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Ukraine War Robots Carrying Heavy US’s Century-Old M2 ‘Ma Deuce’ Gun 0
- Business, Finance, ground-drone, ground-robots, m2-browning, Military & Defense, ukraine
- July 2, 2026
Ukraine’s ground robots are giving its army a new way to use the M2 Browning, a powerful, crew-served American machine gun that is often mounted on vehicles because of its weight. Ukraine is using its growing fleet of ground robots to attack Russian targets, with weapons including grenade launchers, RPGs, and machine guns. One weapon
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BYD’s Stella Li Wants to Put Humanoid Robots in Every Car Showroom 0
- Business, byd, cannes-lions, cannes-lions-2026, Finance, humanoid-robots, robotics, stella-li, Tech
- June 24, 2026
BYD is developing its own rival to Tesla’s Optimus robot, and one of the Chinese automaker’s top executives wants it on the showroom floor selling cars. In an interview with Business Insider’s editor in chief, Jamie Heller, at the Cannes Lions festival, BYD executive vice president Stella Li said building humanoid robots for the home and service industry will
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Google Software Engineer, Podcaster, Quit to Pursue AI Startup 0
- AI, as-told-to, big-tech, Business, Careers, entrepreneurship, Finance, google, jacob-zinkula-tout-collection, job-market, podcast, software-engineer, startup, Tech
- June 22, 2026
This as-told-to essay is based on a conversation with Aashna Doshi, a 23-year-old former Google software engineer based in New York City. The following has been edited for length and clarity. I took a big risk to get my Google job. Now I’m taking another one by leaving it. Around February 2024, months before graduating
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Is the IPO Boom a 2021 Repeat?0
- Business, Finance, Investing, ipo, ipo-boom, Markets, spac-boom, space-x-ipo
- May 26, 2026
There’s been lots of chatter in recent weeks about the mega IPOs expected to come to market this year — first among them being SpaceX, which is set to go public in June. Is this a movie we’ve seen before? The last time there was this much hype around IPOs was during the 2021 SPAC
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McKinsey Is Using an AI Tool to Let Candidates Practice Interviews 0
- AI, Business, Finance, mckinsey, recruitment, trending-uk
- May 24, 2026
McKinsey candidates can now practice their problem-solving for interviews with AI before they face the real thing. In April, the global consulting firm launched an AI tool to help candidates prepare for interviews — and, ideally, keep them from feeling they need to pay for pricey consulting coaches. The tool is available globally to those
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Pizza Hut Faces Lawsuit From Franchisee Over AI System 0
- AI, artificial-intelligence, Business, Finance, lawsuit, pizza-hut, Retail, Tech
- May 18, 2026
A top Pizza Hut franchisee says the chain’s rollout of an AI-powered delivery system turned once-speedy pizza orders into a cold, late-arriving mess — and cratered a business that had been outperforming nearly every other operator in the system. Loading audio narration… In a lawsuit filed on May 6 in Texas Business Court, franchisee Chaac
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