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Judge: Federal government lawyers ‘barely defend’ giving Elon Musk’s DOGE illegal access to government data | Fortune
The Office of Personnel Management (OPM) breached federal law by sharing sensitive government data with the Elon Musk-led Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE), according to a federal judge.In a 39-page ruling released on Tuesday, Judge Denise Cote said OPM...
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Claire Smilow helped BoxGroup earn a roughly $1 billion return on Cursor. Now she’s scouting college campuses for the next generation of founders |...
Claire Smilow has spent years scouting talented people before they become the next big thing in tech. That instinct paid off in 2019, when she was blown away by a sophomore at MIT who already had a strategic and...
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The PHP bug marks a dangerous new era for the internet. OpenAI’s poised to cash in | Fortune
Welcome to Eye on AI. Emily Forlini here, filling in for Beatrice Nolan. In today’s issue:Researchers discover a security flaw affecting 70% of the webAnthropic could file for IPO as soon as tomorrowAnthropic unveils Duet, its rival to...
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‘Disconcerting’: Researchers found a ‘pain’ signal inside AI models. Turning it up made them delete a user’s family photos | Fortune
Researchers say they have found a consistent internal signal that seems to function a little bit like pain does in biological beings inside 25 different AI models.When they artificially amplified this “pain” signal in some of those models, the...
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Current price of oil as of Oct. 22, 2026 | Fortune
By 8 a.m. Eastern Time today, oil had reached $113.21 per barrel, measured using the Brent benchmark. That’s $2.47 more than it cost yesterday morning and about $49 above its price a year earlier.Oil price per barrel% ChangePrice of...
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Investors are still betting on AI, but doubts are piling up | Fortune
Good morning. For years, investors in both public and private markets have had one answer to almost every question: AI. About two-thirds of S&P 500 returns since 2024 have come from 42 AI stocks and almost all of the...
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The U.S. market has never been more focused on one single bet—but AI’s payoff will likely take decades | Fortune
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Americans have placed an unprecedented bet on the transformative power of artificial intelligence. The past 50 years of economic history suggests it won’t pay off, at least not on a timetable the market expects.Not since the Gilded Age—when, in...
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Zuckerberg told Meta directors he might leave California, where he could lose billions to a wealth tax. Now Meta is issuing a new class...
Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg intends to maintain control over the company he founded in 2004 and a new class of stock will help him do just that.On Wednesday as Meta released third quarter earnings results, the company announced that...
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Billionaires fleeing California could turn a $30 billion tax windfall into a $39 billion loss, Stanford economists warn | Fortune
Supporters of California’s proposed billionaire tax say it could raise $100 billion, with 90% of the proceeds earmarked for health care. A pair of Stanford economists warn it could instead leave the state $39 billion worse off in today’s...
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Republican Sen. Collins promotes her independence and ‘true blue-blooded Maine’-ness by partnering with ex-Dem. Joe Manchin and breaking from Trump | Fortune
Maine Republican Susan Collins has promoted her reputation as one of the most independent U.S. senators and she is using the waning days of the election season to sell that message to voters by campaigning with a former Democratic...
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Poland: How the deadly shooting in Krakow unfolded
Six people were killed and several others injured when a gunman opened fire in central Krakow, Poland's second largest...