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Beast Industries, the entertainment conglomerate founded by Jimmy “MrBeast” Donaldson, has agreed to buy Step Mobile, a teen-focused banking app, the companies plan to announce Monday. The acquisition will expand the YouTube star’s reach beyond media, restaurants and packaged food into financial services.
Founded in 2018, Step Mobile runs an app that offers a federally insured bank account without fees and a secured Visa card that helps individuals establish credit before they turn 18. Investors led by Gen
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Palestinian journalist Plestia Alaqad on bearing witness, the fragile power of social media, and why documenting lived reality matters more than ever. Read more ›
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An East Bay apartment complex has been bought at a price that's well below its prior value. Read more ›
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A PG&E Corp. unit has bought a San Jose building in a move to bolster the utility's South Bay operations. Read more ›
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With air strikes and escalating tensions, those in financial hubs like Dubai and Abu Dhabi are spending six figures to safely evacuate. Read more ›
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Australia's government may take a strict stance on ensuring younger users cannot access AI chatbots. Reuters reports that Australian regulators may require app storefronts to block AI services that do not implement age verification for restricting mature content by March 9. "eSafety will use the full range of our powers where there is non-compliance," a representative for the commissioner said in a statement to the publication. Those paths could include... Read more ›
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The US war in Iran, joined by Israel, is in its third day, with no sign of slowing. On Monday, President Donald Trump estimated that it could last about four weeks — “and we’re a little ahead of schedule,” he said. Already, the US has accomplished some of its military objectives, including sinking part of […] Read more ›
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It’s Monday, March 2, 2026, and we’re back with today’s top startup and tech funding news. Today’s rounds highlight the accelerating convergence of AI infrastructure, defense technology, fintech orchestration, and wearable biosensing. As capital flows into platforms that unify data, ... Read more ›
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Anthropic is bringing another paid feature to Claude's free tier. The next time you chat with Claude, you'll have the option to have it reference your previous conversation to inform its outputs. Anthropic first made its chatbot capable of remembering past interactions last August, before giving it the ability to compartmentalize memories in the fall. Making memory a free feature is well-timed; earlier today Anthropic made it easier for users... Read more ›
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Samsung releases enterprise Galaxy S26 Ultra with identical hardware, the same pricing in the US, and limited storage options in the UK market. Read more ›
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It’s a good day for Apple fans on a budget. Not only did the company introduce a new budget phone, its entry-level AirPods 4 are also on sale. Right now, you can snag a pair of Apple’s AirPods 4 starting at just $89 ($30 off) at Walmart. The model with active noise-cancellation are also down […] Read more ›
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The vast show floors at Mobile World Congress (MWC) are full of surprises, and you never know who or what you may run into. Case in point, we came across the yet to be released Nothing Phone (4a) in all four of its official colors ahead of its upcoming March 5 announcement. Nothing had the Phone (4a) units behind protective glass, so we could only admire them from a distance... Read more ›
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They're the ones who skip the corner office promotion, move to smaller towns, and turn down life-changing opportunities—yet somehow they're the only ones who seem genuinely happy. Read more ›
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The horror sequel overcame early production woes to score a big box-office haul, but apparently not every star got the memo about avoiding online controversy. Read more ›
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Paramount Skydance plans to combine HBO Max and Paramount+ into a single streaming platform following its acquisition of Warner Bros. Discovery. "As we said, we do plan to put the two services together, which today gives us a little over 200 million direct-to-consumer subscribers," said David Ellison, the company's CEO. "We think that really positions us to compete with the leaders in the space." The deal still needs regulatory approval.... Read more ›
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This post is brought to you in paid partnership with Adobe We optimize our morning routines, our fitness regimens, and our investment portfolios, yet many of us still approach tax season like a frantic scavenger hunt. If your income streams are diversified: balancing a standard W-2 with 1099s from freelance contracts, brand partnerships, or tracking ... Read more ›
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A leaked deck shows that Elon Musk's X is touting its brand-safety features. It comes after a controversy about sexualized images. Read more ›
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The Switch 2 is powerful out of the box, but a few overlooked system settings can quietly hold it back and affect performance more than you'd expect. Read more ›
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Some Rokid Glasses are gaining native support for both Google and OpenAI's models alongside two other LLMs. Read more ›
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Shopify has started arranging for ads to promote its merchants to run in ChatGPT, the company told merchants, in an expansion of Shopify’s existing ad network. The e-commerce software firm buys ad space on various social media sites on behalf of its merchant clients, and charges merchants for ... Read more ›
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Uber announced Monday that it agreed to acquire SpotHero, an app that enables drivers to reserve parking spaces at garages based on location. The Information first reported in December that Uber was considering an acquisition. Terms of the transaction weren’t disclosed. A deal with SpotHero ... Read more ›
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The stablecoin launched by President Donald Trump’s family crypto company World Liberty Financial briefly lost its peg to the dollar on Monday, as the company said it faced a “coordinated attack” on its co-founders’ X accounts. The stablecoin, USD1, fell to as low as $0.994 on Monday morning, ... Read more ›
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Cerebras Systems has again made a confidential filing for a U.S. public offering, according to people with knowledge of its plans. The designer of AI chips and systems has been meeting with prospective investors before a potential listing that could take place as soon as this April, they said. ... Read more ›
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When does a frenemy become a mortal threat? That question should be top of mind for executives atop enterprise software firms, such as ServiceNow, Salesforce and Snowflake, each of which at various times has announced partnerships with OpenAI. And yet OpenAI seems to be doing everything it can to put at least some of these firms out of business. As we reported on Friday night, in a presentation to investors... Read more ›
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IBM stock dropped 13% on Monday after Anthropic said that its Claude Code tool could be used to automate the modernization of legacy code. IBM mainframes, computers that process a large portion of the world’s financial transactions, run applications written in COBOL, a programming language ... Read more ›
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Anthropic on Monday launched a share sale to current and former employees who had worked at Anthropic for at least twelve months, according to a person with knowledge of the share sale. The share sale is based on the company’s latest valuation of $380 billion, according to the same person. ... Read more ›
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Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei is set to meet with Secretary of War Pete Hegseth on Tuesday, following weeks of negotiations between Anthropic and the Pentagon over whether Anthropic can put limits on the Pentagon’s use of its AI. Axios first reported on the meeting. The negotiations began after ... Read more ›
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Oracle shares were down 4.5% on Monday, after The Information reported that the cloud firm’s Stargate joint venture with OpenAI and SoftBank floundered after its flashy announcement at the White House in January 2025. Instead of the three companies pursuing a data center expansion together, ... Read more ›
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Meta Platforms and AMD have struck a partnership that would see Meta deploy six gigawatts of AMD’s chips over multiple years, with the first deliveries beginning in the second half of this year, the companies announced Tuesday. Meta, which operates Facebook, Instagram and WhatsApp, will use AMD’ ... Read more ›
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