Feb 24, 2026 • 3 min

Google to build data center in Minnesota with new solar, wind power and battery storage

"What Google is doing is ensuring that when we show up, we aren't putting additional costs on other ratepayers," its head of data center energy told CNBC.

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Feb 24, 2026 • 3 min

Waymo opens robotaxi service to 'select riders' in Houston, Dallas, San Antonio and Orlando

Fresh off of a $16 billion funding round, Waymo is expanding its footprint in Texas and Florida.

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Feb 24, 2026 • 2 min

Novo Nordisk to slash GLP-1 list prices by up to 50% in U.S. to cut costs for insured patients

The cuts aim to make the drugs more accessible to insured patients, particularly people with high-deductible health plans or co-insurance benefit designs.

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Feb 24, 2026 • 2 min

Stripe valued at $159 billion after tender offer for employees, shareholders

Fintech startup Stripe continues to show strong growth, with a valuation now at $159 billion and total volume nearing $2 trillion last year.

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Feb 24, 2026 • 2 min

Cyber startup Cato Networks tops revenue milestone as CEO says AI is helping business

Cato CEO Shlomo Kramer co-founded Israeli cybersecurity firm Check Point Software and was an early investor in Palo Alto Networks.

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Feb 24, 2026 • 3 min

Fed's Goolsbee calls for a hold on cuts as current rate of inflation is 'not good enough'

The Chicago Fed president said Tuesday that cuts aren't appropriate until there's more evidence that inflation is on its way down.

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Feb 24, 2026 • 4 min

Epstein files highlight how the wealthy borrow against art collections

Art loans are typically used by the wealthy to provide ready cash, leverage financial investments and avoid hefty tax bills.

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Feb 24, 2026 • 4 min

Nvidia earnings report collides with Wall Street skepticism over AI spending

Nvidia is the only megacap tech stock to notch gains this year as investors have turned cautious on the hefty amounts of spending on AI infrastructure.

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Feb 24, 2026 • 5 min

Senators tell CFTC to make clear ban on prediction market contracts involving deaths

A letter to Commodity Futures Trading Commission Chairman Michael Selig cites three Polymarket contracts related to a NASA launch, Venezuela and Ukraine.

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Feb 24, 2026 • 1 min

Will AI-driven productivity growth allow the Fed to lower rates?

Theory and data allow us to spin different narratives

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Feb 24, 2026 • 5 min

Trump to deliver State of the Union address as voters sour on his economy

Dem Gov. Abigail Spanberger of Virginia will deliver the official rebuttal for Democrats after romping to victory in 2025 on an affordability-focused agenda.

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Feb 24, 2026 • 4 min

Anthropic joins OpenAI in flagging 'industrial-scale' distillation campaigns by Chinese AI firms

Anthropic accused three Chinese artificial intelligence enterprises of engaging in coordinated distillation campaigns, the latest American tech firm to do so.

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