Meet the young tech founders just saying no to sex and dating
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Inside Business
There's a new way to make money from real estate — without ever owning a home
Regular people can now gamble on real estate price thanks to Polymarket. It proves homes are no longer a place to live, but money-making machines.
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Creatine, ADHD video games: The quest for a better brain is turning into a gold rush
Americans want to upgrade their brains — one scoop, zap, or gaming session at a time. But what does the science have to say about any of this?
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How LinkedIn became the ultimate date screening tool
LinkedIn is supposed to be a place to find a job. But people are using the social media app to look up exes and screen potential romantic interests.
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The best way to save your career from the white-collar apocalypse: Get a hobby
I used to think hobbies were for losers. Then I built my life around one.
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The best way to win on prediction markets: insider information
Prediction markets leaked the Venezuela raid hours early. But that may be part of the point for places like Kalshi and Polymarket.
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Doctors are trying to save patients diagnosed by ChatGPT
Chatbots are making amateur lawyers and doctors out of everyone. The real professionals have second opinions about it.
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The delivery app Deep Throat hoax lays bare our new era of untruthiness
The uncomfortable reason the internet fell for a fake delivery app whistleblower.
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No hangover and hard abs: Welcome to newest kind of partying
From earlybird clubbing to cold brew cold plunges, young adults are turning to soft partying to cure loneliness without burnout or hangovers.
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Future of Capitalism
Welcome to Trump's new, sorta socialist era of American capitalism
Trump is having the government buy stakes directly in companies — and it's going to change the way we all do business and reshape the economy.
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The job market is totally broken. Here's how to navigate it anyway.
In a job market clogged with applications, the old advice no longer works. Here's how to choose the strategy that gives you the best odds.
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What causes early-onset colon cancer? New research offers clues
Doctors are seeing colon cancer in people in their 20s and 30s. New research suggests it starts in infancy.
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Sam Altman and Alex Karp are learning to hate one of Elon Musk's most frequent enemies
Just like a long line of executives before them, leaders of some of the world's hottest firms are learning to hate an age-old enemy: short sellers.
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Inside Business
Inside Floyd Mayweather's lavish, debt-filled post-boxing life
Private jets, Bugattis...and a pile of bills: Inside Floyd Mayweather's lavish, debt-filled post-boxing life
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Our favorite sentences of 2025
Weird orgies, dog food, techno-feudalists, and proof of heaven — the sentences that made sense of the senseless in 2025.
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America's hidden economic crisis: personal financial chaos
From healthcare costs and inflation to layoff worries and recession warnings, the country's under-the-radar problem is personal financial chaos.
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Up in smoke: Inside New York City's chaotic crackdown on unlicensed weed shops
America's largest city wanted to get rid of illegal weed shops. Then came the SWAT teams.
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Sundays are the new Mondays
Overachievers and anxious workers are turning the Sunday scaries into an extra day of work.
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Inside Business
Meet the real estate CEO who wants to reshape how Americans buy and sell homes
Robert Reffkin is one of real estate's most polarizing figures. Here's why the Compass CEO took on industry stalwarts Zillow and the NAR.
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Inside Business
Palmer Luckey told you so
When the memelord founded Anduril, defense was a dirty word in tech. Now 'ew' is 'oorah.'
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The real reason for the white-collar job bloodbath
America's job market is paralyzed: Layoffs are up, while white-collar workers are struggling to get hired. The culprit is high interest rates, not AI.
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RTO mandates are running into a space problem
Companies like AT&T, Amazon, JPMorgan, and Instagram have a RTO problem: there's not enough places for workers to sit.
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America's brides are sick of expensive, sweaty weddings. So they're turning to October.
June used to be the most popular month for weddings. But brides' love for fall vibes means October has taken the crown as the top time for marriage.
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The year coding changed forever
Optimism, laziness, and magical thinking: The year vibe coding took over tech.
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The United States of Fraud
Everyday consumers are shoplifting, cheating on returns, and committing other "mini crimes" to get back at big businesses.
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Inside Business
Inside the fallout from Mark Zuckerberg's chaotic $14 billion AI deal
Five months after Meta's $14 billion deal, Scale AI has lost some of its gleam, with workers sniping about pay, and rivals coming for its clientele.
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The music industry is taking the human out of hitmaking
Your 2026 Spotify wrapped may include a shocking amount of 'robot rock.'
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The biggest winners of our current economy: Middlemen
The real winners in today's economy are the middlemen — rich intermediary companies like Walmart, Airbnb, and Lyft that connect buyers and sellers.
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It's not just boomers — millennials also have a serious stuff problem
Millennials and Gen Zers are storing their stuff at their baby boomer parents' homes because it won't fit in their own. The parents are sick of it
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Mom-and-pop landlords' bet on rising rents is coming back to bite them
Landlords built mini-empires of rental homes using billions of dollars' worth of once-obscure DSCR loans. For some, the cash isn't flowing as planned.
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My long, strange trip watching Bryan Johnson livestream his long, strange mushroom trip on X
I watched longevity influencer and entrepreneur Bryan Johnson
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'It's money that doesn't exist": Gen Z is treating cash like fake money
'It's money that doesn't exist": Gen Z is treating cash like fake money.
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Inside Gen Z's obsession with renting everything
From dresses to strollers to wine glasses, renting lives in Gen Zers' heads rent-free.
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Being hot is now a job requirement
The beauty tax for getting ahead at work is getting more expensive: 'I have to reverse age to stay here.'
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Trump is tossing study abroad into chaos
Thanks to the Trump administration, American students going abroad are facing higher tuition, more awkward conversations, and fewer fun drinks.
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Millennials are richer than their boomer parents. Here's why they love to complain anyway.
Rich millennials are doing OK, but they feel terrible about their finances and the economy. They're comparing themselves to peers and boomer parents.
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The real reason the job market is totally broken
Exclusive new data proves it: Applying to a job in 2025 is the statistical equivalent of hurling your resume into a black hole.
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The 7 parts of the US economy that are already in a recession
From homebuilding to trucking, major parts of the US economy are in deep trouble. The weakness could drag the whole country into a recession.
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Gen Z's favorite vacation destination: wherever their boss sends them
More young people are elevating their work travel experience — and adding vacation time to the company card
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The Boomer Stuff Avalanche is already crushing families
Millennials are having difficult conversations with their baby boomer parents about the avalanche of stuff they don't really want.
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Your doctor wants you to party
Why your next doctor's visit may include a prescription to join a book club or go to a party.
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Customers are turning the tables on call centers with their own robot voices
Customers are turning the tables on call centers with their own robot voices.
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Americans really want their cheap stuff back
The White House told America to 'suck it up' on high prices. After Mamdani's win, where affordability was a key issue, Trump is scrambling to reverse.
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The Ozempification of American food
Food manufacturers, restaurants and grocery stores are selling Americans smaller portion sizes, thanks to the rise of both food prices and Ozempic.
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The death of handwriting has been greatly exaggerated
Professors are fighting AI by making students write by hand. Too bad it's unreadable.
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The hot, new place for baby boomers to spend their golden years: their own home
The hot, new places for baby boomers to spend their golden years: their own home.
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Gen Z's hottest new job: Nannying for billionaires
Gen Z is fleeing the white-collar apocalypse and joining billionaires' private staff, taking jobs as nannies, personal assistants, and private chefs.
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The true cost of young cancer
Young cancer, rising health costs, and financial strain are reshaping America's healthcare system as more people under 50 face early cancer diagnoses.
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Inside Business
Hedge funds cultivated mercenaries. Now they want loyalty
Hedge funds are desperate to hang on to their most prized traders. And employees are the beneficiaries.
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