Singaporeans often gripe about the city’s metro. Now one of its operators says the ‘Singapore experience’ helps it succeed globally
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Rail operator ComfortDelGro will replace HK's MTR as the operator of Stockholm's metro next year, as CEO Cheng Siak Kian pushes a global expansion.
TikTok’s parent launched a web scraper that’s gobbling up the world’s online data 25-times faster than OpenAI
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The crawler, dubbed Bytespider, is scraping the internet at 3,000 times the rate of other genAI tools like Anthropic.
https://fortune.com/2024/10/03/bytedance-tiktok-bytespider-scraper-bot/
Banks are omitting data about race from home loans—preventing researchers from identifying racist lending and its solutions
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The National Community and Reinvestment Coalition (NCRC) today published its first report since committing not to use ‘stripped’ data
Dockworkers’ union to suspend strike until 2025 to allow time to negotiate new contract: source
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A source tells the AP there is a pending agreement to pause the strike until Jan. 15.
https://fortune.com/2024/10/03/dockworkers-union-strike-suspended-ap-source/
Oil prices jump and Wall Street slides as investors eye Middle East tensions
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Markets in the U.S. kept sliding from their record highs, closing down Thursday.
https://fortune.com/2024/10/03/stock-market-today-dow-sp500-nasdaq-5/
Zuckerberg passes Bezos to become world’s second-richest person
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The 40-year-old co-founder and chief executive officer has gained four spots this year on the wealth index.
https://fortune.com/2024/10/03/zuckerberg-bezos-worlds-second-richest-billionaire/
Trump Media COO Andrew Northwall resigns, SEC filings
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Trump Media and Technology Group, the owner of Truth Social, announced Northwall had resigned in an SEC filing on Thursday.
https://fortune.com/2024/10/03/trump-media-coo-andrew-northwall-resigns-sec-filings/
CEOs shouldn’t worry about the economic fallout from the Israel-Iran conflict—yet
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There’s a risk of “immediate, massive implications” if either side starts to target oil infrastructure.
https://fortune.com/2024/10/03/israel-iran-war-attack-ceos-economy-oil-prices/
How to watch the NFL’s Thursday Night Football Week 5 of the 2024-2025 season live online for free—and without cable
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The Falcons and Bucs fight for the NFC South.
Nvidia stock surges as CEO touts ‘insane’ demand for new Blackwell AI chips
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Jensen Huang also announced a partnership with IT consulting giant Accenture to boost corporate AI adoption.
https://fortune.com/2024/10/03/nvidia-stock-jensen-huang-ai/
Many women find their own breast cancer. So why are breast self-exams no longer recommended?
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When it comes to preventing breast cancer deaths, the incremental advantage of the self-exam is hard to demonstrate. But self-awareness is vital.
Mercedes-Benz CEO says auto market is in a ‘Darwinian battle’ as German carmakers flounder
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Mercedes-Benz CEO Ola Källenius says carmakers need to address a crisis of consumer confidence in the Chinese market.
Where Silicon Valley is spending its millions in political donations, charted
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From Elon Musk to Reid Hoffman, here’s how much Big Tech’s billionaires and multimillionaires have given to Republicans and Democrats in the 2024 U.S. presidential election cycle.
Harris holds a 66-electoral-vote lead over Trump, calculates prominent data scientist
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Data scientist Thomas Miller has crafted a model for forecasting the 2024 presidential election that appears far more reliable than polling.
https://fortune.com/2024/10/03/kamala-harris-trump-latest-polls-swing-states/
Spooked shoppers load up on toilet paper during port strike
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Charmin toilet paper is out of stock for delivery from many Costco stores around the country, according to the retailer’s website.
https://fortune.com/2024/10/03/port-dock-workers-strike-toilet-paper/
The Oura Ring got a facelift. Here’s what to know about the newly released wearable
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Women in their 20s are the fastest growing cohort of users.
https://fortune.com/well/2024/10/03/oura-ring-new-product-2024/
Who has time for a power lunch? The real business happens at 4 p.m. ‘power hour’
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In the post-covid era, the bars of some of Manhattan's most elegant restaurants are packed by 4:30 p.m. Just don't call it "happy hour."
https://fortune.com/2024/10/03/power-hour-network-finance-manhattan-restaurant/
Google begins wide rollout of ads in AI overview search results
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The move is meant to show investors that costly artificial intelligence projects can generate revenue.
https://fortune.com/2024/10/03/google-ai-ads-overview-search-results/
Where Silicon Valley is spending its millions in political donations, charted
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From Elon Musk to Reid Hoffman, here's how much Big Tech's billionaires and multi-millionaires have given to Republicans and Democrats in the 2024 U.S. presidential election cycle.
Red Lobster’s new CEO said the seafood chain’s endless shrimp offering caused an all-you-can-eat chaos
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Damola Adamolekun says the company’s endless shrimp offering hurt “one of the most important companies in American history.”
https://fortune.com/2024/10/03/red-lobster-ceo-endless-shrimp-offering-caused-chaos/