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Meet the Teacher Who Wakes up at 3:30 Am for His Labubus Business

Bay Area teacher Ellis Stephens makes thousands of dollars a month customizing Labubu plush toys. Fueled by Pop Mart’s blind-box collectibles craze, the Labubu resale market has exploded worldwide, with rare figures selling for as much as $30,000 each. Pop Mart is now worth more than Mattel and Hasbro combined. The toys are also popular... Read More

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Tech’s megacaps are now worth trillion as market caps swell

September 5, 2025

Tech’s megacaps are now worth $21 trillion as market caps swell

Alphabet and Google CEO Sundar Pichai meets with Polish Prime Minister Donald Tusk at Google for Startups in Warsaw, Poland, on February 13, 2025. Klaudia Radecka | Nurphoto | Getty Images From the courtroom to the boardroom, it was a big week for tech investors. The resolution of Google’s antitrust case led to sharp rallies... Read More

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September 5, 2025

New York Mayor Eric Adams announcement as Trump nomination floated

New York City Mayor Eric Adams looks on during a House Oversight and Accountability Committee hearing to examine the jurisdiction of “sanctuary cities” on Capitol Hill in Washington, D.C., U.S., March 5, 2025. Kent Nishimura | Reuters New York City Mayor Eric Adams is expected to make what is billed as an “important campaign announcement”... Read More

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Anthropic Would Pay .5 Billion to Authors in Copyright Settlement

September 5, 2025

Anthropic Would Pay $1.5 Billion to Authors in Copyright Settlement

Anthropic agreed to pay over $1.5 billion to settle a class-action lawsuit brought by authors who allege the company illegally used their books to train its artificial intelligence models, according to a Friday court filing. The proposed class-action settlement, if approved by a federal judge, would be “the largest publicly reported copyright recovery in history,”... Read More

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