue Workrooms as a standalone app Illustration by Sheldon Cooper/SOPA Images/LightRocket via Getty Images Meta is switching off Horizon Workrooms as a stand-alone...

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Google cofounder Larry Page reportedly bought multiple Florida properties ahead of proposed California billionaire tax

Google cofounder Larry Page reportedly purchased property in South Florida. EMMANUEL DUNAND/AFP/GettyImages Google cofounder Larry Page bought property in Florida amid California's proposed billionair...

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A millennial who hit a 7-figure net worth after quitting corporate life to be a content creator explains how to make money online

Michela Allocca is the founder of Break Your Budget. Courtesy of Michela Allocca Michela Allocca grew Break Your Budget into a top personal finance brand on social media. She quadrupled her income by ...

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Welcome to the era of the megamanager

Middle managers are taking on more direct reports after the "Great Flattening." dowell/Getty Images The average number of reports for managers is increasing as the "Great Flattening" p...

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A16z raise $15B! Jerome Powell vs Trump! Crypto remains flat! Special Guest: Dudas!

Crypto majors are mostly flat headed into Monday open; btc even at $90,600; eth +1% at $3,110, sol +2% at $140; xrp -2% to $2.04. Ip (+20%) and xmr (+15%) led top movers; xmr hit a new ath at $590. Fe...

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Verizon says it'll credit customers $20 after its service outage lasted over 9 hours, but you have to claim it

Verizon was down for tens of thousands of customers for most of the day on January 14, 2026. Paul Squire/Business Insider Over 170,000 Verizon customers reported a service outage on Wednesday. The out...

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I'm a federal attorney. I've leveraged my White House experience into a side hustle that makes $70,000 annually.

Jennifer Clinchy worked at the White House for nine years. Courtesy of Jennifer Clinchy Jennifer Clinchy is a federal attorney who worked at the White House for 9 years. She started a résumé writing s...

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The 10 best states to raise a family

Maskot/Getty Images/Maskot WalletHub , a personal finance company, released its "Best and Worst States to Raise a Family" list. The company compared all 50 states across five categories, inclu...

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Goldman Sachs breaks down what the doomsayers get wrong about the US economy in 8 charts

Arturo Holmes/Getty Images In 2026 outlook, Goldman Sachs says US economic and stock market risks are overstated. The firm underscored US strength and projects continued growth. US stocks are in good ...

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