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    2 Salesforce Ventures investors see risk and reward in the robotics space after a $7 billion leap forward in 2024

    How to evaluate robotics startups: a VC’s guide to the next AI frontier.

    By Emily Zhao and Pascha Hao
    September 8, 2025

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    Extreme weather nearly killed my business, and climate change means more of it. What I wish I’d known
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    Extreme weather nearly killed my business, and climate change means more of it. What I wish I’d known

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    August 9, 2024
    Paul Polman: It’s time to stand with Bangladesh—and my friend Muhammad Yunus
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    Paul Polman: It’s time to stand with Bangladesh—and my friend Muhammad Yunus

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    August 8, 2024
    Map shows projected 2033 trade changes
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    4 potential scenarios—and 1 map—showing how the world will trade goods for the next decade, according to BCG

    By Nikolaus Lang, Marc Gilbert and Michael McAdoo
    August 7, 2024
    Markets have overestimated AI-driven productivity gains, says MIT economist
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    Markets have overestimated AI-driven productivity gains, says MIT economist

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    August 6, 2024
    ‘The Godmother of AI’ says California’s well-intended AI bill will harm the U.S. ecosystem
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    ‘The Godmother of AI’ says California’s well-intended AI bill will harm the U.S. ecosystem

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    August 6, 2024
    Entrepreneurs David Sinkinson (left) and his brother Chris (right).
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    How we built our bootstrapped startup different and sold it for $40M. (Hint: We ignored some myths)

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    August 5, 2024
    Women will soon have more money than men for the first time in history—and they’re following the MacKenzie Scott and Melinda Gates playbook
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    Women will soon have more money than men for the first time in history—and they’re following the MacKenzie Scott and Melinda Gates playbook

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    August 5, 2024
    Forrest Zischkau, student at Pittsburgh Institute of Aeronautics.
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    I’m a Gen Zer and attended college for nearly 3 years before realizing trade school was right for me

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    August 5, 2024
    Steve Jobs was wrong. Finding work that you love might be the worst thing you can do
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    Steve Jobs was wrong. Finding work that you love might be the worst thing you can do

    By Christopher Wong Michaelson and Jennifer Tosti-Kharas
    August 5, 2024
    Are we headed for a massive AI hangover? It’s a $600 billion question that needs to be addressed
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    Are we headed for a massive AI hangover? It’s a $600 billion question that needs to be addressed

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    August 5, 2024
    Teens are getting colorectal cancer at unprecedented rates—but a little-known IRA provision is blocking new lifesaving treatments
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    Teens are getting colorectal cancer at unprecedented rates—but a little-known IRA provision is blocking new lifesaving treatments

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    August 2, 2024
    Fed Chair Jerome Powell is trying to explain away the inflation rollercoaster—but money supply is absent from his script
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    Fed Chair Jerome Powell is trying to explain away the inflation rollercoaster—but money supply is absent from his script

    By John Greenwood and Steve H. Hanke
    August 2, 2024
    Simone Biles has really destigmatized mental health leave for millions of women
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    Simone Biles has really destigmatized mental health leave for millions of women

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    August 2, 2024
    Meta, Microsoft, and Google blew blinding amounts of AI smoke during earnings—here’s what we actually learned
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    Meta, Microsoft, and Google blew blinding amounts of AI smoke during earnings—here’s what we actually learned

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    August 1, 2024
    Heather Shoemaker, CEO of Language I/O
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    Biases in AI chatbots pose a risk to my real-time translation startup. Diversity and inclusion help us fight them

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    July 31, 2024
    Venezuela’s Nicolas Maduro proves Milton Friedman right, 60 years later
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    Venezuela’s Nicolas Maduro proves Milton Friedman right, 60 years later

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    July 31, 2024
    The ‘Trump Dump’ is back—and the stocks that he targets are crashing
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    The ‘Trump Dump’ is back—and the stocks that he targets are crashing

    By Jeffrey Sonnenfeld, Whitney Tilson and Steven Tian
    July 30, 2024
    Angela Fitch. cofounder and chief medical officer of knownwell.
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    I’m an obesity medicine doctor and I’ve been on weight-loss drugs like Ozempic for a decade. Here’s why I think they aren’t a fad

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    July 30, 2024
    The rise of Kamala Harris proves Indian-Americans’ winning bet on assimilation is paying off
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    The rise of Kamala Harris proves Indian-Americans’ winning bet on assimilation is paying off

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    July 30, 2024
    AI cannot replace software engineers—take it from someone who fought to become one and now helps others pursue the career
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    AI cannot replace software engineers—take it from someone who fought to become one and now helps others pursue the career

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    July 30, 2024
    Paris Saint-Denis and London Stratford tell a tale of two difficult suburbs transformed by the Olympic Games
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    Paris Saint-Denis and London Stratford tell a tale of two difficult suburbs transformed by the Olympic Games

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    July 30, 2024
    Richard Attias: ‘We don’t need to rely exclusively on Western countries to level up the less developed ones’
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    Richard Attias: ‘We don’t need to rely exclusively on Western countries to level up the less developed ones’

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    July 29, 2024
    Trump and Vance shouldn’t give in to European-style labor regulation
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    Trump and Vance shouldn’t give in to European-style labor regulation

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    July 29, 2024
    40% of the world’s water needs will go unmet by 2030 as desalination tech plateaus
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    40% of the world’s water needs will go unmet by 2030 as desalination tech plateaus

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    July 26, 2024
    Harris and Trump need to seduce politically fluid Gen Z ‘Tinder singles’ to win
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    Harris and Trump need to seduce politically fluid Gen Z ‘Tinder singles’ to win

    By Matt Canter and Sara Fagen
    July 26, 2024
    An intergenerational epidemic is bubbling beneath America’s maternal mental health crisis
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    An intergenerational epidemic is bubbling beneath America’s maternal mental health crisis

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    July 26, 2024
    Forget the pundits and polls—internet prediction markets anticipated Biden’s withdrawal weeks ago
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    Forget the pundits and polls—internet prediction markets anticipated Biden’s withdrawal weeks ago

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    July 25, 2024
    How Americans can stay safe at the Paris Olympics amid global threats, according to top security experts
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    How Americans can stay safe at the Paris Olympics amid global threats, according to top security experts

    By Andrew Borene and Peter Ford
    July 25, 2024
    Asia’s productivity is lagging behind. Generative AI—and the region’s digital edge—can help close the gap
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    Asia’s productivity is lagging behind. Generative AI—and the region’s digital edge—can help close the gap

    By Patrick Winter and Sooyeon Kim
    July 24, 2024
    Private equity is devouring the economy as boomer entrepreneurs exit—but a new approach to employee ownership can change that
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    Private equity is devouring the economy as boomer entrepreneurs exit—but a new approach to employee ownership can change that

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    July 24, 2024

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