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Google is now a glorified venture-capital fund thanks to its SpaceX and Anthropic stakes - MarketWatch
business 2026/05/02 13:31:00

Google is now a glorified venture-capital fund thanks to its SpaceX and Anthropic stakes - MarketWatch

Google’s early investments in SpaceX and Anthropic look like some of the ‘most successful venture bets any public company has ever made,’ one expert says

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GameStop Gears Up For EBay Takeover Offer: WSJ - Investor's Business Daily
business 2026/05/02 13:15:00

GameStop Gears Up For EBay Takeover Offer: WSJ - Investor's Business Daily

The original meme stock rose late Friday, while much-larger eBay soared.

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Mortgage rates erased 9 months of gains, but buyers haven’t blinked - thestreet.com
business 2026/05/02 13:03:00

Mortgage rates erased 9 months of gains, but buyers haven’t blinked - thestreet.com

Rates climbed back from a three-year low. Contracts are rising. Something shifted in the American homebuyer’s head.

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Thermos Recalls 8.2M Containers After 3 People Go Blind - Newser
business 2026/05/02 12:50:00

Thermos Recalls 8.2M Containers After 3 People Go Blind - Newser

Lack of pressure-relief feature is behind food holders, beverage bottles getting yanked

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JP Morgan sex scandal inverts the #MeToo stereotype - UnHerd
business 2026/05/02 12:01:32

JP Morgan sex scandal inverts the #MeToo stereotype - UnHerd

If the internet is not real life, how do we explain the JP Morgan harassment case? In this viral story, a senior female executive at the US bank JP Morgan was alleged to have subjected a male subordinate to a sustained campaign of aggressive sexual harassment…

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Anthropic's most powerful AI model just exposed a crisis in corporate governance. Here's the framework every CEO needs. - Fortune
business 2026/05/02 12:00:00

Anthropic's most powerful AI model just exposed a crisis in corporate governance. Here's the framework every CEO needs. - Fortune

Yale’s Jeffrey Sonnenfeld and colleagues argue that Claude Mythos will break enterprise deployment in ways that cannot be undone—without key fixes.

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