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- Bitcoin Reaches 2-Month High As Crypto Rallies—Here’s Why
The leading cryptocurrency has approached the $100,000 threshold in recent days.
- Verizon Outage: Reports Of Issues Spike
Nearly 173,000 outage reports were reported as of 12:50 p.m. EST.
- Citigroup CEO Jane Fraser warns of job cuts and says it’s time to raise the bar in a fiery memo to staff: ‘We are not graded on effort’
Fortune's Most Powerful Woman on Wall Street is cutting 1,000 jobs now, with tens of thousands more to come as she says "old, bad habits" are over.
- McKinsey challenges graduates to master AI tools as it shifts hiring hunt toward liberal arts majors
CEO Bob Sternfels says the company has 60,000 employees—including 20,000 AI agents.
- Whole Foods cofounder says his hardest ever business decision was firing his father from his company board: ‘That was when my mentorship was over’
John Mackey calls capitalism one of humanity's greatest inventions and sticks to that way of thinking, even when family's involved. "It hurt him so badly."
Technology
- Civilization VII is headed to iPhone and iPad with “Arcade Edition”
Apple's platforms are also getting Retrocade, a library of classic arcade games.
- Bandcamp bans purely AI-generated music from its platform
Indie music store says it wants fans to have confidence music was largely made by humans.
- Man got $2,500 whole-body MRI that found no problems—then had massive stroke
The MRI showed a problem in a brain artery that should have been flagged, man claims.
- Scientists sequence a woolly rhino genome from a 14,400-year-old wolf’s stomach
Fortunately for paleogeneticists, wolf puppies don't chew their food thoroughly.
- Gemini can now scan your photos, email, and more to provide better answers
The feature will start with paid users only, and it's off by default.
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