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Exclusive | Consumer Investing Fell Out of Favor With VCs, but Not for This Firm Coefficient raised a $290 million venture fund on strong consumer M&A activity.

Consumer Investing Fell Out of Favor With VCs, but Not for This Firm

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Retirees wait for the day they can sell their homes and cash in—but there's a secret Medicare 'trap' that could stop them in their tracks | Fortune Selling your home near retirement age can trigger a Medicare premium surcharge that costs thousands a year—and most retirees don't find out until the bill arrives.

Retirees wait for the day they can sell their homes and cash in—but there’s a secret Medicare ‘trap’ that could stop them in their tracks
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Prices for new cars have soared. Here’s one big reason why. The U.S. car business is grappling with a stubborn affordability problem, one that threatens to relegate more Americans to the used-car lot and leave automakers vulnerable to lower-priced rivals.

Prices for new cars have soared. Here’s one big reason why.

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The brand marketing executives who are out of work, labeling it as startup consulting, have shifted their attention at a time of less to doing thought leadership, where they write about their craft in fashions that demean the industry and debase themselves. I wish that these people would just stop.

Is AI about to take your job? New Anthropic research suggests the answer is more complicated than you think. | Fortune There's a big gap between what AI can do and what it is actually doing right now. The question is: how fast will that gap close?

"I somewhat question the agriculture finding given that predictive AI and robotics are potentially quite disruptive to agriculture and these technologies are already making inroads into farming. It’s just that this tech is different from the LLM-based systems that Anthropic is focused on."

I see Anthropic employees taking victory laps this morning for their TIME cover, and I would advise against that for two reasons:

1. The business has a lot of open questions.
2. What you think your company did isn't exactly what your company did, and the distinction is not without a difference.

The Boom in Autism Therapy Is Medicaid’s Fastest-Growing Jackpot Some companies have found lucrative opportunities to capitalize on a growing need, extracting payments as high as $800 an hour.

Good listen. www.wsj.com/health/healt...

At 56, I woke to silence: the strange, sudden loss that changed everything Since the US has no federal mandate for hearing aid coverage, I found myself in a quandary – I couldn’t communicate with the hearing or the deaf

"If my health insurance would cover neither the cost of the surgery nor the cost of more sophisticated hearing aids, how would I – a single mother of three back then, with zero wriggle room in her already tight budget – communicate with other humans?" www.theguardian.com/society/ng-i...

AI Isn’t Lightening Workloads. It’s Making Them More Intense. The technology is increasing the speed, density and complexity of work rather than reducing it, a new analysis of 164,000 people’s work activity shows.

"One of the great hopes for artificial intelligence—at least, among workers—is that it will ease workloads, freeing people up for more high-level, creative pursuits. So far, the opposite is happening, new data show." www.wsj.com/tech/ai/ai-i...

Surging oil costs pour fuel on the return-to-office debate As oil and fuel costs climb, the ripple effects are hitting many Americans' commutes.

"In recent years, many companies have called desk workers back to the office, while others have retained a hybrid approach. Of course, many jobs can't be done remotely — meaning some people, at least those who drive to their workplaces, have had to shoulder the costs of rising gas prices."

"Turning nothing into something is the challenge that helps people grow. It leads people to feel accomplishment and ownership. Too much friction and red tape at work or too many Zoom meetings are bad. But a few quiet, boring moments to tinker and organize can serve as little rituals that anchor us."

Teens Are Using AI-Fueled ‘Slander Pages’ to Mock Their Teachers Viral student-run TikTok and Instagram accounts are using AI to make memes of school faculty comparing them to figures like Jeffrey Epstein and Benjamin Netanyahu.

We talked to a teen who runs a "slander page" about his high school teachers, using AI to have staff sing and dance alongside Epstein and Netanyahu—or simply call them predators and cucks: www.wired.com/story/teens-...

Everyone on the subway in the late morning looks like Benson Boone.

What it’s like to have an AI bot as your job interviewer AI-led job interviews are on the rise and AI reporter Hayden Field speaks to three different kinds to see how they work.

I was interviewed by an AI bot for a job

Thanks for doing this.

Therapists Explain Why Life Feels Worse After The Pandemic — And It Makes So Much Sense “We were supposed to go back to ‘normal,’ as if nothing fundamentally shifted, but something did. And I don’t think that we have acknowledged that.”

"We’re used to things being at home, a click away and without much friction. Our window of tolerance has shrunk. We are more likely to have boundaries and stand up for what we want, but we also aren’t willing to bend, even when it’s necessary, which has fractured relationships and communities."

"Ultimately the employees want to know if the company’s software is being used to harass their communities, and the response they have gotten from Thomson Reuters managers and executives has not reassured them."

I signed up for a big conference next week at the Javits Center. There are 20+ panels and presentations, each with five people attached to them. It's a lot to scan on the page and decide around. So I asked Chat to tell me based on what it knows about me which panels I'd enjoy most. Problem solved.

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Do you anticipate that League of Legends will fade but the songs will remain in the culture long after?

That song was written for a very forgettable movie. The kind of thing that could happen in 1998 that doesn't anymore, outlasting by decades its original intent.

Baseball players today have names like Bryce Harper, coined by real people.

Baseball players 100 years ago, though, had names like Firpo Marberry, coined by AI.

Turn of the 20th century MLB was the heart of AI slop.

SaaS Has Discovered the New York Subway Silicon Valley's favorite companies are plastering New York's transit system with ads most commuters can't decode. Is it working?

"So why are so many companies shelling out for ads that leave that many transit riders don’t understand? Critics have dubbed the jargon-heavy language of tech and software culture “marketspeak” and “B2B slop,” and the ads are regularly roasted online—and by the occasional subway graffiti artist."

On TikTok Shop, a Brand for the Looksmaxxers Emerges Based Bodyworks, a men's personal care brand loved by looksmaxxers and founded by Lance Baker, has cracked TikTok Shop's top 10 beauty brands.

On TikTok Shop, a Brand for the Looksmaxxers Emerges
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Bam Adebayo SCORES 83 POINTS vs Wizards - FULL Highlights YouTube video by Chaz NBA

Really enjoyed this. www.youtube.com/watch?v=hD9P...

Tried to write in cursive tonight and that skill is gone.

Copper shortage looms as tariff fears, mine disruptions fuel tightness "It's like an artificial tightness right now in the markets because you have all this material in the U.S., but not enough outside," a strategist told CNBC.

Looming copper shortage as tariff fears and mine disruptions fuel tightness

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Why this 25-year-old started renting out her clothes after moving to NYC To cope with the high cost of living in big cities, young people are turning to their wardrobes to make extra money.

Why this 25-year-old started renting out her clothes after moving to NYC
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Fabletics launches denim as the athleisure trade loses steam Fabletics is launching a new denim assortment priced between $79.95 and $174.95 as the athleisure boom starts to slow down.

"Instead, as hybrid work begins to fade, many consumers are choosing to dress back up again and are opting for denim over leggings as the casual staple that works both on the weekends and at the office." www.cnbc.com/2026/03/10/f...

Trump Is Obsessed With These $145 Shoes—and Won’t Let Anyone Leave Without a Pair Forget MAGA hats. The president is guessing shoe sizes and handing out dress shoes to friends and advisers.

"Recipients have taken to wearing their Florsheims around Trump, some apparently begrudgingly. One cabinet secretary has grumbled that he had to shelve his Louis Vuittons, according to people who heard the complaint." www.wsj.com/style/fashio...